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  1. Santilli

    Something Random

    After 25 years, a couple of the guys went public. There stories are simply amazing. I've got one of the books in the car. "Blackbird" IIRC. Fantastic pictures, and fantastic stuff. gs
  2. Santilli

    WILL APPLE BE ABLE TO WRITE DECENT X86 SOFTWARE?

    MUCH BETTER!!! THANK YOU!!! GS
  3. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    Update: Went with a StarTech 6 port USB card for the school computer, 12 dollars, and a Combo for the workstation. I'll pull the Sonnett Trio and use that instead. Newegg had 250 gig Maxtors for 135 dollars, in an external drive enclosure. Hopefully, using USB 2.0, that will give me a...
  4. Santilli

    USB 2.0 cards?

    Well I can't find the Koutech floppy insert, but, I've managed to find the cards I need. One is USB 2, and the other is the combo card I was looking for. At the same time, found a 250 gig Maxtor for 135 bucks at Newegg, in a USB 2.0 housing. Solves the immediate problem, and, in the future I...
  5. Santilli

    DVD disks

    Yes, she did well. gs
  6. Santilli

    Something Random

    They are simply amazing, and, still one of, if not the fastest, plane in existence. Not easy to hide, they can go so high, and so fast, they may out run missiles targeted on them from the ground, or, for that matter the air. Closest I could get to riding in one would be the Russians letting...
  7. Santilli

    DVD disks

    Thanks. SO just gave me a bunch of Sony DVD+R's, so I'll have to give it a try... gs
  8. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    Thanks CT. Have to check Costco for the USB drives. Seems I saw a 5 pack, and didn't jump on it, which is usually a mistake. Anybody used StarTech's SATA/USB2.0/Firewire card, or ANY of their products? Can't find any reviews, except the mac side, where they are being hailed as wonderful...
  9. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    M, No worries. It's just I go through this every year about this time :wink: . I'm going to go with throwing away the floppies, and going with the flash drives. Problem with Startech is no reviews on products, and can't find history on the company... GS
  10. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    M: I'm really not THAT far off the deepend. We have an extensive video library, since we don't watch TV, or have cable. I've got a 5 drive SCA rack, but, it appears the only way I can get the LSI raid card to see the drives is to set them as "logical drives" in the bios. If the card go's...
  11. Santilli

    WILL APPLE BE ABLE TO WRITE DECENT X86 SOFTWARE?

    WHAT is QT alternative? s
  12. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    So far, can't find a combo card that has external SATA. Startech makes one with 4 USB 2.0, 2 furwire, and, 2 SATA internal ports, for about 80 bucks. https://www.firewiredirect.com/store/product.php?productid=232&cat=53&page=1 Appears to be an external box, with removeable drives, but, it...
  13. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    This is supposed to be a heap backup, for large video files... http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg38_firewireidehotswapdrive1394b.htm Looks good, but, it's expensive, and can't use sata drives. http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg47_hot-swapdrivessystems.htm Looks very cool, but...
  14. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    I just figure it's a typo, and move on. I'm looking, AGAIN, at a removeable media drive for backups, in either SATA, Firewire, or USB. It's driving my NUTS. Firewire I have, and barely use, on all three of the computers where this backup issue is a concern. Two of the three are running short...
  15. Santilli

    WILL APPLE BE ABLE TO WRITE DECENT X86 SOFTWARE?

    I just spent a couple hours trying to figure out why Quicktime won't play HD stuff on my SO's Athlon 3000+. It will, it just takes so long, it's insufferable, downloading from Apple's website. Strike one. Apple seems to take great joy in not enabling ways to resize windows, and, the way they...
  16. Santilli

    WILL APPLE BE ABLE TO WRITE DECENT X86 SOFTWARE?

    Well, after spending about 4 hours playing with trailers, Slowtime, and sucktunes, I really hope they get it right when they go x86. I must say, that with all the software I've used, x86, other then stuff that just doesn't work, Applecrap is the WORST I've ever used. It fails to do what it's...
  17. Santilli

    Interesting read

    DD: The part that sucks is they have your driving record on Panasonic wireless laptops, in the cars. With NO tickets since 1991 in Hawaii, thanks to radar detectors, and, my slowest car on the road, 1988 Tercel EZ, I get out of being tailed, and almost ticketed. I REALLY want to buy a Porsche...
  18. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Target is our version of WM. Happy New Year :excl: :wink: :mrgrn:
  19. Santilli

    Something Random

    Thanks Merc: The wings are very thin. I like the SR-71 a lot more, but, that wierd plane, made able to fly by computer adjustments, in the millions per second, is pretty amazing... gs
  20. Santilli

    Happy New Year

    I guess I'm sort of in the same boat. Not a great year. HAS to get better... s
  21. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    720 runs at 80% processor, and fine. Even disabling one monitor, the 700XL and the 3000+, with 2 gigs of ram, just don't have the processor stuff to get it done. GS
  22. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    Well, I've learned to hate Quicktime 7, not hard for me to do with anything Apple, at this point. I'm downloading Kong HD trailer, and playing it on this machine: XP sp2 Athlon 3000+ Gigabyte Nvidia 3 chipset motherboard, 2 gigs of ram Scsi Cheetah 15.3 boot, with LSI card Quicktime 7 700XL...
  23. Santilli

    USB 2.0 cards?

    What good are the ferrets, or ferrites, or any combination thereof? gs
  24. Santilli

    I just gambled on a Powerleap upgrade...

    Powerleap refunded the money, just didnt' bother to tell me they had. After I enquired, they gave me a date the transfer was made by email. s
  25. Santilli

    Labeling CD's/DVD's with a printer, rather then a sharpie...

    Well, I'm going to give the Prima Z1 a try, and hope I get one that doesn't fall apart, in the first couple months. Also great source for DVD's, ordered the Taiyo Uden's and some of the Yellow Prodisk to see if they work. Let you know, when it arrives. GS
  26. Santilli

    Interesting read

    20 over the speed limit gives the arresting officer the option to throw you in jail, IIRC, in The People's Republik of Kalifornia. s
  27. Santilli

    DVD disks

    Where in Nero 6 can you find the 'bitsetting" option? Thanks GS
  28. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    Well, you got me thinking, and I ordered the new version. Also, went searching and found a service pack 6 for WordPerfect 8.0. It works, backsup, which it wasn't doing before, even though the settings were correct to make it back up. So far, seems better. I think I'm going to buy one of those...
  29. Santilli

    Happy New Year

    GS
  30. Santilli

    Most reliable memory system, for backup, and best media?

    Well, it's that time of year. SO decided to redo resume, stored, of couse :evil: , on a floppy. I back her documents folder up every month, but, if it's not in the folder, it doesn't get backed up. Never fails: deadline, either school, work, or job apps,and the floppy fails, unreadable, and...
  31. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    I've watched Firefly, and Serenity. Good stuff, and addicting. Went to see King Kong last night, and it was very sad. Wish they'd make a version where the gorilla wins, and they sail into the sunset, and live happily ever after, killing natives, or something. :wink: :wink: I thought they...
  32. Santilli

    Air Cat strikes again...

    When I started to get an idea of her jumping ability was playing with fake mice. She loves it. She gets behind a door, or a box, and crouches. I throw the mouse, pretty hard, to very hard, and she jumps high enough to hit it with a paw, knock it down, and get ready for the next one. The...
  33. Santilli

    Browser security test

    IE XP Router and Penicillin Firewall GS
  34. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    Thanks for the links. The P 650 is at school, running two 19 inch monitors. I'll update the card when I go back, or maybe sometime this week. Thanks again Greg
  35. Santilli

    Browser security test

    Ditto. gs
  36. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    I was using Windows Media Player 10,, IIRC, and the 120 mb files from MSFT. Also, Dual Xeon, 2.8's, and the Matrox 650. Don't remember if I had two, or three monitors hooked up, but, I was running relatively high resolutions, maybe 1280 or so on each, and, this seemed to affect quality. The...
  37. Santilli

    Air Cat strikes again...

    Her airness does a number of different tricks. The first time I realized how high she can jump, she had followed me into the shower, after I was done, and started marking and sniffing around. Just to teach her to stay out of the shower, I closed the doors, with her inside, and started drying...
  38. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    What I noticed was the higher definitions, 1028 in particular, really suffered, if the Video card didn't have at least 128 mb of vram. Yes, it requires processing power, but, I suspect a 1800+ CPU, with sufficent ram, and a video card with at least 28 mb of vram, would be sufficent for anything...
  39. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    Well, I just played 1028 HD Step into Liquid, and Alexander, and Titanic, and, they all played flawlessly, and on each monitor, full screen. This, in contrast to the P650 Matrox that was slide show time, with only 64 mb of vram. By the way, it takes about 40-50% of the processing power of...
  40. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    I keep gettiing "bad public movie atom" and can't download anything. Wonder if it's the same with MSFT? S
  41. Santilli

    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    Actually, from my experience, it's pretty much all video card. I ran em on a dual Xeon 2.8, with a Matrox P650, and 64 mb of ram, and it was out of sync, and slow. I upgraded to a 256 mb of vram X800Xl, and that solved my slide show problem. It seems to have a ton to do with the avaliable...
  42. Santilli

    Air Cat strikes again...

    As requested, Air Jumpster pictures... First, I hear a bang, grab the camera, and, this is my first shot: As I get a little closer, one of my favorite pictures: And, once in the bathroom, I realize she's looking very relaxed on the top of the door, looking for moths... Here's another...
  43. Santilli

    Labeling CD's/DVD's with a printer, rather then a sharpie...

    And why do you think I type 70 words a minute???? GS
  44. Santilli

    Labeling CD's/DVD's with a printer, rather then a sharpie...

    Well, I got started on this because I saw the CW-75 Casio, for around 100 bucks. After reading reviews, it appears it pretty much sucks. Likewise the Prima ZL-1, though it appears to do what I'm after, just black lettering on cds, it's reviews are not real favorable, and, it's firesale prices...
  45. Santilli

    Motherboard selection dificulties. PCIEx16 and a PCIEx8?

    Not a lot of good choices. :x :-? g
  46. Santilli

    Labeling CD's/DVD's with a printer, rather then a sharpie...

    Hi I'm wondering if someone has a no nonsense, easy to use printer for direct labeling of CD's/DVD's that look neat, rather then sharpied? Also, is it hard to find inkjet printable CD/DVD's? Does anyone make a laser printer that will direct label to CD's? Color is not very important on this...
  47. Santilli

    Folding@Home

    THANKS ALL :excl: :mrgrn: 90mm, hmmm :?: I'll order a Vantec Stealth fan, and have a go at it. They have worked great in the other areas. The tip on locking the computer is excellent, and, I didn't know how to do it. Seasonic 600Watt power supplies are approved by cats around the world...
  48. Santilli

    Folding@Home

    THANKS ALL :excl: :mrgrn: 90mm, hmmm :?: I'll order a Vantec Stealth fan, and have a go at it. They have worked great in the other areas. The tip on locking the computer is excellent, and, I didn't know how to do it. Seasonic 600Watt power supplies are approved by cats around the world...
  49. Santilli

    Folding@Home

    Thanks Bozo!! Good article. My machine currently is running large wus, at least it appears so from the points vs. Wus completed. Mark, it's not all that Big Brother. It's more like little sister. My girlfriend can create an hours work just trying to figure out what she's screwed up on my...
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