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Thanks for the laugh Sechs :) And, who needs the web when there is the usenet for almost free viewing pleasure?

Wow, I bought myself an XPS gen2 back when the had the Geforce 2go 6800 ultra in them. Not sure when that was but within the last year. A month later I turned it on and went to the restroom. When I got back it smelled that lovely acrid smell of burned electronics and was, of course, a toasted...

Nice! The fields necessary to impact the drive's media through the drive's chassis are immense! I seriously doubt that the drive is functional afterwards. All of the servo fields will have been randomized as well as the user data. In the context of this article though, that is a good thing. Free

That is odd behavior. I run an XPC SD31P as a test system at my desk here at work and it is quite happy to run from a USB keyboard and Mouse. My work system doesn't run Windows though. I boot the test system through either PXE LAN boot or USB key. At home I run an XPC SN26P under Windows XP...

Hmmm, Here is the article I was thinking of. I've used it to change a few volume license keys, I don't know if it will work on non-volume licenses. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874/

There is actually a Microsoft Knowledge Base article for changing keys, I'll try to find it. Free

Hmm, Johny come very lately here. Taking that test today it seems they want money to tell me my score and final designation. My overall type is Rational. So for $15 I could tell you which of the following I was catagorized to. Free P.S. maybe I will spend the money, not sure yet :)

Raw values mean very little without a decoder ring. The specification does not define what they mean. One implementation I am familiar with uses the RAW field simply as a counter of the number of bits transferred (with a few orders of magnitude removed) with the actual calculations for error...

The notebook manufacturers often lag way behind desktop in implementation of features. 48 bit lba is still hit and miss. Some notebook manufacturers still require drives configured to not support 48 bit addressing. Hopefully with > 128G drives finally available they will update their BIOSes, but...

I hear you. My name is Robert. I go by Bob. My father was Robert Bennet, I'm Robert Dean. My father went by Ben. Growing up I was given all junk mail addressed to Bob and always handed the phone to talk to the nice solicitors asking for Bob. I'm happy to report they usually hung up first. At...

Today I fail at the English language. Too many corrections are needed for me to list them all. :oops:

lol, I need to spend more time on the preview pane. House should of course be hose. Free

I only work on friends computers and oddly enough xboxes. I have a 50 gallon tank I fill off the compressed / clean / dry air system that runs through my work. I got the tank at Sears and added a house with quick connects. I added an inline regulator and a cheap air nozzle. Set it at 30psi...

That looks to be an interesting product. Checking the specs it is 12.5mm high. I would guess that makes it a 3 disk drive. Make sure your notebook can handle a 2.5" 12.5mm high drive. Most notebooks ship with 9.5mm high drives. Free

Congratulations! Free

For what it is worth I run a refurbished Toshiba MT8U which I love most of the time. Other times the color wheel sounds like a couple of cats mating and I don't like it so well. Free

I often drool over projector reviews, in this case my source says 33db in economy mode. Free[/url]

Come on now, cut a little slack those are footnotes. On the link it shows as 2009[1] and 2009[2]. The footnotes give the source the estimates are from. Free

Thanks Stereodude. Unfortunately, Purevideo is only for 32 bit windows. Looks like I will backup my current install and start again and attempt to set up a dual boot system so that I can use my computer in either environment for now. Thanks again, Free

Hello eveyone! I finally finished putting together my latest toy, a Shuttle XPC 26NP with an Athlon X2 and installed the copy of Win XP 64 bit I have. Everything was working great until I started installing my favorite software. Alcohol 120 -- No go, but Daemon tools offers virtual software...

The group is now called "SATA-IO" for SATA International Organization. The gold standard is now SATA 2.5. There was too much confusion over SATA extensions and SATA II so the name got changed again :) Free

Everything you ever wanted McFly! http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000430055334/ Free

The short answer is probably yes. Notebook manufacturers tend to take an extreme amount of time to support new feature sets. There are a quite a few who require drives which are configured to not support 48 bit addressing for instance. On the bright side notebooks will move to SATA eventually...

Imagine what a car with a fair amount of storage can offer. Here are some things which should be possible with a good storage system: 1. Real time monitoring and data logging of all inputs. With this you can bring the car in for service and the technician would be able to immediately download...

Hey, Hey! What is it now, July? The 64-bit advancement program package shipped out on the 14th :) Got to love prompt service. Free

Agreed. It would take me a bit over 12 hours to get to the closest one. Free

I can happily report that Microsoft is as prompt as ever. My technology advancement order was placed Apr 27, 2005 and is still pending. I contacted Microsoft via the email address provided 2 weeks after ordering and was told that they were back ordered but expected to start shipping the kits at...

You may check if there are any fixed wireless companies in your area. I use www.mesanetworks.net for my home service. Their residential premiere service is $58 US a month giving me 2.5mbps down and 1mbps up with a static IP, 10 pop mail accounts, and 10MB of web hosting (if I'm ever ambitious...

And of course there is always the usenet. My internet backup project is under way. I think I might manage about 0.0000001 % :) Free

Monday matinee sounds great to me, just need to convince the boss. Free

Sata I cables have a maximum length of 1 meter if they comply with the specification. I think 15 feet is the maximum without a transceiver for USB cables regardles of 1.0 2.0 specification. Free

The main benefit of serial ATA is for system designers. Native SATA requires much less circuit board real estate and far fewer traces, making board layout cheaper. Eventually this will allow for many more SATA ports as PATA is retired. Differential signaling is more complex than parallel but as...

How can you say that? It's new and shiny and well, shiny. Free

All I can say is wow! I love the lazy boy theatre seats and the total immersion of the fixtures in that room. I want one, but I won't pay for it :) Free

I just ordered a couple copies. Hopefully they'll ship promptly but most likely I'll see them in a few months. Free

Ouch, many of the folks I know who enjoy anime are quite normal. I would not call anime a genre in and of itself though, anime covers a very wide breadth of genres. Free

Oh, Vampire Princess Miyu is also on my highly recommended list. I have much of it on Laserdisc though I rarely pull out the player to watch the discs any more :) Free

If you like the older stuff I recommend the original Bubblegum Crisis and I enjoyed the Macross saga. I grew up on Star Blazers and Robotech but seeing it subtitled with the original voice actors is always good. Ghost in the Shell was a good movie and it's sequel is worth seeing. I'll have to...

I picked up a PIONEER DVR-108 and a ME320U2FB 300BK for my lab (and forays home) from newegg last september. I have yet to burn a dud DVD with it. At work everything is going through the USB 2 port on the enclosure and at home I'm using the firewire port. I primarily use it at work to backup...

Possible answers: a) Yes b) No c) One of the above I definately choose answer C Free

I formatted a 400g drive with gdisk to FAT-32 without issues. I've now placed it in an external enclosure and I have Ghost 8.0 backing up my desktop computer to image files on it over USB. Free

I believe that gdisk.exe bundled with ghost will work. The latest version I have is Ghost 8 and it has succesfully partioned and formated a 200G drive. If I get a chance tomorrow I'll try it on a 400 or 500 G drive. Free

Hmmm.... Could it be the salt air :) ? Oh! I know, you didn't handle them with rubber gloves and have every stray electron around you locked down. Or did you give them a cross look? Free P.S. I tend to be taken literally so to be clear this post is a joke not belittling you.

But boy do they babble about it ! :) Free

Saddly, capacity points are set by the major OEM buyers. They want to have a selection of drives from Vendor A, B, and C to all have the same usable number of LBAs to simplify their integration process and keep the job as simple as possible for their assemblers. Drives often have a few million...

Nowadays nothing is certain on platter densities. BPI and TPI can vary surface to surface. It all depends on how good a given surface and the head mated to the surface is. Sometimes a head will work well with high BPI but low TPI (fat strong head). Sometimes the opposite is true with low BPI...

It is out today. I preordered through Steam and enjoyed 10 minutes of it before coming out to work this morning. Looks and sounds great but I haven't really done much gameplay yet. I intend to finish Hal-Life : Source before digging in but it (Half-Life : Source) had 3 hours left on the Steam...

Actually, I said that is the hope of NCQ. Assuming NCQ is well implemented than yes the drives queueing should be better. Now, how much better? I do not know. The OS side reordering will continue so perhaps the two will compliment each other, perhaps not. Free

They do, the hope of NCQ is the assumption that the drive itself knows its physical layout, latencies, and point to point access times and can hopefully make intelligent choices of the order in which to service commands. The OS side queues don't have that insight and must resort to a one size...

I finally installed it on my gaming and main rigs. At first I thought all was working until I tried to play battlefield 1942 online. This kept crashing to the desktop. After searching the web a bit I found others with the same problem. As it turned out installing the latest Nvidia drivers for my...