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Not true! The i860 became a microcontroller (as opposed to a general purpose RISC microprocessor) called the i960 and have made Intel quite a decent pile of cash in the high-end microcontroller marketplace.

Why not? Then, the second option would be to install a pair of Ethernet cards in both machines and transfer files via an Ethernet crossover cable. Another option would be to use LapLink and transfer files over a parallel cable. The "hard drive option" is still by far the best.

Cougtek: The word you were looking for is Guerilla Marketing, which should never be confused with the tactics that Tony's sidekick often uses -- called Gorilla Marketing.

Heh... I guess that was in the '80s, and not the late '70s after all. 35kRPM!?! Yoikes! I guess that after the inventors started playing with all the physical and operating parameters that they settled on a small space saving but fiercely spinning and massive flywheel. As for safety, my...

Microsoft has (or had) a downloadable program called SlideMaker 1.0 that allows one to build standalone slide shows on your monitor -- no MS Office required.

My take is that IRAN will benefit greatly from this war. Iraq will become Iran #2 over a period of time, though a "kinder and gentler" version of what Iran is now. For the following yummy story on Hussein family member pastimes, I hope none of you are queasy: ...It was a machine...

Tucson. Just get it over with and name it Tucson.

MILPITAS, Calif., March 18, 2003 - Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), the global leader in data storage access solutions, today announced a broad Serial ATA (SATA) product family including motherboard solutions and zero-channel, 2-, 4-, 8-, 12- and 16-port add-in RAID cards that deliver Adaptec's...

I don't believe that's been announced yet. If I were to be which one would be first, it might start off with the $100, then the $50, then the $20, etc.

The twisting / tilting comes from the engine's torquing of the chassis due to the fact the FLYWHEEL is being accelerated -- nothing else. The engine is well anchored to the adequately stiff chassis of the Mustang with isolated motor mounts. The shock absorbers respond to the torque far more...

The high-end UPS units that I use have the ability to communicate with multilple hosts. In other words, one UPS can provide backup power to several CPUs and also communicate with all of them via RS-232.

Performance characteristics of a 2.5-inch hard drive are dissimilar to the performance characteristics of a destroked 3.5-inch hard drive. The outer tracks (i.e. -- the first recording zone) of a 3.5-inch hard drive have many more sectors than that of a 2.5-inch hard drive.

New York, NY - February 18, 2003 - Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI) The Digital Media Company, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, today introduced its new Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum, The Digital Media Suite. Totally redesigned for maximum performance and...

A 2.5-inch 5400 RPM hard drive is only good for use in notebook computers. The sustained transfer rate on these physically small hard drive mechanisms is poor compared to the typical 5400 RPM desktop hard drive mechanism. The use of a large cache/buffer in this Toshiba hard drive is to help...

The vast majority of that list is Americana, circa the 1960s.

Am I seeing double? You're close to 1800 posts, Tony. Keep up the good work. :D

Am I seeing double? You're close to 1800 posts, Tony. Keep up the good work. :D

Well, it certainly didn't contain any of the "Seven Deadly Words" in it. It was prime bar & grille material. Do we have any 13 year olds here? =============================================== [list:c00297daed] APPENDIX TO OPINION OF THE COURT The following is a verbatim transcript of...

Clothing, spying, and searching for cats... ========================================== T: Roupas Sociais Masculinas a preço de fabrica!!!!! Agora você já pode comprar de um dos mais tradicionais fabricantes de roupas sociais masculinas, 27 anos de mercado, agora vende seus produtos, ternos...

Complements of the day.Grace, Peace and love to you. I hope my letter does not cause you too much embarrassment as I write to you in good faith. Please excuse my intrusion into you business life. My name is Cole Moyo, the elder son of Mr.Dennnis Moyo from the Republic of Zimbabwe. During the...

The weather's been quite cold here as well. I noticed that when I went surfing yesterday that the waves were coming in from the northeast instead of the southeast, which must mean that a Nor'Easterner has hit. The coconuts have been falling of the sweaty palms a little harder than normal as...

I just scanned your system over the Internet. It looks like you need to update your ATI Catalyst drivers. :lol: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Here at work, the departmental operations workstations (graphics boxes) all run Matrox graphics adaptors, basically because we HAVE...

I had a VESA Loco Bus version of a Matrox ...er ...Impression 4M+ (I believe it was called) a long time ago. It was rather expensive.

I have always felt from Day One (Jan 2002) that the root (" / ") of www dot storageforum dot net should simply open to the pHpBB Forums, where there would a forum titled "NEWS" that we can post *news* messages in, along with the forums titled "Computers," "Tech Support," "Feedback," etc...

The trade-offs using fluid dynamic bearings versus ball bearings is a no-brainer to the hard drive designer -- with the exception of some very special low-power implementation where the lowest possible power consumption is top priority. Otherwise, fluid dynamic bearings help quell internal...

It's not that Ohm's Law doesn't matter (E over Eye R as they taught us way back when, not to mention Pie R Square but usually Pie R Round), but this is not an issue with Ohm's Law in the case of Western Digi NOT electing to use 3.3 VDC on their first SATA hard drive. The SATA standards gods...

Yes, they DEFINITELY SHOULD also sell a PATA (ATA-6) version. If they are indeed using a SATA <---> PATA bridge circuit, they probably have engineered this particular Raptor drive interface printed circuit board to where they can easily manufacture either a PATA or SATA hard drive by simply...

Well, don't thank me, as it seems the double-entendre strikes again! :evil: After looking at yet more SA-SCSI (SAS) propaganda, apparently what some SAS marketeers are calling "Dual Ported" indeed means a SAS device such as a disc or tape drive with an onboard repeater circuit that will...

If you want a "shiny new box," you would have no choice but to go for the Sun Blade 100. But, the last I heard, the price was closer to around US$900 - without monitor. However, the Blade 100 is designed to use an ordinary PC monitor, provided that it can operate at a resolution of at least...

Well, you need to get back to Tasmania as soon as possible! Business is down dramatically since you've left. Tasmanian beer distributors and retailers have hit the skids in a big way and are now drinking all the unsold stock themselves. :^/

Yes, as played by Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Julian Bashir).

Uh... kinda unseasonable weather for Tasmania this time of year isn't it??? Where are you living, the Macquaries? <<I don't think they have pizza on Macquarie Island>>

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There has, of course, been several USA aftermarket X86 mobo makers come and go. Besides Supermicro, only other notable USA mobo manufacturer is Asus (Asia-US). Asus is located in Fremont, California, just down the street and around the corner from Supermicro's world headquarters also in...

A Professional Pickler probably uses malt vinegar to pickle onions, but then again, except on rare occasions, I don't eat pickles of any kind. Malt vinegar is normally a pretty strong (acrid) clean vinegar. Wine vinegar and apple vinegar are both pretty tame vinegars in comparison, and...

Are you talking about the South African Krugerrand?

PageMaker is an all around decent DTP application. I've used it ever since it was introduced in the mid-1980s. The less-expensive MS Publisher and several other "low end" DTP applications are plenty for most people performing basic page layout work. Quark XPress is, well, quirky. Quirk...

I keep hearing that the hottest business startup activity nowadays is in setting up E-Mail farms in the remote jungles of Nigeria.

The number one fundamental question here is: What printer are you using? Graphics in documents are *supposed* to be optimised for the target printer. Calculating and creating optimal imagery for a documents is fairly easy. Keywords: Halftone, greyscale, DPI... > What are the advantages...

It depends on who "we" is. Ask data processing folk involved in performing certain scientific work, and they may very well tell you that they would like something more NOW -- if the hardware was there (arrays. etc). > ...Another question-do you think drives this large will be mechanical...

The new X15.3 drive family (18GB, 36GB, and 73GB) actually has significantly higher real-world throughput than the previous (second) generation. They are also significantly quieter and cooler than the previous generation (X15-36LP family). Fluid dynamic bearings are used on all 3...

Maybe I went a bit overboard on the flowery descriptions, but fluid dynamic bearings have gotten better about the stiff oil inside (dynamic = high pressure oil) them, which requires a stronger motor to push the spindle up to speed. By design, fluid bearings have no metal-to-metal contact on the...

And, I always loved it when they looked down the neck of the fuel tank -- as I was being asked various questions inside "the building on the left."

Green fog ??? The only time I've ever seen green fog around here was once after I drank some Mezcal -- and the worm too.

No, because the spammer's mail servers will keep pounding that same dead E-mail address for months if not years. Something else related to spammers and E-mail address harvesting: I would suspect that by now that certain sophisticated spammers have text processing routines for "cleaning"...

Unless you are speaking about Barracuda 3 or (bleh) the 5400 RPM "U-Boat" Series, I would definitely have to disagree with you. Things changed dramatically with the introduction of the Barracuda 4 20/40/60/80 GB drives. Comparing Barracuda 3 or earlier to Barracuda 4, it's like night and...

Milestones In Thermal Inkjet -------------------------------------- 1979 - Thermal inkjet technology is invented at HP Laboratories 1984 - ThinkJet printer is developed 1984 - Introduction of the disposable cartridge 1986 - New QuietJet/QuietJet + printers offer 192 dpi resolution through NLQ...

Pioneer announces that many of its DVD-R/RW computer drives and DVD recorders will require a firmware update in order to avoid potential damage to the units and discs... it is extremely important for owners of these products to make sure it is completed prior to using any new high-speed discs...

Hmmm... my summer ususally lasts from early February to the end of November. Here, under the sweaty palms of Houston Texas, it's usually somewhere around 30°C with a relative humility of 70%.

I know of no whitepaper as such on performance increases due to SATA protocol advancements, but it is frequently mentioned -- though less than the channel speed increase with SATA. Instead, I can only offer the fact that any storage engineer knows very well that with tagged command queuing a...