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When I went with someone on a Saturday afternoon tour of various Office superstores to assist in purchasing a cheapo laser printer, I ended up liking some of the Brothers (brand) cheapo laser printers better than many of the other cheapo laser printers. They seemed to be built fairly well and...

Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities...

Wavemaker, we don't need you making waves around here. There are many refugeees from that SnorageReview place that prefer the peace and calm of StorageForum.

Probably more like Levono looking to buy HitachIBM hard drive manufacturing operations.

All I can say is that Onomatopoeic (a.k.a -- "The Big O" :) ) is spot-on! Vista is indeed incredibly evil. I recently made the grave mistake of buying the Vista Penultimate upgrade (cost was $666 -- that should tell you something right there!) and installing it on my...

As Lunar was saying, practically every one of these sort of telephoto lenses (as well as ultra-wides and fisheyes) use internal or rear-element filters. Such filters are quite small, actually. Large, expensive telephotos will likely come with a decent moulded case, but you still need to get...

With these sorts of lenses (and there have been lots of these sorts of lenses available for many years), the camera body ALWAYS hangs off the lens and the lens is tripod-mounted. If it is particularly windy, you might tripod-mount both the lens AND the camera body using two separate tripods...

Service Pack 2 for Windows XP 64-bit Professional (workstation) has been released. In fact, this service pack also upgrades any version of 64-bit Windows 2003 Server (Standard, Enterprise, etc.) as well. The URL below is for the full-blown standalone re-distributable version that will...

Yes. Downloaded it at noon local time (Tuesday, 13-March) and have been since been running it on a mix of 1~2 year old vintage servers that were originally loaded with Win2K3 then upgraded to SP1 later on, as well as some very recent vintage servers that were originally loaded with Win2K3/R2...

Even though WU probably is not at fault, try setting Windows Update (Automatic Updates) to "Turn Off Automatic Updates" for a while -- just in case some glitch has wiggled into WU recently. Patch Tuesday is 12-Dec, so you can do that one manually (just like I always have). If software is...

If you have the time, evaluate NetBSD and then OpenBSD. If neither interest you, then evaluate FreeBSD. Are you expecting a lot of traffic on your website? Internet Service Providers tend to use BSD over Linux for their general-purpose web and e-mail servers. From there, the choice of BSD...

Samsung storage division seems to have a rather pathetic marketing department behind it when it comes to selling to the retail space. WesternDigi and Seagate/Quaxtor are on the opposite end of that spectrum. Samsung concentrates on supplying hard drives to big-box vendors. HP/Compaq...

Vista could have been a very good operating system, but now it's been totally fuxored beyond repair by politics and marketing -- at least until Vista II is released. The Vista kernel is good. The Vista kernel is apparently the Win2K3 Server kernel with code updates. Unfortunately, Vista...

The following info is mainly directed to those planning on keeping their new flatbed scanner and laser printer for several years: I haven't kept track of the inexpensive flatbed scanner market in a while, but Epson was (and probably still is) the best manufacturer about NOT making their...

ummm... not really. iSCSI (IP-SAN) is by far Fibre-Channel's biggest competitor. IP-SAN technology has been doing an increasingly good job of grabbing new entry-level SAN deployments. As we all know, the SCSI and ATA/IDE camps were enemies for years. Then, ATA/IDE began transforming...

I don't keep up with QDR (Quad Data Rate) RAM much any more, but it's definitely alive and kicking -- mostly in the pricey world of high-end backbone routers, director-class Ethernet and Fibre-Channel switches, et cetera -- where QDR works like a champ and telecommunications tycoons are willing...

Would the HIS-brand X1900XT cards with the ICEQ3 cooler run the coolest? http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=227&view=yes

Triple touché and counting... :rofl:

Double touché! As I was crafting my second post to this thread... <sigh> It's probably best that I quit posting in this sub-forum for the rest of tonight.

OK now. Handy just pulled a classic trick on me! As I was in the midst of starting this thread, he created a separate thread with my answer. <chuckle> http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5946

I noticed some of you (somewhere in that huge F@H thread) were talking about running two instances of Folding At Home -- one on each core of your dual-core or dual processor system. I tried running more than one instance of F@H (Windows version 5.03) on a older dual processor Pentium III as...

From the vibes I keep receiving, this drive could sell for US$750 ~ $900 as an aftermarket part.

I haven't followed whatever physical changes (DIMM socket) will be required, but without a doubt, the signaling and device power voltages will be going down, and the protocol between memory controller and memory device will change.

Storage Review *finally* did a new hard drive review. This was on the aforementioned 15K.5 -- which began selling in the channel and through retail a couple of weeks ago.

Just when you thought the RAM market was about to settle down for the next several months... "Micron's DDR3 products will support data rates of 800 megatransfers per second (MT/s) to 1,600 MT/s with clock frequencies of 400 megahertz (MHz) to 800 MHz respectively, doubling the speed from...

...virtual machine environments are exempt, where each virtual machine abides by the rules set above for typical computer systems -- not the entire host computer. Each virtual machine can run any single anti-virus product, regardless of what anti-virus product the other virtual machines are...

General rule of thumb: It's alright to have multiple anti-spyware products running on a typical computer system, but only one anti-virus product should be running on a system. Virtual machines are exempt.

They were a kinda sorta block-like wedgie thing -- not really square. They were larger than a Macintosh mouse. My fuzzy memory now tells me the cream/chocolate coloured mouse was the second MS mouse that was rounder, but still large. That first one was just white. One major improvement I...

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Jeez... I just heard something on the radio that made me take a double look that the speaker when I heard it. There are people making 6-figure (US$) type of incomes playing computer games in tournaments! I could believe something like US$40K or 50K, but $100K, $200K, or more ??? These...

I've had one of those PS/2 IntelliMouse mouses back in the early '90s. But, I had an MS mouse model or two before that one, going all the way back to the first (large) cream/chocolate MS Mouse with a RS-232 serial interface from about 1987. I got that one as a bundle with Windows 1.x a several...

I've had a couple of ATA <---> SATA bridges for a few months now. They can come in handy.

Network cards using a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) are really meant for IP SAN (iSCSI) usage more than typical networking. US$300 actually isn't too bad of a price for a TOE, but this is undoubtedly overkill for a single user workstation. In the next several months, there should be mainstream...

Nigel says, "It goes to eleven..." http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=j_nbPIUbSdw&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static16.sjl.youtube.com/vi/j_nbPIUbSdw/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskLW2thciKnRD00tNGdsk_qE

Great! Now, where's the rest of him?

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If the external array chassis is Firewire and/or USB attached, the array will use parallel ATA drives and definitely not SCSI or SATA. In that case (pun intended), of the various *generic* parallel ATA drive modules that have been manufactured in Taiwan over the past 5 or 6 years, there are...

A Marine In Hell: A Marine dies in combat and wakes up to find he is in Hell. He's really depressed as he stands in the processing line waiting to talk to an admittance counselor. He thinks to himself: I know I lead a wild life but, hell, I'm a Marine. We're expected to live wild lives. I...

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Actually, I faintly recall that starting with either Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE, you could boot on a "large" partition, since INT13 extensions were supported at that point in time -- which would make Windows ME also capable of such. Even though Windows 95 OEM2 supported FAT32, it did not...

Windows 2000 (Workstation) can't use more than 2 GB of RAM. Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Enterprise Server are the only members of the Win2K operating system family that can use more than 2 GB of RAM. Windows XP Pro SP-1 and SP-2 can use 4 GB of RAM. There's the benefit.

Does the chassis take SCSI drives, and if so, are they SCA (80-pin) or 68-pin. The array can be pure SCSI or SCSI attached -- using ATA drive mechanisms. Since I'm not there to give the box a look over -- and going on the idea that this is a pure SCSI array using 68-pin SCSI drives because...

I've seen a few cats do these sorts of things. Manx cats are the worst about this sort of thing. You always see claw marks up near the top of the door. Some cats still have the wildness in them that their ancestors had, which they used to explore rock ledges and tree branches for birds and...

I commonly work with and around various computer systems / peripheral hardware that use 3-phase 240-volt power or single-phase 208-volt power. Upstream from there are numerous PDUs powered by a farm of serious UPS units running off of 600 volt 3-phase power. [list:51fcd2b491] Hum City...

The sort of idiot that can't install a redundant power supply in their gamer chassis, has a loaded up system full of high-wattage SLI graphics with a PCI card in every other available slot, 8GB of überclocked RAM, a pair of überclocked dual-core food processors, a bevy of bus-powered input...

Ran the 40-step test. Results: S P E C I F I C A T I O N S : Internet Exploder 6.0 SP1 WinXP Amateur SP2 Dot.Nut V1.1 SP1 & V2.0 Bun Java 1.5.0.06, Update 6 Macromedia Fl*sh 8.0.22.0 Macromedia Shlokwave 10.1.0.11

One thing you want to do is to update the graphics card BIOS from time to time -- not to mention the system driver. More than half the time, a BIOS update is issued by Matrox to gain compatibility with weirdo plug'n'play monitors, weirdo DOS games, new finicky mobos, as well as significant...

Given that SAS can interface with SATA, the likelihood of SAS DVD or CD optical drives is zero percent. There is a rather strongly outside chance that SAS magneto-optical (M-O) drives could show up one day with native SAS interfaces and a slightly better chance that holographic optical disc...

Maybe they're trying to revive the good ol' days of the Australian-Hungarian empire or something. :lol: