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One would have to suspect that -- by now -- Via has finally tweaked their KT chipset + driver + core BIOS code enough to gain stability for the masses of home and office computer users. However, you would be foolish to build a serious 24x7 server based on Via's existing marginal chipsets...

Well, for one, I have heard of a number of instances of INCOMPATIBILITIES between Intel Application Accelerator and certain CD recording software packages. Scared off yet???

Silicon Image is not SiiG and vice versa. http://www.siliconimage.com/home.asp

Yes, I've seen their website in the past. About all I can say is beware of flakes and fakes rattling their virtual tin cups for seed money. - - - - - - - - As for magnetic hard disc technology being at a limit: Optically Guided magnetic storage -- once it appears -- will dramatically...

Well.......! I've beating people over the head around here for more than a year now with the fact that Native SATA will be (is) a better all-around performer than "conventional" Parallel ATA. Still, there has been many doubters, as they continued to focus on the wrong points -- mainly the...

The straight 6 is the smoothest engine in existence because it is perfectly balanced as opposed to the vibrating straight 4s and V8s. Volvo makes a 120 degree V6 that is the equivalent of a straight 6 as far as ignition timing goes, and it runs as smooth as a straight 6. > Ever wanted to...

I never turn computers off, NOT EVEN WHEN I'M REPLACING THE MICROPROCESSOR OR THE POWER SUPPLY. Instead, I pull the electrical power cord from the unit because it's much safer. Those normally came with CompaqDOS.

I never turn computers off, NOT EVEN WHEN I'M REPLACING THE MICROPROCESSOR OR THE POWER SUPPLY.

I thinks I was fading fast the other night when I wrote that.... Yes, eventually *all* USA banknotes -- except $1 and $2 notes -- will contain some predominate hue on the front side other than green & white. The switchover to the new generation paper currency will be stretched out at least as...

I'll finally answer your question: Yes, eventually *all* USA banknotes -- except $1 and $2 notes -- will contain some hue on the front side other than green & white. It will be stretched out at least as long (likely longer) than the last exercise.

The incessant flow of this bullshit is just amazing: ATTN.PRESIDENT/CEO, I am MR .ROY MANTU, Branch Accounts Manager of PRUDENT BANK NIGERIA LIMITED, Lagos Branch. On SUNDAY, February 2, 2003, a bomb blast explosion took place on the Lagos Island, right inside My bank; So far a total...

Yes, that's because it actually *is* 2 complete Ethernet adaptors -- along with a PCI bridge circuit -- all on one physical PCI adaptor. This is the reason why multi-port Ethernet NICs cost more than 2 similar Ethernet NICs. If they include sophisticated drivers for port aggregation and/or...

I've spec'd and built a number of servers in the past that used multi-port Ethernet NICs for trunked Ethernet connections running at 200 and 400 Mb/s. The 100 Mb/s Adaptec Duo and Quartet (2-port, 4-port adaptors respectively) can be setup for port aggregation to build high-speed trunks...

OK, for you and Blakerwry, it's SPELLIN' POLICE time: FLUORESCENT I have a little Brinkman LED flashligt that I bought about a year ago at a Walmart for... er... US$11.00 or so. Just for the hell of it, I once left this Brinkmann LED flashlight running continuously for over a day, and it...

DVD-RAM is pretty popular in certain niches of enterprise storage -- namely DVD-RAM jukeboxes. Otherwise, as far as a removable storage solution for a desktop / deskside workstation, it's actually a pretty decent choice as the drive mechanism prices are nowadays a lot better. Apple went...

Yeah, it's been cold as hell here too. I had to put on a long-sleeved shirt the other day when I went out to feed the dolphins.

...like I am now, apparently. byeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLCCCCH ! :beer:

Faintly. Was that here or at... erm... SR? I might've been besotted state due to excessive pints of heavy dark ale. :erm:

I saw John Cage once in performance many years ago, maybe 1989. He died only a couple of years later. Even though I was expecting him to do so, he and the ensemble didn't perform his infamous 4'33" piece (measure after measure of quarter rests).

I get shedloads of spam just like this EACH DAY. On some days, it may top over 200 such messages. Earlier this year I had to delete several THOUSAND crap E-mail messages in one sitting after not logging in for over a week -- during a week when the spammers decided to see how much shite they...

It uses an Acard processor. There's no re-packaging of anything. Acard started off a while back as a chip designer. Their chips go into many brands of CD duplicators and various brands of external RAID storage arrays (disc). I bought my Acard AEC6280 locally. However, I looked up a few...

I only just now saw this "old" thread. It's definitely pretty hilarious! Yes, I'm afraid that Flagreen and I are in the 50-year-old range.

Gee whiz there, Dïscfärm. Aren't we acting just a bit ribald tonight!

I believe the new pin is for memory addresssing support of the larger cache.

There has been the occasional conspiracy groupthink over the past 10 years or so that at least some of the viruses that have been unleased on the computing world were created by none other than an anti-virus company. Of course, said ant-virus company had "protection before anyone else!"

Screw Adaptec; the LSI Logic SCSI host adaptors released during the past 2+ years are great, not to mention *highly* price competitive! They also have Ultra-320 SCSI adaptors now, including multi-channel versions. On a side note, LSI Logic also recently released a very impressive and very...

How is the graphics implemented in these nVidia-based mobos? Is the chipset architected such that the G-Force graphics processor interfaces the front side bus directly as opposed to being interfaced into AGP (or: a system-level device as opposed to a peripheral device)?

Ahhhh! There was a factory recall on the earliest batch of Yamaha 4416 CD-R/W drives because of a defective write laser. But, then again, this particular defective write laser also affected certain HP models and 4 or 5 other brands/models of CD-R/W as well. The symptom was that the...

> iGary's iGary's ??? iGary's what? Maybe you're the one on cough syrup, Dïscfärm!

Speak of the devil, I saw one of these "PRS Single Cut Clone" Cort just like yours this past weekend, used and for sale at a Walmart.... I meant at a Guitar Center. Yours does have pretty good pickups, though, and fortunately installed in the proper positions for their sonic characteristics...

The Texas Special Tele and Strat pickups aren't for everyone -- especially the traditionalists. The Fender Texas Specials are overwound for that "go for the throat" tone. Fender's Texas Special pickups aren't exactly an original idea. Here are the high quality "originals," which have been...

I forgot to add that the Yamaha model line is called CRW-F1 http://www.yamaha.ca/computer/cdrw.asp

The Yamaha 48X (24X R/W) has been available as a SCSI internal and external drive for a couple of months now. We have had several of the SCSI units here at work since the week they came out. The Yamaha is 48x / 24x / 48x. I would not particularly trust a 52X CD-R (or the upcoming 56X...

Er... probably not. Each guitar I have actually has a distinct purpose in my collection. I guess there's always E-Bay. BTW, what is your guitar?

Dïscfärm, have you been drinking cough syrup or something??? You normally make perfect logical and even virtual sense when you talk, or as we say in the business, you have all of your controllers in a row. But here, you seem to be hallucinating and rambling on in a desultory fashion, not to...

Unless Professor Wizard invents the world's first 666 Kg IDE hard drive, with a stack of 3 meter platters!