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I use a particular "large" Rayovac "3-in-1" model charger for this reason. I found a while back that it can charge NiMH more fully than any of the other various NiMH chargers that I have. The Rayovac 3-in-1 can handle NiMH, Ni-Cad, and rechargeable alkaline. Yes, Time, you are correct. I...

in Japan this week... probably in the USA in 3~4 weeks... Europe and elsewhere in 4~5 weeks.

It looks like this venture might actually make Emporer Larry some money in the long run, as opposed to his (failed?) thin client terminal business, and his dablings in various unprofitable anti-Microsoft business activities.

Prices are high likely because quantities are limited (i.e. -- HP is probably consuming a railroad car's worth of these each day.) Best deals at this hour: 160 GB for US$97 http://www.gogocity.com/product_details.asp?dept%5Fid=211&pf%5Fid=CO02HDD0992 200 GB for US$112...

Unless there's a new, cheap, fast Itanium Lite that Intel has shopped to Apple (existence protected by non-disclosure agreement) as a PowerPC replacement, I don't see much for Apple to jump to Intel for their X86 product; AMD would be a better choice for that. About the only thing worth going...

Thanks, but I already own (Executive Software's) Diskeeper. I bought it along with Executive Software's UnDelete last year at a local CompUSA, during a spell of weakness when I originally went to just buy the UnDelete product. I don't have any opinion either way about Diskeeper other than...

Definitely sounds like a backwards floppy drive cable. Is this a two position cable (i.e. -- a floppy drive cable that can handle 2-each floppy drives)? Every floppy drive has a jumper that will allow it to function as "primary" (A:) floppy or "secondary" (B:) floppy. I haven't used a...

That's about as bad as someone complaining about the fact that their $249999.99 IBM 360 mainframe is nowhere near as fast as their $249 no-name Taiwanese K6-III clone. It's a long-known fact that "early adopters" of a product line always pay heavily for R&D costs. Simplify your life, take...

Well, slap me upside the head with a stinky wet trout. I am all that stands for Anachronism. By he way, Adobe has an update to the recently-released Acrobat Version 7.0 Reader and full Acrobat product, not-so-surpriningly called the Adobe Acrobat Version 7.0.1 Update...

Animations in PDF files became a reality with the release of the Adobe Atmosphere plug-in (among other capabilities, such as audio). Of much more interest, tracking of PDF reading activity, via the WWWeb, is just around the corner -- as in every time a particular PDF file is *read* (not just...

It's been Spring here since last September. May ~ August = Summer; September ~ April - Spring. 29° latitude = not much seasonal change.

Well, guess what. Even though Krakatoa blew itself to hell back in the late 1800s, it has slowly but surely rebuilt itself back to a fairly large volcano poking up out of the sea. The "new Krakatoa" has a different name nowadays (forgot what it is). In any case, it's nearly as dangerous as...

There already are some 2½ incher SATA drives. Fujitsu and Hitachi make 'em.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), the hard disk drive manufacturer, has thrown in the towel on its first generation of enterprise small form factor (SFF) disk drives, turning instead to hot growth areas such as consumer and enterprise ATA disk drives... I wonder if that towel was...

Actually, not a chipset, but a single integrated circuit. Anyway, the manual should have come with the drive rack. They've always been with every unit I've received -- including with full computer chassis units that had them integrated at the factory.

GEM318 is simply a SCSI *chipset* made by QLogic, which Supermicro uses in their drive racks to allow hot-plug functionality. In the SCSI drive racks, the GEM318 uses SCSI ID "6" to perform its functions. Note that SCSI ID 7 has highest priority of all SCSI IDs, 8 has lowest. Highest to lowest...

As for the spinning holo disc media, seek and access times can be comparable to existing CD/DVD media. But, on the upside, holo disc media can be spinning at a significantly slower rate than a CD or DVD, yet the throughput of the decoded binary data coming off the disc can be as high as any...

There are lots of processes occurring during RAW camera file conversion to a standard storage format (such as 24-bit TIFF). Depending on how sophisticated your software is, there could be noise removal, gamma correction, and interpolation from 10, 11, 12, or 16 bits per pixel down to 8 bits...

And what about those nVidia leaf blower cards? As far as 24x7 home computerz go, I'm under the impression that a growing sector of people have finally realised that this sort of activity is nothing more than a financial drain. Leaving their cable modem or DSL gateways on is all that's really...

Actually, I only was wishing for a PCI Express version of the P650, not a Parhelia follow-up.

Just what the world needs -- Greater Strorage Capacity: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,98354,00.html?source=NLT_AM_A&nid=98354

Absolutely run like hell from French cooking. Italian cuisine is vastly superior to French in every way -- and just about anything else as far as that's concerned.

OK, so I mispelt pancakces. Whoopdie doo. :oops: I was talking about the pancakes being nude, with the opposite being pigs in blankets, which is, as I understand, southern breakfast cooking at its finest. Here's the recipe: На 50 штук 375 гр. муки с разрыхлителем 1 ч.л. соли (с...

Less a thing about memory problems, more like a "doesn't care much about zoom lenses enough to remember their specifications" problem. Ironically, I recall not recalling very well what that zoom lens' specifications were a year after I bought it (1984-ish). By the way, I stated earlier...

Poll: Anyone like to cook? Yes. Pancackes in the nude.

That's the difference between a Marine Corps with volunteers instead of a Marine Corps made up of a mix of volunteers and conscripts; a better cross-section of society. If you are still interested in pursuing this military service thing -- given the background information from above -- you...

There's always NetGear and the Cisco-acquired LinkSys. Howabout a low-end Cisco or similar "professional" unit?

I'm certain that was fixed a number of weeks ago. There were similar problems with the Divx when SP-4 for Windows 2000 came out.

Well, now THAT certainly isn't true. LunarMist's SoCal was as much a part of Mèxico as Tejas was. There are plenty of others here including "myselves" living in that awful place formerly known as Mèxico as well, for starters: Mubs, Buck, Sechs, Yeti, P5-133XL, Ddreuding, Cquinn, Freeborn...

There's also an Antec fan-less power supply -- that has yet to rear its head. (It should have already been available by now!) This upcoming Antec fan-less power supply actually is not fan-less, per se, but instead has a fan that only kicks in if needed, which is supposed to *rarely* happen...

There are indeed Macs at Pixar doing important things like logos, character designs, cell illustrations, and various still artwork, but they don't do any of the really nasty sweaty work -- THE 3-D ANIMATION RENDERING. That's actually done on HPaq hardware. The reason is that HP has written a...

Any of the Matrox dual-head P-series (P-650, P-750, or Parhelia models) would possibly work, unless this monitor requires an oddball resolution -- which is entirely possible. In any case, you'll need a monitor definition file (.INF) before you could guarantee anything. Matrox was the first...

The problem is a well-known one by security folk in that people don't update their NAV virus definitions each time they log onto the Internet. A new bugaboo hits the wires and then it hits them over the head because their anti-virus definitions are 1 day, or 1 week, or 6 weeks, or 6 months...

I've seen fairly impressive herds of white tail deer (10 ~ 40) almost DAILY in my neighbourhood for many years. And, this is within city limits of the 4th largest city in the USA. I've even seen a few coyotes in the daytime on rare occasions -- no doubt after the deer. I've had deer in my...

Manufacturer's info at: http://www.coolmaxusa.com/products_powersupply.asp?item=28

Well, if you are interested in a TRULY SILENT power supply, you could always go for the CoolMAX 480-watt (or 400-watt, 350-watt, or 300-watt model) power supply. [list:101fa10d9e] [/list:u:101fa10d9e] These have been around for a bit now. THEY DON'Y HAVE FANS. Is $129 480 watts +...

There's a Seagate "consumer electronics" (CE) 5400 RPM drive -- which is nothing more than a stinky U Series thingee in fancy clothing (er... firmware that supports the streaming media protocols over the ATA bus). http://www.seagate.com/products/discfamily/ce/index.html The Barracuda...

The only anomaly in 0 . 9 . 1 that I've found so far is that it does not always display highlighted or flashing text properly. I also wish I could manually sort bookmarks and folders within FireFox like I can with IE Favourites.

Believe it or not, the older G450 is a bit faster at 3D gaming than a G550. Then, the even-older G400 Max was faster than a G450 at 3D gaming. (This is what I've been told by many a folk.) However, image quality at high spatial resolutions / refresh rates steady increased from G400 up...

If you can wait for SATA-2, it will have an official external connector and hot plug capability (no need to reboot) for SATA hard drives. A 400 GB or a "cheap" 200 GB SATA-2 drive in an external chassis would be ideal for quick, effective, reliable backups and work as a data shuttle between...

The same setup was supposed to come out on an Intel P4 this year (was or is supposed to, don't know now after the various cancellations). I suspect if it DOES show up, it will be one of the upcoming "Extreme Edition" CPUs -- probably a 4.0 GHz model. Anyway, the processor package itself is...

Yep. Buenaventura Durutti, I believe. The music of Durutti Column is pretty unique -- sort of electric guitar chamber music that at times meets jazz with maybe a touch of Brazilian, Spanish, or Jamaican influence. A couple of the last 2 D.C. releases weren't very good in my opinion (I don't...

I've seen 19-inch 72-U equipment racks at top-$ radio stations (KRBE FM was one I've seen, though there are others) that were labeled by the time of day, with each containing different brands of processing gear along with different EQ settings. By the way, many of these pieces of gear in those...

Toshiba sez, "my little drive is bigger than everyone else's," or something like that in this PRESS RELEASE.

From your list, the only one's I'm NOT familiar with: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cassius - Music Sounds Better CJ Bolland - Electro Power David Gray - Sail Away Don't Look Down - Still The One Dynamite Hack - Anyway Eagle Eye Cherry -...

I don't *hate* classical music, per se, I just prefer its derivatives -- same thing with blues, jazz, and various "ethnic" musics. I had classical music pounded into me during my youth. Now, I have rebelled.

I first became familiar with Phillip Glass back in... maybe... 1977 or '78. I bought an "Einstein On The Beach" LP box and the album "North Star" pretty closely together in time. Then, a few years later, about 1984 or '85, I was throwing out Phillip Glass for good after owning maybe a couple...

I've only used the SCSI MegaRAID models; they work superbly. Have a tape drive handy???

I questioned the non-use of fibre during the beginnings of SATA, and several times since -- including recently around here in some discussion thread. It would make generally make sense to have totally abandoned copper in favour of a fibre optic connection for data. You would have had plenty...

For chipsets, Seagate historically tends to work with their bosom buddies LSI Logic for such.