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Anybody using an online backup service? I'm considering something like Mozy, based on my father-in-law's recommendation. My upload speeds at night are typically 1-2 Mbs which I would think is more than sufficient. $60/year is cheaper than a new hard drive. If I recall, Handy has used Mozy in...

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Is Amazon still charging more for items that you've been looking at? I seem to recall a few years back that if you were looking at books on a particular topic, they would increase the price on those books slightly.

I regularly email myself either via my work address or Gmail and send it to both addresses; works great. I prefer to talk to myself over email.

I've always preferred relatively cheap bags that I just replace every 1-2 years. I also prefer bags that don't look like laptop bags.

Thanks, Handy. A 655 will be delivered later this week from Newegg, and I hope to install it shortly thereafter depending on my degree of sleep deprivation. I've read about the ability to give friends internet-only wifi access, which will be a nice plus. Thanks for the reference to Monoprice...

Is (The) Gimp much better in this regard?

Any reason I can't use my old (some >10 years old) Cat5e (one cable says "enhanced Category 5 350 MHz") cables for gigabit ethernet? Any reason to buy new Cat6 cables?

Time and Handy - thanks for the opinion on the D-link 655. The thing the 655 lacks is dual-band and dual-radio - but I honestly don't think I need that and would prefer to save the $50 that something like the Netgear 3700 would cost me. I'm off to Newegg shortly to use my Christmas gift card -...

Just got back from Ohio - whew! I was asking about NICs because I thought my wife's PC only had a 10/100 onboard NIC. Now that I'm home, I've realized that it is indeed a 10/100/1000 adapter, just like mine. Also, I'm on a cable connection.

Anybody have a suggested gigabit NIC? Preferably one that I can use in XP, Win7, and Linux? Any reason to favor a gigabit NIC that sits on a PCI-e versus PCI bus? I may be interested in doing large-ish backups afterall.

So many things to consider: - I'm still debating if I should go 802.11n or just 802.11g. - A USB port to plug in an external HD would be nice, but not critical. - Any reason to get gigabit ethernet? There's only 2 (soon to be 3!) people in the home, and if I recall, HDs still can get flooded...

It would be nice to be able to plug in my wife's USB 2 hard drive into the router for the times when I want to use it to back stuff up.

Anybody have a particular wireless router to recommend? My old router is dying (ports keep failing). I use an iPhone (802.11g) and my wife uses a netbook (802.11g) around the home, and we have two other PCs connected by ethernet cables. My needs are pretty basic. I know nothing about wifi...

Somebody brought up the idea of a flash drive on a PCI-e channel. Is this likely to happen soon? Is this the likely evolution of the product? Will it significantly increase performance? I'm curious, as I'm starting to think about my next system build.

No, but I got to use the educational discount for both my wife and me so I think I paid $30 per license for home premium (upgrade).

Why is she coming from XP? Or why the migration to Win7? I think the UI in Win7 makes life a little easier. And we have two licenses.

She's coming from XP. I'll run the checker program but she uses most of what I use, which works fine in Win7. Even our multifunction Brother printer is Win7 certified.

Getting the identical RAM that's in it now (2x1 GB) will be $65. I'd like to know if the E7200 will be enough before I give her the new HD it will take and a flier for Win7 with the explanation that I'll install the new OS. I've been testing Win7 now for a few weeks and like it.

Does anybody think my wife's computer (E7200, 2GB RAM, ATI HD 3450 graphics card) would have difficulty with Win7? Perhaps it could use some more RAM? I'm thinking of switching her over to Win7 for Christmas.

My wife really wanted a pink netbook. It fits her style.

Agree, this discussion helped me. I recently put on MSE and I'm happy with it so far.

Well, it's pretty nebulous. $600 perhaps.

Still thinking the Kodak Zi8 would be a good choice - small and easy to use, cheap, and reasonably good video and reasonably good stills. Would anyone point me elsewhere? If a bigger camcorder really gave that much better videos for my purposes I certainly could consider something bigger and...

With the coming mini-Adcadet (http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7915), I need to get my digital imaging life in order. My wife has a Digital Rebel XT and we're pretty happy with it. I see no reason to replace it. She's an intermediate shooter, while I'm still very...

Nope, but I'm weeks from finishing my residency and will be in training until at least 2014.

Hey Gang - My wife and I are having our first child! We're due at the end of July. "Mom" and "Dad" are doing well and we're thrilled with the news.

FYI, my wife still loves her Acer from last Christmas and uses it nearly every day.

Just installed Win7 in place of Vista (upgrade). Indeed, it forced a clean install ("custom") which I wanted anyway but everything went very smoothly. So far Win7 seems decent - some of the good features of Vista with FAR fewer nags. Pending official company support and the availability of a...

Who would have thought that it would be easier for me to check my mail on my cell phone than computer. My iPhone sits next to my computer, plugged into the charger, and beeps when it gets an email. It's usually quicker to use the iPhone. I love my iPhone.

Anybody suggest I take my current system from 2 GB to 4 GB of RAM? Honestly, most of what I do is sit at my computer and type in Word, frequently while using EndNote, sometimes while listening to streaming music and surfing multiple (>10) webpages. I'm running an E6400 running at 3 GHz on an...

Not sure how to answer your question about virtualizing my XP session - I just don't know enough about virtualized OSs. Sorry. But I'd like to learn more and hope to come January when my job duties will change significantly. We were using Cisco but I think we've moved to an in-house system...

I currently run Vista and XP; I installed Vista after XP so when I start my computer it gives me a boot menu to boot Vista or "an older version of Windows". Given problems using my company's VPN stuff in Vista, I never considered Vista to be my prime time OS and use XP most of the time. I want...

So what happens when I use the Win 7 upgrade to do a clean install onto a computer which has XP (full) and Vista (upgrade)? Will I need both my Vista and XP disks?

iPhone with ATT with a 24% corporate discount. Also, the regular (non-enterprise) data plan gives me push Exchange email. I've had a single dropped call in the past year. I'm getting ~2.4 mbps down and 1.7 up at home, similar at work. I'm biggest complaint is battery life. Otherwise I'm...

Anybody have thoughts about possible uses for an old Dell Axim x51v? Since I got my iPhone it's just been sitting idle.

Merc - I agree! My middle school friend, circa 1993, bragged that his PC could keep up with his mother's typing. If only computers these days were as good as they were in 1993.

Hey gang, My wife's computer (E7200, Gigabyte EP35-DS3L, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337) has started to randomly reboot maybe once per day, and it hangs for a long time (5-10 min) during the BIOS screen where it says "memory testing:". It eventually moves on and...

Anybody else wondering when they'll upgrade to Windows 7? Are most waiting a few months (or a SP) to let MS iron out the wrinkles? Are you already running 7? Planning on upgrading immediately? I'm starting to plan my migration. As noted elsewhere, I can still get Home Premium for about $30...

Have a university .edu email address? Looks like you can get Win 7 home premium for $32.20 after tax. Anyone else doing this? http://www.win741.com/

What do you need that Chrome doesn't offer? Plug ins?

Try 30 hours.

I looked at that monitor at Best Buy (or maybe it was the 2310) but liked the LG W2361V better (brighter) and managed to snag it for $220. I'm using it now and like it.

Dell has many lines, it seems. The SP lines seem to be the most expensive (i.e.- SP 2309). The S lines seem to drop the bells and whistles (S2309W, 2409W). And then there's the G series which I don't understand (i.e. - G2410, G2310). Right now the S2409 can get had with coupon for $199...

I've used ImgBurn and found it less than intuitive. Also made a few coasters. If only the older version of Nero worked on both XP and Vista.

What are you guys currently using or recommending for a primary monitor for people doing mostly office work, a little movie watching, and a little gaming? My Samsung SyncMaster 204B's capacitors seem to have just died - for a while it would take forever to turn on and now it just won't. Seems...

So much of my work done from home is now work-related that I have to transport to and fro, my default place to save stuff is now an 8 GB USB disk.

How does the Antec P183 compare to the original 180?

I wish I could play an NPR stream while doing something else, just like I can if I download the entire broadcast and play it via the iPod functionality.