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Tannin, I believe they are the same. IBM parts certainly have a history of working between models; I had quite a few parts I shared between T20 and T41 for example. You can probably check their site to be sure but that bridge chip isn't very big in any case.

To be honest, a lot of the current issues with mortgage lending seem to have started with some really poor decision making on the part of the Federal Reserve and were exacerbated globally by Bush Administration policies which caused a devaluation of the dollar (making it cheaper for other...

I am going to go ahead and agree with time and Tannin in that there is a staggering amount of ignorance in this thread. Today is my first fairly quiet day of the new year. My problem, lately, is that more of the things that I have been doing have been more like favors and less like things I...

My total disk space is 24TB; effectively 8TB of actual storage. I just bought some 1TB drives this morning, but that's so I can decommission several 500GB units.

Are we counting drives in or out of arrays? I have a lot in RAID10 configurations, so it makes a difference.

Newegg's hold music selections include tracks from the Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride soundtracks, Last of the Mohicans and various Lord of the Rings movies. I find that highly amusing.

There's no excuse for a well engineered notebook to get more than pleasantly warm; I've got a Thinkpad T41 apart right now and they CPU is completely passively cooled; it doesn't even have a heat sink sitting on top of it. Guess what? Thinkpad T41s don't get hot unless you're using them under a...

Does your Thinkpad have an Ultrabay, Tannin? You can always buy a SATA Ultrabay and stick your large notebook drive in that. Are there now lots of SFers who have in excess of 5TB of disk space?

Seagate had a reliability image? One of my replacement 750s couldn't complete a format, either...

That would be a no.

Looks less convenient than torrenting. I'll stick with that.

Work lately has been less sit-at-desk and less talk-on-phone and more this-must-be-fixed-yesterday.

Windows mirror sets can be made the System drive, just not stripe sets or RAID5s.

You probably need to install an updated set of INFs for your system chipset. You might also have to delete the devices. Since they're disk drives, you'll be needing to do that in safe mode.

USMT is a command line version of the File and Settings Transfer Wizard that's handily located in Programs > Accessories > System Tool. I am regularly shocked at the number of techies who have never used (or in some cases, heard of) either FSTW or USMT.

I had a fancypants ICP RAID controller fail a while back in such a way that it corrupted a large portion of the data on a pair of mirrored drives. I was quite surprised that such a thing could happen on a mirrored set since no parity calculations/striping/whatever was being done. One nice thing...

All the stuff that made me want an HD player is still HDDVD only. I bought Serenity in HD before I bought a player.

I am glad that we're still here. Thank you for all your time and energy, Handruin, and for everyone else who has come by over the years.

Sooner or later I'll probably need one...

BluRay has been cracked for ages, ddrueding. Where the hell have you been? Current builds of AnyDVD even handle the extra-super-duper BD+ content protection without a problem. So, OK, I've used both, and I have to say, I do not like BluRay. The Sony player I tried took a lot longer to boot up...

I deploy a couple hundred computers a year with Samsung hard disks. With, say, 1200 drives in service over the last six years, I've had to RMA nine of them.

In my experience, Tecras don't have appreciably better build quality than Satellites, and Satellites are horrid.

Video encoding is where I feel it, and running VMs.

Read this guy's tech advice column. See if you can find the part that's really, really, scarily wrong.

Or not bother to install the update...

Article about why popular radio in the US sucks so damned much.

Someone I built a PC for a few months back was telling me she had similar issues - she couldn't get to expedia.com or llbean.com when she was using a local DSL service, though on Comcast or Verizon she was fine. DNS issue? Nope. Her's resolved the same way. Spyware? She didn't have any...

There are many tens of thousands of law offices that are still using WordPerfect 6 or even 5. Wordperfect and PDF are the only acceptable formats for electronic court submission in Indiana, and from experience most lawyers think of PCs as typewriters with TVs on them ("What do you need another...

The cooling system on the bigger 8800s is very nice, until the point when it breaks.

Toshiba notebooks hasn't made a good notebook since, oh, probably the mid 90s.

Vista is still affected by rootkits. Even Vista64 - which cannot be made to run unsigned drivers AFAIK - has had proof-of-concept rootkits installed.

Hope most of your 2008s suck less than my 2007 did.

One interesting thing you guys might not know is that all in all antivirus software is becoming less effective. A lot of malware is now wrapped up in rootkits or using non-virus (no replication) infection methods.

I'd look at a Lenovo X61. They weigh about 1.5kg and have 12" screens. They *do not* have internal DVD burners. The last ones I deployed, I gave out with 8GB thumb drives, which cost quite a bit less than the Ultrabase that those things need to have their "internal" DVD drive. A T61 (I own two...

I had the day off and slept a lot. I don't like not having work to do.

It's the same. I'll need to test the board to be sure it's OK, but it should be.

I do not have a KT266. I have a Gigabyte KT333 which should be a drop in replacement.

Yes but there's a time aspect to that as well.

I'll look.

No idea. I know I sure don't like iTunes.

Moreover, I think the main issue we'd all like to see addressed is reliability, and that's very difficult to do.

I don't know. iTunes is pretty bad if you're someone who has only ever used Windows. A lot of the UI stuff doesn't work the same way.

One of my clients gave me a 2GB iPod nano. He couldn't figure out how to work it. I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.

Can you get a Procurve ANYTHING for under $500?

At the moment, I have a 52" 1080p LCD TV with a Microsoft external HDDVD hooked up to the PC that is handling most video. I'm planning to replace the external drive with an internal BluRay/HDDVD unit in the near future. The PC I'm using it with is an Athlon x2/5200 "low wattage" model on a very...

Watch the movie. And then you can watch Buffy and Angel, by the same guy. Also watch the specials on the DVD. You really get a sense of how close the members of the cast got, and how much they believe in the show. And then watch Battlestar Galactica, which has nothing to do with anything made...

Actually, what I am is a person who prefers a keyboard and mouse for input. I thought the Wiimote would be cool and different, but basically nothing uses it in any comprehensible fashion, except the Wii sports titles (and Wii play, but those are pretty dull). I really don't like most console...

Will, I cannot even tell you the number of times I have had to explain that the Windows Security Center alerts actually mean something. Home users, business users, it doesn't matter. Basically, no matter what those alerts say, as long as they see the icon for their antivirus software, they think...

I can't find anything on the Wii that I like except for Boxing. I've rented probably 30 titles (at $5 a pop) looking for something. Most console games still have terrible controls and basically nothing else really uses the motion sensor for any good effect.

There's really no reason to leave Windows 2000. It does everything XP does, after all. XP basically has a newer driver base and, um, wait... no... Yeah. That's it. A newer driver base. Otherwise it's functionally identical. Some people might think XP is prettier, but those people are mostly...