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I think one of my hard drives is fixing to be going to that big hard drive in
the sky. And it's the one I least want to fail too, where I have all my mp3's
and files and such. But everytime I run scandisk on it, Windows finds a bunch of
weird errors and fixes them, then next time I just get more errors. Not to
mention at the end of one scandisk it found like 2,000 surface errors and then
told me to backup everything because the drive would fail fairly soon. So I've
been looking up prices on new hard drives, and have been pleasantely suprised.
For $20 less than what I paid for my 20 GB hard drive 2 years ago, I can get an
80 GB hard drive. That's less than .0018 cents per megabyte. Back in the day
(around 1994 when we got a first computer) it was $1 a megabyte. How times have
changed.
Also while reinstalling stuff after reinstalling Windows, I discovered that Trillian .70 has finally been released. I highly
recommend that everyone get it, because it is THE best IM client on Windows. It
supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and even IRC. And now has file transfer support,
the one thing missing from previous versions. And it lets you rename contacts,
so instead of "supergooeyboy" or something you can just see "Bob". So go check
it out, you'll love it.
Some scientists in Britian have discovered a new
key component in Quantum encryption. With quantum encryption, codes will be
uncrackable, and the reciever will be able to tell if the code was intercepted
between the sender and reciever, based on the laws of quantum mechanics. Of
course, I'm not so sure how happy the government will be about this technology
(at least for the public, I'm sure the military will love it for themselves),
but it certaintly is interesting.
I hate this mouse!
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