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iGary, agreed you're better of with GbE. The problem with that is you need a switch with at least one GbE port, and most networks today use Fast_E. Buying a new switch costs money, and s-m-a-l-l businesses are very cost conscious; for them, a second PCI server NIC would be a lot cheaper. I have...

The easiest thing - nothing. I'm drowning in things to do; I'll revisit this issue in a week or so. Thanks for following up, though :D !

And where did you purchase this marvellous toy from, Sir?

Are dual-port nics treated as two separate NICs (i.e. 2 IP addresses) or one? When used in a server, can you connect both to the same switch for twice the throughput (servicing two requests simultaneously)? Thanks.

Fushigi wrote: John, please post your impressions of the 2000FP after using it for a few days. I hated squinting at my 14.1" UXGA laptop, and I await your findings with bated breath!

In the context of coaxing software to work, untickled is entirely appropriate, Coug.

I'll continue to inflict pain on the hijackees... Very Cool, Buck - your website, I mean. Especially the part about the name of the business :mrgrn: SJC is a swell place, isn't it? I used to know some folks who lived and had a business there; they could give you quite a lot of business...

My experience matches Coug's.

If I may ask, whereabouts in SoCal are you, Buck?

I always thought Sonic was a really weird name for an eating joint! And Yo, Canadians: Think twice about buying the Dell in America and getting it shipped - you may not have an enforceable warranty.

ClearType has nothing to do at all with size. It just improves clarity.

Tempting price, eh? The only Raid controller supported officially is a 32-bit 33MHz card - theERC3-SC, with a single (internal) channel and 32MB cache. The mama board has: * 2 x 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots * 2 x 64-bit/66MHz PCI slots * 2 x 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots For a server with multiple drives...

Tim, The Stinkpad came with (and is still running) Win2k Pro, which does not support ClearType. Even if it did, Cleartype wouldn't have helped my situation because the problem was not clarity (which is mainly what ClearType is for); it was size. But the quality of the LCD itself is oustanding...

We discussed this in an earlier thread where I complained that I'm half blind now from using a Stinkpad with a 14.1" LCD that runs at 1400x1050. Large fonts look really crummy, Merc. It wasn't a viable option on my m/c anyway.

WRT Tannin's and jtr1962's posts, maybe I'm a pessimist in this regard, but I honestly don't see that anything significant will be done until it's too late. I say this because it's not enough for some people or some nations to get their act together; the entire planet has to agree and act on...

Thanks, Blake.

I'm using the HSFs that came with a couple of retail P3-800s I bought circa 12/2000 (awright, cut out the laughing now). Anybody know where I can find the specs of these HSFs so I can compare them with the Speezes? If I can get better/same cooling for lower noise I'll switch. Thanks.

If you use Win XP, I believe the built-in Twain driver is pretty good; you may not even have to install any Epson crap. I'm not sure, though.

Actually, Merc, that's only partly right. Leaving aside the Links toolbar sort issue, you can drag and drop single entries anywhere you want, and they'll stay that way till something does get FUd up. That's what I've done. I do have some with nn- preceding them, forcing a sort order, but this...

mangyDOG, I just set up my links toolbar. Interesting thing is that IE insists on alphabetizing the contents of each folder in the links bar. I even turned on favorites to show on the side and rearranged the contents of the links folder, but the drop downs from the links toolbar will not show...

Blake: Nope & Yup. I didn't know the address bar could share the space with the menu bar - thanks for that tip! I was already using small icons with selective text, and had added some extra icons by customizing the toolbar.

Oops! I clean forgot to mention that I do not have the favs. column on the side of the browser; I need all the screen real estate I can get. Instead, I use the pull down off the Favorites menu. Good suggestion, mangyDOG. I'll have to see how much of my limited screen will disappear when I try...

I'll second SteveC's recommendation on Epson. Velly good.

Yup. Within constraints of logical organization, of course.

Shouldn't that be "dude"?? In a language spoken in a populous Asian country, "dood" with soft 'd's means milk. Are you calling me a sap? :wink: Back to sqaurrrrre Vun!

How can I make IE cascade favorites? I've got a gazillion bookmarks and I hate having to scroll up and down (yes, 98% of the favs are already in folders). IMHO, Netscape's bookmark management was infinitely superior. For reasons mentioned elsewhere (the browser you use thread), I'm sticking with...

blakerwry wrote: On my W2k Prof: Admin Tools --> Local Security Policy --> Local Policies --> Security Options: Local-Setting Effective-Setting...

I'm having difficulty remembering (too old :wink:), Studebakers were notorius for something, weren't they? Failing gearboxes, I think. IIRC, chronic gearbox problems tarnished the company's otherwise stellar reputation and killed 'em off.

I was once asked to solve a similar problem; Win 98 + Office97. Word would take ~8 minutes to print each page (text only, single font Times New Roman, plain vanilla two page letter). No matter what I did, I couldn't fix it. Searching M$ and the Web didn't help. Finally I uninstalled Office...

1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29. Some of these are culture-specific and so don't apply to me; I grew up in another country.

I probably have a 386-SX-20 board, a 486 board, CPUs, 30-pin SIMMs, VL-bus video card, Promise VL-bus controller, smaller disk drives (40MB - 540 MB) all in working condition, and all in one box I should be able to get to without much difficulty. Anybody here that's wants 'em can have 'em. If...

Sheesh, Z-Eggz, we're a little rude to Tea today, aren't we???? :x

Hehe...it was fun to read that again!

For now, Russian craft are the only way to help the space station crew, and it is being done. A Russian craft carrying supplies and fuel successfully docked with the space station earlier today.

I've owned an IBM T23 for 18 months, and coudn't be happier. Overall build quality, fit and finish are top-notch. A month ago I advised a small business owner to purchase a Dell Latitude C640. While it serves the purpose, I'm disappointed with the design (cannot swap optical drive while...

I'll second that !!! Reg. the Dell designs, if anyone's been near a newer Dell (< 6months old) they're awfully quiet, to the point where you wonder if they're on at all. The've done a good job keeping those suckers quiet. I haven't examined them in detail as to why this is so.

You make a valid point. I believe after investigation it was found that a series of small errors both on the ground and in the air was the cause of the problem. More than anything else, the press needs to get their facts right; then of course, they need to be sensitive to the situation.

M$. In addition to the points jtr1962 made, M$ has ruined many small, innovative companies by acting in bad faith. Eg., "we'll license/collaborate with you, show us your stuff under non-disclosure", and then in a few years, M$ is releasing the same thing incorporated into their own product...

Slackware. Is the site biased in favor of Slackware? Or are most people here similar? Hmmm......

Thanks, Clocker, DriveLED is COOL! LEDs for my gazillion logical drives re displayed now. Funny thing is, from the noises I hear I could swear my WD800JB was doing something, but the LEDs don't light up. They do of course when I copy a file or defrag. Thanks! PS: I'm Herr John Doe, email...

The kind that sit in your system tray and turn on when your HDDs are accessed. This would really help because 1) I can't see my system in my normal work position; 2) I run a Promise Ultra 100 to which my two drives are connected. The Promise has two LED connectors, one for each channel. The...

Sorry, look at the bottom left of the screen for DiscStaq. That's what they call it.

See here. I know most of you are SCSI folks, but pore ole guys like me still use IDE. Anybody know if this is any good?

Pradeep wrote: Dell does not seem to have the 20" 2000FP listed anymore. Wonder if that's because it's being replaced? They wouldn't pull it off the web site if it was just out of stock...

Discfarm, Fortunately, my Stinkpad does not have the "eraser-screen" problem; maybe they fixed it on my model (it's 1.5 years old). Other than the too-high-rez-for-screen-size problem, it's a pretty darn good m/c. I bought it because it was one of the first noteooks to support 1GB Ram. I was...

Blake, yes you're weird, or I am. I can notice flicker on a CRT at 75Hz, believe it or not. Every place I work, one of my conditions is a top quality monitor, or I ain't working there. I'm fine with an LCD at 60Hz. For the past 3.5 years, I've been using and continue to use a Viewsonic PT775 at...

A trip down memory lane! Thanks, Handruin. IIRC, that was in the days of the Maxtor Plus 2500; I bought one, my first 7200 RPM drive, after reading SR's review, and it is still running in one of my machines (my daughter's edutainment PC?). Coug, IIRC, the second look had a fairly short life...

In addition to the pros and cons of LCDs mentioned earlier, nobody's mentioned a critical one: the inability to render decently at any resoulution other than the native. As I mentioned in another thread here, I'm half blind now from looking at my IBM Stinkpad for a year--it's a 14.1" LCD with a...

Bozo, it works the other way too :wink: A long time ago, far away, I worked at a place where the warehouse manager would constantly pester me for a "latest, fastest, with big monitor" PC. Those were the days when the 486 reigned, and the Pentium had just come out. The funny thing is, he was...

Considering that : * new equipment is usually: faster, has higher resolution, is smaller and quieter * office staff tend to print more * factory staff tend to be rougher with equipment (handling, grease, oil, etc.) the current policy would make sense. I've advocated this kind of policy and have...