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Nothing objectionable as far as noise goes. 16x reading of a CD-R/W would be "good 'nuf" in my book. Otherwise, it seem to read CD-ROM and CD-R at roughly 40x.

Indeed, the Seagate Barracuda ATA Four is whispery quiet. Behold: http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200202/20020221IC35L120AVVA07_6.html

I'd take the latency of a current hard drive technologies over the rotten throughput of solid state Compact Flash Memory.

Yes, I have one at home in my "Internet Computer." I bought it only because: As I went out to buy a generic CD-ROM reader that November evening of the year 2001, after receiving my new mobo and chassis, I spotted a LiteOn 16x ATAPI writer at BestBuy for a price I couldn't refuse, which was...

I'll be 5-0 in October of this year.

Telstra's tech support here is so incredibly bad that they seem... non-existent.

About all I can say is that, early on (2000 or 2001), I read various forecasts of performance increases for the SMT Pentium IV, including increases of 30% ~ 40%. I guess that I also saw increases in processor resources of 30% ~ 40% as well and took that as a performance increase. After all...

Yes, about 10 years ago, a wide SCSI Samsung hard drive in Sun Sparcstation IPX. It would be worth your time to get a 20 GB ATA Four for evaluation. I presently use a 40 GB ATA Four here at home. It's fast and VERY QUIET, which is the exact opposite of the Barracuda ATA Three.

There are all sorts of different experimental storage technologies targeting different applications. Even though the various hard drive technologies being developed are all interesting (e.g. -- "Pixie Dust" et al), some of the most interesting is actually what's happening with WORM...

The Seagate Barracuda Four ATA hard drive has the best spindle in the business today. The Seagate Barracuda Four ATA is also far better than the previous Seagate ATA generation. So, the Seagate Barracuda Four ATA has my vote as the best overall drive available -- for either first or second...

I've witnessed sluggish Celeron-based systems with adequate RAM get a noticeable overall boost just by having their "economy" model 5400 RPM ATA hard drive replaced by a top-performing 7200 RPM ATA drive.

The LS-120 floppy drive is pretty good actually. You can store as much as 120 MB on a medium that fits easily into your top shirt pocket (...if you wear shirts that have pockets) and can ALSO read 720 KB / 1.4 MB floppy discs as well. The LS-120 is not particularly fast compared to Zip drives...

Mr. Helldiver: I believe we got the 30% ~ 40% increase in performance versus 30% ~ 40% increase in resources issue cleared up earlier, which was my mistake. We had already uncovered the fact that a claimed 30% ~ 40% increase in resources represents a somewhat dubious gain in reality. At this...

DNS can support multiple name entries in the database pointing to one IP address. It could last forever if you want it to, but I suspect that you don't (?). If you had it changed, it might take more than a day for the DNS update to propogate across the Internet.

By the way, Service Pack 1 for IE 6 should be available sometime in the next several weeks (early March?).

I've always thought of IE 6 as a massive collection of tweaks applied to IE 5.

. I had been hearing for a while, and even just lately it seems, that "Jackson" (or was it "Jacksonville") technology processors would not be available until *late* in 2002, like November or December at best. I'll be damned if I can recall the code name of the first H-T technology P4...

Probably right now in some coffeeshop somewhere in Silicon Valley, an Intel goobledygook blathermeister is creating a slew of bothersome trademarked names like: NetSpigot®, NetRush®, NetPort®, NetWarp®, NetFlush®, NetSafe®, NetGain®, NetLoss®, NetNut®, NetButt®, NetMommy®, NetDaddy®...

The now-established 0.13 micron and eventual 0.10 micron manufacturing process was absolutely key in ushering in this major architectural update. SMT / H-T will knock yer sox off when it finally arrives. It will be as good as two processors, but only one socket used. Let's just hope the price...

So, you just couldn't help but NetBurst all over the place :oops: ...sounds like a line out of some nerd sit-com .

. It will -- significantly . There is indeed at least one solid benefit to the current revved-up clocky design of the P4 when compared to the P2/P3 core, and that's good I/O performance. The downside of such designs is heat and the sundry problems that you can expect when working with...

Probably something rooted in the "time warp" also happening there. After all, they did have some folks posting messages there in "1969" recently!?! I wondering now if that was 1969 AD or 1969 BC!

If only one of these things had at least a 20 GB 2-1/2 inch hard drive (i.e. -- notebook hard drive), jeez I would pay US$300 or even $400 for one! No, I would never want to run Photoshop on one of these sort of thingees, but I would be happy enough just using one for pure Internet browsing...

If you're talking about digital (i.e. -- computer-based), yes. Otherwise, they definitely sell plenty of conventional photographic hardware, or at least they did at one time. I really haven't dealt with Lucht in many years, but they used to make many different and popular models of automatic...

Compaq IA-1 I saw one of these little things this weekend and was quite impressed with it, but much more so with what it COULD do, but doesn't (unfortunately). Its size is small but it was still fast (I believe it is Duron powered). The screen was surprisingly easy to read. It consumed...

. Heh... Just going through the lists of usernames over at SR, it seems like many of them are more like PASSWORDS than usernames. .

Has anyone called you John Cougar MellonTech yet? :-? Maybe he's one of these recently-registered SR members: FlameDeer (SR# 1043) unamed (SR# 1061) PottyCam (SR# 1134) NutTote (SR# 1192) .

I've actually been to Lucht / Bremson's factory in Kansas (it's a long secret story as to why). Anyway, I believe they are now owned by a German company called Gretag Imaging. Lucht used to have a purpose-built SGI-based photographic image retouching and correction workstation many years ago...

I guess we're back online??? Anyway... It sounds like you are essentially wasting your time with that image. You'll never be able correct it. Presuming that your display monitor is operating reasonably, you are going to have to start off by scanning a greyscale test image from negative...

6500° Kelvin is known as "daylight" illumination (colour temperature) and nearly all image sensors are optimised for 6500°K white point. 6500°K is equivalent to the colour that you will see if you step outside on a clear day at noon, hold a white sheet of paper out in front of you and let the...

Flatbed photo print scanners, with one exception (a particular US$40K+ Scitex model), are always poor *film* scanners. This is especially true if you need to digitise a negative. A flatbed photo scanner cannot handle the wide dynamic range of a typical slide (positive). Neither can a...