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Does anyone know how I can figure out whether a store is stocking the new, 3-platter 7K1000.B or the older 7K1000? Also, I'm in Canada, which might change the model numbers (not sure there), and Canadian retailers definitely don't seem to be noting the 7K1000.B revision by including the B...

Oh ya, I also don't like that they're cluttering up my root. I don't like clutter.

I have two directories that are basically just random hex strings in my C:\ drive's root. I don't know what they're for, but I need to free up some space (1.8" HDD) and I can't friggin' delete them. I can't even change the ownership to myself in an Administrator account. Any recommendations?

I do all my hiking in light trail runners, so I can't make any particular recommendations. Big boots are too heavy and slow me down.

Get the X25-M. There isn't a real-world, significant performance difference for any task I can think of. In fact, for Photoshop, for example, 4 inexpensive traditional HDDs will offer superior performance as a scratchdisk. The X25-E is only useful for very specific enterprise/server...

I like Techreport's review more. They have real-world STR-driven tests using large file copies. It's interesting, for example, that despite having less STR in HD Tach then its competitors, the X25-M surpasses them in real-world benchmarks for which STR is the largest factor. Why? Who knows...

All mine had remote administration shut off, so it looks like I should be okay. I've done remote upgrades of all of them now (I do remote administration through a web-browser on a box inside using NX). Good times...

I haven't tried it, but the latest version supports 3D graphics. Specifically DirectX 8.0 & 9.0 (experimental, obviously just for Windows), and OpenGL (apparently decently-tested stability for Linux & Windows). Impressive...

My company is shifting to Google Apps for everything. It's seriously made just about everything easier. The new Exchange/Outlook syncing app is going to make a big difference for anyone who thought they were trapped by Microsoft's proprietary formats. The one big disadvantage is that there's...

I'm mostly using it for storing receipts from online bill payments, etc., so I can't use OpenOffice's built in PDF export. I've been using CutePDF but I'll try PDFCreator. I prefer Open Source options when possible. I can definitely recommend CutePDF though. Functions as advertised. It...

What do you guys use to enable printing to PDF for a computer. I'd like a free solution. CutePDF has been recommended.

Hmm. I got 2 of the three working. 1. WORKING: A Xerox M24 Workcentre hosted on a SMB share on a Linux box. 2. WORKING: A Borther MFC-8460N plugged into the network on its own. 3. STILL-NOT-WORKING: Brother HL-1440 attached to a Vista 64 box. Basically the printer shared at home from...

I'll look into that. I've noticed that the networked printer at the construction site (where I am not right now) seems to be indicated as offline. I'll check if that changes when I connect to that network. At the moment the networked printer available where I am indicates Ready, and I can...

Hey guys, I'm having really annoying printing problems in Vista x64 Business. Essentially, I work in 3 different places, a main office, a construction site, and from home. At each of those locations I have printers I've configured on my laptop. They're all networked and are never directly...

jtr, Do you have comments on this article? Is it possible that we're on verge of a massive cost reduction in LED production costs? Also, I had no idea LEDs needed to be produced on sapphire wafers. I always assumed they were built using standard semiconductor processes (which shows how...

Stereodude, Obama has already frozen executive staff pay. That doesn't seem particularly socialist.

I use Maha Energy PowerEx Imedion batteries when I need low-discharge NiMH. I've been very happy with the PowerEx batteries over the years. I also order from Thomas Distributing, but I've often wondered if there are better options in Canada?

Congrats e_dawg! That's fantastic news. I wish both of you all the best.

Congratulations! Sounds great. I have a few friends going through med school and I know it can be tough; it's terrific that it's working out for you!

Congratulations Dave! I wish you both the best!

LOL.

I hate those bastards too! I haven't gotten Google's WikiSearch or whatever it's called yet, unfortunately... :(

I like the "Green Sky" theme. I calms me... (Work is highly stressful these days, by the way. I need a calming email theme.)

That's also very well-reviewed. You can get it with a 6-cell battery, just like the Eee 1000, and Samsung NC10. I think it has a slightly smaller screen and keyboard than both of those though. Otherwise it's probably quite similar.

It's a shame the new Dell Mini 12 is limited to 1GB of RAM by its chipset, and that it includes a non-standard PATA-ZIF connector for the HDD. I would love one of these, but I'd want to add a little RAM, and a better disk --neither of those are options with this. What a failure... Stereodude...

Poutine is amazing. I'm partly poutine-powered... Half of the posts I make are probably brought to you by poutine.

The Last.fm iPhone app has made my life better.

I predict that McCain will win, contrary to the polls, due to hacked voting machines. This is becoming clear to me now... :( It's amazing the number of documented flaws in these machines. Who knows how many undocumented flaws there are?

Thanks guys. I knew there was a better way than using a detached screen...

I know I can reboot a computer at a specific time by typing: shutdown -r 17:30 The thing I'm curious about is that the command doesn't return me to the console, so I want to hit CTRL+C and exit. This seems to me to not be the "proper' way, since it aborts the shutdown. Is there a better way...

Just to be clear, with respect to providing needle exchange programs to drug addicts, I'm not saying it's 'moral', 'just', 'good', or 'evil', simply that it has been demonstrated to be financially effective. The world is not a perfect, nor just place.

Faster Turn-Around Times: The average person receives the treatment they require sooner. Better Outcomes: 1. Better quality of life post-treatment, as determined by, 1.1, less need for additional treatments, post-treatment, 1.2 post-treatment patient surveys, 1.3, time spent on disability...

True, in the past it's been Hitachi. Seagate has only started pulling ahead lately.

It's worth mentioning that the American taxpayer pays twice as much for healthcare as those in other G7 nations. All the others have fully socialized healthcare, which has faster turn-around times, and better outcomes.

Seagate disks have never done particularly well in the performance department. The 5 year warranty is nice though. And lately, they have been the ones pushing the capacities higher.

You're right on to the fundamental problem: transparency. None of the banks will loan to each other, not because of liquidity problems, but because the real problem is solvency. And not even solvency per se... but the question of solvency, the suspicion of insolvency. Because U.S. accounting...

That's what I'm talking about!

I find NCIX pretty good. Closest thing to Newegg selection in Canada. Now that I live in Ottawa, I have stuff with expensive shipping from the U.S. shipped to Ogdensburg, NY. It's about a 50 minute drive south. Starting around 30 bucks in savings, it's worth the price of the gas. If I have...

You are, at this point, clearly correct... This is so insane that they're just going to get away with this.

You know one thing I like about this crisis? Republicans, Democrats, everyone can agree that these people are scum, and that our politicians have been asleep at the wheel and better wake the hell up. That makes me happy. The United States is starting to wake up and remember that it's a...

This is true jtr. I didn't understand it myself for the longest time, but they aren't making a profit off of a negative or some sort of destruction. They're taking advantage of an information disparity in the market, and making it more efficient. Shorting stocks is analogous to buying...

Part of it is how well it's done. I noticed that they're really showing off the DOF advantages offered by this system.

In some sense I do. The vast majority of the regulation I want is a simple requirement that companies do not falsify or obfuscate their financial positions to their investors. I also however want inevitably arbitrary limits on leverage vs capitalization ratios and maximum downside exposure via...

1. Stereodude is right. 1.1 The Bush Administration's "ownership society" definitely was a prime contributor to this whole mess. They presided over the run up to the greatest bubble in all of history and they did everything the could to help it along. 1.2 If you go back even farther, Alan...

My brother was really in to DAOC for a while and I considered joining him, but I was busy finishing up school. I have to admit it looked pretty awesome. Warhammer online looks even better. If I was going to get into a MMORPG, Warhammer would probably be the one considering Mythic's...

Make sure you worry about write performance if you consider any of the MLC drives. I figure scratchdisk writes tend to be more sequential, but you certainly don't want to sacrifice those levels of performance if you can avoid it. Sigma has had, for sometime, a 300-800mm f/5.6 and an 800mm...

I thought I'd broken my tailbone a couple weeks ago. It turns out it's just really, badly bruised. I've been sitting on a phone book at work for the last couple weeks, hanging the end of my ass off the back. Lordy... I was also maxing out the ibuprofen daily dose for a while, but I've been...

That first link is really interesting sechs. Thanks. Haven't watched the videos yet though, I'm at work...

I keep all the information in a TiddlyWiki. It's easy to search, categorize, and modify, and since the wiki functionality is implemented through javascript contained in the page itself it doesn't need a webserver, and can be thrown on a thumb drive. I find it super-handy.

Reviews of the Intel SSD are out from Techreport and Anandtech. Anandtech might be returning to form after a couple years of shoveling advertisers' shit... Highlights: ---Check out the terrible performance of other MLC drives with random writes. The Intel drive has 2700x shorter latency than...