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Correction, it's Skinhead O'Connor. My familie had a long history of swinging the sword in favour of the papal one back in Swabia. <gag>

I believe that Blakerwry is in the "smaller" Kansas City (the one in Kansas).

I had absolutely no problems playing the 720p files -- video smooth, audio perfect. I had minimal problems playing the 1080p files -- a slight video mothion jerk was noticed about every 5 to 7 seconds, otherwise, audio perfect. Setup: * Garden variety 3.0 GHz Northwood Pentium 4 *...

...which probably means that it's 8 times as good. Given that 2006 is here, a 150 GB Raptor was inevitable. But, Western Digi is really a whole generation behind everyone else, since 10kRPM SCSI hard drives have been available for a year with capacities up to 300 GB (and 450 GB due later in...

Yes, I can do component HD from my Samsung HD receiver to the NEC monitor via DVI-D. I currently use the Samsung receiver to send HDTV transmissions to my 35-inch standard definition television (i.e. -- enjoy HDTV programme material without a quickly-obsoleting HD tele around). The Samsung...

Yes, it came with the only internal cable that's available for this HBA -- which is a breakout cable. Otherwise, the medusa-like cable really isn't much to deal with, as you can tie the unused cables into sort of a loose knot and locate them out of the way. If worse came to worse, one could...

There are all sorts of "packaged" drives like this on the market. About alll you can do is look at reviews of drive packages where you know for a fact what drive mechanism is being used inside. Hopefully, the reviewer will at least find out what drive mechanism is insde by probing the USB or...

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeheeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Sort of the browser-world's equivalent of the Yalta summit... Microsoft to use Firefox RSS icon in IE 7 IE developers have met with their counterparts at Mozilla to exchange ideas "This isn’t the first time that we’ve worked with the Mozilla team...

I somewhat-recently bought a 23-inch NEC (a.k.a. -- NEC/Mitshubishi) LCD2335WXM for dirt cheap (non-factory resealed). The price was definitely good, but half the reason I bought it was that it has a built-in television (standard definition). I have an inexpensive recent-generation HDTV...

I used the Seagate tool to set the buffer/cache in one of my SAS hard drives (the one with WinXP loaded on it) from the default Server mode to Workstation (static) mode. There was also 3 levels of AAM (acoustics) that you could select. The default AAM settting was "off," where it stayed -- the...

> I need an electric space heater... Easy. Make a space heater out of a few dozen old 1.4 GHz Willamette Pentium 4 processors. Simply increase the clockspeed towards 2.0 GHz to dramatically increase room heat.

This is NOT the case with Windows XP or Windows 2000 using NTFS. As for Windows NT 4.0 and earlier NT versions (NTFS, HPFS, or FAT) as well as Windows ME/9x, YES this is the case! These operating systems did not support INT13 extensions, so, if boot code/data existed beyond the hard drive's...

This was what it looked like on Black Thursday (15/Dec/2005)... Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't create a new thread (errno 11). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug in /home/handruin/public_html/forum/db/mysql4.php on line 48...

I'm using the setup with the mobo you just mentioned -- a Supermicro P4SCT+II. The P4SCT+II is nothing more that a P4SCT with a two extra SATA ports and SATA RAID integrated on the mobo -- all of which I've defeated by placing the mobo jumper into position 2, which effectively turns the...

Yes, the picture of the multi-lane (internal) cable on page 23 is what it is. For the fashion conscious, the cables use blue insulation. The multi-lane cable is just long enough to do the job for my overly-long (or deep) Supermicro server case (SC-942 pedestal / rackmount-able chassis)...

Something of importance here: Check to make sure you have ACPI disabled for Windows 98. If you plan on installing Win2K, Win2K3, or WinXP, you definitely want to enable ACPI. In fact, you want to enable ACPI before you begin to load Win2K, Win2K3, or WinXP so that the installer will sense...

The new manifesto probably has opening statement "Workers of the world unite!" replaced with "Serfdom employed by multi-national corporations, obey!"

A telescope isn't needed if you want to take photos of astronomical objects that you can see with naked eye. I have oodles of photos of comets, the milky way, and detailed images of the moon that I shot using just a Nikon F3 + SportsFinder, Nikkor lenses between 85mm and 135mm, and an...

Another possibility for rises in IE usage and IE spikes is new Christmas computers (i.e. -- computers that will probably NEVER experience a single security update).

OK, got rid of the "quote" problem from above.... Whoa Nelly! Not sure why I pasted in pricing info on a 73 GB ST373454SS. I think I was still suffering the effects of jetlag. In any case, I received said package from Adaptec on Tuesday (my Tuesday here in GMT -600). I was able to...

Looks like it's built upon recently-announced flexible LCD technology. There are also similar flexible keyboards.

Flash Memory: Today the iPod, Tomorrow the World? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1896385,00.asp

I thinks I was trying to say 0.1 kg of mass above (as in 1/9.81 = about 0.1). Getting a bit back on topic as far as Surge Protection goes: You have very brief, short, transitory events to deal with (microseconds, milliseconds, etc) as well as longer events. Each require different forms...

Well, that sounds right -- the force required (1 Joule) to move a stationary 1 kg mass in a vacuum 1 meter in 1 second in a straight line. However, for me personally, even though I hardly work directly in Joules, I know that a Joule of energy is 1 amp passing through 1 ohm resistance for 1...

Well, I recognised your avatar within a second. However, I haven't been to the StoFo in several weeks until the other day. So, the cat-and-mouse game continues where I guess your avatar, then you immediately change it, correct? <chuckle> MASS not weight. Besides, how do you know I don't...

A private security outfit has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a security flaw in Firefox 1.5, warning that the code can be modified to launch code execution attacks. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1898253,00.asp?kc=ewnws120905dtx1k0000599

Kilograms is only mass, not weight. Weight is a force. The metric mass unit is the kilogram and the metric weight unit is the newton. The metric mass unit WAS the gram, but that was changed a while back to the kilogram. MKS = Metres / Kilograms / Seconds makes up the core of the metric...

This is only partially true. iGary is a sock puppet of Gary -- only, not Spalsh. Splash is simply the friendly sock puppet of all-conquering GIANT who has frequently been mislead by Computer Generated Baby into dumping large loads of pea gravel in the middle of the night on the front lawn at...

I just about fell out of me chair here when I started seeing recommendations for a "truck" based upon a mini-van chassis! No no no no. Believe me, you would be making a serious mistake if you plan on *actually* using this vehicle to haul around 1500+ pounds (700+ kg) on a regular basis, or...

The 16mm is indeed an f/2.8. Unfortunately, in my original post, the 8 and the following closed parenthetical element combined to become a "funnny face." 2.8 ) ---> 2. 8)

Well, I'm back -- actually a little earlier than I was supposed to be, but screw 'em. :x According to my anemometer, I got at least a gust of 107 MPH / 170 KPH after I set it to remember all the peak settings (high/low temperature, wind velocity). Supposedly, the wind got up to 90 MPH...

Well, the law came just around and ordering me to leave in the next few hours. Period. Go. 175 MPH (that's 280 kph) winds and still gaining; has a 22 foot storm surge and rising (maybe to over 32 feet as I'm now hearing). This is likely all she wrote for my house and all my property...

Many of those "earlier" 6.x versions of QuickTime have a security hole or two. I suspect a Windows version of QT 7 will finally make its debut before the end of this calendar year.

If Bill Gates' son turns out to be a game fanatic, he might have one. Otherwise, "commercial/industrial grade" is the keyword here. Using the local vernacular: Nope.

One would have to suspect that the Fibre Channel crowd has seen the writing on the wall (so to speak) about the long-term viability of Fibre Channel as an "inside-the-box" local connectivity medium, being that Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers can use any mix of SAS and SATA storage devices...

I kinda sorta built my own bicycle a while back, starting with a Rockford alloy frame and added parts as I went -- top-line Shimano pedals, 24-speed drive train, derailleur, and alloy rims; Hot Chili suspension, somebody-or-another's alloy handlebars, etc. Now it's a real road warrior...

The new FATA disk drives for the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family provide high-capacity, low-cost storage for data applications that do not require performance-oriented 10K and15K enterprise-class Fibre Channel (FC) disk drives... Based on disk drives from Seagate, the 400...

Yes, I was going to mention that to Buck, but didn't get around to it until now. Westinghouse is indeed alive. The last I heard, they were making locomotives, nuclear reactors, nuclear bombs -- among other things.

...and run a 24-hour-a-day programming shop, thereby avoiding H-1B visa hassles while still exploiting offshore labor cost arbitrage and completing development projects in half the time they’d take onshore or offshore. Well, shiver me timbers, mate. I guess it's fish for breakfast, fish for...

Some interesting reading here: http://www.oilendgame.org/ReadTheBook.html

This certainly seems to be a bizarre audio product: Deliver sound to any room with no visible speakers or wiring Induction Dynamics™ SolidDrive™ installs directly behind walls for a truly inside-wall speaker - turning the entire wall into a sound source. Sound is generated from these large...

Every now and then, I run into a perplexing problem with Win2K and WinXP systems that seems to possibly be rooted in Javascript or in Internet Explorer. The problem affects not only Internet Explorer, but the Windows Explorer (file manager), and even Norton / Symantec Anti-Virus. Internet...

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—18 April 2005— Further strengthening its position in the mobile computing market, Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) is expanding its line of notebook hard disc drives with the industry's highest capacity and performance for applications ranging from high-performance mobile...

There are certainly USB monitoring / probing tools around for developers to analyse connections and data rates. Whether or not they are FREE is somethng else.

Happened just 19 minutes ago. I recall a rumour a few years ago that Micro$oft was preparing to buy Macromedia. Obviously, that never happened. So, now, prepare now to start cursing ADOBE when you encounter those Flash-heavy websites. :D...

LSI Logic will demonstrate a 12-drive RAID using 3.5-inch 10,000 and 15,000RPM Maxtor Atlas SAS drives. The demonstration features the LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 300-8E, 8-port PCI Express SAS RAID adapter utilizing the LSISAS1068 controller IC. It will be connected to a 12-drive SAS enclosure with...

...Object-Based Storage is a new command set that is an extension of the current SCSI command set, which shifts or delegates more functionality and intelligence from the host into individual storage devices. The demonstration is the world's first of a prototype device that is compliant with the...

MS05-016: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS05-016.mspx Vulnerability in Windows Shell that Could Allow Remote Code Execution (893086) Affected Software: Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows...

Windowz For Supercomputerz has been delayed until the first half of 2006. It was to have been released towards the end of 2005. One would have to suspect that M$ is running into trouble porting Outlook Express, Messenger, and Reversi to a 64-bit massively parallel computing environment...