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Something else WD is a little bit sketchy about is the reason why these new hard drives are being referred to as "green." WD makes these new hard drives out of recycled materials, which rot slowly over time and begin to take on a green-ish appearance due to fungal bloom. The base material...

Nuff said.

It might be Gary, but it's probably just Merc playing around with us or something.

Yep. Pretty stupid. I think he/she/it has about 8 aliases or whatever the hell you call them. Anybody that has that many aliases should be banned from the forum. ...just my 2¢

An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his help in reviving her husband's libido. "What about trying Viagra? asks the doctor. "Not a chance," she said. "He won't even take an aspirin." "Not a problem," replied the doctor. "Give him an "Irish Viagra." It's when you drop...

I'm sure the marketplace analysts at ATI have been eyeing the coprocessor / accelerator market for a long time. It's not a big market, but it is pretty lucrative. Weitek and a few others did well in the coprocessor market until they were gobbled up. Now you have coprocessor support built...

Clocker you beat me to the keyboard. Trying to draw over 20 amps through 14 gauge Romex is a disaster in waiting. This is one area not to skimp. Proper grounding is also essential. I've been running computers on 208 volts here in the USA for over a decade. Virtually all computers are...

No, they definitely intended it. In addition to Stereolab's obvious Neu! krautrock influence, they *very* frequently dabbled in early '60s elevator / novelty popmusic. The only Walter/Wendy Carlos album that ever liked was "Sonic Seasonings" or maybe "A Clockwork Orange," though I know some...

In comparison to the AGP versions, the all the various PCI Express versions of the P-series graphics cards seem to have the fan and what seems to be a smaller heatsink. I would say -- yes -- they need the fan. But, I haven't definitively heard of them being noisy. An aftermarket heatpipe...

Sure, definitely. I've got essentially all of their early albums (CD) in the wack original packaging, which I do know to be quite rare and ermmm... collectable some 10 ~ 15 years later. I also saw them live -- for free -- in 1989. I don't have any of Stereolab's "later" stuff at all...

I've recently played around with a new 2-U Dell server that was configured with a pair of top-of-the-line 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 (Core2 "Woodcrest") processors and 4 GB od system RAM (FB-DDR2 RAM). I exercised it by re-loading Windows 2003/R2, then generating huge text files through file...

Another candidate is the Matrox Millennium P650 LP PCIe 64. If you put the full ATX slot bracket on, it will do 2 DVI ports instead of 1 DVI port with the standard low-profile slot bracket. It can provide 1920 x 1200 to either one or two digital monitors (LCD) or 1920 x 1440 two analogue or...

Wow! Not only are we music experts, photography experts, and experts in other fields, we are also hand tool experts! I'd say Ryobi is Home Despot's "house brand" if any brand is their house brand. As far as I know, Home Depot is only in North America. Hopefully, for your sake, Home Depot...

Seagate 250GB SATA Hard Drive - ST3250823AS Hail SATA! While we pride ourselves on our collective thick skin, let it never be said that Woot ignores all complaints. When we’ve sold 250GB hard drives here before, they’ve generally been of the IDE/UDMA variety – the same type most people have...

Why the fuxore are you messing around with America On hoLd?

Had been kinda sorta recently in the market for a (single) 1 GB USB thumb drive, but not in a rush to get one immediately. I've had my eyes on one of those fancy SanDisk Cruzer thumb drives with the retractable USB connector. However, I saw a deal tonight -- a weekly special at a CompUSA...

So torturous and grating is that WebIngO website, that it makes all 4 of me baby teef hurt! If it's Scandinavian, it must've been written by an ex-Norwegian death-metal bandmember.

>> Has the Core2Duo which is obviously superior >> to AMD solutions A Core2 Xeon is a hell of a lot better processor than any Pentium 4 Xeon derivative ever was, but I wouldn't say that Core2 Xeon products are particularly superior to the latest Opteron offerings. The Core2 Xeon...

Howabout one of the most useful tools ever created -- a skyhook! The skyhook is possibly God's greatest gift to man. Skyhooks are indispensable for doing large-scale wireless cabling jobs. After all, you gotta string a lot wireless cable up in the sky to get hotspot coverage, correct?

Just might get thousands of imminent tsunami predictions every day using a WesternDigi Caviar. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/07/HNtsunamiwarning_1.html?source=NLC-AD2006-09-07

There are various Acronis TrueImage V9.1 releases available: Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation Retail List Price: US$79.99 http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/ Universal Restore for Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation Retail List Price: US$29.99 (licensing)...

Tannin, did I ever mention the story about me building a *crazy* computer system for a medical doctor stuck in the past? This was back around 1995. Long story short: I don't normally go around building computers for other people, but a good friend of mine had me to build a "hot rod" computer...

As I understand, Houston has not had a "white majority" for 30 years, so I guess the rest of the state has sorta kinda finally caught up (thinking lily-white Dallas at this moment). There are more Caucasian than Hispanic with African-American and Asian-American about equal -- something like...

Honeywell should rename themselves to Honeypot or Honeymonkeypot... http://research.microsoft.com/honeymonkey/article.aspx

I used all those early versions of Mosaic before Netscape hit. Yes, UIUC Mosaic was stable enough (as I recall), but it was in no way as user-friendly and "pretty" as Netscape 1.x was. Installing Mosaic was done manually from a list of files and which directories to copy the files into. The...

I used Netscrape w-a-y back in the beginning -- talkin' version 1.x and 2.x (what else was there worth using back then?) -- but no more, since about version 3.0.1 or 3.0.2. Netscrape has been a fat squealing pig to use for more than half a decade. I like Netscrape's bastard child, Mozilla...

This is POSITIVELY a GOOD thing, Merc -- if you are willing to stick with New Egg. As you probably know, credit terms of Net / 30 Days is the norm for small and medium businesses that qualify for credit. Chase may decide to stop offering this deal in a few months to any new takers. Bottom...

Apple Security Update 2005-007 :errr: Some of thesel are CRITICAL :errr: Apache 2 CVE-ID: CAN-2005-1344 Available for: Mac OS X Server v10.3.9 Impact: The htdigest program contains a buffer overflow, which, if used improperly in a CGI application, could allow a...

Forgot to list the informational URLs for today's patches upon the patchwork security quilt: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-038.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-039.mspx...

It's an air-cooled Titanium Itanium with 512 MB L1, 512 GB L2, and 512 TB L3 caches. In this photo, they have the computer powered down so that Groltz can add hypnotic flashing LED arrays to make it look sexy.

It depends on what's needed. For a typical home computer, especially where desktop space is limited, LCD monitors are likely the best choice. If one needs to do photo or video editing, and there is not a desktop space problem, CRTs are the better choice.

Let's see if I can go all the way through this without missing something. SAS: Serial Attached SCSI is absolutely excellent technology, but it will be several months before the quantity of product available to the general populace finally hits a level that some price competition will take...

Originally Posted: I've got about $2000 to use and I want to get a nice LCD monitor with that too... I wouldn't bother using an analogue G400/G450 on a digital (LCD) monitor -- definitely a step backwards -- unless one wants to buy a cheap-o LCD with analogue-only connectivity.

The so-called FATA drives are meant for "legacy" (i.e. -- existing) Fibre Channel, though, they will work just fine with the newfangled "SATA tunneling" Fibre Channel once it arrives. The SATA-capable Fibre Channel protocol will be able to communicate with SATA drives just like SAS can...

Without getting my hands on one, I would have to say they are essentially 7200 RPM Seagate SATA hard drives drive with an integrated F-C optical bridge. The bridge translates physical and communications protocols between F-C and SATA so that they interface with existing (at this point...

I forgot to mention a number of things (as I realised later). Continued from above: System I 3.0 GHz / 800 MHz FSB P4 microprocessor 2-each 512 MB Corsair PC3200 DDR DIMMs for a total of 1 GB of RAM Acard 2-channel ATA-133 host bus adapter System II 1130 MHz / 133 MHz FSB Pentium...

On June 14, 2005, the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release: Security Updates • 7 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates will require a restart...

If certain organisations out there would acts together, and get Magnetic RAM (or M-RAM) out the door instead of tweaking it incessantly, we could leave the fidgety world of dynamic RAM behind for good, not to mention the fescennine Rambus and its gang of greedy lawyers.

Some of the points you've brought up is why I ended up buying a couple of years ago -- as a second automobile -- a Mazda MPV mini-van. The modern-era MPV is as close to a sports sedan as you can get with a mini-van, which may actually cause some to avoid it since it is a bit small-ish. I can...

What have been the typical seek times measured in past 7200.X drives with Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) enabled?

TOKYO -- Seagate Technology LLC will start shipping a 2.5-in. notebook PC drive with 160GB of capacity in the first quarter of next year, it said today... Seagate's drive looks to be the first 2.5-in. drive with this capacity using perpendicular recording technology to hit the market. For...

Microsoft's Security Response Center: How Little Patches Are Made By monitoring the public lists and underground hacker sites, Toulouse said the company is able to keep track of discussions about vulnerabilities that may not have been reported to Microsoft...

Even though I can fit AA-size NiMH batteries in my Nikon D100 (PS: I have the "motordrive" grip add-on), they will not work because they cannot provide enough voltage. So, I HAVE to use the proprietary Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries or alkaline batteries with the Nikon D100.

Yes, that is essentially correct -- YOU HAVE TO SEND IT BACK. So far, nothing here at the Apple Developer's Store, yet: http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/ADC?qprm=38839

Well, being that they still haven't come out with what was originally the 500 GB NL35 (Near-Line) -- which then became over time the 400 GB NL35 -- I'd suspect they have once again shifted to a model lineup focused on 500 GB technology. So, we should probably soon have the 500 GB NL35 series...

Barracuda 7200.9 disc drives... will feature a 7,200-rpm spin speed and an 8.0 msec average seek time. With 3Gb/s SATA performance... NCQ... http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2733,00.html

Seagate 160GB 2.5-Inch Notebook Drive Sets New Capacity Benchmark... Seagate Full Disc Encryption Delivers Strong, Easy-to-Use Data Security for Notebooks... http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2732,00.html

You might likely find those Canon items on eBay for dirt cheap.

Jeez. How in hell did they manage this one? It seems like the old iFrame Injection flaw has somehow weazled its way back into the world of browzers. Firefox V1.0.5 here we come! Maybe I'm starting to believe those rumours floating around about Moz is using stolen IE code. 8)...

So I gather that you have no reason to be able to see the monitor during a blackout? You might suddenly find yourself scrambling to plug your monitor into the UPS if you needed to operate your computer. Otherwise, if it's a CRT monitor, and its green mode has kicked in, its power requirement...