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All I can say is that this is definitely going to be making the rounds at the office tomorrow. Nice find! - Fushigi

Like Tannin said, the drive is no replacement for my X-15 and I already have a WD 160GB data drive. If I build a new box, I may give it consideration. But I doubt I'll have a use for a drive like this anytime soon. - Fushigi

Well, when using the mouse left-handed, it's a toss-up how I'll have the buttons defined: 'normal' so a left-click is with my ring finger, or swapped so a left-click is with my index finger. Even with that, I make very few click errors. I'm only partially ambidextrous. It started during 4th...

OK, nearly 6 weeks later and the LiDE 50 still isn't out. No mention of it on the Canon web site, although it does mention a couple of other new/soon-to-be-released models. I'm beginning to wonder if it'll be released at all. I'm now considering the 2 other Canons: the 5000F and the 3000F...

Actually, I get nearly a week out of a charge on my MX700s, both at home at at work. And since it comes with Lithium Ion batteries, I just drop it on the charge stand/RF receiver every few days. No problems at all. Very nice and easy. The couple of times I've actually run the battery down to...

Apparently, the 160GB SE also uses 60GB platters: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1603 - Fushigi

Understood about the SCSI card; few people do have them but the enthusiast crowd has a better chance of already being SCSI-equipped than the average Joe. Tekram SCSI SB Live Linksys NIC Promise Ultra TX2 (bundled with & needed for WD160GB as mobo ATA ain't up to par) Zoom V.92 Modem I could...

On the other hand, I already have a SCSI adapter but I don't have any free PCI slots. How about taking a modern density platter running at 5400RPM and extend it to 5.25" and full height .. say 12 platters? 2TB or thereabouts? - Fushigi

Tea, only a monkey would take a laptop outside & leave it tethered to a LAN cable. Real simians use wireless. :P - Fushigi

Any recommendations?

The Comcast rep said "we don't care what you do on your end." Home network, VPN, etc. are all fine and there are no bandwidth limits. I've no need for a server locally so I don't care about static vs. dynamic IP. This message is passing through the VPN to work. I'm getting ~250KB/s sustained...

I just took the plunge and got broadband. It was installed about an hour ago. I've been waiting for it since I bought the house but it wasn't available before now. Since the cost is really the difference in price between the dialup & the broadband, it's not that much more $ every month...

I haven't read them, but Macromedia has some online tutorials: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ - Fushigi

Stretch Hummers are not semi trailers .. they're school buses. Imagine it painted yellow and the resemblence is striking. There's also his 'n' her Segways: http://www.segway.com/ More seriously, you should be concentrating on your bride and not on driving. Leave that to someone else. For...

I bought a PCP&C TurboCool 350 about 4 or 5 years ago (I've lost track). Between SETI & F@H it's been running nearly 24x7 ever since. For maintenance I've blown the accumulated dust out a few times; that's all. It's powered anywhere up to 5 SCSI drives + a slot-based and now a socket-based...

My current host gives 100MB space & 15GB monthly bandwidth. I could probably spare about half my space and nearly all my bandwidth. My only concern with hosting apps is that we know for certain that we can re-distribute the apps without violating any copyright laws. - Fushigi

1. If you have a lot of money, yes. Talk to your local IBM rep for details. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. It is quite the platform for Linux, BTW. And OS upgrades were performed roughly as follows: 1. Create a new partition or select an existing non-primary partition. 2. Upgrade it to the new release. 3...

Home W2K & wife's W98 box: As needed after updates or if either becomes unstable. I'll also shut them down if we're going out of town for more than a day. Mostly they're up 24x7 Folding and are rebooted maybe once a month. 98 on a KT133 is perfectly stable believe it or not. Work XP Pro...

For digicams, I've never understood the desire for an outboard reader. I just plug in the camera & d/l directly. No fussing with ejecting media, etc. I usually also recharge the digicam battery at the same time. My CF storage came with a PC Card adapter to allow for direct insertion into a...

Mostly I wind up listening to WBBM for news & traffic during my commute. It lets me somewhat stay informed without having to take time away from anything else. For music radio, I float between about 10 presets (including 97.9) .. but mostly I only find commercials so I listen to CDs more than...

I imagine a clear cover and a very small LED on top of the top-most read/write head. It'd make a nice effect when seeking. Add an 'ambient' light below the bottom platter & make the inside of the platter housing shiny (if not already) and you'd have a cool glow effect. You'd only need to...

Even more scary is that there are plenty of gas stations that sell beer. Its no wonder kids are so messed up with the mixed messages we send them.

64 looks like a birthday cake. (And chibiusa? Nah, Minako all the way!) - Fushigi

Mercutio & CityK, thanks for the clarifications.

Well, it's not naturally OO, but RPG on the 400 has always been capable of being used to develop OO systems. The 400's OS itself is an OO design and was originally written in RPG (before being re-written in C/C++ a few years ago). Current RPG IV as implemented can easily interoperate with any...

Check the Sunday paper for the rebate special-o-the-week; you can usually find a BusLink, I/O Magic, Cendyne, or other 48x CD-RW for about $20 after rebate. Some of those use LiteOns; I know you can tell pretty easily on Cendyne's packaging. Sure you have to wait on the rebate, but you get a...

In no particular order: - Use it as the starting point for a Folding machine. - Give it to Mercutio. - Ebay. Since reliability is becoming a concern, using it on a Folding-only box shouldn't matter as the only risk is the current work unit. Grab a cheap integrated mobo+Duron+128MB RAM+case...

Apparently it can be had for only $60 after rebate for the next week. - Fushigi

But 20MPG city is on par with many midsize sedans (my car with a 3L V6 is rated at 19 city & 27 highway). Basically there's little to no mileage penalty but you have the space of a traditional SUV, like the Explorer which is rated at only 15MPG city. The Murano bests it in the city mileage...

Thanks for the quick reply. It'll be sitting on my desk at work so it won't be tasked with any gaming. Just MS Office, web development & surfing, and boatloads of Terminal Services sessions. The company standard is still 15-17" CRTs so I'm definitely out of spec getting this. Funny thing is...

My boss said 'Merry Christmas" and wants me to get a flat panel so I'm not squinting at my 15" UXGA laptop. While I've no problems with the laptop screen, I'm no fool. I warned him that it could be $1300 or so and he said fine. So, I need some recommendations on a decent LCD that does...

My results improved by moving my AP up high on the wall (well, shelf). With it roughly at PC-component level I got poor signal strength but strength is much better with the AP up about 7' off the floor. b seems to be very dependent on the surrounding environment/interference. I couldn't tell...

What a load of BS. Let's all go buy 14MPG brutes so that we can handle the snow during that once-every-40-years snowstorm. 1. The pres could have stayed where he was until the weather improved. He can be president from anywhere. 2. Why dig out the schools when the students can't get there...

IIRC, that's from the Apple ][, ][+, and ][e days. '77 - '81. When I used Apples.

A minivan meets these requirements with fuel economy that is nowhere near as bad as a large SUV. And what you said about ride height relative to other vehicles is very true. As SUVs comprise more of the market, that advantage has been disappearing. Of course, it also means the height...

Personally, I can't fathom why people even open spam emails let alone read & maybe reply to them. - Fushigi

Agreed. Too many people seem to not care at all about driving 12-15MPG SUVs. Really, for Americans to wake up, we need to have fuel prices above $3 a gallon, maybe $4 or $5. Only then will people actually become seriously concerned about their consumption. Obviously, the environment angle...

I decided to hold off after all. The sale price on the LiDE30 was actually a permanent price reduction -- probably because the 50 will be coming out any day now. The extra 10% coupon comes out almost every month. And I've no immediate need to do any scanning. So I'll hold a little longer...

Yeah, the reviews do claim it is somewhat slow. Odd. Well, initially at least it's a moot point as I'm stuck in USB 1 land on my main machine and have no free PCI slots to add a USB 2 card anyway. USB 2 capability was more of a 'future considerations' thing. Since my scanning requirements...

A VPN is supposed to capture and encapsulate all traffic from the machine over a given NIC (or IP address; not sure). So, for machine-to-machine communications in the scenario I outlined above, the data will flow from PC1 to VPN server, possibly to a router and then back to the VPN server, and...

1) Since WEP isn't all that useful, using a VPN or some other form of encryption from each client is probably your best bet for secure data transmission. The down side is there is a performance hit with VPN due to the encryption overhead. 2) I'd VPN to a Cisco box, isolate the wireless segment...

I agree that anything beyond 600dpi is not needed for the vast majority of any scanning that I would be doing. For me, even 400dpi is generally quite sufficient and is what I typically would use on my old Astra, which I couldn't get to work. Anyway, the LiDE 30 is USB 2 so it can d/l faster...

If people had to actually make an OS choice when purchasing a new system, XP @ $199 (or whatever) vs. Linux @ $0, Linux would gain more devotees. But since Windows is already installed on most all new systems, this choice doesn't enter the equation. It's a shame, too, since the cost of the OS...

What about the LiDE30? Same dimensions as the 20 but can do 1200x2400? I've been eyeing it for a while and finally BestBuy has it for $80 on sale this week -- down from its normal $100. I may pick it up, but I've got to make sure my old Umax Astra 1200S truly doesn't work any more .. it was...

Any version of DW will suffice. DW's strength with regard to what you're doing is most likely the overall site management. Dunno if the $ is worth it. I believe there is a 15 or 30 day free download/trial. There are lots of other editors that can do global search/replaces; I think...

An excuse for men to have to spend $60 for $8 worth of flowers plus buy dinner and other gifts for their femme du jour on the off chance they'll get laid or at least won't be shown the door. For the femme, she buys a new dress, new shoes, and whatever to wear to the dinner. The current...

#24, Studebakers are not dead: http://www.studebakerdriversclub.com/NewsPapers/BusinessWeek/Default.htm Looks like a Tonka to me. - Fushigi

I thought most web servers had a config option to ignore filename case. Anyway, if you know a Windows/Mac user with DreamWeaver you can do your site updating with a simple search/replace that spans the entire site. It also has nice features like if you rename a single file it'll update all...

I don't even bother to run it as a service. It just sits there minimized. I check them once or twice a day as time permits (usually once before going to work & once again in the evening) and whenever results need uploading I dial in and send them. The servers I'm running it on at work are...

If it would have been faster, it would have been named 3200+ or something else and not 3000+. The achievement here is that the CPU has a PR rating of 3000ish while the actual clock speed has gone down. As such, this is a real improvement. It's just not earth-shattering. The true performance...