Help with buying new hard drive

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:24:30 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

Just curious, have you seen the *$ abbreviation for Starbucks?

Nope, brand new to me. Cute.

If I start a coffee shop chain called AsteriskDollars, will they sue me?

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:28:45 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:06:50 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:53:27 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:17:32 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

As for Starbucks coffee tasting like battery acid (I lost track of who
posted that), I totally disagree[1]. But I also don't like it :-)

It wasn't me who posted it, but I don't like it either.

In fact, as far as I'm concerned, it's about the worst coffee
available. It's nothing like battery acid (although I've never tasted
battery acid either), but it's over-roasted--burnt.

To me the worst thing about it is that it has become so popular that
many others try to copy its taste. That makes it difficult to get a
good cup of coffee anywhere is the USA (except in my house g).



Another popular coffee shop around here is Peet's. I always found their
brewed coffee to be similarly too strong, and I drank Peet's before
Starbucks existed here (Silicon Valley).

BTW, at home I drink Peet's, but of course we brew it to our preference.
When we brew it at home, Starbucks is also not so bad, but we still
prefer the other.

Didn't Starbucks acquire Peet's? I seem to remember something about an
acquisition a couple of years ago.

Sorry, I have no idea.

The first hit in Google:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul...offee-20120723

http://tinyurl.com/lhsnuyu

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:51:55 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:53 -0400, Alek wrote:


OK. Suppose you have 25 thumb drives. How do you organize them? Store
them? I find that CD/DVDs in a storage case are much easier to deal with
than a Tupperware container of thumb drives.

I can't speak for everyone else, but I always buy flash drives with a key style
hole at one end. I attach a tag to the drive and store them in a lockable key
safe / cabinet.

They also sell flash memory storage cases. See:
http://amzn.to/1GBom6z

And desktop caddies. See:
http://amzn.to/1EImCv0

The key tag is a lot neater than writing on the drive with a Sharpie.
Good idea worth emulating.

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Stormin' Norman wrote on 3/13/2015 5:51 PM:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:53 -0400, Alek wrote:

OK. Suppose you have 25 thumb drives. How do you organize them? Store
them? I find that CD/DVDs in a storage case are much easier to deal with
than a Tupperware container of thumb drives.

I can't speak for everyone else, but I always buy flash drives with a key style
hole at one end. I attach a tag to the drive and store them in a lockable key
safe / cabinet.

They also sell flash memory storage cases. See:
http://amzn.to/1GBom6z

Holds 10 drives. Not easy to ID each.

And desktop caddies. See:
http://amzn.to/1EImCv0

Holds 15. Same comment.

I have a CD/DVD storage case that's a little like a Rolodex. As long as
I write identifying info at the top of the CD, I can flip through a
whole bunch in no time and find what I want.

Also, what size do you buy? How much do they cost?

Thanks.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:28:39 -0000, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:54:53 -0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On purpose? Or did your radiator explode?

Neither. I opened the radiator cap too soon. A beginner's error, though
I wasn't really a beginner.

I've opened it "too soon" loads of times, you hear it hiss and stop turning till it stops hissing. Easy enough. Just like opening a bottle of cocacola.

That's no help to me - I haven't opened a bottle (or can) of coke in
decades.

I do know how to open a radiator, but only when I'm attentive. :-)

On that note, what's the easiest way to remove a (house) radiator without bleeding the system or letting too much water into the house? Any clever techniques?

It also would have helped if I'd let it cool off, but I was trying to
get somewhere which was still 30 miles away. It was also in the days
before overflow tanks.

I once poured water into my Espace's header tank, not realising it had NO water left in it at all. It boiled immediately, spraying everywhere, much to the amusement of everyone else on the campsite.

Damn - I just realized I've never *tasted* antifreeze.

Good reaction speed.

Nah, just a limited range of spray, i.e., I was lucky. Luckier than I
deserved :-)

Did much skin get damaged?

No, mostly just some embarrassing water on my clothing :-)

Lucky it didn't spray me there, the campsite mentioned above was a nudist one.

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Stormin' Norman wrote on 3/13/2015 8:11 PM:hey cost?

I have drives ranging in capacity from 8 - 128gb. Most are 32 - 64gb. 32gb is
about $12 64gb is about $24 and 128 about $40.

Look, if you are happy with your optical discs, no one is trying to twist your
arm to change.

All I know is my 128GB flash drives hold the equivalent of about 27 DVDs of
4.7GB capacity or 182 CD's of 700MB capacity. I can delete and write fresh data
to them on a seemingly endless basis. Over the years I only had one flash drive
go bad and Sandiisk replaced it free of charge. Oh yeah and I can carry it on my
key chain. I keep a copy of my most precious business data on it, just in case.

If one wants to **** in the wind about this, and I do not, one could purchase a
portable key portfolio and keep 48 flash drives in it. If they were all 128GB
drives, that would be the equivalent of 1,296 DVDs or 8,736 CDs.

I will let you have the last word on the subject.

I'm not arguing with you, Norm. Just trying to learn.

Tough Guy and Stormin' Norman...

I've enjoyed reading your experiences with eBay and Amazon, although you
have differing opinions of the companies.

I'm just wondering if either of you ever used Walmart for some
purchases. Using their Site-to-Store shipping process (which may be
going away :-( ) I've found I can sometimes beat either Amazon or eBay
prices provided the product is sold and shipped by Walmart.

Walmart is only 20 minutes away, average, and since I work there part
time, that's no issue at all.


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Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 33.1
Thunderbird 31.5
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:53 -0400, Alek wrote:

Char Jackson wrote on 3/13/2015 11:10 AM:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:29:21 -0400, Cy Burnot wrote:

Stormin' Norman wrote on 3/12/2015 7:58 PM:

There is so little need for optical discs these days

Really? How about for troubleshooting/repair/etc.?

Like someone else said, a USB thumb drive is way more convenient and
durable.

The laptop that I'm typing on is coming up on 3 years old and I don't think
I have ever used the optical drive. I've pressed the button to pop open the
tray a few times, just out of boredom during a long meeting, but that
shouldn't count as using the drive.

My main desktop system and my file server both don't have internal optical
drives installed. I needed those bays for hard drives. I have an adapter
cable that should allow me to use an internal type of optical drive
externally via USB, but I've never had to use it.

On a related note, each of my vehicles has a CD player, but I can't remember
the last time I've played a CD in either of them. Both vehicles can play
music directly from a USB thumb drive, which again, is way more convenient
and durable.


OK. Suppose you have 25 thumb drives. How do you organize them? Store
them? I find that CD/DVDs in a storage case are much easier to deal with
than a Tupperware container of thumb drives.

I don't put 25 thumb drives in a car. Since a modestly sized thumb drive can
easily hold a few hundred CDs worth of music, I put just one in each car.
From there, I select the folder that I want to play. Some folders contain a
single CD, (and the player's display lists the folder names so it's easy to
make a selection), while the most heavily played folders contain a mix.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:30:45 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:24:30 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

Just curious, have you seen the *$ abbreviation for Starbucks?

Nope, brand new to me. Cute.

If I start a coffee shop chain called AsteriskDollars, will they sue me?

Nathan (of Nathan For You) did about the same thing, as a joke, and claims
to have gotten away with it under the protection of the parody laws.


http://www.cc.com/episodes/v4k0g6/na...eason-2-ep-208

On 3/14/15 11:46 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:38:23 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:11:26 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:48:13 -0400, Alek wrote:

Stormin' Norman wrote on 3/13/2015 5:51 PM:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:53 -0400, Alek wrote:

OK. Suppose you have 25 thumb drives. How do you organize them? Store
them? I find that CD/DVDs in a storage case are much easier to deal with
than a Tupperware container of thumb drives.

I can't speak for everyone else, but I always buy flash drives with a key style
hole at one end. I attach a tag to the drive and store them in a lockable key
safe / cabinet.

They also sell flash memory storage cases. See:
http://amzn.to/1GBom6z

Holds 10 drives. Not easy to ID each.

Ten 128GB flash drives is the equivalent of 270 DVDs

In terms of music, I find that a typical music CD requires about 70-100
megabytes at my preferred bitrate, so worst case, I can store about 10 CDs
per gigabyte. I think the thumb drive in the car at the moment is 32GB, and
while it's not anywhere near full, if it were, it would hold about 3200 CD's
worth of music. Even if it only has the equivalent of 200 CDs at the moment,
that's so much more convenient than trying to manage 200 physical discs.
(I'm not trying to convince you, you're already convinced.)


I never listen to music in the car so I this doesn't apply tome. My flash drive
usage is almost all data and software related.

Thinking about this topic overnight, the only real advantages I could come up
with for optical discs over flash memory a

1. The damaged discs make good coasters.

2. The damaged discs work great as a bird deterrent in my wife's vegetable
garden. We melt a hole through them with a soldering iron, tie fishing line to
them and suspend them from bent wire hangers. The twist and spin in the wind
and the dumber birds are scared of them. Unfortunately, we have a younger
generation of rather bright birds who don't give a crap, so the dogs have to
chase them off.

Just to be my normal smarta$$, disks are harder to lose because of size.
ROFL


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Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 33.1
Thunderbird 31.5
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:46:32 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

Unfortunately, we have a younger
generation of rather bright birds who don't give a crap, so the dogs have to
chase them off.


I don't mind birds that don't give a crap. It's the ones that do give
a crap that makes a mess that I'd like to get rid of.

Ken Springer wrote:
Tough Guy and Stormin' Norman...

I've enjoyed reading your experiences with eBay and Amazon, although you
have differing opinions of the companies.

I'm just wondering if either of you ever used Walmart for some
purchases. Using their Site-to-Store shipping process (which may be
going away :-( ) I've found I can sometimes beat either Amazon or eBay
prices provided the product is sold and shipped by Walmart.

Walmart is only 20 minutes away, average, and since I work there part
time, that's no issue at all.


I've used price matching for same products available in local stores
vs.other local and online stores.

My last printer purchase was $130 locally but $100 on Amazon. Printed
out the ad showing the model number, drove 3 miles to Best Buy ,
purchased and picked it up to save the $30.

Best Buy price match general info:
qp
•At the time of sale, we price match all local retail competitors
(including their online prices) and we price match products shipped from
and sold by these major online retailers: Amazon.com, Bhphotovideo.com,
Crutchfield.com, Dell.com, HP.com, Newegg.com, and TigerDirect.com.
/qp

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msft mvp consumer apps

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:22:13 -0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:28:39 -0000, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:54:53 -0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On purpose? Or did your radiator explode?

Neither. I opened the radiator cap too soon. A beginner's error, though
I wasn't really a beginner.

I've opened it "too soon" loads of times, you hear it hiss and stop turning till it stops hissing. Easy enough. Just like opening a bottle of cocacola.

That's no help to me - I haven't opened a bottle (or can) of coke in
decades.

I do know how to open a radiator, but only when I'm attentive. :-)

On that note, what's the easiest way to remove a (house) radiator without bleeding the system or letting too much water into the house? Any clever techniques?

I haven't even *seen* a radiator in years, i.e. since I moved to the SF
Bay area (I'm exaggerating, but they are rare in my circles).

I'd stick with drain & bleed, myself.

It also would have helped if I'd let it cool off, but I was trying to
get somewhere which was still 30 miles away. It was also in the days
before overflow tanks.

I once poured water into my Espace's header tank, not realising it had NO water left in it at all. It boiled immediately, spraying everywhere, much to the amusement of everyone else on the campsite.

Damn - I just realized I've never *tasted* antifreeze.

Good reaction speed.

Nah, just a limited range of spray, i.e., I was lucky. Luckier than I
deserved :-)

Did much skin get damaged?

No, mostly just some embarrassing water on my clothing :-)

Lucky it didn't spray me there, the campsite mentioned above was a nudist one.

I once spilled a cup of hot coffee into my lap. Really hot - it was
still brewing in a cup-top cone filter. I was clothed, but I didn't like
the experience very much. No damage, though. At east, less than I
deserved :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:20:39 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:46:32 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

Unfortunately, we have a younger
generation of rather bright birds who don't give a crap, so the dogs have to
chase them off.

I don't mind birds that don't give a crap. It's the ones that do give
a crap that makes a mess that I'd like to get rid of.

Point well made :-)

I had a bird that fell in love with, or more likely was defending his
territory against, his reflection in my car's passenger side rear view
mirror. He gave a crap, early and often. The mirror could be folded, but
apparently not far enough to deter him.

I finally put a large opaque plastic envelope over the mirror.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:42:13 -0000, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:22:13 -0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:28:39 -0000, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:54:53 -0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

On purpose? Or did your radiator explode?

Neither. I opened the radiator cap too soon. A beginner's error, though
I wasn't really a beginner.

I've opened it "too soon" loads of times, you hear it hiss and stop turning till it stops hissing. Easy enough. Just like opening a bottle of cocacola.

That's no help to me - I haven't opened a bottle (or can) of coke in
decades.

I do know how to open a radiator, but only when I'm attentive. :-)

On that note, what's the easiest way to remove a (house) radiator without bleeding the system or letting too much water into the house? Any clever techniques?

I haven't even *seen* a radiator in years, i.e. since I moved to the SF
Bay area (I'm exaggerating, but they are rare in my circles).

I'd stick with drain & bleed, myself.

Way to much hassle for one radiator.

It also would have helped if I'd let it cool off, but I was trying to
get somewhere which was still 30 miles away. It was also in the days
before overflow tanks.

I once poured water into my Espace's header tank, not realising it had NO water left in it at all. It boiled immediately, spraying everywhere, much to the amusement of everyone else on the campsite.

Damn - I just realized I've never *tasted* antifreeze.

Good reaction speed.

Nah, just a limited range of spray, i.e., I was lucky. Luckier than I
deserved :-)

Did much skin get damaged?

No, mostly just some embarrassing water on my clothing :-)

Lucky it didn't spray me there, the campsite mentioned above was a nudist one.

I once spilled a cup of hot coffee into my lap. Really hot - it was
still brewing in a cup-top cone filter. I was clothed, but I didn't like
the experience very much. No damage, though. At east, less than I
deserved :-)

No roasted nuts then?

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