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Oh, and the article was great. Now I *really* feel old. :lol: I have a friend that received a new Atari 2600, the entire Atari game library, and all the available controllers, packed in a large chest and given to him as a wedding present. :D He was in heaven.

Works fine in Moz 1.5 (even if that is cranky with Yahoo! Mail; 1.4 was fine with it *mumbles*).

1. Take a hundred* drives, run them through accelerated life testing (elevated temperature/humidity). 2. See how many accumulated hours of "run time" you get between failed drives. 3. Multiply by an acceleration factor (if applicable). * Guess on my part. I know it's a large number, but I...

I had to dispose of a couple old monitors about a year ago. I found a local place that refurbishes and donates to schools/charities that which still works, and recycles that which doesn't. The monitors cost me $25/apiece, I believe. At work, PCB's are separated from scrap metal for recycling.

Mix of flannel shirts and polo shirts for winter, lighter shirts for summer. Work gives most of the polo shirts I wear, so it doesn't cost me much for a wardrobe. Hiking boots or sneakers most days, or lab shoes if I'm in the lab. The only folks that wear ties are visiting suppliers, or...

Maxtor still has a 4 platter at 5400 rpm, don't they? The 320 and 300 GB drives seem pretty hard to find, though.

In the US it is, if there is intent to harm. I think it falls under "entrapment?" Even *if* it's tempting at times... Had someone smash in the rear driver side window (the fixed triangular one, not the one that rolls down). Didn't try to steal anything. Just left the shattered glass in my car...

blakerwry, something similar happened at work once. I usually use the keyless entry to unlock the doors when I go out to my car. I don't even notice if the lights blink or not, normally, just hop in and drive off. One evening, I went out, got in and was about to put the key in the ignition when...

Well, Fry's Electronics would carry said card, AND they have a liberal (overly-so, IMO) return policy. It's a gamble each time you buy something that has been repackaged, though. "You never know what you're going to get," ala Forrest Gump. :)

Nope, didn't have to deal with EISA. My first PC was a 286-12 with 640K RAM, back around 1988. My next system was a 486-33, maybe around 1991? 1992? I think it only had ISA slots, no VLB. The next jump was to a Pentium 100 with PCI slots.

*shudders* The days before plug-and-play (or even "plug-and-pray" ;)) were painful ones for me. DOS drivers that came on those 5.25 floppies. Tinkering with your autoexec.bat and config.sys file to deal with the TSR programs that ate up your minuscule RAM. I was always more of a dabbler with...

That'd be totally cool. I wonder how small the writing would have to be to fit everyone's name, though. >100 names would certainly be problematic.

I only know what the industry does in general, as I don't usually deal with factory operations. My understanding is when drives come back for RMA purposes, they are first scanned to confirm they really are "bad." Many are false failures which are then put into the refurb pile for sending out...

Going away from multiplatter platforms was partly for cost reasons and partly because of the inherent difficulty of designing for multiple configurations. For the past few generations, one of the easiest ways of taking cost out of a drive was to remove disks and heads. With areal density...

^^ Couldn't have said it better myself.

You might want to keep those sheep away from him! :D

It's likelier the motors and bearings used are from different assembly plants. That, and differences in "shipping routes" between WD and the final consumer usually account for most of the variation seen in drive acoustics.

Or a brand of shoe. :lol:

Perhaps. Still, it's why I ever bother teaching folks at work: if at least one person takes the lesson to heart and makes use of it, it's worth my time. I do agree that SR seems to have a regular influx of new "less-than-polite" posters. It's unfortunate, but I hope the rest of us can keep...

That was the original reason there was a short-lived effort to make 3" laptop drives. The thinking was it made more sense to get a lot more space, even if the drive itself ended up wider, since large LCD screens and CDROM drives already dictated a certain size laptop. I still wish they'd made...

Interesting graph, e_dawg. I'm only just beginning to understand what I'm supposed to look for in those plots. :oops: I've actually never used an EQ. Maybe I'm lucky my ears aren't fussy enough yet. :P

*blinks* It was your opinion. What do I have to get annoyed about? ;) Besides, what counts is *I* like them, since I'm the one listening to them (and they do sound nice in this room). :D I have noticed they need to be cranked up a bit to really sound good, though. I just do so when no one else...

Those must be the Nautilus line from B&W. I guess I must not know very many people that care very much about audio equipment. :wink: The usual brands recommended are just those that are available from the Good Guys or Fry's, or the Walmart HTiB sets. Of course, I'm nowhere near an audiophile...

Hmm. I got a 27" HDTV-ready Samsung maybe a year ago. The newer model is running $700 at BB (non-sale price, with free shipping!). Gorgeous picture. I don't have enough space for something bigger (both physically, and I don't want to sit in the front yard to watch:lol:). Now, if only Comcast...

You must have more space where you live. :) Housing costs are high around here. Living room has more room (and surprisingly good acoustics) for me.

It's rare that I meet anyone that's even heard of B&W speakers. :) It's the only time I've ever fallen in love with audio equipment upon first listen: a pair of B&W 601 S2 speakers, hooked up with a Marantz CD/receiver combo (I needed something compact for my bedroom).

Good choice. Sennheiser makes very comfortable headphones, relatively light so you can wear them for hours without getting that "pinched head" feel.

I use earplugs if I want to cancel out noise. :) Very effective and I've gotten used to having them in for hours at a time (used to work in construction). For work, wireless Sennheiser headphones are wonderful. Not as good as wired ones for the money, but not tripping over cords more than...

:o Holy smokes! I got DSL for two reasons: wouldn't tie up my phone line when I'm online and allowed me to merge my parents' dialup account (they rarely use more than a couple hours a month, so they can use the "backup" dialup that comes with my DSL account). It took me over three months to...

Actually, not usually. I couldn't find a suitable smiling avatar to use. :D

Hmm... <--- Picture here. :D (It's summer now, hence the shorts)

Hmm. I always figured "bread and butter" meant that which is a staple. The profit from Seagate's SCSI division is no doubt pretty stable (they have a huge market share), while the small profit (if any) they get from the IDE division is icing on the cake. *mumbles* Now I have the hankering to go...

The thing is, I disagree that the IDE market is Seagate's bread-and-butter. I'd wager that the bulk of Seagate's profit is from their SCSI drives, not their IDE drives. They may get a lot of revenue from IDE drives, but I doubt they get much profit.

Ah, but would said 5400 rpm desktop drive fit in a typical laptop? ;)

I dunno. I read that blurb as "first 7200 rpm mobile drive that used femto sliders," not "first 7200 rpm drive." Didn't Toshiba already announce a 7200 rpm drive? Or was it Fujitsu? Now, femto sliders, *that's* impressive. The industry's been stuck on pico sliders for a while now. There just...

I'd rather not have yet another long cable going from my scanner or printer to the back of the computer.

That was fun. :D IE 5.5 crashed. Just one more reason I love using Mozilla. :)

I'm not sure it's simply that people are too selfish or stupid to grasp the concept, just that something right in front of you is likely to garner more attention than something that "might" happen in the distant future. Scientists can predict, based on models, what "might" happen 25 or 50 or...

:D It's partly because it's like what SteveC said, about being able to use the NumPad while using the mouse that made me learn left-handed mousing (I'm right-handed). That, and when helping others with CAD, several users are lefties. Some don't switch the keys around, while others do. I've...

Interesting. I don't think I'd pay $100 for one, though. I actually prefer mice that can be used equally well with either hand; I like being able to switch off so I don't overuse one side or the other. I suppose it'd be nice if someone could make a mouse that would work on a vertical surface...

:o I guess I should be thankful my little Deskjet 820C is still humming along. Bought it new back in... *counts on fingers* 1994 or so. On third cartridge only. :) I guess those sacrificial offerings of old AOL disks really made a difference. ;)

My bicycle was stolen out of my garage once. :( Someone broke a window on my car, too. Nothing was taken, though.

It *does* look rather XP-ish, doesn't it? I agree that it seems to move faster, be it due to the interface or hardware upgrades. This might be heresy to say here, but I actually like the forum software over at Ars best. Infopop, I think it is. Maybe I'm just most comfortable with it because I...

Wow. Decide not to visit for a couple of days and look at what happens. ;) I usually don't drop by in this forum as anything I might have to sell is way too old, and I don't have a need to buy anything at the moment. Heh. I had to use punch tape (!) as an undergrad in one of my labs. The uni...

Oh, you were referring to the New York Rangers throwing money around and not getting much, not the Texas Rangers. Wait, do I detect another similarity between the teams besides their names? ;)

Heh. I haven't been watching the playoffs this year, as my beloved Los Tiburones didn't make it. :( I was surprised Detroit got swept, though. I heard about it on the radio this morning and my first thought was "there are going to be some cranky people at work today." :D

Heh. And I thought I was just imagining things, or that I had somehow flubbed my installation of Moz 1.3. :) My laptop uses 1600x1200 default resolution, but I have Moz crank up the fonts so it's easier for me to read. ;)

That would describe me fairly accurately, too. Word. Trying to use logic and reason doesn't seem to be getting anywhere with certain posters, though I take solace that maybe someone else is gaining some benefit if we at least keep things civil. Maybe we won't be able to change people's (set)...

That's true. I still get a chuckle when I see Frank's new handle, though. He said he wanted something that sounded more like a porn star's name. :o

*shrugs* I don't visit the B&G section of SR very much, as I rarely have much to say in those threads. I stick to the Computers forum and maybe post once or twice a day. In a way, it saddens me to see many of the old regulars (B.C. - before crash) from there post infrequently, if at all. A few...