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Nothing quite like a winter solstice pagan ritual out in the forest -- cooking ribeye steaks over an open flaming pit of hellfire. ;)

But, what about the Arctic Monkeys?

It was Cale Yarborough by two carlengths over Richard Petty.

Tea, I'm not on Mars, I'm on .MARS -- not much difference between the two planets, but, I doubt anyone cares. By the way, Tea, it seems those golden stanzas of my superb original poetry -- which I posted a couple of weeks ago here in this thread -- were enough of an inspiration to someone in...

Well, I decided to write some poetry. Here goes... I Got Pieces That Have Never Been Close To One Another (Ok, T-Bone, time for some serious crunching...) I'm using Windows, Windows Windows three eighty six, so all my applications are running at once. My report right now is scattered...

This is completely nuts, but, then again, so am I!

I've used the Antec 500-watt Earthwatt "80 Plus" rated (and 430-watt) power supplies as replacement power supplies in systems with either 20-pin or 24-pin mobos. They are well built units and less expensive than other available "80 Plus" power supplies. I only wish they came with an...

Yep. Sechxs is running SAS. I am running SAS. In fact, I believe we are both running the same 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X Adaptec 8-port SAS controller: 4 ports internal, 4 ports external. I'm NOT doing RAID at all with mine, just individual drive volumes and (potentially) JBOD. I've got 2-each 36...

ChimpUSA is closing about half of its stores in the USA and Canada. WurstBuy seems to have overwhelmed them a bit in certain markets. I stopped by one near me and they had most of everything at 20% off the regular sticker price -- though some of it was just 10% off. After a few weeks, they...

Teannin: If you click "Custom" when you first start Windows Update, you can get the IE7 download. Microsoft moved IE7 from "High Priority" down one step in the hierarchy of updates to "Optional."

For Windows 2000 users (or earlier versions of Windose), use the utility TZEDIT.EXE -- which is available on the Windows Resource Kit CD-ROM or at Microsoft's website. Otherwise, you will have to hack the registry to change the start/stop Daylight Saving Time dates and times (PS: notice that I...

Seagate has been playing with HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) in the lab for *years* getting impressive results with "old style" longitudinal recording. I would venture to guess that Seagate initially got this idea from exploring Magneto-Optical recording technology -- of which they...

To make it brief, I've been outta town for a few weeks until today. Anyway, I'm reading through the newz and I'm trying to figure out this crapola with the comedian named Michael Richards (from TV show "Seinfeld" -- of which I never saw a single episode, just less-than-ten-second blips as I...

They talk about a high capacity changer for this newfangled proprietary optical drive, so, it looks as if they are trying to target the enterprise optical drive market. The enterprise optical drive market has pretty much been ruled by magento-optical (MO) technology for well over a decade...

I think they would be better off just jumping onto the holographic disc format. I know Maxell has been one of the many developers in holographic storage media. 470 GB per optical disc will get eclipsed by holographic disc, and I doubt this Hitachi / Maxell technology can match the read/write...

A "StorageForum Projects" sub-forum could be created under the "Computers" or under "StorageForum Pub & Brewery" that could contain this monster-sized thread and any other F@H threads, as well as SETI @ Home or whatever else one could consider a project. As for sticky threads in this proposed...

Just in case any of you are interested, Firefox 2.0 is out of beta testing, and Release Candidate 1 (RC-1) of Firefox 2.0 is now available. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_QA_Activities

From Windows 2003..... Automated System Recovery Wizard The ASR wizard helps you create a two-part backup from your system: A floppy disc that has your system settings, and other media that contains a backup of your local system partition.

OK. I give up. Is there an "Smiley Page" or something of that nature here where I can choose Emoticons? I swear I stumbled onto such a page or pop-up window here a few days ago. Come to think of it, does someone here know of a smiley code webpage that displays a list of all the popular...

So-called "classic rock" meets the latest twist in novelty acts: http://www.acdshe.com/ http://www.cheapchick.com/ http://www.lezzeppelin.com/

Here's something mildy hilarious. There are a LOT of these animations, so I only picked out a few of the 250++ or so: 9_Tandy 400!!! http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail9.html 79_Compy 386!! http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail79.html 90_Compy 386...

Undoubtedly! Early technology adopters *always* pay out the wazoo. But, I'm predicting that once this technology starts shipping in reasonable volumes, it will turn out to be W-A-Y more interesting to the public than Bloo-Ray and HD-DVD. What could turn out to be the first real killer...

If there are any thumb drive manufacturers that offer a lifetime warranty, it's almost certainly a highly limited warranty. PS: Damn, Maxxy! You can spell warranty! You're one of the few around here that can. :wink:

It could be that the white thumb drive uses 1 GB of NAND flash, the black thumb drive uses 1 GB of NOR flash, and the silver thumb drive uses 1 GB of Macromedia flash. Those are slightly shorter in length and slightly larger in girth than mine. But, I didn't have to deal with mail order, just...

The image content has a lot to do with what the minimum "acceptable" spatial resolution (X,Y in pixels) should be. One can print an acceptable 20x30-inch from 4 or 5 megapixels as long as there are no objects in the image with sharp contrast edges. A natural continuous tone image (as opposed...

Mercutio beat me to the posting button. Yes, this is indicative of a DNS problem on your end. The DNS server you normally use has a problem. In addition to problems that Merc mentions, it could be as bad as your DNS server is/was in the midst of downloading a whole new copy of the DNS...

One can also run a virtual Windows desktop O/S on Win2K3 Server using the free MS Virtual PC 2004 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6d58729d-dfa8-40bf-afaf-20bcb7f01cd1&displaylang=en

Damn! I didn't mean 512 MB, I meant 512 TB. Sorry about that.

A review on a Buffalo Technology TeraStation NAS device: Offering up to a terabyte of storage, this device should meet or exceed the storage needs of nearly any small-business or home user. It's also the only sub-$1,000 device to offer RAID via two groupings of drives that can each be...

Ballmer: High-End Windows & Office Coming $teve Ballmer told analysts that the company will add both high-end desktop editions and new server options in the next versions of Windows and Office... http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5808554.html

Enterprise customers can purchase Symantec Corp.'s AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0 product, which supports x64 Windows. Symantec representatives weren't able to say whether the Cupertino, Calif.-based company was planning a 64-bit version of its antivirus software for small-business or home...

Microsoft Takes Disk-based Backup For A Spin Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems. The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt more companies to try disk-based backup and...

NO TAPE, NO DISC – NEW JVC CAMCORDERS FEATURE LARGE CAPACITY, BUILT-IN HARD DISK DRIVES New Everio G Series records more than 10.5 hours of DVD-quality video. NEW YORK, June 14, 2005 – JVC today announced a new series of camcorders that eliminates the need to carry tapes, discs or any media at...

Millennium G550 for PCIe offers maximum flexibility Matrox Millennium G550 products for PCIe (PCI Express) are the world's first PCI Express x1 graphics cards. The unique x1 design allows these cards to be compatible with all compliant PCIe slots...

Samsung has big plans for flash-based drives Samsung champions solid-state memory as replacement to hard-disk drives in laptops GIHEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - Samsung Electronics Co. hopes that falling prices for flash memory chips will mean solid-state memory can eventually replace hard-disk drives...

Yoikes! Westinghouse making computer monitors??? Who else is going to come out of the woodwork? RCA, Sylvania, Frigidaire/Vauxhall, Philco??? :errr: General Electric makes computer mouses. Are we beginning to see a trend here? http://www.westinghousedigital.com/products/monitors/

That's NOT Texas Instruments (TI), that's actually Texas Memory Systems (TMS). Texas Memory Systems has been around nearly 30 years producing these sorts of exotic drives -- most are in the neighbourhood of US$1 million apiece (or more). They also OEM some of the "smaller" (US$100 000+)...

Other way around, actually. Dell booted HP, with much grandeur as I recall, back in -- what -- 2003? Dell got tired of sending wads of cash to what suddenly became their main competitor, which was the newly-christened (at that time) Hewlitt-Packard / Compaq monolith. Hewlitt-Packard had not...

Yes, I also use MapQuest. It's a bit more up-to-date than the Google Maps. Yahoo Maps is also good. Before MapQuest, I used MapBlast because MapBlast was faster. However, MapBlast went commercial suddenly (i.e. -- pay-for-view maps), then they went out of business (apparently) after about...

How about Internet service from your power company? Yes, this technology has been around for 40 years (many of the power companies themselves use it for some of their own networking), but every once in a while it gets another look/see by the utility companies for use by the general public...

As for Google Earth, they now have some stiff competition: http://virtualearth.msn.com/

Might be fast enough to melt yer compact flash! Also, an affordable US$36.99 + shipping. ...this Addonics SATA CF adapter is one of the fastest CF Readers/Writers in the market today. Connect directly to the fast SATA port, this adapter supports direct booting from the CF media as well...

What I meant above by "The modern-era MPV is as close to a sports sedan as you can get with a mini-van," is that it has the shortest wheelbase and lowest curb weight compared to all other mini-vans. More often than not, this is NOT what mini-van buyers are looking for, however, I was. And...

The Zahlmann active cooler is just a normal sized voltage regulator cooler. What they are REALLY showing off is the weird miniature pack of cigarettes they found! Weird!

Microsoft announced today that its "retail-optimized" flavor of Windows XP Embedded SP2 is now shipping to manufacturers of POS (point-of-sales/service) equipment for the retail and hospitality industries... WEPOS is claimed by Microsoft to be the first POS software platform to support...

AND and NAND flash memories have a longer re-write life cycle these days compared to early flash memories, when you could get maybe 5k ~ 10k good re-writes. The last I heard, you can now expect about 1 million re-writes without errors. With the latest generation of flash memory, I suspect...

Actually, I find the place to be a just a bit too damn annoying for my tastes. If it were suddenly mine, I'd probably start off putting my sidekicks to good use by practicing on those paper mâché columns.

Seagate To Use Perpendicular Technology For Hard Drives APRIL 13, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - TOKYO -- Seagate Technology LLC is developing a perpendicular recording technology for hard disk drives and intends to be one of the first companies to use it in its products, the company said today...