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Dive into the lightless but certainly not lifeless world deep deep under the sea

Dive into the lightless but certainly not lifeless world deep deep under the sea

Mary Beard reminds us why the classics are so important...or, at least, she tries to

Mary Beard reminds us why the classics are so important...or, at least, she tries to

The long hunt for the man who was responsible for some of the most brutal serial killings in recent US history ended a week ago when architect Rex Heuermann bowed to the inevitable.

It often begins with something so minor you barely register it - a faint itch between the toes. But experts warn these signs can be the first hint of a condition that is becoming increasingly hard to treat.

In royal circles it has long been known that King Charles III is not a fan of his younger brother. The tension between the earnest older son and the playboy was evident as far back as 1979.

Residents saw police in the area after the incidents

The actor, 48, most recently failed to reprise his role as Arthur Shelby Jr alongside Cillian Murphy in Netflix's movie Immortal Man amid chaos in his personal life.

Pougatch, 58, took to X on Saturday evening to argue that the word's usage should be curtailed when used to describe actions in a sporting context.

Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about." Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk. Zip drives also had major performance benefits, with read speeds that could average 1.4MB/s, as opposed to the comparatively sluggish 16kB/s speeds of a traditional floppy disk, as well as a seek time of around 28ms seconds, whereas a floppy disk averaged 200ms. Zip drives weren't quite as fast as desktop HDDs, but for portable storage, this was a huge step forward... [I]n 1998, Iomega introduced the Zip 250 disks, which increased the capacity to 250MB, and, already in the new millennium, we got the Zip 750, which took that further to 750MB... It was an appealing enough proposition that big computer manufacturers like Dell started including a Zip drive in some of their PCs. Even Apple included Zip drives in some of its Power Macintosh models from the mid-to-late 90s. However, things started to shift towards the end of the decade as other portable formats rose to prominence, most notably CDs and USB flash drives. Despite their initial success, it didn't take long for users to start noticing a major drawback of Zip drives: many times, they would just fail. It wasn't necessarily related to age or any particular misuse of the disks, it just happened. It was a big enough phenomenon that it became known as the "click of death", and once it happened, your drive was gone. The problem was estimated by Iomega to affect around 0.5% of Zip drives, but while that sounds like a small number, when you sell products by the thousands, it becomes fairly widespread. It was a big enough issue that, in September 1998, a class action lawsuit was filed against Iomega for the common problems. Some of the complaints in that lawsuit were eventually dismissed by the court of Delaware, but others were not, and once the public became aware of the problems with Zip drives, it was hard for the brand to make a comeback. It didn't help that this happened around the same time as formats such as CDs were becoming more popular... And eventually, USB flash drives became the most popular way to carry data around since they were smaller and offered much faster speeds... Eventually, after seeing its profits plummet by the mid-2000s, Iomega was sold to a company called EMC in 2008, and in 2013, EMC and Lenovo formed a joint venture that took over Iomega's business and removed all of the Iomega branding from its products. The article does note that "as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates for navigation databases." Are there any Slashdot readers who still remember their own Zip drive experiences? Share your memories in the comments of that once-so-trendy storage technology from the 1990s...

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In a swoop that stunned the world of organised crime, Kinahan is now on his way to face proceedings in Ireland after fleeing Europe in 2016.

Three holidaymakers reveal to the Daily Mail the nightmare holiday lets they've booked through Booking.com - and say they're still waiting for a refund.

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The actress, 54, has appeared on the ITV show, which hit our screens in 2020 and has had eight series, twice in the past six years.

If you're an Agatha Christie fan and looking for a murder mystery series to binge this weekend, Disney+'s latest release, If It's Tuesday, It's Murder could be right up your street.

Houseplants bring a refreshing sense of life to any room, yet keeping them healthy can be surprisingly challenging as temperatures shift and daylight hours increase.

Whether it’s a pit stop after a countryside stroll or a well-earned breather by the beach, here are ten of the best dog-friendly spots in Essex.

Local residents have demanded that something be done about drivers constantly ignoring double yellow lines on their road

Whether it’s a pit stop after a countryside stroll or a well-earned breather by the beach, here are ten of the best dog-friendly spots in Essex.