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Comment Re:Funny Timing (Score 1) 61

The GBA did support a Suspend feature, but the games had to deliberately support it also, and few did.

I prefer the Micro to the GBA SP for one simple reason: The micro is wider. The SP is so narrow that I wind up with finger cramps from using the shoulder buttons. The Micro's easier to hold.

Comment Re:How hard is it to recognize a stoplight? (Score 1) 287

But they're not tested much before they're given a license and allowed to drive.

And I honestly don't think I've been tested 'tens of thousands of times' by pedestrian traffic. I've had someone step out in front of me three or four times, maybe? Perhaps a hundred or so walk behind me while I'm backing up in parking lots?

Comment Re:Windows only; NTFS only (Score 1) 101

You can use a bootable DOS disk/USB stick to update the firmware.

The 'performance restoration' part just rewrites all the data on the disk. You can get the same effect by backing up the disk, formatting, and copying all the data back.

(Brief summary: The problem makes data slower to read as it sits there. The firmware fix prevents that from recurring, rewriting the data fixes it on already-existing data. There's no data loss associated with this, just speed.)

Comment Re:911 was down for us Friday night (Score 1) 610

That really depends on what fills it up and how. I've had my torrent client glitch out and completely fill my drive a couple times, to the point where the UI was too slow to even move a window.

Fortunately I was able to ssh in and kill the program and delete the offending temp files, but the first warning I had was 'oh hey, trying to type locks the system.'

(And the other pain in the butt is that completely filling an OSX volume will tend to horridly fragment things, and defragging it isn't free.)

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