Recent content by Shining Arcanine

Thanks for clarifying that, although I never said my experience was. I simply said that the first Seagate drive I brought failed on me and I don't plan to ever buy another one again. As for Western Digital hard drives, they used to be good until about a year or two ago. Then they went south. At...

You might want to say what "Anecdotal" means. Simply saying "anecdotal" is ambiguous because the semantics of a single word sentence are undefined. Also, your statement "The last generation was bad, but the current one is fine." is ambiguous. You might want to say it is you mean by "last...

While you are trying out alternative operating systems, you might want to try out Linux and FreeBSD. Here are two distributions you can use for that: http://www.sabayon.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ Just download the iso files, burn then to a CD and boot your computer off them. My recommendation...

I used to buy only Western Digital hard drives, but their quality went south about a year or two ago. I know at least one major company was buying only Western Digital hard drives and they had them start dying one after another within the past year. The reviews on the Samsung are by far the...

This might be able to do it: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/bluegene.index.html

Thanks for the warm welcome. Also, thanks for double posting your welcome message. As a former staff member, it gave me a good laugh.

In my case, I played it and then stopped. I then started playing WoW and stopped a year later. Anyway, I would post my Runescape name, but I am afraid that some people might try player killing me on sight in the wilderness should I ever start playing again.

I was semi-correct in saying this. Apparently, it was poison that did it rather than a virus: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/21/us-agriculture-department-acknowledges-poisoning-birds-in-south/

The purpose of posting the list was to force you to do some research in order to refute it, with the intention that you would discover that assassination is a fairly common event in US history and it has less to do with politics and more to do with visibility. Giving you a link to the page from...

Learn to use Google and Wikipedia. It is trivial to find the "source" and to be honest, there is no single source as the guy that posted it on another forum compiled it from public historical information, all of which is likely accessible on Wikipedia. If you are interested in pursuing study of...

A hard drive has no set time at which it dies. Although they tend to die with high temperatures and heavy usage. If it runs at 50 degrees centigrade, I would not expect it to last a year. Usage does not have as much of an effect on drive life as temperature. With electronics, this normally...

I used Windows for 12 years without a single virus. Then I switched to Linux and most virii are not supported by my operating system, so I do not anticipate problems with them.

That sounds like what I did. ;)

A new virus is probably making its rounds. In a few years, scientists should have isolated it in laboratories and be able to study it. Oxygen levels historically were much higher on the planet 300 million years ago. I don't know what caused them to drop, but I do not think anyone was cutting...

Legally speaking, women are superior to men. There are laws in place that enable women to sue men should they change their mind about getting married: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_promise There was a case recently in the news where a woman had successfully sued a man for this very...