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The two Hibachi T7K250 250 SATA drives arrived a day late this evening (6:50pm, courtesy UPS). I bought them from Directron, and paid $3 extra per drive for "Double-box (extra packing)". This is the way it came: bare drive in a clamshell which was put in a cardboard box barely bigger than the...

Wow, that's a skill that'll have to be developed! Do you lace your wires, Groltz?

Buck, the wires are twisted enough already! Thanks for the tip on shrinking; I'll have to buy a cigarette lighter if I'm going that route. Merc, I already put wire ties on some, but I really hate the knobs that remain after you cut the excess off. When the wires themselves are not bulky, wire...

Awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

The fan power extension cables have worked out really well; ends up being neat. I'd like advice on something else. The Seasonic power supply has the most horrid wires I've ever seen; all twisted and gnarly like a 110 year-old's hands. I'd like to sleeve and/or heatshirnk them and some other...

Server class motherboards have typically had a high amount of interleaving. My memory has gone dim, but I think a HP NetServer I configured / installed / supported required 8 sticks in each of two banks just to start working. Max capacity was 32 sticks.

I toldja Merc was da man.

Scan as many as will fit on the scanner in one shot and break them up with photo editing sw? That's what I did with a bunch of old 2x2" photos stuck in an album page.

You are too!

Going once, going twice... XP home then? I checked MS' website, and they don't say; for using an XP "Upgrade" version, what qualifies - a previous retail version or will a previous OEM version qualify as well? (I know which previous OSes qualify and which don't, my question pertains to the...

Is there a reason to prefer XP Pro over XP Home? Home recognizes and uses dual cores, and the PC won't be joining a domain.

At the outset, let me state that I have nothing against immigrants. In one sense, we all are, into this country. What's really galling is older immigrants getting Social Security. I know many immigrants who were sponsored by relatives and arrived at SS eligible ages. They're getting paid...

I think not. What if Hillary wins again and again and again and again? Shudder-Shudder-Shudder.

Gaaah! I screwed up writing my previous post! The AverTV definitely supports NTSC (good, because I need that), but I also need PAL-B support and it has only PAL-M / PAL-N support. That's a deal-breaker for me. So this raises the question that if all the other guys say they support PAL (without...

Thanks Sol and Merc. On their website, the AVerTV PVR 150 is listed as a white box product, and comes without software; OS required is listed as WXP MCE; only PAL M/N are supported (that won't work for me, I need support for PAL-B). Thanks for the offer to let me try out your gear; I'll have...

Cuts both ways. We could bring B(ill) J(efferson) Clinton back!

Thank, CityK. Your post clearly points out how much I don't know about this stuff! :oops: First, I don't have a DV cam. Yet. I wanted the ability down the road to cap DV. That said, the PC will have FW ports (heck even the 5+ year old system I'm using now has an add-on FW card). I have Nero...

Thanks, LM and Sechs. I've scanned some in hi-rez and straightened and cropped, but obviously need to play a bit more. They're mostly 2"x2", high contrast prints. Most here are young, so a trip down memory lane might be fun. The household had a Viceroy bellows camera that used 120 film. It was...

As usual, the weathers has been SNAFUd. A week ago it was so hot (90 F) - in winter. Now it's gotten cold, but nowhere as cold as it should be in winter.

I'm scanning quite a few old (35+ years) photographs, most of them black & white, on an "Epson Perfection 2480 Photo" scanner. Specs say: 2400 dpi main scan 4800 dpi with Micro Step (sub scan) output resoulutions from 50 dpi to 12800 dpi 16 bits per pixel per color internal 1, 8 and 16 bits...

I'm mulling buying one of these. Most products seem to be kinda hit-and-miss, everything I see seems to get bad reviews by a good proportion of users. I checked out videohelp.com as well. Features: 1) Interface: no preference, and in no particular order: USB2, Firewire, PCI, PCI-E 2) Must...

Elmer Fudd. Vewy, vewy scawy. Just like Mawy, Mawy, Quite Contwawy. I have a welapse of Elmer Fudd disease evewy now and then. Stwikes without wawning. Fowtunately, it's not dangewous. Just contagious...

I read part of the page (FAQs) that Will linked to just above; pretty funny. Guys certainly have a sense of humor, which is soooo lacking in our world.

You're right, Bill, looks like Flash is the problem. I installed Flashblock, closed FF, cleared cache, came to this page, opened my link in a new tab; CPU util was 0-1%. Uninstalled Flashblock, did same thing (two tabs only), and CPU util varies between 2% and 22%. Obviously if I have...

Thanks for the testing, Bill. I'm unable to install Flashblock; the "server timed out". Will keep trying and will report back.

I've often wished for it, but it sure is going to be costly. Either you make a small quantity and pay thru your nose, or spend on tooling for a larger quantity. In the end, you're better off buying the best ones that meet your needs and getting proficient with a Dremel. I've also had very good...

I use AVG. Obviously, I have a slow CPU and a slow system bus. That will change in a few weeks, though :D

Sorry if this has been asked before. Do DOS based utilities like PartitionMagic, Drive Image and Ghost (each one) work with SATA drives? Do I have to load SATA drivers on the boot floppies to access the drives? Thanks.

You have company, Coug. I had no idea what that was all about either. Thanks Tim.

CPU hogging: Try this page. On my 2xP3-900 1GB RAM, my CPU utilization is consistently betwwen 37 and 48%, not doing anything at all. CPU is hogged even if that tab is not the active one. Task Mangler says it's FF that's doing the hogging. Mem usage for FF is 90MB, peak 109MB, VM 76MB. Peak...

Cowwect, except that AFAIk you'll still have activation to deal with, but should be easier to handle when you tell them you're upgrading and the OS is still being used on only one machine.

So what's it like when you go away on those long road trips, Tannin?

I cried from laughing too hard when I watched this Jay Leno prank. It's a several-minute video, but opens as a .swf tab.

One series of radial fans goes: L, M, H, U, for low, medium, high and ultra speed. They get louder as the speed increases. This is the series most commonly available. The CFM / dBA numbers I quoted above are for the 120mm FBA12G12L1A. In the last few years, quality kind went down and there was...

Dunno; many of the big thingies require a back plate or their own custom retention module. For those feeling adventurous (Groltz/DD), there's a 140mm fan available. They claim 54.7 CFM @ 19.6 dBA, which sounds borderline dubious. The Nexus 120 is 36.9 CFM @ 22.8 dBA, and the Panaflo 120 L1A is...

Thash why, Tea, because years ago MS made it mandatory for VB makers to stick a special sumtin in de BIOS. So when you do a reinstall on the original hw, there's no problem at all. When you change the motherboard, that OEM's copy of Wndows XP looks for the special sumtin and freaks out when it...

All I can say, time, is that for me, dbx was really good. I don't have an external unit; my Yamaha high-end cassette deck came built with it, and for NR you could select dbx, Dolby B or Dolby C. I bought the deck new in the late Eighties for what was then quite a bit of money for a tape deck. I...

Feeling a bit ornery today, Time? :)

As Groltz pointed out to me in this thread, Yate-Loons are the same thing for less - often one-third the price. Jab Tech has Yate-Loons for $6. If I had known it before I ordered the Nexii, I would have bought Yate-Loons instead. YL makes them for Nexus.

It's in the BIOS.

Distronic Plus. Radar beams. Infrared emitters. Night vision. Pre-Safe. Perform-Safe. Passive-Safe. ...seats swell up like nothing so much as French-stitched hemorrhoids... Whew. Free registration required; get a login at BugMeNot.

Coug, my post was in defense of yours. Sorry I didn't make that explicit. You were and still are right.

You lose, Merc. Tannin always has 65,536 browser windows open, each with 65,536 tabs.

Many of my tapes were made with dBX; I don't remember the specs, but it's virtually CD quality. That's something I've got to keep in mind. Having said that, I've converted some said dBX tapes to CD (live recordings --> TB Santa Cruz --> CD) and had no issues with hum / distortion / ground loop...

Howell, do you mean the connectors made for 9V batteries? Now there's an idea I'll file in memory for possible use in the future. Thanks!

Thanks, Piyono. I'm too lazy, so I'm buying a bunch of 12" 3-pin fan power extension cables (found a good source). Used with the original 12" Panaflo tails I got when I bought the fans, the cable from each fan will be long enough to reach the fan controller. Thin cables, small connectors...

Nope. I don;t run Tbird. This happens even when FF is the only program running.

Tannin, I have the same exact problem, except in my case I cannot even scroll the browser window, that's how slow my system becomes. I've gone to task manager, and it will say FF is not responding, but if I wait a minute FF will begin to respond. This problem usually goes away for me when I...

I wuz going to ask about this. My new board comes with, surprise!, Karajan. Would I be better off using my PCI Turtle Beach Santa Cruz instead? I hardly ever use the sound card now, but in the coming months could be digitizing a lot of hard-to-replace stuff that's on cassette tape.

Thanks to everybody who responded; I really appreciate your advice. I don't want U-shaped connections, where the power-lead and fan lead go parallel into a connector and terminate (join) there; I'd prefer "in-line" conenctions that result in a straight-line type connection. Soldering meets...