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ddrueding is using a much newer card with a much newer processor and firmware than anyone else.

I have a DAT player. I transferred everything I had on DAT (studio tapes from one of Chicago's classical stations) to CD. By the time I got a recorder, I also owned a CD burner. Most of the appeal for me was getting copies of stuff that was otherwise unobtainable. Regarding LaserDisc sound...

Spybot has always been useless until the first time you do updates. I think the default for the previous version was a database size that was about 5% of what the DB with updates was... Winsockfix has the Mercutio seal of approval for taking care of that lost connectivity. Also, Tannin... I...

Latest news on the eSATA spec is that it'll offer power integrated in the existing data connector. While I don't see any mention that the connector will be compatible with existing products, I know I'd be glad to see it in either case.

I thought this was common knowledge but... The order of operations for multibooting is to start with the least complex system and work to the most complex. If you're dealing with more than one version of Windows, you do the older before the newer, and you do your *nix last, because it's always...

Step 1. Install whatever version of Linux you want There is no step 2.

About 6TB. Most of that is porn. :)

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I could believe that back in the days of Windows 98, but I'm seeing partitions marked as FAT12 (the filesystem used on floppy disks) and an "unknown" type that was up in the 60s someplace. I think it's a purposeful attempt to reduce interoperability.

I'm rather fond of the Logitech Trackman Optical myself. Actually Logitech generally seems like a winner; my labs with basic, $6 Logitech opticals haven't needed any replaced over the last four years.

You can, and that's what I've been doing, but 1. Why are they deviating from standard? and 2. It breaks some really common techie tools; if you don't know any better you just say "Oh, my tool doesn't work with Vista."

Pretty much everything these days - SuSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu - uses GRUB. Unfortunately, they all customize it a bit differently from the others, so if you ever have to repair it, you might be in for a couple minutes of poking around /boot or /grub looking for the config files.

Microsoft supposedly paid Paramount about $200M to go HDDVD, but they have some kind of escape clause in their deal.

I think we can draw a distinction between a moral society and a fair society. Morality is a confusing topic for a lot of religious people; a lot of them seem to assume that morality is something that can only be established from (their own) religion. It's not a word I would wish to drag into...

I have yet to find an Intel-based Apple notebook that doesn't get too hot on the bottom. They all do it. In fact, the only times I see Apple notebooks are when someone brings me one that's either overheating or has already killed itself. I don't care about the one button trackpad, but in...

Anyone here noticed this? Something I've seen several times now is name brand PCs with Vista installed, where the partition ID does not match the actual format of data on the partition. The actual data is NTFS, but it'll be marked as something else. To understand this problem, you kind of need...

Maybe try a nice Intel or 3com?

In my mind, as much as need be. I don't mind paying taxes when I can see a benefit.

We can count tapes?

That's why we have to keep trying until we get it right. I'd go further and say that members of a society with a functional government need to subjugate their individuality in order to more fully allow that government to create a just and fair society. And in the case of wealthy people, that...

They're all loud. I'm not going to give credit to any of the next generation consoles; if I can put together a PC that can achieve tolerable levels of silence with four fans inside it and none of them can even buy an optical drive mechanism that is drowned out when I'm standing 30 feet away next...

I'm hearing from other instructors that our lab machines are occasionally crashing in Vista, and the only classes we're teaching at the moment are introductory (This is how to copy a file, this is how to turn down the volume). Mind you, this is on two month old hardware that's 100% vista...

The 40GB PS3 also dropped support for SACD, which is one of the few decent things that Sony has done in the last 15 years or so. I've only had limited encounters with PS3 hardware otherwise, but in my experience, it's loud. Just as bad as an Xbox. Hell, compared to the other stuff in my living...

I hate console games. I hate S*ny and I have no interest in having a noisy box shaped as oddly as a PS3 in the stack with my silent home theater stuff. Serenity is on HDDVD. So is the first season of Heroes. So is Battlestar Galactica. All of those are things that I will re-watch multiple...

Those will not excite Tannin. Those will infuriate Tannin. Everything I'm reading at the moment says that 4:3 displays are going to disappear over the next couple of years. This is just another sign of that.

All the EMC products I've ever seen have been about the size of a dishwasher, Lunar.

I'd be more than happy to argue that the job of any worthwhile government is to create and enforce social justice. Also, one of the jobs of the US government is to regulate interstate commerce, which covers an enormous amount of ground.

Because it's too much work to understand that the anti-intellectual fundamentalist authoritarian nutbags should maybe be kept out of high office?

... or you could go with HDDVD, and have it done properly in the first place. I very strongly suspect that a lot of current BluRay owners aren't going to have the technical know-how to update their players and that a lot of discs are not going to work properly in those older players. I also...

Night and day. Upsampled 480p has blocky regions no matter what you do, even with a Faroudja video processor or the ATI/nVidia GPU based cleanup drivers. Real, live 1080p looks like, well, 1080p. No blocks, no strange staticky artifacts. It's crisp and perfect. Several reasons. 1. Low demand...

Tannin, I believe they are the same. IBM parts certainly have a history of working between models; I had quite a few parts I shared between T20 and T41 for example. You can probably check their site to be sure but that bridge chip isn't very big in any case.

To be honest, a lot of the current issues with mortgage lending seem to have started with some really poor decision making on the part of the Federal Reserve and were exacerbated globally by Bush Administration policies which caused a devaluation of the dollar (making it cheaper for other...

I am going to go ahead and agree with time and Tannin in that there is a staggering amount of ignorance in this thread. Today is my first fairly quiet day of the new year. My problem, lately, is that more of the things that I have been doing have been more like favors and less like things I...

My total disk space is 24TB; effectively 8TB of actual storage. I just bought some 1TB drives this morning, but that's so I can decommission several 500GB units.

Are we counting drives in or out of arrays? I have a lot in RAID10 configurations, so it makes a difference.

Newegg's hold music selections include tracks from the Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride soundtracks, Last of the Mohicans and various Lord of the Rings movies. I find that highly amusing.

There's no excuse for a well engineered notebook to get more than pleasantly warm; I've got a Thinkpad T41 apart right now and they CPU is completely passively cooled; it doesn't even have a heat sink sitting on top of it. Guess what? Thinkpad T41s don't get hot unless you're using them under a...

Does your Thinkpad have an Ultrabay, Tannin? You can always buy a SATA Ultrabay and stick your large notebook drive in that. Are there now lots of SFers who have in excess of 5TB of disk space?

Seagate had a reliability image? One of my replacement 750s couldn't complete a format, either...

That would be a no.

Looks less convenient than torrenting. I'll stick with that.

Work lately has been less sit-at-desk and less talk-on-phone and more this-must-be-fixed-yesterday.

Windows mirror sets can be made the System drive, just not stripe sets or RAID5s.

You probably need to install an updated set of INFs for your system chipset. You might also have to delete the devices. Since they're disk drives, you'll be needing to do that in safe mode.

USMT is a command line version of the File and Settings Transfer Wizard that's handily located in Programs > Accessories > System Tool. I am regularly shocked at the number of techies who have never used (or in some cases, heard of) either FSTW or USMT.

I had a fancypants ICP RAID controller fail a while back in such a way that it corrupted a large portion of the data on a pair of mirrored drives. I was quite surprised that such a thing could happen on a mirrored set since no parity calculations/striping/whatever was being done. One nice thing...

All the stuff that made me want an HD player is still HDDVD only. I bought Serenity in HD before I bought a player.

I am glad that we're still here. Thank you for all your time and energy, Handruin, and for everyone else who has come by over the years.

Sooner or later I'll probably need one...

BluRay has been cracked for ages, ddrueding. Where the hell have you been? Current builds of AnyDVD even handle the extra-super-duper BD+ content protection without a problem. So, OK, I've used both, and I have to say, I do not like BluRay. The Sony player I tried took a lot longer to boot up...