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Cat5 is fine for 100Mb. Cat4 usually works fine for 100Mb as well. Cat5e should be able to handle GbE. I don't think there's much difference other than the # of twists/foot. You can add as many layers of firewalls as you want. While they may not offer much additional protection, they do...

Netgear doesn't offer a SuperG USB adapter at the moment. At least not that I found. The WAG I linked to uses a cabled antenna so the antenna placement can be a few feet from the system chassis (and closer to the router). I'll check the store displays and see if there's anything from other...

I'm running a Netgear WLAN router at home and, along with the wife's PC upgrade, just decided to spend even more $ and up her wireless from a USB thumb 802.11b NIC to a PCI 802.11g w/108Mbps capability since my router supports it. In addition to better speed for file & printer sharing, I'll be...

OK, the cooling fan on my wife's Athlon 800 was dying. Couldn't find a 40mm fan at Microcenter or CompUSA. Fry's opened yesterday so I figured I'd try 'em. They had the fan for $10 but I started thinking about it and said screw it and decided I'd upgrade the CPU. Which of course meant a new...

Thanks to i's post above I shouldn't be caught short as I upgrade my wife's PC. At Fry's, which just opened their first Chicagoland store yesterday, I picked up a passively cooled PNY 8X 64MB GF440MX for $29.90. That's under half Newegg's price. I'll resurrect the Budget PC upgrade thread to...

Merc - Make the big pot of chili but then divide it up and freeze it for later consumption. Buy a chest/upright freezer if need be. Get the disposable Tupperware-type things that are cheap and common. Fill each one with one meal's worth of food and you've got portion control in addition to...

The new Ben & Jerry's more love-less handle ice creams are pretty good. Had some New York Super Fudge Chunk last night. As to the health effects of low-carb diets, one thing they never say when criticizing Atkins-type diets is that you don't have to eat a lot of fat. You can go low carb and...

The quote from an episode of ST:TNG, "Ugly bags of mostly water", has been a favorite for a few years.

If you know the SSID, you don't need to broadcast it. It has no effect on your ability to connect unless your software doesn't allow manual entry. Of course, anyone war driving/flying/chalking will see it on a packet eventually as part of any comm sequence and it's never encrypted. I usually...

As a point of comparison to the mileage numbers Buck posted, my 99 Mitsu Galant with a 3L V6 and a curb weight over 3500 pounds (and nearly 90K miles) was EPA rated at 19 city/27 highway. My average is 24-25MPG in predominantly city driving and 26-28 highway. I'm surprised my car gets better...

I haven't tried this yet, but I'm going to give it a shot on a repair housecall tomorrow night. Looks pretty decent. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

I don't see a 1GB SD/MMC card in their Extreme and UltraII lineups. Is one coming soon? The Lexar one is available now. I doubt my phone will fully utilize the speed of a 60x card and it's my only SD-equipped device at the moment. My digicam is CF-based. I mostly need the add'l space and...

If pockets were deep and the situation called for it (sounds like neither are the case for Adcadet), I'd suggest something enterprise-class like SiteMinder. That's what we use, and I manage, here at work. Very nice policy-based tool.

InfoWorld is saying it is, although earlier this morning I found no announcement on Seagate's web site.

Cable, not DSL. 3Mb/256Kb for $56.95/month - $14 credit for bundling with digital cable TV + $3/month cable modem rental - $45.95/month reimbursement from work = $0. 8) Compared to the 1.5Mb service before Comcast supposedly doubled the speed, I'd say it feels closer to 2Mb. DSLReports...

The USSR would have fallen anyway. I asked a co-worker a couple of days ago. He is from Russia (he immigrated in the late 80s) and he said it was only a matter of time as even without the arms escalation of the 80s they were spending up to 50% of the gov't budget on defense. The rose colored...

Personally, I'd love to see Apple roll out a box with the real Power5 CPU. But I don't think it could be price-competitive just yet.

I've been itching to buy a 1GB SD card for my phone. Sandisk read/write performance stinks so I've been eyeing the new Lexar 32X. I guess I'll have to make do with the 256MB card I already have for a while longer. The Lexar is still over $300; maybe it'll be under $200 by this fall.

From Verbatim's site: http://verbatim.links.channelintelligence.com/pages/prices.asp?sSKU=94583 From Pricegrabber: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1576480/search=ultra

As I pointed out, this does not work. C-A-D brings up task manager on my XP Pro laptop. So, even if it can work that way, it does not always. Win-L will work on any XP install unless the key has been remapped. While the value of the Win key is debatable as it doesn't really provide new...

As mentioned, I prefer keyboard shortcuts. Especially at the office where I run an effective 3200x1200 display. You learn to minimize mousing. That'll bring up the app search box; I want the Windows search box. We have about 200 Windows servers and I frequently have to attach to one to do...

I generally leave the microdrive in the camera and hook up the cable. I hook up the charge cable at the same time. I mostly picked up the 8-in-1 as a just-in-case. And it was free after rebate...

Win-E, Win-F, and most important, Win-L. I use these heavily. Sure, they're just shortcuts for various other things, but they're much faster and I vastly prefer using the keyboard over the mouse. http://is-it-true.org/nt/utips/utips32.shtml I thought scroll wheels were useless for the longest...

Inspired by sechs' post on the 7-in-1 + FDD, I though I'd ask how people accessorize their laptops around here. I have the following that I always travel with: 1. Netgear WG511T SuperG card 2. IOGear mouse+flash drive 3. Charge-n-sync retractable cable for my Treo phone/pda. 4. Retractable...

Congrats on the milestone! Chicagoland has had a lot of rain lately. Thankfully this past weekend was nice and sunny. As a coworker pointed out this morning, everyone was mowing their lawns (me included).

Ditto. :oops: I don't post as often as I have something to say -- sometimes I think things are better left unsaid -- so I never really thought about how high my post count would get. I guess I'm more concerned with my FAH stats. :wink: Thanks for the kind words, JTR. I hope, now that...

You can always start with a dual-capable burner but use single-layer media and upgrade to dual when the media prices drop. BTW, apparently there's a firmware upgrade for the NEC 2500 single-layer that'll make it do dual. Dunno if it's a hack or an official. 2500s can be had for $70ish...

Personally, I usually favor higher capacities over higher speeds. So for a DVD burner I'd say forget the 12X and go dual-layer. 8+GB/disc.

Does your AP have the ability to accept a signal booster like some Linksys gear? If so, that may be a discreet way of simply overpowering his devices.

Sorry you're stuck at work. While working in the yard about an hour ago, work called me to fix something. I just took care of it. I also pretty much always keep up with work email over the weekend (and at night) via my Treo.

Should Hawaii be in the Southwest? It is both the farthest west and the farthest south state. :lol:

Amen to that. Parents need to raise their children. Encourage them to want a better future. They need to support and encourage the schools, instead of blaming them. My ex-wife taught in Gary, IN. She eventually quit as the parents never supported the teachers. If a student wasn't...

I also voted to not change anything. If your array is satisfactory Are you doing a single 8-drive RAID5 with 420GB available or 2 4-disk sets with a total of 360 available? How full is it? I ask as you're burning more power & generating more noise & heat running 8 smaller drives vs...

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2791 http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=832

Darn, and I just recently bought the 624. Nice idea, there, although I'm sure some would want 1394 instead...

Seconding Merc's recommendation, I'd go with a use HP LJ4/4M/4V. Solid, dependable, and should be cheap. I'd avoid the 'p' personal lineup. I would probably also avoid an LJ2 since they only did 300dpi. I don't recall what LJ3s did. I still hammer away on a 5Si here at work. While most of...

Could you let SSB create the CD-sized files and then run a 'restore' scriupt to unpack them from the backup to their original file -- but in the new location? It seems to me the file selection and CD size limits are the two 'hard' pieces of the puzzle and SSB handles those from what you folks...

I wouldn't call them the safest things to use, but I use Outlook 2000 & IE 6. Both with all available patches, and I also have current AV, anti-spam, & anti-spyware apps in addition to a popup blocker. Also, I'm exceptionally cautious with respect to unsolicited emails and fairly cautious with...

Some good points from HD. My basic home security is like this: 1. Firewall in the Netgear router. 2. MAC filtering & 128 bit WEP in the wireless portion of the router. No WPA so far as I'd have to replace a wireless NIC to get the feature. 3. Personal firewalls on all PCs. Tiny Personal FW...

When they added cable net access to my house, they put some form of a splitter in the junction box ouside. Not a basic passive unit; I'm fairly certain there was some filtering or other electronics in there. Then that line went to the cable modem while the original line continued to service...

Illinois actually passed a law that went into effect Jan 1 of this year. It states essentially that you can be pulled over for hovering in the left lane and keeping others from passing -- even if they're speeding. There are lots of conditions under which the law doesn't apply, though. Still...

I didn't go this year. Nor have I for the past few years. Anime Central had some *issues* during it's formative years, during which some friends volunteered to help out and were treated like s**t. I've mostly avoided it since then. Also, the nature of anime fandom overall and my interest...

I just may the $3/month for cable modem rental. That way it's their problem if it breaks. It helps that my company reimburses me for my net access. I prefer cable over DSL. Consistently higher speeds (3Mb vs. 768Kb down) for not that much more $. Both systems have minor outages, but both...

Check hew site or IMDB for a complete filmography. She's apparently been in about 20 films. Serendipity is average chick-flick fare. But I, too, like John Cusack (have ever since Better Off Dead) and, as Handy pointed out, Kate is a hottie. (must ... use ... fewer ... commas ...) That made...

Kate Beckinsale. I've seen her in Serendipity, Underworld, and Van Helsing. Very easy on the eyes.

Those sorts of messages are caught by Spamihilator and are never opened/read in Outlook anyway. I'm quite aggressive at adding domains to the anti-spam rules. BTW, in addition to the Netgear router's firewall I run Tiny Personal Firewall, which I like for it's stability, simplicity, and...

Not a direct answer to your question but I find Outlook + Spamihilator + AVG to be a perfectly decent combo.

The federal tax incentive is a $2000 credit, which is going down to $1500, then (I think) $1000 before being phased out altogether. A 28% bracket household, then could reduce taxes by no more than $560 by buying a hybrid. Not huge but not too bad of an incentive. Some states may have their...

Seems to me this is more an issue with the EPA rating system than the manufacturers themselves. The EPA doesn't do real-world driving to establish their ratings. Their highway speed, for instance, is something like 48 MPH. Doing that on any highway I've ever driven is the moral equivalent of...