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My father bought Yamaha's one of 1st consumer-grade CD-R drive in the mid-90s. The thing still works. That speaks volumes for Yamaha IMO. There are a LOT of crappy CD-RW drives on the market. I guess it just got too hard to justify a top-class product and a top-class price when CD-RWs are...

I'll check with the MOUS masters I work with. They've got to be good for something besides knowing how to do pivot tables and mail merges. :)

What's your point old man? I'm a very crotchety 27. Ask anyone. Actually the worst is finding out that most of my students have been working longer than I've been alive. Especially when I start referring to something that happened five years ago as "...in the old days". Dog years and...

Does he have any macros set up? Any at all?

I actually know where to buy candy cigarettes and wax "sodas". Those things are still around. The $1 second-run theater in the town where I live appends a short-subject to every feature it shows. The old man who runs the place collects them. Go to the late night showing and it'll be something...

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Either of the above, Groltz. I have three WhisperRocks and one FalconRock. They're all more than adequate for my needs. Quiet CPU fans are really a good thing. I'm keen to buy more next time I happen to get a chance. I know I'm not an overclocker, but really, these guys do the job, much like...

I still have the motherboard from my dual 486 machine. IIRC the date on it is 1990.

I'm really very annoyed that newegg has dropped that cooler. I can't find 'em through pricewatch, either. For the money they were absolutely perfect . Reading this today was kind of a downer. Maybe there will be a replacement product soon...

No. But since I left the computers alone, they did apparently start folding sometime this morning. At least according to their log files. Very strange. Or annoying. Whichever.

I'd like to know who the hordes of people are who want this application, 'cause I'm pretty sure I didn't pay $400 to run a benchmark better. I can just see a bunch of bored gamers sitting around screens full of demo-scene junk going: "My computer can totally kick your's ass. Jo0 5ux0rs!: Or...

As much as you have room for. I've seen PB (petabyte) libraries... sealed rooms with robots running around on tracks at 100km/hr. Hard to compete with tape on that level, I think.

If only it were that easy to get rid of King George...

Take a look at the bid history. I tried to do a little bargain hunting.

What, that doesn't merit the "rocket launcher icon"? And you call yourself a gamer.

You can thank me later for the extra $6. :)

Best threads of SF? This site now has some history. A year's worth, anyway. We've got our own in-jokes that need explaining, most having to do somehow with Tea, and we've had some interesting technical threads. The idea is to have a place for beginners to start, and for old-timers to pick...

I can honestly say I never saw a Dell commercial with that guy. But looking at the picture in Handruin's link, all I can say is, anyone who DIDN'T look at him and see "Future High Times Magazine Spokesperson" clearly isn't living in what we humans call "reality."

Custom, Mercutio, 10047, and both machines downloaded 244kb of something last night, which seems like it's probably a WU.

Hm. Installed this thing on the couple of new builds I did last night, rebooted both of them, and wandered off to bed. Wake up to find that neither of them folded a damn thing. CPU utilization for FAHConsole is supposed to be a number higher that "00" on an idle machine, right?

ghost works with anything, if you use "raw" mode, blake.

A desktop drive with a 5 year warranty. That's awfully nice of them. Maybe they'll even bring out a model with a usable capacity someday... I'll be in my corner waiting for Maxtor's 320GB drives.

IIRC, Win95 won't install on a 386 unless it's an intel 386/33. I remember trying to load it on a an AMD 386/40 and getting some obnoxiously long message about not detecting an Intel 386 processor. But yes, I've seen 98 on a 486 with 4MB of RAM, too. That was about as bad as this.

Yes, but perhaps Mr. Cahill's could re-sell Buck a site that includes a shopping cart. Already got php and mySQL... I looked at a shopping cart app once. It was written in perl. About 30 lines of the most bastardized code I'd ever seen. I've seen line noise less random.

Firewire drives can be shared to several machines at a time. Firewire is cool. Looking around on google, though, I'm really surprised no one is selling an ethernet to IDE bridge. Seems like it could be a really sweet little product. Wonder is cas would say about it...

If Buck can compete with Newegg's prices, I'll even buy from him exclusively. :)

The other things you have to understand are, most NASes are just low-end Celerons or ARM-based computers running Linux. They're effectively PCs. You're paying extra for a "black box" that's a little harder to upgrade, and with some nice management software.

Wow. I feel special. Someone made it annoyingly difficult, just for me.

Oh. And I forgot to mention: Some intelligent person has handily configured 64MB swap files on both partitions of the hard disk. Yup. That's amazingly helpful.

One of the PCs I built this weekend was for someone who described their Dell as "too slow". It's too slow alright. It's a Pentium 233 with 32MB of RAM and a 3GB hard disk, partitioned as 2 1.5GB FAT drives which is completely and utterly full (I take that back. It has 16k free on the second...

Beige boxes are pretty much always the cheap route. Still, last time I looked, Snap Servers started at $379 or $400. Whole servers ($300 for 40GB) or empty enclosures are out there, too. Check ebay.

That makes a great deal of sense.

It depends. My days very seldom involve six non-routine appointments, but I've certainly done it before. Just a good memory for that stuff, I guess.

Having just broken one of the pegs off the ZIF socket of a gav7rxp... A heatsink retention technology that doesn't suck.

Not consciously. numbers and appointments I just "visualize" somehow. I can just see them in my head.

"Women and sea men don't mix." Waylon Smithers Sigh. I wish I could watch the new episodes. I hafta wait until they come out on Kazaa. :) There are quite a few simpsons fans here, though.

No, but USB floppy drive carriers are pretty common. And if you REALLY wanted to do it internally, there are SCSI floppy drives in the world, and SCSI carriers.

What's this "might" stuff? I definately don't like nvidia. I definately don't like Abit, either. Abit and leaky caps might as well be synonymous, but in the last couple of years I've run into dead AGP slots, motherboards with no working DIMM (or RIMM, in one case) slots and a motherboard that...

The software is licensed to a single technician. I can install and use the software on as many PCs as I want, as long as it's only on one PC at any one time. I'm sort-of waiting for version 7 to see if I'll get a free or reduced-cost upgrade, though. Mostly I've used it for "favor" stuff -...

Nope. But it makes nice for PCI. I run into the same thing with my KT400 boards... the G200 I'd been using for a test card doesn't work in those.

Y'know, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I had one of those things when I was four!

At least now you know what the "Init Display first" BIOS setting does. :) I know I've mentioned this already this week, but a $5 Matrox Millenium is supported by everything under the sun and distinctly does not look like sheot. They're awesome test cards.

I personally think a better term for a 5400rpm Barracuda with a parallel ATA interface would be "CACA", but maybe I'm just bitter.

It was on-site. In a town I'd never been in before. With a person I had no pre-existing relationship with (i.e. I'm still not sure why she called me in particular). I did end up taking the drive home to try to snag the last of the data off it, but it doesn't look good. Obviously, I've moved on...

How'd I miss this thread? Hapy bday, Groltz. Is the perspective on that screenshot skewed somehow? That "pneumatic system" has a neck that's as thick as her thighs. Are the faces articulated?

Note that they're keeping the profit-cen.... I mean U-series alive. All I can ask is, "WHY?" If I wasn't already an atheist I'd probably take this opportunity to question the existence of a higher power. Barracuda is a storied imprint for Seagate, much like Cheetah. Many of its best drives...

Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro. Legal copy licensed to me (purchased after a couple of successful runs with a not-legal copy). I paid $800 for the software (bought a technician license on sale, I understand it's normally more), but just today is the first time I used it for billable work. Customer's...

The date of manufacture on my drive was the 24th of January. I do have the "G" firmware and RecordNow DX already. I went back and "closed" my DVD+R disc and it started working in my Sony jukebox. Good. That's one name to cross off my "kill on sight" list. Thanks for the tip! I think I'm...

Guess it's time for the non-Pacific time USians to go to bed, then. :(

Eh. Never stopped my father (PhD EE). That man is dangerous with a hammer.