Recent content by Paul Connell

Yep. Not that it needed more clarification, but the last 4 years really put the farce of no one being above the law to rest for good. Justice doesn't exist, it's a fairy tale told to the masses to keep them from revolting.

Any company that does something like this should loose ALL it's copyright protections for some length of time, maybe starting with a year. During that year, it should be a literal free-for-all, where anyone and everyone gets full access to any of that company's IP they can get their hands on...

Could be, but they’ve been essentially unavailable for a longer period than would make sense if that were the case. I had made up my mind to build my nest system around a 3990 at least a year and a half ago. Never saw one in stock anywhere near MSRP, they were all either listed as backordered or...

$38 is a bit expensive for what it is, but anything manufactured in Germany is going to cost more than anything from China. He also talks about having refined the inside contact frame to have a 40 mil curve between the centre and edges to maximize the flatness of the IHS. I highly doubt your...

Thanks for your reply. So I ended up scanning the drive thoroughly, doing formats that filled the drive with 0's, and no issues were found. Interestingly, the utility I used to read the SMART data in Windows indicated a different reallocated sector count than did the NAS utility. Since I...

Let me start by saying I wouldn't trust anything to this drive without significant testing, but I just had an interesting issue. One of the drives in my NAS started reporting reallocated sectors. It stated slowly and then increased to where I could just refresh the SMART data and see the...

3 grand for a single quad core? Ouch. Love that it's so small, but that's a lot of money for a system running that CPU.

Having a monopoly position isn't illegal, abusing that position to restrict or prevent competition is, and I'm not sure we've seen any evidence of Google specifically preventing competition through anything beyond providing a superior service.