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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    $90 for a Crucial M550 256GB mSATA? TigerDirect??
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    Something Random

    Too many people don't bother getting their headlights' direction checked regularly.
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    ArsTech pwned

    Ars was briefly hacked yesterday; here’s what we know
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    problem The display of a 6 year old Compaq laptop remains black upon start or restart

    I hope the lady has a backup of the laptop's data. If not, or if she wants to rescue/re-purpose the laptop drive, does anyone here have any recommendations for external laptop-drive enclosures?
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    UNIX/Linux/MacOS X bash Major Security Hole

    :erm:
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    UNIX/Linux/MacOS X bash Major Security Hole

    3 articles: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014...with-nix-in-it http://www.zdnet.com/unixlinux-bash-...red-7000034021 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln From the boffins at The Register, "A bug discovered in the widely used Bash command interpreter poses a critical...
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    4K Blu-ray Poised For Holiday 2015 Debut

    Gosh, my wife has a hard enough time working the TV with a remote. :)
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    Amazon PC parts sale

    But List Price: $2,310.00 Price: $829.99 Free Shipping for Prime Members You Save: $1,480.01 (64%) Did you really turn down a 64% discount on a TeraByte Kingston...
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    4k TVs and Monitors

    From Ars, FWIW, Lowest Price Ever: Seiki SE50UY04 50" Ultra High Definition 4K LED HDTV for $449 with free shipping (list price $1,499.99).
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    Something Random

    Evidenced by that post, not over too quickly.
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    question Truecrypt

    Sorry, having trouble editing. OK, that post worked. When I posted just one of the quotes originally, it said I needed to enter at least 1 character. Strange.
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    question Truecrypt

    1234
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    Everyday monitors

    Asus VS247Ps? VS series - no speakers at all? But it does have that slim design. ASUS Monitor Series VB VK VW VE VH VS PA VG Panel Sizes 17" - 22" X X X X X 23" - 25" X X X X X X 27" X X X Built-in Speakers X X X* X* X* Slim Design X
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    Something Random

    Didn't feel a thing.
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    Something Random

    Approximately apropos: Tesla California sales beat Chrysler, Volvo, Cadillac, other big names
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    Something Random

    The owner has a new, cute little pet monkey that would love to play with all those colored wires. :-D
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    Something Random

    Any way you could "grandmother" her in to your health-care coverage at work, or otherwise take advantage of their presumed lower rates?
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    Something Random

    Good thing it went Priority Mail®.
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    Should I expect problem plugin an HP drive in a Dell server?

    It's pork, like Arby's is roast beef.
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    Cycling

    Multi-tasking - cycling with the baby? Baby Bike Seat? I recall ≈ 30 years ago, driving around semi-aimlessly in Berkeley with the baby, just to try get her to go to sleep.
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    PNY 120GB SSD Deal - $88 From Arstechnica, http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/thursday-dealmaster-has-a-120gb-ssd-for-88. Deal through Dell (but does involve a $20 rebate). From Dell, "The 120 GB Prevail SATA III Solid State Drive from PNY® Technologies combines security and performance...
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    Something Random

    Where do you folks get your "standard" cables, things like USB or HDMI cables? Reliable and reasonably-priced ones, not Monster-ously expensive.
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    Cats of Storageforum

    Where's the mouse? (Where's the mouse? The little joke is that I use a touchpad - Sophie's looking at it center-right of the pic.)
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    Something Random

    Interestingly, births are one area that U. S. hospitals use the metric system, in one metric, cervical dilation. (Or at least that was my limited experience 30±3 years ago, somewhat close the the recent blessed event of interest, at Alta Bates in Berkeley.) They put an French twist on it by...
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    Something Random

    I'm a big fan of The Doors. I'm usually pretty quiet, though.
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    Home NAS

    FWIW, I've had good luck for over 9 months with this USB to PS/2 adapter, converting just the PS/2 keyboard to USB on my old 2-PS/2 motherboard. I wanted to try it before I got one of those newfangled 1-PS/2 mobos. It works fine through my old Zonet KVM.
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    Best movie you've seen

    Oscars Cute montage. 1953-55, power trio: From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, and Marty. I'd watch them all again. Earnest Borgnine pretty good in quite different roles in the first and last. No McHale's Navy there.
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    Something Random

    I believe they all are watching the hype pageantry and splendour leading up to today's SuperBowl.
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    Firefox 11.0 is out.

    18 on release; Mac Retina support, faster JavaScript . . .
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    West Coast getting blasted by huge storm fronts. 3 in a row, inside a week.

    It can get serious, sometimes quickly. Take care, you "lefties".
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    eSATA Not Working With RAID Enclosure

    If you can't get it working, maybe call a shop to see if you can take the RAID unit in and have them try it on one of their PCs. If it still doesn't work, get a cable from them and try it out right there.
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    Firefox 11.0 is out.

    Firefox 16 Security Problem Just to record the event here, Oct. 11, Mozilla yanks Firefox 16 one day after release, "a critical vulnerability triggered the move", then Mozilla releases Firefox 16.0.1 to address four vulnerabilities.
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    Laptop Recommendations?

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    End of the World As We Know It

    The hackers are winning? Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking More and more news about cracking, hacking, etc. How soon before "internet security" is a complete oxymoron? Ironically, major increases in hacking power seem to be due to corresponding increases...
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    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Neutron News Corsair Neutron. Corsair's page. StorageReview Review.
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    Something Random

    But you don't keep them.
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    question How to effectively delete data from magnetic media? I mean professional way.

    That is unfortunate - only 4 of the 12 drives successfully Secure Erased. But that was for "Flash-Based Solid State Drives". (Surely OCZ is not among the bad ⅔. ;-)) I hope the Secure Erase BA for "rotating-platter" drives is better than 333.
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    question How to effectively delete data from magnetic media? I mean professional way.

    I would be interested if you have some references for those assertions.
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    question How to effectively delete data from magnetic media? I mean professional way.

    That publication, page 8, under "Purging", mentions Secure Erase, a built-in ATA feature. The free Ultimate Boot CD contains HDDErase, a Secure Erase program from The Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UC San Diego. (The Ultimate Boot CD also has DBAN.) HDDErase erases "bad sectors"...
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    Internet Connection Woes (v. speaking Klingon)

    Wiley won one. For a Wile. :rr:
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    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    Strange, it acts like a link - hovering over it turns it red underscored. But it don't link and the cursor doesn't turn into a hand. (FF 12). It does in my quote, but it links to "itself". Wonder if it's because it's bolded.
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    Cooler News

    The claim: "The copper-graphene composite is also low-cost and easy to produce," Kasichainula says. "Copper is expensive, so replacing some of the copper with graphene actually lowers the overall cost." Of course, that's "actually" in the research sense.
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    Cooler News

    Researcher finds faster, cheaper way to cool electronic devices. Mix graphene with copper in a heat spreader. Coming soon to a Zalman near you?
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    Wifi Come from a Land Down Under

    How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million
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    UNIX Disk-Space Usage Report

    I don't trust /tmp or /var/tmp not to be flushed at random; this is a work environment. But speaking of school days, in the mid-70's in math at Berkeley, I did take a few computer classes as well, using their "dumb" terminals (I don't even remember what kind, VT52s?). Submitted for your...
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    UNIX Disk-Space Usage Report

    I'm just a lowly end-user, so I don't know what tools the admins have (or could get). But as I thought about it some more, I might modify it somewhat. It was originally intended to check the main "/home" kind of directories for users' usage, but for some other file systems, it might be better...
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    UNIX Disk-Space Usage Report

    Greetings, all. "At work", I recently got an Email that a 1 TB file system was 96% full on a UNIX server, and I had one of the largest 10 files. But it was way under 1% of the total space. It occurred to me that instead of the system admins reporting a few real big files, it might be better...
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    Best CPU Benchmarks?

    Sorry I don't want to try to look this up, Santilli, but do you have another PC on your network that can print to the Xerox? Years ago, I had to set up my wife's new home Mac to print, and after some google-ing, I found that I could install "ghostscript" on one of my Windows PCs, and set up a...
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    Something Random

    They thought they had accelerated some Higgs porons beyond the speed of light, but then figured out that their meter had gotten into an over-excited state, which bent the scale disproportionately. But they are anticipating exciting results in wave/particle duality with vagon entanglement.
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    Upgraded forum software is here...

    Tried to search for a reference, but the words are too short. The "What's New" button at the top is handy (as is the alternative New Posts link just below it), after a round or two of my preferred old-style meandering through the forums (fora?) But the message should be changed from "Sorry...
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