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Submission + - Sounds that Indicate your Hard Drive is Failing

Submitted by

Snoring Cure

on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:57PM

Snoring Cure writes: "Hitachi Global Storage has a support document with actual recordings of the various sounds hard-drives make when failing. If your drive sounds like "Head Damage 4.wav" you probably don't need to read a tech note to work out that you have a problem."

Journal Journal: iPhone vs. Windows Mobile: And the winner is ...

Journal by blusjune on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:55PM

The last two paragraphs are impressive!!!
That is: ...

Again, I'm still not planning to switch. I like Sprint. I like them a lot. I like them enough to put up with really bad phone UI, because their service, both RF-wise and person-wise, has been pretty good. Not that I wouldn't switch for a phone, but I'd have to see all the details, which I don't have right now.

Submission + - MORE than a fifth of Australians now use Firefox

Submitted by nermaljcat on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:53PM

nermaljcat writes: Australian IT reports that 22% of Australians are now using Firefox. Internet Explorer still claims 81% of the market, but that also includes Firefox users (like myself) that occasionally need to use IE because of compatibility issues with some websites.

"MORE than a fifth of Australians now use the Mozilla Firefox web browser, even though site compatibility issues mean it sometimes must be used in conjunction with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, researcher Nielsen Net Ratings says."

Submission + - Is There Room for Recruiterless IT Hiring?

Submitted by

chinenual

on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:46PM

chinenual writes: "Technical hiring is a mess — the popular job boards are swamped by anonymous, generic recruiter postings. You can't tell what company is actually hiring and all the posts have more or less the same skill requirements. How can the searcher have any idea if the post represents somewhere he/she wants to work? How can the company attract anything other than another generic cog in the wheel? Both employer and job seeker need a way to find each other without the recruiter middle-man. So we have launched a moderated, principals-only job board — www.recruiterless.com. Can this help return balance to IT hiring?"

Feed How Bad Is Windows Vista's EULA? (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:12PM

Digging into the document yields a few surprises, nasty internet rumors aside. In Monkey Bites.

Submission + - Microsoft Bumps Support Prices

Submitted by

BartlebyScrivener

on Monday February 05, 2007 @07:55PM

BartlebyScrivener writes: "Microsoft's per-incident customer support prices were quietly bumped last week as the company rolled out the newest version of its operating system, Windows Vista. Prices for both Windows Vista and XP support were raised, from $39 to $59 per incident while support prices for Office XP and Office 2007 went from $35 to $49 per incident. General support inquiries as well as inquiries for less prominent software, such as Microsoft Money, remain at $35 per incident."

Comment Re:VACUUM? (Score 3, Funny) 235

by gavinroy on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @06:10PM (#17436324) Attached to: MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced

That's like putting a Volkswagen Bug body on top of a tank ;-)

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