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There's a grocery-store employees strike going on here. Reason: health benefits are being cut and employees are being asked to pay more for it. I heard on the radio that the public subsidises Walmart. They don't offer health-insurance (or it's woefully inadequate), so when a Walmart employee...

ROTFL! You guys really made my day!

I read in the second link that plugged-in but off devices ("sleeping" printers, instant-on TVs, set-top boxes, etc.) consume 4 Billion watts of electricity in the U.S. a year. If true, that's staggering. It really irritated me when printer mfrs. dispensed with the on-off switch and went to...

News.com One of the companies mentioned in the article. Our friend jtr would be most interested. But of course, he knows more than what's in these two links cpmbined.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Being the world's largest computer corp., IBM still doesn't know how to sell. Ever try to buy a PC or a notebook from them? The signal-to-noise ratio is incredibly bad. They also expect you to spend thousands with little or no information. Contrast that to Dell; while Dell is no paragon of...

Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction.

This place suffers from an abnormally high number of schizophrenics.

Thanks, Fushigi! That was great reading!

Fushigi, that's awesome, I had no idea the AS/400 (can never remember all those new single-alphabet code names they dreamed up) could scale up that much! Maxed out, it probably approaches mainframes in configuration, performance and price, I guess? For a few years, I managed a small AS/400 - a...

Thanks for the link. I don't know, is it safe to use for W2k Server? I tried that a long time ago on my W2k Prof. box running Promise Ultra 100, and it craps out immediately saying Error getting Write Cache value. (1117) The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. which...

Ha, Coug, you're funny!

Circa 1994, I worked here in Southern CA for a recently arrived Brit. He constantly complained bitterly that the Indian food here was terrible. He missed his thrice-weekly fix of it at some joint in London. I've eaten at Buck's favorite joint (Natraj) just once, when I lived closer to it (Laguna...

Thanks for the reply, Fushigi! 65 raided drives on one host! 160 servers just for Exchange! I cower before your might! You're a giant compared to poor midget ole me...

If there ever was marketing I didn't understand at all, it's this one......

Thanks, Pradeep. Shit, then what are companies running W2k server doing about the performance hit? Every business worth something is on a UPS; penalizing them by doing a write-to-disk is nuts. I know Fushigi's is an AS/400 shop, but maybe they have some W2k boxes? Anybody else have any...

Interesting that the Century CD has an MSRP of $198, and Tiger is selling it for $50 ($80 - $30 rebate) ! Interesting products though...

Thanks for getting back to me, Fushigi, and for your suggestions, Merc. Fushigi, from a cost point-of-view, I've got a tentative ok for the PE 4600. It comes with a min. of 512 MB, which is what I'll buy it with, then add Crucial Dimms (4 at a time), so total will be 2.5GB, which is more than...

Does W2k Server suffer from the "poor write perf." issue? If it does, is there a "system is on UPS, don't bypass write-cache" setting somewhere? Thanks!

Thanks for the responses, folks. Fushigi, Their data size is ~ 30GB now. Based on past data growth, I believe 140GB would easily see them through the next 4-5 years (planned lifeterm of new equipment). You've confirmed my design that mirroring would still be best for them. Your point on the...

Coug, our hands are tied. The app is a killer app, and it is 100% Microsoft-centric. No matter how shitty MS' technology may be, what drives business is not the technology, but the apps. I faced a similar issue in an earlier job. The functionality of the app overrides all other issues. In...

I'm helping a small business that needs to (forklift) upgrade their server; currently on NT 4.0 / SQL Server 6.5 on a Dull PwrEdge P2-400 + 384MB + 64/66 Pertec Raid card w/ batt. backup; 2 x 36 MB Seagate 10k Raid 1 for OS/Apps/Swap; 2 x 73MB Seagate 10k Raid 1 for data. The server will most...

Infoworld.

Thanks, Buck! That was fantastic! I've bookmarked WordSpy for future use. I learn something new everyday! :mrgrn:

Thanks, Craig. I know the incident you're referring to. But I think the phrase is intended to mean something else. Context #2: Cannot find news item for Context #1; can't even recollect where I saw it.

What does "drink the Kool-Aid" mean? From the context, I gather it's something akin to "swallowing the bitter medicine"? :( I came across this in a news item yesterday, and again just now.

Hope Gracie gets well fast, Merc.

A friend of mine was a Marine Engineer who worked on container ships. One time (pre 9/11), he gave me a tour of the ship, including the engine room. The engine was huge, but IIRC not as huge as this one; maybe because I saw the "installed" engine, with the bulk of it hidden by the "deck" in the...

Yep, Buck's report is pretty good. An orange orb in the sky instead of the sun, smoke strong enough to make it unpleasant outdoors, and ash! Ash everywhere. The latest count is 16 dead, 1800+ homes and 600k+ acres burned. People build in unsafe areas, won't clear brush, and this is the result...

You're right, CityK. I have Firebird 0.7 installed, and do use it when I go to "bad" sites. But there are certain features in IE that I need that are not available in FB. Also, while FB is great, something makes me come back to IE.

Varning: PC World is riddled with pop-ups. Epson Faces Consumer Suits; Complaints in three states claim printer vendor cuts off ink cartridges before they're empty.

The gallant Merc and his chief troubleshooter have ridden to the rescue of this poor soul. Many thanks to Merc and Ms. A.A. for the quick, simple fix. I am indebted.

Aha. I do this all the tim with onesies and twosies. But with 80+ pages? No way! Laser printers will be a worse mess! Once pages go through a fuser unit (with its heat), they don't like going thru the paper feed mechanisms again. The odds of a misfeed / paper jam are so high it's not worth it...

In all probability, the latter.

I'm curious, what's the max transfer rate 32-bit Cardbus can support?

Heah.

YGPM. Thanks!

HP inkjet cartridges have built-in expiry dates Expiry on HP printer cartridges hacked

I gave up and am posting here as a result. Word 2000. I have a document broken into chapters, and I need a footer on every page. The footer needs to show the chapter name and the current page number. (These chapter headings and page-number-of-first-page-of-chapter will show up in the Table of...

Pree-us.

I'm so sorry, CityK. Tyler was blessed to have received this much love, attention and care from you. I hope you'll find solace in the sweet memories of the wonderful times you've had with your dear friend.

If some people have their way, it won't be horse power for some vehicles anymore, but cowpower. So instead of saying your car has 300 horses, you'd be saying it's got 300 Moos. Apparently Sweden has been quite successful in extracting and purifying methane from manure, sewage, salughterhouses...

ROTFLMAO :lol:

From the review:

Today's L.A. Times has a review of it. The guy gushes all over the place. When I'm in the market, this is what I'll shoot for. More interestingly, in the first half of the review, he skewers the U.S. auto industry for saying it was impossible to achieve 40MPG for passenger cars by 2015; the new...

Ditto. I found the test suspiciously easy, and to my surprise, scored much, much higher that I thought I would before I went to the link. And this was when I was dog tired and couldn't think straight. I'd have to agree with everybody here; that test smells somewhat. But I really, really like...

Y'all may recollect that I asked a question about the WRT54G a while back (got it from Amazon for $59 after $10 MIR). I also bought 2 WPC54G's to go with it. The first thing I did was flash the router to the latest firmware and download the latest drivers for the PCMCIA cards. Set up was smooth...

No need to state the obvious, Sir Howell. Thankfully, there are civil people on this here forum. If most everybody here turns into your clone, I'll get a one-way ticket and be gone too, like Sir Google and Sir Wizard.

Neato! You have a way with words, young man!

Their site looks like Apple's! I can't decide if they're for real or it's somebody's idea of a joke. Did you check out the "Extreme" desktop? Looks like it comes pre-overclocked. And what's this PuRam stuff?? And "Up to 74 full-length 32-bit or 64-bit optional PCI Slots Modules"! And "Thermal...