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I was near or at Fort Point once (the park land under the bridge) and there were a lot of streetpeople hanging out. Needless to say, I didn't stay long. When I was jotting out some of those deep sea fishing experiences (above), I did recall the 4 or 5 times that I looked up to notice a large...

Micron probably likes DDR-2 because the manufacturing switchover from DDR to DDR-2 requires a lot less capital expenditure than switching over to any other memory type. Also, there's QDRRAM (Quad Data Rate RAM). Well, there was supposed to be QDR at some point in time after DDR-2 (maybe it's...

...The performance density or IOPS-per-U offered by these new systems will create storage solutions that are 33% to 200% smaller than today's systems. The drive platform will be produced for the current versions of Fibre Channel and Ultra320 SCSI, as well as Serial Attached SCSI... MORE AT...

As far as what's good these days: The IBM 180GXP is probably the best available hard drive for Parallel ATA RAID. Even though the Seagate drive is quieter, the Seagate PATA version of this drive is not such a great drive for building RAID volumes (the SATA Seagate models are good drives for...

I think I'll just run my 4 miles per day (required minimum after week #2), then do a modest "final." It's just a 1 credit hour activity course.

[list:373e2ee9f2] [list:373e2ee9f2] [list:373e2ee9f2] The avatar tells the story (in postage stamp form) about the thousand-year struggle between the itinerate but heroic Pangaean Duckpeople and the mischievous but god-like (and radioactive) Supernova e . [/list:u:373e2ee9f2]...

bös = bad, böse = badly, söny = deafened by bass Erm... Maybe it's because you didn't spell Phi L ips correctly.

Last July, over at the Uni, I ran the timed 1 mile as part of my "final exam" in a physical education class that I took (3 nights) along with a required summer business course (another night). I did not run it as fast as I could (smartly), but just fast enough to get a bit winded at the end...

Bose is more or less a joke. Their damned Model 901 (?) speakers that I auditioned in a darkened audiophile room against several other speaker models, back in 1979, made Joni Mitchell's mouth appear 3 meters wide! Their imaging was grotesque. By the way, if you know what böse means (auf...

Hee hee... not much of a surprise. I didn't read the article, but this is not new for Matrox. Matrox have ALWAYS tested and developed on mobos / systems using Intel chipsets. If another chipset manufacturer doesn't follow Intel standards closely, then a Matrox graphics card may very well...

Just like the existing Matrox G450 and G500, these cards are really meant for anyone doing professional 2-D work, meaning page layout (Adobe Pagemaker, Quirk X-Press), photographic imaging (Adobe Photoshop), video editing (Adobe Premiere, Vegas Pro), music (Sound Forge, Cakewalk, ACID, etc.)...

One whole amp? Jeez... I'd be surprised if it's more than 500 mA. By the way, keyboards aren't the only "popular" device that plugs into the keyboard port (PS/2, AT), barcode readers -- and there are many many millions of them out there, just not likely on my (or your) PC -- firmly take up...

Well, I'm 98.9% sure that Matrox will never again mess with Rainbow Runner type options (entry-level TV video I/O, recording via snap-on daughter card). On the other hand, their semi-pro / pro video efforts -- with the X.10, X.100, et cetera -- are doing very well to say the least. That's...

On a side note: Another major bugaboo that is more common than one might suspect is the fact that some of this specialised hardware (and software) can either be tied directly to the clockspeed of the host computer or is incompatible with a host computer above a given clockspeed. So, what...

Ha!!!!!! Well, at least we were on the right track about *Industrial* mobos. I might add to Tea's experiences above, in that there is now -- and has been for years -- movement by just about every industrial interface vendor on the planet to come out with PCI cards (PCI 2.0, Compact PCI...

Doing parallel port transfers (a.k.a. -- "LapLink") only sucks. Doing RS-232 SERIAL PORT transfers is what SUCKS BIG TIME.

I kinda faintly recall hearing about someone once (1999-ish) building SCSI Zip drive RAID array, using a hardware RAID controller.

Matrox Millennium P650 and Millennium P750 deliver next-generation advancements [list:eb6f527fa6] ...Equipped with 64MB of DDR memory and an AGP 8x interface, the Millennium P-Series features professional-level multi-display technologies such as improved DualHead and standard dual-DVI outputs...

To this day, there are still significant numbers of industrial users using ISA peripherals. Supermicro's main markets are industrial, telecomm, general purpose server, and technical workstation -- not gamers or home/office computer users. Otherwise, ISA expansion bus peripherals are...

There are many things that I must say and ask. I’ll attempt to organize them in a meaningful way: Do you plan on writing and editing video on this array, as opposed to just storing video data files on it? Consider offline storage. If you only need to store a LOT of video files, you...

Now THAT would be an absurd business plan! No, I doubt it. They (Intel) have had this same sort of problem before. Remember the "original" 1.0 GHz Pentium III processor in the SECC package? Déjà vu all over again. Yes, mornings can be bad, especially when you have to get up just before...

You talk about being cheap, but then mention F-C switches. There's no way that you're going to be able to afford even a "low end" F-C switch. Even F-C hubs aren't cheap. Besides, the F-C compatibility bugaboo hits the second you mention the word F-C Switch. The cheapest way to do a F-C...

You could try re-situating the Barracuda IV. Is AAM enabled or disabled on the Barr IV?

One of the problems that would be solved with a hard drive mechanism like this would be the poor access time of tape in tape libraries. As a "tape alternative," these high capacity hard drives would provide far better access time than any tape format, but still provide a level of storage...

Unless you've never had any contact with it -- and many people haven't -- the enterprise storage market is absolutely a HUGE market that has been around for decades. You might be floored if you ever saw the yearly budgets of many companies for computer-based storage. You've got the gist of...

The casing (chassis) of these hard drive mechanisms wouldn't really need to be and stronger than any other existing hard drive since they supposed to sit dead still inside a disc library during use and only come out if they have failed. As far as security goes, tape and disc libraries normally...

I also had a dire need for q u i e t hard disc drives. In this case, I currently use a Barracuda IV 40 GB in an Alesis HD24. It's operating system and file system are so efficient doesn't need a 7200 RPM hard drive to edit and overdub even the most re-editted and re-recorded 24-track / 24-bit...

Vomiting is just AOfuL. Of course, America On HoLd is far worse! AOHeL

I guess one could dig up another incident such as something falling off of a rocket during assembly or the like. What I was talking about was space launches -- military or civilian (NASA is a civilian agency). They don't do Titan launches or any other major missile launches at Edwards Air...

The old Millennium and Millennium II AGP cards were good in their time, but they don't have the modern ultra-clean crystal clear 360 MHz high frequency DACs that are the hallmark of the more-recent G400/450/550 cards, or the Parhelia. For me, the G450 would be a minimum only because the...

Zero, actually. One thing about Russian launch pad practises, they don't seem to mind having people outside (usually military) when they tilt up a Proton, fuel it up with poisonous hydrazine, then launch it -- sometimes exploding on the launch pad or just after launch. BOOM! Huge shock...

Around 1997 or '98, the Mir crew was *practicing* docking a Progess cargo drone to the Mir, when they briefly lost contact with it (i.e. -- lost all control) just long enough for it to ram into the side of one of Mir's modules. There was a significant atmospheric leak in the wall from the...

Ehwwwww! Chocolate beer??? If I were to wander into that part of the universe, methinks I'd want this instead... Now this is way yummie!

One for the Laptops Made Famous series... Kevin Mitnick's Seattle Laptop Seized by FBI This is the Toshiba Satellite 4400SX, 486SX25 laptop computer seized by the Secret Service and Seattle Police Department on October 28, 1994, in Seattle, WA. The laptop was seized during a raid of Kevin...

Tea: The actual secret is to use MALT VINEGAR. Do NOT use any other vinegar for chips, meaning wine vinegar or apple-based vinegars.

I recall now using CMS with IBM VM (IBM VM/CMS). As for DEC VMS, I used 32-bit VMS on VAX 8x00 hardware, not the later (64-bit) OpenVMS, which is easier to deal with with the intoroduction of GUI. But before VMS came out, I used RTOS on DEC PDP/8 and PDP/11 hardware. I don't miss any of...

If I didn't like it here, I wouldn't bother showing up -- which I don't anywhere else except on UseNet every once in a blue moon (looking out window now for the moon). Anyway, in my *real* life, I can get seriously bogged down for weeks at a time, as in so bogged down that I might get about...

These are possibly the greatest new capabilities in Windows Media Player 9.0: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/quality.aspx

As far as single processor desktop and workstation mobos go, I've been using the Supermicro P4SGA with great success. Target Segment High-end desktop, workstation, and internet applications Form Factor ATX with PC99 color-coded double-deck I/O Size: 12" x 8.7" (W x H) Processor...

Yes, it's about that time of the year again. << bwhaaaahaahaa! >>

No, but then again I haven't even typed-in, much less visited, storagereview dot anything for many moon revolutions.

Well, I know you mean "Army_of_One" figuratively, but literally -- it sounds too redneck, and the underscores seem to... ahem... emphasise the redneckedness. Whoa! There's actually NINE of me now!! I don't even know myselves anymore! Oh well, too late now... heehee (yoikes!)...

An alternative to that would be to do away with the News as it is and simply add a forum dedicated to posting "Computer News."

Well, I've had exactly ZERO Seagate Barracuda IV drives fail on me; 40GB, 60GB, and 80GB models. It's like, yo, there's no friction or heat (stressors) in these drives!

This must've been your first time into Canada. There is absolutely nothing unusual about what you've described. For someone who has driven and flown into Canada dozens of times over the years, all I can tell you is that if the above did not happen to me, it would be the rare exception.

I've actually "revived" a ROM-BIOS (EE-PROM) once that got glitched during a flash update. To do it, I pulled an identical ROM-BIOS out of an identical working mobo and installed the good ROM-BIOS into the mobo that had the bad BIOS (removed temporarily). I then started the computer with the...

Who the hell is iGary? :-? Wasn't that someone over at Storage Review aeons ago?

No, it's phrase/word frequency rankings in the database -- which the roving spiders have collected off the web on the net ripe with crawlers, gopher, bugs, worms, virus, trojans, gnu, penguins, cute red devils, s'kiddies, veronica, archie, mime, cookies, spam, links, urls, perls, wais, splash...

The hardest English for me to understand -- and probably a lot of "western" English speakers -- has to be India / South-Asian subcontinent English. The grammar is always correct, but the pronunciation can be off the mark, sometimes significantly. Many years ago, I was in an electrical...