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I went into the GPU Configuration panel & didn't see aplace to specify machine ID. My Consoles are machines 1-4; I'll maybe move them to 5-8 & re-try the V6 beta.

GMail messages randomly disappearing. I haven't experienced this myself.

Bloat & eye candy. Seriously, back in 1984 my Zenith Z-151 dual-floppy would go from power switch to A: prompt in 4 seconds. I had WordStar and Lotus 1-2-3 for productivity, TurboPascal for programming, and actually useful utilities like SideKick, SuperKey, Norton, Copy2PC (with Option Board)...

tim stole my idea. I'll be driving through the area next Wednesday evening on my way to the inlaws.

The 6.0 Beta Windows 1 client seems to conflict with the GPU client. If either is running the other won't start - it says the client is already running. BTW some time ago I started having issues running the SMP client - it wouldn't start up reliably - so right now my main rig with the C2Q is...

Very true. Many security experts - real ones, not the gubmint - preach general disaster preparedness v. point "solutions". Prepare for what to do if the power grid is disabled, there's a huge storm / earthquake / flood / whatever-affects-your-region, there's a hazmat or biological agent...

To attack a train it makes far more sense to simply blow up the track. Take your explosive of choice, hook it to a vibration-sensor trigger, and place it anywhere close to a track where it won't be observed (like the road-side bombs in Iraq). Safer / non-martyr for the terrorist, cheaper as no...

As Will said, they problem isn't with your readers. The problem is that you're not using cards the readers can recognize. Use 2GB and smaller cards and I'm sure they'd work fine. Sandisk MobileMate or MicroMate readers work fine with high capacity cards and they're small. For an internal...

After training the people to be CCNAs, and for that matter training anyone to achieve a certification, does your employer reward their achievement with a salary bump? Generally a cert will up someone's pay base while making them more marketable. When I got my CISSP, not only did my employer...

Just be prepared to live with the potential for increased injuries you might inflict upon others in that situation. You may save your life at the intentional (the vehicle was your choice to buy/drive) cost of another. Yeah, I like the new Evo's style much better than the last couple of...

640K. Sheesh. I had 704KB conventional in my Zenith Z-151 back in college. Basically replaced the RAM PAL chip with one that raised the limit. Never had any app issues and it was great as at the time I heavily used Borland's SideKick & SuperKey TSRs. Hmm. Anyone know of a good key macro...

Lost, I'm not sure what a megabot is :cheese: but you are correct that the cost of a workstation is relatively trivial to a business. Unlike consumers a business will justify the cost by the anticipated productivity gains that can be achieved. Also, the cost is generally spread across...

uda, the Accord hybrid is no more. It was killed off. And they already have a diesel Accord in Europe that gets better mileage and has fewer emissions than the (now deceased) Accord hybrid.

Maybe that'll serve as an enabler to get more consumer-level diesels on the road, then. Light-duty trucks and passenger cars. There have been hints that Honda would bring our a diesel Accord in '09.

OK, then. How about emissions since the US hasn't transitioned to cleaner-burning diesel fuel?

Son of a ... It shows available at all 6 local BB stores. Oh well. As I said before if we like the e280 I'll let my wife keep it & pick up the View for myself.

I bit the bullet yesterday. Factors: 1. It would be cutting it too close to wait for the View. With it hitting stores (apparently) Oct. 31 and us leaving town Nov. 2 that's just not enough time to get things sorted and we've a lot of last-minute stuff to do. 2. I was also thinking about...

In Naperville. I wouldn't be surprised if Fry's in Downers Grove had something but I couldn't find one on their site (which sucks anyway).

My OfficeJet needed no downloaded drivers from HP. Vista recognized it & loaded everything to print, scan, and fax automatically. Nowadays I find even XP to be too pokey with just 512MB RAM. I bumped my wife's PC to a GB a few weeks back just for the minor speed boost it granted. Now I just...

Here's a list of other movies by the director, Hayao Miyazaki. If you like the environmentalist theme I'd recommend some of the more recent movies like Howl's Moving Castle (well, Howl is more anti-war than anything else) and Princess Mononoke. Movies from before Mononoke don't really have as...

Centro review.

Whatever phone you go with, make sure you can sync the contacts to a PC or an expansion card so you won't be at risk of losing the data again. Palm's smallest & lightest Treo, called Centro, will probably be offered on Verizon in about 90 days. I know you have an immediate need, so you can't...

Hmm. I wonder how it knew that I have a V6 instead of the I4. Oh, it didn't know because it didn't list that as an option. I think it's assuming the I4. I agree with Mark; you can't buy your way out of your "carbon footprint". That's simply a way for people to consume all they want and not...

Guilty until proven innocent. That's the RIAA way. I don't think I've ever seen an organization so openly hostile towards it's customer base and what amazes me more is that people take it in stride.

It's my understanding that all of the Sansas support drag-n-drop as well as syncing via WMP. Page 9 of the manual for the c100 series (pdf) seems to confirm this. The c100 series is listed as older so you may want to consider a c200 series player. The 250 costs $10-15 more but offers an...

On this day in 2005, Shenzhou 6, the second Chinese human spaceflight, launched into a 5-day orbit. In 1999, the proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world was born. In 1988, NeXT launched its first public debut of the NeXT Computer at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California...

I've seen the 8GB e280 as low as US $112 but it's hovering around $140 now. The 16GB View is supposed to retail @ $199. The e-series and the upcoming View use the rotating dial thing but there are buttons for basic ops like play/pause, ff/rw, etc. so while playing a song you wouldn't have to...

Went to Circuit City & Best Buy last night with my wife and the intent to check out player interfaces to make sure they'd get the WAF. As the View isn't yet on the market we looked at the Sansa e200 series. She didn't have any issues with the controls and seemed to like the form factor. After...

(Late post. This is from Friday, 10/5) On this day in 1991, the first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, was released. In 1984, Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1973, the European Patent Convention was signed. In 1970...

For less than $40 more you can get a 512MB ATI card and run the Folding GPU client if desired. The downside, I suppose, would be the 1950 has a cooling fan. The stock CPU cooler seems to be fine. I've got one on my secondary C2Q which spends it's life Folding. Of course it's running in the...

The first PCs I used were Apple ][ models. Later on the ][+ and ][e. They were single or dual-floppy (SS-SD) with 48-64K RAM. I never used a cassette-only micro. The first PC I owned was a Zenith Z-151 PC clone with 320K RAM and CGA graphics. Dual 360K floppies. I've never bought another...

Or maybe this one to stay with Sapphire (X1950Pro, 512MB, PCI-e). This is the one I purchased in May and it works great. While I'm not a gamer I have stressed it by running the GPU Folding client.

The View does look pretty cool. I can hold out a couple more weeks to see if the View makes it to the street but my vacation is in early November & I'd like time to get familiar with whatever I buy beforehand so I really will want to buy a player no later than 10/15 or so.

Lots of T-shirts, time and patience. On this day in 1987, Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation aired. In 1976, R&B singer Stevie Wonder released the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life. In 1941, Major League Baseball player Ted Williams...

The Sansa e280 is $112 @ buy.com. The cheapest 8GB iPod that I see offhand is $190 for a 2nd gen nano from merchants I've never heard of. 3rd gen nanos are running about $200. Now, cost isn't an overriding factor but is the iPod truly worth a 70-80% price premium over the Sansa?

Played with a Sansa e280 over lunch today. Also briefly looked at the Creative Zen W. While I really want the tons-o-storage from a drive-based unit I'm thinking the overall form factor of the flash-based units fits better with how I'm envisioning using the device. The drive-based units pack...

Down. The fixture looks similar to this. The US standard is also 8ft. 9+ ft ceilings can be found in older homes and premium/luxury homes. We have 9ft ceilings on the main floor and 8ft on the second floor, which is common for newer homes in the area I live (middle-middle & upper-middle...

500? As in CSx, C500, or D500? I'm on a D800 right now with a D830 in the works - waiting on the procurement cycle to bring it to my cubicle.

Well, a lot of us Americans wind up being a bit oversized ourselves. It is a fan with a lighting fixture mounted below. The fixture has 3 arms that terminate in a glass housing. Each housing is rated for 75W. The room is roughly 12x13 with a 9 foot ceiling. The entire kitchen with eat-in area...

We use batteries mostly for flashlights, wall clocks, and remote controls. For each of those applications the batteries easily last over a year. The only two things we have that go through batteries faster are my exercise bike (similar to this) and my VX Revolution mouse. The VX goes through...

On this day in 2002, The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact, occurred in Siberia, Russia. In 1929, Jimmy Doolittle performed the first blind flight from Mitchel Field, proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible. In 1906, in the presence of the king and before...

Honoring our fine tradition of thread resurrection.. I'm considering picking up an MP3 player now. Partly for the wife to use on our upcoming vacation but also for me to use. Still in the early stages so I haven't nailed down the feature set just yet. Not sure if I want one that'll do video...

And to Mark for passing the 3 million mark.

I believe Joe Versus the Volcano demonstrated that look. Legislating new light fixtures would never fly. There really is nothing wrong with the standard screw-in bulb. It's simple, user-serviceable, cheap, and reasonably flexible in terms of potential uses, placement, & housing. That CFLs...

Yes, although we've more lights to cut over. We took our eat in kitchen from a 60W incandescent to a 23W (100W equivalent) CFL. I replaced 3 75W bulbs in my den's overhead ceiling fan with 3 13W (60W equivalent) CFLs. Our kitchen uses a quad T8 overhead. We have a lot more bulbs to replace...

That is another point. Anything 'net-facing or in the DMZ is not allowed to be in the corporate Active Directory. The DMZ has it's own AD.

Stereodude - If dd meant power/liter or HP/$ the 'Vette loses. Clocker - I'm sure you're right on the recalls thing but the article doesn't specify the source or derivation of their numbers so I still say as a data point it's useless. Manufacturer spend on warranty & recall repairs (per...

I'd be in favor of moving the servers to their own subnet. If any of these are Internet-facing they should really be put in a DMZ. Since their office is growing you could even do the same with the printers/copiers. Or buy bigger printer/copiers and have more people share them, reducing the...

Sorry, but this is worthless. If they only looked at 2007 data then someone's lying. VW did not sell over a million Beetles. But if they're looking beyond 2007 then they should be including the Ford recall. Also, the Liberty is listed twice. Or, are they saying that there were __ recalls on...

For the multi-billion dollar, multi-national company I work for it goes something like this: Internet feed -- redundant Cisco firewalls -- redundant Nokia F5 front-ends -- DMZ: redundant/pooled Web servers -- redundant Checkpoint firewalls -- another DMZ: app servers/database (redundant where...