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|Furry 4 Life
"A network for people who identify as furries and live the lifestyle"
| Owners: Shy Matsi Lupine
|Launch date
| August 2008–Sept. 25th 2015
early 2016 (beta stage)–present
|Social network service
Furry 4 Life, also known as F4L, is a furry-themed G-rated social networking site created by Shy Matsi Lupine, aimed at furry lifestylers. Furry 4 Life has a sister site, the Furries Xtreme social networking site, that is adult-rated.
As of December 27th, 2015 the site is still down, with no Estimated time of going back online. What was first announced as a server move has now become a complete system redesign with no completion time known. The sites domain now redirects to a google group with no recent news of when they will go back online.
Shy started the site in August of 2008. Furry 4 Life was built using Ning, a service that allows one to create their own social networking site. As of January 6th, 2014:
- 20,015 Member Accounts
- 3,200 Member created Groups
- 117,515 Photos
- 6,650 Videos
- 51,700 Songs and other sound files
- 7,560 Forum Topics
- 339 Events
- 7,000 Blogs
In 2016 the Furry4Life website was revamped and brought back online to the public in the beginning of February. The new website now running on the Dolphin framework is hosted on a server, as opposed to the previous years being provided by Ning. Due to complications with information transfer the Member Accounts, Groups, Photo, Videos, Songs, Forums, Events, and Blogs were all lost in the transition leading to a new start for F4L. All members who had previously had accounts with F4L must now create a new account to join the website. As of April 18, 2016:
- 890 Members
- 44 Groups
- 2897 Photos
- 39 Videos
- 2 Polls
- 23 Blog Post
- 73 Forum Posts
In the transition a lot more was lost including a large amount of key features making F4L what it was. Live Chat took a dramatic hit and was hosted on Telegram and still is. In April 2016 Furry4Life published a new Live Chat feature with a large amount of capabilities that previous chat systems did not have. As of now this is the official chat room for F4L.
Features and services[edit]
Furry 4 Life features several different components, including:
- The ability to create your own page, similar to MySpace or MyFursona
- An integrated chat room
- An instant messaging feature
- An events page, which lists upcoming conventions or meets
- An image gallery
- A video gallery of user-uploaded content, similar to YouTube
- A forum
- A Groups feature, in which users can join or create groups such as Music Furs, West Coast Furs, Furry Space Pirates, and more
- A Gadgets page, which features games users can play
- Open Social Applications that users can embed into their profile such as BuddyPoke allows users on a social network to customize a character and have it interact with other characters in the BuddyPoke world. The character users can customize has generic ear templates, fur textures and a variety of colors so that furs can customize one almost completely to look like their fursona.
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Whether you are a hardcore enthusiast, gamer, or just one of the many interested in cooling your processor down, finding a better cooling solution is something that takes some thought. As a result, it is one of the most asked questions in 99% of the computer-related, online communities. Cooling solutions run the gamut from a simple small heat sink that offers slightly better noise and thermal performance complete, with stock type retention methods, all the way up to complex custom designed liquid cooled systems. Even further up the ladder you get into the pure enthusiast sub zero contingent. Along with the capabilities of the cooling solution, you have the price commitment that has to be made for the improved cooling. Somewhere in this progression you can find a cooling solution that meets your performance and cost needs. Whether it be air cooling, liquid cooling or sub zero cooling, it's all there for you.
Most people do not relish the thought of mixing liquid with their high dollar electronic components or have the wherewithal to install and maintain a sub zero cooling solution. That leaves air cooling for the majority. The fact is, there is nothing wrong with air cooling. Thermalright has been one of the high end air cooling suppliers to the enthusiast community for quite some time now. I had my first introduction to Thermalright with the SLK-800 and SP-94. This time around I get to take a look at Thermalright's Ultra 120 eXTreme Revision C heatsink. This version is supposed to be a slight improvement over the Revision A TRUE that has been quite popular over the years. Lets take a look at this revision to see if it can surpass the performance of the Revision A as well as some of the high end coolers on the market.
Closer Look:
If you have ever purchased a Thermalright product, you will recognize the packaging. Other manufacturers paint the box with images, specifications, testimonials and product technical drawings. Not so with Thermalright. The packaging is pretty bare bones with just the product name and company name visible on the box. The rear panel is much more if the same, understated appearance. Included with this package for testing purposes, are one of Thermalright's TR-FDB-1600 fans and an Ultra series fan holder that takes the place of the traditional wire clips the TRUE comes with.
Opening up each package, you have the Ultra 120 Rev. C encased in foam, with the accessory box to the right. The box contains the mounting hardware for both Intel and AMD socket compatibility. On top of the heat sink are several documents that illustrate the installation of the Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme Revision C on both Intel and AMD hardware. The foam insert is rigid but still pliable enough to absorb the shock of traveling the world so it makes it to your door with no damage.
Once you pull everything out of the package, you are able to see what really comes with the Revision C of the TRUE. You get the documentation and installation hardware to put the TRUE on any of the latest sockets from Intel or AMD. The mounting hardware for Intel processors is a step away from the past method of securing the TRUE to the motherboard while the AMD is a refresh of the design that is more like the earlier bolt through socket 1366 kit. This I will look at a bit later.
Looking at the packaging so far, we have the standard packaging for a high end Thermalright cooler with a high end quality installation kit to boot. Lets dig into the Revision C TRUE to see where the differences are between it and the Revision A I have been using.

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All-Star game becomes part of immigration fight
Sports and politics became intertwined when civil rights activists targeted one of the biggest sporting events in the world as they fought Arizona's refusal to observe the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.
The Super Bowl, already awarded to the state, turned into a political pawn, one that moved in the activists' favor when then NFL decided to shift the 1993 game to California and the Rose Bowl.
Arizona managed to land another Super Bowl three years later – after voters approved the holiday – but the damage had been done, costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from the game and lost conventions.
Two decades later, Arizona is again caught in a tangle of balls and bills, the focal point this time Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
The Midsummer Classic, to be played Tuesday at Chase Field, has turned into a well-lighted stage for activists to voice their displeasure with SB1070, the polarizing immigration law they say promotes racial profiling.
"We're using this All-Star game to remind people what's happening in Arizona and using it as a platform to talk about injustices this law creates and to find better solutions to this," said Luis Avila, president of the Phoenix-based Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.
"We have been getting calls and emails the past two weeks as to what kind of documentation they should bring to the All-Star game because they're concerned about being pulled over. That's not the country that we live in. We shouldn't be afraid and worrying about what documents we should be carrying with us."
SB1070 was signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010 as a way to curb the influx of illegal immigrants into the state. The law requires all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers and requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question people's immigration status if there is a reasonable suspicion they're in the country illegally.
One of the strictest anti-illegal immigration measures in recent U.S. history, SB1070 set off a series of protests, boycotts and legal challenges almost immediately after Brewer put down her pen. Baseball became an easy target for protesters, in part because of this year's All-Star game, but also because roughly 30 percent of the players in the majors are Latino.
Activists initially called for baseball to move the game from the state and a handful of demonstrators delayed Arizona Diamondbacks games, at home and on the road, by waving anti-immigration law signs, including a pair who ran out onto the field during a game at Washington.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig declined to move the game, however, refusing to get involved in what he said was a political issue, so opponents of the law shifted their focus by asking players, coaches and fans to boycott the game as part of a wider call for companies to stop doing business with the state.
"We find the talk of boycotts completely wrong because what you end up doing is you end up taking out your agenda against people, especially in the tourism industry, who have nothing to do with passage of the law," said Garrick Taylor of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "That's why we find that particularly offensive."
Several baseball players spoke out against the law when it was initially signed and a handful said they might skip the All-Star game if picked, including Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.
The furor has abated somewhat since a federal judge put the most controversial parts of the law on hold less than a day before it was to take effect so the courts could take a closer look. Brewer has said she plans to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
None of Arizona's Latino players would comment about the law and there are no indications any players or coaches will skip the game, including Gonzalez, a starter for the American League.
The Major League Players Association initially said it opposed SB1070 and would consider additional measures to protect the interests of its members if the original version of the law went into effect.
Players' association president Michael Weiner has since issued a statement saying the organization will not ask players to refrain from participating in the Midsummer Classic since key portions of the law have been deemed unlawful.
"Our nation continues to wrestle with serious issues regarding immigration, prejudice and the protection of individual liberties," Weiner said Friday. "Those matters will not be resolved at Chase Field, nor on any baseball diamond; instead they will be addressed in Congress and in statehouses and in courts by those charged to find the right balance among the competing and sincerely held positions brought to the debate."
Chase Field and Phoenix will still likely see a handful of protests during All-Star game festivities, which start this weekend, and Somos America has asked fans, players and coaches to wear a white ribbon from Friday through Tuesday to show solidarity against the law.
But the game, unlike the '93 Super Bowl, will go on and, by all indications, most of the fans and all the players will be there.
"It showcases the destination at a time when most people wouldn't expect to see Arizona on a national stage and it will showcase the fact that we are a welcoming and hospitable place to visit," said Kristen Jarnagin, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association. "I know there's people wearing ribbons, but honestly I think at the end of the day we were able to keep the game here, we're excited about that."
AP sports writer Colin Fly in Milwaukee and Associated Press writers Bob Christie and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed to this story.


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(MCT) — ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Shell's drilling rig Kulluk, perched for a day on stony ground off the shore of a small island south of Kodiak, remained perilously out of reach Tuesday for a salvage team trying to learn its condition and that of tanks holding thousands of gallons of fuel and other hazardous liquids.
The wave-battered rig, whose cheery painted colors were in stark contrast to the mortal danger it was in, was stuck in some 30 to 40 feet of water after breaking loose from its towlines for the fifth and final time Monday night. Efforts to drop two salvage experts to its deck by Coast Guard helicopters were abandoned Tuesday because of impossible winds and the brutish waves, but emergency operations officials said they would try again Wednesday, when the weather was supposed to be somewhat more favorable though still challenging.
In a pair of news conferences Tuesday, officials from Royal Dutch Shell, the Coast Guard and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said the rig appeared intact and there was no sign that any of the fuel, hydraulic fluid or other petroleum liquids on board had spilled.
The heavy cone-shaped rig is about 500 feet from Sitkalidak Island about 10 miles southeast of Old Harbor. Steve Russell, the on-scene coordinator for the DEC, said most of the land in the area was owned by either the Old Harbor village Native corporation or the village itself.
No one has been seriously injured since the rig first broke free of its tow line in a Gulf of Alaska storm Thursday. Three workers who suffered minor injuries have returned to duty, a Shell official said Tuesday. There's been no sign of environmental damage or injury to any wildlife. The area contains several salmon streams and habitat for three species with Endangered Species Act listings: Steller sea lions, Steller's eiders and southwest sea otters, according to the DEC.
In other developments on the ongoing drama Tuesday, Shell officially accepted responsibility for state and federal costs associated with the emergency operations and any spills that still might occur. Initially, the DEC listed the operator of the towing vessel Aiviq, Edison Chouest Offshore of Louisiana, as the responsible party, but that changed in the course of the last two days.
A Shell official, Sean Churchfield, Shell's operations manager for Alaska, said the company would investigate what went wrong once the immediate crisis was resolved. He said that report might not be made public.
Capt. Paul Mehler, commander for the Coast Guard's Anchorage sector, said the Coast Guard will also conduct an investigation, but he promised it would be public.
The Kulluk spent a short drilling season in the Arctic, cutting the top portion of an exploratory well before it had to be moved south for the season. After a stay in Dutch Harbor, it was readied for the tow to the Seattle area for maintenance at a shipyard. In new information reported Tuesday, Churchfield said the go-ahead for the voyage was made by Shell officials but the actual time of departure was in the hands of the captain for the Aiviq, the specially built, four-engine tow vessel.
The journey across the Gulf of Alaska was planned to take place a rowboat's pace — about 4 knots. With the voyage expected to last up to four weeks, Churchfield acknowledged that any weather forecast available at departure would be meaningless long before the vessels reached their destination.
As it happened, a week out of Dutch, the Aiviq and Kulluk encountered a big winter storm. The towline snapped on Thursday. After a tow was reestablished Friday, the Aiviq's engines all failed. The causes of both failures are still unresolved.
A fleet of rescue ships and tugs came to the assistance of the Aiviq and Kulluk, and though the Aiviq's engines were restarted and towlines reestablished four more times, they all failed.
The Kulluk left Dutch Harbor loaded with fuel — about 143,000 gallons of diesel fuel is still on board. Russell, the DEC official, said some was necessary to operate generators and other equipment during the voyage, but most of it was there for ballast. Another 12,000 gallons of other petroleum products, including hydraulic fluid, is also on board.
The problems of the Kulluk has focused unwanted attention on Shell, whose offshore Arctic drilling program was already controversial with delays, regulatory problems and concerns about whether it could manage an oil spill in the far north. After the second news conference Tuesday, Curtis Smith, Shell's Alaska spokesman, acknowledged the criticism.
"Shell has a long history of operating safely and responsibly offshore in Alaska, and we are proud of it," Smith said. "In light of this incident, we need to do better — Alaskans expects it, and so do we."
In addition to the big emergency team from Shell, the Coast Guard and the state that's been operating out of a ballroom in the Marriott Hotel downtown, Shell officials worldwide have had their attention focused on Alaska for the past week, Smith said.
"When this incident is over, we're going to revisit everything that led up to the situation that we're in today. We're going to apply those learnings not only to future operations in Alaska, but global operations, in terms of marine transport, towing systems, every thing related to it because the lessons learned are that important because so much is at stake," Smith said.
He also came to the defense of Edison Chouest, the politically-connected contractor that owns and runs the Aiviq.
"All of our contractors have to bring expertise to the table that meets Shell's standards," he said. "Our reputation speaks for itself globally in terms of performance. There's no such thing as bringing the B team anywhere, but especially to the Arctic."


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Prisoners nationwide using smuggled cellphones to plot escapes, commit crimes _ even Facebook
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Prison officials in Florida and nationwide are fighting a different type of contraband being smuggled to inmates: cellphones.
They're being hidden in babies' diapers, Ramen Noodle Soup packages, footballs, soda cans and body cavities.
Two murderers used cellphones to plan their escape from a Florida prison last year where the state confiscated 11 cellphones per day in its prisons.
Even infamous murderer Charles Manson, imprisoned in California, has been caught with a cellphone, twice. And two Indiana prisoners were convicted of using cellphones smuggled in by guards to run an operation that distributed methamphetamine, heroin and other drugs.


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O'Reilly OSCON Open Source Convention, Portland Convention Center, July 21-25, 2008
OW2 took part in OSCON 2008, the O'Reilly US Open Source event. OW2 was kindly invited to have one of the exhibition spots reserved for non profit organizations. This was combined with Cedric Thomas invitation at Participate08 (a one-day, Microsoft-sponsored summit, by invitation only, held in parallel with the O'Reilly event).
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An interesting networking and dissemination opportunity for OW2 in North America and other parts of the world. We (CT) did a fair number of presentations at ourbut it really was like that only when they brought the buffet ;-). It was an opportunity for a number of interesting meetings with potential for follow-up. It has been a great pleasure to meet so many nice people. Here are some of them (in alphabetical order - and of course my apologies to the many I cannot mention here):
Who:, Presidente, AMESOL (www.amesol.org.mx) I met Nahim at Microsoft Participate08. He is one of the most prominent figure of open source in Mexico. He is also the CEO of LinuxParaTodos.Net
Follow-up: Nahim wishes to organize meetings for OW2 in Mexico. He says that the WebBuilder project which was open sourced by Infotec (a government IT research agency) would be a good fit in the OW2 code base. WebBuilder is already very successful within the Mexican government agencies.
Who:, Senior Lecturer, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation Dr. Bentiba, is also the lead of the Emirates Linux User Group.
Follow-up: Dr. Bentiba offered to help us establich contacts and organize OW2 presentations and workshops in the Emirates should we decide to concentrate our membership development efforts on the region.
Who:, Senior Director, Platform & Open Source Strategy at Microsoft I met Robert at Participate08 along with Sam Ramji, Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft and , Director of Open Source Strategy. Robert came to the booth for a full presentation of OW2.
Follow-up: Sam Ramji's team have already opened discussions with open source communities such as Apache and Eclipse. Sam wishes to do the same with OW2. It seemed to me that it would be interesting to have a presentation of Microsoft open source strategy to the Technology Council. They accepted the invitation to do so at one of the next Quarterly Meetings. We will arrange this before the end of August.
Who:, The FOSSology Project Architect FOSSoloy is an application that HP had developed for their own internal needs. They chose to open source it when they decided not to make it a product.
Follow-up: Bob agreed to help us implement FOSSology on our servers. He will open an account for us so our SysAdmin will be able to test FOSSology. The application is CPU intensive and requires a copy of the files. We will have the possibility to parse directly our own forge file system but his would require some work on our part. Also possible to develop scripts to automate it.
Who: National Resource Centre For Free/Open Source Software, India I met Prof. Krishnan at Microsoft Participate08. He leads a program aimed at developing OSS awareness to IT students and engineers in India., Program Director,
Follow-up: Prof. Krisnan is interested in introducing OW2 to high-level stake holders in India. A conference call is to be organized to perform a tele-presentation of OW2, to Indian authorities.
Who: Giancarlo Leonetti, Atlassian
Follow-up: I gave Giancarlo a presentation of OW2 and we discussed whether we should find some sort of overall agreement to allow the OW2 community to use Atlassian tools on our projets. Giancarlo will forward so we can resume our conversation end of August.
Who:, Attorney, Haynes and Boone, LLP Van Lindberg just published a book on "Intellectual Property and Open Source". It's the book we need to refer to when we, us non-lawyers, want to discuss IP. Recommanded reading to anyone who wish to taken part in the maintenance of our IPR policy. The book is still pretty much US-centric; a more international edition is in the works.
Follow-up: Van Lindberg is interested in helping OW2 (for a fee?) when we have our questions clarified.
Who:, Senior Product Manager, Ingres
Follow-up: The presentation I gave Christine was already a follow-up to discussions we have had with top Ingres executives. Ingres is interested by what we do at OW2. I invited them for a presentation to the Technology Council at next Quarterly Meeting.
Who: Karen Sandler, Legal Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center I met with Karen like a follow-up to the meeting we had with Eben Moglen.
Follow-up: Karen explained how the SFLC could help OW2 as part of the pro bono work they do for non-profit organizations. We can send questions to firstname.lastname@example.com. Another track to get professional help in our IPR policy maintenance effort.
Who:, Executive Director, Literacy Bridge We know Cliff well from before OW2 at ObjectWeb. As Apache VP Legal Affairs, he gave a good presentation on open source licenses at ObjectWebCon06. Cliff just launched Literacy Bridge, a not-profit organization which develps the "talking book" a device designed to transmit practical knowledge (medical, agricultural, etc.) and aimed at developing countris in areas with no or little written communication and Internet.
Follow-up: I promised Cliff OW2 would be willing to help. I guess some software need to be written for his device. For the moment we used the booth table to take the first pictures ever of the.
Who: Virach Sornlertamvanich, Assitant Director, National Electronic and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Follow-up: We agreed on arranging a tele-presentation of OW2 to him and members of NECTEC in September.
Who: http://www.edugrid.ac.in/webgis/) on top of Google Map., Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management. I met K. R. Srivathsan along with Prof Krishnan. He has developed an open source GIS (
Follow-up: K. R. Srivathsan is one of the person we must talk to in India.
Who:, Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Follow-up: We share the same interests in business and open source. I invited Tony to participate in the programme committee and a panel session in the upcoming Open World Forum (Forum Mondial du Libre) nex December in Paris.
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Thanks Geoff. I think this just illustrates the point I was making - ie the suttanta analysis of saṅkhata /asaṅkhata in the context of the 9 attainments differs significantly from the Abhidhammic treatment of saṅkhata /asaṅkhata in the context of dhammas. The former explains saṅkhata in the context of the paccayāfor the state, ie saṅkhāra being the condition of consciousness makes consciousness predicated as saṅkhata. On the other hand, the latter analysis picks up a different saṅkhata angle, namely the saṅkhatassa saṅkhatalakkhaṇāni expounded in AN 3.47.Ñāṇa wrote:In the Abhidhammapiṭaka, which predates the commentarial use of sabhāva language, nirodhasamāpatti doesn't play any significant part in the path of awakening. Moreover, the Theravāda has never accepted that nirodhasamāpatti is asaṅkhata because that would mean that there are two asaṅkhata-s, and that a produced meditative state is asaṅkhata, and that nirodhasamāpatti would have the same liberating role as the supramundane paths and fruitions, and so on. This is a specific point of controversy in the Kathāvatthu, where all of these alternatives are rejected (see Points of Controversy, pp. 190-91).Sylvester wrote:In short, nirodhasamāpatti would be asaṅkhata when viewed through idappaccayata, but would be neither saṅkhata nor asaṅkhata when viewed through the sabhava theory.
I do not think the 2 methods or angles can mingle in any meaningful way. Just as it is impossible to superimpose the Abhidhamma model of mundane and supramundane cittas on the sutta model.


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KG Dogfighting, an application in which players prepare their dogs to fight, is available through Google's Android Market. The application's icon features a Pit Bull with blood on his muzzle. Through KG Dogfighting, players are encouraged to engage in gruesome virtual practices to train and fight dogs.
The Wisconsin Humane Society is opposed to any promotion of dog fighting. We are especially concerned that children will use this app and may become desensitized to violence against animals. Additionally, widespread use might change societal attitudes about dog fighting, making the practice socially acceptable.
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"We have deliberately avoided compromising on quality, which I believe is the mistake made with other licensed character musical instruments, some of which have already come and gone" explained Dennis Drumm of JHS, "Show me another product that makes everyone smile in the way this does. How much fun can you have and stay sane?"


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DURHAM — Dr. Janet Perkins Howland has run the Boston Marathon so many times, she has lost count.
On Monday, the Durham resident had just crossed the finish line at the 117th running of the world-famous race when she heard the first of two blasts.
"I looked back and saw the plume of smoke and less than 10 seconds later another one went off," Perkins-Howland said. "People panicked, and even though they had just finished running, they had found a new energy. The only people running toward the explosion were people with TV cameras. The poor volunteers didn't know what to do."
Well after the top runners had finished on Monday, a pair of bombs exploded near the finish line. Two people were killed and at least a 100 were injured.
Perkins Howland finished Monday's race in four hours, four minutes and one second, one day shy of her 51st birthday.
"I kind of bent down to catch my breath and heard an enormous crash-bang," she said. "All your senses are hyper after running a marathon, so it was very confusing because you're just so fatigued."
Fortunately for Perkins Howland, none of her family members were near the scene of the bombing. Dr. Howland's husband, Al Howland, normally stands near the finish line to cheer on his wife, but on Monday made a last-minute decision to meet Dr. Howland at a different location.
"I was getting the car," Howland said. "Normally my wife's brother and I go to watch her at the finish line. This year I just decided to park by the (TD Garden). We saw her at Mile 22 and I figured I'd meet them at the finish line. I don't know if I would have been at the finish line at the same time (of the explosion) but I was glad I had the change of plans."
Durham's Vicky Miller was still racing just yards from the finish line when she heard the first bomb go off.
"Debris sprayed across the pavement in a fireball, and I just laid down," Miller said. "I knew it was a bomb and I was mad right off the bat. I was worried about the people because I could tell it was on the side of the spectators."
Miller was in charge of a bus carrying more than 50 members of her running club, 45 of whom were running the marathon. Miller spent most of the night tracking down the runners, some of whom were unable to finish the race because of the incident. She said by the end of the night all of the club members were accounted for.
"I got through the finish line and I couldn't see any of the other runners behind me," said Miller, 60. "I got through there and I could hear people yelling 'Clear the road.'"
Dr. Perkins Howland said since she was aware of her husband's decision not to meet up at the finish line, she wasn't worried about him at the time of the blast. She was just trying to find her personal belongings and a way to safely meet up with her husband.
"I was just trying to follow directions," Perkins Howland said. "I got all the way back to our hotel, and that had turned out to be evacuated. Then I went into a restaurant and they had to evacuate that, too. But we found each other at the Boston Common."
Perkins Howland eventually retrieved her race bag, which contained her cell phone. Retrieving his car a few miles from the unfolding chaos, Al Howland was at first unaware that anything unusual had happened.
"I came out at Government Center and there were all these sirens going off," Howland said. "I couldn't get ahold of her on her cell phone. I heard that some spectators were badly injured. I knew that was the time she usually finished."
Al Howland said since cell phone lines were jammed, he resorted to using a pay phone to reach his wife.
"It's fortuitous that he changed plans," Dr. Perkins Howland said.
Eventually, the pair met up, and immediately decided to drive back to Durham, leaving their personal belongings at the hotel.
"I don't know when I'll get them," Dr. Perkins Howland said. "But that's the least of my worries right now."


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Spec wise, this racquet could be the long lost twin to my Pure Drive GT. Most of our playtesters even seem to favor this Donnay over the ever so popular Pure Drive. Dare I say, it may even outshine the Pure Drive in one area – the net. My volleys feel so precise and crisp with this racquet no matter whom I am hitting against. I often struggle on my backhand volley to keep my racquet out in front and end up hitting a bit of an inside-out backhand chip volley, which while it is very effective, it is frustrating since it's caused by late preparation. With this maneuverable Donnay in my hands, suddenly the issue has disappeared.


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Willow Bark Extract contains salicin, this is a substance that when you take it by mouth can be converted by the digestive process to salicylic acid (beta hydroxy acid). However, in order for this to occu, the converting the salicin in willow bark to salicylic acid requires the presence of enzymes. This can be a very complex process.
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The other Panhandle counties get a billion dollars or so for road and bridge construction, no taxes and no tolls required, but Walton County gets the shaft? How did this come to pass, who is responsible for this debacle, what can we do about it now, and how can we avoid such a failure in future?
Secretary Prasad, at the meeting last year during which he told Walton's representatives that all new roads and bridges in Florida henceforth were going to be built with either tolls or local taxes, delivered an ultimatum � pick a tax or toll or the money goes away and widening 331 to I-10 would otherwise be kicked back to the haziness of maybe someday. 2035 was mentioned.
He further stated that the state was ready to start turning dirt on the bridge Oct. 1 of last year if Walton Countians accepted either tax or toll. I was sitting beside him when he made that statement, and two other members of our Board, Bonnie McQuiston and J.B. Hillard, were at the table seated across from him. The check is in the mail, I'm from the government and � well, you know the rest.
I learned three days ago from a fellow WCTA Board member who attended a Walton Chamber of Commerce luncheon around the inception of the back and forth with the state on the bridge that the guest speakers at that luncheon were Sen. Don Gaetz, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Rep. Marti Coley.
The emcee tried to recognize the members of the Walton BCC there that day, asking them to stand. Embarrassingly, not a one of them was present. Their absence was noted by the guest speakers. As some of those negligently absent discovered, elections have consequences, and as we continue to discover, those other consequences haunt us today and will for years to come. Outrageous!
There is outrage to spare, but where should it be directed? At Secretary Prasad? At Gov. Scott? At our elected representatives in Tallahassee? At our prior BCC members? At the people enabling, encouraging and profiting from them?
Or should we be most outraged over the huge majority of residents who couldn't be bothered to vote? Pogo had it right. We have met the enemy and it is us, a disinterested electorate. Disinterested until outrages such as this are exposed, that is.
The adage �follow the money!� might be instructive in ascertaining responsibility. Who stood to gain financially? Were any BCC members involved in land deals, directly or indirectly, through which they stood to gain by their official acts (or failures to act)? Were any large contributors to any BCC members in any fashion responsible for this huge departure from the usual means of the state financing road and bridge projects?
Why the urgency pushed on us by the supporters of this project? Were there options about to expire on land, which would be purchased for right of way? Why was the new bridge changed from west of the existing to the east of same? Who stood to gain from this move?
Is this record prologue, or do we learn and move forward with our new BCC? We have an opportunity to use this terrible example of special interests stampeding a proposal to passage that is a huge financial windfall to a few. There is ample reason for concern about the integrity of that process, and we must ensure that the new BCC sets its priorities with the best interests of all Walton Countians at the forefront, abjuring the politics of enrichment of the favored few.
We now have a BCC which appears disposed to find its way on our behalf. It's up to us to help them such that we are spared future outrage.
Don Riley, M.D. is president of the Walton County Taxpayers Association


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The Best Synths Today - Analogue, Digital & VST
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Check out some of the greatest modern synth bands, including Foals, These New Puritans and Alt-J.
AnalogueOne of the original pioneers Korg have been getting back into the analogue game in a big way with their MS-20 reissue making a big splash at NAMM this year. Not simply plundering the past Korg have introduced the Volca series of noise makers at Musikmesse 2013, coming in Drum Machine, Bassline and Lead Synth flavours. While they have similar layout to the Monotron and Monotribe synths the Volcas are an altogether more serious proposition, maintaining a low price point that made the Mono synths so popular. Take these three synths, add in a Monotribe and you've got a mini-synth studio for little more than £500, you can even sync them all together for an all analogue setup with no MIDI or PC controller required.
Virtual AnalogueNot content with announcing the return of a prince among monosynths at NAMM Korg are also determined to be the king of the digital jungle. The KingKorg features technology that painstakingly models all that fat analogue goodness but adds numerous features and effects to expand your palette further. This lets you take all the sounds you need to the stage without racks of gear and complex setups.
Of course Korg are also responsible for one of the most popular VA synths of all time. The MicroKorg series is still going strong in venues, studios and band practice rooms around the globe.
AnalogueNovation have a strong analogue heritage, having made the acid monster Bass Station back in the early 90's. Now with the Bass Station II they've gone even further, offering acid squelch along with classic subtractive synthesis, arpeggiator, sequencing and effects. It's a beast for bass but the new BSII is capable of a huge range of synth sounds.
Virtual AnalogueAmong the first to dabble in VA Novation have a knack for creating lush sounding synths with that unmistakable analogue character and hands on control. Being digital affords certain advantages when it comes to the feature set, with 18 voices, 14 filters, arpeggiator plus heaps more the Ultranova synth essentially crams a semi-modular monster into a tidy package. The Mininova goes one step further, offering exactly the same sound engine in an even smaller and more affordable package. Either one makes for a versatile 'go to' synth for the stage or getting into deep editing in the studio. Brit Award nominees Alt-J agree. Novation keep improving the Nova family with the addition of new soundpacks, including some that emulate their famous, vintage synth the Supernova.
AnalogueAnnounced in 2012 the Minibrute was something of a surprise, coming from a company who had largely specialised in digital recreations of analogue synths. It shouldn't have been really as that expertise has clearly been put to good use in the design of the Minibrute. Reminiscent of classic two octave monosynths from Moog and Roland the Brute really is a power house for basses and leads.
PluginsIt's here were Arturia really made their name with near perfect recreations of Moog, Sequential Circuits & Oberheim analogue synths. Of course what's the thing that every synth player really loves doing? Twiddling knobs of course and it's not quite the same tweaking settings on a PC monitor that you did your tax return on last week. So Arturia have released an array of different hardware controllers that integrate automatically with their plugins. One example is the Keylab they announced at Musikmesse 2013, offering 5000 sounds from their classic synth collections with direct control using knobs, faders, keys and drum pads.
Virtual AnalogueThey may only do one synthy thing but by gum they do it well! Nord concentrate on high end VA sound solutions for the serious synthesiser enthusiast, the Lead 4 and Drum 2 are their latest offerings. Delivering polyphonic hybrid synth action and cutting edge drum sounds respectively, the hardware is top notch too with that iconic red chassis, wooden pitch stick, ceramic mod wheel and now a set of drum pads for integration with the Drum 2. While build quality certainly is important you really want to know how they sound right?
Just in case there was any doubt left as to Nord's synth credentials Future Music caught a glimpse of Hans Nordelius' original Nord analogue synth at Musikmesse 2013.
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PluginsNot strictly a Messe announcement but we have been learning more about the Monark synth lately, based around a classic analogue synth (can you guess which one?) NI are so confident of the Monarks quality they've posted a direct comparison for you to judge for yourself. We're certainly convinced and the Monark comes with both Komplete 9 and Komplete 9 Ultimate, as if they weren't good enough value already.
It wouldn't be a synth round up without the venerable Moog Music, still making innovative analogue hardware with those famous filters. The most affordable offering is the Minitaur Bass Synth, straightforward but with a raw analogue sound. Recently Moog discontinued the Little Phatty but it's soul lives on in the more compact Slim Phatty analogue synth. Find out how the Little Phatty was designed during a turbulent time at the company.


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Two aldermen looking for last-minute ways to head off painful budget cuts proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel floated the idea Wednesday of extending the city's cigarette tax to other tobacco products.
Ald. Matthew O'Shea, 19th, and Leslie Hairston, 5th, offered up that gambit at a City Council meeting in an effort to soften spending cuts at city libraries, mental health clinics and the 911 center.
Other aldermen worked behind the scenes to limit planned reductions in tax rebates to condo owners, scale back plans for a $2-a-day hike in weekday parking taxes, and find an alternative use for at least one of the three police stations Emanuel plans to close.
All were signs that aldermen continued to tinker at the margins of Emanuel's proposed $6.3 billion budget.
"We have a few days left around the clock to make sure we're tweaking and adjusting this budget in a responsible fashion," said Brendan Reilly, 42nd, vice chairman of the Budget Committee, which meets Monday to consider final changes before next Wednesday's vote.
Aldermen and administration officials weren't sure how much new money could be raised by broadening the tobacco tax — as Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle plans to do so she can raise $12 million for the county next year. And Finance Committee Chairman Edward Burke, 14th, said he thought it would be of little immediate help.
"I think it'll probably take a while to be heard in committee and adopted, so I would say it has no effect" on the budget proposal, Burke said. Changing the city tobacco tax also would require changes to state law, Emanuel administration officials added.
As the tobacco tax idea was being floated, Preckwinkle was defending another so-called sin tax in the face of a growing outcry from the distilled spirits industry over her proposal to raise alcohol taxes as part of her proposed $2.94 billion budget set for a Nov. 18 vote.
Preckwinkle stood with health care leaders at Stroger Hospital to say higher taxes could curb consumption and lessen alcohol-related health problems. She wants to raise $10.9 million next year by increasing the tax on wholesale alcohol prices.
The tax on a 24-pack of Bud Light would increase 6 cents, and on a 750 ml bottle of Absolut Vodka by no more than 50 cents, her office said. Preckwinkle said alcohol would cost less by 2013, when she plans to eliminate the final quarter of the 1 percentage-point sales tax hike pushed through by her predecessor, Todd Stroger.
"Quite simply, everybody will get a tax break. But we decided that it was appropriate that there should be a bigger tax break on toothpaste and baby formula than booze," Preckwinkle said.
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Arkansas Death Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)
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Consumers should be cheering the Justice Department's move to block the merger between US Airways US:LCC and American Airlines and it's statement that the flying public will "get the shaft" if the two combine to form the largest U.S. airline.
"Increases in the price of airline tickets, checked bags or flight-change fees resulting from this merger would result in hundreds of millions of dollars of harm to American consumers," Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer told reporters on a conference call.
The DOJ was not swayed by the airlines' promises that they would continue to fly all current routes in the 12 markets where they now overlap. Furthermore, Baer said, "We know from prior mergers that elimination of head-to-head competition on nonstop routes results in substantial price increases for consumers."
The airlines, apparently, have only themselves and their own chatter to blame. The DOJ was quick to jump on public statements that both carriers made right before and since the $11 billion merger announcement on Feb. 14 that they could thrive well without each other. US Airways executives, for example, were not shy about talking about how capacity cuts will "enable" industrywide fare hikes and that American can emerge from its bankruptcy as a stronger stand-alone competitor.
Six states — all of which are home to hubs of both airlines — and the District of Columbia joined the lawsuit, which puts the merger on hold until the courts decide whether to take the case.
However, it also leaves open opportunities for the three parties to hammer out concessions that might make it more palatable to the DOJ. For example, the agency was particularly concerned about the duo's dominance at Washington Reagan National Airport, a favorite of Congress members. Together, the so-called "New American" would control 69% of the takeoff and landing slots at Reagan National as well as 63% of nonstop routes out of the airport.
The complaint also addressed the herd mentality of the airline industry, which, in effect, will become an oligopoly when the five largest carriers are pared down to four, and rule over 80% of all flights in the U.S. "By further reducing the number of legacy airlines and aligning the economic incentives of those that remain, the merger of US Airways and American would make it easier for the remaining airlines to cooperate, rather than compete, on price and service," the complaint stated.
Not surprisingly, US Airways and American said they will "mount a vigorous and strong defense" to undo the DOJ effort. "We believe that the DOJ is wrong in its assessment of our merger," the two said in a joint release. "Integrating the complementary networks of American and US Airways to benefit passengers is the motivation for bringing these airlines together. Blocking this procompetitive merger will deny customers access to a broader airline network that gives them more choices."
The suit sent shock waves throughout the industry and the markets because it was widely considered a done deal, thanks to overwhelming support from stockholders and creditors, as well the European Union. And American's retreat from bankruptcy could be in jeopardy, because so much of it was dependent on the financial strength the merger would have created.
But supporters of a blocked merger applauded the DOJ. "Consumers have dodged a bullet," said Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance who has lobbied heavily and testified before Congress to prevent the alliance. "The merger would have allowed the major airlines to coordinate their capacities and prices even more easily than they already do."
Not all consumer crusaders favor the DOJ suit. "Even with all the previous mergers, airfares on average have not skyrocketed," said George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchdog.com. "Airlines know that much air travel is discretionary rather than 'essential'," he said. "The sky is not the limit when it comes to consumers' air-travel budgets. That puts a supply/demand 'brake' on airfare increases."
He worries too that preventing the merger will leave both US Airways and American as weak players in a market dominated by Delta and United, which could speed them toward the fate of TWA, Pan Am, Eastern and Aloha.
"What's bad for consumers is waking up one morning to discover that your airline ticket is worthless," he said. "Despite fewer airlines, we still see the same fares on some routes that we saw 10 years ago."


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Robert Pattinson & Emilie de Ravin: Bear Hug!
Robert Pattinson and co-star Emilie de Ravin spend some time at a carnival on the set of their new film, Remember Me, shooting on location in New York City on Wednesday (June 24).
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But at what price?
High time the EU looked into the uniformly astronomical prices of hard drives.
Seagate seems set to replace its desktop Barracuda brand with the Desktop HDD brand and introduce a 4TB desktop drive with it. The Desktop HDD 15 line runs up from 250GB through 320GB and 500GB all the way to 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB. It uses 1TB/platter technology, spins at 7,200rpm, has a 64MB cache, transfers data at up to …
High time the EU looked into the uniformly astronomical prices of hard drives.
really? Amazon are selling the Hitachi 4tb Desk for £150 and the 4tb Pro for £175
those prices don't seem astronomically high to me. i remember when an 80gb drive would cost that much!
And I remember when a 300Mb HDD cost that much, and if I care to think even further back I can remember when a 300Mb HDD cost AU$10,000. Some people expect to much for their money.
My first hard drive was a 52MB SCSI effort for my Amiga.
It was £350 as I recall, circa 1991. I have used a PC/XT with a 5MB Hard drive though..
4TB for £150 is a bargain (although oddly I can only see this price for USB drives, the bare drive itself is more??!)
I suppose you would just buy the USB drive and pull it out of the case for a sata-III install.
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That is cobblers. These HDD companies do R&D and that ain't cheap.
Storage is getting exponentially cheaper. and has been for decades. If you want to save money, buy the not-quite-the-latest model.
"Looks like someone's enjoying the great El Reg app débâcle"
Indeed. The app cut off the last half of my post, too.
That's the price of living life on the cutting edge of science and technology.
Don't know about the cutting edge as I'm on the bleeding edge most of the time ;)
The last half of my post, which El Reg's sparkly new app didn't post, said something along the lines of if the current prices had continued to be on a par with the pre-flood prices they would be a lot less expensive.
And that's after the fully insured companies have since made record profits.
Curse you Ledswinger. Your quip was funnier than mine. >X(
>I suppose you would just buy the USB drive and pull it out of the case for a sata-III install.
Be careful trying that these days. I have had at least one drive come to me for repair that had the USB3 connector built into the drive's electronics directly rather than the USB -> SATA adapter were all used to.
really? Amazon are selling the Hitachi 4tb Desk for £150 and the 4tb Pro for £175
They were selling for £140 only a few days earlier. £130 in January. And about £120 in the Christmas sale period. Incidentally, ebuyer have increased that "home" version of the hdd from £140 to about £165 or so in the last few days, if I remember correctly.
But hey, we're in the midst of a high flood season in Sahara, you know.
reference "pulling IT out", this appears to be a particularly nasty case of a well-sealed box, that hitachi.
I live life on the edge. Otherwise there wouldn't be enough room.
My first was the colossal 20 Mb Seagate ST325N SCSI HDD. It came as part of the Amiga A590 for £400 I seem to remember. It was a joy to use after living from floppy disks.
My first was an Amiga 500 add-on drive. About 80MB I think. At the time (1990 ish) we had to drive almost 300 km to Toronto to get one. Pretty sure it was upwards of 800CAN$ (my dad bought it for me). 80MB was incredible to me back then, as such, it's pissing me off to no end that I'm downloading a 158MB(!) printer firmware update package right now.
My first was also for an Amiga.
I remember saving up a bit longer so I could afford the maximum amount of storage sold by the store at the time: 500MB for £500. Never filled it either and it still works two decades later.
I remember when a 2TB drive cost £50 ... the prices haven't returned to normal since the floods even though the factories are back to full production. The competition commission absolutely should be looking into the prices and questioning why the Seagate/Samsung and WD/Hitachi mergers were allowed when that left just 3 huge companies to dominate the market which isn't in the interests of consumers or competition.
Nice. These early Winchesters seem tiny to us but they were superb at the time, compared to using floppies. Like - Wow! The computer just saves all your data without you having to do anything!
On the foreskin of technology ...
I remember when a 10MB drive cost over a grand! :-D
Hmm, I had a 5MB monster, an MFM drive IIRC. I shudder to think what it cost back then ...
I remember when 5 MB were 5 1/4 inch, full height and were three grand.
Thing is, that drive will probably still spin up and work today. By reviews on these new high capacity drives the big question is how long with the 4TB drive last? DOA? A month? A year?
My very first purchased drive was a seagate 10MB MFM drive, that's personal purchase not work.
after that it's just gotten insane.. as drive prices fall, i seem to gather more and more unused storage.. a nasty habit I intend to break. I'm around 35TB right now on my NAS.. and it's mostly empty.
Of course you want to shell out a bit more for a 12 Gb/s 20.000 RPM SAS disc.
This baby will take 7 hours to copy in its entirety (probably longer than that), so it would stand just 1250 cycles a year, and won't last much longer than that. It holds 32 Terabit, so if the Bit Error Rate be 10^--13, that would be one error in just 30 cycles.
Makes some sense as a power-and-cost saving trick. The reason for SATA (and IDE before that) drives in USB enclosures has always been to take advantage of the economy of scale that comes from the big production lines. But with the increasing sales volume, it might make sense now for drive manufacturers to run a second line for USB-interfaced boards. They can keep the same mechanical side, after all: Same mechanics, different board attached.
What price for a shit-box hard drive with a 12 month warranty and a 12th month and one day expiry date?
Seagate drives are shit and so is their warranty.
4 Terror Bites of Seagate Drive = just more time wasted formatting it, more time wasted loading it up with more data, more time wasted trying to get it all backed up with it's starting to fail, and more time wasted buying and installing a new 4 Terror Bite hard drive - and after the 5th one in 3 years... switch to Hitachi Enterprise Quality.
Linux - Don't take no shit from them Microsoft Quality Drives.
...there's also price tags. Amazon sells a 4TB drive for TWICE what it sells a 3TB for. That's still a hefty premium even if you have foggy memories of 10MB drives.
"I suppose you would just buy the USB drive and pull it out of the case for a sata-III install."
Problematically, some vendors have been installing direct-USB controllers onto the drives. It's not USB->Interface->Controller in those cases. Unless they've backed off of that.
With that said, before the floods, I picked up a pair of "Aluratek" 1tb external USB hard drives for $40 each that were just hitachi SATA drives in a case. When those finally die I can slap another in there at least...
No, you can't use that trick anymore
Typically a USB-3 drive these days have their own controller card. ie the card on the drive has only USB-3 output
I'd certainly RAID those though, id say it was a brave soul running these monsters unRAIDed.
Problem is that recovery would likely take out the remaining disk - copying 4TB at a sustained rate of ~100MB/s will take how long?
40,000 seconds ~ 12 hours of SOLID activity
Assuming a more realistic continuous rate it's going to take a long time to recover that data. I'd go for at least Raidz2, if not more...
Repeat though, "RAID is not a backup, RAID is not a backup..."
The bitrot problem is going to be heeeeeuuuuuge on that array.
ohe noes, you mentioned bitrot, now i'll mention ZFS and everyone will start shouting and claiming their file system is better. Some n00b will see the word RAID and use RAID 5
Someone already mentioned it, given that a previous poster mentioned "raidz2"...
Repeat though, "RAID is not a backup, RAID is not a backup..."
Yes, but if you want to make a backup to disk (which implies large disk storage), you'd rather keep that backup on RAID. Or two (in different computers/locations).
I thought that was a hip plural with a typo..
I always dreamed to see what would happen if it was formatted in FAT16, and the dog-old OS run out of letters to name the partitions. Would it go Excel spreadsheet style?
and so forth.
On the other hand, how do I backup this beast? Oh, nevermind.
Based on the options in "Map network drive" you'd get to Z: and that'd be it.
26 partitions should be enough for anyone, etc. and so on.
I did this once, with an old Pentium that I had Linux on and had an awful lot of old hard drives in it for archive-access and each had at least four partitions on it.
Windows throws a fit, and won't name the drives after Z:, and Linux just adds more letters to the /dev/ entries. At least, that's how it worked years ago when I did that (think it was XP and early Linux 2.6). Hence, I was able to remove the problem by removing the Windows partitions present on the drives and saving myself several partition names for zero loss.
Yep XP runs out of drive letters after Z as well. I regularly map network drives to multiple PC's and have to keep clearing them out when I run out.
You can't use Swedish characters, etc, as drive names? How sad.
Is this still a limitation of Windows out of interest?
Yes, a quick Google says that still even as of Windows 8, you can mount as many NTFS drives as you like (NTFS allows all sorts of fancy mounting now) but if you want drive letters, you can still only go up to Z:. So, basically, if you want things to "just work", you can still only go to Z:. It won't crash and burn, but you'll have to play about if you actually want to use the data on them.
BTW: My post was wrong, apparently that machine was running a Linux 2.2 kernel. And still allowed more than 26 accessible drives / devices without anything "special" being done. Progress, eh?
Back in the day of DOS & NetWare, you could run into problems whereby a drive letter wasn't a letter but a character. I seem to remember seeing a "[" as a drive letter...
yes and netware accepted alt-255 as a character for many things too. Much fun could be had with alt-255
Under Windows 2000 & later the DosDevices (aka drive letters) are merely references in the registry that point to the actual storage volume which could be an mbr partition, gpt partition or unpartitioned media like a USB stick or optical disc i.e. they are only shortcuts & are completely arbitrary as far as the OS is concerned.
Drive letters are only for backwards compatibility so the limit remains as it has since the DOS age (maybe since CP/M & QDOS):- 26 letters less the one used for the system drive.
Maximum partitions per drive would be a much more interesting question, I've found someone who has managed to create 350 partitions on a single drive inside a virtual machine but the actual maximum eludes me as this may be a limit of the diskpart command.
it's because their failure rate is so fucking high, not because people want MORE of them.
And yes,10 years down the line we will find out - MAYBE - that it was, indeed, an extreme case of "planned obsolescence", and they'll be fined 10 billion rubles (or rupees), of which every Seagate customer (US only) will be entitled to big mac voucher to the value of 10 bucks. And it'll be hailed as another case of "ultimate justice for the customer". Like shit.
Yup... RMAs for sure... but it'll be Yuan we'll be buying our Big Macs with ten years from now.
By which time the uncontrolled trade deficit will have pushed the Yuan to parity with the dollar.
Not as bad WD or Hitchi. But that's just my personal professional experience.