Chris Thomson

It works, and it let's me put my printer anywhere, Oct 9 2011

A cable's a cable, as long as it works. The great thing about this cable is it's incredibly lengthy (5 m) for its low price. If you have to have a wired printer, this cord is great because it reaches more places than the short ones that you typically get with your printer (if your printer included *any* cord at all).

Good drive, terrible software, Oct 23 2010

This drive works as expected.

My only complaint is Western Digital's terrible software. Their menu bar item doesn't fit in with all the other icons, and as another reviewer mentioned, they still haven't upgraded their software to work properly with the latest major release of Mac OS X -- Snow Leopard, even though it's been over a year since Snow Leopard's release. I've uninstalled the Western Digital software and can still use the drive, but you need to install the software to switch between RAID0 and RAID1, and you also need the software for the off button to automatically eject all partitions from the connected computer. If you can live without that feature though, I would… Read more

A great read, Mar 22 2010

"The Ruby Programming Language" is a great read. In the past, I've read Rails-specific books, and understood the basics of Ruby. However, this book introduced me to a lot of new things that I didn't know were possible with Ruby.

I'd recommend giving this book a read even if you've written full Rails apps in the past. There's lots of useful information in this book.