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Generally unless you do something pretty stupid an SUV is not going to roll over. I find having a higher seating position helps when looking over snowbanks at intersections, more chance of seeing another vehicle coming along. Nissan Murano gets 20MPG in city, not exactly an economy vehicle. And...

I second the 2000FP, awesome clarity. Only problem you may find is that pure black is more a milky gray, but that's a prob with all LCD panels.

Dual LAN? Is that 10/100 or 1000BaseT? TigerMP(X) is OK but memory performance is lacking compared to the latest single CPU mobos.

IIRC there was an article in the Inq talking about how the .11g standard hasn't really been finalised, especially in relation to interoperability. So what ever the manufacturers put out right now may not work with other manu's equipment. I'm awaiting the introduction of a combo .11a/.11b PC Card.

Hmm 1 year warranty must be OEM.

I got my copy of RC2 thru my Action Pack subscription. Comes with a product key that is good for 10 activations, and it works for 360 days. It comes with all server services turned off, you have to use the wizard to select the things you want to run. It boots just as fast for me as winXP did...

Nothing was coming up for me about an hour ago. But SR.com has been down for a while now.

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=5734&p=85513 That's the link to the results I had if anyone else is interested. Just scroll to the bottom. Three times faster copying a file to the same drive, when compared to winXP Pro. I remember why I bought SCSI again :)

Well for consumer audio/video, it loks like DVI with HDCP will be the way forward. The studios are happy because with the encryption nothing can be recorded directly in digital. There is also Firewire with encryption, used to connect things like D-VHS decks to HDTVs, the encryption kicks in when...

Apparently Windows Longhorn will be written to support scaling of everything.

I believe the tax free threshold for US citizens returning to the US has recently been upped to US$800.

I wonder what Eugene will say when faced with the sad reality that SCSI and winXP really is a shit combo. :mrgrn: Another I like about .NEt Server is that the networking seems much more intelligent. I just told it to connect to the Net via LAN (ICS on the winXP laptop) and it worked out the...

SXGA+ on a 14" would be like UXGA on a 15" I guess. Not too bad. Now there was an option to get UXGA on the 14" screen, that would be small. Apps just need to be written better, with the advent of higher resolution screens.

Well I have .Net Enterprise Server build 3178 running. It needed some pursuading tho, didn't seem to like being told to install on a SCSI disk when there were IDE drives attached. So it's running off a 5400rpm WD 1200AB. First thoughts: Built-in drivers for Radeon AIW 7500. PowerDVD 4.0...

Mmmmm, more power. Let's face it, it's fun to drive a vehicle with a massive abundance of power to spare. And isn't there a gas-guzzler tax on innefficient new vehicles (a one off payment)? jtr, it sounds like you need to move to Singapore where you require a permit from the government to...

w2k adv server is definitely very slothy.

I got my RC2 in the mail yesterday, I will install it tomorrow and see what the SCSI performance is like compared to XP Pro.

I don't know whether we will see banana plugs on PC's anytime soon. The Europeon governments are worried that their slaves...oops citizens will plug their appliances into them and fry.

Only the 2.5" drives can get away with using bus power. The 3.5" drives definitely need an AC power source.

Hmm, Maxtor's external 250GB drive seems like a better value-for-money. Bulk storage rarely requires 7200rpm.

Only the more capable UPS software will permit broadcasting of power failure via SNMP etc. The basic PowerChute program included with most APC low-end UPS' won't. Perhaps PowerChute Pro or similar.

Well the performance improvement is pretty disappointing really. Hopefully AMD can ramp up the MHz soon, because it's pretty sad when the non-Barton with a lower PR number outperforms in a few benchmarks. That 64 bit bus between CPU and L2 has to be upgraded.

I was reading that SA-SCSI increases the cable length from the 1m of S-ATA to 6m. But how will this affect external devices that currently on LVD can be up to 12/25M depending on the number of devices attached? Or will SA-SCSI be pretty much an internal connection?

Perhaps it's that godforsaken Memory Stick format. Undoubtedly Sony have some proprietary formatting system. Perhaps the problem occured when the battery ran out during a write operation?

Well the idea of the seatbelt is to increase the amount of time over which the body decelerates, thereby reducing the forces applied to the unfortunate individual. i.e. car hits power pole, and stops in 0.01 secs. Very large force. Individual stops in 0.1 secs, much less force. Well you get the...

Yes, and after the war, the US will control those oilfields.

There was a guy called Doug or Douggie as he was known, who used to do Pizza Hut commercials in Oz. He got busted for cocaine I believe. Too much of the high life.

Chkdsk /f worked fine for me on my Microdrive when it misbehaved and had a few bad sectors. One thing I have noticed is that things like Firewire external drives etc work much more reliably when running winXP compared to win2k. What is the digicam and media used?

I nearly went for the Maxtor external 250GB 5400rpm drive from Dell the other day. Must control myself.....

Or the Maxtor Atlas 10K IV "Cobra", 36.7 GB, Ultra320 Wide LVD SCSI-3, 10,000 RPM, 4.4 ms seek, 8 MB cache, A/V Rated, 3.5" LP, 68 pin interface, 5-year warranty. $219.00

Thanks for the info G :)

Does dual ported drives mean that daisy chaining will still be possible?

Actually it was in the stores in mid-October last year. That's when I got mine. Merc, did the drive come with firmware 1.0f installed? There's a new version called 1.0g available but I'm not in any rush to use it. Apparently improves media compatibility. Available at...

Try something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3400703541&category=16189 As has been stated make sure they remove the toner cart before shipping. I don't know how much compgeeks wants for shipping of close to 80 pounds but it can't be pretty. If you don't want the...

4P is very slow. You could email the seller and ask him for a page count. If you have a bit more money you could get a Lexmark OptraS 1625 or similar for around ~$100-$150. Much faster, postscript capable, network ready, and perhaps with duplex installed. 7000 page toner cart should last you a...

Oops, my mistake with Germany. But with Russia, France and China all opposed to sudden military action, it is the UK and USA in the minority. Of course I don't know why the US is even bothering with these theatrics, unless it hopes to get some money for the cost of the war from other countries...

Well if you are at home and connecting to work, then a VPN connection is probably a good idea. Whether you worry about it on your home network, if you have a good firewall I wouldn't bother.

I didn't think that Indonesia had nuclear weapons. As for the address to the Sec Council, it really wasn't anything that had me picking my jaw off the floor. A couple of radio intercepts between a Col. and a Capt? Jesus, if that's enough for a war we are all in deep doodoo. The photos of a...

That mission was scheduled to go ahead before the Challenger disaster. It does dock on autopilot, I believe a few years back the docking screwed up and the capsule damaged the station? Or maybe that was Mir or some movie I saw.

The GF4 MX line has pretty bad 2D quality, at least compared to ATI. The non-MX is apparently OK. What is your primary monitor? I assume an LCD because 1280*1024 on a 4:3 CRT monitor is going to give you oval circles on screen. Do you need DVI?

I don't see how Zone Alarm will protect your wireless link. The problem is that the WEP encryption built into 802.11b is trivially broken. I don't know whther they fixed it for 802.11g or a. Best to be sure and use a secondary security system. For your home network you could just use a...

Just like with Intel, AMD can now afford to charge a premium for their fastest product. Only the hard core and those that must have the fastest x86 FPU available will buy the 3000+. Joe 6 pak will keep on buying the ~500 dollar complete machines.

I'm happy with my Sony multiformat. Though due to media pricing I mostly use DVD-R. For data I use DVD+RW and DVD+R.

I'm pretty happy with my Dell Insiporn 8200 as well. Though there were initial problems with the dial up modem hard locking the machine due to line conditions. And the p4 1.6GHz is a sloth of a thing, what I would give for a decent Athlon mobile CPU in here!

Fushigi: Are you sure the Lat840 doesn't have a panel on the underside where you can place a mini-PCI wireless card? I think it is based on the i8200 which has such a socket.

Sure was.

Well the great leader was just on and said space exploration will continue, so at least he won't be disbanding NASA.

I guess with shuttle launches and landings being an almost monthly occurence, people tend to forget how dangerous the whole operation is. Apparently during launch a piece of foam dislodged and hit one of the wings of the shuttle, possibly leading to this disaster. It could be any one of a...

Whoops yes 19.7, i misstyped. I find that if I let all four of my clients upload their results at the same time and benchmark, I tend to get the bigger genome units, whereas if I submit one unit while the other 3 clients are running, I guess the benchmark thinks my comp is slower and gives me...

A Barton 3000+ with 512KB cache should keep you going till then. Means that all the bugs in the mobos should be worked out by then two.