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When a PC has been transported (even over a small distance like 10 cm.) it is possible that (a) connector(s) got loose. Each and every time! I can't warn people enough about that. If I got 1000 USD for each time I solved a (hairy) situation with the solution above I could have stopped working for a living 5 years ago. People underestimate this problem in so many ways that it baffles me.

Move PC off desk.
Put PC back on desk
(Case flexes just enough to unseat video card)
Boot failure....

Yepper been there. 

NOTE: Currently the Drive Fitness Test does not support 3TB and greater internal drives.

Do you think it would be safe to give Seatools a try instead?  or is that not a good idea.  Other forums seem to think it's fine.[/quote]

Hm... That's a tricky one. Generally the error codes tend to be manufacturer specific, so only brand X's software will find/fix certain brand X issues. if it's a Hitachi drive try the newer Hitachi tool first (it does appear to superceed the DFT) and see what that comes up with first.

I couldn't find a similar tool from Hitachi

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Have you run the drive manufacturers diagnostic (usually a boot CD) on the disk to see what it finds/wants to fix?

[Their findings could lead to new ways for producers of films, television programs and commercials to predict what kinds of scenes their audiences will respond to.]

Tense Film Scenes Trigger Brain Activity[/b]

Visual and auditory stimuli that elicit high levels of engagement and emotional response can be linked to reliable patterns of brain activity, a team of researchers from The City College of New York and Columbia University reports. Their findings could lead to new ways for producers of films, television programs and commercials to predict what kinds of scenes their audiences will respond to.

Right. Because righting a good story is just to hard (to mass produce...). Whats next a photo/sound/light sequence that will cause anyone with a pulse to orgasm for 20min straight?? Christ...If they'ed quit trying to short-stroke human emotions maybe the population wouldn't be so screwed up half the time.

While I'm not seeking an argument or trying to get overly pedantic, I think this comes down to what you are going to use the drive for and whether or not you're prepared to wear the consequences.

Understood (as true), I'm just erroring on the side of caution. It's a (reflex/) side effect of primarily dealing with business systems where everything is hyper critical.

 

Personally, after seeing hordes of end users with that (classically pathetic) deliver me from evil look on their face...I think it's perfect.

The mollycoddling PC crowd will always whine about everything, but most normal folk (including the religious ones) will appreciate the humor. It's a refreshing change for the typical (snooze fest) dry as a desert parched bone technical writing.

Whether or not you can find a program to mark existing bad sectors, that does not matter. My very sincere advice is: Do not attempt to continue using a HDD once you find it start developing bad sector. Just grabs everything on it ASAP while you still can (So far, Norton Ghost is the best in claiming the most out of a bad HDD)

+1 - Courting an undead/zombie drive is just too risky.

So no more "Tell us where your leader is hiding, or we will play more Justin Beiber" techniques? Goddamn it, we are all doomed!

Two words...... Mars Attacks!

Biebers of Mass Destruction?! Wait - if you can get him classified top secret then they'll hide him away and we won't have to listen anymore!

He shall be investigated by top men....TOP men!

So... You're saying he's a bottom...

First of all, IMO credit monitoring is a huge fraud itself. It doesn’t really protect people at all; it just funnels even more money to the organizations that cause a lot of the credit fraud in the first place: the credit reporting companies. Credit monitoring alerts you AFTER someone has fraudulently opened an account in your name. What it does not do is prevent it in the first place. And in many cases the fraud perpetrator used information garnered from that same credit reporting company you're paying for the monitoring service. What a racket! These are the same companies that sell you a peek at your credit report for $10 - $12 but sell that same report to corporations for about $0.20! Yeah, I trust them almost as much as that Nigerian guy who has $11,438,00 waiting for me as soon as I send him my bank account number.

  Much the same goes through my head everytime I see one of those &$%#^$ Commercials on TV.

I would think ethically, yes ... And strategically no - Leave it up to the "outside channel partner" to report it if/as needed.
(^I tend to equate ethics with morals)

Without a confirmed smoking gun, it just to easy to blow yourself (and/or your friend) out of the water.

This does not look like a disaster to me: http://www.microsoft.com/...urface/en/us/default.aspx

[European birds called great tits]

One earlier study on reproductive success, in common European birds called great tits

Um... Okay... Wait-a-minute... Great Tits is a type of bird?!? ...You gotta be shitting me.

No really your Honor, I was only in a tree at the park with binoculars looking for great tits...

Is Metro okay for keyboard access? Just wondering if you can flick through things quickly with just the keys.

Yes, Alt + Tab works (as expected... ) in Metro.

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Hm... While I initially spearheaded the coining of the term Windows H8, I'm actually starting to like it. Granted I haven't (acid test) started using it full time yet, but I have spent quite a bit of time screwing with the TouchScreen test machine here at the office. If it's approached as something new...instead of a rehash of something old...it's really quite handy.

Interesting that they are targeting IE7 users only and offering browser suggestions that do not include upgrading to a newer version of IE. I wonder why that is?

Excellent point. 

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I don't mind a bit of IE7 bashing ... But when they imply that Safari is a "better browser" ...(Seriously??)... Credibility=0.

I've never done web developing, but my notion was that from a web developer's point of view, safari is similar to chrome (i.e. another webkit based browser) and hence respects many more web standards than ie does?

Understood, but last time I checked (which granted was a year or so ago) Safari on Windows supported all of the standards/HTML5 stuff ... While Safari on a Mac only supported about 10% of the HTML5 stuff. Which tells me that Apple is/was too chicken shit to dogfood their own product. Add to that their abysmal security history and Safari=pariah as far as I'm concerned.

I think this is another of Apple's Walled Garden moves, trying to create fear that anywhere outside their nice cozy eden is a virtual ghetto that will get you virtually shot.

Now thi$ I $ee as a definite po$$ibility.

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Is there any truth to the rumor that the United States has applied for .bs, and plans on using it to replace .gov for all its websites? 

  We can only hope... 

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I don't mind a bit of IE7 bashing ... But when they imply that Safari is a "better browser" ...(Seriously??)... Credibility=0.

I read it as black/false flag - An intentional misdirect so as to incriminate the other side.

NTFS Permissions -> Take Ownership of the file (first), then give yourself permission to delete it.

Note: Don't forget to check the reset permissions/ownership of child folders/objects option.

But I'm not sure if it's possible to do traffic analysis on TOR traffic to figure out the end points... Anyone know?

Strategically placed "hostile" endpoints with their own back channel would break it rather nicely (for them...). Remember the DNS server stunt... ...They were just trying to help out...Sure they were... (Not!)

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(Forgot to mention) IMO IainB nailed it.

Thanks for the report -- to be honest i never know about the shift+delete trick to bypass recycle bin. Let me look into it.

It's one of my favorites, as it's extreemly handy for site work when you want to cleanup after a repair ... But don't wan't to upset some end luser's tendency to store things in their recycling bin (yes I really do see this clueless behavior frequently).

Avoid any hair pulling ... Consider the demographic ... And then cater to the lowest common denominator...