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Now that we're well under way of a hijacking.... That sucks. I don't use Vista, just played w/ the pre-release versions. So I don't have practical knowledge there. Rather than trying to put the support into the application layer, maybe it would be better to put it into the video subsystem...

I'm hoping the tech/manufacturing from some of these ultra high res, ultra small notebook screens will start to bleed over to desktop monitors... There are WXGA laptop screens roughly half the area of my 19" LCD that have roughly the same number of pixels. I would think the necessary scaling...

Rather than making an intentionally crippled monitor (low resolution), wouldn't a better solution be to make software that isn't dependent on resolution? This reminds me of the old days when apps, mainly games, were MHz dependent. PC manufacturers had to put turbo buttons on PCs for compatibility.

Unfortunately, those pics of the bike were taken by my neighbor the day I sold it... Used the money to help pay for a washer and drier at the new house. Hey, even I enjoy clean clothes from time to time....

My old pics seem to have disappeared into the ether, so here are some updated ones: http://blakehudson.net/PhotoAlbum/Motorcycle/sv.html More available @ my site http://blakehudson.net

~5'8" ~148lbs BMI = 22.5 Although I personally believe I'm out of shape, most people would probably consider me trim/light and about average fitness level. ...though the average American fitness level may not be so high now that I think of it. I lost ~ 8lbs a month back while backpacking. The...

I'm impressed to see Duracell recently increasing advertising of their rechargeable NiMH batteries. With the exception of a spare battery for my Canon XTi, I haven't bought a disposable battery for years. I was utterly amazed by how easy it was to switch from Alkaline to NiMH. Beside the...

NPR had a segment a month or so back that was talking about a credit card that would negate the carbon emissions from anything you purchased. How they know how much carbon is involved with producing every conceivable item you can purchase is beyond me, but I thought it was a neat angle. - The...

dd, if you are using the IPs in the example and you change the subnet mask on all devices to 255.255.0.0, then no routing should occur. Because all devices would then believe that they are in the same subnet as every other device and would try to communicate directly instead of going through a...

I believe squid can give you a good overview of what sites your users are visiting, plus it's built into smoothwall as a transparent proxy.

PTP works fine for me (400D), but it doesn't show up as a disk like a mass storage device... it shows up as another device type beneath the removable storage devices on the PC. Though I think there are some limitations of PTP mode (MTP with the newest firmware), it seems like only one...

dd, if you don't have a remote shutter release you can set the camera down (or tripod mount) and use the auto timer function (10 sec countdown I believe). I use a ~$10-$20 table top tripod I got in high school for my FG. I now use it with an XTi and the same lens you have. It's not a great...

In that case, I'd recommend both. -Blake

Ah, I see it was actually 12k - 3k = 9k for buying through Dell small business. For reference, the enclosure is scsi (sas to be exact). It'll work with any external SAS controller. Dell's PERC5 controllers are PCIe, and should work (but may not be qualified with) any PCIe motherboard. It...

I'd highly suggest a direct attached storage product like the Dell PowerVault MD 1000 with a matching Dell PERC5/E PCIe controller. You can spec it out with up to 15 SATA or SAS drives (12 for raid 5 storate, 2 for raid 1 OS, 1 for global hot spare). Dell handles the compatibility, the...

Sorry LOST. If it's any consolation my name gets mis-spelled more often than not. People have trouble with the 'rwry'. I'll be setting up a website soon that will include pics and I'm sure a few details. I'll post a link on here when I'm finished.

Pradeep: Yeah, I spec'd out a server and saw the discount. Then I realized that we usually get the 30% off whenever we email or call Dell. We have a rep who usually will respond to emails within minutes with a great discount over the already low web prices. - I don't know how they do it...

You saved me a few thousand bucks. Thanks dude.

It's amazing the price difference between 12, 24, and 32 GB of RAM. With the current usage, we're lucky to utilize more than 8GB. Though the customer wanted to have the extra headroom for future applications and growth available to them so the cost of 24GB was justifiable for them. Having three...

Since tape drives are typically seen as character devices, they are rather limited with respect to the tools available to access/monitor them. However, iostat (part of the sysstat package) will let you monitor the block devices that the data is being read from. This should let you determine how...

Dual vs single channel refers to the data interface between your RAID controller and hard drives. In a U160/320 SCSI setup, multiple drives can be chained off a single cable. Each cable represents one channel. Since the media is shared, only one device can talk at a time. By breaking up...

I recently had the pleasure of building 3 identical servers, each with 8 147GB Seagate 15k.4's, 24GB RAM, 2 x dual core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160's for an ISP. Though for the application I created a 2 drive RAID 1, a 5 drive RAID 5, and 1 global hot spare. The below tests are on the RAID 5...

oh that's awesome

could it be related to the netscape 8 release? I dont know how it reports itself and am not that interested to find out either...

Tannin, DNS allows you to specify your mail servers (mx record) separately from your website (A and C records). You can have the site hosted with the hosting company and have e-mail hosted localy. This is probably the direction I would go. IMAP stores files on the server, POP usually has the...

agree, ti's great. The Google preview and customize google extensions are worth switching to firefox for.

I've have 768MB of RAM in both my desktop (AthlonXP 2GHz) and laptop (1.5GHz PentiumM) and have noticed that the swaping behavior of windows can really slow me down. Even when I have plenty of free RAM, some applications choose to page themselves to disk when minimized. Bringing these...

It sounds like your background apps got paged to disk while you had your DVD app open. Next time it happens, take a look at your hdd light. If it is mostly solid during this period of unresponsiveness you may need to look at getting more RAM or playing with the page file.

i didn't notice much of a speed difference, but did seem to have glitches using the mmx optimized moox builds on pII/pIII hardware. Just random crashing.

redhat/fedora: service network restart Others: ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 up

I've bought text books on half.com.. also found good deals on hard to find CDs.

i've been impressed with Dell's Dimension line of p4 desktops with i845 and up chipsets... good quality motherboards and standard replacable items. We've bought half a dozen or so in the last 2 years and the only issue was with one of the PSUs dying after a year. Replaced cheaply with a FSP-300...

I thought someone was selling a Via c3 system here a while back, but I couldnt find it. Anyone have one available? I'd like to replace my smoothwall box with something cooler and quieter. I have a green+orange+red setup so I would prefer something that has a PCI slot so I could continue my...

Guess it's a firefox only thing.. too bad.

I think with the ATA IV / V drives the seek time went from ~9ms to ~12-13ms with AAM Enabled.

The link states that extension is not compatible or no longer available? I tried again with newest version of moz after 1.7.8 didn't work.

or do you mean it doesn't even have a heatsink?

why do you need a cooler? Many such models run fine without a fan.

Maybe things have changed a bit, but I've never had either my Dlink 704 or my Netgear MR814 lock up under normal use. My DLink is easily 3 years old and the netgear I believe is a year and a half.

I liked that wifi stuff... think i will follow in his footsteps a bit and see what I can come up with.

While I hopefully made it easier to find what you would want in SCSI gear. I attempted to make it easier to see the expense as well. I don't personally think you will get a significant (or even noticeable) increase in performance by going SCSI over a 2 or 3 disk independent ATA solution...

Looks like HyperMicro carries the slightly older 15k.3 unit in both new and recertified condition for considerably less than ZZF http://hypermicro.com/search_detail.asp?dept_id=06-005&sp=15k%2E3&sp_flag=0

Tannin is old in his ways (you can tell because of the Moss on the exposed northern areas). The x15 is an older generation drive. What you'd be looking for is the 15k.3 or 15k.4 model from Seagate. Fujitsu or Maxtor drives would also be good and comparible in cost and speed.

Guess it all depends on what you do with them... If you can do everything you want with a Radeon 9550 why spend twice as much on an x700 when you could spend the money on a another 512MB of RAM, a DVD burner, a better monitor. I see Radeon 9600's are now cheaply available with passive cooling...

36BG 15k.4 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101514 73GB 10k.7 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101577 68 pin SCSI cable http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=315011 LSI u320 controller...

I also like passivley cooled cards...

man, I'm cheap.

http://www.mainelectronics.com/acadater.htm Has some linear and switching PSUs that meet your needs. Specifically the two 28 watt models near the bottom... a bit over your consumption requirements, but better than a 3+ amp laptop unit.

I've used your builds for the last year or so at work, nice work. Welcome to the forum!

I've been recommending ATi 9250's with VGA+DVI (user a DVI to VGA converter for dual VGA) for base line dual monitor support and would go with a 9550 for someone who I thought might get into games a bit. Just watch out to not get the cut down versions with 64bit memory bus. It sounds like you...