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I can summarize Western Digital drives in 2004 with a single word.

If it was just one or two boards, sure. But four is enough to justify service IMO.

At the moment I have a glut of RMA-able Asus motherboards. Well, OK, four = glut, but they're all less than 18 months old on what I know to be 3 year warranty products. So I've been looking around the Asus Web site for a place where I can submit an RMA claim. And I can't find that place. At...

If they call it "Pornium", I'll buy one.

I have many positive things to say about those little Acard ATA to SCSI converters. But I don't like how much they cost. If they were $30 instead of $60, I would have them on all my PCs.

Interesting to note the very poor showing by 3ware. I note that they tested in Windows only. It's not a wholly realistic assumption to make about a given piece of "enterprise" hardware. Their valuation of promise hardware is in line with what I've seen and heard from others. And then there's...

I've used a couple of the x-series models. I am big on the thin a light models myself but I did not like the passive display on the models I looked at. The keyboard only takes a couple minutes to get used to. In the end I went with the T-series instead. It weighs more but also has a longer...

As awful as it is, I have used the tried and true dumpster method for 99% of my "recycling" needs. At the point where the PC isn't worth putting a modem in, or isn't worth the space it occupies on the floor, I'm not willing to pay to dispose of it, and neither has any customer I've ever had. Try...

I'm about a step up from where you are talking about, Liam. I have parts on hand to cover building four to five computers on-hand at any one time. I stock more standard parts than anything - floppy drives, optical drives, PSUs, fans etc. Fewer CPUs or RAM, since prices on those items fluxuate a...

3ware 8506-8. The "extra" two drives are essentially hot spares for the array (750GB RAID5) but right now I've got them plugged into the onboard ports.

I finally got around to installing a couple of the Supermicro 5-in-3 SATA drive enclosures in one of my fileservers. I'm thrilled simply because having that density of drives (10 7k250s) on one of my machines means I can actually decommission two of my other servers.

Was it the first drive in the system? XP can only format a PATA drive to 128GB at install time. I usually format/prep on a different PC before I install, which allows XP to use the full capacity of the drive.

Also, gotta say it, the last straw on the whole anime/manga issue for me - going from merely indifferent to actual distaste - was being trapped on a train coming out of Chicago with three absolutely RABID fans who, over a 90 minute period, went from talking about what I presume to be standard...

Fushigi, My two "large" local bookstores are Barnes and Noble and Borders. At my local Barnes and Noble, manga titles went from occupying 1 3' set of shelves to a whole 24' row. Graphic novels were completely removed (orders only), and the rest of the space came out of that reserved for Science...

I have less than zero interest in anime, except insofar as I wish it would get back under whatever rock in came out from under. I've seen Spirited Away. I've seen Akira. Both were about as appealing the thought of my grandmother's sex life. I've seen bits and pieces of other things (e.g. Cowboy...

Not only that but I've seen retail discs that won't take keys from older retail versions. I have some Windows 2000 SP2 discs that won't take an original Windows 2000 key. Which is of course completely moronic.

The huge problem I have with Anime is that it is pushing many other forms of entertainment out of the market. That, and I've grown to dislike the attitude of a great many anime/manga fans toward other classically geeky preoccupations (science fiction/comics/D&D etc). If it were under its own...

Even worse, why would anyone say anything nice about Trinton Azaleth?

People who want to store anime in any quantity shouldn't be allowed to breed. But, OK, I'm hovering at something just over 6TB in local storage at the moment. I rip 20 - 30 movies a week. For my efforts I can exhaust 500GB in a month without any difficulty at all. To me a single terabyte...

My experience in the matter is not as extensive as some others, but in my opinion CPU speed is only relevant up to a point while gaming. If I play Doom 3 on an XP2800 or an Athlon64/3200, both with 1GB of RAM and both with a 9800 Pro, I really do have what I feel is an identical experience in...

4 '33" is actually very difficult to perform, since the musician must still keep a proper beat without any aural cues . It's also fascinating to hear, because absent the music from the stage, an audicence makes a surprising amount of noise, even a well-mannered crowd such that might attend a...

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Store in jukebox, as was intended. Use database to keep track of which disc is where.

Just the republicans.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

I have a simulator called "Virtual Date with Jenna Jameson" that's pretty cool.

Bose is bad m'kay?

Have you properly set your CPU voltage? What happens when you jumper the thing to some nice, conservative setting like 2x66MHz? Doesn't the 569 take DIMMS? Where did you get 168 pin EDO memory, anyway? Are you sure it works? Are you sure it's EDO?

Or perhaps you could find a form of entertainment better suited for your needs. Like a book. It's really sad that popular music these days is essentially mixed with the idea that it will be heard through crappy headphones.

Portable audio = poor quality audio.

dibs

Er.. if you use BITS to get your windows updates, you don't really need IE any more at all.

IE 6 is NOT worth $161. Windows XP isn't worth $161.

Aw crap, that other thing was supposed to be a PM.

Actually - and this probably violates a EULA of some kind - it strikes me that a gmail account could very easily be used for a file cache for SF users.

slaker1@yahoo.com I'll be using them for storage space.

I would have to be paid to accept Opera in any version I have ever tried.

I'll take 12 from whomever. Yes, I'm serious.

To search google from the address bar: Make a new bookmark: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s Set the keyword to something simple. I use "g" To search, type "g searchterm" e.g. g boobies -bird Which will hopefully return many results of the non-lame kind.

As I said above, I think it would be icky as a HTPC device. Yes, there are USB sound doohickies for the Mac, but what a horrible kludge for something that's so damned small! And downloading HD Video? Do you have any idea how big those files are? With a 40GB drive? Huh-uh. I don't see it. Nope.

I've seen malware .XPIs. Firefox prompts and asks if you want to install "eviladware666.xpi" from "XXXcocainewarezandstrippers.com". Puts a big window at the top of your screen, that you have to click on to even click on to find out the site wants to install something. The moron who has...

I've seen malware .XPIs. Firefox prompts and asks if you want to install "eviladware666.xpi" from "XXXcocainewarezandstrippers.com". Puts a big window at the top of your screen, that you have to click on to even click on to find out the site wants to install something. The moron who has...

Generally speaking, if I partook of satan's leavings, it was from a large retail establishment, since those are basically the only brand that's sold at retail a lot of places. Best Buy has gotten better, though, and now I can choose from Hitachi or three other sucky brands.

Do Brits really understand/care/watch the super bowl? Wow. It's even worse than I thought.

Oddly enough, I'm installing Suse 9.2 on an Athlon 64. The first thing it did when I told it to install was bring up a window with the title "Cool Computer but..." and "You are about to install 32-bit software on a 64-bit computer" as its contents. Well, OK. It made me laugh.

Well, here is a decent place to start.. Making a listener that monitors something on a serial port should be something that a EE type could probably whip up in about 20 minutes.

I dunno. Those Spider-man cartoons my tivo picked up for me were pretty cool. MTV would probably be OK if they'd just start showing boobies. Or at least more of the ass-shaking-chicks-in-thongs that are on the Spanish channels and BET every time I channel surf through them. To reiterate...

Is there some part of this thread that's in a language I understand?

I refuse to believe that Mr. Right Wing Flagreen in fact had a mother. :P

Well, I'm slightly put off by only being able to set partitions or disks as immutable, but I understand why that is. I'm thinking that I'll give this software a go for one of my more troublesome clients ("XXXdialer?!? Boy does that sound like fun!") This might be absolutely perfect if it...