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    NEWZ: 64-Bit Windows Available End Of April

    64-Bit Office 12 In The Works Microsoft is planning a 64-bit version of its Office product franchise, although it remains mum on details.... Even as the company's top dogs last week talked up the newly shipping 64-bit Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, insiders confirmed plans for a 64-bit...
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    REVIEW: "High Capacity Hard Drive Roundup"

    ExtremeTech sets out to find who has the industry's biggest disc... http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1789322,00.asp Interleave -- The flying head assembly blows these behind the Partition so that it can record data on a nice clean surface.
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    Certifications

    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/may05/05-02YoungMCP.asp
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    NEWZ: 2½ Inch 200 GB 2 Platter Fujitsu In 2007

    120 GB, 4200 RPM; announced back at the beginning of March, but still no retail availability. http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/products/hard-drives/mhv2120at/
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    NEWZ: Fujitsu In 2½ Inch SATA Drive Volume Production

    Fujitsu Delivers Volume Production of its Mobile 2.5" Serial ATA Hard Disk Drives San Jose, CA, April 28, 2005 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and computer peripherals, today announced volume production of the world's first...
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    ALERT: Mozilla/Firefox Holes Of Doom for 15-April-2005

    A "highly critical" unpatched vulnerability in the Netscape browser could potentially allow hackers to compromise Internet users' systems.. ...The buffer overflow vulnerability could cause the browser to crash. In addition, hackers could create Web sites to exploit the flaw, executing code of...
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    NEWZ: 2½ Inch 200 GB 2 Platter Fujitsu In 2007

    Fujitsu to sell 200GB, 2.5-in. hard disks in 2007 APRIL 27, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Fujitsu Ltd. said yesterday that it's planning to sell 2.5-in. hard disk drives with a capacity of 200GB in the first half of 2007. The disks, intended for use in notebook PCs, will consist of two disk...
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    Writing something

    Alpha! Bravo! Charlie! Delta! Echo! Foxtrot! Golf! Hotel! India! Juliet! Kilo! Lima! Mercutio! November! Oscar! Papa! Quebec! Romeo! Sierra! Tango! Uniform! Victor! Whiskey! X-ray! Yankee! Zulu!
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    Ballmer Luvs Linux!

    ...A Microsoft representative demonstrated Virtual Server running instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as Ballmer delivered a keynote speech at a management conference on Wednesday. "Much as that hurts my eyes, I know that's an important capability for our Virtual Server customers," Ballmer...
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    Most worthless 600 video card of all time...

    As far as add-in graphics cards go, at work, we paid somewhere under the US$1295 (each) list price for a few Matrox Impression VLB video cards. This was well before the existence of AGP or PCI when all you had (on X86 PCs) was VLB (VESA Local Bus, 32-bit), EISA (32-bit), and ISA (16-bit AT...
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    NEWZ: All New Internet Explorer -->7<-- Coming In 200

    One might expect to be able to login to a website using IE Seven with one of these new Microsoft security products... http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=fcd901bb-243e-43e8-ba22-300e29822d15&type=ovr...
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    NEWZ: All New Internet Explorer -->7<-- Coming In 200

    The other shoe drops, sort of... Internet Explorer 7.0 not just for Windows XP SP2 Forthcoming browser to also run on Windows Server 2003 SP 1 and XP Professional x64 edition... http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/01/HNieseven_1.html?source=NLC-AD2005-03-03
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    Huge 'star-quake' rocks Milky Way

    Sorry, I was only speaking of the physical universe, of which volume (Length x Width x Height) is the preferred metric. "Splash," "Explorer," "Platform," "Dïscfärm," "Computer Generated Baby," "Onomatopoeic," "GIANT," "iGary," "Corvair," and ". NUT" make no representation about the...
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    Around the globe

    http://www.edwards.af.mil/articles98/docs_html/splash/feb98/cover/jeana.html
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    Microsoft Guide to '133tspeak

    V3rry v3rry !nt3rr3zt!ng. K3v!n ^^!tn!©k !z @ wØØz!e
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    Anyone else into simulators?

    "But, we don't lock doors in Wyoming!" Anyway, I should have mentioned earlier that Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merged a few years back. It's all called Union Pacific nowadays, though I regularly still see Southern Pacific engines mixed in with Union Pacific engines. The merger...
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    SATA Hot-Plug Hard Drive Bays

    http://www.lian-li.com/product.php?action=viewPD&prdid=1119 That particular Lian-Li is useful only because it allows you to use your "old" parallel ATA drives with newfangled SATA channels. Otherwise, the Lian-Li hot-plug drive bays aren't quite as good mechanically as what Vantec offers and...
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    Anyone else into simulators?

    It seems that around the time that MS wanted to update Train Simulator to version 2.0 there had been a rash of incidents of yay-hoos jumping into parked Southern Pacific Railroad trains way out in the middle of nowhere, starting them up and taking them for joy rides. There were other cases...
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    Anyone else into simulators?

    I wonder if that half-baked lawsuit over Train Simulator that Southern Pacific Railroad had against Microsoft ultimately had anything to do with MS Train Simulator's demise? "So, yer gonna teach peeple how to steal our trains, huh!"
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    Nichia Develops 60 Lumen Per Watt White LED

    A wack idea I had once -- and is probably in use somewhere -- is to have digital electronic billboards based on either LCD or LED picture elements, obviating the use of imagery on paper or plastic. To update the signage, one simply uploads a new digital image to the billboard over a network...
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    POLL: $pera, $ozilla, $xplorer and $irefox

    I tink I was trying to say ¥1700.
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    MTV: Bad Then, Worse Now

    Anyone who even occasionally watched early MTV has this junk culture imagery permanently burnt into their psyche.
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    POLL: $pera, $ozilla, $xplorer and $irefox

    Mozilla 1.7 L2300 Firefox 1.0: $16 Opera : Ð80 Netscrape: couldn't give it away IE6: ¥17000 IE5: £0.92 IE4: DM0.06 IE3: ¢1 IE2: ¢0.01 IE1 beta: priceless
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    Macmini, who's interested?

    Or may scream... "Steal me! I'm small enough to fit in your pocket! Steal me!"
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    Macmini, who's interested?

    Doesn't this thing screem, "Steal me! Put me in your pocket and steal me!"
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    Holographic Storage Poised To Début At Last?

    Holo storage is significantly better than CD. DVD. or BlueRay when it comes to dealing with dirt on the surface of the medium. Holo storage does not use a "pinpoint" of light for read/write as CD. DVD. or BlueRay all use, instead it reads and writes via a "window" of light. The end result is...
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    MTV: Bad Then, Worse Now

    Correct. All of the *good* ones stay up in the trees where they belong, not playing around on computers in the middle of the night.
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    MAG 19" CRT Life

    I've seen some Mag (Mag Innovation) monitors from that era hang in there for a number of years. However, I can say that I've seen maybe 60% of them die after just 2 or 3 years (failed before 2000). About the best monitor in that class (from that era) that I'm aware of are the Viewsonic G-...
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    Bigger Drives When?

    THE FOLLOWING IS A MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR: I have a very important announcement to make concerning the mission and purpose of Storage Forum. I know we have all had a lot of fun over the past few years here at Storage Forum, and I hope that each and every one of you will continue to...
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    Computer Does not Boot to Harddisk

    Have you tried "Last Good Boot?" It sounds to me you managed to glitch the registry hive. If so, this is not good -- basically meaning you'll need to get all of yer data off, wipe, and reinstall. A satellite photo of Hala Kahiki, located at latitude 28, longitude 34
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    Favorite Quotes

    No no no... they're talking about RHODE ISLAND. The same goes for DELAWARE.
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    Budget graphics cards

    It wasn't actually poor drivers, it was no drivers -- as in no Open GL drivers. After some months, when they finally did deliver the OpenGL drivers, they were lackluster in the speed department. I think it took 'em something like 1-1/2 years to get deliver acceptable (speed-wise) OpenGL...
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    Budget graphics cards

    Hmmmm... A market for new/old stock G450s? Exact replacement parts, one would have to assume. Nonetheless, US$115 is really too much. $50 to 60 would be a fair price for a dual-head model. (By the way, there were some cheapie non-dual-head OEM models made for certain vendors such as Dell...
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    Too much time + some creativity

    I saw (heard) this about --->> 2 <<--- if not closer to 3 years ago. It was only on a Netherlands site for a while, but I downloaded it way back when and have it on one of my external hard drives. Actually, I had thought of doing something very similar with Sound Forge (using Windows system...
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    Serial DVD burner

    Only if you want to be able to put a 120 MB floppy into your top shirt pocket. Ewww... sounds kinda yicky. I wouldn't buy a used LS-120 necessarily. I would imagine there are some brand new old-stock LS-120 drives available somewhere for cheap. The Superdisk units that were marketed to...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    I don't have the time. Do it yourself. I'm too busy with other things to go around collecting specifications from all the LCD panel manufactures and integrators. But, I can assure you that over the years, nobody has yet to produce an LCD panel with all the qualities and capabilities that I...
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    Cheap U320 SCSI Adapter?

    Dev/Null: Have you priced any of the LSI Logic SCSI cards? These would be it, if any. http://www.lsilogic.com/products/scsi_host_bus_adapters/index.html Also, you could get by using an Ultra-160 SCSI host bus adaptor, with the same real-world performance as a more-expensive Ultra-320...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    There are redundancies between GPU and CPU that can be eliminated by moving discrete graphics functionality into a general-purpose microprocessor. It would involve a massive build up of the section of the microprocessor that now does SSE/MMX. There would also be a bunch of new pins/pads, with...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    I should elaborate that you can not display more colours than you have pixels (or pels), meaning a display operating at 1280x1024 has 1310720 pixels. However, it is possible to display a single colour across an entire display. The display capability talked about above would be this, using a...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    You can "address" (actually, send 24-bit values, or 8 bits per RGB) to an LCD device, but it can't actually display all 16.7 million of them -- actually not even close! I believe the absolute best LCD technology currently available (Sony professional) can push the displayable number of...
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    Serial DVD burner

    Yes, I've heard that capability was coming (or at last here!). The second wave is to not only be bootable on a wide variety of "modern" X86 computers, but (allegedly) also to be able to launch applications from a non-erasable region of flash memory. (Non-erasable, as in you check or uncheck...
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    Serial DVD burner

    Now that's what I'd call "thinking outside the pen!" But, there's enough space even in a mini-mose like that one to have at least 512 MB. I've got a few PenDrives, and 32 MB is about as small as I'd want. For just Word and Excel documents, 32 MB is plenty, though. Marketing could've...
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    Serial DVD burner

    The USB "Pen Drive" (you know, the little flash memory thingees) have *finally* been the answer to gettting rid of the floppy drive. The Zip Drive 100 was not, in my opinion, even though people back on the *old* Storage Review forums used to try to persuade me otherwise. The only real...
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    Serial DVD burner

    ...or Firewire keyboards and mouses. Actually, if you can still find a new LS-120 floppy drive in your locale, they are well worth getting if you believe that you may have a need for reading floppy discs well into the future. Once the antiquated floppy port is gone from mobos, then you may...
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    Conservatives and moderates only....

    > Conservatives and moderates only.... Will there be a thread for the licentious to respond to anytime soon???
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    I *strongly* suspect two things: 1.) First and foremost, PCI Express versions of the P-series, Parhelia, and multi-monitor G-something quad display will be introduced -- not necessarily all at once -- starting in Q3, or northern hemisphere Summer. 2.) More than likely there is a Parhelia II...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    ...and only then if you don't care about the number of displayable colours / shades of grey. Yes, the dark secret of LCD display technology, otherwise, can be very very easy on the desktop space.
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    MS Office XP Service Pack 3 Released

    Hey Merc, This is one you should file away for your own use in Troubleshooting For The Clueless: I ran into a bizarre problem today with Outlook 2003, but was finally able to track down a "fix" for it just now (fix == an obscure configuration change in OutHouse 2003). Essentially...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    The Swiftech part is ONLY a badass heatsink. The fan part is going to have to be from someone else, and there you can do whatever is needed. The right fan on this heatsink WILL be quieter. The Intel heatsink + fan setup is smaller overall. The small fan churns like crazy to provide the...
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    There is no PC side / Mac side to this. I'd say you could see the difference between the two (ATI versus P-650) if you had a truly accurate monitor that shows all the good AND BAD in a video signal. I could go on about a something that happened a year ago at work where some Mac users (i.e...
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