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    low-end laser printers these days?

    When I went with someone on a Saturday afternoon tour of various Office superstores to assist in purchasing a cheapo laser printer, I ended up liking some of the Brothers (brand) cheapo laser printers better than many of the other cheapo laser printers. They seemed to be built fairly well and...
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    Haiku Operating System

    Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities...
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    Where's everybody?

    Wavemaker, we don't need you making waves around here. There are many refugeees from that SnorageReview place that prefer the peace and calm of StorageForum.
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    Lenovo looking to buy Seagate

    Probably more like Levono looking to buy HitachIBM hard drive manufacturing operations.
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    More Vista nonsense

    All I can say is that Onomatopoeic (a.k.a -- "The Big O" :) ) is spot-on! Vista is indeed incredibly evil. I recently made the grave mistake of buying the Vista Penultimate upgrade (cost was $666 -- that should tell you something right there!) and installing it on my...
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    Tannin's new bird-watching lens

    As Lunar was saying, practically every one of these sort of telephoto lenses (as well as ultra-wides and fisheyes) use internal or rear-element filters. Such filters are quite small, actually. Large, expensive telephotos will likely come with a decent moulded case, but you still need to get...
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    Tannin's new bird-watching lens

    With these sorts of lenses (and there have been lots of these sorts of lenses available for many years), the camera body ALWAYS hangs off the lens and the lens is tripod-mounted. If it is particularly windy, you might tripod-mount both the lens AND the camera body using two separate tripods...
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    WinXP 64-bit SP2 Released (+64bit Win2K3 Srvr)

    Service Pack 2 for Windows XP 64-bit Professional (workstation) has been released. In fact, this service pack also upgrades any version of 64-bit Windows 2003 Server (Standard, Enterprise, etc.) as well. The URL below is for the full-blown standalone re-distributable version that will...
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    Server 2003 SP2 released.

    Yes. Downloaded it at noon local time (Tuesday, 13-March) and have been since been running it on a mix of 1~2 year old vintage servers that were originally loaded with Win2K3 then upgraded to SP1 later on, as well as some very recent vintage servers that were originally loaded with Win2K3/R2...
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    Mystery Reboots

    Even though WU probably is not at fault, try setting Windows Update (Automatic Updates) to "Turn Off Automatic Updates" for a while -- just in case some glitch has wiggled into WU recently. Patch Tuesday is 12-Dec, so you can do that one manually (just like I always have). If software is...
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    Best *nix OS for hosting a website

    If you have the time, evaluate NetBSD and then OpenBSD. If neither interest you, then evaluate FreeBSD. Are you expecting a lot of traffic on your website? Internet Service Providers tend to use BSD over Linux for their general-purpose web and e-mail servers. From there, the choice of BSD...
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    Samsung SpitPoint 500GB

    Samsung storage division seems to have a rather pathetic marketing department behind it when it comes to selling to the retail space. WesternDigi and Seagate/Quaxtor are on the opposite end of that spectrum. Samsung concentrates on supplying hard drives to big-box vendors. HP/Compaq...
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    More Vista nonsense

    Vista could have been a very good operating system, but now it's been totally fuxored beyond repair by politics and marketing -- at least until Vista II is released. The Vista kernel is good. The Vista kernel is apparently the Win2K3 Server kernel with code updates. Unfortunately, Vista...
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    Scanner recommendations for photos

    The following info is mainly directed to those planning on keeping their new flatbed scanner and laser printer for several years: I haven't kept track of the inexpensive flatbed scanner market in a while, but Epson was (and probably still is) the best manufacturer about NOT making their...
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