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Our AS/400 frames weigh from 600 - 900 pounds each. Lots of steel. There are enough sheet metal screws that you can wear out a cordless screwdriver opening them up.

IBM Model M all the way. The best & most durable keyboards ever!

Home PC: Blank. I really, really dislike start pages. But SF is the most common site I hit first. Work PC: Our team intranet page. Smart device (Treo 600 phone/Palm Pilot): Last visited page; usually Chicagoland traffic text version ( http://www.ai.eecs.uic.edu/GCM/tt.html ) or my local...

01 and up have a 10/100 power train + a 5/50 or 5/60 (don't remember which) bumper-to-bumper which includes roadside assistance.

I currently drive a Mitsu; a '99 Galant with 84K miles on the odo. It's been the most trouble-free car I've ever owned and has given me less stress than everything I've owned before, which included a Nissan (85 Sentra), Mercury (8? Topaz POS), Toyota (88 Camry; 1st wife's car), and a Mazda (93...

I don't doubt such sites exist. But I've no time for and little interest in expanding my surfing right now. I should be cutting back, really. Oh, a bit about BankOne: At 16, I opened a checking account with Indiana National Bank. INB was later bought by NBD, which was bought by First...

Other than my donations to SR & Doug's PC, I've still pretty much totally refrained for paying for any web content.

Look for a no-kill shelter in the area and see if they'd be willing to extract the bird. Failing that, talk to the store manager, then the public health dept., then Safeway corporate. Overall, any extraction that lets the bird be adopted or sees it released to a natural habitat is preferred to...

Sounds like it's up to the Supreme Court to render a decision on the election, er, poll.

My notebook, which has a 90 watt charger/AC power adapter, runs for 2ish hours on battery with F&H running; closer to 4 hours if the CPU isn't pegged. 40GB drive, UXGA (1600x1200) LCD, P4M 1.6GHz, etc. It weighs in at 7.5-8 pounds, but all things considered I've no complaints.

Keep in mind that Office 2006 will require 300GB alone. :roll: Actually, for the average corporate desktop, whatever the minimum drive available at the time will probably be fine. But as more A/V features get pushed into average consumer PCs, storage requirements will only continue to grow...

Legend? Anyway, my wife & I do the typical stuff. I'll buy her a card & some flowers, which I only do a few times a year. No chocolates, typically, but some small gift. Probably will do chocolates this year: Get a sort-of swan-song box of Fannie May Pixies & Meltaways (FM is closing their...

Three MS security bulletins will be announced on the 10th.

If I had the right software on our AS/400, I could test striping 2 Ultrium2 tape drives. What's included in the base OS will not stripe but will go from one drive to the next after a tape fills up. Individually, each tape drive has been tested on a non-dedicated system at 203GB/hr (56MB/s)...

And would you expect better from a division of Cisco? <Cisco rant> My employer ordered a Cisco 24 port 10/100 switch. Very vanilla rackmount managed switch. It arrived DOA. Call Cisco to get it replaced. Take a guess how long for a replacement: 1. Same day via tech visit. 2. Next day via...

How about one of these, then.

300 reasons why we love The Simpsons

Re: FINALLY TOOK THE JUMP!! Unless you're work area has very limited depth for a CRT I would still go that route over LCD. CRTs can be calibrated to have better color representation and are still much cheaper than 'equivalent' LCDs. The power savings of an LCD would probably take over a decade...

"90% of everything is crap. Except for crap, of course. 100% of crap is crap."

Wherever you go ... there you are.

There are gun collectors. While not something I would do, I can't see limiting the legit purchase of weapons for a collection. The "30 days" limit seems quite fair to me. Even most collectors probably don't add more than 12 guns a year to their collection. And also, for collectors, I would...

I always though it was so that we, the people of the US, would be able to overthrow our own government if it changed too much from the founding father's ideals. Another form of checks & balances, if you will. And with the ever-growing loss of privacy and personal freedom, and the lack of...

I'll bet that one team will defeat the other but at least 1 point. It will not end in a tie. :) And just WHAT kind of diving are you talking about, young man? :drl:

That'd be horrible! I mean, what should be yellow & red is lighting up green. No one would ever stop and there'd be traffic accidents at the stairway every evening during the dinner table rush hour. :lol:

PIO mode? :-?

Teletype; ours used a box of greenbar; not a roll. But we also had PCs (XT class) and even 1 Tektronix graphics terminal. No such Internet critter at the time. Modems were mostly 300 or 1200 baud; the crappy local GTE phone system couldn't really handle the new-fangled 2400 bd units very...

Even though Merc and I are only about 60 miles away from each other, our experiences are rather different. We got 3-4" of blowing, drifting snow yesterday. Enough that my morning commute was pretty bad (2.5x normal time) since they hadn't relly plowed the roads. But the afternoon drive was...

Not an MS patch issue, really, but the latest attempt to distract email users:

Bubblewrap. Shockwave/Flash required, but worth it. :D

Atkins goes likes this: 1st 2 weeks: Try for <20 carbs a day. Diet will be pretty much any meat, anything dairy except milk, and most vegetables (pretty much anything green, onions, etc. No potatoes and minimal carrots/beets since they have natural sugars/starches). After 2 weeks: Slowly add...

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Perhaps he could team with Merc and write childrens books about overthrowing MS. :lol:

Can I volunteer every national-level elected official in the US gov't?

Yes: Just apply the same rule to yourself: 2*(your age - 7) <= your mate's age.

I stopped buying Plextor when they abandoned the SCSI market. Since my hand was basically forced to go IDE for optical, I've been buying LiteOn CD drives and am now buying Pioneer for DVD. Very happy with those choices.

1/03: Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz, Thermaltake HSF Asus POS Ali mobo 256MB PC2100 Tekram DC390-U2W Seagate X15 Mark I 18GB Atlas 10K II 36GB LiteOn 48x CD-RW PCP&C TurboCool 350 PSU Generic full tower case Asus V7700 GeForce2 GTS 64MB SB Live NIC, modem, etc. (shared) Samsung 15" LCD dial-up Internet...

Application requirements. Otherwise, of course, I'd use DB2/400. :lol:

WINTV PVR 250 for $127 new

Maybe a set of these? Dunno how much they cost off-hand but it sounds like it comes with the software you need.

I suggest they sell it for $20 to existing drive owners. People who want dual-layer would easily fork over that amount vs. buying a new player. I would.

When Best Buy started with their exclusive on the RS box set recently, the Stones' photos were all over the ad in the Sunday paper. Yuck. They should be advertising Dawn of the Dead or something.

Anything in Event Viewer?

Forgot to add: The strip mall that's within walking distance from my house has a Thai place 'opening soon'. I can't wait!

Rather than 'talentless' or 'negative talent', I'll be a little more gentle and merely say 'overrated'. Especially everything they've released since, oh, around 1977 or so. Along with Elton John, Rod Stewart, and several others, the Stones cause my hand to instantly reach out to change the...

I haven't received the monthly summary from our MS rep yet. I will post details once I receive it.

Hopefully the server will be rebooted on occasion. I've seen multiple servers where SQL2000 was eating 1.7GB RAM according to Task Mangler. This was after the server was left up for several weeks/months. I'm fairly sure it's got some memory leaks as rebooting brought it back down to something...

You could always selectively add back in the plugins you do use.