I'm a computer technician, and I'm always looking for new and better ways to test our equipment. Linux is one of my favourite testing tools, but right now I don't have a good way to test hard drives in Linux - I use stress to see if I get any errors or crashes on a suspicious drive. We use a Seagate boot disc for most of our testing though.

I'm interested in using your technique, but I don't understand it well enough to give it a go on someone else's data. Can you explain it a bit please?

"Many of us fully embrace both."

That seems impossible to truly do. They are mutually exclusive - to accept one requires a sacrifice in understanding or acceptance in the other.

I understand that some people are willing to do that; I however, am not.

Also, what Obarthelemy said.

Psh. I've NEVER had HDD drive gracefully, and I've lost at least 20.

I had a laptop drive right in the middle of booting into Linux once. That was cool. Typed in my password, boomheadcrash.

"What was that noise? Why is it taking so long to load?"

Yeah - sounds broken to me man. I'd return it.

My wireless is rock solid. I can usually stream 1080p Youtube videos with no problem, while in the kitchen. I have also used it with torrents as well, although I used gentler settings, I still downloaded at 1 Mb a second.

I'm using the A series, and I don't have this problem. I actually recently changed my settings from static addressing to DHCP because I got lazy after my last reformat. I use the handy name resolution feature they've got: I select my computer's name from the list and it dumps the local IP in the field. Awesome.

I have no idea if the B is bad or not, but I'll keep an eye out as more of my friends invariably buy it. Perhaps we all have A series? -

-Red

My friends and I struggled to find a good router for along time - this included gaming, torrents, and direct downloads. Several wireless devices of various configurations.

Take a look at prices, by now the DIR-655 should be cheaper - we've had ours for over a year now I'm guessing.

Anything but the highest, most brutal usage brings it down. You do need to tune your Vuze settings - if you have more than 1 computer downloading torrents at a atime (try to avoid that...), setting each of their Max Simultaneous Connections to 100 and testing should work. Drop it by 25 if you're still having trouble.

Don't forget, wireless devices cannot send and receive at the same time. The DIR-655 is MIMO (IIRC), so it minimizes the drawbacks, but any individual device can still only send or receive at a time, so torrents are kinda a nightmare for wireless in general.

-Red

In my experience, the more expensive Aruba AP's perform closest to their manufacturer's claims.

They may not be selling the cheap one anymore, which would be good, because it was vastly inadequate for any real N-style usage.

Thank you so much for this response. Mod parent up.

The thing about Minecraft, is that these things are being created using the game's tools. Rather than someone developing a mod with code (like lua for WoW).

Redstone can be used to power items with "electricity", like a Minecart Booster Rail, among tons of other things. Some of them may require a mod to facilitate (the Better Than Wolves mod adds mechanical power to the game, for example).

-Red

They very well may have Asperger's, the problem is in assuming that someone with Asperger's has a "disorder", and is not merely "different". Indeed, they are simply better at, guess what, envisioning a specific project and exhaustively accomplishing that goal.

It's puts 0.000000000000000000000001% more load on the network - a negligible cost by far. It is absurd to charge for the extra costs. Also, if it's really peak load rates that are the problem, using caps is the least rational way to control behaviour. But the fact remains, there literally can't tell the difference. That's why they have to ban apps and all of this other nonsense; if the hallmark of a laptop browsing the internet is higher consumption, then a data rate cap makes MUCH more sense - clearly, they are selling beyond their ability to provide if peak consumption is a problem. Source: "Free" By... the guy from Wired.com

This is a crazy good idea in a lot of ways.

There's just too many variables involved. I'm glad they're doing opt-in instead of opt-out - that's the mainstay of my comments significance.

Right now, there's no precedent that a government organisation could effectively deal with a situation like this without breaking everything. Is it ok if they do a drug bust, and 1 out of 23 innocent people die? Collateral damage by the government has to be mitigated as much as possible.

I'm not saying that we can't trust the government to do anything. I think the FBI is doing a good job so far, and I'm looking forward to their results. But caution on the part of commentators, I think, is a good idea. It's far from a simple, surefire action. It is likely it will be, but there are variables that they can't control for.

Oversight of government actions is what is critical - not avoiding government action or permitting excessive government action.

They could, but it would be a dick move. As much as I'd like to think so, it's just not true that everyone at the FBI is a dick.