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Just like you computer retailers trying to sell someone hardware he doesn't need.

I got a couple of Lite-On 32x CD-R drives drives today, along with an Acard IDE to narrow-SCSI bridge. Installed a drive in a Windows 2000 Server machine (actually, in an external enclosure. Whatever), loaded Nero 5.5.6 (included in the box - not a bad deal for $75)... oddly, the installer...

Isn't ATTO available for free?

We crossed over a little. I started working with OS/2 Lan Manager 1.2 and moved on to 2.0 and later 2.1. OS/2 3.0+ only supported SMP with Warp Connect Server, a product that was simply impossible to buy at a reasonable price (like NT server is now).

I suspect you and I have vastly different ideas about what a usable GUI is, Tannin. Me? On Windows boxes I remove all the default icons from the desktop I possibly can (use an invisible icon for "my computer", and I keep one for control panel out, too), keep the taskbar pushed off the screen...

I haven't gotten to play with a commercial unix machine in probably three years, Tannin. I'm not making excuses. Personally, I think KDE is pretty sharp and works just fine (good enough, so to speak), but I also know that Microsoft and Apple have had years and millions of dollars to refine a...

I have one. They're extremely limited. Hope you're fond of low PIO-mode transfers, for one thing, and you pretty much need to carry around a driver installation floppy everywhere you take the thing (basically, you install a SCSI driver and a device-specific driver). Reliability is pretty good...

I disagree with your evaluation, Tannin. KDE is pretty good, actually. It has problems but dismissing it as something that is equivalent to Windows 3.1 is entirely incorrect. You have to understand that there has never been any uniformity to *nix desktops, only in the "Presentation Layer"...

If you have to work on more than one brand of case, you'll develop a real appreciation for quality cases that don't use them. There's no such thing as a standard drive rail. Everyone makes them differently. You only use one, maybe two pairs when you're building a PC. If it's something you're...

Coug, surely you don't think of drive rails as a positive when evaluating a case?

110VAC. And the circuits for y'all's 220VAC mains are in our power supplies, too. Even if they weren't, anybody with a 12-week course in electrical wiring could build you the right step-up transformer. For getting a case the color you want and keeping it that color, try a dry, bake-on enamel...

Was it? The old card I just dug out of my parts box (man, I need to get rid of some stuff!) doesn't have any chips that say "Paradise" on them, or any stickers that might cover up such a chip. Nothing was better than those old ETx000 cards. Those were the best video cards out there for a long...

May we infer from Coug's picture that the downhill bit is considerably faster than the plodding, sweaty, terror-inducing climb up?

Dammit Coug, you made me load up IE for this! That can't be me. Just looking at something like that makes me tired. Actually, Amy rock-climbs and I have to admit an appreciation for the outffits she wears when she does it, but I think I've already revealed my bias against sport of any kind in...

Well, how do you feel about shipping to Austrailia?

D'oh! Knew I forgot one. Whatever happened to Weitek? They made decent stuff back in the early '90s... and Western Digital's half-meg ISA cards weren't bad, either (although they tended to get a little more funky than most when asked to display out-of-pallette colors). For me, ATI was the...

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.