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The update this week has required a restart, but that's the only time I've seen it on the machines I have running it.

Ren & Stimpy reference.

Great Office War. Work-safe in 99 of 100 environments.

Ditto on the case/PSU option. Video would be fine but for her needs & limited budget she may well opt for integrated video to start with the option to move up to some power-sucking PCI-E card at a later date. Another option & my second choice would be hard drive + DVD burner. Third would be a...

No, it wouldn't matter. Specifically it wouldn't be matter. We would no longer be around to care. No one can resist the red button.

Out of curiosity, what is Microsoft's or your advice for moderm PCs, i.e. ones that don't come equipped with FDDs? XP's 2001-era understanding of hardware is showing its age. In general it's a good technique; boot a known-good OS from another device & perform your repairs under that. Can you...

I'm running five Core2Quads at the moment. Three are running Q6600s on free-with-CPU ECS motherboards. They are fine at stock speeds but don't do well overclocking. I wouldn't recommend them. My main workstation is another Q6600 on a Gigabyte GA-965-PDS3 more or less as outlined in this...

4*180 (1TB Seagate @ BestBuy this week) = $720 with less space, heat, and power draw. Perhaps the benefits aren't enough to overcome the price delta but at least the premium is only $75.

10.25% for Chicago starting tomorrow. :crucified:

Playboy material? (NSFW pics above & below link)

As a human with an ever-growing bald patch on my scalp, I would first think the slug genes are dominant in my makeup. However, given my fondness for salty food, I'd have to give preference to the rat side of the house (put salt on a slug & watch the reaction to see what I'm talking about).

One thought would be to use it in a tiered backup strategy. That way it sees relatively little use and the data it stores - important or not - is always on at least one more drive somewhere.

I don't think its possible for a mechanism like reCAPTCHA to evolve faster than the spammers. The tool developers can only do so much by way of prediction attack vectors; in general they're going to be stuck reacting to exploits, bots, and improved tech from the spammers (much like anti-malware...

Haven't got the Fit yet but we did buy Mariokart yesterday.

Not to mention the cost to handle - collect, store, archive, query, and ultimately act upon - the data would be higher than the funds raised. And how would this raise funds? It doesn't. In our credit-heavy society there's nothing at all that ties a persons income to their spending levels (or...

For reference my 35" JVC tube weighs in at 153 pounds. I agree with Bozo's comments about HDTV although some of those issues apply to any TV setup. When it comes time to replace the above 35" set with an HDTV, a set of about 44" will be required to achieve similar screen size for 4:3 material...

When searching, keep in mind it is Blu-ray Disc or BD and not Blue Ray.

That's a good argument against larger cities, Stereodude. For some reason school systems seem almost universally unable to scale once the student population exceeds 50K or so. I'd normally think economies of scale and neighborhood/school boundary planning would lead to efficiency but I've never...

My practice has been as follows: If there are no external influencing factors and I'm renting, I'll try to get a place as close to work as is reasonable. But if there are extenuating factors (children who need good schools, buying v. renting, need to be close to family, etc.) then I'd move...

Well, that article doesn't mention nor appear to factor other things that impact neighborhoods. More and more people can work from home, for instance, which eliminates the commute altogether, improves traffic/rush hour for those who can't avoid it, and cuts costs tremendously. It also means...

If you use Newegg's picture viewer, the 2nd to last pic of the ViewSonic shows a white DVI connector. Also, RTFM, specifically page 6.

C'mon, you know you'd use the space anyway. And Maxtor TB drives are only $170 at Fry's this week.

One stick of the memory is bad but the machine is up & Folding onthe other stick. An RMA has been submitted. I will say the OCZ forum is a good place to go if you have one of their products. It's monitored by OCZ staff and when we determined the RMA was needed they gave me the info to bypass...

Even my Dell D830 with 4GB RAM & a T7800 Core2Duo only nets a 3.2 But that's due to the graphics (nVidia Quadro NVS 135M 128MB). Other scores: Gaming Graphics: 3.8 Memory: 5.1 Primary HD: 5.2 (Seagate 120GB 7200RPM) Processor: 5.4 By contrast my desktop is 5.8-5.9 for everything.

If you have a scanner, use an eFAX service that lets you FAX via email. In theory I can FAX via my land line but I've never bothered. It exists primarily so my satellite box can call the mother ship (dumb thing lacks Ethernet/WiFi). We still get some calls on the loca line but most are...

Running the newest version of memtest86+ reveals errors. I'm working with the OCZ forum folks to find stable settings.

My nephew in Southern Indiana got caught by a flooded road last night. He was driving some unfamiliar roads and got lost. Then he slammed into some water & his car stalled. Luckily the water was only slightly above the floorpan of the cabin and lucky again also that the engine did eventually...

udaman, you might want to do some research. The Hitachi HD I noted above draws 0.8 and 1.8 watts at idle/load. The Corsair 32GB Survivor (ruggedized Flash drive) draws 5V and <1mAmp/<125mA at idle/load, equating to <0.005/<0.625W. So the Flash draws less than 10% of the power of the HD at...

Sorry, my cell is CDMA.

There were/are issues with a few specific AMD-based systems, but it appears to affect a fairly small minority of people. I rebuilt my wife's PC to get rid of some flakiness (it was never the same after getting jolted with some static) and put SP3 on the rebuild. No problems so far although the...

Well, you severely limit your options when you tie your self to a single brand. Having said that: Dual-core should respond much better. I'm pretty sure PhotoShop is multi-core aware so that should help even more. Intel's T9000 series is 45nm and should use less power. They also have 6MB...

IMO the only thing the iPhone adds is the stylistic Apple UI. Almost everything else is either a generation or two behind the times or just keeping pace with other devices. Treos from 3 or more years ago could do just about everything the iPhone does. Camera, MP3 & video player, browser, etc...

The reality is that all geographies have their 'mother nature challenges'. Decide which potential natural disaster you can live with and move there.

Take the old one to Batteries Plus. They can custom-build a battery pack for a few bucks.

Well, there are Treos that run the Palm OS so he could retain the functionality, look/feel, etc. that he's been used to. Versamail can do scheduled, manual, and push email via ActiveSync as long as webmail is set up on the Exchange side. Calendar & contacts sync over the air at the touch of a...

Sync Toy is the tool from MS that should have this capability. I haven't used it in some time so I'm not sure if it could handle your requirements, but I somehow doubt it.

You're welcome. It was interesting to try & figure out how it could be done without having to resort to outside utilities.

I had something like that happen yesterday evening. I had Firefox up with a half dozen tabs or so and at some point browsing became slower than dialup. I checked Task Mangler and saw FF using 17-19% CPU (almost an entire core) even when I wasn't actually doing anything like loading new pages...

Bozo - The tornadoes were mostly 30+ miles south of my place (far western suburbs). We had a lot of heavy wind but didn't even have any real rain during the 'event'. There were also some tornadoes way north of the city. Hopefully Timwhit will chime in and of course, we're all waiting to see a...

So my Q9450 is built & installing Kubuntu as I type this. Hardware: Core2Quad Q9450 MSI X48C motherboard OCZ DDR3 10666 Low Latency RAM (2x1GB) Corsair TX650W 650 Watt PSU Samsung 500GB HD Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro Philips SPD2513BD DVD-R Cooler Master Elite 330 case Issue with the X48C: It...

I use whatever offers the best capacity/dollar at the moment. At the 500GB size I've 3 Samsungs. But I also have a Seagate 750GB and a Fujitsu 80GB notebook drive (in a desktop). Those SATA drives are in my home machines/Folding farm. My work notebooks have an Hitachi and a Seagate. I've...

In general I like Obama, but this campaign based on 'change' stinks. There's nothing that says the changes will be for the better. IOW there needs to be more substance - what will he try to change and how - to back up the declarations. I'm stuck at home at the moment so I haven't been...

Dunno yet. It's sad to say but Treos haven't progressed much. I may hold for the next actual PalmOS version, but if they don't get something with real new features/functionality soon I'll have little choice but to abandon the platform & go to Windows Mobile or a BlackBerry (what my employer...

dd - I wouldn't say living far from downtown is a luxury. In Chicago, living downtown is a luxury (look at condo prices..). Anyway, I'd say living outside of a neighborhood is a luxury and by neighborhood I mean an area with a grocery store, park, maybe a clinic and library within walking...

Well, it's nice to know some case manufacturers are happy to build cat toys. .. Whaddaya mean it's not open so their paws can fit in?

CAFE is a fleet average ("Corporate Average Fuel Economy") so you can still have 10MPG guzzlers as long as there are enough sippers to make up for it. And lets face it, there will always be demand for vehicles like the Suburban. Something that has a good tow rating and passenger/cargo space.

As I said in the Vista thread I would not recommend upgrading existing machines to Vista unless there's a reasonable hardware investment at the same time to 'modernize' the equipment levels. But I see no issue with Vista on a properly configured machine with new hardware. Properly configured...

What consumer choice exists in the marketplace in the fuel economy area? There are a limited number of manufacturers and fuel economy across any given vehicle category does not differ by all that much. Example: Compare the 2008 Malibu, Sebring, Accord, Sonata, and Camry. Equip each with a 4...

Yeah, add a gig of RAM or more. Of course if it has 2x256 so you'll replace a 256 with a gig but it still nets 768MB more & Vista will like it. Crucial's configurator shows the system max RAM as 2GB and has a 2GB kit - 2x1GB - for only $50US. Oh, also, don't forget to remove any crapware that...

Would hierarchical storage management be of use?