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  1. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Adadcadet: 4 X 15's equal 3.9 ms access times, plus 16mb total drive cache, and, it's a noticeable improvement over a single, newest generation X15.3. Would I do it again? Probably not. However, it is addicting, and I've already got it setup, so why not use it? With the increase in scsi...
  2. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    https://www.tsw.berkeley.edu/eStore/default.tpl?cart=1074584421767555&action=searchproducts&startat=15&max=7&--woSECTIONSdatarq=51&--SECTIONSword=ww&&id1=46&id2=51& Should I go with Server, for this price, or an OEM of XP pro, for about 170 bucks, from the shop who is putting together the...
  3. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Forget the question. The server chipset you used in the Intel® E7501 doesn't support AGP. Looks like this is the board: http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/E7505/X5DA8.htm gs
  4. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    I have found information on Pci-X, and it is backwards compatible. How fast is it? I've noted a number of different PCi-X speeds, here: http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pcix_20 But they don't seem to have particular specs, or times of release for the different designs.... s
  5. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Can you use pci cards in PCI-X slots? I'm looking at this mobo: Supermicro X5DP8-G2, and, if I can use my old cards in it, I'll probably go with it. Found a server case for 179 dollars with 17 drive bays. I can run my drives, plus the optical stuff, plus the rackmount SCA setup. Probably be...
  6. Santilli

    Need Scsi Guru

    www.granitedigital.com Cables. Using an adapter, and a sca drive are not a good idea. SCA housings, and backplanes, are avaliable for 200 dollars, and under. www.supermicro.com s
  7. Santilli

    Embarassing question for me of 2004: PC ram...

    OK: My Asus A7m266 will accept PC2100 ram, and, I can use that same ram in a SM XDAE8, IIRC, with a 400/533 mhz FSB. Could I buy faster PC 2700, or 3200, which is cheaper, and use it in both motherboards? This entire new ram thing is confusing... I would like to buy ram I could reuse in a SM...
  8. Santilli

    Why does this eat my processor?

    Ask Tea. s
  9. Santilli

    Why does this eat my processor?

    Is there a way to turn flash off? s
  10. Santilli

    Why does this eat my processor?

    In other words, if I put 2 gig of ram in my current asus mobo, will 2000 quit hitting, or paging, all together? For example, one, really cool website, for me, http://www.surfline.com/mag/features/day_in_the_life/index.html totally eats my processor. It takes 100% of a 1.4 mhz Athlon...
  11. Santilli

    What did Santa bring you?

    ROFL!!! At Tilden Park, in the Berkeley hills, we have tons of tame deer. They go out and feed on the driving range. I've nailed them with a very fast moving golf ball, and they look up, like, "What was that? A mesquito?" And go right back to dinner. S
  12. Santilli

    Gary: WHERE is your 2nd beagle, and how come he's so far...

    Beagal, as in dog, as in fetch, as in, wow, that's a very long fetch. Happy New Year!!!! s :mrgrn:
  13. Santilli

    What did Santa bring you?

    Damn. I loved Christmas in Hawaii, on the beach, in 1985. I lived right on the beach, at Sunset Beach, and my mother, and brother came ove :( :cry: gs
  14. Santilli

    What did Santa bring you?

    Thanks. The irony is the ocean has always sort of kept me sane, or maybe close. I end up land locked, and, on last veterans day, it took us 2 hours to the SF zoo, and 2 1/2 back. It's about a 45 minute drive, on normal traffic, and, the Zoo is right on my favorite surfspot. HAVE TO FIGure...
  15. Santilli

    Return of the king

    ROFL!!! Yes: Elves, when aroused, are TRULY scary. :excl: The producer/director played around with a few things, like the dead coming up and clearing out Sauron's army, but, I will say that I could live with the director's changes in the movie, something I can't say about most of Clowntown's...
  16. Santilli

    What did Santa bring you?

    I agree. Well, new school district says it pays on the last work day of every month. Apparently they just sort of neglect that's except for December, when you get no pay check until Jan 5th. I decided, and it works out ok, that Christmas is going to be around January 5th. So far the only...
  17. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    After reading the Matrox board about Para drivers, I may buy an ATI card, instead.... gs
  18. Santilli

    ''State Of The Art'' CPU Cooling (Circa Dec 2003)

    Why not a beagle??? gs
  19. Santilli

    Gary: WHERE is your 2nd beagle, and how come he's so far...

    from home, over the holidays? Wondered why you are posting on Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas, and thanks for all the help.. gs PS Hope your beagle enjoys his journey, and sends back lots of info over the holidays... :mrgrn: :mrgrn:
  20. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    The X 15's are first generation, 68 pin drives. Currently, with the atto Dual Channel 32 bit/33 mhz card, they pretty much max out the bus on this mobo at 110 mb/sec. Since I'm booting off the array, and I'm not sure if I want to give that up, just yet, I don't think I really need to quickly...
  21. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    OK: I currently have 4 160 drives in raid 0. I also have 4 CD/DVD drives, and a floppy. I would like enough bays so I could mount those drives, and, ideally, have a hotswap/sca/scsi or sca/sata for storage. 2-4 bays would be plenty. Stupid question, but is it safe to mount drives at 90...
  22. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Splash: You are right. I changed my mind, since I fixed up my box, and it's running ok right now. Required Granite Digital cables, and managed to get a Lite on cdrom to install the os, properly. If it works right now, I'm going to wait, and buy next year. In another thread, you mention a...
  23. Santilli

    ''State Of The Art'' CPU Cooling (Circa Dec 2003)

    CGB: Great choice. What I like about the swiftech is even if the fan fails, they still suck up a huge amount of heat. Mine is noisy, MC 462 IIRC, but, it's cooling the hotest chip at the time, the Athlon 1.4 ghz, and, does an excellent job. 7k fan, IIRC. Guy that makes those heat sinks seems...
  24. Santilli

    ''State Of The Art'' CPU Cooling (Circa Dec 2003)

    CGB: Great choice. What I like about the swiftech is even if the fan fails, they still suck up a huge amount of heat. Mine is noisy, MC 462 IIRC, but, it's cooling the hotest chip at the time, the Athlon 1.4 ghz, and, does an excellent job. 7k fan, IIRC. Guy that makes those fans seems to...
  25. Santilli

    Does anyone remember when ...

    That was one of my main problems. I wanted to network the machine, and even after getting a book, on Samba, I just didn't have time to figure it out. Guess I'll stay with Win 2k on that machine, until I build another box... GS
  26. Santilli

    Does anyone remember when ...

    Anybody used Red Hat 9 on old hardware? gs
  27. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    These databases make me REALLY want to try a Matrox parahelia... gs
  28. Santilli

    Does anyone remember when ...

    Hi Tannin: Yes, we had that discussion, long ago. Given time, 2000 did prove to be an excellent system. Wonder if you could have repaired your version, rather then reinstalling? I recently lost an install, and I believe it was due to a loose scsi card, and a bad cable, corrupting files...
  29. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Splash: Thanks for the info on the memory speed support. Always helps... gs
  30. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Cougtech: I understand the advantages, but on the last new release of chips, and mobos, the Tyan Thunder didn't exactly win any reliability contests. I think a bit of patience always saves money, and headaches, with technology. gs
  31. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Splash: When do you expect the prices to drop to reasonable for the 246 or 248? Also, I'm kind of reluctant to be on the bleeding edge. How long before they get all the bugs worked out of the new boards, and the new cpu? Thanks gs
  32. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Splash: When do you expect the prices to drop to reasonable for the 246 or 248? Also, I'm kind of reluctant to be on the bleeding edge. How long before they get all the bugs worked out of the new boards, and the new cpu? Thanks gs
  33. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    WOW!!! :eekers: :bounce: It's amazing how slow the clock speed is, yet how fast the results are with the Opteron. Why? 64 bit? So I buy a mobo and single Opteron, at 1.4 ghz and it's as fast as a 3.0 ghz, Xeon??? gs
  34. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    "The writing's on the wall: The Opteron rules the workstation performance roost and probably will for a few years (at least)." When did this happen? The prices on the processors you mentioned are WAY up there. I found a couple shops around here that might want to sell older boards for Xeons...
  35. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    This should be sticked near the top of the board... gs
  36. Santilli

    "Click of Death" and recovery services....

    In the 80's, things were a lot more wild west, and a lot less pc. I'm not sure what we have now is better.... gs
  37. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    Pradeep: You have the beauty of the Klipsch line. In the old days, when a 35 watt tube amp was a grand, when a grand was a LOTT of money, you could have insane speakers, with a Yamaha regular amp, with 30-35 watts, and still not break the bank. At less then half volume, in my little house in...
  38. Santilli

    "Click of Death" and recovery services....

    A LOT of beautiful courses down there. I used to play Pasatiempo all the time. Snuck on, till I got caught, and since my boss was the president of the club, I decided I should stop it;-( In that area shot a 77 at Boulder Creek, IIRC. Beat a pro at the Olympic Club, and he came back and beat...
  39. Santilli

    "Click of Death" and recovery services....

    Never played there. Is that kind of fancy, set off in the mountains, and new? gs
  40. Santilli

    "Click of Death" and recovery services....

    WHICH LOCAL COUNTRY CLUB? PASATIEMPO?(SP?) ETC. Used to live down there, and played golf, as well. gs
  41. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    You can't beat this deal with a stick: http://store.klipsch.com/details.asp?prodID=35 gs
  42. Santilli

    Bush wants to send first man on the moon (for real)

    Why? Look at Ann Hesh, or whatever her name is. Most lesbians I know are REALLY unattractive. Women go on what they feel, so, your hope might have basis, if you can figure out how to make her FEEL differently about you. gs
  43. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    Tonight I've been watching JLO videos, on my computer, with crystal clear picture, and, at half volume, the 5 speaker klipsch setup really rocks. I could easily tune the same speakers to do Mozart. gs
  44. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    You can, and I do, tune my klipsch speakers to play well whatever the music is. Mozart 427 is simply fantastic. However, keep in mind the Yamaha amp has different sound settings that allow you to go from a rock concert, to a concert hall, to a 70mm spectacular, without having to tune much of...
  45. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    By the way, I agree with the guys that the Klipsch horns are not all that. My pick was the Hereseys over the horns, and, if I had had a LOT bigger house, the La Scalas. NOW THOSE ARE SPEAKERS TO DIE FOR... S
  46. Santilli

    Bush wants to send first man on the moon (for real)

    I firmly believe the Kennedy"s, three of em, were killed by the Mafia. They had been business partners with the mob, running alcohol, under Joe K. The mob swung the election for JFK, using the unions, in one of the north eastern states. Kennedy wins, and, his brother turns around and...
  47. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    I have a set of Klipsch, the first computer speakers they made, and, with a proper sound card, and sound editing, they will pretty much do anything you want. Klipsch still makes the Hereseys, and, along with a 10 inch thumper, and a decent center, plus 300 dollar back speakers, all from...
  48. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    Do the older slots provide sufficent through put for the newer cards to function properly? 660 vs. 3200 for example? gs
  49. Santilli

    Home Theater Speakers

    If your reciever is adjustable, for volume on each channel, I've found Klipsch to be the most efficent speaker, requiring the least amps for sound. Their only weakness is they do tend to be rock and roll speakers, requiring fair volume to really get good sound quality. My system resembles all...
  50. Santilli

    Bush wants to send first man on the moon (for real)

    If anyone would know, working at a beer factory, it would be Splash. However, it wouldn't be PC if the theory is right, for him to comment. GS
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