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Several months ago, Western Digi was apparently trying to acquire Fujitsu's hard drive business (enterprise and notebook) and failed to come up with the cash or satisfy Fujitsu. Now, for unknown reasons, the rumourmill has it that Toshiba is making a bid for Fujistu's hard drive business...

Ethernet cabling and transceivers is Layer 1 and ATA command set is Layer 2. You want to build VLANs for your AOE SAN for the same reasons you want zone you F-C SAN. Not really. F-C (loop and fabric protocols) are lossless, Ethernet in its present state is not lossless. But fear not...

You can get decent Inland (brand) DVI+USB KVMs for under US$200.

I sometimes jokingly refer to seagulls as "pigeons of the sea." Otherwise, seagulls definitely seem significantly smarter than typical park pigeons.

Little baby, you act too much like a grown-up. What's wrong with a little fun?

DD, you must either be joking or you're on Bill-n-Ballmer's payroll!!! Vista is conveniently incompatible, buggy as hell, unbelievably slow, and certainly quite evil. Upgrading to Vista forced me replace my hard drive with an even larger and harder hard drive, replace all my system RAM with...

Optical cabling kit is all dreadfully expensive -- a few hundred US$ for the cheap stuff, a few thousand for the typical stuff. You need special tools for cutting, polishing, and fusing. The thicker multi-mode optical cable is hard to deal with and the thinner single-mode variety (typically...

The highest quality external drive cases that I've ever encountered have been those made by CI Design. These are quality all-metal designs with excellent internal power supplies and cooling. http://www.cidesign.com/product_detail.jsp?productID=35

And on the fifth day, the grand exaulted chief muckity-muck of all technologies proclaimed: Thou shalt produce weekly/full and daily/incremental backups and keep a copy of these backups offsite in a secure place. And, by the way, billgates sux.

Burn_In was just the individual that was racing past more people than anyone else that week. He's sorta slowed down a bit since -- but not much. As for Inpharm, below is a picture of his famous racks. Incredibly, his servers are based on the "old" last-generation Dempsey Pentium4 Xeon...

The problem is the GPT (GUID Partition Table) that Vista is using. Older disc utilities understand the MBR structure, but don't understand the GPT structure. GPT is default with 64-bit installations of Windows XP, 2K3 Server, and Vista. 32-bit Win2K3/R2 also does GPT. GPT is a lot more...

Weird stuff; wolfchildren... http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=sanichar

http://www.nvidiaclassaction.org/

With all those skeletons in the closet, they could throw one hell of a Halloween party if they ever wanted to!

For what it's worth, some people I know (nobody from SF or SR, just a couple of local folk) that have been using Raptors since the first generation in custom-built workstations, tell me the first generation Raptor was easily the worst for reliability (not to mention heat, noise, etc), and that...

Okay mister CityK, HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!! You are surrounded. No place to run. You are being charged with the crime of Language Butchery. "Agreeance" is not a word found in any English dictionary. (I wish The Grammar Police would wake up and do his job, not to mention RESTORE HIS...

Western Digital "MyAss" Pro Edition II. <yawn> .....zzzzzzzzzzz ......zzzzzzzzz

UPDATE: Just about to bust through 86 kiloposts. PS: Tea, would you PM "CNN Sport" and "The Grammar Police" and tell them they need to update their avatar images?

Western Digital "My Book " Pro Edition II Features: 1 TB storage capacity via RAID-0 (500 GB x 2) 3 interfaces: Firewire 800, Firewire 400, and USB2 Personally, I think this box should have an eSATA interface instead of a Firewire 400 interface...

Recommended approach for wiping out spyware: format C: /u

How's this look for some hi-fi audio on a budget!?! http://www.geocities.com/qgap/Pipe_Dreams.html

What in the hell??? More news from the backwoods folk.... http://memphisdemocrat.com/2005/news/050728_chief.shtml

After cleaning your hard drive (inside and out), you should consider keeping it cool -- and I do mean C O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O L... http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1028112728

A couple of interesting "just around the corner" (read: "sometime before the December gift-giving season") mouses from MS: The first is a “presentation mouse” that has a presentation laser pointer built into the mouse. It also has multimedia controls (i.e. – “Back,” “Forward,” Stop,” Start,”...

>> I here late '08, '09 as the when. If this is indeed the info churning in the silicon rumourmill, then it likely is true. As for Intel's answer to HyperTransport: Actually, I would not go into convulsions if Intel announced one day that they were joining the HyperTransport Consortium...

Speaking of "F" (as in AMD's Socket "F"), I noticed today that Supermicro is no longer *hiding* their AMD mobo products from the world. AMD A-Plus products are now plainly shown on the SupermicrO front page under the "More Key Products" heading. I guess they finally paid their protection...

Mubs: Do you have one of those calibration cards that you hold with your hand? If you do, you can get reasonably close to the proper gamma and white point if your eyes are good. You will need to be in incandescent light to get the best results (use the card labeled "incandescent")...

>> How evil is .Net? .NET (and Mono) isn't evil. It's basically Visual BASIC and Java technologies on steroids.

Typically, 75 Hz or 85 Hz. I'm at least near 20/20 these days. Some days my vision is a little worse than others. Fortunately, I still have excellent night vision. I was somewhat recently reading a newspaper (albeit, a bit slower than normal) using only normal moonlight. My tested vision...

Well, right on schedule... The smaller half of the Seagate 7200.9 lineup (160 GB, 120 GB, 80 GB -- both ATA and SATA2) have been on sale in the far east (Japan, Singapore, etc) since last week. No news yet on the 200 GB, 300 GB, 400 GB, and 500 GB 7200.9 hard drives. Since there is still...

1280x1024 on a 19-inch monitor is simply going to make you go blind. It's best to keep screen resolution at around 85 DPI (yes, 85 dots per inch) for a WYSIWYG rendition that equals a laser printer printout. Using this rule, approximate pixel resolutions are: 19-inch ..... 1024x768...

Well, might as well try it if you already have 2K3 -- or an evaluation version. I'd love to hear about other people's install woes (or successes). I've gotten different problems over the years from trying to install Adobe products on Server. The full-blown Adobe Creative Suite product just...

Reading through all of the above, I don't no weather I shuud laff or cry. 1.) Tannin, you are ABSOLUTELY correct. UPDATE: How about "a quarter until eight" (or "a quarter 'til eight"). 2.) AluminIum is correct. If you want to use aluminUm in the USA, you may or may not be correct...

I'll get back with you on a complete list, but DEFINITELY &#<%@ Adobe products of all kinds. Then there are my video and audio non-linear editing applications. Oh ya, device drivers for certain PCI cards. OUCH!

Yes, it's a 4-lane breakout cable. You know that you can daisy-chain SAS drives together. Just one SAS channels can take care of up to 127 hard drives. Four internal SAS channels can go a long way. SAS has more than enough speed and it's full duplex, meaning, that you could easily...

No, not at all. The MegaRAID BIOS (firmware) is actually still one of the best I've seen -- quite well laid out from a logical standpoint of what you need the work with as you configure or maintain arrays and RAID host adapters. Their layout design has changed a bit over time; this is from...

And once you get your PCI-E Ultra-320 RAID or SCSI host bus adapter card, you'll see a rather significant boost in throughput with your existing Maxtor drives. Replace all the above with a PCI-E SAS RAID or SAS host bus adapter card, SAS versions of the same Maxtor drive mechanism, yet another...

My major problem with using Win2K3 (server) as a workstation operating system is application compatibility -- spotty. Few of the application software packages I need to run either don't recognise Win2K3 at some point during installation ("unknown version of Windows" message) or abruptly stop...

MS Corrects IE Patch Download Glitch Less than 24 hours after pushing out patches for three critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, Microsoft has re-released the bulletin to correct a glitch that blocked some users from downloading the patches.... That was MS05-038...

DVD Identifier is a freeware tool written to help read and analyze the media information present on blank DVDs. It supports all varieties of writeable and rewriteable DVD media: DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, dual-layer DVD+-R/W media -- including DVD-RAM, even BD-R and BD-RE (Sony BluRay Disc formats)...

Well, it doesn't surprise me at all that I had significant chunks of Cyrix's history discombobulated. Throughout the Cyrix era, I was only dealing with the occasional X86 PC (early Supermicro-mobo-based systems -- which were quite expensive at that time, but certainly good -- and some systems...

Last month (June), here, was a weird one for sure. It was the driest June ever since records have been kept. Temperatures were up to 35ºC/95ºF ~ 37ºC/98ºF everyday for a month with 25% ~ 35% relative humidity. The bone-dry and often brisk winds were from the west and southwest, straight out of...

The superfast input-output speeds of server cluster file systems could change the way companies approach storage... http://www.serverpipeline.com/164900953

Cornice to launch 4GB Storage Element disk drive Cornice Inc. is adding a 4GB drive to its line of 1-inch "Storage Element" hard-disk drives, the company said today... The new drive will be available this month and will cost $65 per drive when purchased in quantities of 10,000 units, the...

From last month -- a bit of an update on the subject of Hard Drives For Automobiles: EE25 Series Disc Drives Hit The Road The EE25 Series disc drive is Seagate's first drive designed specifically to meet the needs of the global automotive industry and other "extreme environment"...

There should be some 4-lane SAS RAID controllers available in the next several weeks. A couple of 1-lane SAS SCSI host adapters should start showing up soon as well. A 1-lane PCI Express slot is equivalent to -- if not a bit faster than -- an old-style 64-bit 66 MHz parallel PCI slot.

Alaska has been getting some significant bumpy rumblers lately as well.

I guess you are talking about those ugly-ass little MPV shoe boxes from the '80s onwards -- the ones which frequently came with strangely curious metallic paint finishes. Around 2000, the MPV was completely redesigned. The MPV is a hell of a lot nicer these days, otherwise, I would have...

This is, of course, "retail box" processor kit. Retail distributors are always the last to get such goodies. The manufacturing operations operated by the giants of the computer industry and/or their manufacturing contractors have almost certainly been awash in dual core AMD64 (and Intel...

Holy fréjoles! 1000 mAH AAAs! The 2600 mAH AA batteries I saw were at a local privately-owned computer boutique. I believe they were Maha brand, which I've occasionally seen around. A while back, I bought a small package of "Digital" brand NiMH AAA 1800 mAH rechargeable batteries at a...