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Speaking as someone who used to work in the returns/testing department of a fairly large computer mail order shop in the UK, these are my experiences: Maxtor - Sometimes flaky but generally OK. Low to moderate amount of returns Seagate - Excellent reliability, very low returns Samsung - High returns...

I don't know why but Canada has always appealed to me. I'd love to go live there. And maybe have a second home in Australia.

Perhaps its because they're the two furthest points on the planet away from this craphole of a town

I've used it once or twice with my Axim to get a ghostcast session going. Its useful to be able to do something within the GUI if you don't have a laptop or PC handy. You wouldn't want to use it for command line based stuff with it.

For me it really depends on the ad. I don't block Google Ads because those are localised and sometimes even prove useful. Most of the tech sites I read are American and have adverts for companies like Newegg and the like which are no use to me being as I'm English and live in the Olde Worlde. There ...

When the Opera 7 beta first came out way back in 2003 (I think) I tried it and fell in love with it. Fantastic browser, mouse gestures were brilliant and the speed and functionality of the browser made IE look like the piece of crap it is. When they officially released 7.0 I bit the bullet and paid ...