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For the same $ you can get the 120GB/8MB SATA drive. But I don't consider that to be much of a deal. re: 4x2.5" in a 5.25" bay: Even if they were SATA the cabling wouldn't be pretty.

Well, I could pick up one or four for you and drop 'em off the next time I come to Indiana if you want. We're tentative for driving to Michigan City on the 13th. Or, standard shipping for 1 is $6 and add a buck for each additional.

The 8MB version is $110 from Microcenter. No rebates to fuss with.

I used to. I got to 2500 work units processed and decided to switch to a cause closer to home. Besides, given the current state of the world I'd be pretty embarassed to admit to an alien species that I was a human.

So, what's up with the sigs that include Folding stats? I'm seeing the graphic but no text.

Vs. the Shuttle's current job as extra-planetary UPS delivery truck?

We generally buy from PRP Wine as they hold local tastings and warehouse sales. Excellent customer service. As my wife & I both tend to like sweeter wines, we favor Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese or even a Beerenauslese. For reds we almost always go with Travicello. Since these are fairly...

I recently picked up the Netgear WTG624. Been working great so far and from certain etailers it has a $25 rebate (through June 30), which made my cost about $65. Signal strength has been excellent on both my laptop (using an also-new Netgear WG511T) in G-mode and my wife's PC upstairs, which...

As studios make the transition to HD recording, widescreen will become the norm. Many shows are shot in HD and just down-converted to Never Twice Same Color. That commercials are appearing WS shouldn't be too much of a surprise; they show those on HD channels, too, don't they?

Hayashibara Megumi and Namie Amuro lately on the j-pop side of the house. Why do I think few forum members will have even heard of them? :) For US music, my wife recently got me the Billy Joel 1973-1997 Comeplte Hits set, which is pretty decent. Radio in the car, when not news, is classic...

Wvhat phalth teaf?

I just picked up one of these. 32MB USB drive + travel-sized optical mouse w/retractable cable. Very easy setup; just plug it in & XP detects a USB hub then the HID & Mass Storage Device. And the wheel glows. :lol:

Nothing exact. It's an estimate based on a few things: 1. Sales of other homes in the subdivision (one went in December for 20% more than my estimated increase, although it was a slightly larger house with a couple of amenities our place lacks) 2. Increased assessed value (in theory unrelated...

My home town would be Indy, where housing costs are probably a little more than Merc's but a fair bit less than mine. OK, length of ownership was mentioned. I should add that I bought my mortgage, er, house, 2 years ago and since then it has appreciated around 8 or 9 percent. The only...

I guess. But there really aren't so many differences. I'm just an hour from a beach, for instance. The major difference is probably the weather. NoCal has none; here we have seasons. :) (I say that as a friend from here went to San Jose to do consulting work a few years ago. He came back...

So, what's the lot size? The home itself doesn't sound too different from the size of mine: 4BR, 2.5 bath, 2 floor + unfinished basement, 3141 sq ft (about 4000 if the basement ever gets finished). Colonial, suburban subdivision, 0.28 acre, 2 car garage, good schools, no special view or...

My laptop is still pre-SP1. I tried SP1 but it for some crazy reason broke the Terminal Services client, which I need for my job. Others have not had this problem, though, so it may be something odd in my particular setup. I've also been considering giving it another go, but since I keep up...

They sent another firmware rev for me to try and it, too, failed to make a difference. I'll keep working with them to see if it can be fixed but I needed something in the mean time so I just bought the Netgear WGT624. If I get the SMC going it'll do as a backup. I like the Netgear's setup a...

What exactly do you need to view while mobile? Since you mention removable media, would a PDA (with SD card, for instance) suffice?

I've got a Dell, and the track point is flush with the keyboard. No marks on the screen after nearly 2 years and it's still perfectly usable.

Their first suggestions, another reset to factory defaults, didn't do anything. We'll see if they come back with anything else. My confidence continues to dwindle. In the mean time, I'm going to check the local stores for the Netgear. It seems to be the nicer unit of those I mentioned above...

But it's an HP optical drive. :( Still, it could be worth a shot if the drive is at least 8X and is also dual-layer capable.

Yeah, I hadn't gotten around to posting the update in the sev rating.

Not drunk, but I will also endorse the Latitude lineup over the Inspirons. Globally, including Oz, my employer buys hundreds, if not over a thousand, notebooks a year. Inspirons were far too unreliable. We only buy Latitudes. My P4M-base 8400 has 1GB RAM , 40GB drive (slow .. will try to...

Hey, a 3 year warranty! 5 platters. How hot do you think it'll get?

I think the easiest way to verify the files are good would be to fill the all of the space on all partitions with really big videos, preferably w/o any dupes, and scan through them as you were doing above. It should show curruption more easily than trying to verify lots of small files.

Let them deliver & unpack. In fact, negotiate it into the price; for that kind of $ you should be able to get free delivery. Anyway, after that's done, contact the ISF for proper calibration.

I just submitted a lightly edited version of my first post in this thread to SMC support. We'll see if they have any suggestions. I suppose I don't mind replacing it with a faster wireless solution, but I don't really need the extra bandwidth and I hate to toss electronics in the landfill.

Understood. FWIW, only one of the two is really lesbian and she's not the killer.

Our standard server is a Dell PE2650 with dual Xeons, 2GB RAM, and 4 36GB SCSI disks. We see SQL Server occasionally developing a memory leak or something. When it happens, RAM allocation jumps to 1.7GB so if the budget allows, some additional system RAM might be good. Otherwise, to refine...

Monster was pretty good. Watching it, you understand why Charlize won the Oscar. Not only was her acting superb, but the screenplay was very well written.

Several mention it as part of the product details on their sites. D-link and LinkSys, for example. Or do these fall into the "the-hardware-supports-it-but-we-won't-write-the-firmware-for-another-9-months" category?

OK, so I'll avoid D-link. Theire USB 802.11b NIC works well, though. Anyway, assume Netgear or Linksys or any other company other than SMC & D-Link. Hmm. What about US Robotics, Netgear, or Hawking? The LinkSys is a tad more expensive and has the shortest warranty.

Sybil, is that you? No extra nicks for me, so there's at least two actual, physical people behind all of these posts. Seriously, thanks for spending time here, Merc. You posts are frequently amusing, especially when you rant, and always thoughtful. Whenever you're in the western 'burbs, give...

I've got an SMC 7004AWBR 802.11b wireless router/switch/print server. The other day the wireless connections just stopped. It's been working fine for many months and no network changes have taken place lately. No indication why it failed; the SSID just no longer shows up as available on the...

I've heard this from numerous sources. This is not from personal experience, although it would be nice to personally test the theory someday. Here it is: The richer you are, the stingier & greedier you are. We've all heard the one about Mr. Gates using coupons at the local ice cream store...

Perhaps a light green floral overlay? :rnd:

and Nice. Direct: All reads are pass-through and are cached so subsequent reads of the same data create a cache hit. Maybe. It could mean reads aren't cached at all depending on how you interpret it; i.e. the buffer is merely used as a pass-through channel so the electronics don't have to...

Can you place program.exe in a batch file? Something like this: @echo off cd ..\textfiledirectory ..\programdirectory\program.exe Argument="textfileA"

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I've been working on AS/400s since 1991 and haven't heard of feature code 2212. Seeing as it comes with TN3270 vs. TN5250, I'd think it would be found in a mainframe environment vs. AS/400. 400's do 3270, but 5250 is the native interface. Anyway, it's a multi-protocol router.

I picked up the D5000F a while back & I like it. I would have bought the LiDE50 but it had yet to be released in the US. Now the LiDE80 is even out, although it's a little more $. A friend has the LiDE20 and has no issues other that the slow scanning speed.

So, since Word doesn't run on SCO Unix, can we assume SCO dislikes their own OS product enough to run Windows? To me that says more than the doc itself does.

That's because CFs cost more. If the price was the same, or even just a slight premium, people would buy. When the CF bulb costs several $ more each than the incandescents, what's the payback in terms of cost savings? Years? Personally, I try to use CFs where appropriate, but my house also...

Or at least buy the luggage. :)

It's not that I'm not interested. I've just been extremely busy at work the past 3 weeks and the workload won't be slowing down anytime soon. I had to attend a funeral out of town on Friday so this past weekend was not particularly productive & I had little time to give topics much thought...

Dolphins 1080p plays very nicely using WMP 9 on my XP1700 @ 2800 running W2KSP3 with ATI AIW9600. Source drive is an original X-15. Native screen res is 1920x1440x32bpp. A couple of dropped frames is all I noticed besides the volume being a tad low. Other running tasks included a couple of...