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Alright, here is my best shot ;) CCFL (cold cathode florecent light) tubes require AC power to operate. Inside your PC, there is only DC available to it. Therefore, when you buy a CCFL tube, you also recieve a little box, that converts the DC to AC to power the light. It states in the...

Yes. I love the fact that the calculator came up with 42....I love it.

So here I am, putting together my new Athlon64 system (the prototype for my new gaming center). Everything goes together very quickly, and I'm installing Windows XP within an hour. Just about the time it boots to the desktop for the first time, I start to smell smoke. Lesson of the story: Even...

Of note: I'm not yet worthy of the title "homeowner" as I'm currently renting. Though I am is negotiations with the owner to buy within the year. The reason she is holding out is that the house has increased in value ~30% in the last 10 years.This is the same reason I'm trying to buy now (even...

But you're in Illinois (sp?), so the price difference is kind understandable.

The lot size is a little larger than that, I'm on the corner.

It's an alright place. 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2.5 floors, ~3200 sq/ft. "New" at less than 10 years old. (I don't really consider something new unless I'm the first to use it). It's just a track home in suburban hell....

You mean like this one? I use them all the time. Love 'em. The drive does just slide back on the rails and click into place.

er....sorry that post was made days ago, several life-determining decisions have been made since then. And as you are in Texas...your death penalty will be carried out...now (bang).... :P

Make them near-silent and SCSI will have finally converted me :o

Sitting at home in a $1.2M house, drinking very nice wine, from very nice crystal....ALONE. Some things in life are highly overrated, some are highly underrated. Currently, life sucks. :(

I can imagine, a friend of mine went though something similar. The main reason I ask is that I plan on ordering something from this company. Was the business end of the deal satisfactory?

The business is open 10 hours a day, plus anyone walking by too close to the windows/looking in will trigger it. I'm estimating the cameras running about 50% of the time (worst case) and I'd like 2 weeks worth of video to fit on a DVD. 60*12*14=10,080 minutes The capacity of a current DVD is...

Well, we'll be keeping a week's worth at this higher resolution, so we can lower the quality for keeping the video longer term. What type of quality could I expect for ~768KBps? I'd prefer to half the frame rate rather than lose frame quality. I'll check out CirtualDub and DubMan, thanks for...

I have 2 surveilence cameras, D-Link DCS-1000Ws, they work great. I'm able to capture 640x480x24-bit@30fps only when there is motion in the frame. Perfect. It stores these in "MS-MPEG4 V3" format...about 1.2MB/min. One file per "incident". Is there a way to process these into a more efficent...

Merc, How did this work, BTW?

It's time for motherboards to ship with more than 2 SATA ports. Either a SiL3114 or a 3112a and 3112r....For years it's been easy to add 4 IDE devices, we'll need to keep that in the all-SATA world as well.

errg....I can't figure out the command for pscp. Actually, I don't think I'm that stupid....I don't think the root login is letting me access for FTP transfers anyway. ..or is that more stupid? What username do I have to use to connect for FTP transfers?

ZipZag

FW800? USB2.0? 20,000V pass-through for your cattle-prod?

This sounds like an incredibly good idea to me. I'm actually looking at a PocketPC with CF 802.11 support and RDP. That way I can admin servers from the coffee shop. :D

Looks awesome, but the guide never mentions what program he's using to extract the .rpm in windows. I did many a google and only found a broken link :(. I'm interested in this and want to move forward, but currently stuck. help?

Well, I just caught the part about being able to use sftp to transfer the files, so I'll give it a go tomorrow. I guess it was just step 2 that freaked me out. Thanks for the response...

So each "bit" on the recording surface is capable of 3 states? Trinary, here we come :roll:

I thought it was when 2 drives were placed on edge with the controller bords touching, then they are able to RAID telepathically...

I am now officially in over my head (again). When I was putting together plans for a firewall, smoothwall looked really cool. It's easy interface and powerfull features are very nice. And it offers one of the features that I needed: web content filtering. It does this via a program called...

I'll second the big hairy aussie...oh, wait....

I loved my old Sony Vaio Z505. While commuting on the BART, I'd be standing with my elbow looked around a pole, the laptop open in one hand while typing in the other. The ricochet modem made it about 4.5lbs, nut I could still maintain that position for the 40-minute trip to Berkeley. IIRC, I...

1k on the button, on both forii, simultaneousy... Bartender, I'll have 2 more.... :mrgrn:

Absolutely, congrats man ;)

No bannanas for you. Here, chew on a hard drive...it's toast anyway. I tried to overclock it. Then it started getting loud so I undervolted it, then it started getting hot so I removed the cover and mounted a Vantec Tornado instead. Hey, they both spin @ ~7000 RPM, what's the big deal?

RTFA :p ;) I'll take an LG, please

Re: Exchange 2003. I have a few of them and It doesn't look too much different from 2000. Of of the requirements that I found the hard way is that you need a Windows Server 2003 DC to install Exchange 2003. And adding a Win2k3 DC to a Win2k domain can have it's issues. I can't really give you...

Coulda sworn there was a white paper on this...I'll take a look...

Almost. There are laptops out there that use the Pentium-M and not the Centrino chipset (I think). At the very least there are laptops out there that use the Pentium-M, and the chipset the Centrino is based on, but a better WiFi card (or none at all). The 802.11b WiFi which is part of the...

to re-iterate what I said before (only correctly this time) Fill-rate is not the man, when you are doing high-end AF and AA, the GPU (proc on video card) is more important. This is where the ATI card shines. If you turn off all the eye-candy, an nVidia card will be faster. (disclaimer: I don't...

For some reason it hasn't shipped yet...I'll let you know.

Funny, that belongs in 2 other threads as well....quotes and movies...

Yes. 37 Dicks ;)

I'd think that filling up the second partition with video (I know you got it) completely, then rebooting, should be a good test.

Slashdot finnished destroying this idea

Nah, we all know the best hooch is in Vancoover, British Columbia ;) And I don't thing Greg has been there for a while...too busy chasing skirts. Just remember Greg, it's OK to do the grope check BEFORE picking up the tab...

Sorry, my bad....GPU, not CPU. Hence the fact that it is the video card outperforming the other video card. But still not directly related to fill rate.

I'm really enjoying Röyksopp right now. I think it's more difficult to make interesting, engaging music that is slow and simple. Merc's selection above is another example.

Heh, sticking the entire windowing system in VRAM would indeed make for a snappy system ;)

But reserved sectors would indeed be a happy thing, as those sectors do actually exist ;)

I believe it's when you enable AA and AF that the ATI cards really shine...that would be CPU, not fill rate...

Bamf? B*ld Ass*d M*therF*cker? Your're not talking about our fat furry friend, are you?

Whew, good thing I've already migrated from this piece of legacy software ;) Office 2003 forever! Or at least, until Office 2004....