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Comment on Haven’t had a reason to complain about Microsoft in awhile… by Doug

Doug — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:12:17 +0000

sorry to hear of your hassles but you do know it is a Microsoft product so I wouldn’t give it the kind of expectations of quality you give others. And don’t forget, Microsoft has not been profitable in anything outside of the Windows PC market where the product could not directly leverage the Windows monopoly. ie, they make around 80% of their profits from Windows and MS Office and 10′s of billions annually go to support those money losing products like the Xbox.

You might be better off reselling that Elite unit as soon as you get it back and cut your losses or expect to keep returning it and accept that is the TCO for the product. Kinda like viruses and anti-virus software are part of the TCO of Windows.

And the new WordPress layout looks good.

Comment on Samsung’s HM250JI drive with firmware < -08 sucks by Diacov

Diacov — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:36:24 +0000

I have the same drive, and mine is already the 08 version and it has the same problems you related, the only different thing is that I am using it on a Dell XPS M1330 and using Windows and Linux.

Ps. I discovered that the hd only freezes on Windows not on linux, at least on my daily usage, maybe its the windows driver for the HD ?

Comment on Samsung’s HM250JI drive with firmware < -08 sucks by Miguelito

Miguelito — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:49:39 +0000

There usually isn’t firmware info printed on the drive AFAIK. I got the info from the Mac System Profiler, by drilling down to the driver under the Serial-ATA bit.

Comment on Samsung’s HM250JI drive with firmware < -08 sucks by Steven

Steven — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:11:17 +0000

Hi, we have the same type drive and we actually had it fail. We’re trying to identify what version of firmware is on the drive so that we can order a similar type drive to get the firmware off and get the data off the failed drive. Is there any real way of identifying the firmware by looking at the drive?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Steven

Comment on Get string from phone for iSync by Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:37:07 +0000

Is there any hope your script might be updated for 10.5 (which do not include ktrace/kdump)? I had used your script in the past with great success, but am not a great programmer and haven’t figured out how to adapt your script to dtrace / dtruss.

Thanks in advance!

Comment on NX server auth suggestion… local/passwd auth without allowing passwd auth on public sshd by Miguelito

Miguelito — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:29:25 +0000

Just making sure comments (which are back on) are working with captcha.

Comment on ImageMagick… had issues, again. by Miguelito

Miguelito — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:08:00 +0000

If you can see this, then comments with captcha are fixed. Yay.

Comment on Samsung’s HM250JI drive with firmware < -08 sucks by Lok

Lok — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:35:44 +0000

I have the same loud periodically click issue with my Samsung HM250JI installed in my 15.4″ MBP.

Have you found a fix for this ?
It is petty annoying.

Comment on People don’t know what it takes to do IT support.. by Miguelito

Miguelito — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:27:25 +0000

Wow… pays to go back and read old posts and check comments I guess.

I completely missed this comment before.

Back on topic.. glad to know the editorial was tongue in cheek. I do run into the same kind of attitude a lot though. Scary thing is when it’s with engineers at work that design chips. They even fall for things like the MHz myth, which is doubly scary when they design IC’s themselves and should know better.

Comment on Get string from phone for iSync by Miguelito

Miguelito — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:40:11 +0000

Jeffiepoo…

Your home directory is your default directory, if you run the cd command alone, you’ll change back there (cd = Change Directory). It’s the one that’s your username in the Finder, also /Users/ is the same path.

I’m a long time Unix geek so I’m used to talking like people know some basics.