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No bigger that we thought a few years ago. The only difference is that we keep seeing (discovering) objects that we haven't seen before in a universe of a known volume.

After zooming in, I can see that the mystery piece is screwed down to the hard drive's spindle base -- NOT part of a cutaway illustration. I'm also wondering if this qualifies as one of those "Separated At Birth?" examples...

Yes, it's part of the cutaway illustration. The curved part is the top of the hard drive casing.

More and more, I find myself storing cakes inside old DASD disc-paks.

Slightly old news, but, Plextor is finally filling the retail channel with their 16x SATA DVD±R/±RW (and CD-R/W) drive, which is also Dual Layer DVD capable. Still no word on the LiteON SATA CD-R/W drive that was to have been released about 3 months ago...

As per the recent discussions about swapping SATA hard drives in systems: There are finally a few more choices these days for individual hot-plug (hot-swap, removeable, etc.) drive bays -- Lian-Li, Promise, and others. The Vantec models are all-metal, which is better for cooling...

Matrox recently announced a dedicated card (apparently, you MUST have a dedicated card) for the Apple Cinema Display. Matrox announces new dual link Parhelia™ DL256 PCI graphics card for 30" Apple Cinema HD Display® under Windows® New dual link DVI card delivers stunning graphics and text...

And you mama ware combat boots, 2.

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OK, I just put down my nearly-empty pint of ale. I'm now staring into a crystal ball. I see a significant third party finally shaping up in the USA over the next 10 to 15 years... Democratic Party: The same as what you have now, except what little “conservative” constituency is left these...

All you need are fiber optic connections to the 4 (or 2) LEDs on the NIC in order to bend the light emissions around from the back side of the chassis to the front.

DV Expo West, Los Angeles, December 8th, 2004 — Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of professional graphics solutions, is pleased to announce the Parhelia™ APVe, a PCI Express (PCIe) graphics card designed specifically for creative professionals. Featuring the industry's first...

This could become your "best friend" for working on these %$@&% LGA775-socketed abominations: http://www.doneganoptical.com/catalog/opti/ I use a couple, each setup with different magnification factors, (you can also interchange optical elements, though that's a bit slow) to work on...

It's gotten so bad lately that the police have recently resorted to writing citations to all those attempting to fish off this bridge.

Separate RAID Level 0 and RAID Level 1 arrays on a single pair of SATA hard drives without getting into sophisticated RAID host adaptors. Example: RAID 1 partition for boot, applications, and data files; RAID 0 partition for temp files and virtual memory...

Just make sure your phasor is set to "7" for "well cooked."

I wouldn't be surprised if the price was US$150 less for 300 GB in 20 days (i.e. -- 10K.6 marketplace deja vu all over again).

Still no SAS-y ones... yet... grrrrrrrr......

US$1,370.43 http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=698105 ST3300007LC CHEETAH 10K.7/300GB/U320/10KRPM/80PIN/895Mbit/3MS/8MB. AU$2206.85 http://www.briscomputers.com.au/Category/SCSI%20hard%20disc.htm ST3300007LC, 300gb 80-pin £call ST3300007LW, 300gb 68-pin £call...

YES. It's been so long since I messed with it, I forgot what it was. Yes, I just double-checked it and it 'tis indeed a Vivitar 120mm ~ 600mm / F5.6~8.0. When I made that first post (calling it a 300 ~ 600) I was not at home. I even thought for a little while earlier today that it was a Tamron!

http://specials.seagate.com/sac/flash/ I wonder what Father Al Shugart thinks about all this? (Fibre Channel on a diet?)

For Immediate Release HARD DRIVE LEADER SEAGATE NOW SHIPPING 100GB NOTEBOOK PC HARD DRIVE Customers choose Momentus 5400.2 for reliability, high capacity, high performance and low battery consumption SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—29 September 2004— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced today the...

Oh, you were talking drive cache (I was thinking processor cache for some reason). In the case of a 128 MB (or even 32 MB) hard drive buffer / cache, that would be more expensive and continuously draw more amperage than using a 128 MB Flash memory as a L2 cache.

Large cache is expensive S-RAM. Flash is cheap static memory and can be vastly larger for cheap. My recommendation is to use, instead, to use Plastic Memory when it becomes available (a.k.a. -- polymer memory). It will be cheaper yet per MB than Flash and probably a bit faster, too.

Hmmm... looks a LOT like some of these (URL below): A place right here in town has been making the biggest baddest most expensive solid state drive systems available (based on dynamic RAM) for several years. They were basically targeting financial, manufacturing, and scientific entities...

...except for Celerons, one would have to guess. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040507/D82DT2C00.html

Way back in the '90s, it was just a "normal" home page. But I've changed it up several times since then. This is now probably about version number... somewhere between 33 and 40. That home page is a finely tuned piece of impressionist psychedelia, click on the exploding orbs. By the...

Well, methinks they are a bunch o' wöösies.

Perpendicular recording: It's a closely guarded secret, but you simply install the hard drive upside down in the chassis and it doubles its recording density!

...with a REALLY REALLY HUGE heatsink! Xeon64® Extreme

One of the really great things that will happen with the advent of SATA-2 is that external SATA will finally be *officially* supported with a physical connector. There are already some kits to take you external with SATA: As far as speedy external storage goes, suddenly, Firewire will...

...for the vendors wanting to unload all their AGP product as they transition over to PCI Express 16x. In other words, an APG slot on a PCI Express chipset'd mobo. I'd certainly hope not, but we might even see some really ugly examples of this sort of thing coming out of Taiwan for a few...

There will probably be some PCI Express -to- AGP bridges as well.

>>> CNN Newsflash: Howard Dean Calls It Quits <<< Sounds like someone finally refilled his Thorazine prescription.

Austin -- just a suburb of Houston.

Yes, it's so cold that after an hour or two of picking coconuts in the breeze, I had to put my tee shirt back on.

That would be "conventional" 35mm. Yes, Nikon guy there, had an F3HP body since '83 along with loads of acessories for it and lenses out the wazoo, as well as my trusty old Nikon F brute that I've had since '73/74-ish (F with HP finder, but meter has since died, so it's manual photography with...

I believe that when you say "having the same field of view as a 35mm film camera," you're talking about the 4/3 Specification: http://www.four-thirds.org/en/index.html Olympus has one out now, the model E-1. http://www.olympusamerica.com/e1/default.asp Otherwise, yes, the...

If anyone here can wait a few months, you should be able to buy one of a few *ALL* *NEW* Antec TruePower power supplies that are truly [u]ultra[/i] quiet, because the only fans they use are "emergency" cooling fans -- otherswise THEY DO NOT USE FANS (!). hmmm... what's this spelchek (sic)...

Centrifugal... more likely

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I've ran some expensive document scanning software (TWAIN) that was pretty well balanced between foreground processes and background processes; we're talking about processes that run at the application level not system level (close to the kernel). Still, the suggested use with these document...

OK, some misconceptions here... blah blah blah. Your problem Santilli is that the TWAIN applet has been designed (coded) to run as "high priority" only. Photoshop is simply the host program here and not the culprit. The same problem would occur if you used any other TWAIN-capable host...

Lots of beer means lots of servers to serve that beer! The 1182-slot ADIC "jukebox" behind me supplies tunes for the patrons. Well, since I do NOT play computer games and have NO desire or time to play the damned things, a Millennium P650 is perfect for me at home, as I do photo work at home...

The MC-8600 is essentially a "Do I want to mortgage the house for this?" CD/DVD device.

Low level formatting* as in hanging the Cheetah off of an Adaptec AHA-2940UW, with the Cheetah being the only drive on the terminated cable, and with its SCSI ID jumper set to something other than "7", and having the Adaptec SCSI Setup set to scan all SCSI targets on bootup? I'm assuming the...

I maintain a 700 MB CD-R/W disc with updaters and installers. This is my latest "Toolbox CD" file listing: Acrobat Reader V6.0 Adaptec ASPI (V4.71A2) Adobe Illustrator Updates Adobe Photoshop Updater (V7.0-to-V7.0.1) Fonts-PS Fonts-TT ICC Profiles Icon Collection...

No, it's definitely a shark. The tail and head are definitely shark. I don't know about any of the rest of you here, but I have been in the water surfing when sharks were around -- 3 times in my life. Every time I saw them, they sure as hell were not INSIDE a wave like that (above). They...

Actually, I meant to say above: depth of FOCUS, not depth of field, and vice versa... This is simply the depth of focus that you get with a "long" (focal length) telephoto lens when you focus upon a subject that's rather close AND you have the iris wide open (maybe f/5.6 or f/8). The depth of...