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My previous system ran flawlessly for 5 years and is still sitting around, booting up readily when I want it to. It used to be on 14x7. I built my current system in 2006, but it hasn't seen much use.

DD - you're a man of many talents!

How do you determine if it is level? Does it have a spirit-level built-in? If not, do you park your level on top of the machine to level it?

Me too. I had no idea what that thing was till a mentor kindly explained. This was in the early days of my networking experience. I started out as a business apps guy, then messed with minicomputer OSes, then with networking and HW. It has been an interesting journey!

Terabyte's Image for Win and Image for Dos is what I have. I have only used the latter, but it fits on a single floppy and will burn a CD or DVD, even if it is on a USB port or on FW. I can't comment on the Win part of it, but compared to Ghost, DriveImage, etc., this one's light years ahead.

Did you use Baluns?

Looks like MJ was born in Gary, Indiana.

What kind of a jackass locks a laptop's wireless equipment to a region?

Sure you can. DD does it all the time.

That's cool!

It's like the Cowon S9 PMP. Display is 480 x 272. Why the extra 2 pixels? I guess it's a manufacturing thing.

Some APC UPSes support an external battery pack. I have a BackUPS 1500 with a BR24BP external battery pack; great way to extend run time. The battery pack looks like a smaller UPS, stands next to it, and plugs into the back of the UPS. Have had no issues with either.

I wish the Cowon S9 took some kind of flash card. The Cowon A3 is supposed to be pretty darn good too, except for somewhat quirky controls. Models with HDD capacities of 30, 60, 80 GB. Pradeep's Sony X series looks like it's so new it's not available to buy in the U.S. yet, though it is...

Thanks Merc, Pratap and Howell. The Cowon that Merc suggests is certainly imprssive; perhaps even overkill from a display quality perspective. It's still a pretty impressive unit. The limited storage (32GB flash) is certainy a concern. Oddly, they have a pretty good sales / service network in...

Me too. Notwithstanding what Merc said about G knowing our underwear size.

And what may those be, pray tell?

I was gifted a 5th generation 60 or 80 GB Video Ipod Classic in 2006. It stayed in the box till a couple of weeks ago, when I had to "set it up" at my daughter's insistence (she's 13). She's using it now. I played with it a bit and was rather taken with the ability to put video clips on it...

Thanks for the feedback. How is the speed? Some "pre"views said it could get sluggish at times.

I spent some time on the weekend looking for a good case that supports E-ATX, can take 6 HDDs, has deccent cooling and a good layout. Such a beast either does not exist or costs a small fortune. The ones I liked best were some of the Lian-Li ones, but they are frighteningly expensive.

What's BB, LM? A Google search was pointless.

Merc, You should take care of your eye like LM said. It's not something you procrastinate about. Coug, that sounded like something Merc would write. Don't you see anybody at the gym / individual sports places that would have common interests? You have to do something different, or life will...

I could have sworn I wrote that! I've been doing this since I started using Windows.

Have you tried swapping the connections coming out of the splitter between the two monitors?

Get in line, SD!

Some kind of EMI interference? Relocate the monitor near the server to another place (perhaps near the wall monitor) and see what happens.

I stand corrected. He's 54 now.

Any reason he shouldn't be? IIRC, he should be about 50 now.

How about something that'll run on AA batteries?

That is sad.

Lunar, E_dawg, Tannin: Please post here instead of PMs so more than one of us can benefit from your wisdom and expertise. I will eventually be needing to acquire a solid tripod and associated heads and plates, and this will be extremely valuable info for me a well. Thanks!

Both resolve to 67.222.3.121 for me, using company provided DNS servers (and I'm far, far away).

Yup. People happily download Google Maps to their phone, + that Latitude thingy which tracks where you are and shows it to all your friends. I find all this a terrible intrusion of privacy (have you read the EULA on Google Maps for your phone?). But I must be the weird one because nobody seems...

Yup, it's much, much faster (and I'm 12k miles away from CA). Thanks Handy!

Sorry to hear that, Merc. From what I hear, there is a lot of pain everywhere. Sadly, the innocent are victims when the fraudulent play.

I read somewhere that IE8 broke things and it's better to stay away from it for now. Is everybody else saying the opposite here?

I have almost always had the swap file in its own separate partition, but have been too chicken to orphan the Program Files folder away from it's mother (system partition), fearing this kind of thing would happen.

When the Guru himself is asking a question, it's a serious problem.

Yup. Thanks.

Canon PowerShot A620 P&S <--- Olympus C4000 <--- Canon AE-1 waaaaaaaay back that I hardly got to use but took some very nice pics with (especially from my honeymoon).

Also, whatever the cluster size on the disk is, the OS reads/writes certain KB at a time (this is fixed), and if the two are different (disk and OS) you end up with overheads. I have forgotten what WinNT OSes use; getting old, forgetting things and not actually caring anymore.

I have always preferred to buy retail drives because the packaging is UPS-proof.

It's all your fault. You got me hooked with your posts in this thread and those pictures you posted.

I would prefer an EVF any day to an OVF. But I guess they are some time away from maturity. In the meantime I broke down and bankrupted myself with a Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-70 2.8 and Nikkor 70-200 2.8. Been travelling a lot since I got the shipment, so I just inspected the stuff and put it away...

I tried it a few years ago, and felt it didn't do much better than the built-in windows util. Also, the founder/owner is a scientologist, and I'm allergic to them.

There was a 3rd party defragger in the DOS days that I loved - Super PC-Kwik which read a text file you created and moved one list of files to the beginning of the drive and another to the end. It was an awesome program and I was saddened when I finally tossed it out. I beileve the guy/company...

care to explain?

Glad y'all are ok, Tony.

Thanks.

ditto

To clarify: one needs 64-bit hw and a 64-bit OS for this to happen, right?