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    low-end laser printers these days?

    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...
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    Haiku Operating System

    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...
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    Where's everybody?

    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.
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    Lenovo looking to buy Seagate

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

    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...
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    Tannin's new bird-watching lens

    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...
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    Tannin's new bird-watching lens

    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...
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    WinXP 64-bit SP2 Released (+64bit Win2K3 Srvr)

    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...
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    Server 2003 SP2 released.

    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...
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    Music

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    Mystery Reboots

    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...
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    Best *nix OS for hosting a website

    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...
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    Samsung SpitPoint 500GB

    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...
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    More Vista nonsense

    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...
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    Scanner recommendations for photos

    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...
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    xSATA and SATA 6G news

    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...
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    Here Comes DDR-3 !

    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...
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    FAH - GPU core discussion

    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
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    F@H Tips, Tricks, Traps

    Triple touché and counting... :rofl:
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    F@H Tips, Tricks, Traps

    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.
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    F@H Tips, Tricks, Traps

    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
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    F@H Tips, Tricks, Traps

    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...
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    REVIEW: Samsung's New 32 GB Solid State Disc Drive

    From the vibes I keep receiving, this drive could sell for US$750 ~ $900 as an aftermarket part.
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    Here Comes DDR-3 !

    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.
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    storagereview...where is it going these days?

    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.
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    Here Comes DDR-3 !

    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...
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    What's the latest and greatest in anti spyware?

    ...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...
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    What's the latest and greatest in anti spyware?

    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.
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    Upcoming Microsoft Peripherals

    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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    MS -> Google: Resistance is futile!

    http://local.live.com/
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    Something Random

    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...
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    Upcoming Microsoft Peripherals

    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...
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    Vantec IDE-USB Adapter

    I've had a couple of ATA <---> SATA bridges for a few months now. They can come in handy.
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    $280 NIC

    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...
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    $280 NIC

    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
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    Prepaid?

    Great! Now, where's the rest of him?
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    I'm Pissed...

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8973626/
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    Anybody know where to get these drive trays?

    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...
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    Prepaid?

    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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    Something Random

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3593866248238036452&q=a+hepful+hand
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    I forgot how to do dual boot!

    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...
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    Athlon 64 & 4x RAM

    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.
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    Anybody know where to get these drive trays?

    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...
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    Air Cat strikes again...

    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...
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    1KW Power Supply

    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...
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    1KW Power Supply

    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...
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    Browser security test

    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
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    HD Playback - I'm out of the loop

    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...
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    Where Are The Serial ATA Opticals?

    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...
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    Best movie you've seen

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