Doppel's Dementia

Cho v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc.

If you bought a Seagate hard drive at retail between 3/22/01 and 9/26/07 you can go to this site to see the class action settlement against Seagate. The gist is that they advertised hard drive space in gigabytes measured as one billion bytes instead of using the binary definition of 2 to the 30th power (like operating systems use) which resulted in their drives being sold as having 7% more usable space than they really did.

The upshot is that Seagate is paying out 5% of your purchase price as cash for drives bought in that time frame. Check out the site for all the gory details.

That’s more like it, DOCSIS 2.0 is good:

The test says “Warning: ISP upload compression was detected. Your upload speeds may be inaccurate.” but I don’t know how the test is effective.

***Edit***
Looks like that test image isn’t available direct anymore, I should have made a local copy (which is what I usually do).

Well that was really odd: after replacing my cable modem (who knew that a DOCSIS 1.0 modem would be deprecated and suffer degraded performance?) I ran a few speed tests at DSL Reports and the third one (to Ontario) came back with this:

I knew something was up when the needle on the meter started going below zero but I thought it was just a problem with the display in the Flash applet. Of course the tech told me that I should see higher speeds with the new DOCSIS 2.0 modem but so far it’s actually a bit slower (but I only have a small sample size so far).