Re: new hard drive trouble

2006-12-30 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:24:34 -0700, "Shane Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Brian Beardall wrote: > > I would get the sata II controller. The advantage of the sata II > > controller is the addition of NCQ. NCQ is what helps make SCSI drives so > > appealing and fast. NCQ is not available on mo

Re: new hard drive trouble

2006-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Brian Beardall wrote: > I would get the sata II controller. The advantage of the sata II > controller is the addition of NCQ. NCQ is what helps make SCSI drives so > appealing and fast. NCQ is not available on most sata I contollers. If > you have PCI Express on your motherboard you should be able

Re: Geeky Gifts and Other Geek Holiday Stuff

2006-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Ryan Simpkins wrote: > Did you get a shiny used PIII 450 to load Linux on? Did you get a new hard > drive for > your MythTV install? Did you perhaps give the gift that keeps on giving: > Linux? I got my family an early computer upgrade, then gave a 2 year old desktop to my brother. Both run Lin

Re: Geeky Gifts and Other Geek Holiday Stuff

2006-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Barry Roberts wrote: > I got a pcHDTV HD-5500 tuner card and plugged it in to my antenna. OTA > HTDV rocks. I've recorded some awesome nature shows for my kids off > KUED-HD at 1920x1080. On that note, I've observed that most of the shows my family records on MythTV come from PBS (KBYU or KUED).

Re: HDTV Antenna

2006-12-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris Carey wrote: > What antenna do you use? I'm looking to buy a HDTV antenna FWIW, my HDTV Wonder came with an indoor antenna similar to the ZHDTV1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B6FXR9/ref=pd_cp_e_title/105-5663645-5145219 It picks up around 20 digital channels in the area, from 27 mi

Re: Decent Struts docs?

2006-12-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:16:19PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: > On 12/29/06, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any decent documents on struts? I have two books from > >O'Reilly and a number of web sites, and I can't get answers to > >questions. > > > >I can find my way around Jav

Re: Decent Struts docs?

2006-12-30 Thread Bryan Sant
On 12/29/06, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any decent documents on struts? I have two books from O'Reilly and a number of web sites, and I can't get answers to questions. I can find my way around Java, know HTML and CSS and XML. But Struts strikes me as another level of com

Re: new hard drive trouble

2006-12-30 Thread Brian Beardall
I would get the sata II controller. The advantage of the sata II controller is the addition of NCQ. NCQ is what helps make SCSI drives so appealing and fast. NCQ is not available on most sata I contollers. If you have PCI Express on your motherboard you should be able to get a sata II contoller for

Re: new hard drive trouble

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On 12/29/06, Brandon Stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Find out your SATA drive speed: SATA 150 or SATA I SATA 300 or SATA II Either get a PCI SATA card to match, or get the faster SATA II card since it'll run the slower SATA I drives and the SATA II drives Except that the only SATA II

Re: Decent Struts docs?

2006-12-30 Thread Erik R. Jensen
> Are there any decent documents on struts? I have two books from > O'Reilly and a number of web sites, and I can't get answers to > questions. > > I can find my way around Java, know HTML and CSS and XML. But Struts > strikes me as another level of complexity for no apparent reason or > benefit.

Re: new hard drive trouble

2006-12-30 Thread Doran L. Barton
Christer Edwards wrote: > Afternoon, > > Santa was nice to me this year and I found myself the proud new owner > of a 500G WD (WD5000KS WD Caviar SE16) hard drive. It turns out, > however, that the drive uses SATA and my machines use PATA. I'm not > up-to-date on my hardware definitions so this