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TI on an OrangeMicro FW+USB2 controller card on the duallie, and a TI chipset on the Dell i8200. I thought Adaptec used TI?

Well I finally hooked up the POS 1.6GHz P4 laptop to the dual Athlon 1.47s, using Firewire. I'm getting about 10MB/sec. Bigger problem is that the cpu util on the laptop is around 90%, with the System process sucking up a good 70-80%. On the duallie, it's at about 30% (explorer process says it's...

And that's for a single CPU version!

http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cpu/opteron/opteron-5.htm Looking at that review it looks like the processor to beat is the Banias aka P-M, at least for SETI. I don't know how it fares with FAH however. The current performance of the Opteron leaves me underwhelmed.

grog=alcohol servo (Aussie)=service station=petrol station=gas station in American.

Once quicker response times are wide spread with LCD panels, then an increase from the current 60Hz DVI provides would be handy.

Having grog for sale at any servo along the road can hardly help in the case against drink driving either.

I believe one of the reasons why the Autobahns are reasonably safe is that the automobile association or whatever they call it there funds many rescue choppers. So if you do get in a crash and survive, they can get you to a hospital pretty quickly. Add to that the relative newness of the cars...

I find that a bladder has a second wind. i.e you can be busting to go, you hold it in for a while, and then the urge reduces. You are then good to go for a while longer. Of course when you do finally go, you really go.

I once got a Toyota Corolla 1.6 to 180km/h. This was on a long hill. Thread reminds me of the German guy who owned to McLaren roadcars, one was the road version and the other was for the track. Basically he would drive for three hours from one place to another for business. Routinely hitting...

For "phone users worldwide will soon be able to dial-a-dolphin if a scheme to record their underwater conversations proves a success. Scientists at a dolphin sanctuary off the west coast of Ireland have teamed up with British mobile telecoms giant Vodaphone to transmit the clicking and...

With an LCD panel, there is one native resolution and thats usually 1280*1024 for the 17-18" panels, and 1024*768 for the 15" ones. Keep in mind that native LCD rez looks bloody brilliant, whereas running a CRT at it's max rez will often result in a blurry eye killing mess, simply because it is...

If you are looking at 21" CRTs then I believe Mitsubishi is the way to go. But perhaps not in your price range. Dell Business has 25% off select LCD panels too: Dell UltraSharp 1800FP 18" Digital LCD = $449 (320-0469) Dell UltraSharp 1702FP 17" Digital LCD = $434 (320-4106) Dell E171FP 17"...

I only wondered because usually the HBA would have SCSI ID 7. Could save confusion later on if you shuffle things around. If the card looks for the drive at ID 0 to boot, and the card itself is at 0, it may shititself? Was your external SCSI box running ATTO RAID previously?

As it doesn't affect volume licensed product, pirates won't have any problems with the activation scenario. Also PS7 has been out for a while now, I would think that anyone upgrading would have done so by now. I like the part where when the product is discontinued, all activations are auto...

Does your dodgy Cheetah appear when using Disk Management? Perhaps it just needs a format/drive letter assignment. Surely you would have wanted the boot drive as ID 0? Anyway glad you got it sorted. Wierd them showing up as dynamic, usually win2k installs as basic and then you need to manually...

Some of the turbo equipped Escorts are very fast indeed.

Perhaps a digital wallet thingymabob with a 10/20GB HDD would have been more suitable for you Tony? Oh well a laptop is more versatile. 1.5GB a day is a shitload of pics, how many EL-1s have you got?.

I believe till at least the U160 spec, that the commands and status were sent at a much slower asynchornous rate compared to the synchronous data. This was rectified with U320 by using packetised SCSI, allowing multiple commands to be sent in a single connection.

I guess the benefit is that the drive could receive commands at the same time as it is sending data down the pipe. No need to "wait" for the drive to become available.

You can get Dell servers with no OS at all. But I take your point that a Dell laptop comes with winXP, and you can't deselect it. Therefore the price of winXP is included in the price, whether you want it or not. It just goes to show that the EULA is unenforceable garbage, it was aprobably a...

Sounds like the guy had an OEM copy of Windows. If it was retail he would have a had a receipt for the full price and wouldn't have had to jump thru so many hoops. The only thing with an OEM license is that it can only be used on the machine it comes with. It would be very interesting if Dell...

I used to work behind the bar of a private club I belong to. Great fun, especially on big weekend events. Of course after a few you tend to hit the wrong keys on the cash register and you are escorted to the other side of the bar where the revelry can continue! And then a nice sleep on the floor...

Thanks to good records and a Small Claims judge, Steve Oualline got a $199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP. One Linux user's story shows how to establish a good refund case. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7040&mode=thread&order=0

Thanks :mrgrn:

The same 160GB Maxtor was on sale at CompUSA about two months ago, for $170 in store -$70 MIR=$100. Given that Staples is giving the $30 discount, the drive was actually cheaper two months ago. Maxtor rebates are good, I got my $70 dollars yesterday, took about 7 weeks. Best thing is that they...

Symantec stuff often seems to break after OS upgrades/service packs. And their very irritating refusal to work with many Win Server products is a real PITA.

I was looking at the results of the FW 800 cards and enclosures at xlr8yourmac, very impressive. 63MB/sec was reached, the IDE drives are once again the limit. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/firewire/OWC_firewire800/owc_firewire800_review.html

http://www.hotdealsclub.com The drive is $149.95. There is a $40 mail-in rebate. There was also a $30 off $150 coupon available, I believe it has now expired. But there are some other coupons available. It's an online deal, they usually have next day shipping. I guess you could do it instore...

Congrats Merc, you home-owner you. Well after the closing anyway. Those wood veneer kits look fantastic, and they are using my current case to model it on, that must be a message telling me to buy.... except mine is the white Antec case.

$0.50/GB for the 160GB Maxtor from Staples after rebate/coupon.

Yes definitely get another cat as soon as possible, makes things easier. One can never replace a loved one, but starting a new adventure takes the mind off the past. I guess the beautiful thing about a pet is their unconditional love for you. No mind games (well maybe with some cats!). Sorry...

Some friends of mine in Rochester, NY had a serious power outage during the ice storm this past Winter. No power for about 5 days. Heating is via wood stove, but without electricity for the blower motor it couldn't be used. Hot water is via propane, but the blower exaust is electric, so the...

Can you imagine the confusion when Joe 6pak plugs his dial up phone line into the ADSL modular port on the mobo, and it doesn't work? Dell's Indian subcontinent support will be working overtime. Unless you could have the one port work as both a dial up modem and an ADSL connection? I'm still...

I would imagine that it would be a PCI card. Just not enough room on mobos these days for such integration. Also there is not wide availability of ADSL in Aus, still only in higher density populations. And the cost is high/DL cap is low.

I'm something like 22,000 feet from my CO, and that doesn't have any kind of DSL capability anyway. Cable will probably never come down this road. Well water. In Upstate NY TimeWanker has a monopoly and the price of basic digital cable (with no premium channels or cable Net) is around $55...

Congrats Blake, on the 21 and the new job. :mrgrn: I thought you could buy lottery tickets at 18? Last night it was rumoured I was drinking some Reisling straight from the bottle, but I think I was mistaken for DrunkenBastard.

If you can get the .exe to write the files into a directory of you hard drive, you should then be able to add those as a bootable CD-R. Otherwise you would need to write the files to a floppy on one of your other machines, and burn a CD-R from there. .11g will be next to useless for use at...

Local Ford dealership charges US$9.95 for oil+filter change. I can't buy a filter and new oil and dispose of old for that price.

I just looked at SR today after a few weeks absence. The quality of the posts has deteriorated markedly. If that is what popularity brings, then let's stay away from it. Don't get me wrong, I hope SR continues to exist, I sent them a donation for that purpose. But at least at SF I know I won't...

I saw "A Clockwork Orgy" on DVD the other day.

I could ship the empty cases, but can't ship primers or powder. Projectiles wouldn't make sense because shipping would be more than they're worth. Most of the cases are Starline, and all bright and shiny (tumbled after each use).

Prob around US$200. AUS dolla is pretty strong right now. Shipping would be additional, and it would have to go direct to an FFL holder. The dealer would prob need to apply for an import form, depends on whether he does many international transactions I guess. Prob be easier to just hand it in...

BTW, it shows the old adage of "Registration always precedes Confiscation" has been found true yet again.

Sadly I have to hand in my .45 Compact 1911 to the benevelont Australian mis-government by the end of the year. The reason? Because Victoria Police were frigging negligent in giving a pistol permit to a non-english speaking nutcase who then proceded to murder two people at Monash Uni last year...

Currently I use an Ericsson T39, that's on the Telstra GSM network in Australia. Bluetooth, IRDA-Modem, very slim thickness wise. Exceptional RF performance. Sadly it is no longer produced, and all the new ones seem to much bulkier. Before that I had a T28, and previously my first mobile was a...

Interesting. T-Mobile hotspot costs about $30 per month (12 month contract), and about $25 if you already have a T-mobile account. If the Verizon data/voice package costs $80, that's not bad compared to the current cost of cell service + .11b access. And the range of coverage is obviously far...

I think most/all of the 2.4GHz digital phones use DSS to spread their frequencies around. However the jump in frequencies is not much. I guess it all depends on the quality and shielding of the wireless phones and nics/WAPs.

You can modify the external content settings so that it won't block content "Web beacon" from a trusted zone or an intranet zone. Not perfect but a step in the right direction.

It depends on what carrier/technology they are using.