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Pradeep

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Mercutio

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My latest shipment of drives from Newegg, four $44, 250GB Samsung drives, arrived double boxed with the entire interior volume of the inner box occupied with bubble wrap individually surrounding each drive.

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Yes, the camera on my phone sucks.
 

MaxBurn

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Cool merc, looks like we all got through to them. Did you check and make sure they are REAL drives though?
 

Handruin

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Nice to see them packing drives better. My recent shipment last week of a Samsung 1TB wasn't nearly as good. It was in a single box with packing peanuts. The drive was wrapped in one layer of bubble protection and floating around in the box with the other item I bought. I'm guessing I'd have to order them in larger quantities to get better treatment.
 

LunarMist

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Jetpacks:

I was surprised by the 30 minute runtime.

It is a conventionally powered design, not a jet pack. Jet packs have been around for many years, but the operating time is low.

Perhaps the government will buy the flying packs for the military or law enforcement. I sure would not want to be on one in any significant wind. :crap:
 

ddrueding

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Random complaint.

The OCZ Z-Drive has a couple capacitors protruding on the top of the card that is preventing me from installing two of them next to my 5870 on a GA-X58-Extreme. RAID-0 nirvana will have to wait ;)
 

ddrueding

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Looking specifically for 9" CAT5e/6 in blue and white. Probably 50 of each. 6" is too short and 12" is too long. I don't want to build 100 patch cables by hand.
 

LunarMist

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Looking specifically for 9" CAT5e/6 in blue and white. Probably 50 of each. 6" is too short and 12" is too long. I don't want to build 100 patch cables by hand.

Can't you find a company that makes custom cables?
 

Stinker

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My latest shipment of drives from Newegg, four $44, 250GB Samsung drives, arrived double boxed with the entire interior volume of the inner box occupied with bubble wrap individually surrounding each drive.

The single 1TB drive I got with my dad's system was also totally wrapped in bubble wrap and then enclosed in a form fitting box around it. Then that box was in the big box with all the other parts. Very nicely packed indeed.
 

ddrueding

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I thought the minimum length for CAT cables was ~3m due to reflections. Has this changed?

No idea, but my 6" cables are working just fine at gigabit speeds without any errors logged. There are a bunch of runs that are just outside 6" range, and having a cable that is 40% too long sucks.
 

LunarMist

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No idea, but my 6" cables are working just fine at gigabit speeds without any errors logged. There are a bunch of runs that are just outside 6" range, and having a cable that is 40% too long sucks.

Why does the difference matter? Is it in tight quarters?
 

Handruin

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Looks like Charter (my ISP) upgraded my internet package recently...I looked at their packages on their web page and the highest listed is 25Mb, so I don't know why it's giving me higher download rates.

150 miles away:


1400 miles away:


1700 miles away:


2600 miles away:
 

ddrueding

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Looks like Charter (my ISP) upgraded my internet package recently...I looked at their packages on their web page and the highest listed is 25Mb, so I don't know why it's giving me higher download rates.

When we started living here I was gaming online quite a bit. Then I appreciated the three loadbalanced T1s for their amazing low latency. Now I wish I had the bandwidth that a simple cable modem can offer. Once we move into the city where such things are available, I'm going to have as big a pipe as I can get.
 

udaman

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If it hasn't already happened, I think the Arab oil states & China will own most of the USA within a decade or so. Think jtr is going to have to find a way to save up enough to make a short trip to China if he ever wants to indulge in his train tech passion:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_high_speed_rail

BEIJING – China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.
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"We are organizing relevant companies to participate in bidding for U.S. high-speed railways," Wang Zhiguo, a deputy railways minister, told a news conference.
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Beijing plans to construct a 16,000-mile (25,000-kilometer) high-speed rail network by 2020 in a 2 trillion yuan ($300 billion) project it hopes will spur economic and technology development. A new line linking the central city of Wuhan with Guangzhou near Hong Kong on China's southern coast is billed as the world's fastest at 237 miles (380 kilometers) per hour.
China produces high-speed trains using French, German and Japanese technology. Its manufacturers have developed a homegrown version but have yet to produce a commercial model.
Chinese rail authorities have signed cooperation memos with California and Russia and state companies plan to bid on a line in Brazil linking Rio de Janeiro with Sao Paulo, Wang said. He said Saudi Arabia and Poland also have expressed interest.


The White House announced $8 billion in grants in January for rail projects including the high-speed systems in California, Florida and Illinois.
"China is willing to share its mature and advanced technology with other countries to promote development of the world's high-speed railways," Wang said.


So far, China's government has completed 2,295 miles (3,676 kilometers) of rail lines with top speeds of up to 220 mph (350 kph) and 1,795 miles (2,876 kilometers) with speeds up to 155 mph (250 kph), according to Wang.


Another 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) of lines are under construction, he said.


Once the network is completed, it will cut travel time from Beijing to Hong Kong from 24 hours to 10.


Some critics say high-speed train fares are too high for average Chinese and question whether the lines can recover their construction costs.
Wang said high-speed trains already have higher occupancy rates than regular trains, though he gave no details.
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Associated Press
 
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