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Has anyone seen a sound card driver that will make Windows 2000 think it has a sound card, when in reality it does not? I put a HDTV tuner card in my PC to record HD to the RAID-5 array in it, but the system doesn't have a sound card, and that doesn't make the software very happy.

Unless something recently changed, the IBM tool would scan and test anyone's drive, not just their own.

SSD's already exist, even in larger capacities too! http://www.m-sys.com/site/en-US/

Ok, thanks guys. I'll have to get one of the Syba cards.

What's a cheap but decent SATA controller? I'm looking to add a large drive to my HTPC for recording HD to, and it seems some of the very large drives are either SATA only, or the SATA version of the drive is cheaper than the PATA version. The machine doesn't have a built in SATA controller...

I don't know... Maybe it's just me, but the article seemed like a bunch of sour grapes. I firmly believe you can't teach someone to be a good engineer. They either have the right mindset for it, or they don't. All the "impossible" classes are designed to weed and screen out the people who...

Cool link!

Seoul Semiconductor is promising 100lm/W within the year. They have has 5W parts that will do 70lm/W when run at 1W right now. I've been playing with them at work and they sure are bright. :D

DryCreekPhoto should have profiles for your local Costco's digital machine that you can apply in Photoshop to your images. http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Frontier/

I've been burning -R/+R Fuji's (Taiyo Yuden), +R Verbatim Printables (Mitsubishi Chemical), and some TDK +R Printables (CMC) and haven't had problems with any of them. I'm a little bit anal so I always do a full verify on my burns. I've had 0 frisbees and 0 failed verifies from the above...

I've got a NEC-ND3540A.

Check the packaging to make sure they're made in Japan. If they're made in Taiwan don't buy them.

Ritek made +R DL discs suck. They appear to burn just fine, but they often fail a verify. I've had about 33% of my Memorex DL discs fail the verify (of about 15 or so discs).

You can get 100 16x printable Verbatim +R or -R from Sams for $42.

Sounds like the power supply is way too small for all the stuff you have crammed in there. Why don't you try another PS?

Come to the dark side and get a LCD. :D Then you can use DVI and know you are getting an exact 1:1 pixel map.

If you only want the movie without the menu, I've found DVD2One is the best program (if used in Variable Compression mode) for transparency after compression. I think CloneDVD 2 is the best for splitting a disc into 2 (one movie with menu, and special features with menu) if the disc works out...

So, I take it you can't crack a WEP network in 10 seconds?

10 seconds? All the information I've seen indicates you had to collect packets for days and it still takes the PC hours to get the key from that data. I'd love to know how to break WEP in 10 seconds. Then I wouldn't need to pay for internet access anymore.

How many of you have had a WEP encrypted WLAN compromised by hackers? I mean WPA is nice and all, but is it really necessary?

Did it work? If I recall the OEM drives I've ordered have come in sealed antistatic bags. I ordered a Toshiba notebook drive for my HTPC a while back from Newegg, ands I can't recall if it had an antistatic bag or not. All in all, I've ordered a lot of stuff from Newegg and they seem to be...

So, then get a BNC to VGA cable and feed that into the LCD.

What video format is on the cables that have the BNC connectors?

I want to backup DVD movies onto dual layer media, not make multiple copies of the source files.

What brand blanks have you tried? I'm thinking to buy a NEC-3540A and some dual layer blanks so I can backup some DVD's. The cheapest dual layer blanks currently sold are Memorex (made by Ritek) and are around $75 for 25 of them, which isn't too bad at $3 a pop, but from the reviews at VCDhelp...

Holy alcohol affected post Batman!

What about the Itanic?

I just recently bought myself a Canon Powershot G6. It's picture aren't as nice as my EOS 10D, but it's certainly no slouch for the price. Dell had a deal going earlier this week where you could get it for ~$410.

Hahaha... No, it doesn't end up being anything like that. No it's more like ~10% off sticker, but no one pays sticker for a GM car. In a major metrolpolitan market like the Detroit Metro Area, most people can walk out of the dealer with a deal that's nearly as low as the employee price...

Except the camera would take 15+ seconds to write the TIFF to the CF card due to it's size. RAW files are great! You can adjust the exposure and all sorts of setting after the fact to get the best possible picture possible. You can't do that with a TIFF file.

This goes to show you that they should have become a software only company a long time ago and let other people build the hardware.

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I'm out of town in Boston for work this week, so I'm not going to get to play with it until Saturday at the soonest, but so far it's working ok. (I've been checking in on it via VNC.)

I ran that. All the WD2000JB drives were either made post fix, or were already patched.

Are those thermaltake fans really quiet? From the specs they're really quiet, but they still are spec'd to move a lot of air. I was curious if they really performed or if it was all BS.

Ok, well the story gets longer... The two drives that were acting up both check out to be 100% A-ok according to WD's tools. I did a 100% surface read and they both pass. I re-ran the 3ware script and let it fault out the "bad" drive and now it works in a degraded state (no fault tolerance)...

Well... I got the files back from them to restore the array and that worked ok, but I've hit a snag. The array faulted out one of the drives that should be ok, and not the drive that's acting up. So, I'm in the process of running WD's disc diagnostic tools on both of the drives. So far they...

:idea: To complete the circle of revenge it sounds like you need to post these pictures that she didn't want you to have. :evil: Then we all can :o and :eekers: them.

Sounds like you have a good excuse to buy a new one. :D

So, a HD died by tipping 90 degrees? That's pretty lame on Seagate's part.

So, you're complinging about having a bunch of girls in your bed at the same time? btw, don't you have a digital camera?

Wow, that's pretty ugly.

Well, I've been in contact with 3ware / AMCC and they have some sort of script / utility that can restore the array. Apparently the array information is stored on the drives in some control blocks, not on the card and one way or another it got cleared out. They sent me a utility that reads a...

The Windows utility only works if it sees an array to which the drive belongs. In my case it does not see an array for the drives to belong to, so the Windows tool does not do anything.

Which utility are you talking about? The windows one?

I have a 3ware 7506 raid card (8 port) and have 8 drives hooked up to it. 2 are 60 gig drives in a RAID-1 config, and the other 6 are 200 gig drives forming a 1TB RAID-5 array. One of the 200's got cranky and one way or another, the 3ware card no longer thinks there is a 2nd array. It shows...

Uh... There is no DRM in the MS VC-9 codec. It is only a video codec. The DRM will be up to the Blue Ray and AOD groups.

I take it from your comments that you've never been to China. I can assure you that sex is just as "free" in China as any place in the west. If you were to go to a KTV place you would see that. The traditional family structure is a sham. There is not a lot of spousal monogamy. It is fairly...

So, you want to better life in the US so there are less poor people, but you don't want to better life for people in China so there are less poor people there? Seems to go against your yearning for the betterment of people. I've been to China middle class people there have less money than the...

Not everyone with a minimum wage job is lazy but most are. Had they been motivated (not lazy) they would have bettered themselves and gotten a better paying job doing something else. No one forces people to drop out of High School and flip burgers for the rest of their life. They made the...