A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process Posted: 5 months ago by Bornbad
In computer circles a well known statement when it comes to hard drives is that it’s not a matter of “if” a hard drive dies but “when”.
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The Hard Drive's 50th Birthday Posted: 2 years ago by ybne1else
50 years ago, the standard hard drive was the width of two refrigerators and stored the equivalent of one MP3 song. Today, we have 15,000 times the capacity of the original. Who knows what the future hard drive holds...
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Seagate ship 1 billionth hard drive Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Seagate has sold more hard drives than anyone else, and that number has now topped 1 billion. It has taken them 29 years to do it, and it represents 70 million terabytes of storage. More numbers in the article.
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Coming Soon: Hard Drives That Run 50,000 Times Faster Posted: 1 year ago by ogri2003
Physicists in Netherlands and Japan are the first to flip the value of a magnetic memory bit by firing a very short pulse of circularly-polarized laser light at it. Unlike other magneto-optic data storage systems, no external magnetic field was required to flip the bit, which meant that its value could be changed about 50 thousand times faster than the fastest conventional memory. The result could lead to the development of low-cost and ultrafast all-optical magnetic hard disk drives
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Western Digital My Book Essential 250GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Not a mail in rebate. List price $149, now $99.
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"Drive-by Downloads" - the new Internet threat? Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
Now that consumers are getting a handle on spam and infected junk mail, they have a new problem to worry about. Malicious code embedded in many web pages will quietly download programs to your computer. Google ran a couple billion pages through a filter and over 4.5 million tripped the alarm.
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What a 5-mb hard drive looked like in 1953. Posted: 2 years ago by jaxomlotus
Hint: It weighed over a ton.
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Eight Tips for a Faster Hard Drive Posted: 2 years ago by whi73rav3n
Defrag your hard drive the right way; remove big, useless files; find duplicates.
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Instructional video on how to drive and how not to drive. Posted: 2 years ago by jaxomlotus
This is a must-watch for anyone serious about driving safety. Please also remember to drive drunk responsibly.
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Your computer on a USB stick Posted: 1 year ago by TheStep
Microsoft and SanDisk are teaming up to try and offer people the technology to carry an image of their desktop on a USB drive.
There's already USB apps out there.
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Massive Harddrive for Minimal Cost Posted: 2 years ago by iZ
Outpost has this huge 400 gig ATA hard drive for a mere $110 with free shipping. See if Bittorrent can keep up with that! Its also a Seagate so it most likely has a 5 year warranty.
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Nintendo says "NO" to Wii hard drive Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Nintendo denies Wii hard drive add-on, despite rumours and WiiWare increasing DLC availability.
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A Dog Learns to Drive Posted: 2 years ago by jaxomlotus
A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, thought it would be a good idea to teach her dog a new trick by having the dog drive her car. The two didnt make to far on the open road before crashing her car.
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Extreme Drive Thru at McDonalds - Video Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
Guy writes his order in a song, sings it at the drive-thru!
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Pill to boost women's sex drive and help them lose weight Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A DRUG that boosts female sex drive while helping women lose weight is being developed by one of Scotland's leading experts on human reproduction.
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IMSafer - Safer Instant Messaging for your children Posted: 1 year ago by MissParker
IMSaferTM - IMSafer monitors the instant messenger conversations of your children to help you balance protecting your children and respecting their privacy. The IMSafer service will only notify you when your child is engaged in a potentially dangerous conversation on IM.
At IMSafer, we have worked with law enforcement officials to learn how potential predators initiate, develop and maintain inappropriate online relationships with children. We are always working to fine tune and update our analysis engine.
Getting your child protected online is as easy as signing up.
Once you have installed the IMSafer software on any computer you wish to monitor, if your child receives an IM with content that is flagged by IMSafer, you will receive an email notification within 90 seconds that includes the screen name of the person speaking with your child, the community rating of that person, and the category of the flagged content.
You can follow the link in the email or log on to the web site to see more detail about the conversation, the flagged content, and why it was it was considered dangerous. The IMSafer service understands not just English, but common misspellings, slang and even leet speak, where numbers and punctuation are interchanged with letters.
The parent can view the questionable portion of the IM conversation and explanations as to why the conversation was flagged as potentially dangerous. Furthermore, IMSafer will help parents by explaining slang and IM acronyms that may be related to the questionable portion of the conversation.
IMSafer works hard to honor the privacy of the child by not allowing parents to read full chat transcripts. Spying on children is known to drive their activities underground. Working together is the best way to ensure that your child is protected.
IMSafer gives you the ability to leave feedback on any person who is flagged as having a potentially inappropriate conversation with your child. This feedback allows IMSafer to alert you about someone other parents think has inappropriate relationships with their children the second they begin talking to your child online.
The IMSafer Community is large and growing. As more parents get involved, the stronger IMSafer becomes, which results in better protection for all of the children.
Copyright IMSafer, Inc. 2006-2007
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$298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, no crapware Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
The Everex IMPACT GC3502 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2 installed on a system that includes a 1.5GHz VIA C7 CPU, 1GB of DDR-2 SDRAM, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and integrated graphics, as well as a keyboard, mouse, and speakers.
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Calif. woman attacked by bear, drives self to help Posted: 3 months ago by bingo
A woman walking her two dogs in a rural area of Southern California was attacked and severely injured by a bear, but managed to escape and drive herself to a nearby fire station.
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Best Buy Customer Gets Box-O-Tiles Posted: 11 months ago by psychofromnj
Some guy thought he bought a 1tb hard drive, when he returned home he was shocked to find a box full of tiles! The worst part... best buy wont exchange the missing $300 drive
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Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday? Posted: 1 year ago by squirmster
Just in time for the most dangerous days of the year to drive – July 3 and 4.
Drive safe kids.
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Hard drives can survive fire, floods Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
Data can be salvaged from Windows-based computers and Apple Inc.'s Macs, and even from fully loaded iPods or cell phones.
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