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I had a mass, or puss-infected lump, on my back earlier this year. It was nearly 3" across. Not very high but somewhat deep & right over my spinal column. It was so sensitive I couldn't lean back in a chair let along sleep on my back. Since my wife is a vampire by trade* she stuck a clean...

AES is a current, highly secure encryption algorithm. A block cipher is appropriate for this kind of data, and a 256 bit key is probably overkill for personal use; quite good for corporate use. It'd probably take years to brute-force a decryption key. The better (longer, random) the...

I just now went and downloaded a few more filters for Spamihilator. Maybe that'll ease the burden some. Just noticed the Oulook add-in to flag senders as friend or foe from within Outlook - nice! To firm up what I mentioned above, Spamihilator's stats show an average of 192 spams/day.

Stockprice Before the Customer?

I've been using Spamhilator + Outlook Pro 2000 at home for some months now. Overall I like the combo, but Spamhilator needs some additional flexibility / rules capability to make it a hands-down recommendation. I have 2 main accounts at my domain + an "anyone at" account for everything else...

A little late, bit I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. :)

Can't say I have but then I've been mostly ignoring tube sets this time around. Prior to the Dish offer I wasn't considering anything smaller than 50".

Chicagoland is fairly flat & some stations have their antennae on the top of skyscrapers anyway (CBS is on the Sears Tower). So maybe OTA HD isn't too far fetched. Yes, the DVL-919 is an Elite. I still have around 100 movies + 125 or so anime LDs. While I've converted a few to DVD, I keep...

I don't believe they do Telegraphs anymore and, last I heard, they were divesting themselves of long distance. Didn't they sell their cel market to Cingular? If so, does AT&T still do telephony at all?

And to confuse things further, LG's TV commercials in the US end with the tag line "Life's Good"

Drinks on the free house!! * hic *

Sorry; should be "Visions ... have" instead of "has". At least I caught it before the grammar police. That was my general impression as well. When discussing the whole 'let's get another TV' thing with my wife, it has been along the lines of two choices: Cheap SDTV (maybe $400-500) or very...

Yeah, I know. Visions of cheap RCA / Thomson / Philips garbage has danced through my head. Online reviews of the combo seem to be in short supply. But as a 'starter set' for $800, even if it doesn't last that long or the pic isn't as good as the brand new Mitsu DLPs (very, very nice. Better...

The subject had mostly died off for a while, but a recent visit to Radioshack brought it back to life. It appears Dish Network has an interesting offer for $799: - 1 HD Satellite decoder that also accepts & decodes over-the-air HD broadcasts & includes an antenna. - 1 34" or 40" HDTV monitor...

I'm beginning to wonder. I gave away an invite, it got accepted, and now a couple of days later I'm back to 6. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, just realizing the whole 'invite' thing is fast becoming a scam to drum up more users. I suppose that might even be necessary, too, since most...

For my company, Inspirons have been less than spectacular when it comes to reliability. Hence, we standardized on the Latitude lineup and I didn't bother to check out Inspirons. That said, I do know a couple of people who have purchased Inspirons through the company discount plan and haven't...

To make it compact and weigh under around 4 pounds, you'll have to sacrifice the internal optical drive. If you can do that you'll have many choices, like the Dell Latitude D400. Otherwise, you'll be 'stuck' with a 14"+ screen and a larger (4.5 pound+) unit (Latitude D505 or D600). (I only...

1 Athlon XP Barton 2600, XPPro 1 Athlon XP 1700 @ 2800, 2KPro 1 Pentium 4M 1.6GHz (Dell C840 laptop), XPPro 1 Pentium M 2GHz (Dell D800 laptop), XPPro 1 Pentium III 500 (Dell C600 laptop), XPPro 10 CPUs: Various Dell PowerEdge 1650s (1GHz P3) & 2650s (2-2.8GHz Xeon depending on when it was...

1 Athlon XP Barton 2600, XPPro 1 Athlon XP 1700 @ 2800, 2KPro 1 Pentium 4M 1.6GHz (Dell C840 laptop), XPPro 1 Pentium M 2GHz (Dell D800 laptop), XPPro 1 Pentium III 500 (Dell C600 laptop), XPPro 10 CPUs: Various Dell PowerEdge 1650s (1GHz P3) & 2650s (2-2.8GHz Xeon depending on when it was...

Normal adapter: 19.5V, 4.62A, 90 watts Travel adapter: 19.5V, 3.34A, 65 watts My adapters stay pretty warm but I've never burned one up. Well, not so far anyway. And it's always running the Folding client. I do allow the LCD to shut off when not in use. Ditto the hard drive, but I suspect...

Ditto. After getting a few takers, they upped me back to 6.

You'll definitely enjoy it. Your specs are very similar to my new Dell. I've got nVidia 5650 graphics & a 1920x1200 LCD and I've no idea who makes the GB of RAM, but the other specs you posted match my new toy, er, workstation replacement right on. I think you'll like it a lot. With XP SP2...

Hitachi will have 100GB 5400RPM notebook hard drives later this year: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/15/HNhitachi100gb_1.html

I've donated blood & money. Pretty rare for me to have anything else to give. Haven't considered any other body pieces (except I, of course, signed the donor portion on my drivers license). Last time I gave blood I passed out because I hadn't eaten a large enough meal beforehand. While my...

I like IBMs as well. But mine aren't really portable and cost a couple of orders of magnitude more. Laptop-wise, I really don't have any issues with the Dells we get through work. But we get the Latitudes and not the Inspirons and we have very good corporate service on them. (The Dell...

One thing I clipped from CPU-Z was the memory frequency of 10MHz so CPU-Z isn't perfect either. But it did do a better job than WCPUID. Man, you be knowin' if I could OC this baby I be doin' it. That be sum phat monster rig! I be OCin' the LCD to 2048x1536. :lol: ... HDTach 3.0.1 reports...

A friend and former manager works in IT at Nav-International. I just sent him the link with a question: Coincidentally, I've another friend who works for AM General in South Bend. He supports the mil-spec Hummers, not the consumer crap.

The problem is that IP V4 does not address traffic prioritization (IP V6 will). Any prioritization capabilities will be proprietary vendor extensions, which most manufacturers will not bother to add to consumer-grade equipment. You might find something that can do that based on the workstation...

---------------------- CPU-Z version 1.23.2 ---------------------- CPUID Output ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of CPUs 1 Name Intel Pentium M 755 Code name Dothan Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz...

I got the new laptop last Thursday & have been getting it set up whenever I have some spare time. I think about everything's done now. Between the installs & downloads & updates for all the products I use, it takes a while to set up a new work machine. It is noticeably faster than the old...

My laptop(s) have firewire built in, so I haven't used a cardbus FW adapter. Sorry.

Merc won't care.

I haven't used mine to send any email yet. All I did this morning was add some contacts to the address book and a couple of hours later the invites were there. I guess that qualified as 'activity'.

I've got 6 now. PM me if you want one.

No, the discussion involved the drive having sufficient logic to do the file copy on it's own. That implies minimal commands from the controller/OS on the order of 'there's a file starting here; copy it to this other place'. I'm saying the difficulty involved in the implementation outweighs...

Nope. Can't do that becuase the drive is handling the transaction; not the OS or controller. My point is that, for all situations other than a standalone drive, the complexity required to maintain integrity goes way up. You can't easily take the intelligence away from the controller and OS...

And how will the drive(s) handle parity calculations & writes in a RAID 5 array?

For me, that's not a large enough improvement to justify spending the extra $ of a new controller & cable. Especially since Adcadet said STR isn't as important for what he does. Unless the controller was sufficiently cheap, of course. Depends on Adcadet's budget.

LSI chipsets are on at least some of the SCSI cards in my AS/400s. I don't think I could make a better recommendation. SR's current 15K leaders haven't hit 80MB/s (although they're close). I doubt the new generation will be so much faster that it'll exceed 80MB/s by a great deal. Probably...

http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/7/10/163331/710

I'd doubt the Slim Width as all of the drives available for the laptop are slim width. Actually, Slim Height is more accurate. Slim Width would imply it wouldn't accept 12cm discs. So maybe it's a mini-disc drive. :lol:

These things are being done to circumvent the do-not-call list.

Just submitted the request. Basically as above. I added Bluetooth support. According to nVidia, the diff between the two graphics chipsets are that the 5650 has Intellisample and is 0.13 micron while the 5200 doesn't have Intellisample and is 0.15 micron. It doesn't matter for what I do but...

Maybe just a mysterious freak. :rofl:

I'd leave the cache on but reduce it to 10 or 20MB. If your cache is currently rather large, doing that should eliminate HD delays. I think it'll run better that way than with either a large cache or no cache whatsoever. I also normally set the history to something relatively low like 10 days.

Fushigi = Mysterious in Japanese. :lol: Fushigi Yuugi (Mysterious Play) was my first exposure to the word, although from an anime standpoint, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Secret of the Blue Water - Nadia) predates Fushigi Yuugi by several years.

Arigato. Fushigi was already taken so I had to use my other nick. Why anyone would use fushigi is a mystery to me.

So, for the person who has their own domain & unlimited email accounts within that domain, is there any compelling reason to get a GMail account? What the heck, if anyone has any left over invites, send one to gmail at bakabaka dot com. May as well see if either of my main nicks are still...

Back to random stuff. Seen Saturday on the back of an SUV in Arlington Heights, IL: license plate frame top: Jenny bottom: I got your number The plate itself? 867 5309

Yes, select the 2nd monitor and then click Advanced. From there you can use the Monitor tab to change the refresh settings. That's how it is on my machine, anyway. Good luck.