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This is simply the depth of field 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 focal plane is quite shallow when these parameters are true. If you stop down to something...

Yeah. Audit = $100+ down the drain (1 hour tuition and exhorbitant user fees for the track and locker room) and get 0 credit hours x 4.0 (presumably, a grade of "A").

That actually looks like the lead singer from MC-5, err... Robb what's-his-name.

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Re: WD Raptor on it's way into my PC soon, any tests beforeh Did you order any earplugs with that hard drive? I keep reading where people say that this new hard drive is as loud as a 1998-era 10kRPM SCSI drive.

Re: First laptop 7200 drive What's so bad about... Home of the Happy Hard Drives!

SATA-2 may have double the channel speed, but they are also pushing protocol enhancements such as the important tagged command queuing and standardised hot-swap. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers will definitely be fully compatible with SATA-2 devices, though I'm still not 100% certain...

They've been messing (maybe literally) around with "biological" storage in academic research departments for more years than I care to count. Protein this-and-that have continued to be most of the focus in bio-storage since at least 1994 or '95.

I installed the Standard 5-User version of Win2K3 Server on Friday, but have since been too busy doing (non-computer) things to even give Win2K3 much more than a passing lookover that one time. It installed correctly onto my caddy-fied SCSI hard drive and recognised everything plugged into my...

I'd be more interested in how fast the Opteron is at Bluffing. :erm:

Vegetation consumes CO2 and produces O2 during daylight hours. But, at night, vegetation consumes O2 and produces CO2. By the way, even though CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the most famous greenhouse gas, it is not the only one, nor is it the worst, actually. Water vapour is also a greenhouse gas...

Do you have a mobo with a 133 MHz PCI-X slot? If not, it won't make any difference unless you will own such a mobo within a year. Besides, PCI Express (serial PCI) will be out in a year or so, which will make even 133 MHz PCI-X look like a Sunday stroll through the park in comparison. So...

I maintain a few CD-R/W disc with updaters and installers. Acrobat Reader V5.1 Adaptec ASPI Adobe Illustrator Updates Adobe Photoshop Updater (V7.0-to-V7.0.1) Fonts-PS Fonts-TT ICC Profiles Icon Collection MatroxWin2KXP_G2,G4X,G55(V5.88.061) M$ Album for PowerPoint M$ Dot-NET...

Well, seeing your requirements and your (his) hosting predicament, this is NOT really overkill.

So... so... slugggggggggish............... I ended up double-posting in the "Broadcom/Serverworks: Paradise Lost?" thread, because after over a minute of waiting, I clicked the Stop button, and then re-clicked the Submit button. Mistake! Well, at least I now know that my messsage went...

Well, if Mr. Serverworks decides to set out on his own again, hopefully he'll get into the AMD chipset business. God knows AMD needs a truly viable and reliable chipset manufacturer behind, at least, their higher-end microprocessors. Depending on Via (shudder), IMSI (shudder), and SIS...

Well, if Mr. Serverworks decides to set out on his own again, hopefully he'll get into the AMD chipset business. God knows AMD needs a truly viable and reliable chipset manufacturer behind, at least, their higher-end microprocessors. Depending on Via (shudder), IMSI (shudder), and SIS...

If you are using it to host something as un-serious as gaming, I'd say it is overkill -- even though the price is certainly reasonable. These Supermicro boxes are designed for dead-serious rack'em stack'em 24x7 business and industrial server applications. However, if you believe that...

Behind the hardened steel doors of every hard drive manufacturer, guarded by rabid German shepherds nonetheless, are the laboratories where various "candidate" drives spin the hours and days away in burn-in chambers. And, within these burn-in chambers simulating years worth of "normal"...

If you've heard that it's been in development since Q1 / 2002, then at least the mechanicals aren't a rush job. Otherwise, the performance of the drive (as first published) as well as the connectors used pretty much scream out Rush Job.

Yes. It was supposed to be what is NOW mostly Jordan, but another group ended up going there because King Saud exiled them there (essentially). One place that was looked at for a Jewish homeland before what is now called Israel, was a large block of uninhabited land in Libya near Tunisia.

The WD Raptor product seems rather obviously a rush job -- a rush to get a product out because WD probably caught wind of someone else preparing to release a 10kRPM ATA drive. And, if it really is a "rush job" product, it could be obviated by its replacement in as little as 6 months.

The cunning and clever folks at LSI Logic (+ cohorts) have come up with yet another feat that'll grab your attention: LSI Logic and JMR Demo Innovative Serial ATA Storage Solution at CeBIT Innovative Serial ATA storage solution features first-to-market six port Serial ATA RAID storage...

I'd like to see technology introduced where I could convert browser cookies into REAL cookies and E-mail spam into REAL Spam. Just think, surfing content rich websites and all of a sudden... piping hot oatmeal cookies coming out of the floppy drive slot! Well, I rarely ever eat cookies and...

Well, that's a bit of relief. I'm not too hot on carrying around such "expensive" coinage, if you know what I mean (There's gold in dem couches!). <putting on my conspiracy cap> But, then again, I wouldn't be surprised if they *were* planning $5 and $10 coins so that they could then...

Since most of the RAID host adaptor manufacturers have done such a dandy job of Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory during the past 2 or 3 years, this has more or less left Adaptec and LSI Logic in charge of the top realm of the RAID host adaptor market. I can tell you unequivocally...

Well, it's not like I have it in specifically for PC Power & Cooling, but, every product sample I've had from them (cases and power supplies) over the years never impressed me, especially after I learned their retail prices. PCP&C products seem to have high prices for no perceivable return in...

Correct, the $1 will never be part of this elite group. Quite some time ago I heard that the $1 note would actually use xerographic technology for the reverse side image (!) instead of traditional plates with ink. Otherwise, the $1 note ("bill") would've been history right about now, due to...

Well, it should have a long time ago -- like, yo, the 1950s. Nonetheless, the US retailers *will* quickly take a liking to this colourful "innovation" <snicker> because they will be able to sort and count their paper money like never before -- guaranteed. PS: Dutch paper money is the best.

By the way, the US Treasury Department will be releasing $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, and god willing, $2 notes in various hues sometime next year. I can't wait to see a blue $20, a yellow $5, or a pink $50.

LOL... Well, I almost had it right! Now, if my memory is a little better today, I believe that the Romeo file system fudged the namespace a bit in order to accomplish a 128-character filename limitation -- all at the expense of the path character limit from 255 to 128 characters. In light of...

Don't apartments normally have lease agreements with stipulations about their use as well as premise modifications?

It may turn out that the 25 GB and/or 27 GB disc media are for mastering purposes only, which means that you'll have to use a recorder specifically enabled for writing master discs (i.e. -- freekin' expensive).

I've only known of one Sparkle to go bad, and that was after 2 years service. Otherwise, I've known of a few Enermax power supplies that have gone bad. Tracking the failure rates of various brands of Taiwanese power supplies is not exactly my bailiwack -- or is that bailiwick.

...from Pricewatch Model: SP401-RA, which has dual-redundant cooling fans: SuperMicro - Power Supply for Case Info... ONLINE ORDER ONLY - PWS-0024 / SP401-RA, 400Watts, Power Supply. Ready for Pentium 4 Xeon motherboards. MUST MENTION PRICE WATCH --PWS-024 Supports upto Pentium-4 Xeon...

CAUTION: Cadillacs ahead! Highly-rated, and rather expensive... http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Accessories/Power_Supply.htm

Yes, compressing to an archive file can be a fix for a lot of things. I've even done this (using ZIP) in the past to write files onto CD-Rs with filenames with up to 31 characters for Macintosh users, who could only see ISO-9660 "High Sierra" 8.3 filenames on Windows-written "Joliet" CD-R...

Yes, they will work fine in any modern 32-bit PCI expansion bus. I'm always reading where someone buys one of these (or HP, or Sun, or...) drives and then they likely have performance problems. The firmware in many of these drives is specially designed for use in specific arrays. Depending...

At work, we had the first-ever commercial model of a CD recorder available. It was a Yamaha-based recorder that came in a pair of small 12-U racks that had the recorder, various data interfaces, power supplies, and a couple of *very* expensive 320 MB SCSI hard drives for building the CD-R image...

DMZ=Isolation Network, I assume... If you are truly apprehensive about the wireless segment of your home network (¿¿¿are you in a dormitory or an apartment complex???), then the ideal setup will be to have 2 firewalls, with one firewall between the "public" segment of your network (dialup...

The principle approach to the hands off interface has been the 3-D GUI. The 3-D GUI is not a new idea, instead it's an idea that has been kicked about for years. 3-D GUI is talked about in this SPIE (International Society Of Optical Engineering) paper, which is a 90KB PDF file...

The reqion from the northern 2/3 of Minnesota up through the whole of Manitoba is abuzz with large mosquitoes in the summertime -- it's the provincial bird. Of course, mosquitoes can be equally as bad -- or worse -- up through the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and over into Alaska starting in...

With the Supermicro power supplies I use at work and at home, this is something that I don't ever have to worry much about. Supermicro's dual-redundant fan design has a tachometer circuit that watches for fan slowdowns. In the event the power supply cooling fan slows below spec -- or is...

It is of typical design safety to have high ohm "bleed resistors" situated across the terminals of large reservoir capacitors to allow them to bleed off stored voltage potential over several seconds of time -- but it is not required by law to do so.

You can still buy black-and-white (monochrome) television sets. I bought a new one just last year (RCA).

Excuse me, NOT #8. But, I have seen them before. However, I believe newsclips at the beginning of motion picture films were already done with by the mid 1950s.

If #9 was a crappy form of canvas shoe (as we called 'em way back when) then... ALL OF THEM! But, then again, I can remember back to when I was 1 ~ 1-1/2 years old without much problem.

IBM has Power4 and PowrPC processors that are 64-bit, but not Apple. The G4 and G3 are all 32-bit "economy" processors. The G5 *will* be a 64-bit processor. + = http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/thurow.html

Intel's basic Itanium (smallest cache) is supposed to be their 64-bit technical workstation microprocessor. SGI and HP are a couple out of a very few vendors that either have or have plans to release a workstation based on Itanium II. But, you better think about mortgaging the house if you...