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With the technology available today there's no reason why any car should get less than 75 mpg, and for the typical short trips under 50 miles that most people do, an electric car is an even more sensible choice. Or better yet walk, bike, or take a subway. SUVs are the very personification of...

I thought it was interesting that Nassau County(i.e. Long Island) is included since I agree that for what it is(just another suburb) the price of houses on Long Island is outrageously expensive. In many areas the homes approach $300,000, which is only about $50,000 less than a home in Queens...

I should have had another choice-namely a new technology or interface will make the LBA-48 limit irrelevant. The consensus so far seems to be in 15 or so years. We'll probably be standardized on S-ATA within a few years. If that interface lasts as long as P-ATA, you could be looking at 25...

Any thoughts on this? It seems that every time we bump up against a capacity limit the new one only lasts a few more years. At least this time they had the foresight to make the new limit about 1 million times the old one. BTW, the maximum size of a drive with 48-bit LBA is 144 million GB, or...

The USB connector is a POS so it might be something that simple. USB connectors are known to come loose by themselves quite easily. Perhaps a small vibration causes a momentarily break in the signal line. Since replugging it in solves that problem, you might want to see if anything is...

Looking at that graph a little more closely it seems that besides the other problem the drive is also stuck in UltraDMA mode 2(33 MB/sec). The STR is flat up to the 13 or so GB mark. Most drives only reach their maximum STR during the first 10% or so of the platter, not for nearly half the...

BTW, LiamC, is that Kimba the White Lion in your avatar? I remember that show from when I was a kid but it's been so long(~30 years) that I pretty much forgot what he looked like. We even named our first pet cat after him.

I would say it's some kind of strange interaction between the drive and controller. Try the drive on another PC, or on a Promise controller(if you have one handy), and see if you get the same results. I've had drives that actually benchmark faster on the inside when running off the motherboard...

The jet airliner analogy is wrong. Consider that a hard drive head is moving at about 80 mph relative to the platter when on the outer rim of a 7200 RPM hard disk, and is "flying" at a height of perhaps 1 um. A more accurate analogy would be an airliner flying at 7 um, or 0.00028", since the...

Couldn't happen to a better person. What was his great accomplishment anyway? Cutting costs by firing people? Any moron can do that. A good CEO should focus on increasing revenue, not cutting costs. I'm thinking that perhap we should have a new national pastime. Let's stop hunting deer(why...

I agree that healthcare and retirement costs are two major employer expenses that cannot be eliminated except by laying off the employees. That being said, if I had a choice continuing my job with no health care coverage or losing it, I would certainly choose the former. I'm not that thrilled...

Glad to hear you were spared the axe-this time. :o I've often thought that layoffs are a silly way to cut costs. Short term you save but long term you often pay in customer dissatisfaction. This of course assumes that those laid off weren't dead wood to start with. Nothing wrong with...

It's not a good way to get rid of heat, either. The thermal conductivity of Peltier modules, even when short-circuited, is rather poor(as it must to achieve even their rather poor efficiency as refrigerators), so this increases the thermal gradient necessary to get rid of a given amount of...

I was thinking of how colors are displaying on the monitor, so you might be right. They probably get millions of colors by dithering the three basic colors and black at 2880 dpi so that the eye doesn't notice(plus the colors will always blend slightly before they dry, further hiding the "dot"...

Another remote possibility is that the device is using a heat pipe. A heat pipe is a vapor filled tube which has very high thermal conductivity. By using one you can remove heat from a cramped space where a large heatsink/fan won't fit, and move it somewhere else where you get rid of it. You...

Actually, it would be 3 bytes per dot, not bits, and for an 8" x 10" photo at 2880 dpi that would be 1,990,656,000 bytes that need to be sent to the printer in raw mode. Since USB maxes out at around 1 Mbyte/sec, in 3.5 minutes you can only send about 210 MBytes to the printer, so I would...

If they are using a conventional Peltier, then it is correct that you would need a 120W or so device to cool an 80W processor. To keep it at 26° C you would need to keep the hot side of the Peltier at around 50° C. The Peltier would be drawing about 110 to 120 watts(the wattage rating of a...

Putting aside the incident with the dog getting shot, this slob is not someone I would care to have for a neighbor, and there must be some legal means of forcing him to keep his property in order. Piles of dung and rotting animal carcasses are of no concern if your nearest neighbor is a mile...

Having just experienced the pain of losing a beloved pet myself, I'm glad to hear that Ida survived, but sad to hear that she'll likely be maimed for life due to this idiot's stupidity. It is beyond me how anyone can shoot at something(animal or human) unless their life is threatened, and that...

I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm perfectly comfortable using either system of measurements, and converting between them. For example, it wouldn't bother me if a vehicle speedometer was reading in mph, km/hr, m/sec, or knots. Right off the top of my head, I know that a posted 65 mph...

Thank you all for the heartfelt sentiments. I was initially hesitant about starting this topic since I wasn't sure of the kind of reaction it would generate, but I see now that many here also feel losing a beloved animal is no different than losing a human family member. The feeling of loss is...

If it can be done, I would like the ability to edit posts for a limited time(say 10 minutes) after initially posting. This is mainly to correct grammatical and spelling errors that you only seem to notice right after you hit the submit button.

You could try the old freezer trick. Keep the drive in the freezer a few hours, and then try it. Of course, you must somehow protect the drive from condensation while you're doing so. A variation of this worked for me recently. I had a friend's drive that refused to autoconfigure, and put it...

I haven't done extensive testing yet. The driver doesn't seem to have much effect when the DOS version of Norton Disk Doctor is running, but this is a hopelessly bloated program, and much of the directory scanning appears to be processor intensive. The older version of Disk Doctor that came...

As some of you may have noticed, I haven't posted here or on SR in the last 2+ weeks. This has been due to first the illness and then the death of my cat, Tiger. I recently wrote something about her life that I wish to share with everyone here. Also, if anyone has some space on their site...

I know it's a little late, but thanks for the nomination, Mark. I had a death in the family so I've been out out the loop as far as SR and SF goes for the last two weeks.

Thanks for the tip. Believe it or not, I was finally able to dig something up. I found out on one site that something called the Trione V. 3.60 DMA driver would do what I wanted, but wasn't able to find it. A few days ago, I did find it at...

That sounds like an even better punishment to me. Maybe have repeat offenders caned and knouted. :mrgrn:

Yes, I'm aware that there are legitimate uses to send e-mail that way, but perhaps ISPs should restrict that ability only to clients who have provided proof that they are a legitimate business/newsletter. There is no reason to allow that ability across the board. Regular ISP accounts should...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't preventing people from sending multiple messages at the same time prevent or at least limit SPAM? If a spammer had to individually send the SPAM to every addressee, there wouldn't be enough hours in the day to reach any significant number of people, and the...

:roll: I really hope this was supposed to be a joke. Why not use a hammer while you're at it? :mrgrn:

Looking at the maintainence schedule for typical lasers, it is likely that the only consumable the average home user will need to replace are the toner cartridges. Most of the rest of the items are scheduled for 20,000 pages and up. Assuming you use the printer for 5 years, that's 11 pages per...

I know that. :) I wrote a semi-serious response anyway just to see what kind of feedback it would get. I have nothing against upgrading, but only if it offers me functionality I need, bug fixes, greater stability, or any combination thereof. I never upgrade just because a new version exists...

I'll take that as a compliment. :) I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way about XP. I'll see if I can pick up a legal copy of Win2000 on eBay. In truth, I would like to try it, maybe just with a test partition in a dual boot configuration as timwhit suggested. I'm just not...

Exactly what does this have to do with racism? To the best of my knowledge "Islam" isn't a race, it's a religion. If they're going to take him to court, it should at least be on charges that make sense. Typical lawyer speak-dealing with emotion rather than facts, and using hot button words...

I was wondering about that myself until I found out that it goes for $600, and then I had my answer. I would imagine it's pretty easy to unload to a body shop as well. The way people drive nowadays bumpers are getting smashed left and right. I'm not sure how they did it, but I would guess a...

I'm usually not inclined to talk much about other members of my family on these forums, but I just had to share something that happened to my father yesterday with everyone here. Last night, probably during the middle of the night, the front bumper of my father's car was stolen. They cut the...

Here's an example of just the type of upgrade horror story I was referring to: http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=5553

A couple of reasons: 1)I'm familiar with it, and it is fairly easy to configure. 2)I already own it. 3)It does what I need it to do, and is reasonably stable as long as I don't use IE. 4)I refuse to give M$ any more of my hard earned money(probably the main reason) 5)Any new OS may have...

:cry: What I thought was odd was that above 64 MB I believe the standard is called SXMS instead of XMS, so I assumed that any program capable of dealing with SXMS, as QEMM9.0 is, would recognize memory up to the limit of whatever the SXMS standard is(I'm guessing either 2GB or 4 GB)...

CORRECTION: The QEMM switch U:1M:768M, which appears 4 times in the above config.sys file, should really be UR=1M:768M or USERAM=1M:768M I cut and pasted my config and autoexec files, but I had taken out that particular switch because it didn't do anything, and put in back when I was posting...

Here's some information: config.sys autoexec.bat The M/B is an AOpen AX6B with a 440BX chipset running a 450 MHz PII overclocked to 504 MHz. There is 768 MB of PC133 SDRAM(2x256MB, 2x128MB). Hard disks are Maxtor 5T040H4(40 GB, 7200 RPM) and 4G100J5(100 GB, 5400 RPM). I have a Lite-On...

I'm sure most of the people here remember alternative memory managers like QEMM. I currently have my Win98SE systems set up to boot into a several different configurations-EMS, no EMS, CD drivers, no CD drivers, and each of these alternatives is available with both the default HIMEM and QEMM...

One person there got really lucky. The morons at Worst Buy thought the price was $110(because the ad said save $110), gave the guy the drives for $110 minus 10% of the difference, or $96 each, and he purchased 2 of them. The guy actually made $48 purchasing two drives(assuming the rebates are...

I'm using a fairly inexpensive mechanical switchbox to switch between three computers and was having severe ghosting problems at higher resolutions until I purchased low loss VGA cables. This more or less cured the problem, although some barely noticeable artifacts are visible onscreen in a few...

This seems to happen to me occasionally as well, almost always when I'm downloading from train-sim.com(a very busy server). I would say on average it happens once every 100 or so downloads, which is why I always check for file integrity after the file has finished downloading. If I get an...

Something like this is long overdue-there's really no viable way for the average person to back up a 100 GB hard drive these days. Tape is too slow and way too expensive, CD-R or RW requires too many discs, and using another hard drive isn't really safe. The transfer rate(36Mbs) should give a...

While not defending this stupid warranty change and possible collusion, I can certainly understand it from a business standpoint, just as I understand why Tannin will no longer use WD drives from a business standpoint. The simple fact is that over the last three or four years hard drives have...

That cat in my avatar has every bit the attitude that the picture of her suggests. :diablo: Sometimes she'll even log on as me and start posting things here at SF. Apparently her and Tea get along really well, and like to have some secret chats while Tannin and me aren't looking. I still have...

Here's another no vote, and the reason is because, frankly, we're too much in a hurry to pop pills for everything without going after the underlying problem. For example, a person may come in who is legimately depressed(as I was for about 6 months after the WTC attacks). Instead of the...