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Dell gold corporate support will have the laptop fixed in a day or two. Been there; done that, although with hard drives & not with a beverage. But we're a very good customer (several hundred servers + thousands of desktops/notebook, everything replaced every 3-4 years) so we do get good...

Well, for starters I am getting that new laptop. :) Even if there's no raise associated with it, my employer paid for the class ($2600) & the test ($500) and will generally pay for most things related to maintaining a certification like this. For CISSP that includes 140 CPE credits over 3...

Yes, we do, but as I near 40 my vision still tests at 20-20. My current laptop does 1600x1200 on the 15" screen. The new one would be a widescreen. Also, my primary viewing is actually the external CRT, which is a 21" Dell (Trinitron) running 1600x1200. I use the native XP functionality (in...

The D600 actually is our corporate standard laptop. Doesn't seem too bad, but that screen would get to me over time. The apps I run really like lots of resolution. My boss probably won't care unless I go decently north of $4K. With that in mind, so far I'm looking at a D800 with the 2GHz CPU...

And here I though it was a tad early for Y20K problems. :D Congrats to e_dawg and thanks for the kind words, everyone!

Only if you're in the Chicago area and have a lot of experience as a technology operations manager. My manager's old job is still open. :)

Just today my boss told me to order a new laptop. This is to replace my 1.6GHz P4M, 1GB RAM, 40GB disk, etc. that I detailed a long time ago in some thread I'm too lazy to dig up. It's about 2.5 years old and everything basically works. The HD is pokey but otherwise it's a decent performer...

I just lose respect fpr people who put bumper stickers on their cars. Horribly ugly things, every last one of them.

Done! :beer: It's a painful test*, but I passed first time around. I took the Common Body of Knowledge class in June and the test in July. Found out I passed. Got another CISSP to endorse my credentials (verifies work experience, etc.). Even then ISC2 reserves the right to audit and reject...

Sounds more like a prob with FC that Palm Desktop. With FC installed, search the registry for "C:\Progra" or other strings to see if you can find where they're overriding the settings. Back to Palm, I don't know if Palm Desktop supports SP2 yet. You may try some of the Palm forums around the...

But on a string of some random length between 100-400 feet.

When considering Dell laptops, always go with Latitude over Inspiron. Latitude machines for some reason have the better engineering. While my employer buys Dells, we have standardized on the Latitudes after numberous issues with the Inspirons.

So, what happened after the hour to trigger the instability? Any environmental issues? Was the PC Card getting too warm and perhaps overheating? Any poorly behaving applications?

Supposedly, there's still a prefecture in Japan where 13 is considered old enough. :eekers:

Well, that's the assumption from her mother. :lol:

What model Palm do you have? Have you tried the latest version of Palm Desktop?

1. So we should all root for whomever plays the US in basketball. Will do. 2. I cannot agree with stripping Hamm of his gold. Not because I'm American, but because the issue with Tae-young occurred before the final round of the competition. Because of this, there is no way to accurately know...

Her daughter will be in college for 4 years. The laptop is now covered for 4 years. For her, making sure the laptop was covered the entire time her daughter is in school was easily the right thing to do. A single service issue (cracked screen, blown hard drive, Coke-in-keyboard) and it will...

Look at the purdy AOL CD! That there shor 'nuf be wurth it, yep.

True about the HP, but my direct experience with non-Dell laptops has been pretty much nil since around 1999 when I worked on a Compaq P133. I'm prepared to be open-minded about the HP and so far (after about 3 weeks), her daughter loves it. I'll get feedback over time to see if she has any...

Howell - Congrats to your friend! Continuing my message from above, on the plus side: Case in point: Phelps giving up his spot on the final men's relay to a teammate/competitor. Yes, you can say he had nothing to lose, and yes you can say that it was a way for him to get a medal without having...

Yes. Even 256MB results in too much paging with more than 1 app open. Plus, the RAM in this unit is shared with video so you won't even have the full 128MB available. A coworker recently purchased a laptop for her daughter, who was going off to college. The college's minimum specs was 2GHz...

I understand the desire to use the 108Mb mode; that's the path I took. I plunked down the $ for a 311T card for my wife's desktop to get beyond the b mode of her old D-Link USB thumb and get an adapter with WPA support. My laptop has the 511T and the router is the 634U. So I'm safe in...

Samsung or Seagate 5400 RPM, anything from 2 years ago or newer, I would guess.

Microcenter carries Samsungs in their stores and usually has prices about the same as Newegg. They are OEM, though; not retail kits. Right now the 160GB is going for $99 at both places; no rebates.

I have 1 Maxtor ATA, 1 Quantum SCSI, 1 Samsung ATA, 1 WD ATA, and 1 Seagate SCSI. For purposes of my comparison I'll add Quantum & Maxtor together. None of the drives have failed. As such, I must come to the conclusion that Maxtor drives are twice as reliable as the other brands and are...

Really? That's good to see as I was wondering how the performance would be. Every iteration of the hardware, especially since they went RISC, has been a big step forward. Power5 is probably the biggest yet. Not only in terms of raw performance but the functionality they keep adding...

Well, some people insist on 32 bits instead of 64. So if they need Windows or x86 Linux, we wrap it up inside the iSeries and make it fairly resilient. OS/400 controls it. :) It has it's own CPU & RAM so it doesn't drag iSeries performance. It shares tape & CD/DVD resources and OS/400...

Yep, you do pay more. The UPGRADE I'm pricing out has a discounted price just shy of $600K for one of our systems. But then that includes 3.2TB of 15K RPM SCSI goodness (51 70GB disks in RAID5). And the new disk controllers have 1GB read cache & 757MB write cache. 4 of those will be used: 1...

Go here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/033251&tid=137&tid=4 and then search for "AS/400": BTW, at work I'm very close to upgrading both of our systems to the new POWER5 based boxes. I just have to get the funding approved.

Oh no, I'm sure they're targeting the self-described enthusiasts. You know, the ones that always equates more to better. The ones that buy the latest $300 graphics cards to play 4 year old games becuase they can get 12x the framerate that their eyes can actually detect.

I think it's to counter the Raptors. Maxtor doesn't have a 10K RPM product ready so they'll market a larger cache instead.

I gave up being a professional basketball fan some years ago. Like pro baseball & football, pro basketball players evolved from people who loved to play the game to greedy, whiny twits who don't care about the team or their home city; just their paycheck and endorsements. For crying out loud...

My best antiques would be an IBM PC-XT motherboard with CPU & RAM. I think it even has the Cassette adapter/connector. That and a copy of Microsoft OS/2 (by HP). The irony of MS OS/2 is just too good, so I can't throw that out. Most everything else I've junked or otherwise divested myself of...

And I haven't been convinced by any of the arguments for it. :) <rant> If a post is worth making at all it is worth taking the time to ensure that post reflects what you are trying to say. "Posting in haste" is an excuse for being lazy and not checking your work. Either take the time to...

But then you really annoy the person who just spent 20 minutes editing their post. Imagine one of Tannin's longer posts being denied because it's an edit of a shorter post. I don't think the aggravation is worth it. Type, Preview, read, edit if necessary, then Submit. It's not a difficult...

There are still consistency problems with that approach. A sequence like: 1. I make a post. 2. I start to edit that post to change the content. 3. You open the thread/post to view. 4. I submit my edited post. would have you viewing the unedited post. And if you responded to that content...

I have yet to actually touch any SATA devices. But then my household boots SCSI and I don't build/sell systems beyond those in use by close relatives. I wonder if XP SP2 will overcome the SATA driver issue. Any thoughts?

Works on all 5.x and up (at least; haven't tries in on 4.x). Rename the plugins directory (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\plug_ins) to something else. I use un_plug_ins. Reader will load very fast. If you actually find a plugin that's needed, close reader, rename the dir back to...

Ad-Aware has never complained about that on any of my systems. Neither has SpyBot.

I'm not entirely sure I see the point. I guess I'm with Buck on this one. Also, I presume they still had to run power lines everywhere (or set up big solar collectors); wouldn't that mess things up a bit? Can the average wireless NIC broadcast through the trees to the APs? Or is the AP side...

I hit SR when I want to read a review, which is maybe twice a year of late. I hit SF 3-10 times a day to read and occasionally post. I haven't even bothered to click on JTR's links to what he's posted over there. SR has become a site I'm mostly just peripherally aware of. I don't have tons...

One thing I read today is that IBM is advising against installation on their 400,000 desktops. Supposedly they will have a custom version done to work around some already known problems. The problems, BTW, are WRT some IBM internal apps and not general purpose stuff. Personally, I'll wait a...

I don't know that Palm follows a specific n month product cycle. I think their development & release schedule tends to follow market demand. They also like to do minor revisions between major releases. Finally, it seems that the prices on models don't fall much if at all over their lifecycle...

So it's the United States - Australia (USA) FTA instead of the Australia - United States (AUS) FTA...

A mere 650 miles according to Yahoo Maps. 10 hours each way. It'd almost be worth it for a weekend away, but I think I'll have to pass.

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3754 for a bootable tool CD that'll include AV and other useful apps. - The long pause on bootup is most likely caused by problems loading drivers (usually network). It is very likely timing out each and every one of those extra connections...

I kinda meant what country/state are you in? :)

I'm on my 3rd mouse in 20 years. Well, 19.5. Bought a Logitech C7 in late '84 and used it until the early 90s. Gave it to my sister who used it up until maybe 3 years ago. 17 years and it was still working. I replaced it with a MouseMan something-or-other and used it until I got my current...

Ditto, my simian friend. Case in point: drive stiction problems only occur after a drive has run long enough to reach maximum (or nearly so) operating temp and is then shut down long enugh to cool off. Thankfully I haven't heard of stiction issues for several years but it is a very valid...