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<eats big mouthful of popcorn, drinks beer> Damn. Now THAT was a pretty neat Excel trick! <drinks more beer> Wow. Now what the hell is that he's starting up? Oh my god, is that... OS/2??? <drinks HUGE gulp of beer>

Very Intelligent Spam Telecommunications Accelerator

Setup a screen outside and charge admission to the Tannin Outdoor Theatre ("Yeah, I think I'm gonna unwind this evening and hang out at the TOT.")

We're talking sophisticated backup software for Fibre Channel SAN (and presumably iSCSI/IP-SAN) environments -- high levels of error checking, synthetic full backups, large media database capability, device support, etc. The shit's expensive as hell. Of course, *anything* at all to do with...

So, how many milliamp-hours is the cutting edge these days? I thought I recently saw some 2600 mAH NiMH AA batteries and some 800 mAH AAA batteries for sale.

Not when you're living in a cardboard box, it's which end you rolll out of... onto the grass. However, if you were living in a treehouse, finding yourself on the grass would likely be very bad.

After investing four years and $150 million, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has launched a new company that offers a storage array that targets products from storage heavyweights such as IBM, EMC, and HP... Proprietary software allows the Axiom to create multiple service levels through its...

This will supposedly be the LAST major update package for Windows 2000 (Workstation & Server). Should show up the week of 06 ~ 10 of June. Details at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1822852,00.asp

Is this a Dell server? I'm just trying to get a picture of what you have -- mechanically speaking.

Ouch! This would be the RAID metadata. Valuable stuff!!! I'm quite surprised that 3Ware has not made utilities available to the end user for backing up (and restoring) RAID metadata.

Then, on top of all the above, NOW THIS... 19 Apr 2005. Topic: File Selection May Lead to Command Execution. Discovery date: 18 Jan 2005. Affected applications: Windows Explorer on Windows 2000 Professional. Windows Explorer on Windows 2000 Server. Windows Explorer on Windows 2000...

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :errr: The remaining six bugs, which affect both browsers, are capable of the following: [list:b944283877] One of the flaws enables certain pop-ups can execute malicious code on a system if the user opens the pop-up. A bug in the way windows and...

LED Evolution Could Replace Light Bulbs http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050415/D89FRHL00.html [list:65495a5332] [list:65495a5332] [/list:u:65495a5332] [/list:u:65495a5332]

Yes, I've been seeing "electronic" billboards around here for years, too, but I was speaking of one that actually had a network connection of some sort (wired, wireless) that would allow updates from a remote operator.

I have a black AG Neovo F-419 that I bought recently (also available in beige). I use it for utilitarian purposes, meaning easily carryable between rooms and transportable in the back seat of your motorcar when the need arises. It had the best looking image for the money compared to...

...sheesh! ...as far as short recycle times at a given guide number. anyway... I really like my Sto-Fen diffuser. Not expensive and probably most of all -- small. I used to have one of those "white balloon thingees" for flash diffusion, but it rotted away over time. It work quite...

The fastest flash will use an external power source. So, some brand/model of flash unit with the capability of being powered externally (via AC-to-DC power supply or external battery pack) would be your choice. I have an older Metz (Model 45CT-5) that can perform fast stroboscopic output at...

Here's at least 29 posts for today...

URL guessing (i.e. -- the next new article number; this one is "66787").

Let's say the client computer (the box used for logging) is a Windows systems. The logging application can be setup run as a Windows Service that runs automatically when the computer turns on. The service can log on as a local user that's in the administrative group. The service will run in...

Jamaica say you will, mon.

Namely, jackasses like Tom DeLay.

Broadcom (who absorbed mobo chipset maker ServerWorks a while back) brings you the industry's first SAS (+SATA) RAID-On-A-Chip solution: Eight 3-Gigabit-per-second SAS/SATA-II I/O controller ports. Choice of PCI Express® and PCI-X® host interfaces. Embedded MIPS® processor to run...

I might conclude that for a *non-mainstream* Small Form Factor desktop, one would have to consider going with a 2.5-inch "enterprise" SAS hard drive -- preferably using a mobo with an embedded SAS controller or SAS RAID. A Small Form Factor desktop with a 2, 3, or 4-slot SCA drive bay for...

Will this work? US$129 for a RAID-0 (RAID function within external drive enclosure). With transparent, built in RAID-0 Array (not spanning or JBOD), the PRO Z-RAID was designed to immediately start helping digital video & audio content creators, graphic pro and prosumer as well as digital...

Not true. The "name" changed, that's all. What were Mitsubishi monitors, became NEC/Mitsubishi monitors (in some parts of the world), then became NEC/Mitsubishi monitors in the rest of the world, then, back in December of last year, became just NEC monitors. NEC/Mitsubishi was a joint...

Yes, indeed, it makes a LOT of sense. For several years, I've advocated the use of plug-able drive carriers with both data and operating system drives. Before plug-able drive carriers, I was advocating (at least with SCSI) the use of external drive enclosures to do the same. There are...

A palm reader told me it's going to be retail packaged as Windows XP Second Attempt.

You are quite right, oh drunken one. If it weren't for Gotham, the state of NY would be one of the most prosperous around. Every once in a while that pesky upstate movement comes back to life -- the movement where the upstate minority wants to chop off its own appendage, thus creating the...

...Users can search their computers for the files Kk32.dll or Surf.dat to see if they are infected. Removal tools are available from major anti-virus vendors...

It's likely that there is now physical memory in an address region that *was* being used by 32-bit PCI memory mapping techniques for I/O. It is certainly possible run into these sorts of problems using 4 GB of RAM in combination with 32-bit PCI. Hence, the need for 64-bit technology like PCI...

Yes, one TYPICALLY does nothing other than plug it in and go. It does have jumpers to select a SCSI target ID range. Default are low numbers, change the jumper ad you can have high number IDs. One thing that you need to do is to install the device driver for the hot-swap processor. If you...

This one has beeen gathering steam since yesterday: http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/download_ject.mspx http://www.us-cert.gov/current/current_activity.html#iis5 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1617233,00.asp?kc=ewnws062504dtx1k0000599

You just connect the two computers with a regular FireWire cable. However, they BOTH have to be setup for running a "FireWire Network" and both have talking the same protocol (TCP/IP, presumed). In the World of Winderz, I believe WinME, Win2K, and WinXP (and Win2K3 Server) can all do...

I have an even-older Oly C-2500 SLR (2.5 M-Pixel), and I won't let it go for the same reasons. My C-2500 handles both SmartMedia and Compact Flash. I've been using it lately with a 1 GB SanDisk Ultra-II CF and a 128 MB SimpleTech SmartMedia. I use the SmartMedia for alternate storage --...

If you can get good pricing from someone in the kingdom of the big red maple leaf, I'd go with Antec (ATA, correct?) drive bays and drive modules. These are all-metal, built well, and designed well. I bought several ATA and a few SCSI kits. The ATA kits were about US$32. However, Antec may...

Hmmm... got me there about 10 Billion x 2 displays. One thing I was going to mention is that you should definitely update the G-650 Flash BIOS and use the latest driver. It does make a difference. Download for OS Drivers: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm...

Yes. BIG Suggestion #1: Stay away from used E-Bay SCSI drives. Those are fine for someone who needs a spare for a server RAID rebuild, but nobody else -- unless someone is selling like-new X15.3 drives for $5. Suggestion #2: This one's a little complex in that if you want to push the...

The ages-old "Will SCSI Help Me?" argument applies here 100%. Basically, are your applications and O/S multi-threading?

LED-based display technologies have been kicking around since the early '80s. The old LED versus LCD war ended aeons ago with LCD the victor, but it seems that every once in a while LED rares up its head again to do battle.

SEATTLE--Microsoft hopes to combine two popular storage media – flash memory and hard drives – in a bid to cut power in future laptops... http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1585978,00.asp

OK. well, it's actually Internet2. Nonetheless, sorta interesting: http://www.research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=628

You don't have to do anything of the such. These spyware programs are simply running as services or have a persistence that can be overcome within a couple of minutes followed by a re-boot. Most of these spywares live in some recognisable folder below C:\Program Files\Common Files. After...

Generally speaking, my favourite general-purpose flatbed scanners have been Epson. Epson seems to support their scanners for many years (drivers, etc) as opposed to the majority of others who purposely maroon their scanners after 2 or maybe 3 years. The last I saw, HP wanted too much money...

Pradeep, Actually, I now little about consumer grade Automatic Document Feeders. The only ADFs I ever kept up with (and that was a little while back, now) were high-end Panasonic and Kurtzweil / Xerox units.

Maybe in 5 ~ 10 years -- maybe. Integration of a graphics instruction set in the CPU with silicon will be a major design task. Ideally, only the frame buffer would remain external, and this, preferably separate memory from primary system memory -- unless system memory becomes vastly much...

The Parhelia (spelled P A R HELIA) sells well these days as a CAD graphics card. Various CAD programs can take explicit advantage of Parhelia features. There was only 2 or 3 games that ever that could take explicit advantage of certain Parhelia features -- most notably triple-head display...

OK: I thought we were originally talking about (in another thread) a graphics card that did slam-dunk 2-D, was stable, and *could* play games at least reasonably fast. The Parhelia and P-series can do that. Now if you are talking about WORLD CLASS game playing, high definition video (HD?)...

The big problem about using Reserved Sectors is that you are somehow going to *directly* access them, meaning somehow usurping the drive's firmware. When a bad sector is detected by the firmware, the firware will re-map the bad sector address to a reserved sector.

Allegedly! The full-blown Parhelia is marketed primarily as a CAD graphics adaptor. These have either 128 MB or 256 MB of video RAM. The "P" Series (P-650, P750) have 64 MB of video RAM. http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/home.cfm...