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The navigation menu is still two lines for me.

Folks in the RAID 0 crowd have never had a sense of what really was good....

Doesn't this muck with thermal envelopes, and such?

The products are good. The businessmen are bad.

I guess he's looking down the road five to ten years....

Wait until the melting polar ice cap freshens water so much that the gulf stream stops. Then the North Atlantic will become a very *cold* place. That's the tricky thing about this global climate change.... not everyone is getting hotter and drier....

Wouldn't be surprising if they were misinformed. I'm not holding my breath.

FYI II: Called Adaptec today about the backorder situation. The person to whom I talked said that my backorder was due to a lack of drives. If you received drives and no card, I curse at you. You should expect a card to ship to you this week.

Aren't 2001FPs dirt cheap now? Get two of those.

Didn't realise that Seagate was headed by a ticking timebomb....

FYI, received a message today saying two weeks... but it looked awfully canned. I'm sure that we're just waiting on a shipment from Asia to come in.

USB thumb drives are the new floppy. They seem to be just as reliable, if not moreso. SanDisk has a titanium series that's pretty indestructible. I saw a demonstration video where they ran one over with a car, and were still able to use it.

Whether + or - media is better for you depends upon your burner and what you plan on reading with. Compatability between the two is similar, although some drives and players will read one but not the other. I use both, but stick with +R most of the time for some of the reasons others have...

All the SuperMicro AMD products are OEM. That's why there's no direct link to them. Why they're OEM only may have something to do with Intel and pockets.... but that they *are* making boards for AMD chips shows how seductive their performance is.

No problems... of course, the website misidentified my browser because of hacked user agent.

They announced this a long time ago. Considering the operating system's staying power, I think that they're just using this as an opportunity to jack up the support costs. They may actually deserve it.

You can get a current generation 147GB 10k SCSI drive for less. You could probably get a host bus adapter and cable, and still pay less. Another reason that Western Digital has no place in the enterprise?

On that board, the second chip (with the additional PCI Express lanes) is attached to the second processor. So you'd have to slot two Opterons in there. Not a cheap prospect. Supermicro is coming out with a similar board.

I think that it was here a while back that we discussed WMVHD. How well your software takes advantage of your hardware really seems to make a diference. For example, HD clips were slideshows in WiMP, but played fine in PowerDVD on my old AthlonXP. Unfortuntely, not enough of the work is being...

Let me rephrase that. You're an ass. Stop acting like it. Now, back to your regular two turtle doves, upcoming second candle, or first candle.

Yes. In general, "SLI mode" is just a way to redistribute the PCI-Express lanes between the two slots. Although you're unlikely to notice the difference between a video card at x16 and x8, I was sure that there were some motherboards with enough lanes for two true x16 slots.

There's nothing like Stereodude demonstrating that he is a hipocrite by insulting some *and* then wishing everyone a merry christmas. If only in the spirit of the season, all good christians should at least attempt to act as a member of their own faith. Now... Remember, the first candle and...

Ian McDiarmid may have something to say about this....

According to my handy thermo-rule: 68F = 20C 61F = 16C So maybe 17C.

Sounds more like, "peace in our time."

This appears to come with a fan cable. Do you have to have the octopus flailing around your case, or are able to use only the cables that you need?

You're a little behind the second post, but we love you anyway.

If you're willing to pony-up, PCP&C will do a custom fan for you, so as not to void the warranty.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1904184,00.asp Sounds to me like they're buying market share and, therfore, greater economy of scale. Good for the ATA market, but I'm not sure how this will reflect in the SCSI market.

You asked her for her accounting, which, in many cases, is irrelevant (as long as the books come out in the end). Unless she is going to expand rapidly or do some funny tax stuff, then it's not necessary. It may be useful to setup a spreadsheet or simple database to keep track of this...

If she has a business, maybe it should hire you. Also, keep in mind that her business is small. As an inventory system, notecards aren't entirely unintelligent.

Actually, I'd say that we've had more citizens killed by attempting to thwart terrorists in the last year than actually killed by terrorists (not including ourselves). And all because Brownie was doing a good job! Considering the recent report card from the so-called 9/11 Committee, I'd...

Keep in mind that your average incandescent lightbulb is 95% efficient as a heater. You can slot some 100W lightbulbs in there and get the light *and* heat. That doesn't fix the hazard caused by an extension cord running from the house....

Just because your users are unreasonable doesn't make this good software. Macromedia Flash, Adobe Reader, and the Windows .NET Framework don't include any pirated or improperly distributed software. They also don't cause as many problems as they solve (at least in the case of Flash and...

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

No.

I'm sure most Mac users moved onto Safari some time ago.

You might want to start with a copy of VirtualPC and a Windows license. 8)

Generally, your ancestors don't care a lot about your funeral, as they are already dead. It isn't always that way, but, as a general case, yes. Your decendants are far more likely to care, as your next of kin will be responsible for your funeral and burial expenses. There's nothing wrong with...

Danger Will Robinson. Fire danger ahead....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager

There's not enough service to run something electric. Anything else is going to use a fuel and pose fire, asphyxiation, and/or gas poisoning hazard. You don't really want those in a shed. And if the building is going to be abandoned relatively soon, then there's no point in making much...

If it's colder inside than outside... open the windows. Obviously, that's not as helpful in today's weather. In reality, the house needs a check on its insulation. If she works from home and *needs* environmental control, she needs to invest in an actual system. A space heater isn't a...

Entourage is the Macintosh equivalent of Outlook. Why you would want to use either unless forced by an uncaring IT department, I don't know. Personally, I suggest a personal organiser.

Folks still buy SCSI opticals. I just don't have a lot of hope pinned on an SAS DVD-ROM....

Doesn't it just use standard Unix-style mail files?

Another nifty Linux distro....

I like to use Pentium 4s, but they're kind of expensive. Usually, I just put on some extra clothing and/or blankets. I haven't used either heating or cooling since moving from Pennsylvania, and foresee any real need to so do. It used to get down into the forties *inside* during the depths of...

I must have missed the constitutional ammendment requiring me to show ID when asked. I don't think that you understand the case. There's no reason to require ID, because no one checks that it's real, let alone whether the holder is someone that should be let in. Basically, it's not a security...

It's $20 for a parallel to serial adapter card. Surely someone can slap a SATA interface on a drive for less than that.