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Maybe I was t-r-y-i-n-g to recall THIS recently: [list:f9b6a8c8da] From 1 Inch to 500 Gbytes: Seagate Unveils Wide Range Of New Drives ...On the enterprise side, the company introduced the NL35 series, which includes a 500-Gbyte drive with a Fibre Channel interface aimed at the near-line...

Yowza! Even I wouldn't be as brutal on Western Digi as this. Wait, I could. As "yesteryear" (or late to market) as they are, maybe Scorpios are refurbished pre-Hitachi IBM Travelstars that have been relabeled as a WD product. Lou Gerstner's 99¢ bargain bin!

Spyware has definitely been on MY radar screen (and several other people I know) for a good 3 or more years. Comet Cursor, Gator, and others were some of the first commonly distributed spywares that began to get non-computer-professional people's attention. I think that only recently a small...

WEEEEE HEEEEE HEEEEE! About 3 or so years ago, I recall someone posting a glowing (er... slobbering) account about "Going ALL Wireless: This Is The Future And It's Great" once back at the OLD Snorage Review website. I offered a snide confutation along the lines of, "No thanks, I don't...

This coming Monday (14/June) there will be an announcement of all the hard drives that Seagate plans to introduce this calendar year. Possibly the most inteesting will be the new 3.5-inch form factor Cheetah 15K.4, with capacities of 36 GB, 73 GB, and 147 GB, and available with Fibre-Channel...

MUBS: By the way, before my recent hiatus, back when we were talking about the Aphex Aural Exciter, you were mentioning some one-of-a-kind cassette tapes that you have, which contained some amount of noise / hiss as well as poor audio qualities. I could process a cassette or two using my...

Yes. I thought it to be clever. "My" idea was to have 3 or 4 movements in something I was going to call "WSS," or The Windows Sound Symphony. Otherwise, doing this collage was pretty far d.o.w.n my list of priorities to do musically, and, with little free time then (as now), it simply never...

Well, it's now 2004. Are there any "generic" TiVo-like devices around (hard drive based) yet? I keep hearing they are close. What I want is a small manually-operated manually-programmed hard drive based digital video recorder. Simple simple simple. No subscriptions, no phone line...

This is essentially old news rehashed. We already knew (at least I did for several months) there was to be a new connector for external SATA, though there were already some small outfits already doing external SATA with existing "internal" cables. A "multi-lane" cable is a similar idea to...

I believe I meant to say (way back when) that my installation setup was for both Win2K AND WinXP. You need a IE6 SP-1 different setup for Win9x/ME and NT4.

(newzsource = Associated Press) ...The project was led by researchers at Stanford and included a scientist at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow and engineers at disk-drive maker Seagate Technologies LLC... The whole enchilada at...

Yes, Swedish!!! Back in the '70s, I had their first album (vinyl LP). Later on, I got the CD reissue. They are not exactly a Top 40 band by any stretch of the imagination! They are sort of a Nord "tribal" band actually, with some electric guitars present here and there. I've had other...

Disregard... That was my tragic attempt at sarcasm (i.e. -- lotsa wormz in the newz lately.)

As ridiculous as cooling has become (i.e -- evermore complex and expensive) I'm surprised someone hasn't built their own "personal cooling tower" outside -- ala Cray. Don't tell me, someone's already done it... :lol:

I believe the floppy emulation is done with remapping of interrupt vectors during the downloading of the BIOS into low memory addresses at boot-time. The interrupt vector that's normally used for the operation of the floppy drive is remapped to the interrupt vector used by the IDE channel...

Probably a brain error ( giga <----> mega). Are the Enquirer and Register rags even trustworthy, like even 1% trustworthy?

Yep. I'm actually more interested in the$e number$.

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One caveat that I should mention with my "92mm fan experice" is that a 92mm fan may or MAY NOT fit in everyone's case! So, 80mm may be the only way to go for some folk.

Well, I wasn't kidding you one bit about proper DRAM. In fact, I'd almost bet that those DIMMs won't work in a lot of computers that would otherwise handle a pair of 1GB DDR DIMMs. I still think that you are wasting money going with 2 GB or RAM. 1 GB is more than enough unless you are...

You can make your own "slipstream" installation CDs for WinXP, Win2K, Office, etc. There are instructions scattered all around Micro$oft on how to do this. I've done it. It's not too hard. Though I could be wrong, I though that even Tea once claimed that she successfully made a...

The guy would be a lot better off with arrays based on SATA Maxtor MaxLine II drives -- like a pair of such arrays with one running as failover on the SAN.

No, I definitely meant 2 Giga bits (per second); that's 1 Gb/S upstream and 1 Gb/s downstream. A single GbE connection isn't going to gain anything by being plumbed into a fatter pipe than it could ever possibly use (2 GB/s). Even a 2 Gb/s (full duplex, of course) is more than enough...

Maxtor and Intel Team to Show the Performance of Native Command Queuing and the Flexibility of Hot Plug Capabilities Using Next Generation SATA Drives ...talk of SATA II, also: http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=128847&reltype=Corporate&maxtor_section=press

A few weeks ago, I bought a large Swiftech MCX478-V P4 and finally, somewhat recently, installed it in my system along with a LARGE low-speed 92mm case fan on top. That heatsink weighs about as much as the whole mobo. This large slow fan + MCX478-V P4 setup is QUIET. Too bad the power...

If you're trying to setup one "large" boot partition with that 160 GB ATA/SATA drive, then you will have to bootup on an XP-SP1 "slipstreamed" CD (or XP / SP-2 when available). If you just want to use the 160 GB hard drive as a secondary drive with a single "large" partition, or create a <128...

Well, this is certainly not the first time I've heard of young sharks latching on and not letting go. These young little sharks are typically a lot worse about biting everything that moves. Now that I'm reminded about sharks (i.e. -- the old "Shark thread" from August 2003, around here...

You need to call back and find out if there is some sort of "intermediary" involved in normal transaction processing (i.e. -- a third party). I'd be *really* surprised if there is. Other than that, I'd suspect they have issues with their transaction server. PS: I would avoid (like the...

The G100 came out roughly in early 1998 and the G200 came out about mid-1998. The G200 has better memory bandwidth, as I can pan and zoom high-res images better on the G200 compared to the G100. Way back when, I suspect Matrox's G100 development project was significantly delayed for some...

There seems to be a coder that came over a while back from the older Mozilla project that has a talent for writing buggy code. Before that merger, the old Phoenix browser was actually quite stable. Then, this "merger of talent" took place, some updates were performed, the new Firebird...

It doesn't matter how fast half-duplex PCI-X is because CSA gives you direct access to memory through a dedicated 2 Gb/s full-duplex channel. 1 Gb Ethernet isn't ever going to gain any additional throughput communicating through a pipe with more than 2 Gb/s. In this case, you are cutting out a...

I'm not sure if we coverd this, but, one thing to note when dealing with Supermicro mobos is that you can't compromise on RAM by going with low-bidder / no-name stuff, as it will likely cause performance or reliability hiccups. You are far better off going with a name brand RAM stick from...

Just in case you weren't looking this weekend, Nero Ultra version 6.3.0.0 was released for all of those users of 6.0.0.23 (or earlier, but not 5.x) to upgrade to. With V6.3 casting its long shadow over the CD-R/W and DVD+-R/W landscape, one would have to guess they are trying to stay Ahead of...

With the exception of the freekin' LED lighting :evil: the GigaByte offering could definitely be a contender. However, I suspect it won't be available for a while. I was looking more for something available now, and for something not in short supply.

Of these, there has only been West Nile here in Houston. As far as blackouts of the type observed yesterday in the northeast US, the power grid around here is quite well built, so there's basically no chance of an overload -- or brownouts. Typical mains voltage is 115 ~ 118 VAC (I have...

MS also has yet another E-Mail program that some of you may have never heard of before -- Entourage. Outlook could be replaced (on Windows platforms) by an Entourage port.

I guess you never used plug-n-play EISA configurations back in '92-ish. EISA plug-n-play technology was the foundation for what became ISA plug-n-play a little later on ('94-ish).

Actually it was half Apple (the O/S part) and half Texas Instruments' (NuBus). NuBus was used in a few other obscure computers. I used one of these obscure computers once -- a Thinking Machines box.

Have a large (>120 GB) ATA or SATA drive that won't allow you access to its full capacity? (Or, Intel's old Intel Application Accellerator is not compatible with your "new" mobo?) Minimum of Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows 2000 (SP3) [list:c8531412a8] Run REGEDIT. Go...

I was aware of drive stiction at the time. That Toshiba drive had a different problem. I had stiction problems with a particular Maxtor full-height (5.25-inch) drive... er... something like maybe a Model 8270S, if I recall correctly. This particular boat anchor Maxtor model was one of the...

Well, if it won't pass the Adaptec test I outlined above, then there's definitely no hope. Having the SCSI host adaptor send the low-level format command to the SCSI hard drive controller is pretty much the ultimate test for basic SCSI hard drive functionality. If you have the drive out of...

It seems there's a lot of Sh#* hitting the fan in the SF Pub & Brewery this week! Speaking of the murky Bothnian and Baltic waters, I bet Th'JoJo can remember back in the '90s and '80s when a Russian spy submarine or 2 (or 3 or 4) embarrassingly revealed themselves trespassing in Swedish...

I wasn't poking at TimWhit directly, just highlighting his tidiness problem that could have been TOTALLY PREVENTABLE if he had just followed some basic rules: Question the existence of every item you own on a regular basis ("Do I still need this?"). If you don't need a item any...

Hopefully you're moving to an apartment with plumbing this time around.

...Safer. Smarter. More Secure. Smarter? Hmmmm.... Either Andrew Jackson's eyes will "come alive" for novelty purposes, or there will be tracking features in each note. Of course, neither of these indicate any sort of real "intelligence," unless they are talking about intelligence as in...

If I were you, I'd certainly go as far as backing up all my data files, then re-formatting the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch.

The reasons for lack of Tulip support could be many. Manufacturers (not Microsoft for the large part) write the device drivers that are on a Windows O/S CD and then submit them to M$ for testing and hopeful conclusion on the final product, or into a Service Pack. It may be that the drivers...

One caveat about academic discounts: What may be available in the USA, may or may not be available in another country. One should check on the availability of such software in their respective territories. (I wonder if academic software discounts are available in Greenland? I wonder if...

Here's another Firebird / Thunderbird combo, except these have been around for about 35 years.

[NEWS] - Canterwood stumbles at the gate. There's actually nothing wrong with "Canterwood," as this is only the chipset. Canterwood is perfectly fine. The new 3.0 GHz (with 800 MHz FSB) P4 processor is the problem. The lower speed versions of this new 800 MHz FSB series -- 2.8 GHz, 2.6...