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I tried to post in the Computer forum, and got a "Page cannot be found" after I hit the submit button. Same thing happened last night, about 9:30 pm PST. Tracing route to storageforum.net [207.99.69.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.2.1 2 15 ms 16...

If indeed the IHS is effective, one would think the mfrs would make the IHS out of metal with a really low thermal resistance??

$90 + shipping for a 2-port USB (1.1 probably) hub. Maybe they first send out some dope to the dope who'd buy it. Was the hellow a play on meow? :wink:

Listen, .Nut, I always thought Guerilla was a Spanish Gorilla! :wink:

Thaks Blake, buck. Buck, you didn't give your opinionon the product, and recommendation as to using / not using it........

Anybody use it? (I know most people here are AMD types) Does it break anything? Does it actually do anything useful? The Inquirer has a news item raving about it. I can't test/use it - I'm still chugging along on good ol 440BX, but some people I know may benefit from it, but I can't go...

But really, what good does it do for people buying just the processor? You'd have to go thru hell to return it after you've stuck it in a motherboard and found out that it doesn't run at the claimed speed. It's not like the proc is DOA; it works, doesn't it?

Splash, yes all this is old news. That "flywheel stores energy" concept had some serious money behind it too; one of the founders of Compaq (forget his name) put oodles of his money; his brother, who was a scientist with many patents was also involved. In the end, the dangers outweighed the...

Gas/electric and Gas/hydraulic hybrids are one way to address your concerns. SHEP ic claimed to be superior to Gas/Electric in many ways. What amazes me is nobody has commented on this thread other than you. If the claims are indeed true, this is big news. Where are the car buffs? e-dawg...

Forgot to add: uses an Ifield Pump/Motor (IPM) "the most efficient hydraulic pump/motor available". I presume people in the hydraulics field should have heard about the IPM then.

Came across some info about SHEP Technologies (http://www.shepinc.com/). Stored Hydraulic Energy Propulsion. Developed by an independent inventor, Ford is apparently deep into this technology. Claims of 32% better acceleration, 38% better mileage, 51% less pollution, brake maintenance down by...

The "40K STR" and "20K STR" confuse me. What are we referring to? Surely not transfer rates? Can't be MTBF's either. So where is the "safety" or "reliability" data listed? :cry:

Well, I guess I'm wrong. I remember reading in a couple of places that Silicon Image was SiiG. :oops:

Regarding the difference in performance between the SiiG and Promise (that's all it always is, right? a promise to perform, one that is never kept??), I remember reading somewhere that the Siig was native SATA while all other cards were PATA with built-in PATA to SATA converters. If this is...

I feel your pain. I recently upgraded someone's HP Pavilion 6912. Added more RAM, and formatted the disk (it had WinME) and installed W2kPro on it. Guess I was lucky; didn't have a single glitch. I would have shot the bloddy thing if it had given me the problems you experienced.

The problem is that all of the SATA adapters available so far have two connectors (drives) only (AFAIK). I'd have preferred four. SCSI looks more attractive from that standpoint. WRT the drive itself, I think a 50% premium over the street price of the urrent sweet spot would have been perfect...

That was interesting! But either that web site or a link in it screwed up IE, and I had to "End Process" IE from the Task Mangler. Anyway, there's a heck of a lot of 'hype' on Colossal's web site. I sincerely hope it's all true. Many times I dream that somebody is able to get cold fusion...

Cisco will operate Linksys as a division and will continue to sell its products under the Linksys brand name Most of the general public probably won't have a clue, and probably won't give a damn, buying the product that the "advisor" at Best Buy or Circuit City or CompUSA or Fry's told them to...

Here: http://news.com.com/2100-1035-993457.html?tag=fd_top Sheesh, I've been reading too many of Tea's posts.

Those exotic limos come with a staff of two: you can't get inside without their help. When you get horizontal, they'll shove you in (unless you're a little person and can walk in without doubling over or leaving your upper body behind). Adcadet, 'ow 'bout a quaint hoss & buggy? (I'm cheating...

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That was hilarious, thanks Jake!

I came very very close to buying a W8500 when they first came out. Tons of room, cleverly designed. I chickened out because they a) are big and b) cost too much (for me). Bought a couple of Antec SX-1030s instead. After some surgery with a Dremel, am quite happy with them.

And you have mail!

Vell, Vhat is your email address, Sir?

Buck, that's because the Addtronics W8500 is a WTX case. :D You're probably right, howell, but it's still a dumb idea. Ever try to stick a PCI card in an ISA slot? Even a newbie would be able to tell that it won't fit.

I've never understood why cards in PCI and AGP slots face downwards in ATX cases. That's dumb; heat goes up, and this way, the heat has nowhere to go. In a WTX case, the PCI/AGP cards do face up like they should. They probably run a lot cooler that way, and the number of hotspots in the case are...

Most download managers are spyware. Better to use in-built ones like Moz has. jtr1962, I looked in my archives - I have a cuple of word docs (3 pages + 2 pages) that I can zip and email to you; info on tweaking for max. speed. You probably know all of it already, but let me know if you want...

What's a "common-rail" diesel engine? Seems to be the designers choice these days. Is the fuel sprayed into a "common" inlet manifold area instead of into the cylinder? If so wouldn't that mess up the self-ignition process?

Thats what I call colorful language... Speaking of engine sounds, I remember reading that Mazda worked very hard to tweak the sound of the Miata to make it appealing. Amazing that nobody mentioned it. And with this talk of lowering cars, I'm reminded of those weirdos in California who buy...

e-dawg, thanks for the link on the VR6 - interesting reading! In my college days, I was a car freak, dreaming up specs for every major sub-system of the car I was going to build. I even designed a logo that was an acronym of the company name (VM); the logo looked like a crankshaft of sorts. I...

Input (food) / Output (I'll let you guess) for the squirrel could be a problem....

That really helps! Thanks, SteveC.

Well, folks, you're partially right (path length limitation). There seems to be an additional limitation in number of directories in the path. I've found that the leaf node, ie, the file itself, can be at a maximum of the 8th level, or the burning sw will scream. I have Nero, but everybody so...

They could do it. Volume! They'd also OEM it for a zillion other brands....

Or, you could zip up to Fry's in Fountain Valley (up the 405) or to the one in Anaheim (near the 91 & 57 Fwy junction) and get one of the Antecs. A guy I know used to be in the business of selling power supplies (to Intel for their server cases, to Cisco for their gear, etc.). Whenever we...

I'll risk stating the obvious: are XP drivers available for the PERC3/DCL? It may be a rebadged LSI/AMI, but it likely has "Dell" firmware.

Thanks for the replies. COmpression is a last-ditch option for me; I'd rather not use it unless I have to. I'm velly velly sure somebody somewhere has run into my problem and written a util for it.......

I'm launching a semi-formal effort to backup my data to CDs. I'm sick and tired of seeing a message similar to "file x is in a directory that is nested more than 8 levels deep, some OSes will have a problem reading this CD, do you want to proceed?". I'm using the Disc-At-Once option. I take it...

Awright, maybe I'm the only one here that powers his PC down when done for the day. Have to give some rest to those little bits that have been running around all day, you know.

You should've considered a waterfall in your apartment, Merc. It could've cooled your PCs, and according to Feng-Shui, would've been good for you as well ;)

You sure are an enterprising guy, Merc.........

That was interesting reading, thanks! How'd you do the CAT 5 cabling in-wall? Used a fishtape? Didn't any studs get in the way? How do you keep the things that are in the closet cool?

Yup, I can see them Dumbo ears in your avatar. And that thing in the center must be when you bumped your head in the doorway, I guess. Glad to have found ya, twin bro!

Dozer! So you're my long-lost twin our parents kept telling me about! Do you also have the big bulbous nose, the cauliflower ears and.....I'll let you describe the rest so I know you're rally my twin.

What an utter lack of self control.... :arge:

Thanks James. I've been sleep deprived for the last two weeks, and unlike Merc, become incoherent as a consequence. In the specific case I brought up (internists' office), there are medium sized requests from multiple users as opposed to large-sized requests from a few. So IMHO, the ability to...

Merc wrote: And in another thread, he wrote that he has 60+ drives in use at his place. Merc, seriously, you might dmagae your hearing. Another 10 years of this, would be very, very bad. You have to do something about it.

GIANT wrote: Guess I missed that point :(. I'm coming strictly from a situation where they already have a server with a 100Mb nic, a 10/100 switch, and transfer quite a bit of scanned images back and forth (internist medical office). They're the kind that won't pay $450 to buy a switch with a...

Their diagram shows baffles (like an auto muffler) to reduce noise. That's true, but their claim that air flow is not reduced is pure bull. How can you do both at the same time? Even an auto muffler generates quite a bit of back thrust. Noise vs. air flow is a trade-off. It makes most sense to...