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Several years ago, I *had* to give up on Intel mobos, mainly for the reasons of the lack of certain higher-end features, timeliness to market with new designs, and general availability. To be fair, that was back in the mid-90s. At that point in time, I had been dabbling in still-expensive...

Oh, by the way, another prediction, which I actually made a while back here on StoFo, is that in a year or two after the release of X86 Macintoshes. Apple will finally cave in to consumer and corporate customer pressure and offer MS Windows Vista or Windows XP Pro for sale as a software bundle...

I bet they'll make 'em out of transparent aluminum (StarTrek joke reference, where Scotty is talking to the bottom-side of a mouse plugged into a Mac SE).

So, what, it's back to the days of Fédération Québécoise? By the way, what's the hell's deal with Nunavut (formerly called The Northwestern Territories)? I kinda missed out on what happened in the 1990s with its status. It seems like it operates as an autonomous region from the rest of...

You'd need a multiplicity of such mechanical contraptions along a rift zone to produce a sizeable aggregate of energy conversion. These mechanical contraptions would also be ugly. So, I propose having them just below the surface, just out-of-sight, but still relatively accessible for...

Ya, I recall something happening on that front a while back, but I never cared enough to pay attention. I recall playing around with a Hyundai Sun workstation clone several years ago -- an AXIL workstation. Actually, it was a pretty good SPARC box -- better than the Tatung equivalent of the...

Apple Finds New Enemies http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/10/technology/appleenemies_biz20/index.htm

From the Macworld show today: New Intel-based Macintosh notebooks now and in the near future, then desktops and servers later in the year -- pretty much already known for a while. More new iPod models -- predictable. My Apple predictions have not come true so far, at least not yet. For...

...which, respectively, need electricity and vehicles pumping and hauling "fuel" to them. On a similar topic, I've always wondered if their is enough electrolytic charge in common seawater to where I could run a long wire to something on land that's separated from the ocean that has a...

Firefox 1.5 beta due next week The first beta test version of the next major upgrade to the popular Firefox open-source browser will be available to the public next week, the Mozilla Foundation announced. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 will be available next Thursday, according to a posting in the...

The Netherlands is reclaiming land that was "recently" above sea level. Up until about 10 000 years ago, England was joined to the continent via the present-day Netherlands. England was separated at the conclusion of the Ice Age. There are a lot of land places on earth that are below sea...

I've always thought that if it came down to what's finally happened in New Orleans (and I've long thought it was just a matter of time), that the place should simply be abandoned and left as a lake. If you've never been to New Orleans, it's basically built on a sinking sandbar. When the...

Distance detection may help secure Wi-Fi Intel Corp. is developing a way to locate a Wi-Fi user by timing how long it takes for packets to travel to and from a wireless access point, which could prevent users outside a house or office from accessing a Wi-Fi network indoors...

ummm... Both the LSI Logic SAS and Adaptec SAS host bus adapters have been available for a couple of weeks (Adaptec for a month). The LSI Logic 8-port SAS SAS3442X is available for as low as $231. This is a PCI-X model. PCI Express is not available yet...

Teannin, don't get emotional on us. Believe me, HP still makes some serious printers -- and these are better than the old Laserjet III, 4, and 5 series in just about every conceivable way. But, HP aren't -- and have never been -- the only game in town at the upper midrange and high-end of...

I *was* using Firefox, but a little while back, I began using Mozilla (beginning with V1.7.0). I run Moz with the stripped-down Mac-like "modern" interface enabled. I don't use Moz's E-mail or IM capabilities. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, there was a recent Mozilla update...

"Atom Heart Mother" is one of the earlier Pink Floyd albums -- about number 4 or 5. It's an alright album, but it's hardly representative of the "classic" Pink Floyd. Classic Pink Floyd would be -- in order of release -- "Meddle," "Dark Side Of The Moon," "Wish You Were Here," "Animals," and...

A couple of the key witnesses in the upcoming Intel anti-trust trial are certainly going to be Dell and Supermicro -- probably Gateway, too. Undoubtedly, the Guv will rigourously question Dell and SuperO about Intel strong-arming tactics. The ghosts of Intergraph and Cyrix might even be...

TOPIC: Splash: What are you using for new systems at work? POSTED: Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:57 pm Wow, I was almost exactly ONE year off on my prediction. 8)

Supermicro Operton mobos and complete rackmount server packages have actually been around for a few weeks now, but they are all "disguised" as something else! One such example would be certain "Monarch" mobos...

I believe TERMITES are the biggest producer of raw (unburnt) hydrocarbon pollution; if not the worst then second worst behind humans. Termites produce a lot of methane (CH4).

Doesn't surprise me at all, especially if you sell budget / home / office computer systems. PCI-X (64-bit parallel PCI running with a 66, 100, or 133 MHz clock) only makes sense for mid-range (or higher) severs and higher-end technical workstations that can take advantage of multi-channel SCSI...

The 3Com 3C905 series NICs are -- at best -- passable. As far as *great* PCI Ethernet cards go, Intel and Adaptec are the clear winners. What backup application do you use? I'm assuming that you are talking about a backup agent running on each (client) workstation with a centralised backup...

It depends on which power supply you choose. The expensive Supermicro 600-watt and 750-watt triple-redundant power supplies can mimic a hurricane fairly well. I use (if I recall correctly) a Supermicro 450-watt redundant cooling (2 fans, one active until the other fails) power supply. As...

Anybody here use Driver Cleaner or Driver Cleaner Pro? Does it work as advertised? ...Driver Cleaner Professional Editon is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI, nVidia, Creative, Realtek, SIS, 3Dfx...

There's also voice command. Take your pick: Carpal tunnel syndrome or going hoarse.

Point being made earlier is, in essence, that water provides lubrication, therefore the fault becomes more active. I recall something happening about 10 or 12 years ago, where the water level of Lake Elsinore dropped suddenly over a few days time, causing some seismologists to believe a bad...

I have. And, to just make sure that I know the year of manufacture of the ones that I tend to see around, I just perused a bunch of photos of older Previas. The oldest Previas I see around here are typically 1994/95 models. I'm quite familiar with a couple that I see occasionally in my...

Just in the various California seismic regions alone, you normally have at least several hundred seismic events each 24-hour period. VERY few are detectable without seismometers. Unless you live down in a basement carved into solid bedrock, you generally aren't likely to notice anything much...

The "For Sale" section would be better, since this is a matter of economics. All I know is that every month for the past 3 or 4 years -- relentlessly -- Dell's market share has expanded and Gateway's has contracted (and HP's has oscillated up and down with Dell's position as an upper peak point).

Refrigerator, not freezer. The mechanical dimensions of things tend to shrink too much in the freezer, maybe to the point of destruction.

Damn Tony! You beat me by 1 minute! Yes, GDISK.

Tannin The Galavanting Owl must've had a talon spasm. It's called GDISK. Information on GDISK is HERE.

Yes. I've heard for a while now that ideal long-term storage conditions for Lithium Ion batteries is to store them at half charge (i.e. -- approximately 50%). However, I must've missed the refrigerator part. Long-term Ni-Cad battery storage is virtually the same as I recall. I do remember...

Absolutely! It's just that they aren't available this week. The bit of under-the-table rumours that I was privy to recently were that the SAS hard drives were to probably start showing up the last week of June or the first week of July with SAS controllers and related peripheral hardware...

Looks like SAS hardware has finally began showing up for sale: Adaptec 48300 8-port SAS RAID Controller: http://www.c-source.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=1678238&src=PW http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A0486875&cs=19&c=us&l=en IBM 13N2227 8-port SAS RAID Controller...

American Power Conversion Corp. is bringing fuel-cell technology to its InfraStruXure data center enclosure. The West Kingston, R.I., company on Monday is introducing the Proton Exchange Membrane, or PEM, Fuel Cell as a green alternative to generators and batteries, which use lead and acid...

Are you talking about the silver Rayovac chargers or the quick chargers? I have a *large* black one-piece Rayovac charger with intergrated power supply that pulse-charges (a.k.a. -- digital charger). When I first plug it in, it does a quick diagnostic and all its LEDs flash. At that point...

I have 4 "old" Olympus 1600 mAH NiMH batteries that have always worked exceedingly well for years -- "old" being defined as 2000 vintage. Vintage Olympus 1600 mAH AA Cells On the other hand, I somewhat recently bought a couple of bargain packs of Energizer 2100 or 2300 mAH NiMH AA...

Probably nothing more than refurbished B-2 bombers with passenger seats and an extra lavatory. :o :lol:

For one thing, I find that the people advocating such are just a tad naïve about the workings of these formats. The raw files are geared around the signal processor and how it dumps the 8-bit, 10-bit, 12-bit, or whatever number of bits per pixel per band. You will have different raw formats...

I'm hardly the digital Point & Shoot expert, but all I can tell you is that if one wants to go with a P&S digital camera, 1.) Do you want to deal with lens caps? There are features and compromises to consider. 2.) Will you need anything with much of a built-in flash unit? Once again...

I recall your "Promiseless" RAID period a while back over there at Snorage Review. At that time, that particular Maxtor model was the best ATA drive for *single drive* implementations, not RAID. The "Best ATA Drive For Single Drive Implementations" was a constantly changing flash-in-the-pan...

I looked at the link you supplied, and that might be it, but the colours have surely changed if that is it. The one I recall was essentially all green. I don't believe it was German made, but Swedish or Danish. By the way, I saw it about 11 or 12 years ago at a place called Berringer's...

Jeez. I must be the eternal optimist around here. I'd say I have 2 or 3 bad days every couple of years, then basically a 40/60 mix of ho-hum / good days all the rest of the time.

I'm not aware of the Benq-Mitsubishi connection, but I suspect that in recent times Benq was selected to manufacture Mitsi's (and maybe NEC's) consumer grade LCDs, as NEC/Mitsubishi has decided to concentrate on manufacturing their mid-range and upscale LCD monitors in-house. In the...

NED Display technology could be the beginning of the end of LED technology... Among favorable attributes of Motorola's new displays: They're bright enough to be seen in daylight, they respond as quickly as CRTs, their colors are almost as good as CRTs and they can be viewed from a wide range...

Critical drivers seem to be turning up for XP64: All the recent nVidia hardware http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_71.84.html G400, G450, G550, P650 P750, Parhelia http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/x64_109_01_014_se_u.cfm Nothing yet at ATI.

The nationalists and the impressionists are much more in the timeframe I was referring to earlier (late 1800's very early 1900s -- pre WWI). But, then again, I really don't care too much for many of them. Of the ones I do, I tend to like some Ravel, some Bartok, and some of the better-known...

Windows XP 64-bit (for X86) is now officially here. Here's a overview. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1788843,00.asp Most 32-bit programs that engage the operating system at a low level just won't run under XP64... What they don't mention in this article is WHY some of these...