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Yes, indeed, Reserved Sectors. That would be another possibility. At the moment, it escapes me what the typical ratio of reserved-sectors-to-numbers-of-tracks is.

From that lovely photo above, it looks like the Wax Museum owns his soul. Nowadays, that's Sir Mick. It looks as if Keef will stay a humble, but dangerous, serf in the Kingdom of things.

There's space on every modern hard drive for a head landing zone. Then there is a servo zone on some drives. There's also some "territory" in between the normal end-of-data tracks, and the head landing zone, but the firmware is not programmed (as far as I know) to position the heads over...

Probably breaks Larry Ellison out in a cold sweat.

The clue is the "29%" processor utilisation. If you could force WMP to use for processor clock ticks or make WMP run as a foreground-only application, then you would suddenly see a normal video at a high resolution. But, with the video playing, you would not be able to do much or anything at...

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I have used a pair of Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 22-inch CRT monitors at home (DP-2040U) for a while, running Sonic Foundry Vegas and a few other applications that could take explicit advantage of dual monitor setups. I used the two side-by-side monitors with the (then) Matrox G450 desktop...

The G200 is really a much better card than the somewhat short-lived G100. On the used market, I suspect the G200 is about the same price as the G100. Driver development is still alive with the G200/400/450/550.

Yes, I have two guesses: 1.) For the next version, they'll once again confuse / annoy the hell out of everyone by bringing back -- yet again -- the name Firebird. 2.) It'll stay the same for a while, until an eventual full merger with Netscrape. Then, it'll get renamed to Moby Dick.

CSA, Communications Streaming (or Communications Screaming) Architecture, allows vastly better Ethernet performance than a GbE card plugged into a PCI slot, because with CSA you have the Ethernet controller tied directly to a dedicated bi-directional 2Gb/s channel to primary memory in the system...

Sure. I was thinking of creating a RAID-0 stripe out of the Colorado 40 MB tape drives with an arc welder.

A *very* short list of infamous Keef Richards quotes: "Future? Know something? I never even think about it. Today's what counts." "I never had a problem with drugs, only with cops." "I'd hate to have to go around thinking of health and shit like that." "There's only one fatal...

I suspect the mobos with a 16X slot and 2- to 6-each 1X slots will simply become dinky little things compared to today's ATX mobos. They might be just big enough for a microprocessor, 2-each DIMMs, a mainboard power connector, some skinny little SATA cables jumping up from a far corner, and...

No need to mention "7" in the PC world, since we know a SCSI peripheral isn't normally setup for using "7" (older SGI boxes reserve "4" for its SCSI controller). Once SCSI-2 was introduced, highest to lowest in SCSI priority became: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8.

I wonder if there aren't people who just basically leave most everything packed, even though they live at each place for like 1 or 2 or 3 years at a time.

Hitachi readies industry's fastest mobile-class hard drive for 24x7 applications 7200 RPM drive designed for "always-on" and high availability SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2003 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is today the first to offer customers an enhanced-availability 7200 RPM...

The following is what you get for working in a beer factory late at night. TYPOS! Which includes a return to my strange typing defect of recent times -- the occasional dropping of the letter "N" for some reaso . Number-9. I guess you could call 'em Number Zero, now. Ahem. 10-bits-per-RGB...

{cough} None of the current "game" cards can touch a G450 or later model for *professional* photographic and pre-press work (G450, G550, P650, P750, or Parhelia). In the photo, pre-press, and graphics industries, Matrox has been a very well known commodity since...... the mid-1970s!. Matrox...

Let's just say that are ESSENTIAL; best video card for 2-D photo imaging made -- 10+ years running. Also, long known for their stability.

Er... Nearly all of Supermicro's offerings are too pricey for most "enthusiast" types. But, they do have a few "normal" desktop mobos which are reasonably priced these days -- mobos without onboard dual-channel SCSI, Xeon sockets, twin PCI busses, or loads of PCI-X slots, etc. Yes, they have a...

That day is coming, but it's still a little ways off (erm... maybe 2006). First (sometime in 2004) will be the 2.5-inch enterprise-class SCSI (Ultra-320 parallel), SAS, and F-C hard disc drives. At some point after that, we should see higher-end SATA2 hard drives for enterprise use in the...

SATA optical drives are now key. As far as SATA storage devices go, only SATA hard drives exist at this time. There are no SATA optical drives (CD and DVD readers / recorders) -- yet. Once there are SATA optical drives on the market, then the reason for having parallel ATA ports on the...

This is not too far from my proposed massive "disc library" using my proposed low-spin-speed ultra-high-capacity 3.5-inch SATA (or SAS) drive mechanisms: http://www.sc-2002.org/paperpdfs/pap.pap312.pdf (NOTE: this is a 700 KB PDF file) I still believe my plan is better since it uses...

As in POST Toasty :o No, seriously, the mobo can't do anything without a CPU.

Well, I finally became un-lazy for about 10 nanoseconds and looked over at IBM's site to see if there was anything at all recent about M-RAM developments. At last, there was! some snippets of the original text... Kyoto, Japan (VLSI Symposia) -- June 10, 2003 -- IBM and Infineon...

Not trying to put anyone down, but it sounds like this X-Bit Labs (?) are simply novices if they think FRAM is going to be another RAMBUSt, as they may not even be aware of IBM's M-RAM initiative. IBM / Infineon together are vastly larger and have vastly more market sway than Ramtron. I...

I seem to have run into one problem with SP-4, in that it seems to wipe out drive mapping settings set by SMS (Systems Management Server). This could actually be a problem with SMS, where SMS itself needs an update to play nicely with Win2K SP-4 clients. I've already heard about various...

The last I heard, DDR-2 and DDR DIMMs are not 2-way compatible on pin count (240 pins for DDR-2, 184-pins for DDR) -- neither with signaling nor with operating voltage. DDR-2 will also be single channel (i.e. -- 1 DIMM at a time), unless someone has different plans. But, DDR-2 will definitely...

We're talking 1 GB or a pair of 512 MB, yes no? Anyway, the "speed" issue is simple: Some digital cameras basically require a certain minimum speed of CF, as per specifications. My Olympus (which uses both CF and SmartMedia) doesn't require any particular speed of Compact Flash because it...

Er... actually, the lens coating eliminates the air-to-glass contact, thus vastly reducing contrast-robbing reflection on the glass surface. The basic refractor lens design is where the various types of aberrations are tackled -- coated or not.

Actually, it does move, but "internally." I have a couple of expensive (hideously expensive, nowadays) Nikkor telephoto lenses which I use with my Nikon F and F-3 camera bodies that are internally focusing (called "ED/IF"). The lens elements move about on the inside of the lens casing and...

The reason we are stuck with external DC and AC power supplies ("wall warts" etc.) -- more than ever, I might add -- is because this is a less expensive and quicker method of getting a device UL Certified (USA) and the equivalent in electrical certification wherever else in the world a device is...

Give me the right kind of hammer, and I'll make a 3.5" HD fit in a thimble. :evil:

Well, there's the "old" Macintosh approach, where there's only button and you have to use some combination of Apple Command key, Control key, and/or Shift key -- all of this with a symmetrical mouse that equally offends leftys and rightys. Back in those halcyon days of the early GUI, MS...

"i" is someone else here, otherwise I am iGary. As for the persona de heure, that's all a result of the 64 interrelated hexagrams from I Ching. I've bee to a lot of places, but nevr Antarctica. However, I actually know several people who've been to Antarctica and some who regularly go to...

Yes, he's now being called "Comical Ali" by some (as opposed to "Chemical Ali")... http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12283444,00.html

A new TV star has emerged from this grievous insanity... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12821265&method=full&siteid=50143

You can also use any "modern" wide SCSI hard drive and simply attach a 50-pin IDC-to-D68 convertor onto the hard drive.

Native SATA is quite RAID friendly compared to typical parallel ATA. A Word From The Wise: If you need to build a parallel ATA RAID array, you should only use IBM's GXP series hard drives. Even with the best ATA RAID controller, using other ATA hard drives is major crap shoot that you'll...

No, the Media Center / Web TV version is codenamed "Sooner." And, it'll be certified 100% mobile home safe.

I've been in Fry's at various locations in California over the years. However, there's a Fry's here in Houston -- the biggest one I've ever been in. But, they have size-for-size competition in the form of Al-Tex. As far as other chainstore type operations go here, there are also MicroCenter...

Same concept, but quite different from a hardware standpoint. In the case of network load balancing using a cluster, you have some number of nodes (computers) that make up the cluster, with each cluster node providing network I/O for the whole of the cluster. The cluster can also provide...

It's far too easy to miss the point when communicating in this half-duplex fashion over the Internet :eekers: But they might pay around US$230 for a four-port GbE switch. I've seen 'em at this price at places like CompUSA -- a little NetGear thingee. Pipes: Are we talking about port...

But it will have to be a switch that communicates by forwarding MAC addresses (a.k.a. -- Layer 2 switch) as opposed to a switch that works with network addresses (Layer 3 switch). In my case, I needed network load balancing and failover capabilities for a server, either of which require an...

I realise now that I meant to say V1.4 was buggy as hell as 1.3.1_04 is still the preferred Java version for me.

I would recommend not listening to Opera or any other form of music when placing orders online. Eire can be a pretty cryptic place when Gaelic is spoken. Eire is also unbelievably GREEN in the springtime!

It will use an SQL database store as the file system. Using such data structures for disc file systems has been done in the past on some expensive dedicated proprietary mainframe and mini-computer database servers. "Longhorn" is the codename of the replacement for the full-featured Windows...

On a related note: For emergency or temporary usage only, I've occasionally used large empty CPU tower cases as SCSI hard drive towers. It worked quite well.

Having a wireless segment in an apartment complex would certainly justify having the all the available security countermeasures one could afford in place, as we are only just now in the beginning phase of having yahoos roaming around neighbourhoods sniffing for "hot spots." Or as far as that...

I believe now that what I was *trying* to say a few days (or is it daze?) ago was... <cough> * Sparcstation II pizza box, IPX, etc... The next generation of Sparcstation after the II were the Sparcstation 5, 10, 20 pizza boxes. The processor in the Sparcstation II is what's referred to...