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

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

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

Good thing it went Priority Mail®.

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

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.

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...

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

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.)

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...

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

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.

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.

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

18 on release; Mac Retina support, faster JavaScript . . .

It can get serious, sometimes quickly. Take care, you "lefties".

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.

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.

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...

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

But you don't keep them.

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.

I would be interested if you have some references for those assertions.

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"...

Wiley won one. For a Wile. :rr:

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.

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.

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

How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

That was an interesting google. I hadn't heard that one, just the seemingly minor variant "Antidisestablishmentarianism", with a fairly unrelated meaning.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis BTW, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "defined".

ATA Secure Erase instead, such as HDDerase on the Ultimate Boot CD?

Seconded, IMHO. I like the new icon-ing. "Hottness" is of secondary interest. (Also, my personal preference as a "minor-leaguer" here is for smaller icons.) But overall, a very nice upgrade! And per Bing's suggestion, the "New Post" button is very handy, and may also become my default. The...

And that's if your "lucky"; if not, it's a water dribbler.

iostat for Linux?

I tried pulling all the RAM, and then putting just 1 DIMM in each of the 3 sockets, and still no response, so that doesn't seem to be the issue. Re-seating the AGP card didn't help either. I didn't see any bulging caps on it or the mobo, in a closer inspection. Oh, well, I guess I'll get...

Thanks very much, but if I have to pull out the mobo, I'll replace it with something that can support 3 cores or more. CPU replacement didn't fix the problem, but I did notice that the MB didn't seem to have any bulging caps, FWIW. My apologies for the glibness; I should have just said "Happy...

Thanks for your advice; I don't want to put much effort or cash into a revival effort, and I'm barely handy with my hands, much less a soldering iron. I didn't look at the MB too intently, but my guess is that it might be from before the crap-cap issue started. And I don't want to trouble a...

Checking the status of my PCs on the World Community Grid, I found that my 8.6-year-old FIC Nforce2 PC had "No Reply" for some workunits. Looking at the box, "the lights are on, but nobody's home." I tried powering it down for hours, and jumpering to clear the CMOS, but there's no response...

I'm afraid for your physical and fiscal safety, even if most of it's in a sock drawer. Please consider getting to know a cute teller who'll be impressed by da roll.

CRN: "Likely To Cause Widespread Hard Drive Shortage" Forbes: "Deepen Crisis at HDD Companies" (... 60% of WD's drive volume, ... Toshiba shuts down plant)

ArsTechnicaLink.

Maybe so. But AFAIK I never had this issue before, even when there was a second page with just 1 new post on it. Prolly just a fluke. Or a feature. Cheers!