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For your fanless box, just set it to not exceed 50% CPU (or whatever threshold you find acceptable).

I wish I could nab more systems, but I'm presently rather maxed out. I'll check with some of the folks at work & see if I can run the services client on their PCs. I see there's a PPC OS X version. That should make for an easy port to AIX, and hence i5/OS. Maybe I'll email them and ask about...

I for one really like the wide screens. My laptop has a 1900x1200 LCD. It's great for browsing and having multiple windows up. Or doing facing pages in Word or Acrobat Reader. That said, I'm not a gamer and couldn't say how the non-4:3 aspect would look in a game setting. I also don't have...

Nice. I forwarded it to my niece who's in aviation school right now.

Not necessarily what I would use, but at work we use Network Associates/McAfee Enterprise. If I were doing it, Kaspersky, CA eTrust, etc. would be evaluated. I wouldn't consider McAfee or anything from Symandrec.

Not necessarily what I would use, but at work we use Network Associates/McAfee Enterprise. If I were doing it, Kaspersky, CA eTrust, etc. would be evaluated. I wouldn't consider McAfee or anything from Symandrec.

Good frickin' question. First would be to decide if I want to remove them from their AS/400 drive mountings or not. If so, I'll sort them by maker & generation. Regardless of mountings, after I offer a firesale to anyone here I'll likely ebay the rest. Oh, a pair of AIT2 tape drives and...

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http://www.oqo.com/ Anyone know anything about these PCs? While expensive, it does look pretty cool.

Well, I'm about to acquire about 60 18GB 15K SCSI drives (IBM & Seagate). :D

I finally used my first megabyte of space. At this rate, I'll have to actually delete some mail in about 250 years. And I still have 4 invites if anyone needs one.

Expanding a little on sechs' comment, another thing that I think is vitally important for the students to realize is that the GUI is not a part of the OS itself; it's a bolt-on app just like Apache, etc. After covering issues like partition management and installation methods, I'd say cover...

IBM will lose some customers who want an end-to-end solution provider as they will no longer offer end-to-end products. Some of those customers will be users of IBM's services as well, so they will probably lose some services business as part of the fall out. I'm sure IBM has weighted the...

Personally, I think this is a mistake. Many companies (like my employer) standardize on a single brand for all PC products - desktops, laptops, and servers. If the desktops & laptops aren't available, why would these companies continue to buy IBM servers? I think IBM would do better to...

And I totally missed the Veteran's Day music fest. I'm so bummed...

Christmas-related items started appearing in stores back in September. About two or three weeks ago one Chicagoland radio station went xmas tunes all the time; they do that every year. People need to stop buying into it. It's become a retailer's wet dream and a credit card issuer's windfall...

I like being a corporate drone. :P

One thing I've found which makes a huge speed difference on AV packages is whether or not archive files are being scanned. For ZIPs the impact isn't noticeable, but if you run any Java, the Jar files will be scanned whever the Java app runs and that's a huge hit on performance.

I agree as well. I'm not a volume person when it comes to buying PC upgrades, though, so once a company burns me I avoid them for a long time. There are plenty of other companies with equivalent products to use as alternatives. Once they've burned me ( :lol: ) I'll give the first one another...

Apparently Ali's blog (along with some others) will be leaping off the screen and into a bookstore near you.

Have you replaced the burner's IDE cable? Also maybe try a different lead off the PSU.

Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm not anticipating it being too much of a problem for me as I don't have a huge contact list & I run most apps of the SD card vs. internal RAM. My data usage shouldn't be much of a problem under the new architecture. My T600 has over 14MB free; if that drops below...

12:05PM here; fill 'er up!

TreoCentral's Communications forum may prove of value. Although Treo-oriented, I would think most of the apps would be able to run on practically any 'net-connected PalmOS device. Products should be available at PalmGear or Handango. Now, there are some good commercial packages that focus on...

Have you looked at SnapperMail?

That's another nice thing with Gmail; both the POP3 & SMTP are SSL-enabled (TLS for SMTP). They apparently don't even do non-secure.

I think they should, though, market them as 130 & 260 GB. Price it the same as the competition and say for the same $ you get 10 more GB and the 5 year warranty.

It uses FAT32 according to my manual. There is no format function in the firmware.

Oh, I wanted to point out that it supports a wide range of recent versions of Windows. No Linux. No Unix. No Mac. No Nuthin else.

I'd second the vote for dual monitors. Heck, if my desk would hold more I'd try for 3 or 4. :D You can never have too much screen real estate.

At 100Mb Ethernet or any WiFi, the performance difference will probably be too small to notice as USB2 is faster than either. If you're running Gb Ethernet, then your Dell will likely take the performance crown. Certainly I was commenting WRT a consumer solution since RW didn't mention this...

Get the gold warranty if you want support to not suck. Dell desktops are adequate; we use them here at work. Can't say I like them that much as they still tend to favor proprietary case designs & BIOSes. But they seem to work OK. 3.2GHz & 1GB RAM to surf, do light word processing &...

I've avoided this thread up to now as I'm not a hunter. I thought I'd chime in with this as Merc is probably the only other regular who heard about it.

From the threads that've been posted, I'd say a decent number of the regulars have moved in the past year or two. I'm at 2.5 years in our humble abode. After refinancing, only 341 mortgage payments to go!

I've got similar support in my Netgear router. Up to 26 drives via USB hubs, supposedly. And I believe it uses FAT32. Personally, while the idea of NASLite (and Smoothwall for that matter) is intriguing, I don't think I'd want to devote a whole PC with it's incumbent issues (power...

Gmail now does POP3 & SMTP: https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&query=SMTP&topic=0&type=f

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/17/HNibmhumanitarian_1.html

Perhaps the robots have trouble with them.

I'm sure that, similar to a bank, PayPal invests the majority of the account balances in various devices to earn additional interest/profit. They can predict with reasonable accuracy how much the aggregate balance of all accounts is at any given time and do short-term investing with the bulk of...

Actually, I've used PayPal numerous times and am verified against one of my checking accounts. But that's not to say I currently care for the service. My opinion is that it has steadily gone downhill. I maintain maybe $30 balance in my account there; not enough to fret over losing. It's...

This is more an FYI post than anything else. I ran across this issue and found the tech tip to fix it. I thought it might prove handy if anyone else upgrades to the MX1000. By default, the forward & back buttons on the Logitech MX1000 "laser" mouse don't work in Firefox. They don't do...

http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/11/15/82647/387 and http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/8/30/04337/5416 and http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/1/24/171120/510 and http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2003/5/7/10613/86612

No problem. Once it comes in I'll do a mini-review. Should be 3 or so weeks. Any aspects in particular that you're interested in? From attending a road show event, I can say already the new hi-res screen is a vast improvement for text. The tweaks to the keyboard make it easier to type on...

I think I had mentioned elsewhere that my Treo 300 was upgraded to a Treo 600 in October 2003. Well, today I ordered the Treo 650. Faster processor, better screen, Blue Tooth, revised keyboard, better battery, PalmOS 5.4, full Word/Excel/PowerPoint editing capabilities, new email client, etc...

I believe I mentioned this in another thread recently, but I've found this DNS cache app to be quite useful. BTW, my wife's PC has been having some intermittent wireless connectivity issues as well. Apparently XP SP2 changed some things as Netgear released an updated driver for her adapter...

Hey, at least I'm driving trafic to the site! :)

Thanks, you two, for the first genuine laugh-out-loud I've had in quite some time. :jumpin:

The same can be said for IE - where have your Favorites gone?

Tell it to the judge. Or, should I say tell it to those thousands of couples who were married by judges, court clerks, mayors, etc. The requirements for a ceremony & to be legally married have nothing to do with religion. Maybe an alternative would be for a new religion to start up. One that...