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I wish that were the case. Actually, speaking of eBay, I recently bought a new modem via there to catch up on the times. Per chance, the person whose auction I won lives in south San Jose; so, I proposed an in-person meeting to swap cash for the modem. The guy comes back that he's leaving...

Another reason why I tend to clean-install Windows every once in a while. Even with the best tools, you can't catch everything -- and it's oh so easy to get something new.

... for schmucks in the online personal sale universe? Why do all of the jackasses find me to do their jackassery? Maybe I'll spend more time selling my stuff on eBay.....

You mean Hitachi. It's not quite worth that much effort. It's data I'd like to have, but can live without. Like the original PDFs of my taxes... I have paper copies, but those would be better. I guess I'll be exercising the remaining three months of its warranty....

Saphire is the third-party manufacturer for most of ATi's cards, so they're usually a good choice. Personally, I stick with ATi....

It's a Hitachi 180GXP. Worked perfectly until failure.

I'm trying to clean-up the piles of stuff on the floor next to my desk, so I thought that I'd give the folks here first shot while I get organised for posting elsewhere. All items are as described and sold "as is." I accept Yahoo Paydirect, money order, cashier's check, and cash. I will also...

They look fine; can't pull them up or anything. Checked over the entire PCB; looks to be exactly the same as the day I got the drive.

Nada. The drive doesn't even get ID'd by the controller. It's as if it isn't getting any power at all.

I guess I'll need to find a large ziplock....

Basically, compatability is bizarre. Some programs that work in Win9x and 2000, won't work on XP, even in compatability mode. Programs that work in 2000, but not Win9x, work in XP only in a Win9x compatability mode.

One of my ATA drives very suddenly does not spin-up or apparently power-up at all. Beyond poking it with a stick, repeatedly plugging a molex connector into it, and exhorting it to work, is there anything that I might do to revive it, if only long enough to get the data off of it?

Have you tried running a find new hardware?

The problem with image mounting tools, is that game makers are constantly trying to make them unuseful (for good reason, of course). You may find that, after an important patch, your mounted image no longer will allow the game to start.

For only 96kB, it takes forever to load. And it runs like ass on my machine.

You mean, if game designers were making games for you, rather than everyone else in the world.

It's so that you can continue to use the ATX connector for your main CPU board.

I'm sorry to break-up the über-storage server party, but wouldn't using a key server be a heck of a lot easier?

My expectation is that nVidia's next <s>dustbuster plus</s> graphics product won't suck.

Not to be confused with the BBCE....

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Sounds like a Jaz drive on steroids. Except for backup, why would you want one of these. Actual external harddrives are quite cheap -- and *are* harddrives.

Actually, you're probably already violating licenses. This is from EA's boilerplate license: It goes on to say: You need to get appropriate commercial licenses from EA in order to "rent" the games. Presumably, these cost more -- but would likely leave you free to implement this server system.

Perhaps we should question why you're spending $6,000 on licensing <$50 a pop games. I'd also like to know if your licenses would *allow* you to do what you're planning. Last I checked, it's one copy on one machine; nothing about copies on servers, for any purpose.

A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at...

Better yet, just *add* a 200GB 7k250 to the workstations and install games to there. As we all know, if you load a machine up with memory, the performance of the storage subsystem is less important....

This why credit cards have a dispute process. As always, leaving negative feedback in the right places and threatening (and being prepared to) complain to the appropriate authorities usually helps.

From a protest against Windows 98 that the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group did during the Win98 kickoff at CompUSA in Santa Clara, CA. Sam Ockman and Nick Moffitt were interviewing customers. Slightly edited from Sam's account on-line: Us: We're Linux TV and we're wondering if Windows crashes...

That would involve having the appropriate hardware.... That makes sense. Presuming, for a moment, that the maximum amount of data that the drives on a channel could put out was greater than the speed of the channel, then striping across would be the choice?

I generally suggest that people go with Mandrake or SuSE. They're easy to install and pretty much set everything up for you.

Edmund Clarke, on the subject of white-board markers: "It's fun to play with all of these colors. It's also fun to sniff these things! [takes a big whiff from one of the markers... sighs] One of the advantages of being a professor..."

Yes. That's why I'm talking about SCSI. Does a hardware controller make a difference? Since the data would be sent once to the controller, it would duplicate it to the mirrors.

Okkay, I see. If you have to write across channels (through multiple stripes), it doesn't matter anyway.

Since Merc read more into the possibilities than was there, I'll go with Howell's answer. My theory on this (and I may be wrong) is to go with (a) because the same data will always be going (being written) to the mirror pair, I'd want them on different channels; otherwise the channel will get...

English is the end result of Norman soldiers hitting on Saxon barmaids. -Overheard in a Japanese class

There are better-preserved copies in the dump.

For a four-disk RAID 10 array on two channels I want to: a. Stripe down channels and mirror across -or- b. Mirror down channels and stripe across *Extra credit points will be awarded for best reason why a or b is correct.

The basic idea behind malls is that they are more convenient than cities. Cities contain streets, which are dangerous and crowded and difficult to park in. Malls, on the other hand, have parking lots, which are also dangerous and crowded and difficult to park in, but -- here is the big...

It probably should have been "Just a Clown."

"I'm sort of entertained that the Times says 'an Islamic society, based on the Koran'. As opposed to what, an Islamic society based on the books of Tolkein?" --Nat Lanza

Who let the Babelfish translation engine post?

"Damnit" isn't a contraction; it's a compound word. Contractions are missing letters. "Cannot" is a compound word; "can't" is a contraction. In English, contractions also usually have apostrophes in them, like "how's it." Mind you, this does not keep the lazy from leaving saidsame...

To be honest, that makes a bit a of sense. If my $100 motherboard can have optical in-outs for its crudy built-in sound, why can't my harddrive use an optical link?

Damn those cruddy Ikea daybeds!

The key here is to sell them the AS/400 and support services, with said services unnecessary.

But Seagate doesn't make chipsets....

In article <35E30270.BF8D9B4A@usa.net>, Chris <chrisdartHORMEL@usa.net> wrote: > My outdated Encyclopedia Canadiana says they are found in Southern > Ontario. Curious. Someone else suggested that the possums I'd seen in New England were actually Canadians in disguise, and now you tell me that...

You mean "CE"

IBM has had (and recognises) that it makes buttloads of IP and doesn't use it, just as Xerox did with PARC. This is largely due to their play-it-safe management style (which also help them bungle the PC market). There was a push, starting about ten years ago, to use, license, or sell all of...