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I had a little fun with this topic on SR: http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=16484&st=0&#entry175821 :lol: :mrgrn: :lol:

I talked about this a lot on SR. While I think mechanical hard drives have roughly ten years of life left in them, there are a whole host of reasons why they're on the way out. Speed (or rather lack of it), noise, vibration, lack of shock resistance, power consumption are a few. The ability...

Very interesting. I wish you and your dad all the best on your new business venture. The fact that you're breaking even, at least on operating costs, is a good sign. I sleep on the cement floor in my workroom now and then to help straighten out my back. It works. It also makes you...

Look at the reallocated sector count, although sometimes if the drive is writing data and loses power it will reallocate a sector when the sector is still good. I think what most of the people here are talking about when they mean bad sectors are when the O/S marks a sector as bad. This...

I think the 42-hour day you mentioned comes from experiments where subjects were put into caves for long periods. In the absence of visual cues for time of day subjects at first shift to a 25-hour day, starting each new day about one hour later (by normal standards) than the day before. After...

Not in real life, but in Train Simulator I've driven TGVs at 300 km/hr for a couple of hours straight. While there are no consequences to crashing as in real life, I did notice that after a fairly short time you become very accustomed to the speed, and when you need to slow down even 200 km/hr...

Driving fast certainly will help you keep awake, but given the amount of hours you'll already be up your reflexes won't be as fast should something get in your way. 75mph will put you to sleep for sure. That's one reason I never had any interest at all in driving-even with plenty of sleep the...

Amen to that. I'll even add hair replacement into the acceptable corrective cosmetic surgery category (after all it's just restoring your former hairline) but breast enlargement??? I don't want my tax dollars to go for that, or penile enlargement for that matter. If it isn't correcting a...

Both those threads have a similar line of discussion, but dd's thread is more about general lighting while the mine is more about LEDs. I do update the LED thread now and again whenever a new development occurs. I'm not sure at this juncture how I feel about merging them, but I think one of...

In addition to the sugar and caffeine already mentioned, another thing that helps you keep awake and alert for long periods is very bright lighting. I find I'm able to go much longer stretches without fatigue that way. The bright lights tell your body that it's still daytime, no need to sleep...

Here's a picture of my workroom: The two fixtures in a row are using GE T-12 40W Chroma 50s. The other one is using T-8 32W Paralite Maxum 5000s. The GE tubes render deep reds a little better but other than that there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two. They're both pretty...

:mrgrn: I believe it because I've seen the same thing over and over in many homes. The big problem I find with doing this is the huge difference in light levels between day and night. To compound the problem, most people either use incandescents or the more common warm white CFLs. This makes...

~81 hours during a busy week in college. I got up Monday at maybe 8 or 9. Between studying for tests plus other assorted deadlines I didn't get to bed until around dinner time on Thursday. I slept for about 12 hours after that but felt fine otherwise. I do go for 24+ hours straight now and...

Yes, Grim, that is exactly one of the main advantages of this plan as I see-a good portion of the money is put in a place where Congress can't get its grubby hands on it. All other things being equal, this in and of itself is a good reason to support it. It is not surprising voters usually...

Yes, that's my main reason for using them as well-to provide adequate lighting while not consuming an inordinate amount of power. I wouldn't have seriously considered putting 600 watts of incandescent in my bedroom if the 4x32w fixtures didn't exist, but I did have 2 200 watt bulbs in there for...

That's among the reasons why I use fluorescents-to reduce the heat load on air conditioners, and it can make a substantial difference. In my bedroom I would need about 500 to 600 watts of incandescent lighting to give the same lighting levels as my 4X32W tube fixture which uses ~110W. In my...

To answer both your question I quoted the article directly: Social Security Chief Actuary Goss has scored this bill as eliminating the program's long-term deficits and achieving permanent surpluses, all without any benefit cuts or tax increases. That results because the personal accounts take...

I read about the The Social Security Personal Savings and Prosperity Act of 2004 yesterday. This is actually a proposal I like. The plan would allow workers to put up to 10% of the 12.4% taken out for the retirement portion of Social Security into private accounts. This would only apply to...

I'm helping to sell off my friend's stock of used receipt meters from the rate change this past April. Before putting anything on eBay I want to see how many people here would be interested in owning a piece of NYC history. These are genuine New York City receipt taximeters in working...

Thankfully, that's only a proposed rate increase which may never see the light of day. They're thinking of implementing a system where they charge more during peak usage periods. The $0.43 would apply to peak usage during summer months. Of course, the rates will be the same as they are now...

Since you're carpooling with a person who presumably would be making the trip each day with or without you at least you aren't using any extra energy (well, a little more since the car is heavier with you in it, but not much more ;)) or causing any more congestion. The big drawback I see is...

At that price I'll take the RAM if it isn't sold yet. PM me for shipping address. I can pay with PayPal or by check. Regular first class mail is fine for shipment unless you prefer another method (just wrap the RAM in aluminum foil for static protection and then cardboard).

I'm happy for you, and also glad Amy wants you to be a part of her life. I guess all the patience on your part when she was going through a very difficult time in her life paid off. Additionally, since you and her had been close for so long, I'm sure she found her life was incomplete without...

Some further tests today with my 1.56 GHz machine and a PII-450 give me transfer rates of ~7 MB/sec in either direction. Using netperf gives me 93.27 Mb/sec (PII sending) in one direction and 94.50 Mb/sec (PII as host) in the other, both using Realtek 8139 NICs. At least I know these...

Having been owned by five cats in my lifetime, and now my brother's cat, I definitely share your sentiments. We go out to buy food, serve it to them, clean their toilet for them, and make sure they have a warm place to sleep. They eat, sleep and play. Maybe if they're in the mood they'll give...

To put things into perspective, when my parents purchased their house for $52K in 1978 combined their income was around $26K. This was more or less an average income for a couple back then so the house cost about twice their annual pre-tax earnings. Even so, things were tight because they had...

I see nothing wrong with taking a big trip every couple of years if I could afford it (which I can't right now). It is the daily 60 mile commutes to work which many Americans take that waste the most energy, and which concern me the most. People should live near where they work, and for many...

I'm not talking about direct costs like tolls, fuel, fines, and insurance which drivers currently pay but indirect costs which they don't. Roads and parking lots occupy an enormous amount of land which can best be used for other purposes. Less available land drives up the costs of housing for...

My suggestion is to try eBay every day. You'll get the occasional person who'll have a very low Buy-It-Now price. I remember I got 4 32MB 72-pin EDO sticks for $5 and 360MB assorted EDO RAM for $10 at a time when a 32MB EDO stick was running around $10. Some people either don't know how much...

Well, except for Philadelphia all of those places cost less, and all of those systems are much more heavily subsized on a percentage basis due to the low ridership. According to this, riders pay 29% of the cost of a ride in Los Angeles, 42% in Atlanta, 47% in Washington, 50% in Philadelphia...

After spending quite a bit of time with this, I'm able to get Windows to boot off of a CD. There are quite a few omissions/errors in that article that I had to find by trial and error. In and of itself booting off a CD is very useful. However, no luck yet booting off the network. I copied...

Actually, that's not true. To quote the exact part of the article that's relevant here: And to add to that, New York State as a whole sends $15 billion more annually to the Federal government than it gets back in aid and spending. Despite the enormous Medicaid load in the city, NYC and NYS...

I'll also add that there is a significant minority of the population that expects essentials like food, shelter, and transportation to be free. While I don't fall into that line of thought, I do expect governments to take some measures to keep housing (and also food and transportation)...

DDR 400 is fine also but I'm sure the switch to PC3200 was mainly for marketing reasons. After all, I'll bet you had plenty of people (me included) who initially thought that PC3200 is indeed 24 times faster than PC133. While I did notice that there was nothing in between PC150 and PC1600, I...

In regards to housing prices or other areas??? I'm not alone in thinking that housing shouldn't cost and arm and a leg. A standard benchmark used for years was that you can't afford a home costing more than 2.5 times your annual income and/or that rent should be 25% of your income. With...

I rarely partake of the arts but I do like the cuisine here. My aunt upstate can't even find a Chinese takeout while I must have about a dozen within a mile of me. The way your cousin is living basically proves my point. A single person on an average salary can't afford to live alone. Unless...

Thanks for explaining that to me but why the hell didn't they just call PC-3200 PC-400 in order to be consistent? Maybe next they'll starting stating hard drive speeds in rotations per hour. While it's true that PC-133 is no longer made in large quantities, I'm surprised there's still that...

One thing that puzzles me is that for a given size there doesn't seem to be much price difference between, say, PC3200 ($66 for 512MB on Pricewatch) versus PC133 ($49 for 512MB) despite the fact that the PC3200 is 24 times faster. I just don't get it. I tend to think with the need now for...

My point is that housing prices are ridiculous even outside of big cities. It used to be that you could move to the suburbs in order to save money on housing. Not so any more. A house in Long Island or New Jersey runs at least $300,000. Add in the much higher real estate taxes and the need...

This article states that the rate of housing price growth is likely to reach the lowest level seen in three decades, and that in terms of inflation housing prices may actually decline over the next few years. I'd say this is long overdue. The rapid rise of housing prices was driven in part by...

Thanks for the info, miksmi, and welcome to StorageForum! 8) I'm thinking along the lines of booting into DOS via CD, loading the network drivers, mapping the remote folder where the Windows files are stored to drive C:, and then starting windows with the "win" command. I tried it once...

The only way to know exactly is to hook each machine up to a wattmeter. My 1.5 GHz machine with 3 hard drives uses ~100 watts. A PII with a single hard drive will use maybe 80 watts. A Pentium or MMX will use maybe 50 or 60 watts. A 15" or 17" CRT monitor uses up to about 100 watts. An LCD...

Interestingly, Netperf tells me I'm only getting 32Mb/sec transfers either way but I transferred a few GB of data (mostly large files) yesterday to the slower machine and I averaged about 5 MB/sec. I'm guessing I could probably approach the 10MB/sec figure you mentioned between two faster...

Best I'm able to do now from my machine is ~5.5MB/sec to a P200 machine and ~4.5 MB/sec from the same machine. I did get close to 7 MB/sec when transferring from my brother's machine. Except for my brother's machine, all my machines use the same NIC which uses a Realtek 8139 chipset.

Same problem here. In fact, I tried several times earlier today with no luck. Server down?

I found further information at the website of the company that makes them.

The box that stores the pictures taken by a small camera in a taxi. Here is a picture and description. Here is the web site of the company I repair them for.

As some of you may know from the tech support forum I recently set up a small LAN. After playing around a bit and searching I was able to create a boot disk (Bart's network boot disk) that lets me boot into DOS and maps the drives from a remote machine to another drive letter. Theoretically...

Thanks again, Fushigi. In the rush to set up and test my LAN I had forgotten about tweaking my mom's PC for maximum download speed. I had done so for my PC soon after setting up everything. Anyway, tweaking a few settings increased the download speeds on my mom's PC from about 2100kbs to 2800...

I bought my mom's machine upstairs and connected it to the router with just a 3 foot cable. No change in transfer speeds, which is at least a good sign that there's nothing worng with my cabling. So far it seems like this connection maxes out at ~4.5MB/sec. I suppose unless anybody has any...