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I'm hoping someone can suggest a SATA controller with the following criteria: 1. 32-bit PCI card 2. NOT have any of that putrid "fakeRAID" garbage 3. Work with SATA II drives, even if it can't take advantage of whatever the improvements were over original SATA 4. Have a decent chance at...

Thanks for sharing!

Have you tried Linux? It looks like your Matrox RRS might be supported. And I'd be surprised if you had problems getting Linux to work with that Gigabyte motherboard.

zx, I ran the client on a Pentium Pro 200 for a month or so. It's not worth it. Really. It took about a month non-stop to complete one work unit, and it may have had an impact on the system's overall usability, because let's face it, down at that speed, even an application that's trying to...

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That was funny! And really well done too.

Couldn't get the first one to load. Sometimes I run into limitations with the gxine Linux plugin's ability to handle .WMV files. The second one looked like a close call. The way the plane was coming in at the very end there I was relieved to see the pilot made the decision to abort the...

If you think takeoffs are interesting, take a look at this landing (0:11).

Good brakes? I wondered about that myself.

:o Either the picture or the text alone would've been enough, but combined ... yup, that definitely qualifies as random. :)

Randomized random videos: As soon as you select a video, I suggest going to the bottom right corner of the video display and choosing the option for "original size". It will save your selection for the subsequent videos. The playback initially defaults to "fit to window" which makes...

Someone sent me this link yesterday and I've had the damn "lyrics" stuck in my head all afternoon. Just thought I'd share the pain. Anyone looked through some of Google's other free videos? There is some extremely weird stuff in there. I went looking again today after reading news about...

And in the old days, wasn't there some export issue with 128bit encryption support in web-browsers? I seem to remember the exact same type of click-through questioning in order to download Netscape, i.e. you'd better not be in Libya, Cuba, etc.

Thanks for posting that, MaxBurn. I'd forgotten about those kind of potential issues with USB keyboards/mice. Not sure what to look at now...

Hmmm ... this one by Aten looks promising.

Can anyone suggest an 8 port, rackmount, USB (i.e. no PS/2) KVM switch?

Oh, and Bozo ... I'm sorry if I singled you out. I didn't expect to wind up writing this much, or as passionately, but as it turns out I've heard others express concerns about China's environmental future, and I really believe those concerns are misplaced. Maybe you and they will turn out to...

You cannot compare "Russia and the former Eastern block countries" to China. But maybe the phrasing of my last paragraph mislead you. There were a lot more thoughts in there than I wrote down. Sorry about that. I have a progression of 5 thoughts here: 1. I am not trying to say that being a...

But I will take this opportunity to say that HP's highest-end DesignJet printers are still well-built, solid performers.

I think the engineering/math/physics crowd used to think very highly of HP calculators. Also, many, many people used to think very highly of HP laser printers. And I suspect most of those that had exposure to them also thought highly of HP's high volume impact printers. I'm going to guess...

Now here's a large picture for you, Greg. Note that it is so large -- 6200 x 6200 pixels -- that I've just linked to the warning page. I didn't even bother to try and download and display it. I think my computer would whimper and die.

Just like Britain during the Industrial Revolution. And the United States. China will figure it out. They're already under increasing pressure from their citizens over environmental degradation. Things like massive releases of benzene into water supplies that 100 million people rely on tend...

Coincidentally, via an extended route stemming from a Slashdot article about "The Most Dangerous Ideas", I have just read a short article by Paul Davies (I'd never heard of him before) from Sydney, Australia. I found I agreed with most of his thoughts on global warming. First concise quote...

I'm contemplating whether or not to just stick a wad of magnesium ribbon in the socket instead. :)

JTR ... (or anyone else for that matter) ... have you come across a 120V-capable LED light with one of those smaller screw-in bases? I think they're "Type G" bases or something.

That the general public knows about, of course.

Hmmm ... yes, here's the recent Slashdot discussion about calendar software where WebCalendar gathered some praise. I actually found it an informative discussion -- it turned out that there are waaaaay more calendar options available than I thought. Finding a calendar solution is something...

I bookmarked this site back on October 29th of this year. I think it was mentioned in a Slashdot discussion, and at the time I felt it was worth bookmarking. I haven't taken a serious look at it yet though.

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Ok, well, if I were to claim to be an expert on this topic, it would only be after having spent an hour or so reading about it this morning. :) Here's my best guess at the situation: RPC1 drives: 1. The player software asks the drive for the data on the disc, and the keys required to...

Thanks for the offer but I think it'd take me a while to get there. Let's see ... 3000 miles, divided by 4mph ... 750 ... figure 8 hours a day ... hmm ... I think it'd take me about 94 days of walking to reach the west coast. That seems a stretch somehow. :) Speaking of movies, I was going...

Well, just for the record, I was kidding. :)

Nope. I haven't seen any of them yet.

You're right, mubs. And so, in that spirit ... I'm going streaking! Who's with me?! :wink:

. Florida weirdness spawns three books (CNN) The article is packed with summaries of weird and occasionally hilarious stories from Florida that have been written up in a new book, presumably in more detail. Here is one of the summaries: "Another man didn't think through a scheme to end his...

I'll third that. I wandered around my part of the city for a few hours this evening and I've just returned home. There were so many people all dressed up with somewhere to go that now I'm contemplating whether or not to go in to work. At least there I can find cable TV and free soda. Of...

I'm just guessing here, but I'd assume that the software you find in Windows-world can automatically detect a "virgin" DVD+RW and will automatically start the formatting process without you even knowing. From what I wrote above, presumably it does the remaining formatting "on the fly" as new...

In the past I've read through the documentation for the command-line DVD writing software used on my Linux system. Are these points specific only to the software I'm using? 1. "Virgin DVD+RW media needs to be initally formatted prior to use. Once again, only virgin DVD+RW media needs to be...

Thanks Santilli. I laughed out loud at that third one. It looks like your cat has developed some kind of anti-gravity device and has floated up to the ceiling.

Please note: this is not an allusion to suicide. I don't understand the point of life anymore. Having written that, I'm not sure I ever understood it. I suspect that I used to have enough of that ridiculous youthful optimism about the future and my role in it, combined with just a lot more...

If anyone's interested, there's a nice story on CNN.com that includes some graphic photos of LASIK surgery. Apparently it's LASIK's 10 year anniversary (presumably of the procedure as performed here in the USA -- who knows how long it's been performed elsewhere). Graphic photos are included...

Are you implying I'm pessimistic? :wink: I prefer the term "realistic". :)

That's possible, assuming they go into that level of detail as a form of verification. It's also possible that there are many, many bored people out there with nothing better to do than to try and hack through whatever type of safeguards the F@H crowd has implemented to prevent bogus statistics...

Yes, I'm reasonably confident that someone will eventually look at most of the data that's handed back to the F@H project. But really ... do you think there is an army of researchers verifying that each work unit returned to the F@H project is valid, and not just bogus filler used to boost...

Ahh yes, it's that time of year for wild Dell LCD monitor news. Anyone think this is for real?

:lol: You mean a real try? You first! :wink:

Using your favorite web browser (Mozilla), right click on a smiley, and then select the option, "Block Images from this Server." StorageForum will now appear as bland as you desire.

Can anyone suggest a good temperature sensor? I am looking for: 1. Something designed to measure air temperature in an average room, not something designed for monitoring the inside of a computer case. 2. Something that can be easily accessed via a script on a Linux system, so I assume this...

No, really ... it's not a tuba. Apparently it's a viola. Sorry JKKJ. I'm being exceptionally obscure this evening. The word Stereodude was searching for was "voila" and not "viola". Maybe Cougtek will fill us in on details, given that it's actually a French word.