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. . No, your thinking of nude tennis. . .

. . Methinks it looks like dog doodoo. . .

. . Yes, I just dropped my $Xxxx.xx payment in the mail today, though I usually wait until the 15th of April to do it. . .

. . Here's a temporary "clocker" avatar: . . . . . . . . . .

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. . Hey Groltz, I was looking at your avatar and was thinking that the image was something vaguely familiar. After a few minutes of dredging up some memories from the past, I recalled that your face image was part of the graphics from an LP from a cheezey punk-rock band that I heard a few...

. . AMD has been pretty good so far as not replacing sockets every 8 ~ 12 months like Intel. But, I thought I heard that the new sockets for the upcoming AMD Clawhammer and Sledgehammer processors will be something on the order of 750 pins and 900 pins, respectively. . .

. . Pretty picture, but still no NT domain fun. If this registry hack feature in the long-lost first version of WinXP Power Tools isn't just folklore -- the enabling of an XP Home O/S installation to become an XP Pro NT Domain member -- then this would indeed be intriguing news. Not...

MS has lifted bits of BSD code here and there over the years, but so has everyone else. The Beserkely Unix-alike OS gang has actually encouraged everyone to use BSD code this way, and they have. Sun would probably be numero uno on the list of code borrowers, with SGI and now Apple / NeXT a...

Or "Monster Hooters."

. . Netware is unto itself. Just like NT, there's no Unix. And just like NT, Netware has been rewritten several times. Novell at one time "owned" Unix® (bought it from AT&T), but sold it off to SCO a few years later who in turn was bought by Caldera (Caldera was founded by retired Novell...

. . Hmmmmm..... I would suspect Pick lives as a virtual machine on an IBM, Amdahl, Unisys, or Fujitsu mainframe as opposed to a native operating system. The last I reall, Pick was fading fast in the mid '80s to the likes of DEC VMS. Banyan VINES is actually a communications system built...

. . ...And, how could I forget (well, easily actually), that I used to use the efficient but barebones O/S called CP/M. Then there was the oddball and somewhat UNIX-alike operating system called P-System that I ran on my old Apple III -- an operating system written in UCSD Pascal. . .

. . > We have plenty of dark ale my son, drink up. Well, I tried to create the poll, but I somehow screwed something up. Did I mess up on the mysterious "Options" part??? I'd hate to have to resort to trial and error (i.e. -- littering the Feedback Forum landscape with botched messages)...

. . Well, what about that naked owl with a book covering its private parts??? . .

. . The .sex TLD proposal was actually made by an organisation made up of "porno industry" leaders. THEY actually wanted this! But ICANNt wouldn't even allow the proposal to be heard (step one of many steps through the arduous approval process).

. . I evaluated Coherent once (1990 / '91-ish?). It was a cheap Unix-alike OS for the 286 or 386 PC. It was buggy as hell. I'm thinking now that Coherent came from the UK. Minix was another not-ready-for-prime-time Unix-alaike O/S from that same period. Without dredging up nightmares...

. . FAT32- buggy- versions of Windows... Well, I haven't run a version of Windows that used FAT32 file system for well over 7 years. It's been NT 4.0 or Win2K all the way here. The "Luna" interface on WinXP not only slows operations own a bit, it's also a tad excessive. The Win2K GUI...

. . And there was also Interactive Unix. Kodak (of all companies) owned Interactive Unix for a while, then they sold it off to Sun in '90 or '91. Interactive Unix was based on AT&T System V source code. Interactive Unix was actually a bit better than SCO Unix or Xenix. Before that, there...

. . Well, I thinks I botched it over there in the Feedback Forum. The poll taker dialog box thingee didn't appear after I made the post. Oh well. :( Better go drink a pint of strong dark ale now to drown my sorrows. . .

. . now takes you to the Forums Index: http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/ This proposal would, instead, have the large icon at the top of all webpages at Storage Forum dot Net to point to the Home Page for the site, which currently contains links to the Recent News, Downloads, and Forums...

. . Hmmm... start a poll. Sounds like scary stuff to me since I've never attempted such. I'll try it, but I hope I don't cause a kernel panic by hitting the wrong buttons or something. :-? . .

. . New top-level domains have recently been sanctioned by ICANN -- the international bureaucratic organisation that governs top-level domain (TLD) names. The upcoming new TLDs are: .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, and .pro . There have been a bunch of other TLDs which...

. . I did not know about the existence of a Storage Forum Front Page. Had I known... Anyway, the story is there now. One proposal about the graphic at the top of the forum pages: It currently is a clickable image that points to the Forums index page. Would it be better if it instead...

. . With all the new top-level domain names looming, http://www.storage.forum/ could be a hot domain name to own. . .

. . One of the first things I did with WinXP was to change its default GUI to the "classic" GUI. . .

. . I have used systems running the original Xenix -- which was designed to run on the 16-bit 8086. A number of years later, I built a system for data acquisition that ran Xenix/386. A bit later, SCO merged in some System V code into Xenix/386. Finally, Xenix/386 was replaced by the equally...

. . GMac Said: ...One of the more interesting challenges I've undertaken lately is to teach fairly inexperienced computer users the skills involved in troubleshooting a PC... Shock Therapy is one of the best tools for teaching television electronics. :eekers: . .

. . Micron Technology, Inc., Announces DDR400 Device Performance In Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation Evaluation Micron Technology, Inc., today announced it delivered its first industry samples of 400Mbps DDR SDRAM memory devices to Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS) and the...

. I wonder if the most seriously incorrigible LAN gamers use Gigabit Ethernet, or maybe even multiple trunked GbE connections? .

Oh... I'll just have a . . /rØØt . . beer .

. . .I had been test-driving some of these on occasion -- a Rickenbacker 4003 "Fireglo" model bass. . .Then, just a few weeks ago, I finally found one that I liked a bit more than the others and drove it out the door at a usually-hard-to-get discount price. . .Post-Christmas inventory time...

At home, I have an electronic camera and 3 "conventional" film cameras. For electronic still camera, I currently use an Olympus Camedia 2500. It was and still is one of the best low-light performing consumer-class digital cameras. It uses both SmartMedia and/or CompactFlash storage (no USB...

High shutter speed is a much better controller for exposure than a lens' F-stop setting. If you need a shallow field of focus, you will need to open the aperture up with a corresponding increase in shutter speed to maintain a given exposure index.

Have Toshiba, NEC, and Sony all exited the desktop hard drive manufacturing market? At work, I once had a 700+ MB 3.5 inch Toshiba narrow SCSI-2 hard drive connected to a Macintosh IIcx. It started seized up occasionally after a year. I resorted to hitting its external case with my fist (as...

This is a quote from someone else, not me: MATROX PARHELIA It has been a long time since there has been a name for anything related to Matrox that has spurred more speculation and hope than this one. The online world outside of MURC has been deaf to Parhelia, and few have really caught on...

> Memory management I've always resorted to mnemonics for such. Examples: Tannin is a Tea product. Tea: T. T for Tony. Tony the Tiger. Sugar frosted flakes. Bowl of cereal. Breakfast: morning. Morning: morningtime. Morningtime means time to log onto Storage Forum. Storage Forum...

If I'm not mistaken, isn't there a big fight going on about the IC packaging for DDR-333? If the world ends up going with the more advanced / more expensive BGA packaging, as all faster future DDR will definitely have, you may end up buying "oddball" DDR-333 DIMMs. I Also, I believe the...

It's the INTEL song !

(At work) I haven't bought any Compaq server hardware in some years now, but I did get an evaluation unit in once about 3 years ago -- a 450 MHz Pentium2 1U-rackmount Proliant -- that was an excellent performing box for the money. What I have bought a good amount of though has been Compaq...

In the eyes of Intel leadership, and maybe reality, the advantage of in-house production of RAM would be outweighed by the many disadvantages of having an in-house RAM factory and staff. A commodity product like RAM -- which there has been an oversupply of many years now -- is always bought on...

Well, I don't exactly have a wealth of knowledge about the goings on of the PC Chips Corporation, but I faintly recall something about SiS either buying them some years ago or maybe forming a strategic partnership. Maybe PC Chips has some good expertise in the areas distribution and Super-O was...

If you had to name all the above that have had a positively NEGATIVE influence on the industry, it would have to be *only* Rambus and Iomega. Both of these corporations have shown unbelievable levels of litigious effrontery over the years that may never be equalled.

It will never happen because Intel will NEVER get back into the RAM business in any way, even if it's IP. If an Infineon or Micron doesn't merge with Rambus, then Rambs will simply choose to shrink itself as needed.

You're talking about their consumer boxes. If you ever *had* to buy a Compaq consumer box, absolutely steer away from their non-Intel boxes. They are all bottom-dweller boxes made by various Taiwanese outfits. The Intel-based boxes seem to be considerably better, though they are also US$200 ~...

Eh... What are you talking about? Supermicro owns Supermicro and always has since the early 90s, when they burst onto the higher-end mobo market kicking asses and taking names. PC Chips is a different company in Taiwan that makes various silicon and cheap mobos for people who don't care what...

To make it short: A "USA" modem will work anywhere in North America, and I believe anywhere in South America. There has always been total compatibility across the USA and Canada since the beginning of the telefono. I have a Hayes Optima 33.6 external modem at home that supposedly can work...

> Installed Windows .NET enterprise server tonight... ...30 miutes later the box was hacked. OK, that was jokee.

The only secondary storage media that's using a holographic encoding technique being worked on with any major (serious) effort at this time are all moving mechanical media (spinning disc and streaming tape), with the exception of a "credit card" medium where the read/write head moves across the...