Computers and Related Hardware/Software

I actually had 4 of those, in RAID, a few weeks ago.

IIRC, it took somewhere around 5 or 6 hours each. :bleh:

New problem. Bought a c261 Motorola cell phone. It has no computer connecting cable.... except I found out on another forum that you can plug a serial cable in the earphone and d/l and u/l thru it. I found a cable made for this and bought it.... so it connects from the earphone output plug on the cell phone to the serial input on the PC. Now what? How do I get to the serial port input in the PC?
I suppose I need some software... but what kind and from where?
:withstupid: :withstupid: :withstupid: :withstupid:

Are you trying to use the contacts list feature, create your own ringtones, all of the above??

There's a program called Motorola Phone Tools that you may be looking for. :headscratch:

tabana wrote:it took somewhere around 5 or 6 hours each. :bleh:

Yikes. :sweat:

tabana wrote:Nice. :) Saw a few Seagate 750GB for $500.

Update: Fry's is selling a Seagate SATA300 750GB, 16MB buffer for $340...

Next year, they'll be around $200, I'll bet. :victory:

dochira wrote:Are you trying to use the contacts list feature, create your own ringtones, all of the above??

There's a program called Motorola Phone Tools that you may be looking for. :headscratch:

Mostly to d/l pictures from phone to PC. They want you to send them to email which costs about .70 per picture.

checked Motorola phone tools and this phone is not in compatibility list. All the other phones have usb cable coonections.

I found a USB software phone manager for this phone:
http://global.mobileaction.com/download/download1.jsp?phoneBrand=13&modelID=471&go=+Go+

and d/l it but it can't find the serial port. It expects data thru USB.
I'm going to frys to buy a serial to USB converter cable and see if that will do the trick.

This whole thing is just weird. Lots of software for C261 coming in USB, yet NOBODY sells or has a USB cable....... They all selll phone to serial port and NOBODY has serial port software.
:bonk:

bmwracer wrote:
Update: Fry's is selling a Seagate SATA300 750GB, 16MB buffer for $340...

Next year, they'll be around $200, I'll bet. :victory:

Wow. Over $100 cheaper than what I've found.

They had a new technology on a different way to stack data on a disk to store even more data. We should have 1TB drives soon enough. :mrgreen:

tabana wrote:They had a new technology on a different way to stack data on a disk to store even more data.

Yup: Perpendicular Recording.

It was invented by a Japanese guy decades ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording

We should have 1TB drives soon enough. :mrgreen:

Next year, I'll bet. :victory:

tabana wrote:
We should have 1TB drives soon enough. :mrgreen:

Hope that Blu-ray discs will come out first. I already have hard time backing up my 300GB hdd :sweat:.

boris wrote:
Hope that Blu-ray discs will come out first. I already have hard time backing up my 300GB hdd :sweat:.

http://www.supermediastore.com/blue-ray-blu-ray-dvd-media-recorder.html

:mrgreen:

Cool. The burner is a bit expensive, but I bought my 1st CD and 1st DVD burner, when they were around 600$. The DVD-R were around 20$ a piece too. :bleh:



The price will go down, when someone manage to chip the PS3. :twisted:

So consumer blu-ray devices are already out on the market, good, now have to wait for prices to drop to some reasonable levels...

boris wrote:So consumer blu-ray devices are already out on the market, good, now have to wait for prices to drop to some reasonable levels...

It'll be a couple of years, I think: the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs aren't making the same kinda splash that the DVD made almost ten years ago.

Most people don't have an HD TV anyway...

tabana wrote:Most people don't have an HD TV anyway...

Exactly.

Science & Technology
NOW WHERE WAS THAT MOVIE?
Revolutionary Search Technology for HDD Video Recorders (November 16, 2006)


Makers of HDD/DVD recorders and PCs continue to compete over how many hours of recorded video can be stored on their products. But while these devices may be able to store hundreds of hours of TV programs and movies, it can sometimes be hard for viewers to find what they want to watch. In response to feedback from users, NEC has developed what it claims is an unprecedented system that makes searching for specific content much easier and faster.
Searching from a Vast Library
NEC calls this breakthrough "topic division technology." Voice patterns from the audiovisual data of a program are analyzed, and all of the data related to a specific search term can be called up regardless of whether the data in question is related to politics, entertainment, or sports.

For example, when searching for Major League Baseball player Suzuki Ichiro, the technology uses keywords like "baseball," "United States," and "outfielder" to locate and play video footage of Ichiro. It can also pull up a specific story from a news broadcast for the viewer.

Overcoming Difficulties
Present technology for searching audiovisual content relies on keywords that can be found in the electronic programming guide or in the content itself in the form of subtitles. But in addition to the expense of generating this data, the search itself is simplistic, making it hard to access content in a disaggregated way.

According to NEC, these problems have been overcome with the development of topic division technology. Now that the massive amounts of audiovisual content coming over digital broadcast networks and the Internet can be searched, accessed, and viewed according to subject matter, both suppliers and consumers of content will be able to access and interact with it more efficiently. The company is looking to commercialize this technology in 2008 and also wants to use it in home computers in the future.

Wow. That's really cool.

This will be useful for broadcasters too.

tabana wrote:Wow. That's really cool.

This will be useful for broadcasters too.

yes it's like the program is prophesizing where the relevant clips are....like tabanadamus :P

:hehe:

It might not work for every case, like listing every gangsta rap music videos with the words f**k and b!tch. :hehe:

tabana wrote::hehe:

It might not work for every case, like listing every gangsta rap music videos with the words f**k and b!tch. :hehe:

can you imagine trying to index the shows via recognition of the word "oishii".....every dayem japanese dorama and variety show will come back as a hit.