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Regarding the difference in performance between the SiiG and Promise (that's all it always is, right? a promise to perform, one that is never kept??), I remember reading somewhere that the Siig was native SATA while all other cards were PATA with built-in PATA to SATA converters. If this is...

I feel your pain. I recently upgraded someone's HP Pavilion 6912. Added more RAM, and formatted the disk (it had WinME) and installed W2kPro on it. Guess I was lucky; didn't have a single glitch. I would have shot the bloddy thing if it had given me the problems you experienced.

The problem is that all of the SATA adapters available so far have two connectors (drives) only (AFAIK). I'd have preferred four. SCSI looks more attractive from that standpoint. WRT the drive itself, I think a 50% premium over the street price of the urrent sweet spot would have been perfect...

That was interesting! But either that web site or a link in it screwed up IE, and I had to "End Process" IE from the Task Mangler. Anyway, there's a heck of a lot of 'hype' on Colossal's web site. I sincerely hope it's all true. Many times I dream that somebody is able to get cold fusion...

Cisco will operate Linksys as a division and will continue to sell its products under the Linksys brand name Most of the general public probably won't have a clue, and probably won't give a damn, buying the product that the "advisor" at Best Buy or Circuit City or CompUSA or Fry's told them to...

Here: http://news.com.com/2100-1035-993457.html?tag=fd_top Sheesh, I've been reading too many of Tea's posts.

Those exotic limos come with a staff of two: you can't get inside without their help. When you get horizontal, they'll shove you in (unless you're a little person and can walk in without doubling over or leaving your upper body behind). Adcadet, 'ow 'bout a quaint hoss & buggy? (I'm cheating...

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That was hilarious, thanks Jake!

I came very very close to buying a W8500 when they first came out. Tons of room, cleverly designed. I chickened out because they a) are big and b) cost too much (for me). Bought a couple of Antec SX-1030s instead. After some surgery with a Dremel, am quite happy with them.

And you have mail!

Vell, Vhat is your email address, Sir?

Buck, that's because the Addtronics W8500 is a WTX case. :D You're probably right, howell, but it's still a dumb idea. Ever try to stick a PCI card in an ISA slot? Even a newbie would be able to tell that it won't fit.

I've never understood why cards in PCI and AGP slots face downwards in ATX cases. That's dumb; heat goes up, and this way, the heat has nowhere to go. In a WTX case, the PCI/AGP cards do face up like they should. They probably run a lot cooler that way, and the number of hotspots in the case are...

Most download managers are spyware. Better to use in-built ones like Moz has. jtr1962, I looked in my archives - I have a cuple of word docs (3 pages + 2 pages) that I can zip and email to you; info on tweaking for max. speed. You probably know all of it already, but let me know if you want...

What's a "common-rail" diesel engine? Seems to be the designers choice these days. Is the fuel sprayed into a "common" inlet manifold area instead of into the cylinder? If so wouldn't that mess up the self-ignition process?

Thats what I call colorful language... Speaking of engine sounds, I remember reading that Mazda worked very hard to tweak the sound of the Miata to make it appealing. Amazing that nobody mentioned it. And with this talk of lowering cars, I'm reminded of those weirdos in California who buy...

e-dawg, thanks for the link on the VR6 - interesting reading! In my college days, I was a car freak, dreaming up specs for every major sub-system of the car I was going to build. I even designed a logo that was an acronym of the company name (VM); the logo looked like a crankshaft of sorts. I...

Input (food) / Output (I'll let you guess) for the squirrel could be a problem....

That really helps! Thanks, SteveC.

Well, folks, you're partially right (path length limitation). There seems to be an additional limitation in number of directories in the path. I've found that the leaf node, ie, the file itself, can be at a maximum of the 8th level, or the burning sw will scream. I have Nero, but everybody so...

They could do it. Volume! They'd also OEM it for a zillion other brands....

Or, you could zip up to Fry's in Fountain Valley (up the 405) or to the one in Anaheim (near the 91 & 57 Fwy junction) and get one of the Antecs. A guy I know used to be in the business of selling power supplies (to Intel for their server cases, to Cisco for their gear, etc.). Whenever we...

I'll risk stating the obvious: are XP drivers available for the PERC3/DCL? It may be a rebadged LSI/AMI, but it likely has "Dell" firmware.

Thanks for the replies. COmpression is a last-ditch option for me; I'd rather not use it unless I have to. I'm velly velly sure somebody somewhere has run into my problem and written a util for it.......

I'm launching a semi-formal effort to backup my data to CDs. I'm sick and tired of seeing a message similar to "file x is in a directory that is nested more than 8 levels deep, some OSes will have a problem reading this CD, do you want to proceed?". I'm using the Disc-At-Once option. I take it...

Awright, maybe I'm the only one here that powers his PC down when done for the day. Have to give some rest to those little bits that have been running around all day, you know.

You should've considered a waterfall in your apartment, Merc. It could've cooled your PCs, and according to Feng-Shui, would've been good for you as well ;)

You sure are an enterprising guy, Merc.........

That was interesting reading, thanks! How'd you do the CAT 5 cabling in-wall? Used a fishtape? Didn't any studs get in the way? How do you keep the things that are in the closet cool?

Yup, I can see them Dumbo ears in your avatar. And that thing in the center must be when you bumped your head in the doorway, I guess. Glad to have found ya, twin bro!

Dozer! So you're my long-lost twin our parents kept telling me about! Do you also have the big bulbous nose, the cauliflower ears and.....I'll let you describe the rest so I know you're rally my twin.

What an utter lack of self control.... :arge:

Thanks James. I've been sleep deprived for the last two weeks, and unlike Merc, become incoherent as a consequence. In the specific case I brought up (internists' office), there are medium sized requests from multiple users as opposed to large-sized requests from a few. So IMHO, the ability to...

Merc wrote: And in another thread, he wrote that he has 60+ drives in use at his place. Merc, seriously, you might dmagae your hearing. Another 10 years of this, would be very, very bad. You have to do something about it.

GIANT wrote: Guess I missed that point :(. I'm coming strictly from a situation where they already have a server with a 100Mb nic, a 10/100 switch, and transfer quite a bit of scanned images back and forth (internist medical office). They're the kind that won't pay $450 to buy a switch with a...

Their diagram shows baffles (like an auto muffler) to reduce noise. That's true, but their claim that air flow is not reduced is pure bull. How can you do both at the same time? Even an auto muffler generates quite a bit of back thrust. Noise vs. air flow is a trade-off. It makes most sense to...

iGary, agreed you're better of with GbE. The problem with that is you need a switch with at least one GbE port, and most networks today use Fast_E. Buying a new switch costs money, and s-m-a-l-l businesses are very cost conscious; for them, a second PCI server NIC would be a lot cheaper. I have...

The easiest thing - nothing. I'm drowning in things to do; I'll revisit this issue in a week or so. Thanks for following up, though :D !

And where did you purchase this marvellous toy from, Sir?

Are dual-port nics treated as two separate NICs (i.e. 2 IP addresses) or one? When used in a server, can you connect both to the same switch for twice the throughput (servicing two requests simultaneously)? Thanks.

Fushigi wrote: John, please post your impressions of the 2000FP after using it for a few days. I hated squinting at my 14.1" UXGA laptop, and I await your findings with bated breath!

In the context of coaxing software to work, untickled is entirely appropriate, Coug.

I'll continue to inflict pain on the hijackees... Very Cool, Buck - your website, I mean. Especially the part about the name of the business :mrgrn: SJC is a swell place, isn't it? I used to know some folks who lived and had a business there; they could give you quite a lot of business...

My experience matches Coug's.

If I may ask, whereabouts in SoCal are you, Buck?

I always thought Sonic was a really weird name for an eating joint! And Yo, Canadians: Think twice about buying the Dell in America and getting it shipped - you may not have an enforceable warranty.

ClearType has nothing to do at all with size. It just improves clarity.

Tempting price, eh? The only Raid controller supported officially is a 32-bit 33MHz card - theERC3-SC, with a single (internal) channel and 32MB cache. The mama board has: * 2 x 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots * 2 x 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots * 2 x 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots For a server with multiple drives...

Tim, The Stinkpad came with (and is still running) Win2k Pro, which does not support ClearType. Even if it did, Cleartype wouldn't have helped my situation because the problem was not clarity (which is mainly what ClearType is for); it was size. But the quality of the LCD itself is oustanding...