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>> exhorbitant hmmm... exorbitant + horror = exhorbitant ...I guess :colors: now, where the hell did that beer go!

Well, I’m pretty sure Leica was selling photo kit back in the 50s with coated lenses, and if I’m not mistaken, Zeiss had enough success with the performance of coated lenses back in the late 30s that it got classified as a war secret (WW II). Probably a WAY more than just 1 F-stop, because if...

I once knew of someone who had a *kitten* that liked to go out and ride on the surfboard at the beach. Yes, the ocean. Yes, get soaking wet. Well, I hate to breakup the laughter, but, I reviewed the "flying cat video" and the cat is a real cat and the same cat all the way through the...

It's certainly not unusual to see meteorological temperatures reported in 0.5 increments (e.g. -- 34.5°C). IPv6 is compatible with IPv4 and vice versa. I believe IPv6 is already being used on a backbone or two somewhere -- maybe the Project Abilene backbone.

Encryption acceleration hardware -- usually boards that plug into the expansion bus that require a system device driver -- have been around for some time. This one is pretty handy.

Actually, the speakers I was talking about just above your message are fully compatible and fully safe around any computer system's monitors and magnetic storage. Many near field recording studio speakers are pretty much the upper crust of "small" powered speaker systems as far as audio...

Comparing a 7200 RPM SATA drive with a native SATA interface to the most recent 7200 RPM SCSI drive, you'll find that the performance is virtually the same. Queue depth is less with a SATA drive, but very few are going to hit that limitation with a desktop computer. Reliability ratings...

Well, someone was telling me about this system about 1+ years ago, and my comment then was, "Compression of a liquid???" As you may very well know, compression of liquid is very very hard, though not impossible, as scientists know that water at the deepest depths of the ocean has been proven to...

Yes, this is the DVD "combo" writer I was talking about somewhat recently. It just came out. It's the first on the market to write to all DVD media formats, except DVD-RAM. A particular Memorex DVD writer was supposed to be the first combo DVD writer on the market, but I guess it was stalled...

Is "+" so bad? I own a "-" (a Pioneer DVR-104). In the ranks of the professional and industrial DVD world, drives using -R (-R/W) technology are all that exist, only because they came along significantly earlier. All standalone duplicators use -R/W. Professional DVD video mastering...

Well, now that I think about it, this would be a fun-in-the-sun summer tour for the deep frozen Teutonic duo -- sweating it out in Sydney, melting down in Melbourne, and broiling in Brisbane, along with wrestling great whites and tickling taipans in their off-time. January/February isn't so...

Eh... Düsseldorf, unless Florian has emigrated recently.

PX-504 DVD+R/W ============================================== 6-in-1 drive: 4X DVD+R, 2.4X DVD+RW, 12X DVD-ROM, 16X CD-R, 10X CD-RW, 40X max CD-ROM Buffer Under Run Proof technology prevents errors in CD-R/RW writing Lossless Linking prevents errors in DVD writing High capacity - Holds 4.7...

WOW! Ralf Hutter! Surprised to see you here. How's Florian Schneider doing??? 8) Yes, I've been doing the same for years now (at home). These days I mostly boot WinXP and Win2K. I recently upgraded my 2-each ATA drive bays with a couple of Antec's latest ATA-133-rated drive bays. I...

If the computer industry could just stop the clock speed madness and concentrate on holding clockspeed at about 2.5 GHz, maybe by the time microprocessors are produced using 90nm manufacturing process a microprocessor would only require a passive heatsink for normal operations with a small fan...

> Final score was 48 to 21, though it could easily have been 51 to 14. Excuse me, 51 to 15.

If you saw the Dallas Cowboys versus Buffalo Bills or NY Giants versus Buffalo Bills games in the 1990s, then this wasn't too different -- with the Raiders being the equivalent to the Bills. Final score was 48 to 21, though it could easily have been 51 to 14.

The secret is all in the phosphors used. (Remember, we talked about phosphors once before in this thread before it went off-topic! -- that was long persistence versus medium-long persistence phosphors.) Fluorescent lighting with blue-ish phosphors is the least expensive to make. Those eerie...

Looks like there's about 6 people with egg on their faces. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers mastered the Oakland Raiders throughout the game much like a Cobra might master a field rat.

This household pretty much is Halogen exclusive, save for a couple of "squiggle" (?!?) fluorescent bulbs in places where the lighting requirements are such that they may need to stay on for extended periods of time (garage area). The colour temperature of halogen is fairly close to that of the...

Unless you are running WinXP as your O/S, because WMP 8.0 is installed as the base-level player.

iGary recommends Goldwave to the masses, but actually doesn't use Goldwave. Actually, I use a combination of Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge and CD Architect. For multi-track recording, I don't bother using the computer since I am decidedly "old school" when it comes to that type of audio...

Well, it is or was BCN Technologies, though there might actually nowadays be someone else handling Super-O in Australia. http://ebusiness.bcntech.com.au/ecustomer/ Otherwise, Supermicro has a very extensive lineup of mobos for professional / technical / commercial use...

ClearCard is solid state and can hold (potentially) around 60 GB -- in the laboratory -- when and if it ever finally becomes a commercial product. With ClearCard, the card is read with a scanning head and does not move.

By the way, I once met THE Bill Gates. This was back around 1988.

I rarely eat pizza, but I have had both the NY and the Chicago recipes and I would have to say -- unequivocally -- that the Chicago approach to pizza construction is better. The NY approach is a bit too, er... greazy for me and I definitely prefer the thick crust. I do believe that the NY...

Superior to what Promise or 3Ware offers -- AND LESS EXPENSIVE THAN EITHER -- is the Acard AEC-6280 at just US$45 per adaptor. Acard are those clever folk that devised those SCSI --> IDE convertors (bridges) a while back and now offer a plethora of SCSI-to-ATA bridges. I use one for...

I would even recommend waiting until the the golden version of 7.00 is available. The current version definitely has some serious bugs. I've had it to cause a sudden reboot in WinXP (SP-1) when I visited an intense Java-laden website.

Chances are about 50/50 that this drive will be available in a few months with a SATA interface. However, Maxtor may very well release only 7200 RPM drives with SATA interfaces for a while, phasing in SATA for the first time with 5400 RPM drives in the next generation 5400 RPM model line (i.e...

Unfortunately, it spins in the wrong direction for use in EU.

> ...it could be possible for people to spam the board. Oh, believe me, I fully realise this place could turn into a spam target without said facility! It's not a URL issue that I'm having, it's that I never did received the E-mail message(s) with the Confirmation URL(s). To your...

Is it possible that automatic confirmation E-mail is turned off, or possibly not working? It seems that iGary and some mültï-dïërësïs'd ëntïtÿ iz patiently waiting to log in. (zorry Tea)

Methinks I've seen lots of compact discs in recent times from a Mudvain (though it could've been a MudvaYne) in the used CD bins... like nobody wants 'em... and like I'm thinking (if I'm correctly connecting this stuff) that it's some sort of common-as-dirt deth-metal crud of some sort or...

Well, it could be the lead vocalist of _ _ _ _ _ _ as well. Let's just say I was -- and really still am -- busy; work, school, and other activities. When push came to shove, playing around on the Internet just had to be relegated to... Er... It took me about a minute to figure out that...

Maxtor announces that it is "shipping" a 250 GB ATA hard drive. The Maxtor 250GB Hard Drive Kit is available at retailers nationwide. The MSRP for the Maxtor 250GB Hard Drive Kit is $399.95...

No, what will happen with Maxtor and WesternDigi will be that they will release existing and/or new SATA hard drives with the addition of a performance robbing SATA <---> Parallel bridge circuit. Later generations of drives from these companies will have proper SATA controller implementations...

All SATA Barracuda V drives will have an 8MB buffer/cache. The PCB for the SATA drives has a 8MB module mounted on it along with the SATA controller. Being a 30 GB version, this is an EARLY engineering sample drive that will NEVER be available. SATA Barracuda V drives will only be available...

I use Raritan MasterConsole II KVM switchers at 1152x864 and 1280x1024. They can work with virtually any mix of computers (including older Sun, SGI, Mac, etc). http://www.raritan.com/products_mc2_briefing.html

I'm nothing more than a poet - a poet that takes liberties on spelling words like Explorer, by adding dual-"E"s to the beginning -- Eexplorer. :oops: No, wait a second! I'm a dolphin, a beer-drinking dolphin. You'll never catch me in Redmond, because the waters of Redmond are too cold. I...

Nope, SP-1 ! And it's probably kinda... big.

Microserfs toiling away under the fluorescent lighting of a god-forsaken data dungeon in Redmond... "We need to get SP-1 for IE 6 out in the coming week or so, maybe like the week of 16/September or maybe even a little bit earlier if uncle Bill says so."

Yep. I'm still 49, but not for too much longer. But, it's like, yo, man, I really don't care much any longer.

I'm back from vacation this morning just to discover that SP-3 for Windows 2000 has been made available to download for the privileged few. This is the real deal containing updates and bug fixes for all Windows 2000 platforms (Workstations, Server, etc.) -- not a beta version. It's 129...

Well well. I finally got home (from doing yet-another god-forbidden midnight ~ 8AM shift) and look through a xerox copy of my old ancient LP auction list from 1982/83 and the reason that I can't recall the Mushroom Records label is because I didn't have any! But, I almost immediately figured...

I don't have a David Gilmour (guitar player for Pink Floyd, for those whom may not know) *only* because I haven't gotten around to buying his first solo album yet on CD. When the itch to get it occurs, I'll do so. I had a nice Japanese LP pressing his first solo album way back when. Also, I...

> in the Melboune area Melbourne

Tannin. You are at +10 GMT in the Melboune area. The USA ranges from -5 GMT to -10 GMT. So you anywhere from 15 hours up to 20 hours ahead of the USA.

Are there any mobos that have 4-each ATA / IDE connectors (channels) on the circuit board? There very well could be some, but I've not seen any yet. If there are, this would the perfect mobo for you, especially if there are no limitations on any of the channels.

Cliptin: Unfortunately, I have no problem winning distance races or sprints with the "average" 20 ~ 30 year olds. People that don't know me well, or at all, probably assume I'm roughly a 32 ~ 36 year old person. I have somewhat long hair, not balding, and not grey. I'm 6-foot 1-inch tall...

Most of the "big" coastal bridges have roughly a 200 feet clearance between the water and the bottom of the bridge over the main ship channels. I've long known that the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge has roughly 200 feet of clearance for ships -- which, by the way, isn't enough for a few...