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Of the various brands available, LSI MegaRAID host bus RAID controllers are the best overall. A good business name: €uro$ ¢afe

I somewhat recently used both a new Nikon D70 and a D100 together for quick comparison purposes. I had used the D100 a couple of times in the past (it's been out for a while) along with a D1X. The new D70 and D100 are practically equivalent cameras when using them, but the first thing I...

...and not like an anti-JoJo!

Back to the subject of Wardriving for a second... By chance, have any of you noticed any "Wardrivers" doing their thing? I guess this would include pedestrian as well as 4-wheeled "Wardriving." (I have not... yet.)

Monstrosity would be a better word. Space Heater would also be appropriate! :o

Dell's on one side of town and AMD is on the other side of town (ahem... near the Motorola PPC factory). After allthese years, it's good to see that Dell finally noticed the existence of AMD.

Yes, for the most part. You have to deal with startup peak demand from just about everything. If you have the option for delayed spin-up options on your hard drive(s), it's not a bad thing to enable it with a computer that has a relatively small power supply. An "oversized" power supply can...

Many years ago, I used to race motocross. After about 3 years of that, I finally got tired of turning my guts into jello and tasting sand and 2-stroke oil smoke for a day or two after each race. Sand is so yummy!

Hmmm.... I recall the Parhelia being able to do close to 4 billion texturised pixels per second, which was the fastest available when it was released a year ago. As for me, I don't care all that much about that specification. DAC bandwidth and accuracy interest me more, not to mention...

Ya, I'm reading it now. This is some strange strange C++ code! I keep seeing all these "666" references throughout. [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] [list:ef2b95242a] ...Oh, god! I can't believe that Outlook has...

OK. I went diggin' around Intel and found a picture. This is why CSA spanks every other existing system network implementation in the Intel Architecture world: No bottlenecks! 2 Gb/s full-duplex direct memory access! No hops / no latency problems!

A fairly recent storage white paper from a year ago (data circa 2002, I'm assuming) showed that the "average" hard drive capacity of a new hard drive to be a whopping 40 GB. Hard drive manufacturing counts with >100 GB capacity was, if I recall correctly, a paltry 4% or 5% total across the...

Who? What? Traffic between North Bridge and South Bridge? I'm talking about CSA. As I was saying earlier, CSA has a dedicated 2Gb/s direct path to memory via the memory controller. In the Intel Architecture, the memory controller has always been located in the North Bridge. You simply...

Well, obviously, since they aren't i875 chipsets. The i865 ("Springdale") chipset doesn't have CSA. CSA is only implemented in an Intel chipset -- the i875. That (CSA) was one of items in the big headline splash a while back when "Canterwood" was introduced.

>>Command queuing at Tom's Command Queuing at Tom's is nothing more than when Tom walks into the room you are supposed to click your heels together, swiftly raise your right arm to a 45 degree angle, and yell "Sieg Heil!" three times in a row.

...another bumper sticker: ____________________ cRAP ...The "C" is silent." ____________________

Joking aside, yes, you can most *definitely* do Tape RAID with the right software. I've setup the occasional Tape RAID backup -- usually RAID-0, but also RAID 1 -- using 2 drives (AIT, AIT2, LTO, and I believe a 40GB DLT once a while back).

Adaptec and others make good TI-based Firewire host bus adaptors, as well as Firewire + USB2 host bus adaptors. If you are looking for a very capable host bus adaptor that with 400 Mb Firewire + 480 Mb USB2 (Full Speed USB 2.0) capabilities, I'd recommend this one: FirewireDirect...

There are a LOT of economy Firewire host bus adaptors, but unless it has a Texas Instruments IEEE-1394 controller, I would stay away from using any of them -- in particular -- for video capture or recording. The various Via, NEC, Sanyo, and whatnot IEEE-1394 controllers generally work fine...

If you're running Windows, you're generally better off using the AVI format for capture and editing. MPEG = .mpg = .mpeg -- unless you are talking about MPEG1 versus MPEG2 versus MPEG4, all of which have different capabilities. It's completely possible to save a 24-bit JPEG or GIF file at...

Speaking of Kodak, the DCS 14n is a piece of overpriced junk. Period.

I've used several USB2 and Firewire readers, and the Addonics Firewire Digi-Drive kicks all the other's arses (Firewire or USB2) in the speed department. Mainly for notebook use, it has a USB plug-in to draw extra current (if you realy need it)... If you are downloading "large" amounts of...

What Sandisk makes THAT SUCKS... is their f&%@ng "8-in-1" USB reader. I think I've complained about it before around here, but the damned thing will NOT read every brand of flash memory. It looks aesthetically great, but that's about all.

My personal camera support inventory: Bogen 3035 tripod + Bogen 3047 head (early '80s vintage, for use with up to 4x5 camera) 2-each Bogen 3055 heavy-duty ball head ('90s vintage) Bogen heavy-duty extension arm Bogen heavy-duty twin camera support arm Manfrotto 3405B tripod with...

As you know, the Mars mission business is a dog-eat-dog business. Maybe Rover attacked Beagle when it arrived. It was there first. All U space probes R belong to us... I thought you were talking about BAGELS. Well, I now have 6... blueberry... all in the freezer.

In my "old" Olympus Camedia CL-2500, I use both a 128 MB SmartMedia and a 1.0 GB Sandisk Ultra II CompactFlash. The 1.0 GB Sandisk Ultra II CompactFlash has worked flawlessly. With 1.128 GB, I can take thousands of photos without reloading anything -- except batteries (I can also use an...

Well, if I'd been at home the past 5 days, I would've simply suggested Kodak as a start. I've been to countless photo trade shows, and I can tell you that I've seen many a turnkey system over the years from Kodak that can do this job -- systems that don't require a friggin' computer to slow...

Yes, just maybe it is the cabling instead. Yes, just like CAT3 Ethernet cabling versus CAT-5 versus CAT-6: different impedance, different capacitance, different twist ratio, etc. One other thing to remember about the fraud that is called USB2, is that it can mean s-l-o-w OR fast throughput...

Re: Gary: WHERE is your 2nd beagle, and how come he's so far As far as I'm concerned, there are only a few annual holidays: Ra / Sun God Day, Jimi Hendrix's last day on Earth, Albert King's birthday, the 4 seasonal equinoxes, and Independence Day. Well, I'd be tempted to throw in Mardi...

Isn't "Smart Start" something for dumb people? It actually isn't very smart to run Smart Start.

The only other bad thing about a WinServer product (Win2K and Win2K3), other than the price, is that some software packages refuse to run or install on Server because it detects that it is indeed Server that it is being installed on -- not 2K Workstation, XP Professional, or XP Home -- as they...

If you are talking about multiplexing several channel connections to several physical drives as one logical volume, then you are talking about an array with multiple channels. There are many SCSI RAID host adaptors available that will allow you to build an array with say 5 disc drives and 3...

Full-duplex communications hasn't anything to do with the drive heads, this only concerns the drive controller circuits and its buffer. A full-duplex storage device channel *can* be more efficient than a half-duplex channel -- but it depends. A full-duplex channel becomes more beneficial as...

Yes, both a high-speed serial channel and FULL-DUPLEX communications with SCSI (unlike today's half-duplex parallel SCSI). No need for Fibre-Channel inside a server chassis (nor the ridiculous cost of F-C). Since it's FULL duplex that would drool going down *and* up your chin --...

LSI Logic Drives Industry's First Serial Attached SCSI Public Demonstration With Maxtor and Seagate ...The demonstrations will connect an LSI Logic SAS controller prototype to an LSI Logic SAS expander prototype. SAS prototype drives from Maxtor and Seagate are in turn connected to the SAS...

To the ultra-performance SCSI / RAID freaks, like LSI Logic and Intel collaborate to extend MegaRAID Solutions To PCI Express technology LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced joint validation and development efforts to deliver MegaRAID® solutions using Intel's forthcoming...

Yes, I used to make many many jokes about this back in the day (the infamous Zip "click of death"). The very latter-day (circa 2000) Zip 100s finally seemed cured. The Zip 250 seems a bit better yet. No, *that* is not THE "Click Of Death." The infamous "Click Of Death" is rather loud...

Isn't "salad tossing" basically vomiting upon an ass -- a donkey? ...which has nothing to do with tossing cookies, correct? I think I'm catching on now with this coded verse. OED -- Oxford???

Iomega Corporation Announces Breakthrough Miniature 1.5 Gigabyte Removable Storage Technology Working Samples Released To Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for Evaluation of Technology for use in Next Generation Consumer Electronics Products Iomega ...today announced a new 1.5 GB...

Ah... Well... I finally read the EE Times article. This is the same info that the industry watchers and pundits have been pumping out semi-regularly for the past 3 or 4 years (new recording techniques). And, yes, I did notice that they mention the upcoming transition to 2.5-inch form...

Oh... mah... gawd... Now THAT'S what I call amazing hÖÖters!

Go back upstairs and clean your room NOW! Yes... Yes... I'm feeling its presence strongly in this room. Does it hurt when I do this? OK. Howabout this? We were all so worried about you last night. We're going to march up to the enemy... and we're going to defeat them at...

Well, don't laugh, but I have on occasion with the 200mm, using a simple Nikon pistol grip that has an electronic shutter trigger button -- of course I was shooting at 1/1000 or 1/2000 of a second with the F3 body. For handheld work, the 300mm really needs a gunstock mount like this for good...

I've been getting a lot of spam lately with "Undeliverable Message..." or some variation to that. I just can't see the reason for spam anymore. Is someone actually making money off this crap? I guess there are still sizable numbers of gullible newbies logging onto the Internet.

Not to mention that some automobiles require the engine to be at least be partially pulled just to get to the front of the engine housing and then the timing belt. That's definitely not the case, as timing chains (the ones bathed in oil) require regular replacement, too. Rubber drive belt...

I recall a push many years ago by a person with a "new" FTP, called XFTP, that was several percentage points faster than standard RFC FTP. Despite its efficiencies, it went nowhere.

Hmmm... I only see legitimate Kanji throughout (the first URL). :shake2:

PCI Express and Infiniband are two different things altogether. Infiniband is essentially competition for HyperTransport. Also, Infiniband is NOT an Intel technology, though Intel is still part of the Infiniband committee. Intel *was* pushing Infiniband for a bit there, but as of about 1.5...

Opteron will have PCI Express as it turns out. Via is supposedly preparing a PCI Express chipset for early 2004 that will have both PCI Express and "old" 32-bit / 33 MHz PCI -- along with USB2, Gb Ethernet, SATA1, and SATA RAID. I still have no clarification on exactly how many PCI Express...

Or maybe: Maxtor SATA Drives Verified on Intel Canterwood Chipset