Re: [H] Flash drive(s)
I got a similar response to the effect of NDA when I asked about IronKey functionality for simple obvious things like passphrase length valid characters. In the end they were very helpful gave good answers to my questions. IronKey sounds good an paper vs. anything else currently out. When the price drops I'd really like to get a IronKey. Brian Weeden wrote: Computer World Magazine just posted an article reviewing 7 secure USB drives from major manufacturers. Some funny and sad stuff in there, especially what sort of gimmicks these vendors put in to try and make their drives secure. In the end they chose IronKey, but really putting free and open source TrueCrypt on any old USB key would do a better job (for cheaper) than almost all of these: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9062527 I think I liked this quote the best: Kingston refused to say what encryption mode the device runs in, citing that it was proprietary information. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
[H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Took delivery of 2 Corsair 2GB flash drives yesterday. Dang! These things are much smaller than my 2004 Crucial Gizmo 256MB (and it is pretty small) FD. These Corsair FDs are labled Voyager and come with a neat rubber-like covering (blue/black) that has a better 'grip-quotient' than the Crucial. Has nice lanyards too! The Corsair devices are also narrower than Crucial. Speed? Much faster than the 2004 test stick. Both sticks did come blank (as far as I could peek/test), so the U3 business appears to be not present. I hit them both with both Eraser 5.82 and the Windows Defrag tool. Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) I am pleased, and, at ~$14.99 apiece from Newegg, think this is a good deal. Thank you for all your comments, suggestions, and counsel. In a couple of day, I'll share thoughts about the new Crucial sticks that are still in transit. I've studied the U3 business and read some of the TrueCrypt5.0 docs. I think I need to study this some more. For now, I'll keep my sticks in my Big Black Safe! Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Glad to hear, looks like a nice stick. I just ordered another San Disk Titanium to replace the one I lost. I really love the ability to slide the USB connector back into the case to keep it out of harm's way and I'm always losing the end caps that normally come with USB keys. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171248 A bit more expensive than the standard 4 GB drive but I loved mine. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took delivery of 2 Corsair 2GB flash drives yesterday. Dang! These things are much smaller than my 2004 Crucial Gizmo 256MB (and it is pretty small) FD. These Corsair FDs are labled Voyager and come with a neat rubber-like covering (blue/black) that has a better 'grip-quotient' than the Crucial. Has nice lanyards too! The Corsair devices are also narrower than Crucial. Speed? Much faster than the 2004 test stick. Both sticks did come blank (as far as I could peek/test), so the U3 business appears to be not present. I hit them both with both Eraser 5.82 and the Windows Defrag tool. Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) I am pleased, and, at ~$14.99 apiece from Newegg, think this is a good deal. Thank you for all your comments, suggestions, and counsel. In a couple of day, I'll share thoughts about the new Crucial sticks that are still in transit. I've studied the U3 business and read some of the TrueCrypt5.0 docs. I think I need to study this some more. For now, I'll keep my sticks in my Big Black Safe! Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Brian, I did think about the slice back inside feature. In the end, I decided this was another mechanical improvement I could do without. I accept the keep track of the cap business. Have not misplaced/lost a cap yet. I do not travel as much as you. If I misplace a cap, it is in the house somewhere; and near a pooter! Rarely do my sticks leave the house (until now!). Thanks for the shot! Best, Duncan At 14:29 03/04/2008 -0500, you wrote: Glad to hear, looks like a nice stick. I just ordered another San Disk Titanium to replace the one I lost. I really love the ability to slide the USB connector back into the case to keep it out of harm's way and I'm always losing the end caps that normally come with USB keys. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171248 A bit more expensive than the standard 4 GB drive but I loved mine. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took delivery of 2 Corsair 2GB flash drives yesterday. Dang! These things are much smaller than my 2004 Crucial Gizmo 256MB (and it is pretty small) FD. These Corsair FDs are labled Voyager and come with a neat rubber-like covering (blue/black) that has a better 'grip-quotient' than the Crucial. Has nice lanyards too! The Corsair devices are also narrower than Crucial. Speed? Much faster than the 2004 test stick. Both sticks did come blank (as far as I could peek/test), so the U3 business appears to be not present. I hit them both with both Eraser 5.82 and the Windows Defrag tool. Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) I am pleased, and, at ~$14.99 apiece from Newegg, think this is a good deal. Thank you for all your comments, suggestions, and counsel. In a couple of day, I'll share thoughts about the new Crucial sticks that are still in transit. I've studied the U3 business and read some of the TrueCrypt5.0 docs. I think I need to study this some more. For now, I'll keep my sticks in my Big Black Safe! Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Don't forget drives are 1,000,000 bytes per gig, and files and Windows report a gig as 1,073,741,824 bytes.. :) Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult...
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Whoops, left out a set of zeroes. 1,000,000,000 is what I was supposed to type. :) Don't forget drives are 1,000,000 bytes per gig, and files and Windows report a gig as 1,073,741,824 bytes.. :) Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult...
[H] Laptop battery life
I have a client that has a main concern of battery life - He wants 4 hours of use. I was wondering if anyone was aware of a site that rates laptops like this from the different makers? OR better yet, some real life experience advice for me? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Yes, John, That subtle thought did occur to me! So, far, so good. The Corsair Voyager is a good choice. Best, Duncan At 13:42 03/04/2008 -0800, you wrote: Don't forget drives are 1,000,000 bytes per gig, and files and Windows report a gig as 1,073,741,824 bytes.. :) Both ended up at 1.918GB free space. I do not have any tools to look for hidden partitions so I'll just write off the 82MB difference as mfg. tolerance at this point. :) -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult...
Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1
Yea, whatever... I got it! Best, Duncan At 13:52 03/04/2008 -0800, you wrote: Whoops, left out a set of zeroes. 1,000,000,000 is what I was supposed to type. :) snip
Re: [H] Laptop battery life
Joe, ATM I do not have a good answer. It seems that you now have to focus on batteries that might work with your client's laptop. JMHO. With motorcycles, I have had excellent service from Yuasa and Exide (sealed AGM). Just now, I am now using PowerSonic (gell-cell) storage cells in my UPSs. Yes, I do know that laptop batts are very different! Just sharing recent experience. I'll dig through what I have on battery's for links to good battery sellers. Best, Duncan At 16:28 03/04/2008 -0600, you wrote: I have a client that has a main concern of battery life - He wants 4 hours of use. I was wondering if anyone was aware of a site that rates laptops like this from the different makers? OR better yet, some real life experience advice for me? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] Laptop battery life
Try the Cnet laptop reviews. They do some pretty good tests on the real battery life of the notebooks they test: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/ I also like the reviews on this site: http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that has a main concern of battery life - He wants 4 hours of use. I was wondering if anyone was aware of a site that rates laptops like this from the different makers? OR better yet, some real life experience advice for me? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] Laptop battery life
At 06:28 PM 04/03/2008, Joe User wrote: I have a client that has a main concern of battery life - He wants 4 hours of use. I was wondering if anyone was aware of a site that rates laptops like this from the different makers? OR better yet, some real life experience advice for me? Acer has plenty of 4+ hour battery life laptops. My personal one (rated for 3.5 hours) has done just under 4 many times. T
Re: [H] Laptop battery life
At 08:38 PM 04/03/2008, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 06:52 PM 3/4/2008, Thane Sherrington typed: Acer has plenty of 4+ hour battery life laptops. My personal one (rated for 3.5 hours) has done just under 4 many times. The Dell Latitude D530 iirc is rated for 8hrs but I can easily get 6hrs which beats my early Acer's 2½ hr battery. I assume that all laptops have better battery life than they use to except for the low end machines, but of course. Acers generally come with 6 and 8 cell models, as I recall. The 6 cells are in the cheaper models, and are generally 2.5 hours. On most of the Travelmate lines, there are a set with six and a set with eight cells. They have a couple of really long life batteries (5 to 7 hours, I believe) but I haven't used any of those. T
Re: [H] probably a really dumb question
Correction to our issues with the power supplies. The rest of them are going strong. Turns out we had a dying K7S5A that was killing power supplies (even a little smoke, etc). Moved to the A64 board, and the rest of the K7S5A boards, and they are fine. Harry j maccraw wrote: Lol! If like me you need high 5v amp, maybe consider one of these Harry: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817342010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182017 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182030 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817190011 Harry McGregor wrote: Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:06 PM 01/03/2008, j maccraw wrote: Still waiting for reply from Antec as to if they will stand behind this junk unit w/ 1year of use on it even though it's past warranty. Not holding my breath likely never buying another Antec. I missed the beginning of this thread. Are the Antec power supplies junk then? I thought they were touted as a good PS within the last year? T Ok, I can report on the $14 power supply from compgeeks. Junk. Running fine on a AMD 64 board, but tried it on three K7S5A motherboards, and blew three power supplies One per board. Harry Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
