Flooding in Thailand has caused Western Digital to suspend manufacturing and Chinese hard drive makers like Seagate have also been affected with some of their components come from water logged Thailand.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is great. The Portable Document Format is a wonderful standard that’s always sharp and readable no matter what magnification. But the Reader is so slow! And all the updates! What a hassle. For years now, I’ve been recommending the Foxit PDF Reader when people just need a quick solution to open a PDF in an e-mail attachment for example.

Vincent Cerf, the Godfather of the Internet, stated that online videos will move from streaming to being set up for download. What this does to advertising and sites like YouTUBE aren’t discussed here. What is advised is that new users and those thinking of purchasing new computers consider the Hard drive capacity to be more important than ever in coming years.

Older installations of Windows 2000 and XP operating systems sometimes reject or are blind to BIG harddrives of 300GB or 500 GB or more. We began to tackle how to get Windows to see the rest of the harddrive in an earlier article about the harddrive barrier, HERE and today, are happy to provide an even more complete answer.