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When the first of these variable speed hard drives started showing up a while back -- and WD began hinting that this was "the future" of desktop storage -- many people (in and around the storage biz) were definitely not impressed with the ideas of a variable speed spindle using constant linear...

I bring this subject up from time to time, and people frequently do not believe it when I tell them, but, there was actually a "Firewire" around for a few years before the Firewire that Apple allegedly invented and submitted as IEEE-1488. This mysterious hardware and cabling looks and works...

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Indeed. I meant HD 2400 XT, but for some reason when I went back to edit that post, the [Edit] function here on the StorageForum website was not working.

According to TechARP (or Rojakpot or whatever they call themselves these days), the older Radeon X1550 is virtually even with a Radeon HD2900XT. Radeon X1550 == 2200 MTexels/s + 12.80 GB/s Radeon HD2900XT == 2100 ~ 2800 MTexels/s + 6.40~12.80 GB/s One big difference between the...

Firefox version 2.0.0.4 just released... http://www.mozilla.com/

My large collection of Nikkor AI and AI-S lenses dictated my DigiSLR choice -- a Nikon body that I could afford and could adequately replace my F and F3 Nikons film bodies. My D100 does its job well, though use of my film-camera Nikkor lenses throws the D100 into 100% manual mode. But...

It is, but not when the drive is under BIOS control. I hot-swap SATA drives -- even "old" SATA drives -- along with SAS drives without problem. But, I do this with a 5-slot Supermicro SCA drive bay ("mobile rack") for 3.5-inch form factor SAS and/or SATA hard drives that is connected to an...

One approach to large LCD monitors for some of you might be to buy a 1080p HDTV monitor. Get one with an inbuilt HD tuner, and it could double as both a telly and a computer monitor running at 1920x1080 resolution.

For what it's worth, I've met and briefly talked with Bill Gates -- twice -- but never Ballmer. I've also met and briefly talked with "Apple technology evangelist" Steve Wozniak once -- but never Jobsie. This was in another time and universe called the 1980s. :geek:

...which is not my experience 3 ~ 4 years ago. I know there was an era when Plextor opticals were built quite well (the 8x and 16x CD-R/W period), because I used them (at work). But, starting around the 40x CD-R/W period, I had some of these overpriced Plextor drives to die suddenly for no...

Ballmer (the used car salesman) selling Windows 1.00 for $99. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk&NR

...Phase-change memory can be scaled down to 22nm, or far smaller than flash memory, the researchers developing it say. Phase-change also appears able to be more durable than flash, whose memory cells start to break down after 100,000 rewrites... ...Among the advances, the companies have built...

FromDriveSentry's website: DriveSentry is the world's first firewall for your hard drives... http://www.drivesentry.com/index.htm

The 101 corridor from East Palo Alto right on over into Mountain View (on both sides of 101 in Mountain View) is a gang-land. Of course, east bay has their gang-lands. DD is well "uphill" from the mayhem.

The Wall Street Journal reports: Under the pact, which isn't final, Microsoft will offer sales support of Suse Linux, a version of the operating system sold by Novell. The two companies have also agreed to develop technologies to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft's...

Massive battery recalls, several late-to-market products, retail competition on every front, core competencies (video) being vigourously challenged, sinking share in the portable computer marketplace, Nintendo & Xbox competition, movies and music no longer pull in profits like they did in prior...

I've not had the chance to test drive Hitachi's power hand tools, but they do appear to be up to standards for professional use. They sort of look like Bosch clones, but looks can be deceiving. I do for a fact like some of their *larger* pieces of equipment (table saws, band saws, planers...

If Blu-Ray is delayed again, what was it that I've been seeing the past month or two at Fry's Electronics, ChimpUSA, MicroCenter, and WurstBuy? No really! Are we talking about Blu-ray players or Blu-Ray R/W drives? I'll admit that I did not pay close attention to precisely what these...

If you believe this article from 28/July of this year, it should be taking a lot LESS time... Yahoo Releases New Crawler… Welcome Yahoo Slurp the Second http://www.searchengineposition.com/info/articles/YahooReleaseNewCrawler.asp

I recall quite some time back there were some "fake" Matrox G200 or G100 cards floating around southeast Asia. I suspect that someone at one the contractors or sub-contractors that was involved in the manufacture of the *legitimate* video card manufactured some "extra" GPUs, or got possession...

Seagate supposedly has a hybrid hard drive in the works -- along with Samsung (for certain). All the remaining manufacturers will likely have hybrid magnetic platter / flash memory hard drives as well. Actually, I was talking about SSD drives based solely on flash memory. Some of the...

I just checked SR's forum, and I see: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Test Page This page is used to test the proper operation of the Apache HTTP server after it has been installed. If you can read this page, it means that the Apache HTTP server installed at this site is working properly...

The radio sez (well, 20 minutes ago) that it was a NY Yankees pitcher that was piloting the aircraft.

How about 165 (!) at the moment. There's a minor quantity of Google and MSN spiders, but well over 100 Yahoo! Slurp Spiders.

Was very recently talking to someone with some solid industry cred that knows a thing or two about these newfangled SS drives... It is possible that a prominent manufacturer might be using a little bit (as in 4 GB or so) of premium "fast" flash memory acting as cache / buffer memory, along with...

CompUSA has been selling Samsung hard drives in retail packaging for about a year and a half or so. It's a *lot* easier to find retail Samsung optical drives.

Prolly coz there's a "Li'l bit of Bill'n'Ballmer in every (x) box." Would be kinda nice to have an Xbox running a supercharged F@H session when it wasn't serving it's... in in intendo nintendo... I mean intended purpose of entertaining the hedonistic masses.

Control Panel ---> System ---> Hardware (tab) ---> Device Manager (button) ---> View (menu item) ---> "Show Hidden Devices" (menu selection) Now, expand the "Non-Plug'n'Play Drivers" resource to reveal all drivers of this class that are running or have been setup on your system. Carefully...

Problem solved: David should remove Santilli's Ethernet card.

Looks like someone turned one of my corny jokes that I posted here in 2003 and 2004 (concerning an artificial intelligence project called "R.A.N.D.Y.") and actually made something out of it called "George." But, they say they've been working on it since 1999. So, I guess they didn't exactly...

For what it's worth, holo-storage will indeed début *this* year, not the proverbial "sometime in a year or two" that me and countless others have been saying for the... ummm... past 6 or 7 years. I've actually seen working prototype holo-storage reader/writers and media (at an IEEE...

I prefer WinVN to all other UseNet newsreaders. Forte Free Agent is certainly worthwhile, but I still like WinVN better because it presents busy newsgroups in the most legible and easy-to-follow manner I've ever seen with its character terminal emulation. When I actually have the time, I...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-002 CRITICAL Vulnerability in Embedded Web Fonts Could Allow Remote Code Execution (908519) AFFECTED: Windows 2000 Workstation, Windows Server SP4, Windows XP, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Server 2003, Server 2003...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone "out there" has a cat webcam site that shows cat activities like cats catching mice, cat fights (REAL cat fights, not female human cat fights), or what I will call "cat transportation corridors" -- such as alleys, tops of neighbourhood / community board...

The only sort of boring bits that use on a regular basis... SPADE . AUGER BRADPOINT . FORSTNER

By the way, what brand / model of notebook computer is this?

Hynix = Hyundai [list:846c71a29d] Hyundai ≠ Honda therefore [list:846c71a29d] Hynix ≠ Honda [/list:u:846c71a29d] [/list:u:846c71a29d]

That would be HYUNDAI. Do you have one memry slot or two? It's quite possible that you only have one memory slot along with soldered-in memory on the mobo. In any case, I would check out Crucial's site for what you have and can use (maximum memory). I've ordered notebook computer memory...

Excellent. Maybe I can finally go duck hunting on Hudson Bay this summer with my 155mm Howitzer.

Maxburn, it's a good thing the Grammar Police did not spot your run-on sentence. You have been warned!!! I'm near the intersection of Heartattack and Vine. By the way, a quick survey shows various other Liebert goodies around here like dozens of System/3 cooler units and gaggles of...

Well, guess what... PROPRIETARY. "Generic" hardware won't work here for sure. Going back to an earlier post: Are you sure the $39 drive module is not what you need? The $259 drive module includes a hard drive. The one thing I notice in the tiny picture of the $39 drive module is that it...

4 GB is 4096 MB, or 4194304 bytes. 3 GB is 3072 MB, or 3145728 bytes.

More often than not, Apple tends to port their Macintosh code (programs) to Windows. The only problem is that the ports generally aren't so great, neither are their sucky-ass Windows runtime libraries. So, Apple tends to spend time tweaking ported code that was written on a Mac as opposed to...

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (896727) MS05-038 CRITICAL Affected Software: Internet Explorer 5.5, Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows Server 2003, Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Advanced Server...

What's wrong with you??? Tannin, fans fail after 2 or 3 years because you're supposed to take a sledgehammer and smash yer outdated computer after 2 or 3 years and buy another one.

Yes, but at lower refresh rates and spatial resolutions (e.g. -- 1152x864 @ 85 Hz). The DACs in the G400, G450, and G550 have a bandwidth of 360 MHz. The DACs in the P650 have a bandwidth of 400 MHz. By the way, that's a G550. The G450 and G550 are pretty close in every "useable" way...

Thanks William.

Ummmm... I think you have Texas mixed up with Florida. Texas didn't have a concealed handgun law until about 1997. Before then it was strictly verboten to go around with gunz in public places. However, in Florida, maybe around 1990, a concealed handgun law was enacted that was rather...