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OK: I'm ignoring her, online, and she wants to play. As I'm typing, and playing a golf game, my internet connection goes down. I can't figure out what it is. I have a 6 plug, APC protector, and it's switched off. But she's playing in the other room...???? I'm reading the thread on Panasonic...

NO DAVID! :lol: :mrgrn: One of my favorite children's book is so titled. That said,...no. and I've been looking. s

Check dot pitch sizes, too. Seems to me when I bought my Panasonic, it's either 27 or 29, that going to 32 inches was much less clear, due to a lot bigger dot pitch. Sort of like having a 19 inch monitor next to a 21 inch... Something about combs, and digital in and out, and all that stuff...

Well, just attempted to use my backup disk. First had to dump DLA. Windows Media player couldn't read the disk, since DLA grabbed it first. Next I try and open a word document, and Word won't do it, so I have to update to 2000 SR-1, core update, currently downloading. I'm sorry, but if this...

What he said. Make sure the TV can handle all the stuff you need it to, if you want a home theatre system... s

When my folks had the house in Bezerkely, and I used to drive through Tilden Park every night, I used to see some sort of wildlife every night. Skunks with tails in the air, like they just don't care... Racoons all the time, likewise deer... In our front yard, we had a little pond. One night...

GRUMPSTERS :excl: :excl: :excl: Funny, but I love, and feel for animals more then I do for most, or, nearly all humans. I'm a sick puppy... s

I guess Matrox does a really good job of testing, but, the tradeoff is impatient customers. Read Matrox forum. Still, the g550, and P-650 are both crystal clear, and everytime I sit down at this computer I can't get over the difference the card makes in 2d. s

My gripes were it SonicNow didn't let you know how much data you were going to put onto the DVD, and it wouldn't record on DVD-R, even though a big selling point of the drive is the cross format writing ability. It did write well when I finally got it going, and I made backups for all my stuff. s

3 YEAR WARRANTY... S

Well, I'm giving it another try. So far, Sony has lived up to Merc's evaluation, a royl pain in the ass. I have to download Sonic manager, then try and connect to their server, to download 6.71 update, except their server is hard to get in on, and takes repeated trys. More later. Have to...

Can't figure it out without installing it. s

I have RecordNow, and the video program. Niether liked my 4x TDK DVD-R to record too. I had three coasters right off the bat. Says revision 4.40 on my disk, but that's the entire software package numbering. Checking now.... s

David: I have the black thumb of ide drives. I'm sure that an other wise reliable drive will die on me. I do have a couple that continue to work, Quantum LM, and Maxtor ATA 5120, but my failure rates are real high, 4 of 5 on the 5120s. Suffice to say, that having a year's worth of work, and...

I just spent the better part of the evening trying to figure out if I had software that would work with this Sony DVD writer, and that would write to DVD-R. The software enclosed didn't, but I did manage, after trying two versions of Roxio, to get it to work, with some quirks. If you are on...

I'm getting really worried about backing this stuff up, so I went through it, copied it to the XL, and to the Maxtor, and to the raid. I changed the cable to a quality ATA-133 cable, for the Maxtor. Still in PIO, so I deleted the primary ide channel, and after reinstall, we are back to where we...

LM: Do you have a free utility for testing, that works? s

Well, I ran the Maxtor tests, and the drive is fine. I did change cables, but I may not have the right cable in place. It's a premium cable I bought a while back, but it's not for 100-133 standard, IIRC. It's running PIO 4 mode, master channel, on the motherboard. s

Same defrag, over on an 18XL, in about 2 minutes, and between 8-19%. s

Defrag ide 26-31 % with DVD running. Affects DVD playback, slowing fram rate. Will test scsi defrag.

MADE THE JUMP. I need reliable storage of last years stuff, and I need it now. I hooked a 160 GB Maxtor up as an internal ide backup, but it just is not my idea of a good solution. Whenever anything is being done on the ide drive, it takes lots of cpu, and makes the machine unenjoyable...

Just for giggles, I decided to copy the same 6 gig file from the XL 18 backup, to the raid, while the Tools are still running on the maxtor. It's taking 4 minutes, instead of 30. It's increase processor usage from 26-30 to 29-35%, and the typing problems remain. I think since the copying is...

Hi I'm copying stuff on my machine from my SCSI 10k Cheetah, to my DM9 160 gig cheetah for backup. In the process, the file copying took awhile, but more destressing is the near entire usage of processor 2, of 4 virtual processors. This is not good. Whenever I want to load another program...

ROFL :excl: :excl: Pradeep, it's so funny to read that. I fell for the same trap, when their cards came out. They advertized, in writing, and in their tech docs, that you could use two cards in the same machine. Bought two, and somethings never change... Never did get those POS cards to...

LM: You having problems with the 400 and 800 combination? s

They certainly have their moments... Guess that's why I like taking Splash's extensive experience, both shopping wise, construction wise, etc. along with the other members here, and going with that. Better to learn from others, then pay 3 grand for a promiseless array that never works... s

Why David, it's nice to see you finally settled on a reasonable solution for your girlfriends gaming machine... :mrgrn: :wink: s

Swifttech has offered full cooling a long time ago. Bit pricy, but I'm sure it works, and, no noise. s

I've yet to add ram, and think the machine was slower. I would love to have another gig,.... s :mrgrn:

Aren't shuttles kind of big, and don't they require NASA support? Gary, where are you??? :mrgrn: gs

Cute case, but I like this one. http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/yeong_yang_cube_server_case/index.shtml It's way more expandable, doesn't have any of the limiting issues, and she can grow into it. It has casters, and if you use one of those airport suitcase carriers, she could wheel...

I found some notes that NEC does not approve of flashing their drives to go to dual layer. They also are not very good when put in external firewire enclosures. They say that's not supported, and there are issues. I don't have links, just stuff from their website, and forums... s

David: I don't like it. I think she's going to get sick of disconnecting, and re-connecting everything. If she has an old computer, leave that in the place she is the least, and put the new one in San Jose. If she's working as an intern for a law firm, the data problems are easy. Most of the...

HMMM. Perhaps as the amount of ram increases, the neccessity for registered ram comes into the picture??? S

Another problem is insufficent room, I think it's in ROM, for compressed PCI drivers to load. The beige has this problem. It has only 3 slots, but if the drivers are compressed, their is insufficent memory to allow them to load,=frozen machine. Until someone finally tells you the truth, you...

Another example of apple using substandard chips on their motherboards. Beige G3 was a double case of this: IDE channel only does 16 mb/sec, and the grackle motherboard chipset limits the PCI bus to 75 mb/sec. It got even worse. The Blue and whites, IIRC, couldn't even do 55 mb/sec, thanks to...

Keep us posted. s

Odd part is, I think it's OWC that had the information about the 64 bit slots... http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=5777&Item=OWCFW800PCI3

This reminds me way to much of my mother and step-father. Sometimes life just sucks, and there isn't much you can do about it. Also, the aunt maybe the one asking for the raised rent. Renter provided a service, that with the aunt no longer there, is no longer needed, and, therefore, the...

I've been looking into this a bit. Problem with 1394B is it requires a 64 bit slot, IIRC. I really wonder if cost wise, a SATA hotswap system wouldn't be the way to go. http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg53_satahot-swapbackup.htm I wonder if this system uses IDE drives? Can't tell from...

That's what I just used. Thanks s

Guys have been getting nearly 300 MB/sec using atto UL4D card, and 4 X 15.3s in the new G5's. Boot under Panther, using Raid 0, seems to be pretty bad. Driver conflicts, thanks to apple trying to make third party cards not work...or, that's at least what it appears to be. s

Found one. Current speed is 1.2 megabits per second. Average ADSl is .85. T-1 is 1.54. Bundled with my phone, the rate went from 50 to 29 dollars for the year. Likely to go back up, soon. s

Andy, anyone have one of those testing utilities? s

I'm with edawg... s

I guess you wanted gaming cards. The G550 blows away any of the other cards with 2D clarity. I won't sacrifice this kind of clarity, and color, for gaming results, again. The P650 is a nice compromise for gaming and clarity, but it's out of your price range, by a little. gs

http://www.micromart.co.uk/content/reviews/default.asp?Category=article&Type=&ID=1664 Armed with Dual-DVI output (two HD-15 adapters are included), dual independent hardware video overlays, and DVD-Video acceleration, the P650 is aimed primarily at the 2D digital artist and Computer-Aided...

Matrox P550 and P650 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=48&manufactory=1291&Type=Refurbish&sortby=14&order=1 Looking at a 21 inch monitor on one right now. Bought it for under 70 bucks. AMAZING. Just got done gaming on one of these...

Passive liquid, not full on plumbing. Quiet is the goal. A patch on a FUBARED case thats the size of Atlas, with a PeeWee Herman peepee. Two drive spaces, in that monster? Absurd, and for the cost, even more so. s

Check that. Cheap converters... s