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That looks interesting. I'd actually rather have a drive bay for 2x 2.5" drives right now, though. I'd be telling my customers that they're "backup cartridges" or somesuch.

I'm fine with using the Y-cable. My gaming desktop system seems to be able to deliver enough power from one port, but notebooks as a rule don't seem to be able to. Lots of low-end business desktops have a problem doing that as well. Given that more systems than not need the Y-cable to be...

To put into perspective how quiet NSK3480s are, in a classroom full of them, powered on, with stock Intel cooling and 250GB Seagate or Samsung hard drives, the loudest thing is Pepsi vending machine that's 10m away in another room.

$6800 in damage from the initial estimate vs. a vehicle that's worth $12500. Apparently I am safe, and whatever the hell Honda Elements are made out of is stronger than it looks.

Mine are generic. I use these. I carry two in my tech bag and have another on my desk at work. They're OK but they need the 2x USB Y-cable for power.

Trek has consistently bad writing, more or less ignores human nature and, most importantly, features technology that always works and a total lack of dirt.

I strongly dislike the current form of Slashdot. It takes too damned long to make a post and it's almost impossible to tell what parts of a thread are new on subsequent visits. Fark has a really nice system for handling quotes that I miss on SF: you can highlight text, hit the "quote" button...

On another forum I visit, I like to argue the superiority of Star Wars to Star Trek, particularly as it relates to the horrible writing of the typical episode of Trek. There's a classic Internet Argument, though, about whether the Enterprise (in any form) could win in a battle against either the...

I haven't had many. I have more problems with using SATA optical drives in DOS than anything else. Well, it's another layer of error checking. If I'm not sure that what the manufacturer's tool is telling me is accurate, or is giving me results different from my observation, I'll put the drive...

My MtG collection is 1st and 2nd edition cards - including about 30 Moxes and 3 Black Lotuses - up to "the Dark." At one point shortly after the introduction of the 1st edition game I was the only person at my comic shop buying the cards, because I liked the art. I didn't even learn how to play...

I've found legacy mode SATA stuff is really flakey and bad. When I want to do low level stuff I keep a SATA-to-PATA converter on hand and use an IDE DVD drive.

Well, right, but if Greg took a collection of jpegs from a folder somewhere, that would make a big difference in his calculation.

I've got 70% of the drivable distance left on the warranty, and I can't find another of that model of Element within 500 miles of my house for less than what I paid for that one. I really hope they don't total it. Also there's the thing where I have no interest in going back to having a car...

It's going to depend on the size of the files being and how much the drive heads have to move around, too, at least in the case of Greg's data.

Because that's very close to the cost of the components. The units that are cheaper are probably Chinese companies trying to skip out on some licensing fees they should be paying.

... and of course I was out of AA batteries so the only pictures I have are from my phone... And the rest of the crappy pictures I took with my phone this morning.

I've got a pirate stream of it loading right now. It's Trek so I'm not paying to see it in a theater, but since I'm stuck here without a car and all my Netflix discs are at work, I might as well watch something.

At least they were thorough.

Last night it was raining sideways with thunder and lightning, and this sixty or seventy foot tall tree just fell across a half dozen cars in the parking lot. I couldn't see how bad it was until this morning. I have pictures of my car. For now it looks like it's all body/glass damage, but I...

I am fine. There's just no glass in my car and damage to every body panel.

A tree just crushed my car. :(

Any way I look at it, I don't see a compelling reason to use WHS. Either I can buy some kind of NAS device (e.g. a Buffalo Terastation) that does the same thing for about what WHS + a PC + a bunch of hard disks cost, and simplify my administrative duties to maybe a half-dozen mouse clicks, or if...

I would have mentioned that if you hadn't.

There's always FreeNAS.

I use a Logitech bluetooth keyboard for PS/3. There's another RF-based system I was looking at, which is more compact and uses a trackball rather than a trackpad.

Probably. Such is the Hitachi way.

I strongly prefer having CRC checks above and beyond the file system for data integrity. I like having reasonably expansive amounts of data (more than the size of a single disk) and more than anything else I don't mind doing the data management you're talking about it. If I'm shepherding...

Well, sure, but I hate keeping equipment I have very little chance of using on hand.

For what it's worth, I've had a lot of trouble partitioning and formatting Seagate 1.5TB drives on Windows machines that seem to test fine once I formatted them under Linux.

I don't look at "no RAID to manage" as anything like an advantage.

Hitachi always seems to want to push performance and capacity. I suspect theit 2TB drive will not be a 5400rpm "green" model.

If I can't buy one at a local screwdriver shop, it's not standard enough. PSUs fail and I don't want to tell someone their PC will be down for a week.

I use Centos systems with 6TB drives of drives in RAID5 that are regularly rsync'd to a second array in a different PC. Works well. I stopped at 6TB so I can have a hot spare handy. I'm still using for file servers, though.

That non-standard case gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Indiana does not charge a tax like that. I can throw monitors in dumpsters all day long here and no one gives a shit. That is not a good thing. It's $16. If you can't handle a $16 charge for disposing of electronics you don't deserve to own them in the first place.

And here's the state rankings in Education. Generally speaking the states at the top of the list are blue states with a low population.

It should be noted that all but two of the 2004 red states are the ones which accept the most handouts from the federal government and generally have the least educated populations, while the 2004 blue states are among the most productive, well educated and receive the least money from the...

Given the state of California's state budget I'm sure this up-front fee is doing some small amount of work in filling the gap. Indiana barely even has recycling, at least where I live. People do separate things, but the same truck picks it up and I've watched them throw it all in together.

Hawking makes an inexpensive antenna that I've found helpful in the past, but ddrueding's are even cheaper so I'd say go with those.

Sort of. As I recall some of the library files are different and you can add the Linux ones to your BSD machine and most stuff will work. What I remember most about BSD compatibility with Linux was the way it was announced on USENET. The post was titled: "You may now play Doom"

Totally sweet fan-made Lord of the Rings movie. In HD. With good production values and CG.

The guy who brought it to me is an Oracle consultant. He carried this thing on planes with him. Near as I can tell the only games he ever played were solitaire and freecell. Acer has better product documentation than Alienware, and that's saying something.

I've been brought another Alienware notebook to play with. This one is a P4/3200 with an x800 Mobility Radeon in it. I can't figure out what kind of Alienware notebook it is, because there are at least five different kinds that are marked "Area 51" and this piece of shit doesn't match any of...

No question that for any but the most popular Linux distros I'd be downloading via FTP. BSD has always been a sort of second place choice. I've had machines running it in the past, but for the most part it lags Linux for hardware support and in adding new features; one of the reasons I ended up...

A person I do work for (did work for, since I haven't seen her in ages) is a Private Investigator who mostly does background checks for a living. With the stuff she's licensed to have access to, she could build a pretty accurate description of my life without having to get up from her computer...

In contracting it's pretty common for me to just sit down where ever to use a phone or a PC. I've picked up handsets that have a quarter inch layer of grey funk on them from someone's ear, and found mice that have the same waxy buildup on the left button and wheel. That's when I go wash my...

XP is a lady of empowered femininity who seeks to satisfy the broadest possible range of partners. Vista is a stupid ugly stuck up bitch.

Most smart torrent users have a setting turned on that says "don't send packets to clients not using encryption." That's why your transfer rate drops. But Comcast at least just rate-limits everything that exceeds a certain upload speed for a certain period of time, without regard for what kind...

I suspect Google will release an app that does that before Microsoft does. Google certainly seems to be the name brand in GIS stuff for the average user these days.

I might mention the really very good support for legacy software, the excellent technical documentation and learning resources and the availability of skilled professionals to meet service needs. Basically, even if Windows itself kind of sucks there's a good infrastructure behind it.