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It's OK, Tea. If you are really good, Tannin might give you a birthday for your birthday...erm, nevermind.

Heh. I recieved so much help so quickly I actually felt a bit guilty. All I've been doing since is reading and re-reading the code so I know what it actually does and why it is done that way. Once I have that down, I get to play with taking stuff from arrays and sticking it into the database. A...

Great rant, Merc. This is the reason I don't do HP anymore. I downloaded the "basic printer driver" for a networked multifunction Officejet yesterday. It was 38MB, for the "basic" one! And it was a FEAD thing that took 10 minutes to execute on a new but basic PC! When it was done, it went away...

Looks like it half-works in Vista. The command is taken, and they are in the list afterwards, but they aren't grayed out. Since I don't remember exactly what I have in there these days, I'll let it ride.

I'd never heard of it, either. But it's easy and free. Shrug.

I would prefer fatty finned copper heatsinks, but I've never seen one.

Nothing. Power, Audio, Video, and 1 USB. They do sell a USB NIC, a USB modem, and a USB DVD-RW. To be honest, I don't even hook up my laptop to a wired NIC if I leave it at my desk, no that isn't that big a deal.

Even I would be hard-pressed to recommend this card for a RAID-1 array.

Yup, all cache set to maximum. I have the on-card battery and a UPS on the system, so I don't worry too much. But the test was over 300GB, so most of it was from disk.

Results from BST, default install and I just picked a temp folder in my nearly full array and hit "run". I was using the machine the whole time, and there were only 360GB of free space, so it's on the slowest parts of the drives. Write: Blocks: 1448757 Total: 353.7GB Max/s: 254.9MB/s Avg/s...

Looks like a used 1Ds body is going for about $1200 on eBay.

I got that according to the title, he wants a lens for flowers. And he mentioned in there somewhere about taking pictures of food at restaurants. And it looks like he already purchased a T&S lens, but doesn't have a body to go with it. And instead of getting a body, he's making additional...

Awesome. And over my head.

I remember Terminator 2 on Laserdisk on a rich friends parents system. It was awesome, but I was 13, so many things were awesome.

I'm running a RAID-5 of 10 750GB drives on a 9650-16ML, Writes and Reads are a bit under 200MB/s. I suspect it is limited by my target array (RAID-0 of Raptors). If you tell me what tests you are running and how to run them, I'd be happy to give you some comparable numbers.

I'm really liking my Razer Copperhead. Not a cheap mouse, but not too many bells and whistles, either. It just does the things a mouse is supposed to do really, really well. 1000Hz and 2000dpi just makes everything more smooth.

Wow, that is a poor result. I don't have an answer off the top of my head, but the first thing I would do is look in their configuration to see if caching or DNS are disabled. The next thing I would do is call them; the advantage of paying this kind of money (my controller was ~$1200) is that...

Everyone's been paying out everyone to use everything. Is would/should be a scandal but it seems everyone is guilty and no one is making a big deal out of it.

I think it was John Stewart who said "stereotypes: they may not be accurate, but they sure save time."

Neat utility, but only for PnS, not dSLR.

BlueRay is the only one with burning capabilities IIRC.

That would be great. I have a box full of 80-320GB drives in the closet that I didn't count either.

The conclusion I keep coming to on these things is that no matter what the policy is, it won't work well and will cost a lot. I had this pointed out to me at dinner the other day when I was advocating a less invasive foreign policy (pardon the pun). The other person pointed out, and rightly so...

Online storage please. Not counting tapes or hard drives that sit in your safe.

How much additional tax, Merc?

It's clearly built to be disposable, but isn't priced that way. I wonder which will change.

Actually, not having any moving parts at all in the same room is the quietest. Another advantage of cracking.

My desktop's only delay is when it decides to spin up the array at random (like, while opening Firefox, which is not installed on the array). This delay is particularly noticeable because the RAID card is set to only spin up one drive per second, which makes the entire delay ~15 seconds.

It is damn sexy. But SSD is the only way to go, and $3000+ is a lot for a laptop.

I don't want to burn a copy, I just want to play the main film at full resolution from my hard drive. If I can remove the DRM, I'll certainly do so. That is that I would consider a crack.

The only crashes I get are BSODs when I close a corrupted video stream in Media Player Classic. I understand that the file is messed up, but the OS should be able to recover better than that.

I'm an idiot. Fixed. <?php require ("imdb.class.php"); $movie = new imdb ($_GET["imdbid"]); $movieid = $_GET["imdbid"]; $movie->setid ($movieid); echo $movie->year().','; foreach ( $movie->genres() as $gen){ echo $gen.','; } foreach( $movie->cast() as $cas){ echo...

I've reduced the amount of information pulled further. But I'm still getting strange repeats at the end. 1995,Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller,Joseph Melito,Bruce Willis,Jon Seda,Michael Chance,Vernon Campbell,H. Michael Walls,Bob Adrian,Simon Jones,Carol Florence,Bill Raymond,Ernest Abuba,Irma St...

Bah. Too many entries. I'd love to only return the first half-dozen important cast members, but many are billed by order of apprearance (eg. 12 Monkeys has Brad Pitt as #13).

This almost does it. <?php require ("imdb.class.php"); $movie = new imdb ($_GET["imdbid"]); $movieid = $_GET["imdbid"]; $movie->setid ($movieid); echo $movie->year().','; foreach ( $movie->genres() as $gen){ echo $gen.','; } foreach( $movie->cast() as $cas){ echo...

You are correct! But as it turns out, I only want the first item (not who they played or their ID#).

Alright. Sorry for all the crap. Last one before I go to bed, Complete david.html <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Enter IMDB Movie ID:</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <FORM ACTION="david.php" METHOD=get> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="imdbid" SIZE=30 MAXLENGTH=50> <INPUT...

This is cleaner and produces the same error...is it still correct? $movie = new imdb ($_GET["mid"]); $movieid = $_GET["mid"]; $movie->setid ($movieid); echo $movie->title().','; echo $movie->year().','; $gen = $movie->genres(); for ($i = 0; $i + 1 < count($gen); $i++) { echo...

Agghhhh! Help please... For now I'm just trying to display all the tags as I want them. In a single line, separated by commas without spaces. Here is the code: echo $movie->title().','; echo $movie->year().','; $gen = $movie->genres(); for ($i = 0; $i + 1 < count($gen); $i++) {...

OK, I've got the API to spit out all the information I want for a given IMDB ID. Now I'm looking into breaking that information into tags.

Adding the IMDB IDs now, worked out a system, only ~15 seconds each.

It maintains an inventory, and provides the information, but offers no more than what "My IMDB" offers. What I am looking for is something that is self-referencing, where anytime you click on a link it shows more films from within the collection. Perhaps having a separate link to launch IMDB's...

So it looks like what I need to do is: 1. Get the API. 2. Use the "Title" field to find IMDB's movie ID 3. Pull the fields that I want to use for that ID 4. Separate any arrays into elements 5. Add them to the (now) comma separated tag field Based on my quick playing around, step #2 can't be...

My thoughts were to grab some of the more relevant data and populate the "tags" with it. Things like writer, director, genre, top actors, etc. I already have the location and title info in a spreadsheet.

Looks like the author of that also wrote phpVideoPro. Looking into it more.

I just found IMDBPHP. It looks to do exactly what I want. I just hope the code isn't too far over my head (I'm sure it is).

Yup. Typically on a motherboard all the soundcard bits are in the same geographical area, usually right next to the headers. I've even seen some with a ground trace around the outside of that section. But some also stick the NIC there, and other bits tend to get close. I'm not sure which parts...

Nope. I pressed the power button and it turned on without drama. I even ran the self-test and it reported no errors. It acts as if I turned it off using the button.

Vista is a mess. But phrasing this as a shortcoming of Vista is BS. Non-DX10.1 cards don't support DX10.1 in any OS. That's like blaming Exxon for your Ferrari not running on Diesel. Does Vista SP1 run DX10 games with DX10 cards? I don't see a problem here. I don't like being the Microsoft...

...and where the traces go on the motherboard. The only fix I know is to use a separate soundcard.