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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.

I've had a couple of the dualheads, from Sapphire and ATI. Both were DVI & CRT, sans converter. I can get DVI-CRT converters for US$4.99. I'll bet you can find them cheaper than CAN$13.

Don't imagine there's a high water content in a notebook PC.

And you call yourself an engineer! Honestly. Kids these days. *I* was going to suggest you break out an oscilliscope and look to see if you were getting a nice, flat output from your PSU (something you can't always tell from a voltmeter), but... there goes that idea. Honestly, Groltz, my only...

Do you get a normal reading from a VMM when the machine is plugged in but "cold" (check on the ATX power header)?

Bikinis, shorts and tank tops. How can you not like summer?

How quickly I forget. Radeon 9700AIWs cost more than DVD burners. Sigh. I should just stop going to big electronics stores.

I impulse-bought a Sony multi-write DVD burner today. It's easily the most expensive piece of computer hardware I've purchased in the last two years, at $329. I purchased it at a local Circuit City, along with 5-packs of +R and -R discs, and single +RW and -RW media, all of which were...

I am interested, but I accidently kinda sort bought a Sony DRU500AX and a bunch of different media today (more on that later) - it looked so lonely in that display case that I just had to bring it home - so that basically blew my upgrade budget for a few days. That is an awesome modification...

I've got a Sparc 20 I'd be willing to sell, and its specs are better than the one honold quoted (SMP, 512MB, 9GB Cheetah). Oh. Wait, ihsan, you're in east Asia somewhere. Never mind me, too. All I can say is stay away from the little Sun Blade units. They're the cheapest thing to buy new...

Does the problem still happen if you've got your collection of drives and case fans plugged in? One of the students in my computer building class bought an 8RDA+. You certainly are right about that northbridge heat sink... it's way too small (his felt warm after just booting to BIOS to set his...

The, I'm more than aware on North Korea's essential blackmail attempts. They've been doing that for years. Heck, the whole reasons NK SAID it stopped work on a nuclear program is that the US offered it fuel oil and food in exchange for shutting it down. Here we have an identifiable "rogue...

This settles things rather nicely, I think.

So we'll deal with/Bully the potential North Korea that might, someday have nuclear weapons, instead of the actual North Korea, which basically issues a diplomatic statement every day that says "We're this much closer to having THE BOMB, what are you gonna do about it?" OK. I guess that makes...

I've used the word unctious to describe GWB, and after my father's time as an officer in the Navy, I'm aware that the being in harm's way is what soldiers and sailors do. This is very clear when I hear about soldiers described euphemistically as "military assets" (rather than, oh, "Human...

When the issue is "Iraq" and the president's name is "Bush", I can't do that. Shrub is too close to energy interests in the US, who want to exploit Iraq's oil reserves. He's also close to the evangelical xtian portion of the republican party, which seeks to protect Israel on the basis of the...

Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the "edit" button. - me, after Ash :P

Penalty, -5 points, for excessive AOLness.

Given the enormous costs of war, both in terms of gross economics and in human lives, I don't see how the cause could be given at anything less than "beyond all doubt". Moving trucks doesn't do it for me. How about some plutonium or a work on delivery system?

Actually, I'm incredibly impressed. The damn thing still works!

I don't do schedules. I keep everything in my head. I don't forget. I don't misremember. I just know. It frightens everyone I work with, but it's never even been an issue for me. My office runs Exchange/Outlook, except me, and everyone else carries around wince handhelds for all that crap. The...

My bias on nvidia is very easy to see, but you can't possibly tell me that the 2D quality of nvidia's pre-GF3s is ANYTHING like those of even a 6 year-old MilleniumII. If you think that, you need a new monitor. I won't argue the newer ones. I haven't seen enough of them to comment, but I'd...

If you've got a real firewall (e.g. not ZoneAlarm) you can do all KINDS of fun things to lock down your AP, but none of those things help for the guy who is sitting outside your home or office with a laptop with a 802.11 card running netstumbler, just watching the traffic that's being broadcast...

You guys are thinking of alpha(some bunch of numbers), who is also a young, Toronto native (Torantan? Torontoer? Torontoan? Torantier? Torontiquois?) with many hundreds of posts on SR, including some about the "shitbox" his odd fixation on Solaris x86.

Babies! The other other white meat! -- Fat Bastard Sorry. I'm in a weird mood this morning.

As seen on Slashdot. All I can say is... wow.

That is exactly what I'm thinking of.

If you're made out of money, the Parhelia. :) The Radeon 9000 is competitive with a GF3 (don't ask me which one, but it's about the same as an 8500, which is neck and neck with GF3s on most benchmarks). Dualhead 64MB OEM versions cost about $75 in the US, and have "pretty damn good" 2D output...

Yes, Mr. Houston, TX, but I can buy a Millenium II for $8. For awhile I could get AGP G400s for $20, but they've shot back into the stratosphere, pricewise. Not to question that the G4x0 is a better card; It is. But there's a lot of bang for the buck in those older cards, and it's a shame that...

Germany is currently head of the UN security council and therefore gets a vote in whatever issues come before the council. It's true that only the permanent members have veto power, but it DOES have input.

If all you want on the second display is high-quality 2D, I'll bet you can find a four or eight MB Matrox Millenium or Millenium II for next-to-nothing. Don't even try to do 3D on them, but 2D display on those cards is damn near perfect. I'd also second the idea of any recent-ish dualhead...

I'm strongly capacity-biased but IMO, someday you probably will want some of the 60GB worth of difference between the Maxtor and the WD. If performance is really the sole determining factor, I say hold off for the 15k.3. If you're going to to pay for "fast SCSI drive", then do yourself a favor...

The shuttles are the only reusable spacecraft on the planet. Soyuz is a one shot deal. I think it would be hard to do an apples-to-apple comparison between the two. The Challenger and the Columbia, though, were both part of the original batch of, um, ships. A second batch (Atlantis and IIRC...

There's a performance hit in using a VPN, which is subjectively unnoticable on a LAN, and may be noticeable on 802.11b - my seat-of-the-pants guess is it "costs" about 10% in overhead to do the VPN thing, but I don't have everyday access to an AP, so let's just say there *is* a perceptable...

Don't worry, I'm only laughing on the outside. Where you can see it. One has to wonder if diverting engineers to their nforce products might've had negative consequences for NV30, whether or not the product is cancelled or otherwise limited in production.

I'm going to do a cautious "Yay", while noting that WD has been historically my least reliable drive vendor, and one of the participants in the 1-year-warranty farce. It'll probably be priced into SCSI-stratosphere range, too, like 7.2k IDEs were, at first. Also I have a moment of feeling all...

I'm about to make a deliberately inflammatory statement: I feel that there is a sentiment in the international community right now that's not unlike the one that allowed Germany to occupy Poland in 1939. Some were vehemently against that idea, and look what happened. An inch was given. A mile...

Are you implying something, Coug?

I thought CityK had the Ralph Wiggum avatar...

I'll remember that comment the next time you say an IBM laptop is too expensive. Or a laptop at all. :P

Everything I've read indicates that that "-" means that the disc you make is far more likely to be readable in a console DVD player. I'll take the "-".

Naw, I'll get around to it sooner or later. I was just venting. Bad day. Don't ask. I actually build (MSI/MST) application install scripts pretty regularly. We have 'em for 3 different versions of office and quickbooks and photoshop and a couple of other things that get taught (and broken)...

Too bad for that unfortunate "+". One more week to my A500...