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zoic

zoic

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I do not dislike Ubuntu per say. I do not like Mark Hollingsworth, he comes off like he can buy anything. A trip to the moon, a community of Linux users, not really sure what his endgame was, but it is all pretty old info now. I really did not care for Gnome as a DM, always preferred KDE. What really burns my ass in the elitist attitude of those hard core linux gurus who too quickly say RTFM. I made two posts in the forum asking how to run as root. My post got deleted after a few KIA's lectured me that posts asking how to get around the security. That pissed me off so much I made a second post. Linux may be FREE, but speech apparently is not. Never went back again.
 
BarnBuster

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"The US attorney also alleged that Winner once searched on her work computer, while she was still in the Air Force, for the phrase: "Do top secret computers detect when flash drives are inserted?""

"Winner served in the Air Force from December 2010 to 2016, leaving as a senior airman who was a cryptologic language analyst"

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/us/reality-winner-hearing/index.html

now wouldn't you think she would have known this was retrievable?
 
zoic

zoic

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Thanks. Maybe one of these days I will get adventurous and put Ubuntu on a spare computer.
 
curious2garden

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Last year I bought a Toshiba 3 TB drive and upgraded my iMac. Today I got to replace the damn thing. Lasted a little over a year. I went back to WD drives, put in a 4 TB and am eyeing a 10 TB for my Time machine. I hate opening the iMac, getting that screen clean behind the glass is life shortening, especially if you are OCD.
 
zoic

zoic

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About the only hard disc drive worse than Hitachi is Fujitsu. Looking at the #ing and lack of DFT software I really think Toshiba drives are just re-branded Fujitsu garbage.
 
curious2garden

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zoic said:
About the only drive worse than Hitachi is Fujitsu. Looking at the #ing and lack of DFT software I really think Toshiba drives are just re-branded Fujitsu garbage.
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I swore by the WD RE drives for years. I have drives that lasted over a decade, then I got 5 bad drives in a row. So I decided to try a different brand and this particular drive had a lot of decent reviews so I figured it was worth a try. Frankly I think all the drive manufacturers have cut back on production quality. I just hope this drive takes me to this Mac's EOL.
 
curious2garden

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zoic said:
OK cheer up now. I have at least 60 optical drives in my basement, but I am not eligible since I am in Canada. :shock:
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LOL I keep two large boxes of 'spare parts'. When I hit overflow the third box goes to Goodwill. They don't let us have basements out here in sand land so no place to store all that shit.
 
zoic

zoic

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curious2garden said:
LOL I keep two large boxes of 'spare parts'. When I hit overflow the third box goes to Goodwill. They don't let us have basements out here in sand land so no place to store all that shit.
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That is kind of where I am now. Closed the computer repair business and I am unloading precious metals for $ and everything else goes to goodwill.
 
zoic

zoic

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curious2garden said:
I swore by the WD RE drives for years. I have drives that lasted over a decade, then I got 5 bad drives in a row. So I decided to try a different brand and this particular drive had a lot of decent reviews so I figured it was worth a try. Frankly I think all the drive manufacturers have cut back on production quality. I just hope this drive takes me to this Mac's EOL.
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I only used WD drives in the numerous systems I built and sold. I just wanted the least warranty headaches I could manage. Only used ASUS motherboards for the same reason. ASUS is top drawer for warranty on the rare occasion you need it.
 
BarnBuster

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curious2garden said:
Thanks BB I've built several computers and then had to replace their optical drives. Let's see at $.05/drive I might make fifty cents :)
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LOL, I thought i read somewhere that it was $10 per drive, course that was when they first announced the settlement. However, you don't file, you can't collect ;)
 
Johnei

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Ubuntu is garbage. bloated and slow. (and gov. has an interest in it)

Debian linux with xfce is the way. total blank slate and only install what you want/need. boots in 12seconds flat everytime. (with some kernel tweaks)

Puppy linux running from usb drive not even installed is another amazing setup. entire OS is loaded to ram, can have it remember all settings and files if you want at shutdown, or not, and will be new fresh OS each boot. ram is faster than any HD and puppy is packed with hundreds of preinstalled programs, everything you could need. ddr3 ram also is unable to be cold boot hacked like ddr2 was, ram info cannot be recovered after a shutdown. Good as a recovery system also to fix windows garbage systems etc. plug in usb with puppy, and load system from usb, will not even touch hard drive in the computer and run completely from ram. I am on puppy linux right now running from usb. computer has no hard drive in it. ;)
 
Johnei

Johnei

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Seagate hard drive have failed on me numoerous times over the years. WD never once so far. I run WD 500gig blacks for the win, on my other systems.
 
Chunky Stool

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Johnei said:
Ubuntu is garbage. bloated and slow. (and gov. has an interest in it)

Debian linux with xfce is the way. total blank slate and only install what you want/need. boots in 12seconds flat everytime. (with some kernel tweaks)

Puppy linux running from usb drive not even installed is another amazing setup. entire OS is loaded to ram, can have it remember all settings and files if you want at shutdown, or not, and will be new fresh OS each boot. ram is faster than any HD and puppy is packed with hundreds of preinstalled programs, everything you could need. ddr3 ram also is unable to be cold boot hacked like ddr2 was, ram info cannot be recovered after a shutdown. Good as a recovery system also to fix windows garbage systems etc. plug in usb with puppy, and load system from usb, will not even touch hard drive in the computer and run completely from ram. I am on puppy linux right now running from usb. computer has no hard drive in it. ;)
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I think it's time to take a look at Linux. My windows 10 system is slooooooow.
What's the best way to ramp up on Linux? Are there good tutorials describing how to customize the install?
 
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