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Glad to hear the replacement worked. Those Dell server RAID controller battery modules kinda suck. If they sit around, for even a few months sometimes, they'll go bad -- permanently. By the way, did you get even with the failed battery? :)

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You are correct, Cougie. Latest (and likely final) Service Pack level for Vista and Windows Server 2008 is SP-2. Latest Service Pack level for Windows-7 and Windows Server 2008 /R2 is SP-1. Vista and Windows Server 2008 are also Windows NT 6.0. Windows-7 and Windows Server 2008 /R2 are...

To start off, I've had 4-each AA Sanyo Eneloop 2000 mAh batteries for a year now. These things are wonderful! They easily outlast -- by a significant margin -- Energizer and other brands of 2500 mAh batteries. They do not loose their charge anywhere near as fast as "standard" NiMH batteries in...

Alternative combustible fuels are fine, but the ones that are also food sources (i.e. -- corn or sugarcane) are pretty poor choices because they have pushed the prices of food up for peoples that have historically relied on corn for food (mainly Latin America). There's some company somewhere...

Guess not anymore. We are able to provide our customers postal services through our utilization of the United States Postal Service® (USPS®) work share program. With our operational efficiencies, we are able to obtain better postal rates for customers, while providing transit times that...

...or you could go dirt cheap: http://www.mrpinhole.com/

Forget it. It will never happen. Americans are far too xenophobic to elect an Irishman to high office.

>> I found some (overpriced) Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 >> mouses (at a high $69 each, before 15% discount) that I would "watch." Err... I meant 10% above. In any case, all this CompUSA rigmarole of my doing took place back in March / April of this year. The Mexican...

That was pretty much the same thing I experienced with the local ChimpUSA that closed. I stopped by the first week -- mostly to see what stock was on-hand that could be of interest (and to take note of current pricing). Everything was allegedly 10% or 20% off, but nobody seemed to be buying...

You can buy these at Fry's (and other places) for US$29.99. The really *great* thing about this SATA drive bay is that when you purchase one, you don't need to buy any carriers for any hard drives -- EVER. This drive bay only handles bare drives without carriers. You simply push the bare...

http://jimisboss.com/mt/ MY FROIDAY I FIND FRIDATYS DEPRESSING. AT THE END OPF THE DAY, I HAVE TO GO HOME AND CAN;'T GO BACK TO WROK UNTIL MONDAY! IM JUST KIDDING. :-h WHEN I WAS A REGULAR MAGANER, I GOT TO GO IN ON SATURDAY MOROINGS AND DO TRHE WROK-PALCE CHEER. BUT NOW THAT I AM IN...

CompUSA sells Samsung hard drives in full retail attire in their chains stores. The boxes are brown with the oval Samsung logo.

P5-133XL, Congratulations on surpassing the 2 000 000 mark! F@H also recently broke through a statistical barrier when they surpassed 600 000 registered users. As for me, I'm about to creep past the 40 000 mark. PS: If any of you recently experienced a sudden a gust of wind and a...

>> Windows update has gone weird The "weird" disappearance of IE7 from the Critical Updates list (or any other Windows Update category) was caused by excessive numbers of people that installed IE7 and ended up having to back out the installation for web-browser-compatibility reasons. A large...

Mercedes may end up dumping the Chrysler unit off as an independent company -- just like they were before the merger...

>> It has a retractible sun-shade. It better have a good one, otherwise this car could be the most unpopular car in Arizona history.

Yes, but you had better not suffer from demophobia or agoraphobia. And, you also should be able to function on practically no sleep for a week. If you can't make it to SXSW, the same people that put together SXSW have helped others organise sister festivals over the past few years. They are...

What the hell is this, a Republican caucus or something?

Ummm... 1998... Solaris 8 came out about the same time as Windows 2000. Solaris got a lot better starting with Solaris 8. As for Solaris x86 -- Solaris on the SPARC platform has always been better, though I have not personally experienced Solaris 10 running on the AMD-based Sun Fire boxes...

Well, that would be if I had originally done the following: User CP ---> Edit Options ---> scroll down to "Miscellaneous Options" ---> Message Interface: Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing Over two weeks later, I just now stumbled into this feature! :owneddnce: Arial Arial Black...

All WD needed to do with this unit was to supply a 6-pin-to-9-pin Firewire cable for people with 400 Mb/s (IEEE-1394A) Firewire interfaces. The Firewire 800 Mb/s (IEEE-1394B) should be "bilingual." From the back panel image, WD product design engineers went as far as providing the back...

Such drives are perfect as backup targets when doing routine full or incremental backups. I've been using an "inexpensive" Hitachi 250 GB SATA drive for such. It's setup to hot-plug into a SATA / SAS SCA drive bay. I could install it into a US$35 eSATA housing and do the same -- via eSATA...

Chances are quite high the bridge circuitry and RAID controller are all off-the-shelf parts that many vendors use. So, it's pretty much ready to go. Unfortunately, the little round socket in the photo below shows that an external power supply (a.k.a. -- "power brick") is being used. Argh...

Congratulations, JoJo! Now you just need to gain Solaris 10 administrator certification through an upgrade exam! :geek:

Yu're not mississing muhc, Los T6200. I think the guy is lye-ing about his hosepower. I bet he realy only has 999 horsepoor, butt added 13 moore horseepowr after he visited the dyno. I'm superior because my flat-6 motor is located in the aft section.

Yes, there was Genius, IMSI, MSC, and Logitech, and a few others. Some of these mouses came bundled with software. More distant memories surfacing now: I recall another one of those getting-a-mouse-bundled-with-the-software deals when I bought (gulp) the "Gem" graphical interface from Digital...

Link fixed... Argosy HD363N / HD-363N 3.5" IDE To RJ45 Network NAS Aluminum External Hard Disk Drive Enclosure - RETAIL US$59.99 http://www.dealsonic.com/arhd3idetorj.html

OK. I just retrieved my two Logitech trackballs. The ivory one is about 5 years older than the silver-grey one -- which is now 1 year old. Both TRACKBALLS say on the bottom "Marble Mouse USB." Both of these trackballs have two large and long buttons (one on each side), but the newer one...

CSI. Actually, I have heard of Intel's CSI, but I thought it was the eventual "replacement" for CSA (communications Streaming [or Screaming] Architecture). In any case, CSI was *not* brought up even once at an Intel technical briefing I attended a few months ago that covered the various...

If I were there, I could tell you pretty quickly what they were up to. I'm guessing that you are right in the thick of town. If you are, they could be bringing in Metropolitan Area Ethernet service into a building Ethernet router into which multiple Ethernet switches have their uplinks...

Toast and no tea? Toast and no Tea? A world of difference exists between these two sentences. :p

Coug... You wouldn't believe how this statement translates into English.

Well, hopefully one of those stray buoys won't suddenly pop up in the surf and hit me in the nuts. One wave, two weeks. Helluva ride. Been there, did that. Ride of yer life. Sun goes down, sun comes up, etc etc etc. Then, suddenly, a sign that reads, "Welcome To Jamaica." Must stay awake...

The 80 GB, 120 GB, and 160 GB capacities of the Seagate 7200.9 are now showing up in force this week in the USA. Where the hell are the 200 GB, 300 GB, 400 GB, and 500 GB capacities? Only Henry J. Seagate III knows. Rich bastard. He doesn't even have a clue how the other half even lives...

Unless something happened during the past 20 years or so, I'm 99.98 % sure that Panama and every country to its north (including British Honduras, or Belize, as we now call it) all use NTSC. Offshore a bit: Jamaica is PAL. Cuba... NTSC. Bahamas... depends which island you're on. :wink...

ummm... Now that I'm a bit more rested and clear-headed, I meant to say FIELDS not frames in my earlier post. Since our antiquated analogue television broadcasts are 2:1 interlaced, that equates to 50 fields per second / 25 frames per second in PAL and SECAM, and 60 fields per second / 30...

I suspect that you'll find that Fujitsu and Hitachi SCSI hard drives cost more than Seagate and Maxtor of equivalent storage capacity -- though Hitachi has been coming down in price more during the past 6 months. Still, Seagate and Maxtor cost significantly less than Fujitsu and Hitachi...

I've heard though a grapevine-based telecommunications device to expect seeing the 7200.9 series to start entering the retail channel around mid-to-late SEPTEMBER (that about 5 to 6 more weeks from now). One would have to think this will include the NL (NearLine) Series (SATA2, FATA) of drives...

...or de-install RAM with the mobo in place. (finishing sentence from above!) Arctic Silver Five is really not expensive here in the USA -- unless US$5.00 = expensive. Arctic Silver 5 is well worth it if you are using one of those recent Pentium 4 thermonuclear devices for number cruching.

Processor + Cooling: Yes -- at least the processor (so that you can observe the pins going into the socket). As for the cooling assembly -- even though it's not really that big of a deal, why bother wrestling with the installation of the heatsink and cooling fan after the mobo goes in...

Every once in a while, I'll see someone pedaling along on a bike with wheel fairings (¿spoke fairings?). I've always wondered if wheel fairings might cause you to vere off course if a gust of wind should hit you. If there was ever a bike for lunatics, here's one <chuckle>

Probably not as bad as this one...

And more. Depending on the computer (or mobo) you buy -- as in how "fancy" it is-- you'll be able to various maintenance operations to hardware or the operating system load, without actually booting into the operating system. In a Microsoft-oriented shop, a mobo with licensed "Microsoft...

Well, I was once -- not too long ago -- hoping for a computer with an InfiniBand channel that I could connect anything to. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll have to wait a while for that to happen.

Backing up over a WAN link is best done using disk-to-tape, not straight to tape. You need to be able to stream to tape for the highest efficiency and least wear on the tape drive. Backup software resident on a backup server and separate workstation/server agents on the computers to be...

The S100 bus -- VME, GPIB/HPIB, and Multibus as well -- are all still alive and kicking in the industrial world. PCI is also used in industrial settings, especially CompactPCI. By the way, PCI Express is also supplanting PCMCIA and CardBus (which are both derivatives of parallel PCI). On...

This would be quite inefficient from the mobo designer's standpoint, because, by rule, all PCI Express lanes must be able to provide full throughput at all times. This, of course, doesn't mean that every PCIe lane will actually be busy at all times. If you had a mobo with six 16x PCIe slots...

On occasion around here, I've mentioned Itanium machinery's use of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), and how EFI will eventually replace BIOS on the X86 platform. (Note: The first generation of Itanium boxes did use BIOS for a short while, but EFI was quickly shuffled into place in less than...