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I've migrated some of the serving functions of main computer to a NAS device, and, thus, no longer need my external SCSI enclosure and ecoutrement. 2x ST336753LC 36GB 15k.3 with about 2.5 years warranty 2x ST3146707LC 146GB 10k.7 with about four years warranty 4x IcyDock MB911 CPGF 1x Mapower...

Remember all of those World War II spy movies with folks throwing out a few words of German, and flashing false or stolen papers to the guards.... http://www.papersplease.org/davis/index1.html

Apparently, my computer was recently infected with a crazy piece of adware. The new version of VMware doesn't support my C-stepping Opterons for 64-bit guests. Where is the love?

I'm looking to buy a new portable digital audio player for a friend of mine. She currently uses a fairly ancient Rio with 16 or 32MB of flash, which is starting to get a bit wonky. She mostly needs it for working out, so flash is probably the better choice. As I've convinced her that it's a...

No mention of Airbus's fly-by-wire mistakes.... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/bugs/0,2924,69355,00.html

My Plextor drive has developed the dreaded "two blinks" issue. It did a great job, but I ran it pretty hard in the last six months, and it no longer does it's key function -- burning DVDs. I'm looking for cheap (<$50), burns CD-R at least 40x, CD-RW at least 12x, and DVD+/-R at least 8x; and...

I know that many of the folks here are Firefox users. How many of you use CPU-optimised builds? I'm curious as to the experiences that people here are having with them.

Things that piss me off: I'm a a bad speller... but this guy isn't even trying. "You" has three letters in it, damn it!

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http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/la/nonprecipwarning.html WWUS74 KLIX 281550 NPWLIX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED... .HURRICANE KATRINA...A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED...

As folks here probably know, I'm currently not employed. So, I keep a line in on several temp agencies. Finally got a call back from one last week and, as part of the processes e-mailed in a copy of my resume. As is my standard practice, I sent him a PDF. I get a message back, "The resume...

#3 then #5 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-cenarioncircle&t=145812&p=1&tmp=1#post145812

Here's the situation: I have two computers, I'll call A and B. Computer A is at my home and what I'll be at most of the time. Computer B is on-site; I'll use it from time to time directly, but usually will only access it remotely through Symantec pcAnywhere. Computer B is also used by other...

While we're at it... About a week ago, I was messing around with my fonts in Windows, replacing older Type 1 and TrueType fonts with nicer looking OpenType ones. After doing this, Firefox started substituting the serif fonts on the New York Times website with an outline sans serif font which I...

So, I've gotten around, again, to reripping my CDs to vorbis. I have come across an odd situtation with CDex. I have two optical drives, a SCSI Pioneer DVD drive and an ATA Plextor DVD burner. Under CD drives settings, the Plextor drive will not appear unless I choose "Use Native NT SCSI...

Another reason to use mass transit. http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

Cleaning out the phone equipment box. Insert my usual boilerplate language there. Drop me an e-mail if interested. Sony SPP-A946 900MHz Cordless Telephone with Digital Answering Machine - Comes in original packaging with all ecoutrement. Battery may need to be replaced. Manufacturer's page...

I just replaced these with 10k.7s. Both are 80-pin; I will include adapter upon request. The 74GB drive is warranted through Seagate until Sep. 2009. The 146GB drive is "white-label" recertified. Both drives pass Seatools with no errors. $150 for 74GB $180 for 146GB $310 for both Prices...

I love my current Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, but it is 5V PCI; I only have one of these slots, and it's right next to the AGP -- so you see the issue. A pokey 33MHZ card sharing a PCI-X bus with one of my SCSI cards isn't an issue. Unfortunately, 3.3v PCI sound cards seem to be a rarity. I...

I'm looking to buy a new digital camera this month. The ol' Olympus D-510 is getting long in the tooth. It's great camera except: 1. It takes too long between pushing the button and the picture actually being taken. This is especially annoying when trying to catch something that's moving...

Now with prices.... 1 stick Corsair CMX512-2700C2 with lifetime warranty - $70 1 Samsung SP1614N with >1 year warranty remaining - $70 1 PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 Deluxe with >2 years warranty remaining - $125 1 Vantec 4-device, 50" rounded LVD SCSI cable - $8 1 Generic 80mm to 60mm...

I'm getting a delayed write failed on the drive that serves some of my media files. Windows says that the writes are bad, but no file appears to be corrupted. Now, the weird part is that I turned off write caching in the control panel. So, Windows shouldn't even be caching writes to this...

Just upgraded my computer and have spare parts. I haven't gotten everything together yet and will be leaving town in a little over a week, but I wanted to give the folks here first shot. So far: 1 stick Corsair CMX512-2700C2 with lifetime warranty 1 Samsung SP1614N with >1 year warranty...

In a thread on another site discussing the possible demise of VIA (Canada's national passenger railroad) it was mentioned that there would likely be a Conservative take-over in elections likely to be called soon. Is there something funny going on? I guess that there's a scandal beating up the...

All drives pass their manufacturer's tests (SCSImax or SeaTools) with no errors. Maxtor Atlas 15k 36GB 8C036L0 Two 68-pin drives Ultra320, used lightly. Warranted to January and September 2009. Detailed information and specifications from the Maxtor website. $180 each or $340 for both...

This gives me warm fuzzies about the food industry in the United States.... http://www.organicconsumers.org/patent/beef021605.cfm

Craigslist at work.... http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/a-team-finding.htm

I need to pick out a 24+8 pin PSU for the dual Opteron system that I'm spec'ing out. It'll theoretically need to support the motherboard and two processors, a high-end AGP card, three PCI-X cards, five harddrives, two opticals, a floppy, six or so fans, and other stuff which you might find in...

I have two Cheetah 9LP 9.1GB 10k drives, ST39102LW. They're 68-pin Ultra2 Wide. These were in a working RAID in an IBM workstation. I have tested them with Seatools and wiped them. http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st39102lw.html...

Looking for an EATX case. Cool, quiet, stylish, etc. for a dual system that I may be putting together. Right now, I'm enamoured with the Silverstone TJ-05: http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-tj05.htm Money is an object in theory, but shouldn't be a barrier. Thoughts? Ideas? Options?

I'm finally getting around to getting something other than adapter brackets and rubber bands to mount the drives in my external enclosure. I'm looking for something which will cool them better and be quiet. Other bells and whistles are welcome, however. I have been looking at several models...

Still trying to sell or trade these. As before, warranty to 2009. Asking $180 each or $340 for the pair. Let me know if you are interested in buying or trading.

Now that the replacement 74GB drive is in I can retire these from service. MegaRAID Elite 1600 with 128MB battery-backed cache -- I've had driver issues with the card that I don't care enough to resolve. The hardware works perfectly, however. Asking $200, shipped in the United States. 2x...

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11388686%5E421,00.html "All I can say is: 'Who are the bastards that have flogged our bridge?"

I'm suddently getting an obviously incorrect temperature reading from one of my SCSI drives. It was giving appropriate information a few days ago and, otherwise, seems to be working perfectly fine. No other drives are exhibiting any issues with reading temperature. How might I test to figure...

Anyone have experience with either or both of these? I'm looking at replacing my full-bore RAID controller with something lighter, and would like to be able to have one mirror set. Integrated mirroring appears to be the more robust implementation, but all of the literature mentions "boot...

I've decided to get rid of two of these 80-pin drives. Matched pair, with warranty from Seagate to July 14, 2006. I will include 80-to-68-pin converters upon request. $150 each or $290 for the pair, plus appropriate shipping.

The fan in my SCSI enclosure's power supply is intermittently making some awful noise and vibrating the heck out of the case. I haven't done any research into causes and fixes, but I'd like to see if anyone here has some experience with this kind of situation. I'm hoping that I won't have to...

In a fit of stupidity, I deleted one of my partitions yesterday. It's not anything of grave importance -- nearly all of it can be restored from elsewhere -- but I'd like it back. I was able to resurect the partition, but Windows does not recognise the filesystem, which is NTFS. The filesystem...

Adaptec 2940UW - $5 plus ship Adaptec 39160 - $40 plus ship Two of the following: Maxtor 36GB Atlas 15K (68 pin) - $200 plus ship Seagate 36GB Cheetah 15k.3 (68 pin) - $160 plus ship Seagate 36GB Cheetah 15k.3 (80 pin) - $150 plus ship The Atlas drives are fairly new and have 4+ years...

Perhaps not true, but entertaining, nonetheless: http://www.picpix.com/brad/pic/0067k8fw

Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition + Secret Weapons of WWII - $35 Medal of Honor Allied Assault Deluxe Edition + Breakthrough - $30 All games were used exactly once; backup disks that I have will be included. Everything is in perfect condition. 12-port Cat5e patch panel - $5 Laptop shipping...

Adaptec 2940UW SCSI HBA $5 1x 64MB PC100, Micron, single sided, part MT9LSDT872AG-10EC7 1x 64MB PC100, Micron, double sided, part MT16LSDT464AB-10BC4 $3 each or $5 for the pair. 10.2GB Seagate Barracuda ATA II $15 Excelsus A-2L Two Line Adapter $0.50 Imation LS-120 Disks $5 each or $18...

Is this possible? I've seen a couple of websites concerning going the other way, as well as some newsgroup posts that suggest that its can be done. People seem to be dumping PowerDomain 29160s, and a friend of mine wants to pick one up and convert it.

A friend of mine had an apparent harddrive disaster last week, and asked me for help. He was doing some Partition Magic work on a different drive, and the one in question suddenly came up as unpartitioned. I lent him my copy of R-Studio with strict instructions to make an image of the drive...

Anyone know where to get these suckers in the United States? I've found about a thousand places in Europe, South Africa, and New Zealand, but none in the United States.

So, the new laptop doesn't come with a floppy drive, which isn't a big deal. However, I know that, sooner or later, I will want to use one; so, I have been looking at USB drives. I was also looking at getting a device to read the SmartMedia cards from my digital camera. It was pointed out to...

After a brief sidetrip to Louisville via Anchorage, the T51 came in today. So the old 3800 will be getting wiped and sold. It has a Celeron 500 and 128MB of RAM; comes with Win98. Except for a busted pointer button a dead battery it actually works (maybe the motherboard replacement last year...

I was flipping around today and saw a tidbit on Animal Planet about a gigantic, colonial spider web in Australia. I wanted to look up more information about it, but they didn't exactly tell much in the 90 second segment. Anyone here have any idea where this web is and can help me dig up a...

ST318453LW - retail, 68-pin. No grown defects and a factory warranty from Seagate through December 2007. Asking $110, shipped. ST336753LC - OEM refurb, 80-pin. No grown defects, 9+ months warranty from Hypermicro. Asking $110, shipped. 5-Connector, 68-pin, round, 50-inch SCSI cable with...