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Their genes are probably faded and full of holes -- especially the knee genes.

A swarm of patches will be upon us on Patch Tuesday (11/October), and there is a potential that they could even be followed by a w0rm, as one of these holes to be patched is supposedly worm-able. 8 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity...

Hitachi probably does make a barbeque unit (though, I don't ever recall seeing one). I have a nice Hitachi table saw, if that counts. Hibachi is definitely NOT a brand. A hibachi is a Mongolian barbeque cooker. I'm pretty sure the hibachi has been around a thousand years -- if not...

I don't recall the exact year and some of the details, but, one nasty weather event that was quite ludicrous was, I believe, in the mid 1980s, when the baseball World Series was being played in Boston. A fairly large hurricane was passing to the east of Boston out in the Atlantic Ocean. At...

What, as in... Make a convection oven for baking bread by using powered-up 7K500 hard drives as oven bricks? Pumpernickel SAN-wich. Doubles as a storage array and bread oven. RMA / Reason for return: Bacon grease penetrated seals, drive won't spin up. :evil:

I'll consider DRAM and Static RAM secondary storage as a reall SSD, just simply an SSD with an Achille's heel -- and not even a particularly bad one at that. One of the problems getting RAM companies to get away from DDR is that they are still investing heavily in DDR technology R&D (e.g. --...

I can't say I know the "low end" of the audio spectrum well at all, or the various brands that dominate that lucrative arena. I owned a receiver (a.k.a. -- integrated receiver) once -- that was back around 1971. It was a Sansui. Ever since the mid 1970s, I've only owned component stereo...

Yes. Large SSDs based on Flash, D-RAM, and S-RAM hav been around for a while. None of those are particularly affordable -- especially the ones that use DRAM or Static RAM. The drives Samsung wants to produce use Flash memories that haven't been commercially produced yet -- flash memories...

The EtherDrive series provides an Ethernet SAN with 7.5TB for 53 cents per gigabyte. It uses ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol to send ATA drive commands and ATA data packets between servers and a serial-ATA drive array... There is no need for a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) because TCP/IP isn’t...

Long before there was a Computer Shopper, there were advertisements for PCs's Limited boxes in all the mainstream computer magazines -- PC World, PC Magazine, Byte, etc. I recall the technical articles that began appearing in Computer Shopper after its introduction. Talking about crap on...

There's only one problem with this, in that affordable SSDs (i.e. -- based on flash memory) are slower than today's decent SATA hard drives. SSDs based on NAND flash can make a place for themselves today in portable computing and devices, not so much the common desktop computer. What's a bit...

For what it's worth, I'm not sure if things have changed recently, but, I've seen *lots* of broken Onkyo hardware over the years -- same thing with Denon, but after about 1982. Before that, Denon hardware was elite and quite good, but, back to Onkyo. Onkyo has been around for a long time...

Computer Shopper came out around 1989. The hole-in-the-wall store experience was ummm... 1983-ish. Something completely different: Now that you've brought up Computer Shopper magazine, I was talking to someone back in June or July or so about a series of adds that appeared in the back pages...

Seagate exec: Hard disks anything but obsolete... Samsung was 'just being weird' to say hard disks are dead, says Rob Pait... Flying heads, flying accusations... http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,105163,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=105163

The Matiz is also sold in Mexico as the PONTIAC Matiz: http://www.matiz.com.mx/content_data/LAAM/MX/es/GMMGM/showroom/pontiac/modelos/matiz/diseno.html As long as they don't turn out to be another Yugo, these things would absolutely be a hit in the USA (Chevrolet or Pontiac).

I'd even think about an eSATA host bus adapter with internal and external SATA connectivity. A standard external SATA connection can come in handy for other hard drives or SATA peripherals. But, then again, the Syba cheapie is hard to pass up.

"Windows XP SP3 will be available sometime next year after the launch of Windows Vista, which "is the priority for the development teams," according to Microsoft France. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5886274.html?tag=nl.e589

Just got through the hottest 2 days of the year here -- 99°F and 100°F respectively (about 38°C). Today it's 83°F (28°C). All in late September. Wacky.

Wow. According to that article, I must be some sort of hyper-genius. The article sounds a lot more like justification for the existence of one-dimensional nerds than anything else. I once had a professor in a communications circuits class that was from India. He spoke pretty good English...

I guess I didn't make sense there in my last post. That's what one gets when they walk away for 20 minutes in the middle of writing something and come back to complete it! Just to fill in the logic hole: My personal rule -- in these days and times of modern SATA/ATA hard drives -- is to...

I forgot to add a picture and a URL for that self-powered self-contained storage device that does NOT require a computer of any kind to be around to make it work. By the way, these Media X-Change devices have been around for a few years now. The Kanguru Media X-Change allows you to empty...

"2-platter" meaning whatever hard drive I buy should have no more than 2 platters (or, 3 or 4 heads). After a couple or three or four years or whatever, once we are firmly into the 750 GB / 1 TB / 1.2 TB hard drive era, all the data on those numerous lower-capacity hard drives could be...

I still thinkz Lunar should use 300 GB and *maybe* 400 GB drives during this point in time (2005) because those hard drives still have a better price-per-GB than the bleeding edge whoppers. I personally would stick to a "2-platter rule" just for dependability (not to mention price) and...

For field photography storage, I use a Kanguru Media X-Change Pro device, which has a 100 GB internal hard drive, 8-slot internal flash card reader, and rechargeable battery. It is completely self-contained and does not require a computer to be present to operate. The USB2 port in it is used...

In the USA, the closest equivalent of the Matiz is the Chevrolet Aveo.

MHV2120BH (SATA) and MHV2120AH (PATA) Rotational Speed: 5400RPM Average Seek Time: 12 ms typ. (Read), 14 ms typ. (Write) Average Latency: 5.56 ms Read / Write Power Consumption: 1.9W typ. Idle Power Consumption: 0.6W typ Acoustic Noise: 2.6 bels (Typ.) Operating Shock: 2,940 m/s2...

Apparently, the first-ever mobos with integrated Serial Attached SCSI: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/company/pressrelease.html?sess=no&language=English+US&pressCat=%2fHome+Page&prodkey=09152005&source=home_pr_09152005...

A local operation (no Cascade Pale Ale, but theu do have some yummy Courvoisier Cognac): http://www.specsonline.com/storeindex.htm

Two, one after the other, both quite a while back -- a 1964 Spyder Turbo convertible (like my avatar, except forest green with two racing stripes) and a 1966 Corsa 140 hard-top with the stock 4-each one-barrel carbs replaced with a single Holley 750 4-barrel carb, exhaust headers, and Elektron...

For a hefty price, you can get one of the new advanced LED-backlit LCD NEC monitors. This is the cutting edge for LCD displays: http://www.necdisplay.com/products/ProductDetail.cfm?Product=425

I'm sure you could get a half dozen of some other LCD monitor as well. However, not a single one will be able to display the colour gamut this one will. THAT is the reason why it needs to be on your buy-list. By the way, the "street price" is less than what NEC Displays (formerly...

Pradeep, it's time to update your buy list: http://www.necdisplay.com/products/ProductDetail.cfm?Product=416

They may have one. I wouldn't be surprised if they did. You are interested primarily in greyscale calibration. The rest of it is really for calibrating for print output (i.e. -- CMYK). I can pretty much get a monitor in the ballpark by eyeballing 3 things on the screen (with the room...

I loathed (and still loathe) Cyrix. After my early encounters of Cyrix 5X85 activities back in the day, I made sure to keep my distance from anything-Cyrix and advise others to do the same. Still, I will make a *rare* admission that Cyrix did in fact introduce microprocessor innovations that...

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I have a bunch of failed (what else could they be?) Western Digitalis hard drives that are superglued together perpendicularly into an art exhibit. I may just superglue a few more to the periphery and make something more useful out of this eyesore -- something like an artificial reef for fish.

One important question about the Terastation model line is: Can the user replace a failed hard drive in the RAID? The answer is YES. The manuals show how to open the chassis and replace the failed hard drive. Also, you rebuild the RAID via the web interface. The Terastation uses ATA/133...

I was recently wondering what the competitive marketplace has brought us in recent times -- as far as "affordable" Network Attached Storage goes. Buffalo Technology currently seems to have the lowest priced NAS devices worth considering. Buffalo Technology offers both a basic model called...

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I skirted this issue in my above post. But now that you brought it up... :) Yes, you can certainly have legacy CD-R/W drives tied to legacy applications and/or legacy hardware. The warranty contract marketplace needs some of these "old" CD-R/W drives in order to provide service for the 4, 5...

Then, on top of all the above, NOW THIS... Industry Reels From IP Flaw IP flaw could allow attacks on routers and Internet software [list:4a3389b0a0] The U.K.'s National Infrastructure Co-Ordination Centre (NISCC) has warned of a flaw in Internet Protocol (IP) that could allow significant...

I believe that was a Supermicro SC942 case for a CPU, a case that can hold NINE 3½ inch hot swap drive bays (which is actually NINE 5¼ inch half-height bays) or a pair of the special Supermicro 5-drive drive racks (as pictured). It's probably more expensive than a "regular" 9-drive case...

"This is the beginning of a transition," said Paul Perez, vice president of storage network and infrastructure with HP's ProLiant division. "What we want to do is offer the option of small form-factor SAS drives across our product line starting in May." HP expects to support the standard with...

10kRPM... just like the known-to-exist and occasionally-shown Seagate and Maxtor 2.5-inch enterprise SAS hard drives. http://www.fcpa.com/products/hard-drives/mav-sas/

Fujitsu Delivers Industry's First Production-Ready Small Form Factor Serial Attached SCSI Hard Disk Drives San Jose, CA, March 8, 2005 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and computer peripherals, today announced that it has...

There has been a silent push to this very thing for a few years. Hard drive storage -- using 3.5-inch hard drives -- is probably the biggest sore point in evolving Small Form Factor desktops. My thoughts on this have been that implementing RAID-1 with a pair of 60 GB, 80 GB, or (now) 120 GB...

Fujitsu Computer Products of America will soon bring us 120 GiggleBytes of mobile storage capacity. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,100067,00.html?source=NLT_SU&nid=100067