Episode 102 - Dying Hard Drive 911, Yowza!!! Greg Grunberg! Green Drives For Your RAID, Nokia Surge [Discussion]

[marilee]

Patrick's HD Hits The Freezer, Heroes star Greg Grunberg joins to talk iPhone Development, Veronica Reviews Nokia's Latest

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[revision3fan]

Just saying this first: Veronica, like your hair - great highlights!

[fee]

Originally Posted by revision3fan

Just saying this first: Veronica, like your hair - great highlights!

Agreed it looked very nice!

Just got done watching the episode! and now leaving for the Rifftack show to see more Veronica and others! Also I think show should start with Veronica singing what the show is about with her Stevie Nicks voice all the time now

[crabcakes]

Literally am in the middle of backing up. Paused the show because Patrick Norton said so.

[revision3fan]

Is the 2.5 mm jack strictly stereo audio out like a headphone jack or a combined mic in and stereo audio out for phone calls?

If the jack is just used for headphones, isn't there an audio adapter that doesn't have a cable (unlike the adapter shown in a slide during the review) that will go from the jack to a 1/8" plug?

How does the Nokia Surge handle Java?

Symbian is the most popular smartphone operating system in the world. It is open-source and does true multitasking from what I understand. Why isn't there more of it i the United States? Is device availability an issue?

[crabcakes]

Regarding the LG Chocolate phone:
Patrick returned it after three days, but the Chocolate 3 is by far the best phone for a high school or college kid like myself. There is no internet or data plan, so its super cheap. It also has really good media controls, a standard headphone jack, and the Chocolate 3 has a built in FM transmitter for the car. Its a cheap phone with a good mp3 player that you will need a microSD memory card for, but it is WAY cheaper than a Blackberry, iphone, or separate Zune or ipod.

In ep 102 Patrick Norton said that Nokia and other great phones(out side US) get their ass kicked by the phones in USA, but that's not the case, people in USA didn't have a chance to use all the phones that are available worldwide, which people out side of USA does. In US only a few types of Nokia and other phones are available.

So before saying any statements like this please say the situation in US


love the show guys
keep rocking

PS: sorry about my English

[davmoo]

I've never used the freezer method so I can't say anything about whether or not it works. But I have, and regularly it seems, use the "smack the drive on the desk" method for sticktion or other reasons the drive motor won't initially spin up. Whapping the side of the computer case with the fist also works for that. Three Stooges School of Computer Repair

Yowza sounded interesting, and so did the new Nokia phone. Too bad they're both on a piece of cow dung network like AT&T.

I had a Chocolate, and it really is a good phone. Only reason I got rid of it is I started texting more and wanted something with a qwerty keyboard.

All of the FastStone utilities are good, not just Image Resizer. If anyone takes away my Image Viewer I'll definitely go postal on 'em.

As for the locked up hard drive, I have used the twist the wrist method first before going rambo on a drive. Besides most hd makers have software that comes in the box that will help you recover a drive by moving bad sectors and allow the drive to be bootable or at least readable more often than not. You did not chunk that cd did you?

With some of the new Arm based cpu's coming out will not even need a fan. The old Via cpus could also almost run without a fan also.

Yowza reminds me of the payola days of radio.

Don't use a cell phone, but I do use voip.

Using green drives in a raid is like using street tires on a race car,,,,,,,

[fishtoprecords]

Originally Posted by computoman

Yowza reminds me of the payola days of radio.

Yes, its just product placements. Probably will work well, but after listening to the segment, I wanted a shower.