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What a cute little toy! Product is a sealed enclosure with a 3.5" hard disk inside. It supports both firewire and USB2 through a proprietary cable interface on the drive. I installed the drive in its USB2 configuration on a P4-1500 with an NEC-based PCI USB2 controller. I'm fairly used to USB2...

MMmmmm.. port aggregation. obyogyahog....<drool> I'm gonna throw it in my fileserver at work, actually (win2ks... and this is what's stunning to me: It's a "server" in that it's in a 4U rackmount enclosure with a highpoint PCI controller for its two "big disks"... but it's also an AthlonXP on...

I left you the good one. Or didn't you see it. BIN priced @ $15?

BTW: why the new nick?

Maxtor hasn't ever really been cozy with SR. WD has. Just something to keep in mind. At least I have since I heard that there was some exploration along those lines. On the other side of things, Eugene had to in essence do 3 sets of testing for this review, so I guess that mitigates things a...

iGary is really quite fond of something along these lines..

Looks like typical Maxtor. Jack of all trades, master of none.

I buy only Via motherboards, in an almost unbroken streak since the last BX board I purchased in, oh, early 2000. I've picked up a couple of AMD 751s (would've bought more but the price was never right) and a pair of SiS735s, but it's Via for me other than that. Historically, I've found SiS to...

zx: "Kittens give Morbo gas." :) I said the 7000 is faster than the GF4MX? Huh. Usually I'm pretty careful in saying 7x00. There are 7200 and 7500 models as well.

"...even Abit..." You just made Sprite come out my nose!

I've installed a couple of TV Wonders. Haven't seen one in awhile but I'll swear up and down it's MPEG-2 only. I do timer recordings and such with the MMC software. I can use a VCR's timer to turn on if I need to, but if I'm recording off the VCR, I'm almost always going to be putting a tape...

I still use NCSA Mosaic from time to time. Lynx is at this point a more compatible.

ATI-ish VIVO cards have Svideo in and out, and composite in and out. ATI's tuners suck in ways you cannot imagine, at least from an antenna source (don't have cable). The difference between a VIVO and an AIW is the antenna input, which frankly leaves me limp. I hook my VIVO cards up to a VCR...

First of all, that machine is a rebadged Quantum Snap! server. That's the good news. The other good news is that it's in that sweet little 1U enclosure. ...but, did you look at those warranty terms? I'm not amused by that at all. Remember that like I said before, you're paying for a PC running...

I always use Via chipsets. I almost always use ATI cards. HOWEVER: my negative experiences are by and large from computers I did not build. I've seen Dells with crappy nvidia cards in them, HP machines, beigeboxes with PC Chips boards... I don't see any commonality there. If nothing else...

OK. My father gave me about five years worth of back issues of this magazine about six months ago, and they've been piled in the back of my car ever since. Until today. An exceptionally long line at the drive-through window at Taco Bell had me ready to KILL for something to read. I vaguely...

It's all the same to me. Technically it's upgrading over itself.

Upgrading to ACPI on 2000/XP isn't that bad. You start the install, and at the point where you reboot the first time, you switch on ACPI, then allow the upgrade to continue.

Just thought I'd say that I had NOTHING to do with this rant. Just to be the voice of reason.... is gainward the only company selling SDRam GF4MXs? I'd rather hang one company than a chipset manufacturer...

XP wants a level of encryption in authenticating connections to file shares. Some of these things can be fixed by prodding local security policy on XP, some by recompiling samba with additional support for encryption. Neither I nor James has found a way to make it "just work" like it does with...

I have couple of problems with nforce. One is that it's made by nvidia, a company whose products I firmly - and with good reason - believe are inferior. The second is that as a chipset, it hasn't been widely adopted by companies whose products I would actually buy (i.e. Gigabyte doesn't do it...

Yeah. Inexpensive stability sucks. At the $5 a KT333 with USB2 support costs over the price of KT266A? That's not worth a damn thing! nforce2 is a niche board. The high-end audio is cool, but mostly I don't see it as delivering real value to a customer. If I tell someone they can pay $10 more...

Samsung or current-gen Maxtor drives (only in red boxes). I heart my warranty. I don't know what I'll do if Samsung drops to 1 year warranty. Cry, I guess. BTW, Clocker, more RAM is always good. You know that without me having to tell you. :)

802.11B and G at least are "shared media". There's 11 or 54Mbit to share no matter how many clients are using that particular AP. So I guess that would be "hub like".

Took the AP back to the store, got a different one. Things now work MUCH better. 80%+ signal strength in my whole apartment. Since the physical installation didn't change, I guess maybe there was an antenna issue? 54Mbit is almost tolerable for file copying, too. ;)

For a casual user I doubt it would be much of an improvement. I'd also like to say that I've RMA'd 5 of the 11 WD drives I've purchased for myself in the last 18 months, a mix of AB, BB, and JB drives. That's NOT a good track record.

When has there not been a reason to buy a VIA board?

A more mature product from VIA is a good thing.

Filesystem design. Journaling FSes (NTFS, ReiserFS etc) should have even less need for such things.

ext2 isn't "supposed" to fragment to the sort of extent that an active defragger is needed. If you REALLY feel the need, there's a defragger at ibiblio

My AP is set on a wall about 4 inches from the ceiling. Yup, 802.11G still has crappy encryption.

Yes Jan, I do. I turned it off before I even plugged my AP in. At this point I think my neighbors' cordless phones might be the problem. I got up at 4:00 and tried again, and things seemed to work a bit better.

It's supposed to. It's not working that well for me. My signal drops from 100% to like 20% when I move 2 feet from where I'm sitting right now.

In my life as a consultant I run into 802.11B equipment with something like annoying frequency. It's downright common, truth be told. I'm given to understand that 802.11A is the "next great thing" in wireless - 5GHz band where practically nothing else can cause interference, 54Mbps speeds, and...

Kmeleon DOES have bookmarks. It also has your IE favorites list. I've got an old version installed on one of my PCs and I can see both. Maybe if you right click on the menu bar or something... it might just be hidden.

I'm not a retailer. I'm an "advanced hobbyist". No store. No profit motive (customer usually pays cost + taxes + a very small fee for data transfer or XP-related annoyances). All that said, I'd offer to take care of it for a customer within the warranty period of the part. Customer can pay...

Meh. I have my own system of blocking images anyway. Of course, sometimes I miss images on this site, like Tea's monkey picture of the day, but that's the cost of having a crappy network connection (who says modem connections aren't "always on"? At least one of my modems has been connected to...

Let's try this again, and get it right this time. Leech - Context batch downloading (e.g. "all the *.zip files linked on this page"). I don't think I need to explain why this rules, do I? Spellchecker - Spellchecking within your Mozilla Mail client. Adblock - Fine-grained image permissions...

Someone on Slashdot pointed me to this site. After playing a bit, my Mozilla installation has reached the point where it is absolutely sublime. A collection of links to goodies: Leech - Context batch downloading (e.g. "all the *.zip files linked on this page"). I don't think I need to explain...

No one ever listens when I say the easiest way to defrag large clusters is a ghost backup/restore, which is too bad, because it is.

In the US, when we hear about cold weather, the termperature is reported at either International Fall, Minnesota or Buffalo, New York. Toronto is 50-something miles north of Buffalo. Now, this could still be part of the whole "It snowed on the East Coast and we're all a bunch of pansies"...

Actually most overclocker friendly motherboards have a tool that lets you adjust frequency settings on the fly. Ages ago I recall a tool that did the same thing for multiplier settings, but it only worked on Abit BX boards.

http://www.kazaalite.com Does a body good.

Being omnipresent doesn't mean I go slumming.

What's a "Sonic"?

Canada as a nation is cleaner than anyplace I've ever been in the US. Canada would be a really cool place except for all that "Cold". Maybe it's nice in Vancouver or something.

Yeah. When he's hooked up you can set the level of his commentary, and he dances and stuff. He says stuff depending on what you're doing (e.g. you're "Boring" when you open word or excel) or where you are on the web.

Silly Canuck, Kazaa is free! Nero 6 will probably still beat the crap out of it, but I found somone sharing it on Kazaa like an hour ago.

OK

I have a USB-powered Homer Simpson. :)