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The time has come to buy (The March deadline came and went). Should I buy n or stick with g? I will pretty much be going with one mfr for the router/access point and the client devices. I was hoping n would be ratified by now, but it still seems to be in limbo. The n standard would perhaps work...

You're in very good company. I'd at least 90% of the people on this planet are in the same boat. Including your's sincerely.

Crap. DDR RAM is so expensive compared to DDR2. I'd hate to buy it and have to pull it out. I'll have difficulty selling it if I'm not going to use the extra RAM. I don't know what rev my CPU is. I'm away from home and will have to call the wife and walk her thru running CPU-Z. According to...

I won't be going anywhere near public computers! These'll be corporate desktops or laptops (most likely) running whatever the corporate standard is for firewall, av, etc.

I think he meant cost of a Windows server OS for 4 servers. There are obviously a lot of client PCs.

Initial power draw (inrush?) will always be higher than steady state. These significantly higher loads, though much shorter in duration, could be deadly to power equipment.

Well, it looks like 4 sticks will slow things down. Anbody know about #2?

I have 2 x 1 GB of dual-channel RAM on my NForce 4 motherboard (DFI Lanparty UT SLI DR Expert - I hope I got that mouthful right). CPU is a Socket 939 X2 4400. 1) If I add 2 more sticks of dual-channel RAM, will memory speed slow down (because all slots are full)? I vaguely remember reading 2T...

Adcadet, not true from my understanding. If Truecrypt is installed by an admin with execute rights for all, a non-Admin can execute Truecrypt and work with Truecrypt encrypted stuff. Alternatively, if one has Admin rights, one can run Truecrypt directly without installing it and access...

AFAIK, that's been hardcoded like Merc said in the workstation version of NT, 2k and XP since the NT days.

Thanks Chewy. MS would be my first choice, but I've heard NTFS encryption is very fussy about moving between systems. Truecrypt looks good, gentlemen. Thanks very much.

Is this possible? Or is the encrypted data tied to the system (GUID) that created the encryption? I'm traveling a bit these days for my consulting gigs, and miss my data. Clients provide laptops for use. I'd like to put my data on a high-capacity flash drive or a 2.5" HDD and encrypt it on my...

I read Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression, which led to Countdown to a Meltdown. Depressing.

Way to go, Handy!

Merc, the Nokia E6x smartphones have about 8 hours talktime and a really long standby time (~ 10 days). Sol, I may just decide, after checking all my options out, that all I'm going to do is buy a couple of new PDAs and keep my existing phone as is, because what you said about not wanting the...

Handy is becoming truly acerbic in the fine tradition of Merc....what a way with words!

If you're going to have that many drives, noise is going to be a problem anyway. You can Dynamat the Lian-Li; I have extensively in my Antec 1030 and the case itself neither produces sound nor amplifies it. All the noise is from drives and fans, and you can control both by choosing the parts...

Thanks for the replies (you too, Merc, for that insight!). Wasn't ignoring you all, was out of town for a few days. I did manage to palm (no pun intended) and finger an E61 in a store, and was vewy, vewy disappointed. Keys were to tiny for me paws. More on this later. Me bro is a die hard Palm...

Congratulations, Adcadet!

Later versions of MSO 2000 had activation, and everything since. MSO 2007 has a new UI that involves a steep learning curve. MSO XP is the Windows ME of MSO. You already have MSO 2000. Having used MSO since MSO 95 thru 2003, I like 2003 best; very smooth, all the minor UI kinks worked out...

I was going to, Coug, but was too lazy. Everybody here knows about it already. But thanks for making it easy!

Nexus is good. Believe they're made by Yate-Loon, which are also available.

I'm mulling buying a cell-phone / PDA combo. What's not important: - data access / email / internet etc. - music, videos, etc. What would be nice: - to be able to read/modify/create Word/Excel docs - camera What's important: - phone performance and usability - PDA functions: contacts...

Thanks all. Darn, I didn't even realize that check box was there in the add/remove programs window! Thanks DD. And Buck and Clocker too. When I attempted to remove KB929338, it warned me that a whole bunch of programs would not work correctly, so I chickened out and cancelled the uninstall...

Buck, In C:\Windows, there are logs for each update; I presume you meant for me to look at these? Logs for both updates are identical. There is a repeating pattern, and at one point there are ~ 22 consecurive lines that say: KB929338 Setup encountered an error: The update.ver file is not...

Thanks Lunar, I value your advice.

I think not. Is there a way to check? But there was something I downloaded a while back that said it was available only for genuine users, and I downloaded and executed that Genuine Check program, which I believe is different from the one you referred to. Did the Genuine Advantage get installed...

Time for more scanning; more oldie-goldie pics of family were unearthed (no negatives again)! I'm curious, at what dpi were BW photos printed in the photo lab in the '60s and '70s? Color pics? And what rez / color depth are color pics printed today (from negatives)?

I have my Win XP Pro install set to tell me when there are updates. I then allow it to download them after reviewing the updates. (I skip the Outlook stuff since I don't have Outlook installed, but it shows up everytime anyway and I have to check the box that says don't show this one anymore)...

I was afraid of that. Maybe I should buy a retail copy of XP just in case?

I was in S. CA. The only thing they cared about was that you didn't run a server (causing large volume uploads). Maybe they had different policies north vs. south.

I wonder how much it hurts to have the drives on a single channel.

Forgot to add: I can buy the stuff here, but I'll have to pay 2x :arge:

Greg, sorry, my bad. I just don't see Photoshop being a fit in this case. And I got a bit confused; I presume by Adobe you actually meant Acrobat (since Photoshop is from Adobe as well). Howell, no Kinko's. Even FedEx hardly does any business here (India). Volume is low, but important enough...

I heard from CutePDF after a couple of days, and from PDF995 almost instantaneously. Neither can do #2 and #3. :( Greg, I don't have the sw yet; I'm still evaluating. Besides, I guess you didn't read my earlier response to your question. Photoshop would be a very clumsy solution to my needs.

DD, you're right. Prob is, as one gets older, memories fade. My memory's always been weird. I can remember things that go back very far (I must have been 4-ish ?) and I can't remember things from a few years ago. Before everybody jumps up and says that's the way it works in old people, true, but...

Nah, my very first DSL connection, circa 1999, from the erstwhile Pacific Bell was a router/switch with 4 ethernet ports. I still have it in a box somewhere. When I moved, and signed up for the same service again, they gave me another one that was similar. What I can't remember is if the WAN...

True. But it worsens the S/N ratio considerably, and casts aspersions on credibility.

You ain't seen nothin yet!

Thanks Howell. It's not clear that CutePDF can do #2 and #3 on the list I provided Santilli. I've sent an email to their support; I'll post back here with the reply.

I asked cause I don't know :-D. It kinda sucks that they don't. Like my bizarro "DSL" modem that has an RJ-11 for the internet and o-n-e Ethernet port. I have to use an Ethernet switch along with it if I want a 2nd connection.

With Acrobat Pro you can, among other things, You can do the first of these (scanning & OCRring) with Acrobat Std. as well. The rest require Acrobat Pro or Acrobat 3D. More at Adobe's website. You can download a detaild comparison pdf (under the "Want more information?" text). # 2 & #3 are...

Thanks DD. If you hate it, guess I should stay away from it. Especially because it's 2x the price of Acrobat 8 Pro!

That doesn't look like it supports jumbo frames? Datasheet mentions nothing about it.

Is there any software that can scan an original paper form and create a digital fillable form - pdf or word or excel or proprietary? I know Acrobat Professional can do this, but it's $285 street. Acrobat Std. can't do this, and the oher features I want in Acrobat Std. are available free (in...

Which ones - model #s please?

Whatcha trying to do, Merc, blow up the earth?

I don't consider myself religious by any stretch of the imagination. But the couple of times I saw videos of Dawkins, he came across as a pompous and self-important ass. There are things he doesn't know that he doesn't know. I have no desire for more of his stuff.

Thanks guys. I actually held off buying; I probably will sometime in mid-late May, and spring for an N-version. Any suggestions y'all can throw at me will be welcome. I'm looking primarily for the router/AP and something for 2 desktops. This time I should be able to buy mail-order because of...

:-D