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No. Things don't work that way. Unless you've got a multithreaded process - Adobe Premier for instance - your encoding app is going to be assigned to run on one processor and stay there. So if Santilli is getting twice as many encoded frames per second on a Xeon vs. his A64, that is a 1:1...

Actually Taz and time, I have some sheet music here that attributes it as an English folk song.

If you're talking about just ripping, that's a function of the DVD drive you're using. If you're talking about encoding, the important thing is that you can buy four Athlon 3000s for what those two Xeons cost, and those A64s will be faster for absolutely everything else.

And I typed all that and completely missed the fact that he wants eSATA...

Do you actually NEED SAN-type capabilities? How many people access this storage? What are your I/O loads like? Do you have any budgetary constraints? I have a staggering array of SATA/PATA storage on my home network, but I designed for the possibility of multiple simultaneous failures as...

Actually, as I'm looking at the data... It did very well with small files - pictures - from a spot check of a couple hundred out of 460,000 - I only found two that didn't open. Which were probably bad images to begin with. That's a massive segment of my recovery, but it's not everything that I...

Nope. But it also doesn't make me gather up the paperwork for every cent I've spent in the preceding three months, either. I don't live in fear of a paypal auditor, and most importantly, money that goes to paypal isn't going to the hillbilly sisterfuckers who run the state of Indiana. In this...

Use google's site: keyword to search! Actually I guess that won't work. A lot of those big company stores show you different prices depending on your zip code. Bastards. My definition of "doesn't get it" are sites that have 1MB flash intros, or anyone who stores textual information in Flash.

The sun is falling and it lies in blood The moon is weaving bandages of gold Old black swan where oh where is my lover now Where oh where is my lover now Torn and tattered is my bridal gown and my lamp is lost With silver needles and with silver threads The stars stitch a route for the dying...

$.31 is groin-grabbingly good for 16x Verbatims. Buy. Buy. Buy. Buy.

Can I rent it, or something?

... and there's my data. All of it. Right where I left it. I used RunTime Software's Get Data Back NTFS and RAID Recovery tool. Processing took around 16 days, all told. I recovered 937GB of data. Recovery was largely automatic. I'd say that's pretty goddamned impressive.

Sam's Club is selling 100 packs of 16x +R Verbatims for $31. They are really great disks.

I don't understand that sentence. Free space? So, like, you haven't formatted it yet?

Yes. Paypal fees are a terrible and onerous burden. Roughly in line with my state sales tax.

250s are fine. In groups of four or more.

So... a C3 integrated system with up to 1GB RAM (probably 128MB in the base config) and 4x500GB PATA drives. No hardware RAID but MAYBE GBoC. The 1U case is interesting, I guess. All the ports are on the front of the enclosure. Is that normal for 1U setups? I've never really dealt with the...

Thank you Lunar and Groltz. Taz, you have to understand that there is forum history on that one particular subject. Normally we do strive to have open fora - 95% of our moderator action is to remove spam/commercial speech or (Santilli's) duplicated posts. That's because the people who visit...

Er, you could just take checks and no paypal. Checks just take too damned long to clear. I won't buy anything off ebay unless I can pay with paypal. I hate futzing around with other payment systems. Checks and the like are a problem for me.

Not really. I basically have a great deal of redundant storage.

I managed to get my distributor to take them back, not Hitachi. Anyway, regarding my RAID recovery: I let Runtime software's RAID recovery make an image of the ruined RAID. This is a process that has been running for, uh... 15 days. Approximately. Fortunately the machine that's going to run...

Coug, I think the ATI 939 chipset includes DVI. Every tech I've talked to has said they are excellent.

I like to think I know what mashed-up bugs would taste like, 'cause I had vegemite once. Oddly enough, I ordered some Trackman Marble mice earlier in the week. My supplier shipped trackman vistas, those abortions that Tannin likes. They're in that annoying price range where it's stupid to send...

Trust me, you don't want to get into it.

One of them is in long-term storage and not driveable. Insurance is just another check I have to write. Not a big deal. At one time I even had another car, but I gave it to my ex-. Someday I'm going to get rid of one of my cars for a van or something a little more practical for my needs (I...

Also: The trailer for "Ice Age 2" (regrettably in Quicktime Stinky Format) may very well be worth $7 on its own.

So there was another Super Hero movie out today. Of course, that meant I had to pay $7 to see it. The movie was Sky High. A Disney Movie. Rated PG. Or Maybe G. Something not R. And I saw it as the only adult in the theater who did not bring along wombspew. And despite the fact that it was so...

Since I only use Via-based motherboards with onboard S3 video, or Via Boards and ATI Radeons, I'm not seeing much point in something like that.

For a while I was using a credit processor that had essentially come into existance to process signups for porn sites on the internet. It was great - the fees were very reasonable as long as there weren't chargebacks (kind of a problem for porn sites). But two years ago, Visa and Mastercard got...

Mostly I am immobile. It suits me. I own three cars. I really only drive one of them. There's a silver one, a black one and another black one. Transportation is boring.

Yes, but according to that "Layers of Hell" test that LiamC posted yesterday, I'm a heretic!

Clearly this is an underused emoticon. Perfect for any discussion of Vegemite. :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl...

The Paypal horror stories tend to involve Paypal freezing money left in the account. Paypal will do this at times for as little as a single complaint. I use Paypal on both a home and a business bank account, and I can't say it's been a problem for me. But other people really do have valid...

Yes, but your people also like Vegemite. I rest my case.

As a proper trackball user - rather than a user of the abortions you're describing, I can only say that if you sat and used a Trackman Marble for any length of time, you would be able to use it just fine. I can make even very tiny and precise movements with my trackballs, even using my right...

Let's keep talk of horses out of the sex toy thread!

They ALL look like sex toys!

There are now two different Linux distributions for the NSLU2. I understand Debian/ARM isn't working perfectly, but it is working. $99 for a Debian machine + apt for package installs is a TON of flexibility, slow writes or not.

Welcome New Guy! Are you a friend of Tannin's?

Looks like a sex toy to me, but it's supposed to be some kind of pointing device.

Happy 0th birthday to James! Although, if anyone had asked me, I would've suggested a more conventional name. Like Zoltan. :)

It's against the rules, MaxBurn. But, I could probably mention that there's a site called IsoHunt...

I'm partial to just painting some empty space on a wall with reflective paint, myself.

And, of course, the torrent download is 7.4x faster for me than the one from the MSDN site.... <cough>

I am now downloading the beta. 2.42GB, released as a DVD .ISO. I hope to have it running on something or other in the next couple days.

Seems silly to me to get rid of a perfectly functional keyboard just because there's something newer. I haven't found PS/2 to USB converters to work reliably.

Version 7 works pretty well. Loads a metric assload faster, and is less annoying about leaving parts of itself running when you close an acrobat window/tab. However, I hate the AcroExch plugin Adobe made for Moz-based browsers with a fiery passion. In particular, I hate that it only downloads...

Have you ever wanted to make a CD from a .cue and a .APE file? Ever wanted to put an .AC3 on a music disc? Wish Nero could do something useful with all your .Oggs? You need Nero Plugins!

What I've been installing lately is the Kazaa Lite Mega Codec Pack.. It's a one-shot deal for pretty much every oddball video format.

I haven't seen a case like that since the end of the last century.