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Someone brought one to the first F2F in Evanston, I recall....
Yeah, that would have been me. I was an early adopter. But then we had that thing for years. 6 gig seemed enormous at the time, and it still amuses me that it was reassuringly shaped like a cd player. We didn't pay $500 for it, maybe $380? I carried it in a little bag with lots of cables and a set of battery powered speakers.
I read that bit with the two links as the major flaw in the Shuffle was that it required a prosthetic finger. I was momentarily baffled.
ioDrive Duo: unbelievably fast solid-state drive ships next month
Behold, the hard drive of the future. Most of today's hard drives are metal boxes with rapidly spinning disks nestled inside, but this Fusio-io ioDrive Duo is all solid-state, has no moving parts, and reads and writes data ten times faster than the quickest conventional hard drives.
For the propellerheads, that's 1.5 gigabytes per second of sustained throughput. Hey, wait a minute — that's even faster than that mind-blowing Samsung 24-drive array we showed you last week. The result will be much faster computing, less heat, lower power consumption, and much tougher durability.
And someday, all this will be reasonably priced. While this 640GB Fusio-io ioDrive Duo will be prohibitively expensive (untold $thousands) when it's available next month, that's just because the tech is so new and economies of scale haven't set in yet. Later this year, Fusio-io, which now has Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on board as Chief Scientist, will release a 1.28-terabyte model. Wow.
Hivemind, I'm trying to unintstall a program in Windows XP and I can't find it in the uninstaller. The program is in program files, but there's nothing with the install date in the uninstaller. Any ideas other than just deleting the file in explorer?
Depends on the program, but try deleting the program folder manually, and then use Windows Installer Cleanup Utility: [link]
Seems I have some matroska video files. I'd love to play them on my Xbox via 360 connect. Seems the only thing that plays the files is VLC Player. Is there a Mac app that could convert them to MP4 or wmv? Or should I just watch on my iMac instead of big TV?
Seems I have some matroska video files
I read this as "matrioshka."
What, does each one contain another, smaller, file?
What, does each one contain another, smaller, file?
Potentially an infinite number of them, actually -- one of the defining features of mkv is that the container can hold any number of files, where most formats are limited to just a few each of audio and video in each container file. And, yes, it's named after the dolls.
yes, it's named after the dolls.
I feel clever and yet, at the same time, kind of dumb.
