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Comment: Giant thumbs up (Score 4, Informative) 141

by Admiral Llama (#43091169) Attached to: Seagate's New SSHD Hybrids Have Dual-Mode Flash Caches

I have the first gen XT and I can say is that these things are everything they're cracked up to be. If you're not buying an SSD then you should be getting one of these. Generally if you strip away the SSD portion you're still left with one of the best mechanical drives on the market, but the SSD portion really and truly does make a solid and positive difference in everyday computing life.

Comment: Re:Buy local honey (Score 2) 387

by Admiral Llama (#42935599) Attached to: Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering"

Actually a group went around testing honey from local retailers and found that 100% or nearly 100% of all honey purchased at places like CVS, Wal-Mart and a few grocers were at minimum ultrafiltered. Normally they filter out chunks of flowers and bee parts, but leave the pollen in. The ultrafiltered stuff is filtered to the point where the pollen is also extracted which is a costly and completely unnecessary step that just happens to mask the honey's origin. You can tell where honey came from based upon what the pollen is.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/

Comment: Re:ext3 (Score 3, Funny) 210

by Admiral Llama (#42139031) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting?

I don't quite trust ext4 for writes.

app: Hey, can you write this data out to
ext4: DONE!
app: Uhh, that wasn't long enough to actually write the data.
ext4: Sure it was, I'm super faGRRRRRRRRRRRRRst at writing too.
app: wait, did you just cache that write and report it written but then not actually write it to disk until 30 seconds later?
ext4: Yeah, what about it?

That being said, ext3 and mount it with the noatime flag. If you're on a web server you don't want to be hammering it with writes to update the last access time. That's just silly.

Comment: Why the compromise? (Score 1) 625

by Admiral Llama (#41600737) Attached to: Will the Desktop PC Live Forever?

I fail to see the difference in real terms between a desktop PC and a laptop with a keyboard and mouse hanging off of it. Likewise you can hook up a mouse, keyboard and external monitor to Android. You can also buy an Android tablet for a quantity of dollars down in the double digits. The high end classes of computing will always get eaten from below as the low end matures. The higher end stuff will always remain as a niche product, but for the masses it is always a race to the bottom.

Portability is a plus, but the main factor is cost.

Comment: Re:There are cheaper hearing aid providers (Score 0) 629

by Admiral Llama (#40321949) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?

Pffft... $400? We're looking for CHEAP here guys.... How about $12? You can drive that down an extra 20% if you use a coupon in the second link. Be sure to get your free flashlight!

http://www.harborfreight.com/ultra-ear-sound-amplifier-66577.html

http://www.harborfreight.com/digitalsavings.html

Comment: Re:Sennheiser (Score 1) 448

by Admiral Llama (#40308435) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones?

I'm in here just to put in props for Sennheiser. Keep in mind that you can replace parts like earcups and cords on anything but the very bottom tier Sennheisers so picking up a used pair is certainly not out of the question. $50 of used Sennheiser will likely beat $50 of new anything that's suggested here today.

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