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June 2007 "As we look ahead, we can envision great products we want to build, and we can't envision how to build them with the current Intel roadmap. So, we've signed an exclusive deal with AMD to provide..." :lol:

I used to run into this problem occasionally a while back if I did a lot of browsing by Thumbnails with WinXP's File Explorer. However, after installing Service Pack 2 some time back, I have not had the "stuck files" problem, or at least I don't recall having said problem.

...3.5-inch 7200RPM 3.0Gb SATA and ATA 133 hard drives with capacity points up to 500GB in the third quarter of this year. The new capacity will span the company's line of award-winning products, including Maxtor QuickView (consumer electronics - DVR/STBs, DVD/HDD combo devices), MaXLine...

By the way, for those who care, the next version of Mac OS X will be called "Leopard." Yes, of course, it has X86 support! In fact, X86 is it's main theme -- transition to X86. I wonder if there will be a PowerPC version of Leopard, otherwise, it'll probably be tagged Def Leopard (or Deaf...

This basically happened to Apple in the mid-90s before Jobz came back -- with the Mac Clone experiment -- when Apple licensed out the Macintosh *hardware* platform. The Mac clone builders had to license the basic Mac hardware platform and the operating system from Apple. Each clone maker then...

PS: I forgot to say, that if you CAN go the route of swapping the mobo out, the mobo can ONLY bought at an authorised Apple dealer and it can ONLY be installed by the Apple certified technician there. No exceptions. Be prepared to pay plenty for the new mobo, and your old one is kept and...

If you are lucky, you can swap out the mobo. Otherwise, you are likely stuck with a sometimes-dodgy aftermarket "accelerator card" from Daystar. Oh man, Proprietary Simply Rules! :wink:

Several years ago, Microsoft proposed a similar scheme to systems builders: Provide a version of embedded Windows in the mobo. The result for the user would be super quick booting from a cold power-up start. Of course, the price of the mobo would be about US$250 ~ $350 higher, ($100 or so...

If your battery is less than 3 or 4 years old, turn off and unplug the SmartUPS, disconnect the battery and wait about 10 minutes or so. Then, reconnect the same battery, plug the SmartUPS into the wall socket, turn it on and you should not hear the little warning beeps (and LED flashings) for...

A camera with a lens that requires a lens cap to protect the front element essentially means a larger lens, which in turn means essentially better image quality. A camera with a sliding cover (or otherwise mechanical door) almost always means a smaller lens, which in turn means essentially...

Yes, I've fairly regularly seen for many years now -- like once or maybe twice a month it seems -- a few different B-17 aircraft (some solid green, others some variation of that), Japanese Zeros (sometimes more that one at a time!), and P-51 Mustangs. Less often, I've seen by chance the...

I know some others who got the same deal at Sam's on that UPS. Indeed, the BackUPS 1100VA is still there at Sam's Club for the same price. Not if you go to a Batteries Plus store. Their prices are quite low for the *same* battery that other places will sell to you frequently for a LOT more...

Are you entirely sure about the origins of ASAPI.SYS? I don't ever recall seeing running into ASAPI.SYS, unless you meant to say ASPI.SYS or ATAPI.SYS.

As long as the file in question is not "busy," you could disable by renaming the file by adding an underscore character to the first letter position.

I had a 3½ inch 20 MB Sony hard drive many years ago. It was a slug. This will be a LOT different: Japanese public broadcaster Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), working with Sony Corp., has developed a prototype 1-in. disk drive that is thinner and has more storage capacity than similar drives...

The buzzword phrase for the newfangled microprocessor territory we've entered is: "Licensed by the socket." According to Microsoft licensing, 1 socket containing a dual-core processor or a hyper-threaded processor is the same as 1 socket with a "normal" microprocessor plugged in. If you...

One of the great political mysteries of the 20th century... So, apparently, it was Mark Felt. I always thought it was either Haig or Connally. But, when Connally died a couple of years ago, that ruled him out. It's funny to read people's conjecture from the past on this subject.

Now, try unplugging every unneeded Firewire and USB device.

What does WinXP Task Manager / Processes show running? If you recognise a memory-resident program that's been recently installed, you might try killing that process to see if you can perform a normal shutdown. Do you have Norton / Symantec Anti-Virus running?

Nero -- First To Support Layer-Jump Recording (LJR) Of Dual-Layer DVD-R Media OEM customers can immediately benefit from this new technology by downloading an update online through the Nero website available mid-June.... Layer-jump recording (LJR) now provides multi-session burning of...

Toshiba's Perpendicular HDD Finds Home In Music Player TOKYO — Toshiba will introduce a music player in late June as the first application of its perpendicular recording hard disk drive. The player, dubbed as Gigabeat F41, will have a capacity of 40 Gbytes, enabling it to store up to about...

I believe they were just attempting to tout 15kRPM hard drives by comparing them to 10kRPM drives -- as if they were something new (probably new to their clueless ad writer).

The most scoop-a-licious motorcycle ever made, the late great Yamaha V-Max musclebike, had a scoop on both sides of its inhumanely potent V-4 mill (read: big throbbing tricked-out motor that was more powerful than most automobile engines, attached to frame with two wheels). The US Congress...

Well, I looked in the telephone book and I noticed that I screwed up yesterday. The place is not Beringer's but Bering's. http://www.berings.com/shopHome.cfm Whatever. The place does not appear to sell anything for lawns, unless they don't want to "online." Nonetheless, I might just...

Better yet, get a small horse. Ride the horse to work and it'll keep the lawn trimmed down there as well. Plus, it will spread fertiliser everywhere in between, enriching the environment!

Though the situation arises rarely these days for me it seems (i.e. -- using loose drives in the manner alluded to above), I always have available a small plastic non-oscillating room fan that runs off standard household electrical power just for this type of activity. When I have to do these...

There's basically not ANY mechanical hard drive around that's going to take that sort of abuse during a read/write operation (head crash), or when the spindle motor is active (motor crash).

Ram Air Induction for the civilian motorcar and motorcycle are a tad overrated. It's true that you'll get a *very* mild boost in horsepower at the upper range of legal US highway speeds, but nothing more. Some of the ram air scoops employed on certain automobiles cause enough aerodynamic...

Hitachi's latest 3½-inch buzzsaw: Hitachi Delivers Extreme Performance and Reliability with New 15K RPM Enterprise Hard Drives Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that it has begun shipping Ultrastar 15K147 hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4...

WD NOW SHIPPING HIGH CAPACITY 320 GB ENTERPRISE-CLASS HARD DRIVES WD Caviar RE drives feature Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER), which helps prevent drive fallout caused by standard extended desktop hard drive error-recovery processes. Prior to WD's development of TLER, hard drive fallout...

The only time I've ever had problems with Seagate hard drives was back in the early 1990s (1989 ~ 1993) when the best drives they had were the ones that they inherited from the CDC (Control Data Corporation) hard drive manufacturing operations takeover -- this would be the Imprimis model lineup...

I use a Black & Decker ELECTRIC lawnmower. I also use a Black & Decker electric weed eater and electric hedge trimmer. In fact, I own NO gasoline-powered lawn implements. As for leaf blowers, I do it the old fashioned way and use a rake. I don't want the noise pollution. For tree...

Every few years or so, I will apply a bag of Scotts TurfBuilder for Saint Augustine Grass -- which is a lightweight sort of fertiliser with a broadleaf weed killer. I use the smallest Scotts spreader they make. I recall it costing US$15.99. Yes, it takes more time to apply a bag of...

Ultra II costs less than Extreme III and is faster than Extreme III. However, Extreme III works best is frigid environments and can take a bit more mechanical abuse than other memories.

A Girl'z Computer? I take it we're talkin' about a woman'z computer. :-? I would suspect a Supermicro SC733i chassis would be at the bleeding upper edge of affordability. For nice/affordable, I'd just go to a local "clone boutique" and pick This Week's Special chassis or any adequate...

I own Symantec (Norton) Ghost 9.0, which I believe was the end of the line for the DOS-based Ghost product. I bought Ghost 9.0 bundled with Ghost 2003. Ghost 2003 is a Windows-based product. Unfortunately, Ghost 2003 can't read Ghost 9.0 images and vice versa. Is there really a Ghost 2004...

O! :errr: [list:4518d02e55] My! :errr: [list:4518d02e55] Gawd! :errr: [/list:u:4518d02e55] [/list:u:4518d02e55] Exploit Code Chases Two Firefox Flaws Published on ZDNet News: May 9, 2005, 8:14 AM PT Two vulnerabilities in the popular Firefox browser have been rated "extremely critical"...

MBA = Master Brew Administrator

NOTE: This is a recurring bit of advice that I've been posting for a few years. I haven't done it this year (I don't believe), but, in a nutshell, here it is again. Yes, you can definitely do reliable RAID -- and even decently fast RAID -- using parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives. But, you...

Well, Blair *is* a liberal -- of sorts. Of course, there is the Liberal Democrats, but they are sort of a niche party -- just not anywhere as niche as the Social Democrat & Labour Party, regional parties like the Plaid Cymru, and hardcore niche parties like the various die-in-wool Socialist...

Well, I did a couple of tests driving around in my van (a 2004 Mazda MPV, by the way) comparing my effective and sensitive NetGear WG121 omnidirectional against the Hawking HWU54D. Yes, it is confirmed that the Hawking HWU54D is most definitely an over-achieving Wi-Fi adapter. WAPs that just...

Yes! I've been seeing these in the major stores (Fry's, Microcenter, ChimpUSA, WurstBuy). I am hoping that one can *manually* override the "smartness" of the automatic antenna selection and simply select one of the directional antennae (and maybe even reduce RF power) so that you can avoid...

Interesting reading, indeed: Gates: 64-Bit Transition Will Happen 'Rapidly' http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1789337,00.asp = / = / = / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = /= / = Dangers Lurk Along Windows' 64-Bit Upgrade Path Updated: Microsoft says PC...

Gotta You Are Ell for those at Ay Tee Eye? I didn't see any mention last week (27/April-ish) at ATI's web-hosted download area. I didn't bother digging around at their FTP site, where they tend to have everything. Maybe ATI is just going with what's on the XP64 distribution CD-ROM at this...

By the way, this is the Hawking HWL1 Wi-Fi Locator. http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316517&pfp=srch1 http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=223 Also, there's someone offering a miniature "keychain" Wi-Fi locator. It's not as sensitive as the...

Maybe. However the WAP in question is not my WAP. By the way, I just went back to CompUSA and picked up the device mentioned last -- the Hawking HWL1. It works just as advertised. You can easily pinpoint the Wi-Fi hotspot's transmission spot via the blue LED readout indicator. If you...

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=314338&pfp=srch1 I bought one of these at ChompUSA last night. Damn! This Hawking Technology HWU54D is pretty sensitive to say the least. I was able to lock onto and use a 802.11G Wi-Fi hotspot that I know for a fact that is...

Well, almost exactly one year later... IT LOOKS LIKE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED: SAMSUNG Teams with Microsoft to Develop First Hybrid HDD with NAND Flash Memory Seattle , WA – April 25, 2005 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that...

A still image in a motion video (PAL, SECAM, or NTSC) should normally be rendered with both of the 2:1 interlaced fields being equal so that the video frame does not exhibit that visual "jitter" you are seeing.

iGary mentioned that above. Those drivers -- and nVidia's -- became "available" on the official release day. One would have to surmise that ATI is still trying to figure out this brave new world of 64 bits. (Overheard during lunchtime at a Burger King near the ATI factory: 64 bits. 32...