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The problem at the moment, Tannin, is that there is no #3 general-use video card right now. ATI and nvidia. I don't know which produces more chips. Matrox hangs on by a thread but it's off the radar for most people because their cards are so bad at 3D, and then you get down into the murky...

Hope it was a good one, James. Besides, I always thought 50 was the hill cut-off. ;)

I dimly recall Sony narrow SCSI hard disks living in some of the more ancient varieties of Macintoshes.

Then why isn't that information listed in the specifications of the camera?

F-number = a ratio of the size of the light apeture to the size of the lens. Low F-numbers indicate that you're pretty much always going to have a lot of light in the picture, which is fine when you're indoors and using a flash, but really dreadful if you're outside trying to minimize the...

Tannin, flash-memory readers usually cost less than $40 in the US. You plug 'em into a USB port on your desktop or carry them around with your camera (most are 4"x6" or smaller and weigh less than a half-pound). PCMCIA to flash adaptors can be as cheap as $20, but only support one media type...

re: Powershot A20. f2.4 to f4.8. Ouch. Hope you don't live near any windows. ;) They don't even list f-numbers for the EOS digitals. That's a little suspicious for $1000+ digital cameras. I feel your pain, Tannin.

Almost everything I do is Via, or less often, AMD-chipset. My preference Matrox G400 or G200 ATI Radeon 7x00 3dfx Voodoo3 (would be higher if not for the end-of-life thing) ATI Rage Matrox Millenium I/II/G100 S3 Savage4 The G-series Matrox cards are simply the nicest things out there in...

Let's hope it's for good. I missed it while it was gone, particularly since I'm looking to buy some possibly esoteric hardware that not just everybondy sells (firewire or SCSI to IDE bridges)... Thanks for the good news!

Using IE on Storageforum for the first time. Just saw all the avatars for the first time. Jeez you people like wasting bandwidth. :P Tannin, you should've consulted before choosing that dreadful Sony. Floppies are a neat trick, but most cameras on the market now take pictures that're larger...

The contrarian in me wants to say Tea, to make sure the Redhill sock-puppet collective never has any time for work in his shop or for playing Age of Empires again, but instead I think I'll nominate Flagreen, since he wants his badge and gun so much (maybe we can get Jason over here for a...

Long story short: My distribtuor is a guy named Mike (I think his last name is Zhao or Shao or something), He operates out of his house in Portage and does his business with the screwdriver shops and little guys like me. A trip to see Mike is a lot easier - and usually cheaper - than driving...

My email service provider is just picky about its friends. Evidently, Aussies who send messages to 20 peopel at a time don't qualify. :P If it makes you feel better, most of the messages between Clipton and myself don't get where they're going either

Greg has said Maxtor. I've corresponded in the past with someone with @maxtor.com and a job title involving the word "engineer". I won't say more (he asked me not to) than that his name isn't Mickey or anything that might've come from "Mickey". sweetshon on SR works for Seagate, though. I'm...

I've used a couple of varieties of Compucase mid-towers. They're the most perfect inexpensive cases ever made. I'm not sure of the exact model number, since Compucase's web-site is a pile of dog-doo, but considering that, for the last two years I've been buying a finished case, with a 300W AMD...

The Compucase mid-tower is the ONE TRUE CASE. There can be no case before it. The Compucase mid-tower is all knowing, a bounty of goodness and light. The Compucase gives meaning to my dreary life.

Respectfully, Tannin, those e-mails were kind-of a mess. I don't think I ever got more than half of them. Was anything mailed to Jason after the formal creation of Storageforum?

Mickey on SR would be the person to ask. I'm almost positive he's a drive engineer for WD, even if he won't come right out and say it.

LCTs have been sold, in the US at least, as extremely low-cost (40GB for $59.99) store-branded hard disks in at Best Buy and CompUSA, at least in the US. Perhaps Clocker's drive was one of those. The "generic" marking would probably be sufficiently distinct to prevent end-users from seeking a...

Greg. Tannin: Are you suggesting that there's thereputic value in Jason posting his CNN topics or more-than-once-a-minute two-line replies to every other topic on SR? 'Cause I don't see it. The commonality between Tannin, Santillii (and I'll include myself as well) is that we post about our...

Perhaps you could take up as OT:Gendarmes (is that spelled properly? Probably not. Close enough)? I don't see anyone putting forward any better ideas. We should start crafting an e-mail.

By the time you put gravel in it, you know you've got roughly 560lbs of static force (note to scientists: Yes, a pound is not a force. I'm not quantifying anything in slugs or Newtons.). Hope your floors can handle it. Fresh water or saltwater tank? We have one of each at the moment, although...

Pbbbbbt. It's not that I was looking for a job, specifically, but more that I want a steady paycheck. Something I wasn't getting. Making $2000 in four days then not working for a month isn't exactly a stable way to live (but then, Tannin probably remembers the early days of his shop). ... and...

... and like an idiot I mixed up my email address. Which I noticed immediately AFTER I hit "submit". Oh well. I like the collection of links to hardware vendors. Can anyone here add to the list of downloadable files? Or just Doug/CougTek? Hey, how about a link to Tannin's SF FAQ?

I thought I already registered for the front-page portal. Is it not PHPnuke any more?

Front Page Yes folks, I am just this lazy.

Like no one here has ever sustained 20 posts a day for awhile. :P I'm frustrated by Jason, too. It sort-of goes against my grain to trash-talk another SR member publicly, but frankly, he knows a lot of people are annoyed by his posting CNN headlines and, well, omnipresence. My read is that he's...

That's cheap shot CougTek. Of course the nvidia card is a problem, but in that circumstance I'd be far more likely to check the RAM and the motherboard before I went ahead and did what comes naturally with nvidia cards. ... playing with the bits of my dremel tool that I never use while laughing...

Ten to one it's the power supply. And I say that will full knowledge of Buck's embrace of the goat-raping horror that is nvidia. The other parts of the system inspire confidence - bad motherboards, in particular, usually do things more annoying than just freezing every so often. ;)

Personally I'd say that incompatibility with nvidia cards is a feature, not a problem.

400k? That's barely THREE dirty pictures! I hope they at least mean 400MB. I don't know how you Aussies stand that nonsense. I really don't.

Something like that, although if some freak of nature got a perfect score on the MCATs - which is something I understand has never happened - there would clearly be an exception to your analogy. My personal view is that you won't be gaining anything personally or professionally by attaining...

Introvert? Moi? Just 'cause I got 0-score on Extrovert-scale of the Keirsey Temperament sorter... I'm an INTP, if anyone cares (or takes the test).

I really wish I was kidding, but I'm not. Don't ask me about reproduction or children. My opinions aren't pretty. But I'd rather direct a choir than a band.

Middle school teachers have my respect and admiration. Personally I think anyone below about 17 years old should be kept chained, in small cage. Like veal.

Six internal 3.5" bays. Yum. I don't get the slant, either. The trend is smaller, smaller, smaller. The slant makes that machine take up more space without adding much of anything (a cooling benefit?). Overall I'd say that it seems like a gimmick.

OS/2 5.0? Or the crappy motherboard? Or some other ECS I'm not thinking of. ECS and Windows NT probably share the lion's share of memory management code.

Hey, that extra memory bandwidth makes a big, big difference for video encoding. Don't knock it too much. I got an additional 1.5fps for full-frame DVD to Divx (from 8 to 9.5) in jumping from SDRAM to PC2100 with the same 1.1GHz CPU.

You know that's a $400 case, right?

I'm lacking in the Sousa-fetish department. That, and I hate kids. Seriously hate.

That's 256 bytes, not 32k, as I previously thought. Hardly worthy of the resource meter, is it? Anyhow, msconfig is your friend. Any machine that you get in that condition can damn well be put back into it when you're done fixing the actual problem. That's how I see things. Windows installs...

Not really. Ever gotten an "out of memory" error on a 9x machine with a half-gig of RAM? What that usually means is that you're out of GDI memory, which IIRC is just a little 32 or 64k stack for making widgets on your screen, but Windows should still be able to handle that RAM properly. Other...

I'm not completely sure what to extract from that, actually. I've heard claims of poor reliability in those disks, and I do believe that if IBM's notebook engineers specified IBM disks, they would be putting IBM disks in their laptops. Perhaps the better thing to say is that IBM's notebook...

http://www.aumha.org/articlesz.htm http://windows.about.com/mbody.htm Or just ask if there's something specific you want to know.

The funny thing about certification is, it doesn't really ensure that you're ready or able to work in a given IT position. Certifications are very rarely an actual indicator of knowledge or performance. They're a quick-and-dirty check that you meet a very minimal standard, at least for the...

Well, the Network+ exam represented roughly the most relaxing eight minutes of testing in my life. So I have a sort-of-a job now, thereby giving me something to do three days a week and a steady paycheck. Yay rah paycheck! Now I have a whole pile of books about the A+ and N+ exams that I have...

What kind of commie bastards could vote for ATI over nvidia? You people make me sick.

There are plenty of non-dial-up options out there... Actually, if you can get terrestrial wireless (ie Cellular) internet service down there, I highly recommend it. Seems less prone to interruption than cable/DSL. Another alternative: Get a leased line to your office downtown and set up a...

Probably half of the IBM laptops I see - including both of the IBM laptops I own - have non-IBM disks in them. Does that tell you anything?

Doesn't Oz have the equivalent of Cheapbytes.com or Linuxmall? Granted, I don't have broadband connection, but $2 (or $4 in the Aussie kind) seems like a minor price to pay not have have to deal with that sort of thing.