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Comment Re:Solution.. buy hard drives! (Score 1) 414

I've just hit exactly this problem over the weekend where my WS Elements 2TB USB drive has completely failed on me. I _just_ have enough space to create a new backup on an internal drive but I'm getting antsy until its replacement arrives.

I've only had problems with WD drives but that's because I keep buying them based on the reliability of their WD Passport portable drives. I'm on my third Passport now and never had a problem, but I've had return-to-manufacturer level problems with two WD My Books and now the WD Elements.

I'd just, independently, come to the same conclusions listed above which is to buy a second equivalent capacity disk from a different manufacturer and alternately cycle the two backup disks.

Comment Re:Tunnels of Doom (Score 1) 272

But the TI99/4A wasn't an awful system at the time. In fact it was awesome.

It wasn't a big seller in the UK but I had a TI while most friends had a ZX Spectrum.

There weren't as many games on cassettes available, or listings to type in from magazines, but the cartridge system totally blew away anything the home computing competition could do.

Parsec stands out.

Comment Re:XBox Live points is definitly a game (Score 1) 107

Wow, I think your question's serious, but your .sig suggests it might be sarcasm and I'm a fool for taking it seriously... um. I guess it's a reference to Superman III and Richard Pryor's scheme to skim off the fractions of a penny from everyone's salaries still held in the payroll computer. Either that or Clark Kent has been trying to sell a famous London bridge to an American. He "has a friend" who can arrange transport.

Comment Re:HHii!! (Score 1) 345

It's not the parallax, it's the distance between your eyes which is wrong, you caveman!

My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather was a caveman, you insensitive clod!

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