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The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition
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16. October 2010 @ 01:44 |
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16. October 2010 @ 01:55 |
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Erm that looks like a case of someone designing something of no practical use whatsover, the kind of thing you see as a painting and people always say "i can see what the artist was trying to say there" (when they clearly can't); i think i'll stick to good old fashioned pie charts and percentages thanks :)
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16. October 2010 @ 01:58 |
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Not really, as the folders are visibly distinguishable with changes in the layout of the blocks, and a quick hover-over shows you what you're looking at (it also highlights the outside of the parent folder). It's maybe not so obvious as a still screenshot but once you use it it's quite handy, to me at least. I tend rarely to have many root folders in a drive so if you want basic info you can just right click properties on the folder concerned.
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16. October 2010 @ 13:07 |
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Well...I discovered something very curious. Not sure if its the root of my Lag, but I did discover that my Hard drive activity light, and click which happens at regular intervals, is in exact tandem, with what I believe to be "HOTMAIL.COM" refreshing itself at regular intervals. I began closing processes in an effort to find the lag, and so far, hotmail seems to be the culprit. Most unfortunate. I love hotmail. I guess I can live with it. But M$ needs to know that their refreshing process seems to be slowing other processes :p And on a quad core, that's most distressing news...
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16. October 2010 @ 13:09 |
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Hotmail is just ugh. Use Google Mail.
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16. October 2010 @ 13:21 |
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I've been using it so long, its hard to change. I just need to be aware of that, until they fix it ;)
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16. October 2010 @ 13:38 |
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I almost ditched my hotmail account. I've had it for so many years i can't even remember when i first got it. In all those years i've probably had only a couple (maybe 3 but i'm almost positive it's only been a couple) of spam emails. Then a few months ago i started having spates of groups of made-up-named 'people' (probably bots) trying to add me as contacts. Then a few weeks ago i started having emails sent from my account that weren't sent by me. Then Microsoft locked my account, forcing me to create a new password (at coincidentally just the same exact time they were rolling out new anti-spam changes). I'd had that same password for all the many years i'd had the account, with not single problem or lock-out.
So i nearly ditched the account, i have a gmail account also, but i don't trust either company to safeguard my email content nor my contacts so i keep very little of value in said accounts, such companies sell out our privacy often. Though all is not bad, they don't seem as bad as those mindless 'social networking' sites for the IQ-challenged in society, though i always keep my eye on Google, they are not to be trusted. At all.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy
I'll stop before i get started on Google's streetview debacle, that nonsense where they claimed that the camera vehicles 'accidentally' captured data from countless wifi routers, for 4 years until they got rumbled.
On topic, i'd been reading up on how to disable the head parking on WD20EARS drives, i'm having zero issues with using the drive, it's used for documentaries and TV shows, stuff like that, playback and copying to and from it, have been trouble-free. Am just a bit nervous of having a drive that self-parks so often. Or maybe i don't need to worry due to the use this drive gets (ie head parking is ok due to the content/use of this particular drive i think). I've still to order another WD20EARS for it's external backup, am not to nervous about the drives now i've seen how easy it is to format them (for use in XP or linux)
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16. October 2010 @ 13:51 |
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Yeah invite bots are an absolute farse.
I don't trust google to my privacy at all, but the way I see it, I'm not doing anything illegal with my account, so I don't really care.
If you're worried about head parks, have the drive spin down when not in use. The heads will stay parked if the platters aren't spinning :P
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16. October 2010 @ 13:56 |
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LOL! Thanks for that creaky. This just gave me quite the laugh. Though quite serious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrontojPWEE&NR
I'll likely be buying more WDEARS drives in the future. I wanna see this drive hit the 6month mark first though :S
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16. October 2010 @ 13:57 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Erm that looks like a case of someone designing something of no practical use whatsover, the kind of thing you see as a painting and people always say "i can see what the artist was trying to say there" (when they clearly can't); i think i'll stick to good old fashioned pie charts and percentages thanks :)
That's what I thought to at first but it showed me what I was looking for, although if I was looking for a small file probably would have given up lol. I was going to try JDiskReport also to compare but it failed to launch on my system (couldn't find javaw.exe).
Anyway it turns out my disk space was being eaten up by a hidden recycle bin on that drive that seemed to hold everything I'd deleted off that drive for the past several years. Thanks for all the help guys :)
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16. October 2010 @ 14:34 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
I've been using it so long, its hard to change. I just need to be aware of that, until they fix it ;)
I was in the same situation until i decided to just forward my hotmail to the gmail account. Now I only open 1 app for my few different email accounts. You know you have personal email, work email, my bands email, the address my wife has, and the other one i use for "other" women...i only open Gmail to view them all.
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16. October 2010 @ 15:17 |
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They'll only forward those messages for so long though, eh? Much like a change of address ;)
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16. October 2010 @ 18:15 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
They'll only forward those messages for so long though, eh? Much like a change of address ;)
Do they? It's been over 2 years for me...really all you need is your gmail set properly to fetch generichumorousname@hotmail.com and thats it. If its still programmed to fetch, it will fetch it.
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16. October 2010 @ 18:35 |
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Ah. I suppose if the past account is still active ;) I have a yahoo account as well, for particular uses. But I've always liked hotmail. Don't know why. Just grew on me I guess :p
After previous posts though, I think my paranoia level just climbed to alarming levels :S
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16. October 2010 @ 20:35 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Hotmail is just ugh. Use Google Mail.
Sam,
Not so here in So Cal. I get spam by the ton on Gmail! I open it every couple of weeks just to check it and there's usually 150-200 or more pieces of spam every time! Hotmail is also far easier to use than either Gmail or Yahoo mail when sending multiple forward emails. Yahoo mail is a huge PITA for that, and extremely time consuming! Gmail is a whole lot better!
Russ
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16. October 2010 @ 21:05 |
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Mondays I may have a few junk mails, and a couple spams, but for the most part, I don't get them :p
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16. October 2010 @ 21:13 |
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Looking for a Pretty Good Ethernet Hard Drive or a External Enclosure where you can swap drives out and with a Ethernet connection. The only one. I found was a LaCie but . I don't know what drive is inside the case there's not alot of Ethernet drives out there. I see in Brand names. I would very much appreciated if anybody know any other links to find somes at a low price,,,
I found this on the Egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154419
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16. October 2010 @ 21:24 |
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I'm sure this has occurred to you guys, but almost any email address can be registered to work with Thunderbird or Outlook. So the quality of the service really doesn't matter in the long scheme of things.
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17. October 2010 @ 00:11 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
Looking for a Pretty Good Ethernet Hard Drive or a External Enclosure where you can swap drives out and with a Ethernet connection. The only one. I found was a LaCie but . I don't know what drive is inside the case there's not alot of Ethernet drives out there. I see in Brand names. I would very much appreciated if anybody know any other links to find somes at a low price,,,
I found this on the Egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154419
Will,
I don't know Will, a lot of their stuff has been poorly rated. I do know that their USB drives have been problematic, especially the smaller ones. I know a couple of people who have owned the 1TB external usb drive, that said they weren't too reliable. heat seems to have been a big issue! I believe Rick had a 1TB usb one, but sent it back!
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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17. October 2010 @ 01:42 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by bigwill68:
Looking for a Pretty Good Ethernet Hard Drive or a External Enclosure where you can swap drives out and with a Ethernet connection. The only one. I found was a LaCie but . I don't know what drive is inside the case there's not alot of Ethernet drives out there. I see in Brand names. I would very much appreciated if anybody know any other links to find somes at a low price,,,
I found this on the Egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154419
Will,
I don't know Will, a lot of their stuff has been poorly rated. I do know that their USB drives have been problematic, especially the smaller ones. I know a couple of people who have owned the 1TB external usb drive, that said they weren't too reliable. heat seems to have been a big issue! I believe Rick had a 1TB usb one, but sent it back!
Russ
I need a Ethernet Hard Drive ,Not a E-sata or usb drive.I would Never use a USB External Drive anyway tranfer rate is Too slow for me Always E-sata Drives Here what. I'm trying to do is plug it directly into my westell modem as a network drive with it's own Ip address attached...
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17. October 2010 @ 01:52 |
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Originally posted by Russ:
Sam,
Not so here in So Cal. I get spam by the ton on Gmail!
You don't seriously believe where you live affects how much spam you get?
An email address only gets spammed if it's used to subscribe to something and the database is leaked. Commonplace, but I wouldn't really put that down to gmail. I've had a hotmail account for perhaps 8 years, and I typically get maybe 50 spam emails a week. My gmail I've had 6 years and I get maybe 1200-1500 spam a week. Fact is though, it pretty much all ends up in the spam folder and not the inbox, and this email address is on hundreds if not maybe over a thousand websites, I'm not surprised I get so much spam.
Will: You want to plug a hard drive into a modem, yet you think USB2 is too slow? Modems almost universally use 100Mbps switches, not Gigabit, which means 11MB/s limit. USB2's 31MB/s is a lot faster than that. Why not just use eSATA? Or perhaps you should consider a USB3 enclosure. They're a little more pricey but much, much cheaper than gigabit ethernet enclosures.
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17. October 2010 @ 02:05 |
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Originally posted by bigwill68:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by bigwill68:
Looking for a Pretty Good Ethernet Hard Drive or a External Enclosure where you can swap drives out and with a Ethernet connection. The only one. I found was a LaCie but . I don't know what drive is inside the case there's not alot of Ethernet drives out there. I see in Brand names. I would very much appreciated if anybody know any other links to find somes at a low price,,,
I found this on the Egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154419
Will,
I don't know Will, a lot of their stuff has been poorly rated. I do know that their USB drives have been problematic, especially the smaller ones. I know a couple of people who have owned the 1TB external usb drive, that said they weren't too reliable. heat seems to have been a big issue! I believe Rick had a 1TB usb one, but sent it back!
Russ
I need a Ethernet Hard Drive ,Not a E-sata or usb drive.I would Never use a USB External Drive anyway tranfer rate is Too slow for me Always E-sata Drives Here what. I'm trying to do is plug it directly into my westell modem as a network drive with it's own Ip address attached...
Will,
You are not following what I am saying. Their products in general are not very good. Read the feedback on that drive. Many complaints! They told one person I know that they only use WD drives. Since his died, he took the cover off to make sure a plug wasn't loose, and found a Maxtor inside!
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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17. October 2010 @ 02:08 |
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I've only seen inside one LaCie and it was two Samsung HD501LJs. The drive was a 1TB 'Big Disk' and it used the two drives in RAID. It was nearly impossible to disassemble, and it used the alternate 4-pin power plug connector, which we couldn't get the right schematic for [the external PSU had failed and we were trying to hook another up to it]. When we found what should have been the right schematic for the connector, we fried one of the drives, so obviously it wasn't. A thorough pain it was, I'll stick to my self-assembled enclosures thanks.
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17. October 2010 @ 02:17 |
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Just got the living crap scared out of me! Gina just emailed me, and I called her on the phone. The Hospital was wrong, she isn't dead! Cried like a baby when I heard her voice! She's not in the best of shape, but has recovered from her stroke with just a problem with her voice. She talks pretty good, but sometimes it takes a bit to form the words. I was just praying that it wasn't just some sick joke! I'm still shaking!
I'm working on getting my computer put back together!
Russ
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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17. October 2010 @ 02:32 |
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Great to hear Russ :)
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