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Not necessarily. Older CD and DVD drives had a higher list price. You can still buy, new-in-box, a few old 4X, 8X, and/or 16X CD-R/W drives. But, they will usually cost you over US$100. For the average user, buyng one of these old CD-R/W drives would be absoutely .NUTty when you can buy a...

Yes, because you can execute all sorts of code and surf the net within Word (and other Office product). Unpatched flaw found in Microsoft software Microsoft is investigating the report of a flaw that could open to attack systems running the company's Office or Access software. The...

Between about April 2003 and about January 2004, Stergios tried to fraudulently buy and sell merchandise, including jewelry, watches and computers, over the Internet through online auction Web site eBay. Stergios engaged in the fraudulent transactions with at least 321 victims, Frank said...

666ium Iumium (pronounced "yumyum") Opteronium And now it's riddle time... Unumbium (112) Ununtrium (113) Ununquadium (114) Ununpentium (115) Ununhexium (116) Ununseptium (117) Ununoctium (118)

...but what year? 2005! ...as it's being claimed Maybe even 25 April! ...you know, they could be correct about this one http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/03/HN64bitwindows_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-03-03

Gaming system: does hte CPU matter anymore? Tannin, you need to get back into the habit of wearing your special close-focus owl spectacles when typing, otherwise, you could become permanently cross-eyed pecking out such long sentences on a daily basis -- if you haven't already. This is...

Yep. Back in 1969, at Woodstock, some people claimed to have flown around the world in just under 24 hours.

Use the empty box, otherwise you are guaranteed to have a flakey computer!

IE 7 will -- again -- be standalone product. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5577263.html?tag=nl.e589

You're lucky it wasn't icing or snowing, as it does that there in Dallas somewhat -- though much more out in the western part of the state, especially the panhandle (blizzards, snow tornadoes, etc). Summer: Avoid, unless you like hail. Besides that, I couldn't deal with the bible-belt...

Just my opinion: For your second "large" hard drive, which I assume is your data drive, you should go plug-able. Get 1 SATA hard drive bay for you large data drive, or get 2 and make both hard drives plug-able. If you go the route of having all hard drives plug-able, you will have data...

Remember that USB 2.0 "Full Speed" is only 12Mb/s -- which is what USB version 1.1 provides at it's fastest rate. USB 2.0 "High Speed" is a, er... full 480 Mb/s!

The next time you talk to Tannin, tell him to change his avatar back to something more appropriate, like this: [list:1810604ba8] [list:1810604ba8] [/list:u:1810604ba8] [/list:u:1810604ba8]

This is an E-mail application. The e-mail application uses protocols to send and receive e-mail messages. The POP protocol is what the e-mail application uses to send e-mail messages back home to your parents. Another protocol, the S&MTP protocol, is, well, the protocol that your e-mail...

"This is a mouse, this is a keyboard, and this is a cup holder..." "This is the kernel, and we interact with the kernel using something called the korn shell. One of the many reasons we need to keep our systems clean is because hungry viruses will be attracted to the aroma of the korn shell...

http://litepanels.com/main.html Another long-needed implementation of LED lighting source that solves the decades-old problem of having to deal with hot halogen lights and power cords.

I saw the Toshiba version of this Panasonic drive (also based on DVD-RAM) this weekend. It costs about US$50 more, but its picture quality is superb due to its DAC -- just like my existing Toshiba "10-bit DAC" DVD Video 2-disc changer. I like the Toshiba more...

The heads of early hard drives were essentially built around tape recorder head technology.

Well, I hope you don't think that FAT32 is somehow superior to NTFS because FAT32 runs check disc after abending. NTFS is a far more resilient journaling file system than the potentially-one-way-to-hell File Allocation Table file system. FAT32 is nothing more than a highly evolved floppy...

If you did, you might've found that you were scraping paint off both sides of your 1-ton van driving on some of those Beacon Hill streets. Boston's the most interesting "big" city in the region.

'95 vintage or earlier monitors tend to suck juice out of the wall rather hard. So, if you are they type that leaves the monitor running 24/7, beware.

Not Dubya. Daddy, yes/no. Daddy was born in Maine and has kept a nice little house on the coast that he goes to for a few weeks at a time every once in a while. I believe when Daddy was prez, he actually claimed Kenibunkport (sp?), Maine as his official residence. But nowadays, I'm...

Corrrrrrrrrrrrrection: 28 megabytes! (or 0.028 gigglebytes)

Nero BurningROM recently had a major jump in its minor version numbers, going from 6.3 all the way up to 6.6. The update is a whopping 25.0 MB, which will surely cause yer computer to scream out in ecstacy at the end of what will likely be a long rigorous overnight operation of filling the...

Actually, number 8 -- above -- should be number 9 (the 8x AGP slot).

This is your only real choice. It has PCI-X slots, plenty of SATA ports, an AGP 8x slot, dual-GbE, and more. You can use either the last-generation 130 nm P4 (Northwood) or the newer 90 nm P4 (Prescott) Pin Grid Array processor packages... The Supermicro P4SCT+II Key Features...

Well, the way ol' M$ was talking back during April/May was that it *could* be as late as 1/August. However, from prior experience, I always took that sort of statement as being that it actually might be available as EARLY as 1/August. So, I have told many a folk since sometime back in April...

THIS is the most efficient DVD ripper around. Makes Jack The Ripper look like a mere pup. http://www.buyaleratec.com/dvshredpar24.html

No, no, not a Linux distro. Mono is an open source equivalent of .NUT ...I mean .NET ...as in Microsoft .NET http://www.microsoft.com/net/

Ummm...... of course! Been doing this for at least 10 years (booting from RAID -- 0, 1, 5, and 10). The Adaptec 2101S is not a 2-channel RAID adapter. You need a 2-channel RAID adapter to connect to the 2 SCA racks because those SCA racks don't allow daisy-chaining. Otherwise, if you could...

ANYTHING that's associated with Fibre Channel is outrageously overpriced for what it is -- not to mention that it possesses variable compatibility with other vendor's Fibre Channel products. Much of this compatibility problem is intentional so as to force users into certain hardware camps or...

Thought it was Morphine By Mail.

Unfortunately, Tannin may not have access to good pricing on certain items. So, that's that and there's nothing he can do about it. Local supply constraints exist everywhere. One can probably buy... oh... er... Canon BubbleJet printers dirt cheap in Osaka, but not so in Tacoma. So, in the...

Yes, I've done exactly this before. It's a 100% viable approach, but you have to take precautions with how you transport it. Basically, you M*U*S*T have a well-cushioned shipping case, a case that's essentially a little hardshell Anvil® type of flight case with about 7 ~ 8 cm of shock...

I don't know. (I've seen the spec sheets also). A 15kRPM SATA drive and NO 10kRPM SATA drive does not make sense. However, according to the spec sheets, there is a 15kRPM SAS Cheetah, but also no 10kRPM SAS Cheetah -- that DOESN'T make sense! The E-mail I got earlier in the day is also...

Actually, this is old news. (not the turning on/off the streaming protocol, just the video streaming protocol support) http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,1816,00.html

Yes, a bunch of "Me Too" drives. I'm still taking that long shot on Seagate's quietness being attributed to the possibility that they may announce "the demise of the 3-1/2 inch hard drive" (my quote there, not their's) and go with only 2-1/2 inch hard drives for all the new models, with the...

I was definitely trying to say with models up to... That's what happens when you get up at 4AM to scour the websites of the Big 4 (and other players) for NEWZ. Now if I could eliminate my newfound problem of dropping out certai letters in the middle of the keyboard as I type, then I'd be...

...collaboration deom about 1993 or so! FROM Jeez! I've slipped back to no good with my typing lately! I *keep on* dropping 1 character every once in a while in a word (typically "n" or "a" it seems). Now this! ok...

Well, since I don't know about these receiver's "DSP Listen" modes, I'd venture a guess at those being fairly straightforward compressors. The Aphex circuitry is complex. By the way, don't confuse Aphex Systems, Inc with the laughable nutcase artist Aphex Twin (it’s not like you possibly...

Every once in a while I run across some weird / hilarious / crafty E-Bay goings on. Here are a couple from the past few months that I've stumbled upon one way or another: I guess this bit of hilarious handiwork was done at a time when you could leave feedback by screwing around with the...

I went back and looked at my old LP listing, and it was "Music in 12 Parts, Parts 1 and 2" on the Virgin / Caroline (UK) record label.

Back in 1997/98, I liked jungle / drum'n'bass. By 1999 I was sick of it. Still am.

So, I guess that a bunch of part-time photographers and audio engineer hang out here, correct? :)

It can work very well in certain situations. There are (and have been) many different types / classes of Aphex Aural Exciter during the past... ummm... 25+ years. We are basically up to "Type III" these days. I also have an older (mid '80s vintage) Type "C" as well that I was -- until...

1.) I mentioned this (upcoming) PCI-X Parhelia only to highlight a curiosity-of-a-graphics-card. 2.) It won't actually cost THAT much (street price versus suggested retail price). 3.) This is a card ONLY for professional use, i.e. -- for a specific need. You would be nutz to use it for...

http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4497&sku=THD-200A2%20P&SRCCODE=GLOEM010

Heehee... Pretty interesting article. I'm thinking I heard something about nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's stint at that "boarding school" (turned out to be a reform school) once -- a little while back -- on Paul Harvey's radio tidbit show (a 5-minute syndicated AM radio show). Other than that...

We're talking apples and oranges here. When I mentioned motion video earlier, I was talking about the RT.X10/100 series (and DigiSuite), not the Parhelia or P-650 -- though you can use either a Parhelia or P-650 or even an ATI or nVidia card as your display card with the RT.X10 or RT.X100...

Once upon a time, I liked "Roll Over Beethoven."