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I heard something on the radio this morning and thought "Damn, I really want to get that on CD." That almost NEVER happens to me - maybe once in five years. In part because the finite amount of music that I listen to was mostly written 150 years ago and recorded 30 or 40 years ago, and in part...

There are VERY few situations where they are worthwhile. I've deployed them. I've supported them. I do not like them. Besides the corruption issue, roaming profiles are hell on network bandwidth. Positively lethal. There is nothing worse than an office full of people who can't do any work...

Anyone know how long Samsung has had those 200+GB drives up in their product area?

Well, OK, I agree with the reality TV bit. Television isn't an exactly a medium known for breeding good or even passable speculative fiction, but It's a sad commentary when the major networks in the US each have at least three televised versions of "F*ck your buddy" each and every day of the...

I'll not ever call it an art form. That would imply merit. Japanese-type Anime/Manga is like acid. It eats away at the things I actually enjoy, like science fiction, comic books, computer games and cartoons. It is in my estimation a black hole of culture.

Tannin has birds on the brain, I think.

I have a very, very strong dislike of anime, based on the behavior of those persons I have met who would call themselves fans of it. Someone might say that I shouldn't judge a leader by its followers but in this case my distaste can be matched to personal experience with the genre.

$850 seems entirely reasonable for that kind of density. I just made a single 13-drive machine (one OS drive) with a good old SC720 and a bunch of 7k250s. Damned thing weighs about 90lbs. Took 3 days to build the arrays and transfer the ~1.5TB worth of data to 'em. I'm doing it all with $50...

The big problems with LCD sets basically come down to limited size, poor off-axis viewing and limited brightness. If you're happy with the size and brightness of the display then there really aren't any other issues. Personally, I still prefer DLP/LCoS ("D-ILA") for my display. Both offer...

Yeah. The Spire Micro-flow ones are really loud compared to the BigRocks.

Has or does anyone here actually use iTunes? I installed it once to look at the classical selection and I thought at the time that it was piss-poor. What do you get out of itms that you don't out of a real, actual CD that's yours to keep forever?

Utterly off the subject but today I discovered why the UN's list of the best places in the world to live has Norway beating Canada this year.

I have no problem with it not working while attached to a RAID card. It's a major issue, though, if it doesn't work with a completely standard onboard IDE controller for something as common as a KT600 - and losing support for *any* drive on a KT880, nforce3 and nforce4 means that a substantial...

I'm willing to put up with having to go into DOS to run a BIOS flash or a hardware diagnostic. While we're on the subject, Win32 has been around for 12 years, Linux has been "on the radar" of most hardware vendors for at least five. Why the HELL isn't there a standard library out there for...

This argument probably seems silly to JoJo and bahngeist. IIRC they are both far enough north to get months-long day and night. And RW, from time to time I will say that republicans have a good idea. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, after all. Er, unless it's a 24 hour clock. In which...

I'm trading it to a coworker. Thanks Handy.

I kind-of think this is more on-topic for the Toolbox than the Computers forum so I'm putting it here: I went to download the latest version of PowerMax from Maxtor. On the Current Download Page, I noticed this little gem: In other words, Powermax only works for SATA on Intel motherboards...

I wish that I could spend more time here. :( I seem to have taken on greater responsibility in my "day job" as an IT Trainer. Right now, the classes that I teach are the best-attended ones my company has. As an instructor that means I'm spending more time with my students and less time goofing...

I live in the part of Indiana that's on Central time. I greatly prefer to have hours of light later in the day. Being on Central Standard time in the winter means that, in December, it can be fully dark at 4:30 in the afternoon, which means that a lot of people end up with zero chance to see...

I bought a 4MB Hercules ET4000 ISA card in 1993. $500, but I could use a display at 1024x786x32bit color about three years before just about anyone else. I really wish that I could still use my Voodoo 5500 or for that matter my Voodoo 3000s. They are great for 2D display. A mere half-step below...

If the disc is not commercially produced it can be copied normally, just like a CD.

You get a disc that doesn't play, because you can't copy the part of the disc that contains the cryptographic key for the rest of the disc. Not every Video DVD is encrypted. A lot of documentaries aren't, and neither is porn. The standard forms of copy protection are standard Macrovision and...

Oh, they've been talking about that for years. However, this thing is just about the neatest audio gizmo I've run into in recent memory. Saw one demo'd at my local boutique A/V shop and I gotta say I was impressed, even if they didn't have it all the way set up at the time.

Actually I saw a site a few weeks ago that used flash to display zoomable copies of actual documents right on a web page. Very possibly the first thing I have ever seen done with Flash that I would not immediately call evil.

Well, my hate has been officially transferred.

There's nothing in that collection of parts that looks like it belongs in a gaming box, Greg. At the moment I'd say a solid entry-level gaming machine would be something like... Athlon64 3000 on a K8T800-based motherboard 1GB RAM Some kind of DX9-capable card (I like the Radeon 9550, but a...

In my experience an A64/3500 is still something over 2 hours. I suspect Pradeep's guess is accurate.

As I recall it was one of TAB, F1, F2 or CTRL-S for the BIOS sequence. That model would take 64MB Fast Page or EDO non-parity SIMMs and I am pretty sure it topped out at support for 256MB of RAM. I dimly recall that the CPU was soldered to the board. If I'm wrong it probably has an Intel TX...

That's 250GB, obviously. Not MB. Arg.

Oddly enough, I've used them with 250MB 7k250 ATA drives in Bytecc enclosures, and they've been wonderful. In my office here we use them as unsecured file servers our students can access.

At something under $100, Linksys offers the NSLU2, a Linux-based device that allows connection of one or two USB2 drives. There is a [url=http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/HomePage]very active community[url] built around making them more functional. I've used them. They work very well...

As far as I'm aware a drive with nothing written to its boot sector should be readable regardless. Nope. You are missing one or more copies of your partition table.

This is probably slashdotted to holy hell right now, since that's where I found this, but I am *so* happy to see proof that I'm not nuts when it comes to the PVR250 and video quality.

Any country where otherwise reasonable people won't vote for religious nutjobs sounds like utopia to me.

Get Data Back NTFS has been pretty helpful to me as well. In this case though, you should be aware that every tool I've ever tried has a note buried in the README somewhere indicating that the drive you're working on should be an internal unit if at all possible.

Not always. One of my customers used to own some kind of custom made CD server device that used Matsushita 4x drives. I tried to replace a broken drive in that thing with at least 3 different brands of EIDE CD-ROMs before I actually looked and realized that my best bet for replacement was an old...

Well, OK. It was a strange thing and I don't know how it got changed, but I did figure it out. In Catalyst Control Center the saturation control under the video settings was turned all the way down. Obviously not a thing I would've looked at. And not only that, you can't change any of the...

I just noticed something kind of strange. The PC I'm sitting at right now is only displaying video files in black and white (like TV, not like halftones). Color is normal - 32 bit, 1152x864 - and everything else displays fine. But in Virtualdub, PowerDVD, Media Player (10), Media Player...

There were four inspections that I am aware of - the one made during construction, the one made before the original tenant moved in, one made by the mortgage company that bought the house and another by the inspector employed by my brother and I when we purchased the property. I only know who...

I am moving out of my house because it was not properly constructed. Even though I am the SECOND owner of a four-year old home, it came to light shortly after I moved in that a number of building code violations had taken place, including a foundation that has at the point literally buckled...

I'm packing to move out of my house. What a lousy way to spend a weekend.

Speaking of bags of coins... My uncle did the "pickup truck full of pennies for alimony payments" a couple times. Why no, it wasn't an amicable divorce.

If you happen to visit Thomas Jefferson's plantation, Monticello (which is now a national Park IIRC), you'll find that all change given from your admission fee will be in $2 bills or smaller amounts.

I imagine this is probably making the rounds on news sites y'all read. Just the same, after work today I'm going to get a nice stack of 'em, just to be annoying.

Has everyone tried Housecall 6? In addition to a virus scanner that actually finds viruses, the new version of Housecall also finds and removes spyware and tells you what Windows Updates you need. How cool is that?

I'm not really fond of the new version. I understand it's based on the Drive Image source code rather than on previous versions of Ghost. I still use 2003 for most of my needs at this point.

The off-brand LCD that I have been buying is the Sceptre X9g. 700:1 contrast ratio and a 15ms response time for $325, plus DVI support.

I was browsing a digital photography site just now and I came across this page, showing photographs of the storefronts used by all those grey-market camera stores in New York City. On the one hand, those places look like a lot of other places where I work. On the other, none of 'em have an...

I probably would have been outraged by this a couple of years ago. Now I'm not even surprised.

I also like On the Media enough to record it every week.