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Just by chance, when I was clearing out my e-mail spam bucket, I saw a "deal' on a bulk pack of 4-each LED light bulbs, for $30 + free shipping. Only problem is you have just 3 measly hours left to snag these, at 23:00 (-6GMT). :erm: http://www.neweggflash.com/Campaign/2347

I bought one of these about 6 months ago to put inside a caged safety light. Bright as hell, and only $7.95 at Wallyworld. They had 5000K as well as 6500K varieties (blue tag versus orange tag on box). Moths just love this thing! ;) I believe these are actually manufactured by GE...

For what it's worth, I've been 100 percent LED here at the house for a few years now. I've only had one failure so far.

Ya, well, I don't visit the interWWWebs or forums very often any more... been too f***ing busy and vice versa. :D I did get banned a little while back on the Royal Planetary Society forum after posting several dozen jokes one night about black holes, white dwarves, Uranus, and Prince Charles...

Any new equipment like this being sold during the past 4 or 5 years in the US market complies with recent FCC specifications. I'm guessing you aren't looking for a "professional" solution, but one that just works (i.e. -- you are looking for UHF radios, but VHF). Well, you generally can't...

Pics, or it didn't happen. :)

I've always lived here as embedded XML code. The other me on the keyboard end has been too busy for a while to play around on the interwebs. Today was a rare exception.

...china syndrome situation in NW Indiana / Chicagoland in progress. :D Otherwise, I no longer care one way or another about Western Digi's past follies -- even the time many years ago when I got tasked at work to degauss a 30-some-odd item pile of failed Western Digi hard drives that were...

Because we didn't want to stress you out too much. http://www.hitachigst.com/press-room/2011/western-digital-to-acquire-hitachi-global-storage-technologies

Dell denies report of solid-state drive failures Refutes analyst's claim that almost a third of notebooks with solid-state drives are returned http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070318

If the Holo-Disc format was pushed out to market properly, it could easily kill off BlueRay and stay relevant for a decade or more. A 5.25-inch Holo-Disc can have a sustained transfer rate as high as the fastest hard drive and hold a terabyte (or more) of data. You could have multiple movies...

Doug, I'd like to report the possibility that someone out there is using multiple personalities in this forum.

The Xerox Phaser (nee Tektronix Phaser) -- which I have always jokingly referred to as "liquid krayola squirters" -- is best used for graphics arts output, not photographic output. As for inkjet quality, I like Epson's inkjet printers best. I don't like Epson's high-end offerings, such as...

I don't know who the hell *that* iGary is, but it certainly ain't me! Besides, I was using the iGary handle starting back in 2000 -- at that other Storage place. As for Macintosh in general: Been there, did that. Never again. I know better.

Many of the last "old" Maxtor models are still coming off the assembly line today, and will continue to do so until they can't sell them any longer. Almost of Maxtor's drive engineers were laid off with the acquisition (I knew a couple of them that had been with Maxtor since the time when...

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Novell has been living the past 10 years partially off of its substantial cash deposits that it built up over the 1980s and 1990s. So, this is Novell's biggest chance in a long long time to stop the bleeding and the downsizing. The SCO battle made Novell realise that *they* were in a better...

There could be a definite reason you are paying $700/month instead of $1100/month: If you are anywhere near Highway 101, then, welcome to gang-land. :drinka:

hmmmm... I sort of recall Sunbelt Software's name from about a year or two ago or so; something controversial, as in not good. I don't recall the details.

Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) supports either 1 or 2 processor cores -- total per system. With a system using a pair of dual-core microprocessors, Windows 2000 Pro will detect those 4 cores as 4 microprocessors. If you wish to continue using Windows 2000 with a workstation using a...

As long as the red stripe on the ribbon cable part of the RS-232 adapter is mated to pin #1, there should be no problems. The only problem that I've ran into with these RS232 adapters has been that some of them have 9 "open" pins on the plastic female connector that plugs onto what is usually...

They've been down for at least a couple of hours solid. First time I've even bothered taking a look at SR in about a month -- in this case, attempted to take a look. argh.

You should've taken advantage of the situation and showed them your "collector's item" Oldsmobile to zillions of viewers -- complete with FOR SALE sign in window. "If you look closely at this pristine windshield, you will notice that it has begun drizzling here at our suburban (Oakland...

Yes, but Dubya Dee aren't the only ones foisting these marginally dangerous implementations of "mass" storage upon the unsuspecting market. LaCie was selling "600 GB" then "800 GB" external hard drives -- back in the era of 300 GB then 400 GB hard drives -- to the unwitting neophyte Mac crowd...

From what I've heard (secondhand, secondfoot, thirdhand, etc) is that the ICEQ-cooled HIS video cards currently provide the best balance of cooling versus noise in boxed retail Radeon graphics cards without getting into something esoteric like water-cooling or giant-sized elaborate heat pipe...

As far as I know, you can't purchase an aftermarket version of HIS's ICEQ3 cooler -- much less install it on any other brand of video card. What you see above is what you get when you buy most of the various HIS 1900-series video card models from a retailer. Example...

The flash memory that Samsung is using in this SSD is probably mid-grade (or slower) flash, which will help keep the cost down. Samsung's goal in designing this drive was probably to have a drive that performed similar overall to a 7200 RPM notebook drive without breaking the bank...

So, are you still living in Arlington?

And, then there are those trigger-happy photogs at tennis matches -- the ones that you used to see years ago with 250-exposure bulk film backs attached to their 35mm Nikon F2/F3 or Canon F1. Those are the photogs queuing up to buy these new 16 GB flash cards.

You are essentially correct Will. But, DDR3 wasn't originally planned (by Intel) back in 2004/5 to show up quite this early. Intel was originally talking the end of 2007 or early 2008 for a DDR3 introduction, but expect to hear in the next month or so that mid-2007 will be when DDR3 is...

Like most of you, I have several "smaller" compact flash cards -- a 2 GB SanDisk Ultra II, 3-each 1 GB SanDisk Ultra II, a 512 MB Ultra II, a couple of no-name 512 MB "Toshiba" compact flash (not anywhere close to being as fast as the SanDisk cards), and a couple of freebie 256 MB compact flash...

He missed getting rid of one. A search shows that the "faloppi" character has posted the exact same message with the exact same URL pointing to a blank webpage to *hundreds* of forums. Or the cynical alphabet. 8)

Obsolete or unsupported? Isn't Microsoft's support lifecycle still 7 years? I believe so. So, in that case, some specific day in 2010 would be the day that Win2K3 becomes "unsupported." But, there's no reason that you can't continue to keep running Win2K3 after that. I can still...

I've been nailed twice by Atlantic stingrays --- actually once "nailed" and a couple of years later "sliced." Both incidents were pretty nasty and required diphtheria / tetanus injections to be safe. The first one required a painful cleaning on a moderately deep stab wound. The second was a...

Actually, I wouldn't mind if one of our enterprising hard drive manufacturers released a cutting-edge-technology 3.5-inch "mother of all capacity" type of hard drive that spun at a silent and cool 5400 RPM, but provided 1.5 or 1.6 TB of storage capacity. STR would be achievable at 50 to 60 MB/s...

I wasn't aware that Mozilla 1.7.12 had received a somewhat recent update in April of this year. Mozilla 1.7.13 was officially released 21-April-2006. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.13/

HT computers are not exactly down my alley, though, I do find them interesting. In any case (ahem... one with PCI slots), BlueGears recently released an "ultimate" HTPC audio card. Merc likes BlueGears' earlier audio cards, which I believe he nominated as having the...

Here's the perfect lawnmower for you Tannin:

UDI connector is the one at the upper right. One sad note: The UDI connector does NOT handle audio.

I thought "Dylan" was a crappy programming language that Apple invented in the '90s. ;) http://osteele.com/museum/apple-dylan

Since the modern desktop computer and operating systems issue commands to the CPU to shutdown (as opposed to being powered off hard via a power switch supplying the power supply), in your case it sounds more like the 5-volt fan power connections on the mobo are designed to simply bleed-off the...

You can buy the stuff at any *industrial* electronic parts store (i.e. -- not a Radio Shack). By the way, unless something recently changed, it's actually Dow/Corning thermal compound. It's been around for decades.

Now that we are on the subject of cooling, an idea that has been kicking around in me noggin' for years is the fact that when you turn computers off, the hot toasty parts no longer get cooled, even though there is still plenty of heat emanating from those components. If some of these components...

Yes, that capability has been around for several years from a couple of vendors. It's not nearly as buggy as it used to be, but it still isn't perfect. Presuming the VM-in-OSX prediction comes true, an X86 Macintosh user would then have native hardware hosting for Windows, not X86...

Well, then it looks like another prediction came true: From 06-June-2005: From 27-July-2005: "NEWZ: Extensible Firmware Set To Kill Off BIOS" http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4906&highlight=extensible

Impact: Viewing a maliciously-crafted TGA image may result in arbitrary code execution... Impact: A maliciously-crafted QTIF image may result in arbitrary code execution... Impact: A maliciously-crafted GIF image may result in arbitrary code execution... Impact: A maliciously-crafted media...

Yes, but they are just a shard of their former selves -- a block of territory up against the Yukon Territories that probably should be merged with the Yukon. But, there's probably some aboriginal (tribal) treaty in place that would not allow such.

What I've seen -- for the most part -- platform switching in the creative arena has not been that big of a trend over the past ten years. Wintel has made great strides in new computer growth in this field, but less in people abandoning the Mac. But, when and where platform switching happens...

I wouldn't be too horribly surprised if Dell forms a "new company" just for selling AMD-based computers. They could call it something like Dellpaq, Zapple, or dAMD Computer. :lol: