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I've heard a few variations of this joke over the past 30+ years, one of which is a Boy Scout saying essentially that, "Don't worry, the last guy jumped out with my backpack." Then I faintly recall another variation where someone says, "Don't worry, the last guy jumped out with a seat cushion."

Once the number of mobos with SATA ports in everyday usage hits a particular threshold, you WILL begin to see all varieties of optical drives (CD-ROM, CD-R/W, DVD-ROM, DVD-+R/W, etc) become available with a SATA port, and hopefully not too many with bridges. Most of these will probably stay...

Part of the high price for this new drive is that it LIKELY does not employ a native Serial ATA interface. In other words, they are likely using a PATA - to - SATA bridge circuit on the drive which may run the cost up, oh... US$10 or maybe $5 or $15 (?). The reason I say LIKELY is that I have...

A drive using 5-inch platters would give you more storage density, but at a high cost today because the assembly lines for manufacturing 5-inch hard drive platters have long since been shutdown. CougTech mentions the Bigfoot hard drive. The Bigfoot drive was a joke in its own time, a time...

Ironically, recordable media (CD-R, DVD+-R, etc) is proving to be somewhat better at handling archival problems from water vapour intrusion. Of course, it is a lot less expensive to use reflective aluminum-based disc pressings in a mass production environment.

Normally, I tend to run away in horror when I hear the name Via. However, I wouldn't mind sampling a decent piece of computing hardware using a C3 microprocessor, hopefully one with a power supply that has also has no cooling fan (ONE emergency cooling fan would be acceptable, though).

If that's a curious little sound coming from the 'cuda IV at an idle, then there's a software fix for that. It seemed that various batches of Barracuda IV hard drives somehow escaped the factory a while back, where a "test routine for manufacturing purposes" was mistakenly left enabled. This...

Yes, indeed. YES, INDEED! Not true. ~4.7 GB is a *lot* more that ~0.7GB.

Excellent! Thanks, Honold! I just made a shortcut to WMP V6.4 here on my homely WinXP Pro machine. MS sure like to hide stuff. I wonder if there is a copy of MultiPlan 2.0 or Word for DOS 6.0 squirreled away somewhere in my Office 2000 installation? Heh...

Here are a few interesting, unusual, and useful morsels of information for this edition of the Royal Corned Beef Breviaire: One of the most absurd things I've ever heard in years... Thinking about putting some deliberate *silence* into your song??? Well, you better get ready to pay up for...

Holy $@&% ! You don't know how much work it is re-uploading avatars for 10 personalities! :oops: :P :o

...HOWEVER, you might just want to make sure that the SATA interface on this new Maxtor drive is "native" before you do that, in other words no serial-to-parallel bridge circuitry on the drive. So far, only Seagate's entries are native SATA -- all of them. We'll have to see what WD and...

FTC Approves IBM-Hitachi Hard Drive Deal NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved International Business Machines Corp.'s IBM.N $2.05 billion sale of most of its hard-disk drive assets to Japan's Hitachi Ltd. 6501.T , the companies said on Monday. The deal...

Yes, the Seagate Time Machine department skipped that one in favour of going into the lodging business. The ATA VI was relegated to the future.

All 7 of me believes that 7 iz enuf. iGary was the final chapter in this multidimensional fantasy.

And, it's still hard to get some of the recent Barracuda ATA fiVe models!

It's game time. The MicronPC Millennia® 910a Xtreme offers computer gamers and "do-it-yourselfers" the powerful new AMD Athlon™ XP processor, NVIDIA® nForce2 chipset, and DDR 333MHz SDRAM memory technology—plus outstanding features, unhindered performance, breakneck speed—without getting stuck...

New Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives Attack Again With Serial ATA And 80GB-Per-Disc Technology SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—02 December 2002— Seagate today announced the Barracuda 7200.7 and the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus disc drives for PCs. Using advanced head and media technology to achieve...

Make sure that the Terminal Services service is set to "Automatic" startup.

? Explain...

As far as I'm concerned, S.R. has been down since about March 2002.

Ha ha ha! The joke's on you now. THERE REALLY WAS A $3 BILL ONCE (really!)... Three Dollar Notes The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has never been authorized to print a $3 note. However, during the early 1800's, banks operating under Federal or State charters issued notes of that...

Heeheehee! Probably even got ready-to-go hooks in place for that damn WMP 9 they've been playing with and certainly every single previously-released security updates and maybe a couple of new ones.

The last (and probably final) motorcycle that I owned -- which was a while back now -- was a 1988 Yamaha FZR750. It was the first street legal Japanese machine available with an aluminum alloy frame and a rather rare motorcycle at that, like its cousin of the time, the FZR1000. The motor was...

I should've mentioned the Mini when I mentioned the Lotus Europa above (i.e. -- "go kart"). Yes, they are potent machines, especially at lower speeds. The Mini's main competition then was the MG Midget, which -- like the Mini -- rides like a rock. I was going to buy a Mini (normally...

I would be wrong and Mender correct if there are indeed written ("burned") tracks on the CD-R and Nick Wild only thought nothing was written to the blank CD-R disc. TIP: If a disc is half filled with data, you should clearly see that half the disc has been adulterated with a laser beam (er...

I submitted several News items the other day. A day later only one of them shows up. [Q:] OK, is there a legitimate problem here or am I running up against StorageForum's equivalent of The Central Scrutiniser or something? :-?

The write laser or the write laser's power supply has a problem (i.e -- "DOA"). If the software is indeed saying "job completed," then this goes to show that the Nero software is not doing its job properly of verifying that the CD-R writer is indeed writing legitimate data. By the way Nick...

08/14/2002 01:35 <DIR> . 08/14/2002 01:35 <DIR> .. 08/17/2001 22:43 91,136 advpack.dll 08/17/2001 22:43 27,648 advpext.dll 08/28/2001 16:24 7,953 BRANDING.CAB 08/17/2001 22:43 24,056 content.inf...

I have a full IE 6 installation setup for Windows 2000 (Win2K only) on a CD-ROM. Its unpacked size is just 12.2 MB.

One problem that I've run into with SP-3, is that when setting up a new system with Windows 2000 (no service pack) and upgrading the OS straight ot SP-3, Internet Explorer 6 doesn't want to work with the new version of Windows Update (V4) -- which is essentially the same version that WinXP has...

Why do I have multiple avatars (IDs)? It's just for fun nowadays, but when I was posting at "the old SR" well before the Great Crash, I had continually mistyped my name to login, so I just started using my "mistakes" as my logins and then some shortened names. Then I started using "abstract"...

There will definitely be a Service Pack 4 for Windows 2000 -- probably in 2003. In fact, SP-3 has about 30 fixes and updates that would have been in SP-4, which are referred to as "Pre-SP4." It took much longer to get SP-3 tested and out the door than what was planned in 2001 when SP-3 was...

"I'll take Pondscum & Scalawags for $20." OK, let's see Pondscum & Scalawags for $20. [Q:] Name the company who produces the most overhyped and overpriced memory available. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [A:] Larry Ellison.

And the RAID processor uses either one or both of the IDE / ATA channels.

I'm pretty sure nobody got killed in this bridge incident. The automobile seen on the waffling bridge was abandonded. I seem to recall seeing some other footage of some people walking off the bridge as fast as they could as they hung onto whatever they could in order not to be thrown or...

Even as much as I have lambasted Via over the past several years, I still think they will EVENTUALLY be as good as Intel at producing decent solid-performing chipsets. Maybe in about 5 or 6 years, chipset functions as we know them today, will probably be pulled inside the processor package in...

...Then, it finally happened. http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fibre/movies/tacoma.mpg

The noon-time incident was probably a squirrel gnawing on the data coax that leads out of the tin shed where the SF server is. As for the 18:00 incident, hmmm... a flock of vociferous grackles probably, though it could have been radio frequency interference from Fred's lawnmower.

You're talking about a typical 2 IDE Channel mobo (i.e. -- pretty much a typical mobo), correct? The devices that you'll need to boot from should be what's connected to the mobo's channels, since the mobo's BIOS will be the most dependable for booting. The non-boot devices could be anywhere...

So, you're saying that you are a masochist, correct? :) Are we talking about a minimalistic website??? Your aforementioned HTML 3 will still work fine for that unless you wish to simply learn something new. Maybe you should boot up on M$ Winders for once and fiddle around with FrontPage...

If this was 2003 -- maybe mid-2003 or late-2003 -- a deluxe Intel-based chipset SATA mobo would (supposedly) have 6-each SATA ports, meaning you would max-out your deluxe Intel-based chipset with the above number of components. If you had an "economy" SATA mobo, you would only have 4-each SATA...

The Seagate SATA drives will be native serial and will have no serial to parallel bridge circuit. Such data format conversions cause some performance degradation due to latency, more current draw and heat to dissipate, not to mention the component and manufacturing costs of the drive will be...

Yes, there will be a real-world performance benefit with a SATA controller + SATA hard drive when they arrive (not mentioning all the physical benefits). SATA has protocol enhancements that bring I/O efficiency above what you presently get with existing "conventional" ATA. By the way, don't...

You'd be much better off previewing their works at a CD store or an online place with clips. Bauhaus and Hüsker Dü are significantly different. Much too simplified descriptions: Bauhaus is a dark, artsy, thick moody atmospheres, sometimes loud; Hüsker Dü is always loud, fast, and emotional...

> What are some more apps. that specifically require ASPI? Any user level application such as CD-R mastering software, tape / CD-R / M-O backup software, or the old Adaptec EZ-SCSI utility that needs to perform various SCSI commands, and nowadays ATA / ATAPI commands. ASPI gives the...

It will obviously take a second ATA controller. If you plan on using ATAPI or other non-hard-drive devices, the 3Ware RAID card mentioned will not work.

Then why do you think there exists a pretty large following of the Matrox-R-God mafia? It's not an accident that there exists such a crowd. The actual truth is that for us that have a narrow but nonetheless popular need for a particular set of capabilities from a graphics adaptor have found...

Ahhhh... MS-DOS games and DOS games designed to run in a Windows environment! Since I know little at all, if anything, about computer games (and don't particularly care to learn much about computer games), I recall that Matrox was always chasing various little bugs with these sorts of games...