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Hmmmm....... Somehow my long-ish title got truncated. It should say: Maxtor SATA Drives Verified Intel on Canterwood Chipset

MILPITAS, Calif., April 14, 2003 -- Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives, today announced that the company's Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives have completed compatibility testing with Intel's 875P chipset for the Pentium® 4 processor. Tests were done in both Intel...

Shrink, not. Analyst, yes. Systems Analyst.

Those are actually lil' penguins spilling into the cup of MS. The significance of this illustration shows that Linux will somehow sweeten up yer Windoze experience. The green signifies envy. The highlighting around the cup signifies the struggle between the bourgeois and proletariat. The...

Many modern server mobos use the old ATI Rage graphics chipset (Rage = late '90s), because it's inexpensive and provides a decent level of GUI performance for a AGP 1x/PCI-based graphics chipset. Matrox's G-200 and G-450 chipset also supports PCI, but I would suspect they are not at all...

LSI Logic is at it again, beating everyone else to the table with new technologies! http://www.lsilogic.com/products/islands/sas_island.html

Once you start using this Virtual Hard Drive LED utility, you need to check it out thoroughly to see if it places undue overhead on the system. I only mention this because many a moon ago I used to use a virtual hard drive LED utility on a Macintosh Plus. I quickly found that this utility...

I'm not a Star Trek expert by any means, however there is definitely a "Middle Eastern" character on one of the Star Trek TV shows, who is a doctor and a regular cast member. I faintly recall seeing a show where his parents come from Earth for a surprise visit to his outpost. His parents were...

By the way, corned beef is pretty weird all by itself. :evil: WHERE THE HELL IS THE CORN??? :evil:

Without a doubt, the LSI Logic line of SCSI host bus adaptors is your answer. Tekram bases their SCSI host bus adaptors on LSI Logic's SCSI engines. LSI Logic has the best overall SCSI host bus adaptors on the market today. You can get "white box" versions of most LSI Logic SCSI host bus...

No, not really. I definitely do not keep up with AutoCAD. As for needing a particular graphics card for AutoCAD, I don't think it's such a big deal -- at least not anymore, unless you are still running the ancient DOS version of AutoCAD, then yes, you'd want "AutoCAD for DOS" drivers. I...

Lists of recipients don't show up in Spam messages, at least in the ones that are done correctly. I've received a couple of Spam messages a while back, where the Spam-idiot (based in Denmark) screwed up and put *everyone's* friggin' E-mail address into the TO: field. The message was a whopping...

Of course, AltaVista did all of this first back in 1995. Everyone else has followed. http://www.altavista.com/

I own one of these new Yamaha CRW-F1 drives. It's a super nice drive. The Disc T@2 feature could be useful in some situations, but I can tell you for sure that it works better on the darker media than the lighter media (green or gold) -- with dark blue being a bit better than dark green...

I still use my "old" Olympus C-2500, which is still one of the best "affordable" (< US$1200) low-light digital still cameras to date -- except that it isn't manufactured and sold any longer. It has a large aspherical low-dispersion glass lens, uses both SmartMedia and CompactFlash, full-manual...

I had heard a while back that IBM was "going back" to aluminum platters for the next generation of ATA hard drive (...160 / 180 / 200 ? GXP, looks like it'll be 180GXP) as glass platters (+ heat) was apparently a major part of the write problem that plagued 75GXP drives. The heads in some 75GXP...

Bwahahahaha! Ya, I'm laughing. Time to go to work!

Wasn't Nero corrupt and didn't Nero basically let Rome burn??? :D

I believe there was a woman in Oklahoma that got hit by a piece of space junk (i.e. -- man-made satellite trash).

FWIW, I just happen to own a sitar! Well, it's my *second* sitar (the first a Coral) and it's an electrik one: http://www.gary-hendershot.com/instruments/JerryJones_Electric-Sitar.html

Yes, no problem if you have "modern" hardware that supports ACPI. I have a server (running Win2K Server OS) with a 4-channel MegaRAID host adapter, 3-each AHA-3940 dual channel Ultra-160 SCSI adaptors (that's 6 channels of SCSI) and the Supermicro S2DGU mobo's onboard AHA-2940U2W Ultra2 SCSI...

SP-1 for Windows XP has been made available to download for the privileged few. This is the real deal containing updates and bug fixes for all Windows XP platforms (Home Edition, Professional) -- not a beta version. WARNING: It's 135 MB in size...

DFX could be either a metathesistic creation or an awful rap group. However, DXF is the AutoCAD Drawing eXchange Format.

Back in the mid-1970s, I used to occasionally see a Triumph 650 twin-based chopper (er... a custom motorcycle) driving around that had tailpipes very similar to those above. And, incredibly, this motorcycle's tailpipes were about the same height! One thing that the owner of that automobile...

Yes. I keep telling people that you can turn this off if they want to. It isn't hard.

I saw something last night that made we wonder... W H Y ??? What I saw was an idiot driving an automobile that had dual exhaust, but not just any dual exhaust, as this one had a lighting system up deep inside each muffler. Each muffler had a short tailpipe coming out, but definitely up...

Yes, Win95 was flakey to an extent, but it got a lot better with the "OEM2" version (FAT32, etc.).

Win 98 "first edition" -- without stripping out anything (¿ are we talking about using Win98 Lite?) -- was obviously a bit of a get-it-out-the-door-now-and-we'll-fix-it-later product. They did that with Win98 SE, which was fairly decent. Win ME should have never come out. It should have...

The "straight off the original CDROM" drivers go through a MS WHQL check and probably have all the performance optimisations (tweakings) removed or maybe a feature or two. I believe I've heard that there are even some of these first edition drivers where the driver forces the video card to...

Yes, I mentioned WinNT4 / SP-2 above. MS rushed it out the door without a thorough beta test, which ended up causing certain various amounts of grief. Fortunately, I was not one of those that experienced problems with the installation of WinNT4 SP-2. WinNT4 SP-1, SP-2, and SP-3 all had their...

[Q:] Tweeter, _ _ _ _ er. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [A:] Dostoevsky.

I'm still trying to recall exactly what the hell my first post was precisely about there at the embryonic SR Forum in September 1998, but I'm sure it was something to do with CD-R drives to a person named... "Kansas." I had used UBB forums before for about a year -- a couple of professional...

No, just a lot of a fighting and canoodling. :D

As far as performance goes, RAID Level-5 is good for reads, not so good for writes. Separating the logs from the database by placing each on different physical volumes helps if you have a highly active database.

He was in Lewisville, I believe. That's definitely up thar in the bible belt territories of Dallas / Fort Worth.

As far as silence goes, "Silence" by Pete Namlook is an excellent piece of Germanic ambient electronix from 1992. (Namlook = Kuhlman backwards)... Definitely a candidate for "desert island disc." Pete Namlook -- "Silence" FAX Records (reissued on Ambient World sublabel) Silence - PK 08/25...

Isn't "Jason" the same person as the "JEHH" person that was talked about once around here -- a person that posts a lot at the Storage Review? If so, he doesn't live near Houston, instead he lives on up in the bible belt zone -- DALLAS.

>> William/Wendy Carlos (don't ask) ...that would actually be Walter / Wendy Carlos' best is probably "Sonic Seasons."

I guess not, cuz not even the all-knowing I has heard of "The Angels," which I'm sure is not the same as the crappy early '80s glitterrock metal band called Angel -- the one that Frank Zappa made fun of on "Sheik Yerboutti" (I believe it was that FZ album). There was a band called the Comsat...

No beach here, but I regularly see scantily clad women in boats in my neighbourhood -- and that's pretty much 3/4 the year. Temp here today was about 31° or 32°C.

Another thing that I was going to add to "The Future..." speculation going on here, was that Advanced Instant On capabilities might come along once the price of Flash RAM has fallen to levels where 512 MB will cost about US$50 or so. Of course, PC BIOSes would support the Flash RAM for...

This is an ANCIENT subject.

Thanks for dredging up those memories of the 486 era. Yes, I've seen TI 486 processors in the past, but I forgot that Cyrix was the designer of that TI processor and that Cyrix started off with 486 processors. Maybe I simply WANTED to forget all of this, which is the most likely reason I forgot.

Ahhhh... Blue Lightning (not Blue Flame -- that's something else that IBM has which I now forget what is). Cyrix did have a follow up to the 6X86, but it got delayed time and time again for some reason, then late in the game -- cancelled -- only to be revived again for a bit just before the...

er... That's not the way it was between IBM and Cyrix. Cyrix was not owned by IBM or anyone else. There was not a commitment as such between the two parties, just a business deal that blossomed. Cyrix only had a large office building (I've seen it several times years ago -- it's just up the...

Yes, Cyrix did have the manufacturing power. It was IBM.

I don't recall any Intel litigation as far as *microprocessors* go with C&T or UMC, but Harris eventually gave up the ghost with their super-duper overclockin' 25MHz 286 when Intel was well into the 386 era. By the way, the Harris 25MHz 286 could run DOS programs about as fast as a 33MHz 386...

Are you all talking about the "Check For Newer Versions Of Stored Pages" settings in Internet Explorer?

Long LONG before AMD got into the processor business, I was a big user of AMD parts and even an *AMD fan* -- I'm talking, er, 1979 / 80 / 81 here dude! Anyway, AMD made some of the highest quality CMOS logic around. Motorola simply had the worst trash CMOS there was and it was the least...