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Why can't I get more than 18 months from a notebook HD? The Hitachi 60GB 7200 RPM in my Dell had some bad sectors a couple of months ago. I ran CHKDSK -R to flag them as bad and started watching for signs. Thursday evening, I notice the distinct chug-chug-chug of retries going on. I got the...

I'd be nice if it were cumulative vs. just for the month.

As I'll only be using this from my home machine, I downloaded BitTornado. So far it's timing out on the torrent Merc listed above.

I guess it's time to cave in and d/l a BT client. What's the preferred client nowadays?

I don't know about lifetime, but I do like to get at least 5-8 years from any given watch. My current work watch, a Citizen, is solar so no battery change required. In theory 1 day of sunlight provides 90+ days of battery power. My casual watch is an ESQ that does need a new battery about...

If you go to Dell's home page there's a drop-list with all of their countries. I don't see the Phillipines explicitly listed. That said, my employer operates in 32+ countries, including the Phillipines. Dell is our sole global PC/notebook supplier, so I'm pretty sure they have some operations...

Compression != Encryption. That said, WinRAR and Winzip both offer the additional capability to do AES-strength encryption. So if you want to protect your archive from prying eyes, encrypt + compress.

I hope so since I'll be in San Jose next month for a conference. It'll be my first time in northern CA. Southern CA, LA to San Diego, certainly is easy to navigate so I hope San Francisco & San Jose aren't too bad. Not sure if I'll see any part of SF other than the airport, but I'd like to.

It's like a cel phone, only it has wires and you can't take it with you. They have some in the local museum if you're interested...

Nature photos.

Most consumer-grade UPSes don't do double-inversion, i.e. convert incoming AC (line power) to DC (battery) back to AC (sockets for your PC). Most have separate charging circuits and do a cutover from line power to battery when an outage occurs. Hence the switching time that may be noted in the...

For those who want a partially edible motherboard, Cost Plus World Market normally carries vegimite in their B&M stores.

Yeah, I've played with it. It works OK, but Versamail is pretty crappy compared to Sprint's Business Connection Enterprise Edition (Seven's product). Anyway, for ActiveSync we didn't do anything from the carrier side. We already use Exchange Webmail so I simply pointed Versamail to that...

Anathor, you aren't alone. I had a USB reader attached to my wife's PC when I rebuilt it this past summer. I didn't notice everything was drive G: until I already had Office and everything she uses loaded. I decided to live with it as I wasn't keen on blowing so many more hours getting...

And here. It runs PocketPC and has a crappy screen. Not interested.

OTOH, a gay person can empathize a whole heck of a lot easier as they don't have to imagine their partner's physiology. And I've heard before that homosexual relationships tend to be a lot more stable. Maybe what's needed is someone to function as the emotional equivalent of the same sex, not...

Since I've been using VMWare more lately... Get VMWare. Any edition should do. Create a VM and install 98 to it. Assign the RSS to the session. No, I've no idea if it'd work. But you could d/l the VMWare trial free to try it out. And it's possible that you could use the trial to create...

There's normally a 1-good-show quota that they aren't allowed to exceed each season. For the moment BG is it.

I have 2 of the ACS1216A 16 port units. They're OK, but you need to connect the KVM switch to the PC/server for the server to detect it when powering up. Minor annoyance.

Yes, thank you!

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I had to re-login immediately post-upgrade, but I checked the 'remember me' box and haven't had to since. No big deal, especially since firefox remembers my ID & pwd anyway...

Linkie, please?

Good question; GSX (Unlimited Processor edition). It was set up that way as we may need to ditch the internal disk in favor of one of these. It's an adapter that goes in the xSeries server & provides several functions. The main function is the adapter joins the 2 GBps (byte, not bit) link...

I'm putting in an IBM xSeries 366 right now. Quad Xeon 3.6, 16GB RAM, Windows 2003 Enterprise + VMWare. It has 6 10K 73GB 2.5" SAS drives on an IBM ServeRAID card. Sucker takes forever and a day to boot but is darned fast otherwise. Unfortunately, I'm not sure whose drives they are and I...

If your cursor is not in a text input field, what would you have the browser do? Ignore the typing? That wouldn't be very nice. Why not assume the user wanted a reaction? Personally, I really like the auto-search. It's very handly when scanning some forums for new messages. Not here, as we...

Tannin - I've not seen that behavior. When you type the single quote, is your text cursor in an input field? There is a FF option to begin searching when you type something, although as I just alluded it doesn't fire if you're in a text input box. To check your setting, Tools - Options -...

Our 3 HVACs here are Liebert Challenger series machines.

My first AS/400 took something like 7 or 8 complete racks and had a 20KVA dedicated UPS all to itself. The iSeries I mentioned above is 600x faster, has 500x the usable disk, and 100x the RAM in essentially a 1/2-rack that uses far less power. All the other equipment in this data center chews...

Hmm. I'm working on our DR iSeries today. It has redundant 6 amp 220V PSUs (1368 VA each). Add to that 3 expansion drawers, each with redundant 2A/220V (358VA) PSUs and the supporting goodies (tape library, console server, dedicated Cisco switch, KVM & switch, etc.). All told it takes 25U in...

Password-protect the account on the PC and press Windows-L or Ctrl-Alt-Del then L to lock it. You're logged in enough for the FaH client to run but no one can use the machine w/o the password.

Frankly, to me and other security professionals, it is the government that is causing me to be afraid, not the terrorists. The things that are being done in the name of security are leading us down the wrong path. Not only do they provide minimal, if any, actual improvement to our security...

Draw up a will. Specify an executor to handle your wishes as specified in the will. That person should be a family member or close friend, but FAIK you could instead hire a lawyer or other professional to handle your post-mortem affairs, including any funeral arrangements you prefer.

I wouldn't pre-pay for a funeral. I would, however, consider pre-buying my burial plot if I was going to be buried. Or mausoleum space for an urn if being cremated. But even then only under certain circumstances, like being close to other deceased family members or, perhaps, if I knew my time...

Stereodude, I'll try a different approach. The US federal government doesn't issue an ID card to citizens. They also don't mandate that a citizen possess an ID card from any 'authorized' source (like a state ID/drivers license). So how can they reasonably ask for a card they neither provided...

Public transportation is, well, for the public. She has just as much right as you, me, or anyone else. There is no ID requirement for riding the bus. This sounds like you could care less about losing your privacy and that you'd welcome a police state. I certainly hope that's not the case.

I second the motion to give up on W98. If it's not your goal to run it, why bother? It sounds like the hardware is all fine but the software (OS & drivers) isn't adequate or is just too outdated. The obvious solution is to move on to an OS which better supports the board and has bug-free or...

Doug, that's not the point. It's a violation of the fourth amendment (illegal search & seizure) to have to show ID. They can legitimately ask you to identify yourself, though, in which case responding with "I'm Fred Smith" should be taken at face value. Whether you're carrying ID or not...

When I looked at the Comcast PVR at their kiosk in the mall I wasn't really impressed. Speed was marginally adequate but it still didn't address my main gripe: being able to not display the channels I don't want to see. I have a Comcast non-PVR now. For it's speed, I think they wrapped an old...

Now you can run FireFox in a VMWare session. For free. It's a 250MB download, but for those who want an even safer browsing experience, there you go. Oh, and VMWare now offers a free 'player' to run VMs created on machines with VMWare (any version) on machines w/out VMWare.

The UIs seem to heavily depend on whose box you have. A friend's Sony DirecTV box was pretty different from the RCA box I had back when I had DirecTV before. The Comcast UI is not too appealing to me, even after the recent upgrade. It's still slow. There's no live view of a channel while...

I actually had DirecTV a few years ago when we first bought the house. For a subdivision built in the late 90s it was rather strange that we weren't wired for digital cable (and broadband) from the get-go, but that's the way it was. Eventually Comcast offered broadband & upgraded to digital...

Comcast is raising their rates again. This is pretty darn annoying so my wife & I are switching (back) to satellite. I'm posting this to solicit opinions on DirecTV vs. Dish Network. The packages we are considering would include an HD-DVR (or a regular DVR now & plan for upgrading later). We...

The Mitsu is made just north of Detroit. It's a re-skinned Dodge. Looks like you want 4WD & the V8 if doing real off-roading. Here's a shoot-out between the Toy & the Nissan.

Thread drift ... IBM iSeries support via 800-IBM-SERV is still knowledgeable and helpful. You call, describe the problem to the human drone calltaker who then forwards you to the appropriate department where actual humans who are trained to know the products reside. No waiting on a callback...

The underpinnings are from the Odyssey minivan, so the powertrain is proven. My electrician/HVAC guy bought a new vehicle. He drives a fair bit and needs to haul around electrical supplies. He was tired of the poor mileage on his RAM pickup. In the end, he got one of these. It's not exactly...

That could be grounds for dismissal here.

It's not so much the amount of RAM; it's the speed of the RAM's interface to the CPU.

Pennies.

My main home PC is down WRT Folding right now. It appears to overheat (I believe) and then spontaneously reboot when F is running. Even reducing the CPU to 70% doesn't clear it up. When I get a chance I'll lay a fresh coat of Arctic between the CPU & HSF; maybe the thermal conductivity is...