Recent content by iGary

Just by chance, when I was clearing out my e-mail spam bucket, I saw a "deal' on a bulk pack of 4-each LED light bulbs, for $30 + free shipping. Only problem is you have just 3 measly hours left to snag these, at 23:00 (-6GMT). :erm: http://www.neweggflash.com/Campaign/2347

I bought one of these about 6 months ago to put inside a caged safety light. Bright as hell, and only $7.95 at Wallyworld. They had 5000K as well as 6500K varieties (blue tag versus orange tag on box). Moths just love this thing! ;) I believe these are actually manufactured by GE...

For what it's worth, I've been 100 percent LED here at the house for a few years now. I've only had one failure so far.

Ya, well, I don't visit the interWWWebs or forums very often any more... been too f***ing busy and vice versa. :D I did get banned a little while back on the Royal Planetary Society forum after posting several dozen jokes one night about black holes, white dwarves, Uranus, and Prince Charles...

Any new equipment like this being sold during the past 4 or 5 years in the US market complies with recent FCC specifications. I'm guessing you aren't looking for a "professional" solution, but one that just works (i.e. -- you are looking for UHF radios, but VHF). Well, you generally can't...

Pics, or it didn't happen. :)

I've always lived here as embedded XML code. The other me on the keyboard end has been too busy for a while to play around on the interwebs. Today was a rare exception.

...china syndrome situation in NW Indiana / Chicagoland in progress. :D Otherwise, I no longer care one way or another about Western Digi's past follies -- even the time many years ago when I got tasked at work to degauss a 30-some-odd item pile of failed Western Digi hard drives that were...

Because we didn't want to stress you out too much. http://www.hitachigst.com/press-room/2011/western-digital-to-acquire-hitachi-global-storage-technologies

Dell denies report of solid-state drive failures Refutes analyst's claim that almost a third of notebooks with solid-state drives are returned http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070318

If the Holo-Disc format was pushed out to market properly, it could easily kill off BlueRay and stay relevant for a decade or more. A 5.25-inch Holo-Disc can have a sustained transfer rate as high as the fastest hard drive and hold a terabyte (or more) of data. You could have multiple movies...

Doug, I'd like to report the possibility that someone out there is using multiple personalities in this forum.

The Xerox Phaser (nee Tektronix Phaser) -- which I have always jokingly referred to as "liquid krayola squirters" -- is best used for graphics arts output, not photographic output. As for inkjet quality, I like Epson's inkjet printers best. I don't like Epson's high-end offerings, such as...

I don't know who the hell *that* iGary is, but it certainly ain't me! Besides, I was using the iGary handle starting back in 2000 -- at that other Storage place. As for Macintosh in general: Been there, did that. Never again. I know better.

Many of the last "old" Maxtor models are still coming off the assembly line today, and will continue to do so until they can't sell them any longer. Almost of Maxtor's drive engineers were laid off with the acquisition (I knew a couple of them that had been with Maxtor since the time when...