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One can buy an academic edition for low $, provided that you are a student of course. The academic version of a Microsoft product functions no differently than a standard retail product, only the box that the software comes in is different. http://www.provantage.com/scripts/go.dll/-s//vmcsz00p

SATA is a far better interface technically and practically than the parallel ATA/100 or ATA/133. Data skew is probably the worst of the various problems that affects parallel ATA. SATA does not have this problem. SATA’s greater channel bandwidth allows for ECC of all data and commands going...

Jan has the definition of Double Clutching correct, and the reasons why double-clutching is required. I might add that many heavy duty transmissions don't have a sychronised first gear. From my somewhat extensive racing experiences, I can tell you unequivocally that Power Shifting ...erm...

Heh... I wasn't aware that MS still had MASM available. The last version I ever used was V5.1. BTW, Intel assembly language makes my head hurt. After years of working with various Motorola and Zilog assemblers (way back when), little endian X86 seems totally bass-ackwards.

Yes, I am totally aware of the cost justification process. But, I am not aware of your need for 2 NICs. If you are pursuing more bandwidth over an IP address, then you are likely wasting your time, because from the sound of the s-m-a-l-l business environment you've presented, you probably have...

V1.3 was buggy as hell.

One could always buy an external Firewire or USB 2.0 case that has a ATA bridge board and use older smaller ATA/IDE hard drives as backup devices.

MS Macro Assembler V5.1 is where the future lies! :idea:

Why bother paying someone about US$30 for something you can make them for free. I've been building essentially the same thing as these "mufflers" for several years now. I built one just last November. Mine have always had the same baffle as what they show in their diagram. You'd be...

Why bother paying someone about US$30 for something you can make them for free. I've been building essentially the same thing as these "mufflers" for several years now. I built one just last November. Mine have always had the same baffle as what they show in their diagram. I've also...

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Indeed, I definitely Geant, I mean Meant, Gb/s up there earlier, which is starting to mean Gigglebytes Per Second at this point for Ge, I mean Me. Also, I forgot to mention in my last post that a single SA-SCSI / SATA cable contains 2-each shielded twisted pairs. I think I'm starting to...

In a nutshell, "dual-ported" refers to the physical communications interface. The SA-SCSI interface (Fibre-Channel included) can perform reads and writes simultaneously over the 2-each twisted pairs. Notice how I said "interface," not mentioning what is actually going on with the drive...

Well, first of all, being the God Of All Trux is simply an amazing existence! My high-intensity fog lamps seem to cut through all the acronymic BS (BS= ...well, I won't go there) that exists in the computer industry today (PCMCIA = People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms) and get...

Even though I have rarely ever freelanced, the incident with the "486 Lady" back memories of a Pentium Pro system that I built for a doctor (MD). The Pentium Pro was the fastest baddest X86 around at the time and this guy wanted just that -- the latest and greatest computer to replace his...

Time, you are correct. I once saw the Enterprise being pedalled down a sidewalk by what appeared to be a 4-year-old child sitting in the cargo bay!

You might be able to sell 'em at a fair price to someone in your business dealings, like the "486 Lady."

There is the all NEW 5400 RPM Barracuda! Available (soon) in Classic ATA (CATA) and Serial ATA (SATA). Actually, I'm very interested in using a 40 GB Barracuda 5400.1 for audio recording applications. You just know that little son-of-a-&%#$ will be quiet as a butterfly! [Folks, I've just...

Yes, SATA2 <---> SA-SCSI compatibility is a fact that has been uttered occasionally around here during the past few months; with channnel rate starting off at 3Mbits per second, rising to 6 Mbits per second after a few years, etc. Along with advent of cost-effective iSCSI and the fact that...

Actually, I meant to mention THAT, too, but fell into the bB trap due to sleep depravation here at work. :zzz: :erm:

Well, now that I'm looking at those CPU illustrations, yes they are Compaq boxen -- older DeskPro models. Which Compaq are you talking about? If it's a generic "vomit box" with a Compaq badge stuck on it in Taiwan or China on an assembly line with *identical* E-Machines and whatnot coming...

Being that I'm at work now, where I keep up with various lighting issues (engineering, design, etc...) on a regular basis among plenty of other things here, I have a list of device and facility illumination resources for research when needed. Here's one that you may find interesting...

Re: How do you get rid of the stupid Macromedia Flash pop-up Being that you also hate IE and Microsoft, you'll probably hate Microsoft even more -- possibly -- in several months. The scuttlebutt on the street for several weeks now is that Microsoft has been interested in buying...

More silly stuff for this edition of the Majestic Corned Beef Tribune: Man of thousands of sounds! http://www.michaelwinslow.com/mw_audio.htm Does anyone need a ride into town? http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/sky-e/index.html ABSURD THOUGHT OF THE DAY: [list:f0ed910cfc]...

OK. I think John Warnock, PhD (CEO, Founder, Adobe Systems and billgates-like monopolist) ought to be kicked for *still* foisting 3 individual DTP packages upon the marketplace -- I'm talking about InDesign, PageMaker, and FrameMaker. Get a clue Johnny boy!

There have been Km speed postings around certain parts of Houston for decades. Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I recall that many service stations -- at least in the Houston metro area -- posted the price for fuels by the Liter (e.g. -- 0.29 / L). Shell service stations were 100% metric...

I recall visiting (actually, stumbing upon) a UBB-based pro audio forum once. I noticed that this one cat there had something like 14000 or 16000 posts -- and that was in just a little over ONE YEAR! One would have to be confined to a prison cell or something to have that sort of dedication!

Can you say.... PLAN 9 O/S... or UNIX re-written by its original creators?

I bought a 32X LiteOn also -- probably the same recorder you have if you also bought the "Best Buy special." I use mostly as a CD reader in my "Internet Computer." I already know that it is not as accurate at performing DAE as my "old" Yamaha CRW-4416S, which I now have connected to an Akai...

I wouldn't call it a gimmick because it does work -- more or less, sort of. However, I don't believe that the masses have an immediate need for this capability. Instead, I would buy the CRW-F1 only because it is a nice professional grade CD recorder, as I did for its CD audio recording...

Just in case you haven't heard, Service Pack 3 for MS Office 2000 (Standard, Professional, Premium) was released a few days ago. All about Office 2000 Service Pack 3 -- updates, fixes, slipstream installations, etc: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326585 Office 2000 SP-3 is...

Yes! There is Hudson Bay and all that shoreline of the Northwest Territory, but for the most part, where the land meets the sea it's a polar iceshelf. As for the fabled Northwest Passage, it likely existed a hell of a long time ago (several thousand years ago), but certainly not today in a...

And here I go quoting myself...! Anyway, just to complete the sentence above that I seemingly didn't complete and a sentence that I also forgot: These printing plants are owned by the US Government and have incredible security and accountability, so other (small) countries feel secure in...

I don't believe there are any yet ($100 bills ???). The places that actually manufacture USA monetary instruments (er... money) also print a lot of different world currencies. These printing plants are owned by the US Government and have incredible security. The money printing plants in the...

Believe it or not -- as I was told once sometime back -- that if you were to go back in time roughly about 60 years in the USA, what is currently called "french fries" were called "chips." However, McDonalds and other fast food places of the early 1950s came up with the completely loony name...

No, they're not all that rare -- just uncommon. I see or receive them about once a year or so. They are definitely around, along with another somewhat-uncommon USA currency the $1 coin called the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. They can be pretty common when you get around public...

You can add electrostatic discharge capability to any motorcar, by attaching a discharge strap to the undercarriage. The discharge strap is simply a strip of heavy rubber with a heavy aluminum wire conductor embedded inside. The discharge strap drags along the surface of the roadway as you...

Electrostatic discharge used to be a hell of a problem for handling CMOS electronics back in the late 1970s and early 80s. When one was handling newfangled CMOS devices back then, you never *ever* walked around with a CMOS device in your bare hand -- it was that bad. Of course, this would have...

Hmmm.... propbably a lot of fixes for E-commerce, right???, like allegedly better SSL?

No big changes at all, just that "questionaire" menu about which browser, E-mail client, VM, and chat client you want to use (I just have to use Sun Java V1.31.04); other than that, a serious number of bug fixes and optimisations. PS: I've been running Service Pack One for XP since Tuesday...

I realised now that I meant to say Lotus EUROPA ...not Elan. This is a Lotus Europa (what I was calling a "go-cart"):

I owned a 1970 Opel Kadet Rallye for a few years back in the mid-70s. It was a hell of a little beast!

I wouldn't know any of this if you hadn't told me, mainly because I simply do not keep up with the goings-on of the automotive world anymore. I can't exactly say when -- maybe the by the mid-to-late 1980s -- I became progressively less interested in fiddling about with motorcars and keeping up...

Yeah, well, y'see mate no worries here about BBQing, since I be a pseudo-veggie (a few seafood things once in a while). :-?

Then, that would likely be the one then. A "full" IE 6 installation would only be needed by someone who plans on installing it on multiple versions of Windows as opposed to just one version of Windows. What I have (I have it on a CD-R) came from a Windows Update download, where I was upgrading...

If these folks *really* need WinXP so bad (I don't see why, if they already presumably have Win2K), they might as well just buy an WinXP upgrade copy and upgrade from their pirated Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / NT3.51 / 2000 copy for US$89. All this cracking and fiddle-farting around with...

I believe one of the SCSI performance fixes was included in Win2K SP-3. The same code fix for SCSI performance is in the upcoming WinXP SP-1. There are a *lot* of updated drivers for this and that as well. Tannin sez that Win2K SP-3 breaks one of the Promise RAID controllers. I recall the...

The quality of beer and ale brewing in the USA slowly but surely went to hell in a handbasket over a long period of time, until it more or less snapped out of its funk in a big way beginning in the late 1980s. There is now a thriving ale and beer brewing industry in the USA for the connoisseur...

ATI in "modern" times have not been known for writing excellent video card drivers. The best they have now are for the old XL graphics processors (AGP 1x) that many server mobo manufacturers use for their onboard video adaptors, such as mobos based on the various ServerWorks chipsets.

Some of the "fixes" were spelling corrections in help files. Some of the "updates" were things like updated ReadMe or Help files. The Service Packs are very much a mixed bag.