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I was only talking about the software side of things (above). Hardware is extra. Once M$ has device driver support for standalone tape drives, tape libraries, optical libraries, virtual tape libraries, and RAID arrays, the software will sell itself. M$ isn't going to mess with selling or...

Finally! A legitimate reason to use the Windows Cash Register sound for every system event that occurs!

Tannin, you were close, but it's actually the Austrian Security Intelligence Organisation. <chuckle> Asynchronous Streaming Input Output

Scramjets have been talked about for decades, but not built and tested until recently. An old-fashioned ramjet motor works essentially the same way a scramjet motor works, when it is going at supersonic speeds. It's nearly impossible to properly test a scramjet motor in a wind tunnel, so...

Semi-pro and professional sound cards are big business. These people need a level of audio quality that has never been available with any embedded audio offering from a mobo company or chipset manufacturer (Intel, Via, etc) -- and usually with multiple independent audio channels on the scale of...

I should have posted this Monday, but, anyway... According to someone I recently talked to that's in the know, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hardware is actually going to start becoming available to end users right around the first week of July. Yes, it should have already been available by...

Much time has past since I queried this community about HDD video recorders. and, after all these earth years (more than 3), I finally bought something like what I originally described -- actually better. In this case, I bought a Toshiba RDXS32, with an internal hard drive and a DVD-RAM /...

About a million miles from here (figuratively speaking) up in the panhandle near the Colorado / Kansas / Oklahoma / New Mexico border zone, where the Canadian River begins. If I recall correctly, the Canadian River in that area looks a lot more like the Grand Canyon than a normal river...

A different sort of Canadian: Blizzards in the winter, hot as hell in the summer, snow tornados and regular tornados in the spring, dust storms in the autumn, and bovines all over the place. http://www.canadiantx.com/

LSI Logic: MegaRAID® SAS 300-8E, 8-port PCI Express SAS RAID adapter utilizing the LSISAS1068 controller IC, connecting to an nStor 12-drive SAS enclosure with the LSISASx12 SAS expander and housing SAS drives from Maxtor. RAID 6 with HP Advanced Data Guarding running on a SAS JBOD...

Visit the Clinton Library and you might get some of these...

Yep. I recall reading that same article a few years ago, but it was in the Washington Post -- I thought.

I use a squirrel cage for cooling -- with a real squirrel inside! Hungry Squirrel running for Food

heehee... I've been to a couple of those places pictured in that photo exposè, and a few others not mentioned in the greater Brooklyn / Manhattan area. But, that was aeons ago. However, I doubt things have changed at all. When I visited these establishments, my extrasensory weather sensors...

I don't know. I do recall from doing a shirt sleeve calculation years ago that the outer edge of a 15kRPM hard drive platter is zipping along at well over 100 miles per hour (160+ KPH) and that the outer edge of a mundane 7.2kRPM hard drive platter is zipping along at about 100 KPH (60+ MPH)...

IE 7 code name: RINCON Will be a tabbed browser Integration of Microsoft's Windows anti-spyware service Will feature international domain name support Supports transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) for the displaying of overlayed images A news aggregation feature Simplified...

Correction: Solaris 2.0 = SunOS 5.0...

Yes! I should have mentioned that. Sun has been doing nearly the same thing all these years with Solaris (I suspect Microsoft has been mimicking Sun in this respect): Solaris 1.0 = SunOS 4.1; Solaris 2.0 = SunOS 2.0... The classic Solaris 2.5.1 = SunOS 5.5.1; Solaris 2.6 = SunOS 5.6...

The 22-incher Mitsubishi ---> NEC/Mitsubishi ---> NEC monitors are very much available in the USA. Like I mentioned earlier, I suspect that the Australian channel for NEC/Mitsubishi is simply undergoing a product purge to allow the NEC-labeled product to replace it, as it did here about 3...

Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 are all different generations of kernels. Server 2003 is best thought of simply as Windows 2003. Windows XP is best thought of simply as Windows 2001. Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Workstation have the same kernel. The latest Workstation...

I was using Mosaic for about 1.5 years before Netscape emerged. I recall FTP-ing into UIUC (and mirrors) to get the latest monthly build of Mosaic. Mosaic was a manual install, and it frequently crashed on an otherwise stable computer running Windows for Workgroups V3.11. Then Netscape 1.0...

The article mentions a 12-port SAS expander module in use at the exhibition. There's also a 36-port expander IC in the works! Obviously, this will be the central point of a large array -- though it may not be all that physically large with the use of 2.5-inch SAS drives. Below are a few...

As long as it isn't one of those first 2 generations, it shouldn't be all that bad. Besides, it'll keep your mind on your work, unless you get involved with endlessly customising your Desktop Settings. As someone at ChompUSA once told me: Yes, the lovely iMac. "Our most popular computer...

Those settings above would be the final boot order settings, as, of course, you will be booting from a CD-ROM to install the O/S. So, during O/S instalation, you might have the following boot settings: First Boot: CD/DVD-ROM on IDE channel 0 Second Boot: SCSI HBA in Slot 6 Third Boot...

As I recall, there are a couple of jumpers on the back of the SCA rack unit: One for enable/disable of SCSI bus termination, one for low/high address range so that you can have two SCA rack units on one SCSI bus. The backcover comes off to reveal the fan and circuit board. Look in the owner's...

...Prognosticatations Yes, I actually DO know how to spell Prognostications. Of course, my hyperactive left flipper can't... anyway... I'm already wondering if there will be single-channel AND dual-channel SAS mobos available, or if there will be SAS channel(s) with a serial-to-parallel SCSI...

Not too hard to find 'em: http://store.yahoo.com/laptoppartsnow/ecselsya5amd1.html The CD-R/W is just a Compaq / HP notebook part. You remove the sleds from the A535 CD/DVD-ROM drive and attach them to the new unit and re-install. Also, are you sure it has Wireless G? Walmart only...

Hmmmm...... No *display* problems here using FireFox OhPointNinerPointOne on that OfficeUpdate page at Microsoft. It did complain in that... [list:f3291460cf] Warning: You are viewing this page with an unsupported Web browser. This Web site works best with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or...

At around US$500 each, the least expensive iSCSI HBA is the one from iNTEL. If you expect to get good I/O performance on an IP SAN, you will need hardware-assisted TCP/IP acceleration and the buffering. http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/iscsi/ Even though iSCSI...

The YY-0400 has 15 exposed drive bays. Your YY-0221 has all the front drive bays exposed and the "rear" drive bays as internal drive bays -- meaning you have to open the chassis up to get to them. The YY-0400's rear drive bays are fully exposed to the outside like the front ones. Obviously...

Unless McDonald'z hires those koalas first. Then they got a job so that they can rent out a tree to live in and eat from. By the way, Koalas can slash you bad. Then there are the cute wombats.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040524/tc_nm/tech_chips_dc

New "Me Too" SCSI hard drives, with up models to 147 GB @ 15kRPM and up to 300 GB @ 10kRPM. http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=134388&reltype=Product&maxtor_section=press

Some of what you are talking about is dynamic range compression and some is audio normalisation. "Normalising" audio is simply taking existing (presumably quieter) audio and shifting all the content's amplitude upwards so that the peak is now equal to 0 dB. There is no dynamic range...

Well, here's a *strange* variant on the Parhelia lineup. This is apparently the first-ever true PCI-X graphics card (notice that I did not say PCI Express, but PCI-X). It is a Parhelia with basic video input capability...

Of course, you can always get the real deal (and more) here: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/

Well, I hate to break it to everyone here, but doing this trick with the Plug-Ins folder is hardly anything new. In fact, it's a more-than-a-decade-old trick for troubleshooting Photoshop. Make a folder named "Disabled Plug-Ins" and copy certain plug-ins... blah blah blah...

Montreal is the snowiest city¹ in the world. ¹ population of 1 000 000 or more people

The price of the bleeding edge dualie Opteron (currently the 248), could go up or down. I would not be a bit surprised if it were to go up US$10 ~ $40 if demand for it skyrockets. Once the Opteron 250 makes it out of the oven (that should be sometime in the next 10 ~ 12 weeks) the price for...

I believe Monsieur Merc aptly shed some light -- just above -- on why. The P4 is all about a revved-up digestion pipeline, the P3, Centrino, and AMD64 are not. There's good and bad about the P4 approach. It's Opteron's on-die memory controller circuitry that makes the biggest difference...

The upcoming (early 2004) Xeons will definitely not be dual-core. There are dual-core Xrons coming, but that might be 2 or 3 years from now. As for what you are looking for, Santilli, it's definitely not a Xeon, but an Opteron -- to be more exact, the Tyan K8W (S2885). And, if you go with...

I wonder what caller's reaction would be if they called and received, instead of the sounds of dolphinistic clicking and whistling, the loud bubbly underwater flatulence sounds?

Here's someone who sez that Bull sharks are THE most dangerous (sorta what I was thinking, since they show up places you'd least expect them, they're cunning, unpredictable, don't fear humans, and love to bite any and everything). http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bilsons/Sharks2.htm

I don't know about being an authority on sharks, just experienced with them to a degree -- from angling, surfing, and boating around them. Well, I must've seen a Great Hammerhead that one time. It looked like a long torpedo with a hammerhead head on it. The place I saw these 2 large (Great)...

...Then you'd shoot it in the top of the head with a rifle, such as a 30-30 or 30-06, as you pulled it up to the surface because only a fooking idiot would pull a live shark into their boat and have this mutli-toothed (and razor-sharp-toothed) beast thrashing around biting everything in sight...

Oh ya, I'm familiar with the perfectly logical reasons why White sharks can't help themselves for chomping down on surfers in black wetsuits; they're seal eating machines. Well, I've always generally looked for TWO dorsal fins (sharks) versus ONE (porpoise, dolphin) when doing sudden quick...

The Lumina digital back has been around for the GX680 series. Of course, you'll need to mortgage the house to buy one. I've had little contact with the GX680. I've seen them and fiddled around with them, just never have used one.

Wet. Wet all over. You might want to leave it alone, but build a new RAID-0 array that uses a configuration with 2-each 73GB X-15 Cheetah drives with SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI) attached to a PCI-X-based or PCI-Express-based RAID controller (with SAS channels, of course) in a...

Owls, using their powerful talons in a sporting event, proved to be superior to mere Cardinals by winning the baseball College World Series title. Rice University Owls -- a local (Houston, TX) area university -- whooped up on the Stanford Cardinals in game #3, with a score of 14 to 2, to win...