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The drive is more than full. The initial disk load was ~18GB (the Windows XP on my "game" computer, complete with some games and applications). I added 10GB of extra stuff (the AVIs) on the extra partition. The AVIs play, and I'm playing "Simpsons Hit and Run" from the original data set right now.

It appears that my short-term investment in Soy futures has paid off rather handsomely. Which do you think? Projector from hell or 61" of never-gonna-burn-in DLP goodness?

If they're even close to comparable to MaxLine drives in terms of price, I'd have a hard time saying "no" to at least a couple of 'em.

That's weird. Do you know what firmware rev. you were using, mubs?

It appears to me that it works. I used a 20GB Barracuda III for a test drive. Ghosted an XP installation onto it. Loaded Ghost. Did an update to 7.793 (slightly newer than the article suggests). Followed the procedure: Booted off HDD-2 (on a GA7VAXP), loaded Ghost. Started a backup. Restarted...

WTF. I'll give it a try when I get home.

Yeah, um, I think I'd like some of the crack they're smoking, too.

No Schiller? No Goethe? I remember taking a German lit class in college. Reading in original German works like this: Before attempting to read a page of text for comprehension, scan the whole thing until you find the verb. The one verb. On the whole page. Then you highlight it with a marker...

It does cost a small fortune, basically $1000 per TB right now (including a disk controller that can handle TBs of data). Fortunately, as storage density increases, it also becomes more affordable. Which is why I can double the storage I had 18 months ago, even with fewer PCs and fewer spindles.

Shakespeare, I think. Hardly crap, in my opinion.

That was a gimmick about 15 years ago, I think. I do remember hearing about it. I don't know if it ever got to be more than a novelty, though. Kinda like those "100x" CD-ROM drives that were around for awhile that used some kind of caching system to go fast. Hm. Might be an interesting thread...

Somehow I can't bring myself to watch a movie about Lesbian serial killers. That stuff actually bothers me A LOT. I tried watching The Hours and had to shut it off, too, even though it's obviously a good movie (with a score that I really, really like).

Their 3300W product is at present WEP only. My DSL access device is a 3300-ENT, oddly enough.

I use $.60 Princo -R cheapies for day-to-day burning and $2.20 Verbatim DataLifePlus +Rs for stuff I really want to keep, like the movies I steal from netflix or wantedlist. Coaster rates for +R discs seem to be lower on my selection of burners, and every +R I've seen burns at its rated speed...

That is correct. In fact, every vendor I've looked into is doing that.

Let me know if you see an AP that supports WPA. I have yet to see one.

DLink's APs are lousy. I strongly dislike their lack of configurability. I have a DI624 in service where I'm working right now and I hate the damn thing. e.g.: Can't manually assign a DNS server address, hard-coded use of the 192.168.0 network, no support for RADIUS (Linksys supports RADIUS for...

It kind of pisses me off that someone who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars might decide she needs to cheat to make/keep a lousy couple million.that she doesn't really need. Martha Stewart is a "lifestyle" icon; her schtick is that she's some sort of ultra-high-end homemaking goddess. If...

Tannin is Tea and CNN Sport, Ekaf-amI and Grammar Policy Buck is Bartender and OT Polizei Pradeep is DrunkenBastard flagreen is The Giver NRG is also Rocco Siffredi Gary Hendershot is Splash, Computer Generated Baby, iGary, Platforum, GIANT, Corvair, Explorer, .Nut, Discfarm and Onomatopoeic...

That's something I struggle with every day, LM. There's ample proof of that in my life. To everyone else, all I can say is that I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you. Thank you.

Are we working in 98ish command.com or NTish cmd.exe? It shouldn't be that hard to whip something up with cmd.exe

1. I wish phpBB had a theme that looked/behaved like this site. The design is giving me serious wood. 2. Fellow BOFH fans should love the Sysadmin lore contained therein. 3. And for an even deeper exploration of the humor contained therein, the alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ, containing some of the...

This thread is hilarious. It keeps going and going and going, too (21 pages long).

Hairy Aussie. A badge I shall wear with pride. Second Bruce: Goodday, Bruce! First Bruce: Oh, Hello Bruce! Third Bruce: How are yer Bruce? First Bruce: Bit crook, Bruce. Second Bruce: Where's Bruce? First Bruce: He's not here, Bruce. Third Bruce: Blimey, s'hot in here, Bruce. First...

This is my 5000th post on Storageforum. I made my 4999th without realizing that I had gotten so far, and I went to sleep that night blissfully unaware that I needed to make one more. Which is really too bad, because I haven't slept in the three nights since, waiting for the right words to put...

Self esteem is for everybody Self-esteem is for everyone. You can dream and be anybody Self-esteem is how you get it done. -- Angel, season 4 episode 14, "Smile Time"

There are whole threads about that. They're quite long, and I don't know if you've read them, but they are there. Besides, I have no relationships.

Either that or put enough on so that the foil 1. Covers your face 2. Is airtight 3. And takes at least five minutes to remove.

Harumpf. Relationships make life worth living. Or, at least, nothing else seems to.

One of the things that drove adoption of Windows 95 - besides long filename support - was the fact that Microsoft released Office 95 for 32-bit Windows only. Now, the situation in August of 1995 was somewhat different that it will be in ~18 months when the next version of Office is released...

No, there aren't.

Western Digital has to have good warranty service. I'm sure they get plenty of practice. Newegg's return policies seem pretty typical to me. No big deal. I've had trouble with 'em in the past. Just this week I called to ask for an RMA refund/cross ship instead of repair. The phone monkey said...

At least he has one.

Promise: Several months ago I called Promise because of what I thought was a defective SX4000. It was around 6:30PM local time, but I got to speak to a live human quickly enough that I didn't notice a wait. We did some diagnostics, up to and including their tracking down one of the same type of...

I've got Logitech to send me a bunch of the little tiny grey bearings that support the actual trackball in their Trackman products. I lose them sometimes when I clean my pointing devices. It was really hard to explain to them wanted, but they sent me several dozen for the cost of shipping. I've...

Nine days ago the fan on my ATI 9700AIW died. Since I was in the middle of a multi-hour UT2004 session I didn't notice it demise (the fan itself is normally audible over other things in my case, but not when I'm blowing reactor cores and piloting raptors). ... until the moment when my screen...

Yup, that's it exactly. I didn't think to look in the medical section.

This seems to be close to what I want. Better than nothing, at any rate. Thanks CityK.

Pradeep is going to turn into a murderous zombie. That'll teach him not to use worchestershire sauce as embalming fluid.

I'm looking for an LCD monitor+keyboard mount. I can find LCD-only mounts, but I need one with an attached tray and preferably at least some height adjustability. I don't suppose anyone has seen anything like that?

Here's my take: 1. 1394 isn't common enough to worry about, and isn't worth the effort to seek out. I base this on the fact that firewire has been around for five years and probably 85% of PCs sold don't have it. USB2, on the other hand, went from nowwhere and nothing 18 months ago, to...

Well, it's good that at least one of SF's depressed members is moving forward. I - we - will miss your contributions, i. If it makes you feel better, Bowflexes normally sell for more than their retail price on ebay. :)

Tea, your shop needs the joy of a retail copy of ghost. Really, Tony, it's worth the 100 AUD and includes quite a few useful features that would serve your needs. sechs, I have no idea why you might be having that problem, but have you explored the various options ghost has for making copies...

There aren't very many people here who can help you, unfortunately. You certainly SHOULD be able to get all of the above to function. A do-everything server is a single point of failure anyway, and should probably be avoided. I'd suggest off-loading a few of those server roles to another PC...

I don't download any music. I share a great deal of it, because the music that I enjoy has exactly zero exposure in the for-pay services, and likely never will. A big recording company doesn't stand to gain anything from offering jazz or classical recordings - the market is too small. Therefore...

And the freedom to paying to download reduced-quality clips of the same for-shit brand-name pop music I could buy locally is so important?

Does it matter?

I've found them cheap ($40 for a set) at ecost.com.

On the other hand, 260lbs. of me once put my full-weight foot on a T20 LCD without breaking it. And then there's my oldest Thinkpad, a 560. 233MHz and it'll boot off a theorectically non-bootable Soyo Cig@r USB thumb drive. Other joys I've encountered: Finding a P5-100 desktop with BIOS...

One could only wish it were a toe.