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To: Ausdauer who wrote (4347)	1/4/2003 3:52:35 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21647

OT Aus, An interesting little story that I thought you'd find amusing since I believe wolves are common in your area also. I live in a very small rural village in the bush. I went over to get gas for my vehicle today and the operator told me he just got back from shooting a wolf just down the road. He explained that it must have had rabies and was attacking forestry vehicles ( skidders, de-limbers 1/2 ton trucks etc) and in fact he said it had attacked my neighbours truck this morning and chewed the license plate off of it. I was very suspect about that last part so on my way home I stopped at my neighbours and sure enough there he was straightening out his license plate and re-installing it on the truck. He also showed me the teeth marks on the bumper and grill. The plate was well chewed. That was some p*ssed off wolf. <gg> Now in the interest of qualifying for this thread, following is a photo of the inside of our small church that I took an hour ago. I thought it looked pretty and wished I had taken time to photograph it "straight".:o( That's the manger in the front right. pbase.com Have a good day and BTW I sent out that small item yesterday. Regards C

To: Ausdauer who wrote (4347)	1/7/2003 9:55:55 AM
From: Done, gone.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21647

Hitachi Buys IBM's Hard Disk Drive Business - Plans To Sell 4GB Microdrive in the Fall At the end of December 2002 Hitachi bought IBM's disk drive business and has formed a new Hitachi Global Storage Technologies company. In addition to the desktop and laptop hard drives, Hitachi will also be producing the popular 1-inch Microdrive. Hitachi Global Storage said that it plans to sell a 1-inch Microdrive with 4 gigabytes of storage. Currently the largest Microdrive that IBM has produced only holds 1 gigabyte of data. The CompactFlash Type II form factor Microdrive is extremely popular in high resolution digital cameras, PDAs and MP3 players. Besides the 4-fold increase in capacity the new Microdrive will use a newly designed read-write head that is half the size of the current one. This equates to a 40% decrease in the height at which it travels over the disk platter. The increased data capacity is due to its five-layer coating of "Pixie Dust" which is a three-atom-thick layer of precious metal sandwiched inbetween three magnetic layers. The new Microdrive will have a 50% increased data transfer rate and Hitachi estimates that it will be faster than today's solid-state data storage devices. Pricing for the new drive will be announced later in the year. From: steves-digicams.com