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Comment Re:Full Spectrum 40W laser cutters for ~$2400 (Score 1) 83

by mongus on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:42PM (#40488407) Attached to: A Maker Space Favorite: Using a Laser Cutter (Video)

I bought one of these last Friday and it was delivered on Monday. Lots of fun to play with!

Fortunately for me, all the optics were still aligned when it arrived. Everything was in working order and the software is pretty good. Their printer driver makes sending jobs from Inkscape and CorelDRAW trivial.

One thing to note - if you get the deluxe version the power is controlled by the software, not the knob on the front. If you hit the test fire button on the control panel instead of the one in the software you'll get a 100% power firing which will likely ignite the thermal paper you're using to check alignment..... Just in case you didn't read the paper that comes with it.

New Toshiba Drives Wipe Data When Turned Off 239

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @04:51PM from the how's-that-gonna-work dept.

CWmike writes "Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down. The Wipe feature in Toshiba's SED (Self-Encrypting Drives) will allow for deletion of secure data prior to disposing or re-purposing hard drives, Toshiba said. The technology invalidates a hard-drive security key when a system's power supply is turned off. The new Wipe capability will go into future versions of the SED drives, for which no timeframe was given. Beyond use in PCs, Toshiba wants to put this feature on storage devices in copiers and printers."

Comment Re:Size is not as important as resolution (Score 3, Informative) 375

by mongus on Monday July 26, 2010 @07:15PM (#33038004) Attached to: How Big Is Your Primary Display?

Ummmm.... 8:5 is the same ratio as 16:10.

Comment Hide his comments (Score 3, Interesting) 724

by mongus on Thursday July 24, 2008 @08:54PM (#24328531) Attached to: How To Deal With Internet Bullies?

I'd try to set up the forum so he is the only one who can see his posts so he thinks his messages are getting through and everybody else is ignoring him.

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