Man, I hope that Sony packages these discs in protective containers like MiniDisks. One little scratch on one of these babies and you'll have wiped out a GB. Ouch!
Wonder what happens when they make mistakes... i.e. they make a mistake in data entry, and your admissions of guilt get sent out before you actually die.
Wow! They want you to spend $150 to revive an old PC? Why not spend $150 more and buy a brand new one. You can pick up a Dell PowerEdge server for $300. And it'll have a 2.4ghz Celeron and a 40gb drive.
Ah well... just doesn't seem worth upgrading the other.
[quote]Can I put my ripped MP3s on an Ipod and transfer them to a friend's computer?[/quote]
Very easily! The iPod just shows up as a hard drive. Sure you have to let the computer know to show it, but once done, you can easily share the files. There are even some programs available that help you do this.
It takes up 3 external 5.25" bays and allows you to connect 5 3.5" drives. It provides expandable RAID 5, all internally with it's hardware and simply looks like an ATA or SATA device to the computer.
Has anyone here actually used one?
kiwi
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System Architecture
Toshiba TMPR4927ATB 200MHz 64-bit RISC processor
64MB on-board cache memory with ECC protection
Areca 5 channels IDE controller (ARC600-66) with enhanced H/W XOR engine
NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
Write-through or write-back cache support
Firmware in Flash ROM for easy upgrades
RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5 and JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Array roaming
Online RAID level/ stripe size migration
Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
Automatically and transparently rebuilds hot spare drives
Hot swap new drives without taking the system down
Instant availability and background initialization
Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
Disk Bus Interface
Ultra ATA/133 compatible
5 channels, operating in parallel
5 hot-swap drive trays
48-bit LBA support allows disk exceeding 137GB
Staggering the Spin-Up of Individual Disk to Solve the Power-on Surge
Host Bus Interface ARC-5010
Dual ATA interface-Ultra ATA/133 & Serial ATA 1.0
Ultra ATA/133 compatible Transfer rate up to 133MB/sec
Serial ATA 1.0 - 1.5Gbps(150 MB/sec)
ARC-6010
Ultra 160-Wide LVD SCSI; Transfer rate up to 160MB/sec
Tagged Command Queuing
Concurrent I/O commands
I hope that people stick to 800x600. It would be nice if the pages would scale nicely to be displayed on larger screens, but I like to not have to maximize my windows to view web pages. Many laptops are still stuck at 1024x768, and 800x600 designed pages work great on them.
What about an Apple iPod. The new ones with the flash adapter will suck the data right into the device. Don't know about charging, but I do know that they have battery packs for them. Charging might be an option too. You get music and picture storage. 40GB is a lot of pics.
I would wonder if perhaps the owner has bad power at his house? Maybe that is causing all the issues? It seems curious to go through batteries, power supply, and motherboard and not suspect dirty power.
This is a laptop, with a switching external power supply unit. I should be easily capable of handling dirty power coming in, clean it up and send it to the computer w/o any problems. Then, once at the computer, you have a power control unit that should be capable of handling this and buffering low power through the use of the batteries.
If dirty power coming in is the problem, then the portable was not designed properly.
(As a side note, I've found that you have to talk to higher ups at apple, and frequently, you have to get the place where you bought your computer to initiate the contact for you. I've had to do this for one PowerBook that had problems, and my brother did this with an early Ti15" that had issues.)
People should give Stat Labs Bloomba a try, it has amazing search capabilities and their new version 2.0 looks to be coming out soon with some nice enhancements.
Does OpenOffice have an output format that can easily be converted to LaTeX? I wonder whether an xstl could be created to easily transform an OpenOffice document into LaTeX for output?
The above system in Hamburg looks like the Maerklin trains. They have a digital control system where by you don't have to have any blocks to control your trains. You put out full voltage onto the rails at all times and then the engines know what direction they should go and how fast to go. It is a much better system and more realistically approximates the way real trains work.
I believe that you can even control the switches with this system.
In reading through the MIT page, I was excited because I had thought that they were implementing a similar system, however, it would appear that they are just creating a new implementation of the only multiple circuit system.
I challenge anyone to come up with a valid reason why audio CDs cost so much more than video DVDs. So either DVDs are horribly underpriced (and I don't see movie studios going out of business right and left here), or CDs are horribly overpriced. The value/price of a CD is miniscule these days - it's amazing the recording industry is doing as well as they are.
Simple. The CD is of more value to you. You will use it more... how many times do you actually watch a DVD? How many times will you listen to a CD?
For most people I know, they will happily listen over an over to a CD... many times in a week or month. They generally don't watch moves over and over and over.
KotoR on the PC recommends half a gig of ram and a 128meg video card. This doesn't seem like much, but the xbox only has 64 megs of ram total (that's shared between vram and system ram), and yet kotor somehow runs just dandy on it.
Well, look at the output resolutions? Look at the fact that you don't have as large an operating system. Heck, I wouldn't choose to run WinXP with less than 512 MB of RAM.
In addition, since the game has to be generalized for all hardware, they have to provide the lowest common denominator for functioning. They know that if you have 1/2 a gig of ram and a 128 mb hard drive, then the program will probably run well.
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Man, I hope that Sony packages these discs in protective containers like MiniDisks. One little scratch on one of these babies and you'll have wiped out a GB. Ouch!
Wonder what happens when they make mistakes... i.e. they make a mistake in data entry, and your admissions of guilt get sent out before you actually die.
so that's like what, $100 usd?
What are you talking about? You can definitely run those in passively cooled systems. In fact, they are commercially available.
Check out Hush Technologies
And it seems to pull your gmail settings from IE, even if Firefox is your default browser.
kiwi
How long before CloneCD has the ability to change where its reg keys are located. That might fix this problem. well, at least be a hack around it.
Wow! They want you to spend $150 to revive an old PC? Why not spend $150 more and buy a brand new one. You can pick up a Dell PowerEdge server for $300. And it'll have a 2.4ghz Celeron and a 40gb drive.
Ah well... just doesn't seem worth upgrading the other.
kiwi
[quote]Can I put my ripped MP3s on an Ipod and transfer them to a friend's computer?[/quote]
Very easily! The iPod just shows up as a hard drive. Sure you have to let the computer know to show it, but once done, you can easily share the files. There are even some programs available that help you do this.
Hmmm... I've never modified this, and the DWORD value for EnablePrefetch is set to "5". Strange!
kiwi
I don't know why anyone whould buy anything from Real. People don't want their products, and they're giving it away.
This solution looks very interesting to me.
http://www.areca.us/IDERAID.htm
It takes up 3 external 5.25" bays and allows you to connect 5 3.5" drives. It provides expandable RAID 5, all internally with it's hardware and simply looks like an ATA or SATA device to the computer.
Has anyone here actually used one?
kiwi
--
System Architecture
Toshiba TMPR4927ATB 200MHz 64-bit RISC processor
64MB on-board cache memory with ECC protection
Areca 5 channels IDE controller (ARC600-66) with enhanced H/W XOR engine
NVRAM for RAID configuration & transaction log
Write-through or write-back cache support
Firmware in Flash ROM for easy upgrades
RAID Features
RAID level 0, 1 (0+1), 3, 5 and JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Array roaming
Online RAID level/ stripe size migration
Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
Automatically and transparently rebuilds hot spare drives
Hot swap new drives without taking the system down
Instant availability and background initialization
Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
Disk Bus Interface
Ultra ATA/133 compatible
5 channels, operating in parallel
5 hot-swap drive trays
48-bit LBA support allows disk exceeding 137GB
Staggering the Spin-Up of Individual Disk to Solve the Power-on Surge
Host Bus Interface
ARC-5010
Dual ATA interface-Ultra ATA/133 & Serial ATA 1.0
Ultra ATA/133 compatible Transfer rate up to 133MB/sec
Serial ATA 1.0 - 1.5Gbps(150 MB/sec)
ARC-6010
Ultra 160-Wide LVD SCSI; Transfer rate up to 160MB/sec
Tagged Command Queuing
Concurrent I/O commands
quote "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II"
Apple ignites it... M$, as ever, will finish it off.
I hope that people stick to 800x600. It would be nice if the pages would scale nicely to be displayed on larger screens, but I like to not have to maximize my windows to view web pages. Many laptops are still stuck at 1024x768, and 800x600 designed pages work great on them.
What about an Apple iPod. The new ones with the flash adapter will suck the data right into the device. Don't know about charging, but I do know that they have battery packs for them. Charging might be an option too. You get music and picture storage. 40GB is a lot of pics.
I would wonder if perhaps the owner has bad power at his house? Maybe that is causing all the issues? It seems curious to go through batteries, power supply, and motherboard and not suspect dirty power.
This is a laptop, with a switching external power supply unit. I should be easily capable of handling dirty power coming in, clean it up and send it to the computer w/o any problems. Then, once at the computer, you have a power control unit that should be capable of handling this and buffering low power through the use of the batteries.
If dirty power coming in is the problem, then the portable was not designed properly.
(As a side note, I've found that you have to talk to higher ups at apple, and frequently, you have to get the place where you bought your computer to initiate the contact for you. I've had to do this for one PowerBook that had problems, and my brother did this with an early Ti15" that had issues.)
kiwi
People should give Stat Labs Bloomba a try, it has amazing search capabilities and their new version 2.0 looks to be coming out soon with some nice enhancements.
Bloomba
Bloomba 2.0 Features
What about eFax?
http://www.efax.com/
Do all your faxing over the internet. Not sure about security, but I'd imagine that they've worked something out.
kiwi
>>I work as an examiner
Boy, you are in trouble now!
Wait, shouldn't you be reviewing patents instead of posting here?
Where do you think he does all of his research?!?!?
Hey,
Check out the AV Science forums. They have one dedicated to just this. There are lots of pointers and lots of people who will help.
AVS Home Theater PC(HTPC) Forum
kiwi
Slashdot needs to create another category for some of their stories. The "No shit Sherlock!" category.
Does OpenOffice have an output format that can easily be converted to LaTeX? I wonder whether an xstl could be created to easily transform an OpenOffice document into LaTeX for output?
http://www.maerklin.com/
http://www.maerklin.com/
The above system in Hamburg looks like the Maerklin trains. They have a digital control system where by you don't have to have any blocks to control your trains. You put out full voltage onto the rails at all times and then the engines know what direction they should go and how fast to go. It is a much better system and more realistically approximates the way real trains work.
I believe that you can even control the switches with this system.
In reading through the MIT page, I was excited because I had thought that they were implementing a similar system, however, it would appear that they are just creating a new implementation of the only multiple circuit system.
kiwi
I challenge anyone to come up with a valid reason why audio CDs cost so much more than video DVDs. So either DVDs are horribly underpriced (and I don't see movie studios going out of business right and left here), or CDs are horribly overpriced. The value/price of a CD is miniscule these days - it's amazing the recording industry is doing as well as they are.
Simple. The CD is of more value to you. You will use it more... how many times do you actually watch a DVD? How many times will you listen to a CD?
For most people I know, they will happily listen over an over to a CD... many times in a week or month. They generally don't watch moves over and over and over.
KotoR on the PC recommends half a gig of ram and a 128meg video card. This doesn't seem like much, but the xbox only has 64 megs of ram total (that's shared between vram and system ram), and yet kotor somehow runs just dandy on it.
Well, look at the output resolutions? Look at the fact that you don't have as large an operating system. Heck, I wouldn't choose to run WinXP with less than 512 MB of RAM.
In addition, since the game has to be generalized for all hardware, they have to provide the lowest common denominator for functioning. They know that if you have 1/2 a gig of ram and a 128 mb hard drive, then the program will probably run well.