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Whoops, forgot to add that the tidier way to slow down a fan is to use a speed controller such as the one from Zalman. AU$12, Tea. Connects between the fan and the motherboard, simply adjust until your ears are pleased (I personally wouldn't drop much below two thirds of maximum rpm because of...

Noooooo, that's not how it's done. :) Firstly, it's +12V, not -12V (Pity. Might be interesting if you organize it to put 17V across a fan ...). Secondly, you need to swap the 5V line with the ground line that's next to the 12V line. That supplies +5V and +12V to the fan, resulting in 7V across...

Beware! The same problem exists with Panaflo as Papst. The 1900rpm 12L is great, but the more powerful 12H is not quiet.

I also don't agree that "no tape solution is particularly fast". http://rss.seagate.com/products/srssDrives/ultriumMain.html 32MB per second isn't bad.

Travan TR-5 isn't that slow, James, although probably still the slowest current tape solution out there. At 120MB/min (compressed), the throughput is definitely limited by USB 1.0. Now QIC, that's a different story altogether! If I had to choose between TR-5 and DDS-3 for my own use, I'd feel...

Congratulations, Tea! Welcome to the club for owners of useless fan collections. I am the founding member. Did you buy these from the same outfit you last talked about? If so, I think you have been fleeced big time. As Groltz says, which model is it?

I'd agree with Mark. The people with big smiles on their faces have usually picked up a heavier duty used printer. Apart from anything else, BTW, running costs are usually lower. Good detective work, e_dawg. I wonder if it isn't Samsung that is the manufacturer, however? Are the Lexmark...

That was no 19 year old younger cousin. That was her grandmother. Everyone always says how young she looks.

Pradeep, many printers come with "starter" cartridges, sometimes even workgroup ones. It's understandable if the standard cartridge is higher capacity than average. Manufacturers have to compete on purchase price and most people don't realize how weeny HP cartridges are. I singled out the...

I looked at the Samsung printers a few months ago, and I just checked specs etc to catch up. They're quite popular with dealers, chiefly thanks to the good pricing, but also because they give less trouble than HP (but what doesn't?). My view then and now is that despite what CNet et al say...

I agree with Tea and Tannin. Tapes only make real sense now for truly humungous data backup. From your negativity towards an external hard disk, I presume you want to keep a fair number of different backups. Let's look at the costs (which may or may not be the best US prices, but I'm hoping...

All motion pictures are tinted in some way or another. For an extreme example, see Dick Tracy. There is no such thing as a single "filmy look". These techniques have little or nothing to do with the medium being analog or digital. The big advantage that digital has is you don't necessarily have...

The only personal insult I can see from Stereodude was his suggestion that the Prof was on crack. In internet forums, this is a common metaphor to indicate how out of touch with reality you think someone is. Stereodude was blunt, but I think that approach was appropriate by that stage of the...

Professor - One who professes. Wizard - A skilled or clever person. I assume the conjunction means that you profess to be a clever person, therefore no-one could ever accuse you of using an inappropriate nick. I know you don't seem to have much respect for computer science or mathematics, but...

Look, put your health first and send your wine to me. I'll look after it, and you'll feel much better. Trust me. AFAIK, Penfolds Grange (Hermitage) starts at about US$150 for the most recent vintage, with the most desirable vintages reaching US$25,000. I've had the first two beers on your list...

He did it. He finally did it. He married off two of his sock puppets, albeit as a hypothetical exercise in the imagination of one of them. I think. Pray that we never get to a wedding night.

Searching Google for "the earth is round" yields about a million results. But I get almost as many with "the earth is flat". I think I can use your argument to refute anything. I quoted those sites for your benefit, not mine. I made all my statements from existing knowledge, but did a couple of...

You need to realize that any audio recording is only an approximation of the real thing. When you look at a photo of someone, do you try to start a conversation? If you compare a waveform from a phonograph with the equivalent from a CD player, the CD will always provide a more accurate...

I didn't want to get bogged down with exotica, such as amps that offer Class A operation without using a classic Class A design. Class A is impractical for most purposes. IIRC, a decade or so ago. It stopped working a while ago, but I haven't got around to binning it. My point was merely to...

As far as I'm concerned, this just proves the existence of another sock puppet. :-? But happy birthday anyway, to both the right and the left hand Greek expatriots.

Well, through Red Hill's supplier, anyway ... Frankly, I'm not impressed by Buck and Coug's arguments. With some exceptions (Asus), you get what you pay for. Just because they work now doesn't mean they won't bite you in two years time. Of course, I'm an incorrigible cynic and liable to be...

I feel dirty now. James, what possessed you to sully our pristine forum with such drivel? :P How about they do the same article on the lack of differences between CPUs? Because Intel is a huge sponsor, that's why. So I guess the fact that you can't discern any difference between a P4 1.6 and a...

Says it all, really. As for PW's vinyl analogy: Vinyl always sucked, it's just that the cover notes were bigger and better. I'll grant you that an A to D converter with an indifferent quality low-pass filter also sucked. I personally listened to several different CD players before settling on...

Grow up, Pee Wee.

:rofl: You wouldn't want to spill water on it, would you? :D Despite their method of providing the high voltages for the tube, I wonder if they will be able to get it past safety certifications? After all, the inside of a PC is user-accessible. What a huge joke! Valves were good when...

I wondered if I shouldn't have qualified such a bald statement, but as I hoped, it seems to have encouraged people to think about it. Yes, the kludge is exceedingly clever. And if there is no other realistic solution, it is a good idea. But I've been around too long now to stop to admire clever...

The SysInternals product is a kludge. From their website: Rather than implement code to read and write NTFS drives, NTFS for Windows 98 uses the NTFS and NTOSKRNL system files from a Windows NT or Windows 2000 configuration. NTFS for Windows 98 wraps the Windows NT/2000 NTFS driver in a...

This could be highly interesting to several people here: Paragon Software Group, is excited to announce the release of Paragon NTFS for Win98, a unique NTFS file system driver for Windows 95/98/ME! Once installed, any NTFS drives present on your system will be fully accessible as native Windows...

Bartender, do you feel like swapping a song? I'd be interested in sampling Fats Domino, if you'd like an example MP3 of Roy Buchanan.

Finally got around to checking out the website, and I recognize the album I had as "Mug's Game", released in 1978. The bad news is I suspect that many years ago I thought I had outgrown it, and consequently sold it. :cry: I should still have it on tape somewhere, except I've lost about 30 tapes...

You may recall that I swear by Kyocera. Still built like a tank (or photocopier, as Mercutio suggests). You need an FS-1010. Although it's a toy compared to this 50ppm monster: 1: quiet at idle. (A reasonable while-printing sound is OK though.) (Essential.) Noise while printing is subdued...

John Entwhistle was a huge part of their sound. It's difficult to imagine anyone else filling those shoes. IMHO, one of the greatest electric bass players the world has ever seen. In another discussion, we were muttering about rhythm guitarists. The Who didn't need one. They had John...

Yeah, things that go bump in the night.

I doubt that anyone's missed this, but people might like to post their thoughts. The Who bassist dies

That's well stated, jtr1962. I wonder though whether your call for ultra-fast trains is the wrong priority, based on the existing problems you identified. My state has ancient tracks that are shared by freight trains, long distance diesel passenger trains, and medium speed electric tilt trains...

Seriously, a quick search on google came up with this. I grant you that MsgBox doesn't sound like the appropriate function, but presumably it works differently with this compilation profile?

10 minutes in Delphi, 9.5 hours in VB and it still doesn't work. I don't see the problem. Isn't that perfectly normal? :wink:

That's what I thought Mark, but note that the OS does seem to be able to detect when there is no disk in the drive.

A customer runs Win2k SP2 on an Athlon PC that's about 9 months old. He just called with a rather unusual problem. When he puts a floppy disk in the drive, he can read it okay and view the directory. But if he replaces the disk with another, Explorer continues to display the directory from the...

What are you on about, Prof? The acoustic specs of IV and V are identical.

737-800 = 189 737-400 = 168 Note these are one-class seating arrangements, which boosts the numbers for Virgin Blue. 767-238 = 205 767-338ER = 229-253 (Qantas doesn't say which seating patterns are most common. I'd guess their ultimate plan would be lower numbers for international and higher...

Virgin's one-class 737s seat almost as many as a Qantas 767 anyway (and given their higher seat occupancy, probably carry more people on average). Qantas also prefers 737s for domestic routes and has been busy buying another 15. But that's cute, converting real planes to virtual 767 units. :)...

Firstly, I can't see anywhere in the thread or title where it says we're discussing U series drives. :P Secondly, wheeling out the Cuda III may have seemed like a master stroke, but that means I can also drag in the Cuda I and II. :P Barracuda II Claimed seek: 8.2mS Measured seek: 8.3mS...

See Buck's post. 6000rpm parts may indeed exist. But hey, don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger. From Storage Review: AnalyzeDisk pegs the WD800AB's access time at 14.1 milliseconds, a score quite good for a 5400 RPM drive. Subtracting 5.6 milliseconds to account for the average rotational...

That was uncalled for Coug. Let's not degenerate into an unrelated slanging match, please.

There's a strong suspicion the AB is actually a 6000rpm drive.

The Barracuda IV actually does quite well on SR's benchmarks. As I've pointed out before, about the same as the equivalent Maxtor D740X. But both these drives fail to put much space between themselves and the WD1200AB.

So are we. :) It's 33 years since Apollo 11, but we struggle to land a (working) probe on Mars, and can't begin to understand how to cope with the conditions of Venus or the gravity of Jupiter. The shot-out-of-a-cannon school of space travel dates back to Jules Verne at least. The origins of...

Sorry, no I can't. As you know, it came out as part of all the discussion on public liability premiums. Might have been the doctors, the insurance industry, or even laywers. I guess they might have been lying.

That's not even remotely true. Bluntly, I think you've been reading too much propaganda. Check out http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs94-00/ I can't believe you've thought about this. There is an extremely high cost (in terms of energy as well as dollars), in launching anything into space. And...