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Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a half-assed solution. You have to have a buy an adapter card. You have to run four separate cables. You can't have all of the drives in a RAID array. They should offer it with just an internal to external adapter bracket, with a single connector...

I have 3.2.0.15, which I presume is the last version.

It's not clear to me how, at a conceptual level, this would work.

This wouldn't work with MPEG, as it uses key-framing; so, some frames depend upon previous ones. Because in live-action motion pictures, very little changes from frame to frame, a lot of space can be saved by only encoding the differences, much like joint stereo in MP3.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly the case. I don't think that the author did anything special; we all just lucked-out. There's usually some time of gain from multithreaded applications, but the tendency of threads to be highly interdependent makes it difficult to get a massive advantage based...

I can't really tell you much about Lancer other than it's based on AoTuv and extremely fast. This is mostly because the codec's pages are in Japanese, and even the folks of HydrogenAudio don't seem to be able to glean a lot of technical informaiton. Considering how decoding of audio works, I'm...

Is there anything in a P3 system that would use the -12v?

Sony isn't a name that I'd associate with batteries, either. But, until the recent debacle, if someone had told a consumer that his laptop had a Sony battery, he'd feel a lot better about it than if it had an IBM battery.

I believe that DVDShrink has two (for the most part) independent threads. So, when each thread can have a processor core to itself, things go a bit faster. Honestly, very little software out there will give this kind of magical gain right of the box. It seems to me that a number of encoder...

Ignorace is not an excuse -- it's a source of income. You're the paid expert, not the babysitter.

Download Google Earth.

Nobody has IBM televisions in their living room.

The correct course of action is to wipe their system and install Linux. Do not install X. They should be safe from here on out.

Your problem, it seems, is IE, not the Flash plugin. On Firefox, I *can* install the flash plugin from a dialog in the background while continuing to surf.

I would expect the opposite. And perhaps it's a question of clientele. No body ever got fired for buying Big Blue, but it sure cost some money. Hitachi, on the other hand, is well known in consumer electronics. If I build a computer for someone, they know who Hitachi is. If I were to tell...

From C:\ attrib -r - s -h boot.ini copy a:\boot.ini

Except that it isn't. There are no current-model Hitachi drives that have non-IBM heritage. I'm not even sure that Hitachi still has any of the non-IBM design staff left.

It's not so much an abomination as it is an extremely poorly used tool. It should be limited to short animation sketches and web games, and never used as the primary interface to a site. I started using an optimised build of Firefox which comes with the Flash plugin by default, so no dealing...

I didn't say that wasn't true. Given that a lot of people who own consoles would never own a PC, let alone one that could play a reasonable modern game, says a lot.

http://www.sfftech.com/

It's Adobe Flash now....

I dunno about all of you guys, but I can't get FIOS because Verizon isn't my ILEC. We're getting LightSpeed, which sounds a lot more exciting, and lot less like a European car.

Hitachi buys IBM's drive business; no more "Hitachi" drives. Samsung buys Western Digitial; no more "Samsung" drives.

One Adaptec 48300 PCI-X SAS bus adapter and two 36GB Seagate 15k.4 drives This is the evaluation kit that Adaptec was selling earlier this year for $550, and I am done evaluating. I am posting this for the folks here first. The card is fine, flashed to the latest firmware. The drives are...

Woot

The money is in console games. PCs have too many different configurations to support, and you can charge more for console games.

Seen any drives from Hitachi's pre-merger teams?

The fact of the matter is that the extra $350 of a T-1 goes to quality measures which are fairly negligible to the vast majority of users. For games, most of the ping time is on the other end of the wire anyway.

No point in getting one with my case, if my motherboard has one. My current desktop came with one of the aforementioned small ones that sits on the motherboard's header, giving you the option to hook it up to something else or have no beeps at all, if you wish.

Something that banks use, as e-mail hasn't been proven.

I have to agree. The moving air in my case makes more noise that the fans themselves.

The consumer drive market needs to continue to contract, but Western Digital seemed to be the ugly girl that no one wanted to dance with. Unfortunately, people have been just stupid enough to keep buying their products. My feeling is, if Samsung buys Western Digital, it's going to be just like...

It seems to me that defragmenting can only lead to reduced life. What we need are smarter controllers that better maintain the cells so that they don't go beyond their useable lives.

If this were $50, I'd say that it'd be worth it for any hardcore gamer. You'd probably get more from what they're charging for getting a second video card and setting up SLI/Crossfire.

I feel sorry for that kid who spent almost $300 for *another* 20 frames per second in Counter Strike.

Didn't someone do some tests five or so years ago showing that a full-bore 100base-T NIC with crappy drivers uses maybe 3% of processor time? And that was with five-years-ago CPUs.

Piece of crap Microsoft....

Whatever happened to the punchcard system that IBM was working on? It seemed so promising for archival use....

Pornographic storage?

Is that really the Australian national anthem? I thought Canada's kind of sucked....

Does all of these mean that I have to get a copy in order to know what's going to break on people's computers?

Pretty sneaky. Getting Intel coming and going....

I personally prefer R-Studio.

Intel is behind the curve on this one. There are already HTX slots on some servers.

I usually just take my right-handed wrenches and turn them over. Never had a lefty complain....

Mosaic rocked.

You should have seen what happened when I started a bulletin board called "kill the president."

Guess what you get when you search for "miserable failure?" I doubt that they'll start calling it "Livebombing," tho'.

I flash my computer by booting to FreeDOS off of the UBCD and reading the flash files off of a FAT format partition that I have. All you need to do is stick those flash files someplace where they can be read.

The 7200RPM laptop drives are plenty snappy, and most folks cannot tell the differences on STR. If they went with the bigger height form facter, they could slip more platters in there. SCSI is already going that way (although, for different reasons).