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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 1 Terrabyte Western Digital Drive for $264 USD
« on: December 08, 2007, 04:19 AM »
RAID-5! ;p
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Crap I don't do any of those!
Music should be on the list though-Deozaan (November 28, 2007, 03:49 PM)
A tip for cheapskates like me: buy two HDDs, a small one for the SOs and the software and a big one (320 GB go out really cheap these days) for the rest of data. A Raptor might shave you a few seconds (with each passing generation of 7.200 rpms disks, the gap is narrowing), but you save more than 100 bucks in the process. Hmmm, I see f0dder mentioned it
Don't worry about the fans, even the most cheapo case in the market brings along a fan or two with it.
About the power consumption problems Ralf mentions: I suspect something or some other component was troubling your PSU, 10k discs don't suck so much power as you may expect, mostly because they have left things to move than, say, a 1 TB drive, which sucks down some watts more. Of course, another story is when we talk about spinning up the drives when the computer starts...-Lashiec (December 05, 2007, 11:37 AM)
Microsoft has published the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview as a PDF.
http://www.microsoft...0&DisplayLang=en-blarson (December 04, 2007, 05:49 AM)
Thanks for the welcome Mouser.
I'm also planning a mini-review/comparison between this and others like Hijackthis!, AutoRuns and a2squared Hijackfree.-Lusher (August 22, 2007, 03:50 PM)
Hahaha~!
That's hilarious! I can imagine some slogans.
Ride MILF!
MILF - We blow the competition away!
Got MILF?
MILF - You'd be surprised where we've been!-Renegade (December 04, 2007, 05:25 AM)
RAID with Parity would be RAID-5, and I wouldn't touch it... still only guards you against a single failing drive, and rebuilds when a drive dies are expensive (and might generate enough stress that an additional drive dies, *poof*).
RAID-MIRROR might seem wasteful in that you "lose" one full drive's capacity, don't get enhanced write speed etc., but it's really the only way to go. People do tend to weep when their 1.5TB RAID-5 arrays die completely.
And btw... mouser: damn you Amerikans for having such cheap electronics prices! A 74gig raptor drive will set me back ~$195, and the 150gig edition ~$270. Those drives are spendy.-f0dder (December 05, 2007, 02:21 AM)
From a recent experience I want to try to argue that when you build your next PC, you do not just go buy a giant Hard Drive for it.
Instead, buy TWO hard drives:
- One pricey but fast for your C drive (operating system and program files) - The Western Digital 10,000 RPM, 150gb drives are about $180.
- One cheap but big for your Data and for Backup and Scratch use - Lots of 500gb-750gb, 7200rpm drives to be had for $200 and under.
The reason for this approach is several-fold:
- The super fast C drive really does make a difference. I think it's probably one of the most cost-effective ways to speed up your computer in terms of real world use.
- Having two drives lets you backup from C to D and from D to C, so that your task of performing regular backups is really easy and fast and you can protect yourself in the case that one drive fails.
-mouser (December 04, 2007, 04:08 PM)
Bugfix alert! Updated 2006-12-28. Details in the thread below...
General description of KeyNote (along with the full disclosure - it's not actively maintained anymore, though I *am* working on a rewritten version almost every day):
http://www.tranglos....om/free/keynote.html
Best regards to all,
marek-tranglos (December 24, 2006, 09:22 AM)
YES! YES! YES! Finally! Without having to edit my own file with zoom preferences on a page by page basis, my endless quest for a good text zoom addon has finally come.
I just noticed THIS NoSquint (http://urandom.ca/nosquint/) new addon over at the Firefox addons page (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/55/) for the never updated, less impressive, TextZoom.
This guy is my freakin hero! As with the previous text zoom, it will adjust the zoom permantly on a whateverpercentyouwant basis OR remember how you zoom on each domain you visit for each following visit. Awesome.-vegas (June 15, 2006, 11:45 PM)
...And the pirates just download a 4.3gigabyte .mkv (matroska video container) with AC3 sound and H.264 encoded 720p version, which is probably higher quality than the .wmv. So much for copy protections/DRM, as usual they only get in the honest people's way, while the pirates have it all.
And blu-ray/hd-dvd has already been broken.-f0dder (January 29, 2007, 05:00 PM)
Exactly. It's really a compromise to give people both a chance to win, and also time to consider using the discount.
Realize that unlike some of these other websites which have popped up recently whose entire business model is designed around making affiliate fees from sales, etc., that the discounts and giveaways as never planned, it just sort of happened.
When we first started with the discounts and giveaways we had the giveaway end at the very end of the month, and then there would be like 24 hours between people finding out they didn't win until the end of the discount. Seemed kind of crazy and unfair to the companies too.
So now the idea is that we end the giveaway in the middle of the month, and then peopl have the other half of the month to contemplate the discount. It also matches up well now with our newsletters since the first newsletter we can remind people about the giveaway deadline, close enough to deadline that they actually remember, and in the second newsletter of the month we can do the same about the end of discount deadline.-mouser (January 15, 2007, 03:17 PM)
Thanks for the explanation. Also to mention, the versions other sites give away aren't necessarily the current version, nor the full version, and don't necessarily include any future updates or even support - even some come with extended time limitations, sheeesh. I like the color of the grass here. 
I forgot to mention this one...Wow, crystal castles! totally forgot about that game, with the little trees bouncing around. Nice call.
Crystal Castles-app103 (January 12, 2007, 12:19 AM)
My time spent on computer:
- Programming
- Spending far too much time reading political blogs and watching c-span.
- Working on DC website
-mouser (January 10, 2007, 03:25 AM)