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This is the most popular software-based Tape RAID around: BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape RAID Option increases backup performance by striping data across multiple drives. When three or more drives are used, RAID provides fault tolerance, enabling data restoration even if a tape is lost or...

Actually, I meant rear-engined Corvair. Anyway, the Corvair was actually a pretty good snow car. Plus, you could get cabin heat fairly quick with its air-cooled engine.

How 'bout a rear wheel driven Corvair! Without proper footing, though, it would easily become a rear wheel drive Corvair going backwards! Current Conditions -16°C Light Snow Feels Like -27°C UV Index: 0 Minimal Dew Point: -19°C Humidity: 71% Visibility: 6.4 kilometers Pressure...

Being something "modern" (100%fan-less & fans-that-only-run-if-needed Antec power supplies), I would guess at least 2 permanet SATA connectors being present (hopefully), or they may simply include 1 or 2 power convertors as part of the package.

CougTech: A >>> quiet <<< constant-speed 80mm or 92mm fan sounds about like what I'd need then. A little overkill is better than something that just barely gets the job done for a critical function such as CPU cooling. I've seen these front panel accessories that allow you to vary the...

Possibly to some folk's chagrin, I focused upon *value* over mere capability: SMP boxes match up much better to multithreading / multiprocessing applications such as Photoshop or Premiere, and even more so with deeply multithreading / multiprocessing applications such as Oracle DBMS and MS-SQL...

That's because there is no difference between 24-bit and 32-bit. Both use 8-bit Red, Green, and Blue channels, but 32-bit has an additional channel called Alpha, which is usually used for transparency -- if anything at all. Graphics cards are optimised for 32-bit colour mode, so you may...

Industrial diamonds have been slowly making their way into affordable products -- semi-affordable, at least. I recently bought a diamond sharpening tool to speed up sharpening my various woodworking handtools (spokeshaves, drawknives, wood chisels).

USB soundcards have been around for a bit now. A decent USB soundcard will support full duplex audio.

You can do better by purchasing a pair of 512 MB DIMMs. The 1 GB DIMMs are only for high memory capacities. The 512 MB DIMMs also tend not to be under availability constraints. Whoa! You're looking for 2GB? Unless there's something that you are doing that I don't know about (fancy video...

An automatic transmission filter + the many liters / quarts of lubricant that an automatic tranny uses will surpass what a motor requires. Usually, I pay around US$3.95 (discount price) per quart of motor oil and about $4.95 for an oil filter -- this is for Mobil One 10W-30 and a top-grade...

Hitachi Deskstar 250GB Hard Drive Combines Super Speed With Super Capacity SAN JOSE, Calif., June 25, 2003 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced a new ATA/Serial ATA desktop hard drive that extends the company’s long-standing tradition of performance leadership. The 3.5-inch...

I've been waving the "2.5-inch hard drives for desktop systems" flag since, at least, 1998 or 1999 back at Storage Review. I would have thought that Desktops systems -- not Enterprise systems -- would have been the first class of computer addressed for fast, cost-effective, reliable, and...

If that were the case, we'd still be stuck with 5.25-inch toe crushers and 8-inch foot decapitators. Ultra-dense server farms have been all the rage for a while now, and 2.5-inch draws less current per GB than larger form factors. So, the total cost of operations using 2.5-inch hard drives...

Eh... I wouldn't get too excited by any of this, since any available 5400 RPM 3.5-inch desktop hard drive will kick the proverbial arse of any 7200 RPM notebook hard drive from here to sunday in the performance and reliability departments.

One thing of note to Southpaws: The Quill mouse is available in both right and LEFT haded versions. Virtually no other mouse maker (that I know of) offers a true lefty mouse. PS: I'm a Northpaw. :oops:

Yoikes! I just visited SR -- haven't "been there" in a quite a while (fortunately, it seems). But then again, it's not hard to realise why SR sucks nowadays, after looking through the B&G section. Perusing through some of the blather there, about all I can say is that I definitely don't...

Yes, often -- in both automobiles and motorcycles. It's called "Speed Shifting." Well, I don't do it often anymore, but I used to do it often at one time. Speed shifting requires letting off the accelerator pedal just enough to allow the primary (drive) gear to mesh with the secondary...

The limitation is in the Joliet file system, which is.... what? 64 characters total for fully-qualified directory + filename. Romeo file system has more at 128 (???), but at some cost that I can't quite recall now. But, then again, maybe I got this bass-ackwards or I'm totally off-base.

My possible use for the Barracuda 5400.1 is audio recording using an Alesis ADAT HD-24 recorder. It uses its own ultra-efficient file system which doesn't fragment or require the hard drive heads to thrash about even when performing the most screwed up multi-track editing one could force upon...

...er, yes. That fact has been mentioned around here on occasion. Well, at least I first mentioned this capability back around June of last year. More recently, I was recommending that anyone not too particularly in need of jumping into SATA (hard disc storage) should consider waiting until...

Actually, I'm *personally* more interested in the upcoming Barracuda 5400.1 than the 7200 RPM series.

> There are a few of these beasts behind ME now here at work... I think the ECC circuits in me noggin haven't been working properly lately (wacky work hours), as I have regularly been omitting words from sentences for some reason.

Which is why larger tape libraries have the ability to house several (expensive) tape drive modules so that a tape cartridge can (statistically speaking) find an idle tape drive to insert into. There are a few of these beasts behind now here at work...

More on K3V1n M1tn1KC... http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/11/hacker.hacked.ap/index.html

Though there is a bit of hilarity to the above, may I ask you one question: HAVE YOU USED VMS? I did for years thoughout the 1980s up until about 1991. It was a bit painful to use. Otherwise, it was stable.

The last I saw of that place several months ago, the S.R. Discussion Forums were a ghetto -- not too much different than any of the other numerous enthusiast/nerd computer hardware forums scattered across the Internet.

Not exactly the low-price leader, instead one of the most highly refined brands of mobo for the technical marketplace are the Supermicro workstation mobos. What I've been using to build media workstations lately has been the Supermicro P6SGA. ¤ Single Intel Pentium 4 up to 3.06GHz ¤...

Re: Searching the title of the main song of Ghost Ship movie Just saw it out on the "New Release" racks of a local CD shoppe this weekend. http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=302%2D066%2D419%2D2

Groltz! You're looking a bit disheveled nowadays. Let me guess now... er... paging though reams of mental records now... Gun Club? Sisters Of Mercy? Fields Of Nephilim?

Ya, too bad "i" can't log in yet (nor " ï "). Er... that confirmnation E-mail thingee. This place has gone "blue." Actually, this new minimal sleek look is a bit better. Tea, what'z with all the "Z" zee's zees? Zzzzebra syndrome

Too distant, unfortunately. Even though HR Holden is part of General Motors, I think it is a lot *more* spiritually connected to GM products made & designed in Europe such as Opel or Vauxhall than products made in the USA / Canada (Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, GMC, Pontiac).

I owned a Corvair once (not the one that I use as my avatar -- that's an early '60~'64 model). The one I had was a late-model style, a 1966 Corvair Turbo Corsa, which was the crème de la crème of the late-model Corvairs. It had superb road hugging characteristics and a killer power-to-weight...

The distant General Motors cousin of your Holden HR Sedan: 1967 Chevrolet Nova...

Very very typical stuff for around these parts Jake (not mentioning the lowrider contingent). Now if some of these had Chinese or Japanese writing somewhere along the sides or backside, or a "rising sun" in the rear window, then it would be what I see a lot of. There is also a large and...

Heeheehee. That large "sewage pipe" is perfect.

JakeTh'Dog: I've been seeing these sort of ricecakes for many many years around here in the fourth largest city in the USA. They're so common, I might just see half a dozen such vehicles at once or maybe a different one every 30 seconds just driving along in regular daytime traffic. In all...

This unit is similar to what I saw, except I did not see any *direct* light source beaming outside -- such as what's shown on the end on the above tailpipe. Now, it could very well have been this unit above, but the person could have modified it to be mounted backwards so that it would shine...

"I'll take Pondscum & Scalawags for $40." OK, let's see Pondscum & Scalawags for $40. [Q:] How does the maker of Real Media Player (Real Networks) make a majority of its income? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [A:] Direct Memory Access.

I rarely ever listen to blues music and basically never listen to R&B music. It's not that I hate any of these musicforms, it's just that I have little interest in them. I used to follow blues music a bit on and off a fairly long time ago (back in the late '60s), and I've seen a number of...

uhhhh... NO! Forget Keef. He's certainly good, but the best guitar player the Rolling Stones ever had was Mick Taylor. He was a member of the Rolling Stones from about 1969 ~ 1974.

Hendrix was without a doubt GREAT, but you'd be surprised just how much he "borrowed" from other electric guitarists before him. A short list of people Hendrix borrowed ideas / sounds / styles from would be: Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Son House, Blind Willie McTell -- even Pete...

There was something a bit like that happened here in this area, down the coast, in the early 1950s. It killed somewhere between 500 and 1000 people when it was all said and done. It was not a simple explosion, instead a series of explosions that killed nearby watchers and residents of Texas...

BTW, I believe the Tampa Bay bridge is more like 200 feet above the water -- I've been over it several times, including back in the bad old days when it was 2 lanes. There is a bridge near here called the Hartman Bridge (I believe that's its name). The roadway is 200 feet high at its highest...

Ya, I recall that from the early '90s. Then there was a fog incident about 3 or 4 years ago where some people went over the railing at the top of the bridge.

Yes, it's fundamental sympathetic frequency -- due its length, shape, etc. Many professions that build things nowadays are more attuned (pun intended) to sympathetic oscillations, including the designers of the International Space Station zooming around overhead as we speak. The Int'l Space...

Hmmm... Glue that lil' mobo to the backside of a 17-inch LCD with a 20 GB 2.5" notebook hard drive, and yo, a nice lil' spacesaver computer.

..·· That would actually be LocalTalk. LocalTalk was a sluggish but cheap and convenient Macintosh-only network scheme built around a 230 kb/s RS-422 serial port. ..··

..·· Ever since America On hoLd and CNN were brought together (with Time / Warner), they flood CNN with AOL commercials. The commercial goes... "AOL ! Oh, it's just the best!" In reality, there are legions of newbies beating their desks with their fists screaming, "DAMN THAT BUSY SIGNAL...

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