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A couple of weeks late, but congrats to Mark for passing 500,000 points!

Platform, that doesn't appear to have USB2 as CityK desires. CityK, what about something from Lacie? The products come with the hard drives so they'll cost a hair more than the do-it-yourself route, but you should be able to find just about anything you want. Here's a 1TB External for under...

To maximize your screen real estate, try the Microfirefox theme. Makes your icons quite small.

I dislike having to clean up the downlaod manager as well, but it's only 1 button to do so. I get progress bars with d/l speed & time remaining estimates; what else does it need to be 'proper'? I don't consider Options being under Tools to be hidden when that is what Windows users are used to...

Excellent read.

Get a notebook with a DVD burner, dual-layer if you can afford the media. Then carry a handful of blank disks. Not much added bulk that way. Or, as mubs says, an external drive. An 80+GB notebook drive in a USB2 enclosure shouldn't require a separate power adapter. Coupled with a short USB2...

1. If the notebook fails, install the drives in another or in a desktop. Now, if you're talking the notebook HD fails, well, that's what backups are for. 2. No mention of spindle speed in the Computerworld article. I'm too lazy to look it up so I'm assuming 5400 RPM.

I have absolutely no idea for sure but it sounds like they just integrated the 4 pin connector into the 20, making it 24.

I'm thinking a 3 wide x 2 high array of these puppies would be perfect here at the office. :lol: Lots of room for the security monitors I check regularly. I'd need a cubicle larger than my bosses to hold them, though, and there's no way my laptop could drive more than one.

Depends on the show. Many are straight episodic and each storyline is wrapped up in 24 minutes. But there are plenty of serials as well. The thing about DB/DBZ/etc is that a single fight can last for 6+ episodes. I think that's because Toriyama doesn't really know what else to do with the...

Try Graveyard of the Fireflies sometime. Scratch that. If you don't want to see any anime, that's perfectly fine. Your mind is made up and I doubt that I'd be able to change it. I feel compelled to ask, though, why is anime hurting your 'geek subcultures'? If the stories and art are not...

Hydrogen is probably more profitable for the energy suppliers. That's the only reason I can think of off-hand.

I could say that anime/manga is generally superior to the other genres you mention, but that would be opinion and not fact. While I'm mentioning opinions, it seems your problem is that anime/manga is gaining in popularity and is apparently more profitable for retailers. If your retailer is...

Buck, what kind of lighting is in the room with you and the glowing LCD? I'm wondering if you're trying to use it in a low-light area. I would think your concerns about brightness would be legit if so, but would also caution you against too much low-light viewing as it can promote eye strain.

I don't think you've any right to comment on that, Merc. People collect what they collect. Some even collect pr0n.

As I did before in another thread, I still maintain that Hybrids are a necessary evolutionary step before we get to BEVs. Hybrids as they are now, and likely will be over the next couple of auto generations (4-6 years per automotive gen), are doing the following: - Getting consumers to trust...

Story here. I wonder if Tannin would like to bid on that early storage disc.

Reading this reminded me of all the Ebonics BS a few years back.

Yeah, of course the game was at fault. Not the fact that there probably weren't any LOCKED DOORS to prevent access.

mubs, the answer is that it doesn't take as much in the way of services to get it going & keep it going. And we all know IBM is predominantly a services company now. Seriously, their quick-start ERP deployments take 3-6 months vs. 9-18 months on Unix or Windows. There are 'solution edition'...

Not any OS. i5/OS (formerly OS/400) would be immune as all OS objects are digitally signed and the signatures are evaluated when the objects are loaded/executed (as well as when installed/restored). Also, program objects, the equivalent of EXEs and DLLs, can't be modified by normal commands or...

I haven't read Friday since it first came out. Love the Michael Whelan cover. Heck, I love most of his artwork & have a signed print of McCaffrey's White Dragon hanging in my family room just a few feet from his dragon sculpture. I think I have pretty much all of Heinlein's works in one form...

Yeah, I have to agree with Tim. While not my favorite city on earth, most places you're likely to go in Chicago and the surrounding area are pretty nice. Right now I'm about 500 feet up in one of the downtown buldings. The view overlooks Lake Michigan & Navy Pier as the sun rises. Very nice...

Gilbo, my phone is the PalmOne Treo 650. It's a 3rd or 4th generation convergence device with a current-gen Palm OS PDA & phone (CDMA or GSM) put together. As such, you get the capabilities / performance of a modern cel phone combined with the usefulness and expandability of a PDA. What the...

When you try the different RAM modules, what happens? Are there any beeps occuring when you power on, can you get to the BIOS setup screen, does anything at all happen?

We use RightFax to send & receive FAXes via Outlook/Exchange. To send you compose the message and address it to something like name@faxnumber. It, or the way we have things set up, also 'expands' attachments so if you FAX a Word doc, the receiver will get the doc (and not an icon...

People are getting 16+ hours of MP3 playback with the phone turned on and still not fully running down the battery. How much longer do you need? I find the interface to be pretty easy, and this one is skinnable. http://www.pockettunes.com/ for a screenshot. It also allows you to stream...

Maybe it's just me, but I just don't understand the appeal of separate iPods, USB drives, etc. when a phone can do all of that in a single device, including streaming audio from the net.

Considering the main reason spyware/adware & viruses are so prevalent is because of fundamental flaws in the Windows OS & IE browser, they damn well better not charge for those products.

Re: Backup Strategies by Failure Type And if the business is publicly traded or is subject to regulatory issues due to the industry, the backup requirements can be staggering. The midrange systems I manage have the following backup strategy: 1. Saturday morning the entire system is backed up...

I had to shut down a number of machines. I'm not sure yet if they'll be able to resume or not.

BTW, after sending the 12 invites, I'm already back up to 50...

What Will said. Anything can go bad just sitting on the shelf. DVDs & CDs can be subject to rot under some conditions. A hard drive will be more subject to wear/tear during power on/off cycles but I would think it would be no less stable when 'on the shelf'. Optical media withstands most...

If your SCA box is assigning SCSI IDs, you should probably de-assign IDs on the drives themselves. Try just removing all of the drive assignment jumpers from the drives. I guess that would make them ID 0. Alternately (and doubtful), check the drive's spec sheet to see if there's a different...

Didn't someone mention a plug-in sort of thingie that would let you use your gmail space as a web 'hard drive'? Then just share the ID & PWD and you're done.

12 invites sent. Anyone need 38 more? :)

I now have 50 to give out. When did they up it? Merc, PM me an email address or 12 and I'll send 'em.

Assuming the firefox extensions I use were still free or were $5 or less each: Firefox: $30 IE 6+: $15 I don't really use any of the others so I cannot comment on their value.

There should be Palm OS apps for handhelds with connectivity that will trigger an alarm (continuing, vs. just the initial alert) when either an email or an SMS arrives. I'm pretty sure I read about something like that for the Treo smartphone in the forums at treocentral.com

I do this through my Sprint account. I get an SMS for every email in my corporate in-box. I imagine you may be able to email the alert to your cel phone's email account and set up such an SMS alert rule. If your cel provider has that functionality it should be easy enough.

I'm still using an original 18GB X15 as my boot drive and my wife's PC has a 36GB Atlas 10K II. I think they make for great boot drives. But really, we just don't need that kind of performance from our storage drives, so I buy ATA for that. Even the DVR that can record dual HDTV streams is...

Quite right. Minnesota is defintiely west of New York. :lol:

I'll summarize: MTV sucks.

Many operations automation systems have this kind of capability. I know of several for the iSeries/AS400, but I'm assuming you want such a system for Windows.

The higher the resolution the better. You can always up the font size if something is a little on the small side. I prefer my laptop's 15.1" 1900x1200 to my external 21" trinitron @ 1600x1200.

Vic 20, then?

One of these?

I concur on the different DNS, although I use the Verizon ones Merc posted as they're easy to remember: 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.4. I also use FastCache to locally cache DNS lookups.

Is it a good thing that Saddam is out? Debatable. To us he was evil, but we're not Iraqi citizens and we don't live in that culture. The number of people who still fight for his cause today has to make you believe that at least some percentage of the Iraqi citizenry liked him & his rule...

Twinax is also good for 1000 foot runs for terminals/PCs. But crimping it's a PITA.