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Anyone else appreciate the irony of the Granite Digital SCSI Cable Advocate complaining about the price of cables? :)

Yup. All you XP-using freaks can now have 460MB worth of updates to install. You can grab the file off a bittorrent site if you're brave, or MSDN subscriber downloads if you're lucky. It's not on Windowsupdate yet. If anyone's willing to host a 460MB file, I do in fact already have it.

The article blithely ignores the vast increase in the likelihood of data loss and at the same time derides the common "desktop storage expert" opinion of RAID0. They test with synthetic benchmarks only, they DON'T use the same benchmarks as either Anand or SR (what's a "storagemark"?), and...

Yes, it did. The uninstaller doesn't dump profiles or extensions. Uninstall/reinstall is a standard request from FF developers, and I think in this case, since tha majority of the fixes were security related, that it might be a good idea anyway; for all we know some old setting in an unused...

No sir, I have not. But I do have positive things to say about Sonicwall SOHO access devices. They aren't as cool as the ones you're describing but I do know that they work and that they're fairly painless to configure.

Personally I'll be really happy when I can regularly buy motherboards with native (part of the southbridge, therefore driverless) SATA controllers.

I'm not going to take any involvement in what gamers do, besides provide the premises and network (er, unless someone gets violent. Or drunk maybe). If they're playing illegal games and swapping CDs, it's a civil matter anyway. :P I think servers will end up being brought in - I know at least...

<sarcasm>That'll be just dandy for all the Blu-ray movies that'll be out by then.</sarcasm> Supposedly, Sony's been on a tear through their product lines, looking for ways to reduce the number of parts it needs to buy to build its consumer products to about 1/5 its 2001 level. Perhaps the...

Supposedly, this helps gobs.

I'll bite my, er, fingers.

Dammit Buck, you just made tea (the beverage, not our own hairy aussie) come out my nose!

You know, I've had an iPod. I wasn't impressed at all. It sounded OK - better than portable CD players I've heard, and the controls were sort of interesting, but I couldn't figure out the point of having one. The battery doesn't last that long - maybe 5 hours - and it's fairly useless if you...

In addition to Adaware, you need to have CWSshredder and Hijack This available. Possibly also Spybot. I've run into parasites that directly attack Adaware and keep it from running, so the more tools you have, the better. Make your friend buy adaware pro and adwatch, since it will actually tell...

To troubleshoot power problems? Yes.

Specifically, what you want is one of those big, heavy mothers HP made in about 1960. If I was an electronics guy instead of a computer guy, I can't see how I'd ever let one out of my grasp. Built not like a tank, but a battleship - like early HP laserjet printers, HP made them so well no one...

Yeah, see, that's the point - hawking our classes to people who have never heard of my company. And also (for me) finding a way to get paid for doing something that should be at least mildly entertaining. The thought is that my company already has all the stuff a LAN "event" is looking for -...

My company just moved into nice, new offices. It was suggested by occasional SF lurker BooST that we take that space and offer to host LAN games from time to time Since David more-or-less does these things all week long, and P5133_XL has recently admitted to being involved in one... Does...

Actually the popular music of the day was pretty much the same as now. Simple, bawdy songs and very percussive tunes very using unsophisticated instruments. Anyway the sheer joy of skeet's occasional posts is knowing that what he says is technically English, but unable to decipher meaning from...

Bravo Adcadet! :D

Sorry I didn't stop by earlier Pradeep. :( Fark.com is also a fairly amusing "weird news" web site.

I'll be washing my mouth out with soap for even thinking this but... buy an Xbox or something. At least the *nix people have transgaming...

Linux on modern hardware, if you run a lightweight GUI (or best of all, do everything from console) and not GNOME/KDE, is un-frickin' real. Of course, it doesn't look as nice, but who gives a crap? It's marvelously fast.

*Usually* DTS sounds better to me, but a DTS mix is a different thing than a DD mix. It's possible for instance that the DTS mix on Gladiator is emphasizing sound that your speakers aren't that good at reproducing, or maybe more effort was placed on getting a good DD mix on that particular...

Editing posts is like changing history. It's something we're pretty loathe to do. Also, some of our members are perfectionists; turn editing on and we'd all be fixing typos constantly instead of making more posts. We DO give certain members - moderators - the right to edit posts under some...

Thing is, I usually have to have many, many hundreds of pictures open before I see that issue. Exactly how much monkey pr0n are you looking at, Tea?

It's a known Moz bug. It's been around for at least three years. I've complained about it before.

A bad sector is an immediate cause for 1. Backing up everything possible and 2. RMA. No fooling around. If a drive is out of warranty I might keep it for some utterly unimportant task like storage for DVD rips, but that's about it.

An oscilliscope and a voltmeter are very useful for this kind of thing. Anyway, I think in this case you need to be looking at your PSU instead of the drives or the RAID card.

Pyramid Scheme.

There's only one this year. I'm really disappointed.

I'm left handed. That means that I type a lot more keys - about 3/4 of the keyboard, actually, with my left hand. It makes perfect sense to me that I'd want to use the secondary input device with my secondary hand. Hence, I mouse right-handed. Just like 98% of the computer-using world. And...

Link.

Circuit City told me $300. I'm assuming I'll be able to find them for less than that when I get around to needing one.

In their PC servers I saw Seagate and Fujitsu drives as often as IBM.

The "event" that I'd been planning to take pictures of, I couldn't attend this year. I had to work that day. Kind of disappointing. One of the good things about Amy being around more, though, is that she's done professional photography as a side job for about 8 years. We've been talking about...

That's the only good thing about Western Digital.

I just saw a Digital Cable box for the first time. The Comcast box distributed in Northwest Indiana doesn't even have an Svideo output, and the TOSLink out is apparently disabled (or maybe it was broken on the unit I was trying to work with). WTF is that all about? DirecTV allows for...

So they'll give you $3 or whatever they say the drive is worth if it dies in year five. That's just special.

A few points WRT to Samsung: They're quiet. Not quite as quiet as Seagates, but close. They're fast (at least the SP161N 8MB cache ones are). Not quite as fast as Hitachi, but close. They're inexpensive. Not quite as inexpensive as WD, but frankly the WD-buyers of the world get what they...

Kev, it kind of sounds to me like you dislike the poor on some kind of general principle. I lived in a neighborhood like the one you described for several years, and I can tell you that, yeah, there ARE $1000 cars with $2000 rims out there, and welfare homes with 60" TVs. BUT I can also tell...

Any of our resellers brave enough to make a change based on this? I'm not. I'd love to see data backing up Seagate's claims of reliability. The other thing that's interesting is, the vast, vast majority of Seagate drives are sold to OEMs with NO Seagate warranty. If this change only affects...

My father was a recipient of some of cosmetic surgery while he was in the US Navy (to correct a broken nose he got while breaking up a fight while he was in High School). This is something that has been done for decades, and given what enlisted men get paid, I don't think it's THAT...

And yet, to look at their ATA products, you'd never know it!

Surely it would be easier and safer to purchase a plane ticket?

I had a 77 hour "weekend" once. All billable, even. I was a subcontractor for a major network management job that ran through IBM Global services. It was one of those thing where, looking back, you say "How the hell did *I* get involved in this?" I was asked, shortly after the beginning of my...

Apparently, it IS playable on a Geforce4. Insofar as a Geforce4 is useful for anything. Supposedly the X800 is somewhat underwhelming. Not that it matters. My card doesn't need a 500W PSU just to operate.

Funny, those both resolve to 127.0.0.1 on every computer I have anything like control over. I like the banners served by localhost a lot better than the other kind. Oddly enough, so does everyone else.

I'd call the Samsung's warranty the tie-breaker, personally.

I honestly don't believe that most people are qualified to manage their own money. From observation, I don't believe most money manager are, either.