Recent content by freeborn

Thanks for the laugh Sechs :) And, who needs the web when there is the usenet for almost free viewing pleasure?

Wow, I bought myself an XPS gen2 back when the had the Geforce 2go 6800 ultra in them. Not sure when that was but within the last year. A month later I turned it on and went to the restroom. When I got back it smelled that lovely acrid smell of burned electronics and was, of course, a toasted...

Nice! The fields necessary to impact the drive's media through the drive's chassis are immense! I seriously doubt that the drive is functional afterwards. All of the servo fields will have been randomized as well as the user data. In the context of this article though, that is a good thing. Free

That is odd behavior. I run an XPC SD31P as a test system at my desk here at work and it is quite happy to run from a USB keyboard and Mouse. My work system doesn't run Windows though. I boot the test system through either PXE LAN boot or USB key. At home I run an XPC SN26P under Windows XP...

Hmmm, Here is the article I was thinking of. I've used it to change a few volume license keys, I don't know if it will work on non-volume licenses. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874/

There is actually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article for changing keys, I'll try to find it. Free

Hmm, Johny come very lately here. Taking that test today it seems they want money to tell me my score and final designation. My overall type is Rational. So for $15 I could tell you which of the following I was catagorized to. Free P.S. maybe I will spend the money, not sure yet :)

Raw values mean very little without a decoder ring. The specification does not define what they mean. One implementation I am familiar with uses the RAW field simply as a counter of the number of bits transferred (with a few orders of magnitude removed) with the actual calculations for error...

The notebook manufacturers often lag way behind desktop in implementation of features. 48 bit lba is still hit and miss. Some notebook manufacturers still require drives configured to not support 48 bit addressing. Hopefully with > 128G drives finally available they will update their BIOSes, but...

I hear you. My name is Robert. I go by Bob. My father was Robert Bennet, I'm Robert Dean. My father went by Ben. Growing up I was given all junk mail addressed to Bob and always handed the phone to talk to the nice solicitors asking for Bob. I'm happy to report they usually hung up first. At...

Today I fail at the English language. Too many corrections are needed for me to list them all. :oops:

lol, I need to spend more time on the preview pane. House should of course be hose. Free

I only work on friends computers and oddly enough xboxes. I have a 50 gallon tank I fill off the compressed / clean / dry air system that runs through my work. I got the tank at Sears and added a house with quick connects. I added an inline regulator and a cheap air nozzle. Set it at 30psi...

That looks to be an interesting product. Checking the specs it is 12.5mm high. I would guess that makes it a 3 disk drive. Make sure your notebook can handle a 2.5" 12.5mm high drive. Most notebooks ship with 9.5mm high drives. Free

Congratulations! Free