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For various reasons (including that I have too much crap in my case) I'm using a 50-pin to 68-pin adapter to connect my DVD-ROM to a run-of-the-mill rounded Ultra160 cable. The problem is that, no matter how I terminate the SE bus, my Adaptec 29160 complains that it's not terminated correctly...

Chances that it didn't splat are getting pretty slim....

I agree. Those colour stereo pictures from Spirit pretty much kick anything that B2 could have sent anyway.

Maybe this is an English-Metric problem? :wink: Anyway, Mars Express should be in position to acquire a signal from Beagle 2 on Wednesday (January 7).

As long as correct spelling is optional, I'm all for it. It could, however, use a dictionary with a few technical terms in it....

Anyone get anything from this "utility?" Looks to me like they're just inserting an L2 cache. As if Windows didn't know anything about disk caching....

I am personally disappointed at heatsinks and fans added for looks more than functionality. My Soyo board has a heatsink and fan on the northbridge, but certainly does not need the fan (I have it unplugged from the motherboard to reduce noise) and may not even need the heatsink. I know a...

Just to be clear, you don't have a post office box... just a mail box at a store.

I've been a pretty die-hard Win2k advocate, but after having to deal with it at work, I think that I can tame it. After SP2 comes out, I'll install it experimentally and see if I can strip out enough crap for it to be acceptable. Now if I could have gotten OS/2 to run my games on my hardware....

Stick to IE 5.5, There's nothing in IE 6 but heartache and pain. I also wish that you could privide third-party drivers in some way other than a floppy disk. They're so small and slow....

The fact of the matter is that going with Itanium is analgous to going with Sparc or PA-RISC. It's completely different, and so you have to mostly start over with your software. Why pay more to get less?

I think that would be called "running the program." You wouldn't have big enough variables anyway.

blakerwry, that's just a really crappy way to test if all numbers are prime. There are a couple P-time algorithms to test for primality; although I'd expect them to use Marsene numbers and the Lucas-Lehmer test.

There's a very straightforward algorithm for finding one prime number when you know another. It's simply time consuming to run it on a computer when the numbers are so large.

The media library isn't very powerful. I've a lot of MP3s on my computer, and it just doesn't do much to help me use them. I'll be going back to WinAMP 2.95 for my light needs and MusicMatch Jukebox for my regular playing.

The OS uses the FS to do that. The file system should keep some information about where files are and aren't. The OS can use that information to tell the disk to what sectors to write.

I always thought that the operating system did that work.

I'm hoping that they won't charge shipping for the replacement disk. I wonder if this affects the DVD version, as well.

Come on people. We got the guy who was trying to kill our president's daddy!

I'm sure that there's a great expanse of nothing in particular that would suite you well. If anything, you could move over here to Nebraska. Pitch dark at night in most places....

The ends don't justify the means, and I sure don't see an end in sight....

HID lamps are great for drivers, unless you don't have them. Part of the problem is that street lighting is usually high-pressure sodium, which is a pleasant orange colour. Your eyes become accustomed to that colour, and then two bright white monsters come along, and everything is messed up...

You can do a simple electrophoresis gel in four hours. Now, where they got a cross-sample and a lab to do this is beyond me.

I strongly dislike HID car amps for two reasons: 1. They are high intensity (i.e. too bright), blinding other drivers on the road. 2. They tend to be too white, making it difficult for other drivers to maintain their night vision.

I order most of my CFLs online at http://www.topbulb.com. I don't know if they go north of the border, but they do have a serious selection. At home, most of the bulbs that we have are 2700K to 3500K. I've been in a colour lab where they used "daylight" lamps, and it felt wierd. Actually...

There's no patch. ATi simply released the then-current version of their drivers with the necessary fix. Some have reported bug fixes and additional OpenGL compliance with the "hotfix" drivers.

Fix thread from Rage 3D: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33721234 Hotfix from ATi: http://mirror.ati.com/support/infobase/4295.html

Stock 3.9s have issues with All-in-Wonder cards. ATi put out an updated driver with a fix. I'll rumage around Rage3d and see if I can find the link.

I haven't personally stayed there, but it sure as hell looks nice. From my more enriched friends, I'd guess that it's a pretty first-class affair. Of course, I'm the guy who stayed at the Days Inn and took the monorail from Downtown Disney....

Let's have a horse race here.... have them vote no.

There are 256 registered members and we got 16 votes. That's 6.25% turnout. I realise that about 200 of those registered didn't come back after so doing, but I didn't realise that we had so few regulars....

Not enough, in my opinion. Upper management sees support as a cost center rather than a way to encourage future sales. So they attempt to minimize the amount of money put into it. As we all know, you get out what you put in. For my stint, I was lucky to have a number of guys of above average...

I have to agree with Handruin. Sometimes telling the truth only makes things more difficult. A polite lie concerning the state of affairs can do a lot to grease the wheels. Despite running Win2k Pro, I've several times needed to say that I was running Windows 98, ME, or XP in order to be...

I've worked in customer support, and the managers often impose requirements that have no bearing on real life. I was often required to run customers through several troubleshooting steps which I knew were not going to work, just so that I could say that they were done, and the damn thing still...

There was someone on one of these sites being an ass... so I ignored him. The next day, I opened a thread in which this person was a poster. Every third or fourth post was "you have ignored this person"; I had no idea what he was saying and to what others were reacting. It's like when the...

I use websites with such a function and have used it. Turned it off after seeing just one thread with an ignored poster. The ability to ignore only allows people to be ignorant of what is happening in a thread. If there is someone who is generally being an ass, then the moderators need to...

I was talking about putting LVD devices on an SE cable (not an SE bus).

Thanks Handruin.

Memory and Google fail me. UW SCSI is SE or LVD? Also can I use an SE cable to run a LVD (U160) bus? Or are the SE cables not capable of handling the signal? Thanks.

I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

The problem with looking for stuff I've posted is that I end up with a lot of hits in a foreign language....

This is going to be a one-horse show....

It's entertaining, if not true.

I do remember alt.cascade I also seem to remember a lot of posts asking about what was going on, and then people with readers that wrapped the lines mucking things up....

The release notes for 4.51 show the same version for all components at 4.50, but gives note of, "Fixed the issue of the Delayed Write Failed only for special condition"

FYI, older cards are 5 years, newer ones are 3 -- either way you're fine.

Is it "scuzzy" or "sexxy?" Hmmm....

I wish that SuSe would put out ISOs. That would make life easier.

I'm sure that this is some overclocking foo. I don't think that this is necessary to run the card regularly....

In my past experience with WinACE it was slow working with RAR files. (It is, after all, WinACE, not WinRAR....) Have you tried actually using WinRAR, to see if there is a difference?