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Well, it's the night before Easter, and Greg doesn't have work tomorrow. Went shopping, bought a 1/2 pound of Goose pate, expecting the cat to eat half. She only had a bite. I'm eating that with 2008 Mt. Eden Estate Pinot Noir, still my favorite Pinot Noir, after 30 years. It's from Saratoga...

X-25E was FAR too expensive. What's the warranty on the X-25M? 5 years. Considering the cost, I might well be dead before the drive wears out. If one breaks, I've kind of learned my lesson that even though you get huge through put, there is a point where bench marks are the only thing that can...

Lunar: I am similarly pleased with the X-25 M's.

Yes, it would look cool. It would probably not require water/oil changes, and cleaning the tank as often;-) Wonder if the standard pumps would work if they pumped mineral oil? ..............................................................................................0 Jumpster just typed...

Anyone tried Altec Lansings lately?

Guy at costco reminded me that the TV doesn't have the costco standard return policy, and, if it breaks, I'm SOL. So, I went with the Syncmaster P2770 27", and while it's not really the right size, if the 37" breaks, I could use it as a primary monitor without much problem.

Klipsch makes a LOT of different speakers, some better then others. I listened to the subs, and the 12" was my favorite, value sound wise, even over the 14 and bigger. The Hereseys are pretty incredible speakers, and, with a powerful amp, they fill in and give a much broader range, then with a...

Altec Lansing used software to enable sound, and, yes, they connected by USB and a Jack. They worked without the driver, but, where not fully functional.

Yes, I stand corrected.

The beauty of Klipsch has always been they can give excellent sound with low power from the amp. In the old days of 30-35 watt a channel amps, that was a big deal. Today, with 100-125 a channel, cheap, it's less so. That said, when I went to the Yamaha, I had a huge increase in sound quality...

I'm using the Klipsch Pro media 2.1 4 speakers and a subwoofer for the computer in my room. Fine for anything in a smaller room, and doesn't shake the walls. http://www.amazon.com/Klipsch-ProMedia-4-1-Certified-5-Speaker/dp/B000062VUP/ref=sr_1_121?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1302635694&sr=1-121...

My system wasn't even consistently recognizing the stupid monitor. Took it back, and decided that when the TV dies, I might need a monitor that I could use all the time, so, I bought a Syncmaster P2770, LCD. It's kind of fast, 1 ms response time, and it has the software I like, and, it has a DVI...

As an alternative, I have LOTS of Klipsch speakers: http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/promedia-2-1-overview/ http://www.klipsch.com/na-en/products/heresy-iii-overview/ The sub went out on the klipsch 5 speaker system I had, and, I bought a new sub speaker for 25 bucks, shipped, and...

I've always held off on the bleeding edge, but I so liked torrents at 1.3 MB/sec that I decided the 20 bucks extra to get 18 mbps would be worth it. Just had a programer move in, and, he wants the upload speed. Uploads go over 6 mbps, then drop back down with this new connection. For some...

I type 70 words a minute. You don't do that looking at the keyboard. However, that said, when it's dark, I do have to find the keyboard before I type on it;-) I do a lot of work where I'm sitting in my room, lights off, watching a movie, and working on something else. On the otherhand, the one...

I was connecting the server to one of the HDMI ports on the 37" Vizio, but the darn cable I was using, from monoprice, worked loose often in the video card HDMI port. I can't help but think that with the weight, and length of the HDMI cables, they are leveraged on the ports, and, with any...

David is probably the guy on this one. I've only used free programs, sometimes with stuff that only a clean install will cure. I am using a ram disk on an XP install, on one of my Panasonic laptops. I use it for caching stuff for Firefox, and, it really speeds stuff up. On another install, I...

Thanks Merc. That got me thinking of another time. Diane made walked in one day to work. The Shadowbrook, in Capitola. My boss, Charles Halliday, had the pick of many beautiful women to work the door, restaurant and bar, and, he usually hired aspiring models, etc. Diane walked in, with her...

I usually buy stuff from Costco, so if I don't like it, I can take it back, or, if it goes defective, likewise. Costco gives me three monitor choices: A 21.5" LCD for 160 dollars SA 350 for 200 dollars, 23" and the 27" for 300 dollars. The 27" is liveable. However, the new power connector to...

or these: 17 bucks: http://us.kensington.com/html/17774.html

I may have to try one of these: http://us.kensington.com/html/17151.html When I go through my next MSFT oem board, I may try one. Only 40 bucks...

Here is the fastest I've ever used. Antioch High School, Antioch. Funny that such a poor school district had such a lightning fast connection:

I am a moron, at least sometimes. Astounds add: "10 Mbps downstream/1 Mbps upstream"

Hi I just upgraded to 10 MB/sec internet from astound. First off, all they did to do that was flash the router from the office, and it's working right around 10 MB/sec. Now this is the part I don't get. Using a Linksys Cisco-Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router. It's supposed to be 54...

Hi Does anyone have a food, or waterproof keyboard they use and like? Thanks GS

Does bring up a question. What keyboards for home use are spill proof, waterproof, food proof?

Thanks Merc. Last time I talked to her she was in LA, working as a sports medicine therapist. She fell in love with a playboy photographer. She married him, and went to the Caribbean for a shoot. When she came home, somewhere in the midwest, the guy had changed the locks, and moved all her...

New benchmark for SSD. Small foot print, no junk added:

If Angelina Jolie, and Diane Hsu were on bikes, in similar out fits, NO ONE would look at AJ>...

For what it's worth: Hitting a bag dictates the wrist is flattened. In other words, to avoid harm to the wrist etc. the top of the hand has to be flat. We used to tape a ruler on the wrist, and align the rest of the hand with the wrist. This is an excellent guideline to protect your wrists...

My fondest memory, that I can put in print, are walking into a local gym in Santa Cruz in the early 80's, with my trainer/sifu/boss Charles Halliday, and Mike Dixon, at the time, the number one heavyweight Olympic boxer in the world. We walked down a narrow hall way, to get to the weight room...

I have big hands, so I buy big mouses. I also use a wrist rest maybe 3/4" thick, and that seems to really help. I'm currently using a Gigabyte GM 8000, with all the weight in it, and a Razor Deathadder. Both are large, pretty much as big as I could find. I find the wrist starts being bothered...

64 bit cell phones;-0? Out of kindness to my upstairs neighbor, who gets up and goes to work at 4 am every morning, I often use the server with headphones to watch stuff. It doesn't work with PowerDVD 8, but, with Media Player classic it works great to play TV shows, etc. Movies are generally...

The drive is in my server, which has 2 gigs of ram, and, to add 2 more was 150 bucks, last time I checked. Not sure how well Windows 7 32 bit would address 4 gigs of ram anyway. I used IE as a benchmark, pretty much that's it. RAM usage on the server is pretty consistent, minimum 30%, and, with...

So far, running 8 gigs of ReadyBoost, and making that drive the scratch drive for Photoshop. For some reason, apps seem to open very quickly, Photoshop in particular. Photoshop 7 in 9 seconds. MSFT Word 2000, under 2 seconds. Internet Explorer 32 bit 3 seconds.

Final testing use Here is a test of the twin boot Turbos: Here is the blank, replacement Turbo: The drives are running on a PCI-X AMCC 3 Ware 9550SX/9590SE SATA Raid Controller. ReadyBoost for this drive?

4-4 arrived at 9:03 am. Formatted through the toaster. This drive appears unused, no crossed out serial number on the box, doesn't appear to be worn around the connectors at all. SN is 0140411-3000067 PN OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G However, the connectors aren't bright copper, but...

They knew it was you Merc, and, figured they needed some good press on the website;-)

drive showed up as dead on my controller card, where it had been fine before. Better to RMA the drive, or so far, maybe not;-( Anyway, the replacement drive wasn't formatted, so should be zeroed when formatted, if a long format is used.?

OK: So a pagefile of let's say 1 gig, on a 30 gig blank drive, would be distributed over the drive, as the wear indicates, not just in a 1 gig space. The problem I had with the OCZ drive was once it was pulled from the array, and put in the beast, it showed up as 128 gigs, even though it was 30...

"Food: - 6,16% : Fortron Blue Storm Bronze 500 - 6.16%: Fortron Blue Storm 500 Bronze - 2,63% : HIPER New S S625 - 2.63%: HIPER New S S625 - 2,26% : Antec EarthWatts EA650 - 2.26%: Antec EarthWatts EA650 " Hmmm. Perhaps this article is computer generated? Hal lives?;-)

Page file on SSD? If so, how big? Raid stops trim? Hi Couple questions. If you get a RMA'd OCZ Vertex Turbo, that you now have little use for, and, you wanted to set it up as a page file drive, how big would you make the page file to avoid writing to the same area over and over? Second: Is it...

Yesterday was Tuesday.

I called this morning, and, they emailed me the prepaid shipping label. It's on the package, and, going out today.

The RMA posted 4 days ago. STILL haven't got the shipping label emailed. What's the cheapest way to ship a drive that size, with delivery confirmation? Post office fixed rate box, 5 bucks? Throw it in an envelope, and send it?

Sunday and no emailed UPS label.

RMA today, no shipping label Trouble Ticket ID: 176120 Description: OCZSSD2-1VTXT30G ------------------------------------------------------- Please be advised that the status on your trouble ticket has been changed from Waiting on Customer to In Progress with the following comment...

No response today...

Two Lacrosse games Friday night. Up at 5 am, drive to sac, work till 6pm. State finals in basketball tomorrow night. Have a floor seat to watch the finals at 7:30 PM.

Thanks.