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The clear answer is "maybe". There are some pretty stiff requirements for doing it "right" - broadband, reasonably high-end PCs, RELIABLE SYSTEMS and a good selection of the software people actually want to use as a group. Where I live, I've seen low-end no-pay setups for gaming in comic...

Tea, for a sock puppet, you sure have an inflated ego.

Welcome James. Most of us here are refugee regulars from storagereview.com. There's a pretty wide range of knowledge on most computer subjects here. We have programmers (Helldriver) and PC techs (most of us, P5_133XL in particular), resellers (Tannin, Buck, CougTek) , networking gurus (JamesW)...

It would help if WD would tell us when changeovers like that occur. I really don't like their naming system, simple as it is. Maxtor mostly does the same thing - their retail packaging can include "same model or better", but WD's nomenclature means that anything with a 40GB capacity and 7200rpm...

I don't know. I bought a retail-boxed 400BB from the local Best Buy in January of this year and installed it in a machine I sold pretty much right away. I really don't have access to the drive any more to look, either. :(

I've only used a 40BB once in a customer machine. WD isn't exactly my favorite drive company, although I recognize they have gotten a lot better. My preference for the Maxtor 740x (and, to a lesser extent, the Quantum AS) was unchanged after playing with a WD400BB. Take that however you want...

newegg.com has the superior 60GB 740X available for an even $100. Why pay $30 more for a slower, older drive?

The drives came from my local distributor. One for a customer, one for me to replace a SCSI burner that failed (in warranty, thankfully). The card came from http://www.emaxasp.com/drpcs/details.asp?item=AC09AEC7720U When I bought mine, the price was actually $7 lower than what I see now. It's...

I *AM* the good computer help where I live. Are you referring to a classical core file such as might be found as a result of a *nix program dying, or more generally to refer to a file containing the contents of memory after a system crash (as is common on Windows machines)? Microsoft has some...

The order of the day is "Hands On", actually. There's a down side to it, though. The testbeds I have for student use are Compaq Pentium 66s... The power supply is non-standard. The motherboard has a riser card for expansion slots, but a seperate slot onboard for a daughtercard that includes the...

My PCs range from very quiet to "loud enough I can hear them through several walls", but given what I'd be hearing (rap, gunshots, people screaming at each other) if all my PCs were as quiet as the one in my living room, I'm pretty happy with the noise. I can't recall LCDs making any noise. The...

One of the more interesting challenges I've undertaken lately is to teach fairly inexperienced computer users the skills involved in troubleshooting a PC. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a nice little job teaching 20 people - mostly steelworkers - the information needed to become a good PC...

I'm sure that the fact that Buck has mulitple logins here makes things a little more difficult as well. Is there, perhaps, a cookie with his login info? Maybe one that's getting overwritten regularly as he changes IDs?

Pineapple juice, please. I've added a link to SF in my slashdot signature, but I don't post all that often there. When my A+ class gets around to talking about storage, I'm sure I'll tell all 20 of them about this place and SR both. There just isn't any other place to learn more. And yeah...

It's working now, and seems faster than it has in the last couple of days. It's pretty bad when my poor connection can show a difference.

Am I the only person who doesn't care about the -RW aspects of CD-RWs? I think I've burned maybe four in my life; once for every drive I've personally owned, and never had any reason to do it again. Why should I pay a buck fifty for an -RW disc when CD-Rs cost a maybe fifteen cents?

Not trying to up my post count, only forgot a couple of things I wanted to say: 1.) Tannin, you have got to find a decent Maxtor supplier. The way you feel about Samsung, I feel about Maxtor. Fan-freaking-tastic drives. Biggest complaint you can have is that their 5400s are slugs compared to...

Maxtor's 740X is a great general-purpose drive. newegg has the 60GB unit for $100 even and the 40GB for $80something. Best IDE drive around, far as I'm concerned. For the other... well, I just posted something about the Lite-On 32x drive. Good drive. A good bit better than the 16x Mitsumis I've...

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.