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About 3 weeks ago, I bought one of these ECS A535 "Walmart" notebook computers. It has 4 USB 2.0 ports, "good" Wi-Fi (G), and Gigabit Ethernet. Since then, I've added a 512 MB Corsair DIMM, a Hitachi 60 GB E7K60 hard drive (NOTE: This is the 24x7 rated "enhanced" industrial-grade Hitachi...

Tony, it's time to think outside the box... er... notebook! You can have a relatively-measly notebook, or NO notebook at all, if you use what I use -- a Kanguru Media X-Change unit. http://www.kanguru.com/mediaxchange.html#techspec I have an 80 GB version (20 GB, 40 GB, and 60 GB...

If you were looking for an iNTEL X86 mobo, probably the most fabulous non-Xeon® mobo around is the i875-based Supermicro P4SCT+II. It has PCI-X slots, plenty of SATA ports, an AGP 8x slot, dual-GbE, and more. You can use either the last-generation 130 nm P4 (Northwood) or the newer 90 nm...

...The most popular candidates include Samsung Electronics, the smallest player in commodity drives; Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. (TAIS), whose commitment to the drive industry some called questionable; Maxtor Corp., which has been late to enter the 2.5-inch drive market; and Fujitsu...

Ya, well, too bad that guy who wrote the article is not a professional audio person. The word "flat" should be instead "squashed" or "compressed" -- as in dynamically compressed. The word "flat" is normally used to describe the frequency distribution of music. The audio process he describes...

...er Project Mono http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7547

Kinda makes you wonder why it wasn't done before (TV without booting up anything)... http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040713/D83Q6THO1.html

I forgot to mention that, obviously, there is an upcoming new Opteron lineup as well, but I don't believe the "new Opteron" will appear until close to the end of this year at th earliest. At this point in time, AMD still isn't close to cranking out anything made at 90 nm. But, they should be...

Well... there are a few things coming soon and more just a bit later. To be more specific, there should be new 800 MHz FSB Xeon processors coming in about 60 days time. With these, strangely enough, I'd be a lot more amenable to going with the SLOWEST of these, which will be 2.8 GHz. These...

Certainly NOT in the "Zero Slot" for RAID. Only a particular Adaptec model of RAID controller will work in the Zero Slot role, because the RAID coprocessor card (the little Adaptec RAID card you purchase extra) absolutely will not work with anything other than the onboard Adaptec SCSI...

* A PCI Express device will not have to share *any* PCI bandwidth with another PCI device, however, PCI-X will have to share bandwidth if there's another PCI device plugged into that PCI bus segment. * PCI Express is a full-duplex bus, PCI-X is half-duplex. * PCI Express will cost less...

A few years back, right at dusk, I saw a *pair* of SR-71s coming in for a landing. The SR-71 is quite long, about the length of a Boeing 737 airliner. As these two SR-71s were coming in for a landing right in front of me, with their engines more or less idling, I couldn't help but notice the...

New England = 34 Carolina = 19

Well, I remembered that I had a fairly large lightbulb catalogue here. So, I was thumbing through it and noticed US$35.00 each 120-volt traffic signal lightbulbs using krypton, not halogen. That I figured was at least motivator #2, with power consumption being #1. I'd hate to have the job...

SAS is getting closer! So, sometime this year you will be able to plug yer SAS and SATA hard drives (along with SATA opticals and whatnot) into a high performance SAS controller...

How would you like one of these in yer living room??? Boy oh boy! I'm off to get my airline tickets to visit the Traffic Signal Museum! :eekers: http://www.trafficsignalmuseum.com/

L C D or L E D? I've noticed the occasional traffic signal light that had odd-looking square glass lenses that seem to magnify the light source (maybe more of a directional beaming effect). Those possibly could be LCD. The LED traffic signal bulbs I'm talking about have an array or maybe...

It's been a while since I've ran into this "Server" problem with desktop apps. The problem is, I can't recall which ones they were! I could never understand why someone in this day and age in the USA would need any sort of automatic or semi-automatic weapon for personal use, and that's not...

I've loaded all 9-each 5-1/4 inch drive bays with an assortment of ATA hard drive hot-plug drive bays (2-each), SCSI hard drive hot-plug drive bays (3-each), a Yamaha CRW-F1 ATAPI CD-R/W, a Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-R/W, and an LS-120 floppy in a 5-1/4" drive bay convertor. A Koutech 7102 internal...

Does it look like this one? I personally would not want such a beastie around in my living space. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ By the way, at home, I will take delivery of a new case tomorrow for use at home with my multi-drive setup. I am dumping...

I personally hate to be "walled in" by partitions on a single physical disc for any reason. However, there are a *few* (very few) good reasons to have certain particular applications use a dedicated partition for their temp files. There are also some schools of thought about using dedicated...

On a side note... I've been noticing over the past year or so, locally, that there seems to be a concerted effort to replace all "conventional" traffic signal bulbs (halogen, I would presume) with what appears to be LED arrays.

Over the years, I have used (at work) several different tower duplicators that used Plextor SCSI recorders (8x, 16x models). I've had far more failures with Plextor recorders than the other brands -- including some cheap-o ATAPI recorders.

Veritas sold off their RecordNow MAX product line last year. Sonic now owns this and is selling it as a cut-rate (like US$29) CD/DVD mastering solution.

That's certainly not ignorance, it's a psychological problem -- a definite phobia.

I recently returned from a 10-day period away from my personal E-mail to find *only* 1800+ messages -- of which 16 were NOT spam. However, I might add, the last time I was away from my personal E-mail for an extended amount of time (11 days that time), which was back around the end of...

>> What about Howard Dean? A prescription of 10mg of Thorazine every 8 hours should lessen the illusions of grandeur.

I use a Matrox RT.X10 board with Adobe Premiere. http://www.matrox.com/video/home.cfm This setup won't qualify for Mercutio's "video editing on a shoestring" project, but it is also not horribly expensive. The RT.X card is comprised of analogue video interfaces and a built-in Firewire...

...single-chip 64-bit multi-disk storage acceleration technology for a new type of high-performance yet economical desktop RAID... ...SyncRAID technology doubles the performance of traditional enterprise-class RAID systems by eliminating the read-modify-write bottleneck traditionally required...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if all drives are 1 platter or even 1 side. The sooner the better! Once density hits a particular level, virtually all ATA (SATA) and SCSI (SAS) will transition to the 2.5-inch form factor, leaving the 3.5-inch form factor to the specialty high capacity...

The StereoGraphics SynthaGram™ Glasses-Free 3DTM monitor provides extremely clear, bright, and crisp Stereo3D still and moving images, without the use of special eyewear. The SynthaGram monitor is especially suited for wide-angle electronic 3D signage and exhibits in public spaces such as...

I've built a few simple desktop workstations so far and a server using a RAID built with Seagate SATA drives and have not experienced a single problem -- and the performance has been excellent. http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/865/P4SPA+.htm...

Unfortunately, as for surfing trends and technology, I come from a period of antiquity when more than one skeg was bizarre and nobody used leashes; this would be the mid-to-late 1960s.

It would actually be much worse if you DID see Jack Sh#* in the waters while snorkeling.

It depends on how you define "ancient." I've used 8-inch monstrosities from Imprimis and Seagate before Rodime existed. As far as Rodime hard drives go, I've used several external SCSI models quite some time back (10 MB, 20 MB, 40 MB models) on early Macintosh systems as well as PC-AT...

But, they didn't lose much in the way of $£L¥DM. SATA RAID is already proving to be a nice budget RAID with good performance characteristics (compared to P-ATA). But, I suspect, even *you* will be upgrading to SAS Cheetah X15 drives next year. Nothing will be able to touch a (fully...

Take a picture of something with a fine repeating pattern in it -- something like a fence or a screen -- in any JPEG mode and then in the "full res" verbatim TIFF mode. Compare. Er... that would be Hasselblad. Yes, Hasselblad are still very much alive and kicking around o'er thar in Sweden...

I've seen 'em locally for US$1249 (+ 8.5% sales tax).

The rumour from LAST year was that this was *supposed* to be a 320 GB drive, along with a companion 240 GB 5400 RPM drive (nothing smaller, though).

Plenty of good readin' here: http://www.ipv6style.jp/jp/index.shtml ...and the URL for the idiot foreigners is: http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/index.shtml

> So here's the amazing part: The machine didn't belch flame and die. It didn't kill the card. This sort of thing won't be particularly amazing once PCI Express is up and alive (¿2004?). PCI Express, or simply The King Of All PCI (Intel's thoughts), supports hot swapping -- even with yer...

Well, don't hold your breath. It seems that "Grantsdale" is officially coming in mid-2004 -- at the earliest. The Grantsdale chipset will introduce PCI Express. After that, there will soon be more chipsets (from Intel and then Serverworks) that also have PCI Express support. So, whether...

The idea with this mouse is: Your arm is not in a twisted position (i.e. -- hand down on top of the mouse) as you operate this mouse. Instead, your arm is oriented normally with the thumb up.

Believe it or not, Guitar Center has a pretty good selection of powered speakers (at least the 3 GCs here in the Houston area do) for low Walmart-like prices. These speakers are in their recording studio section of the store. They have all sorts brands of powered speakers in various price...

http://www.quillmouse.com/

I'm pretty sure that the hues portrayed in pictures of the banknotes below is someone's joke over at CNN (i.e. -- Monopoly money).

I just now accidentally ran across what I was talking about a while back... NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The federal government will unveil a new $20 bill that will introduce a predominant but subtle color into the background, marking the first time in modern history that a U.S. bill will...

Hitachi and LSI Logic to accelerate delivery of Serial Attached SCSI Milpitas and San Jose, Calif. - March 25, 2003 - LSI Logic's Storage Standard Products division and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced plans to coordinate their respective product development efforts to speed...

SEAGATE AND BEST BUY FIRST TO OFFER SERIAL ATA HARD DRIVE IN RETAIL A first for retail consumers: easier integration, faster data handling, improved reliability SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—24 March 2003— Seagate, the world's leading hard drive maker, and Best Buy, one of the nation's leading...

A 2-port USB hub would be second to a 2-port Ethernet hub. One could probably make $millions$ selling Firewire dildos. :oops: :P :oops: