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I'll repeat again: the warranty had zero (0, zip, zilch, nada) effect on my decision. 95% of the decision was based on price (corroborated by many of the comments above that most brands of drives are alike in most respects) 3% on performance (didn't wan't a slug at any price) and 2% on...

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I think that's it. Increasingly, I hear WD's quality has gone down the tubes in the last 12-18 months. I know I'm not as smart as most of you here are, but please, can we give me a little more credit than that? If you bothered to read my posts above, you'll see that I have never owned a...

Thanks everybody, I value your opinions, that's why I asked. I bit the bullet (tastes yuck, and I lost a coupla teeth) and bought it. There was some controversy about the warranty in some forums - Fry's saying 5 years, and Seagate's web site saying 1. Mine has 5 years FWIW (serial# starts with...

Superb piece of sleuthing, CityK!

Hmm. 38 views, 3 replies. One anti WD, one pro WD - but this is about a Seagte drive :( Thanks Fushigi. I'm really looking for two things - 1) reliability 2) don't want a slug. $50 spent on a slug or a drive that will fail is a waste of money. I've owned several Maxtors and Quantums, one...

We have a connoisseur here, no less :P

I know the unanimous vote is for Samsung, but: The local Fry's has the Seagate ST3160023A-RK 160GB/8MB/7200RPM Retail Box 5 yr Warranty for ($100 + $7.75 tax) - $50 MIR = $57.75 For those without a Fry's nearby, Outpost.com (Frys' online channel) has it for $10 more. If I get it, it would...

Gosh, Fushigi, the AS/400 platform never ceases to amaze me. The S/36 was a dog, and I believe the early AS/400s were too, but the ugly duckling seems to have blossomed into the proverbial Prince Charming. Kudos to you for being able to work with such fine equipment!

Aah, Gilbo, welcome! Yea, you certainly did Dan justice, with almost as many links in your message as he is wont to put in his web pages! The reason I don't visit Dan's is that I end up spending all day clicking on every link and don't get anything done! The man has an intelligence, humor and...

Grrrrrrrrrr. But, but, but that's a Xeon-based system???

Isn't that logic so twisted? San Jose to Portland via L.A. Geez.

DD is actually a Borg... :wink:

I've had the same exact thing said to me in an extremely sarcastic manner by a close relative I've helped enormously (gratis, of course). That hurt, coming from somebody close who had (and still gets) oodles of my "computer expert" time.

Adcadet, Hope you're using a good engine like Lame and VBR on your MP3s?

I never found load times bothersome. It was after AcroReader and the file were loaded that speed became an issue. As such, I think the plug-ins trick will do nuttin fer me. I read that article on the Inq too. 8)

I had 5.1 installed, and it was excruciatingly slow. 15 seconds to redraw a one page pdf ~ 420KB. I said redraw, as in if you scrolled all the way to the bottom. HW config: 2xP3-900, 1GB, Radeon 32MB (original). Switching to a Radeon 9000 w/64MB made no difference. You'd think the stupid thing...

I've heard it both ways; some saying it's a bubble that will implode like the dot-com boom, some saying that careful analysis shows that it's not a bubble, but a sustained growth in demand. I've heard this from people in the industry - mortgage brokers, builders, real-estate analysts (on radio...

The polite Mr. Russo and his wry sense of humor! Welcome!

I think you intended to post in the other thread, Buck. Anyway, the median home price in Los Angeles has hit $414k, a 33% jump from a year ago. Go figure.

Congrats, Pradeep! See, crossing ones' toes does work.

No worries, Free, you were trying to help. That's what really counts, and what I really appreciate. I do have a habit of stirring up things here, though!

Thanks Mickey! That's very helpful to me. I continued to be ignorant despite Free's efforts to educate me :)

One of these days, you N. CA folks need to explain what you mean by East Bay, South Bay, Half-moon bay and all the other bays that we S. CA folks don't have a clue about.

Southern California Edison, which serves parts of LA and Orange Counties, is mandated to have some sort of mix with renewable sources thrown in. Don't know the exact ratios; a leaflet came in my last bill. Buck, being in the southern extremes of Orange county, is probably served by San Diego Gas...

I guess Gonig is off now.

Congrats, Handruin! It's a great feeling to be living in your own place. It'll keep you busy, puttering about here and there!

Shark Tank. Good for a few grins.

Tea, that's a very conscientious thing you folks are doing, and very laudable! Couldn't the turbines be made to emit a suitable noise that'd scare the birds and keep them away? Merc, the moitors will throttle down to a few watts (< 7) if they are in power saving mode, won't they?

Been there, done that. One of my previous employers, who I had worked 5 years at and sweated blood for, decided to move to cut costs (sold their own building and moved to rented space). In between, there was a change of leadership. Promptly after we settled into the new place, the new leadership...

Good luck, 'deep. I've got mah toes crossed as well!

Glad for you Free. Best wishes yto you, Mickey. If you're in the Lake Forest area you're close to both Buck and me, then. Unless you're up in N. CA.

I believe so. Maybe Pradeep can give a better answer; he's the eggspert on these things.

The Memorex D2 (D squared). In the past, Memorex has OEMmed reputable manufacturers like Plextor and Lite-on. Internal & External models. Single layer (4.7 GB) DVD+R discs at speeds up to 16X Double layer DVD+R discs at 2.4X DVD-R discs at 8X DVD+RW discs at 4X DVD-RW discs at 4X Buffer...

The TOE. Computers are becoming more human - they're sprouting body parts now.

The Sheriff probably knew what the other bloke looked like. But tell me, they send out a notice to a criminal that they're coming to get him, ensuring he has enough time to disappear??

Some good info here.

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Now, now, Gary!

I'm glad you're still around, Tony (i.e., didn't kill yourself or ended up in lockup because you killed him). :o

You're most welcome, little one.

Mother Board Monitor.

In case anyone's interested, the story is here.

This is not anything new, but does serve to remind that: a) Malicious types are way ahead of eveyone else in the game, and many are doing their work stealthily b) Most of us experienced folks use an alternative browser, unlike the hordes out there and c) we are more cautious in our surfing...

I love those debates Gary has with himself! :lol:

- DOM inspector - of course. - TabBrowserExtensions. Can't live without it. Nuttin else.

Once you try to go faster than standard Ethernet (10Mbps), things start to get fussy with wiring and connections. How you connect the wires to the jacks, and the wires to the RJ-45 plugs is really important. I'll assume you already know this and have done things right. Configuration (for the...

Congrats, E_! Have always enjoyed your posts.

I doubt an app would go and change DMA settings. They just make calls to the OS which handles the I/O.