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Hope you haven't left out a crucial element to your tweak't experience: beverages served by candystripers. $3-5 smoothies, bubble tea, cappucinos and lattes... extra revenue stream.

I am into silent computing. Well, quiet computing, anyways. I have tamed a case full of 4 WD drives enough that I barely notice them. Ditto with an Atlas 10k3 (although there are limits to how much you can muffle coffee grinder seeks and a strong whine). You can always reduce the noise level of...

Heh, I can see it now: Tony placing his cricket bat under one of his wheels in a futile attempt to climb out of a bog of some sort :)

Well that's it right there. You work at a small company where it is a LOT easier to deal with IT strategy, implementation, and most of all, change. A large, publically traded corporation has plenty of difficult issues to deal with, and the hindrances to planning and delivering on a successful IT...

I don't know about that recommendation for Tony's needs... even in AWD form (I don't know if they sell a Bora Variant in Aus), the Jetta would be hopeless off-road.

Hey, a car party and I wasn't invited? :) Well, I can't add much to what has already been said, but to say that Subaru immediately came to mind when I read your requirements. Yes, it uses more gas than some of its wimpy small displacement 4-cylinder competitors, but you're getting the wonderful...

Actually, what's interesting, Dave, is how you got your cat inside that glass.

I think the historical gas price charts are based on the average of all gas prices submitted from members on that day in T.O. If you take a look at the Torontogasprices.com homepage, you can see some of the individual data points from the lowest/highes gas prices in the city tables.

San Jose is what you would call a high Beta stock... if it were a stock.

I feel your pain, Merc... well, sort of. I have had my share of problems with customer service and accounts people over the years, but I can honestly understand how some of these problems happen. I was dealing with some customer information problems at my previous job, often caused by moving...

Indeed. Tues has been a good time to get gas in March. But it doesn't always hold true. For a while, I noticed late Sunday night / Monday AM was a good time to fill up, but as you said, early Tuesday became the best time in March.

Congrats, Joe! I have particularly enjoyed our discussions on electrical and lighting subjects... thank you for the insights!

Congrats, Howell. Do a celebration lap around the beltway in celebration ;)

Forget the DMCA. Boycott anything encoded with DRM! That means no downloading of music from sites that sell songs in WMA-DRM format. P2P filesharing or bust.

Well, they may be using Merc's trail of breadcrumbs from SF to their site, thinking that they get a lot of traffic from SF patrons :)

Drop in a 7k60 and a 256 MB SO-DIMM and it performs well enough for most uses. A 3.75 lb magnesium beauty. My only complaints are that the battery life is fairly short and the fan is quite noisy.

... especially the clips covering the display panel hinge and the ones surrounding the speakers?

Did you have fun prying off all those plastic pieces?

Indeed, I also have very little love for Toshibas. A couple of my friends swear by them completely, but in both cases, they were older Toshibas (1996-98). One was a Satellite, one was a Tecra. Me thinks they don't make 'em like they used to -- especially the consumer oriented Satellites (much...

Centrino may not be the name of an Intel processor, but to qualify as a Centrino notebook, it must meet certain criteria that speak to mobility and connectivity. One of them involves the CPU. Currently, the P-M CPU is deemed as the CPU worthy of meeting the Centrino standards of power...

Perhaps you might try asking Eric, aka EBB/LOST6200 on SR about his Fujitsu notebook. At least I think he has a Fujitsu...

That's more like it, laddy!

Only one way to find out! ;)

Severity = moderate? Bah! To paraphrase a dear old scotsman, if it's not critical, it's CRAP!

Good point, mubs. 1400x1050 is becoming more common on 14-15" displays, which is just too small unless you have very good eyes. mubs also makes a good point about deciding how many spindles you want onboard. I wanted a very small & light notebook and knew I wouldn't normally need an optical or...

Congrats, Merc. You are definitely a pillar of this community. To contribute as much as you do while still keeping the signal to noise ratio high is an accomplishment. There are not too many posters that are capable of that. I should know, as I subscribe to the seagull theory of posting: swoop...

I forgot to mention that the reason it would have to be Philips is that I can't get Sylvania flourescents around here. The only Sylvania lighting products I can get locally are incandescents (and only from the local supermarket!). Home Depot carries selected Philips incandescents and...

I meant Deluxe Cool White, of course...

Indeed. That seems to be the best you can get these days. I know Philips produces T-12's with the same specs: Daylight Deluxe, 4200 K, 89 CRI, 2200 lumens. I am trying to find a Home Depot that carries them. I might try asking them to special order them for me, although I won't be needing them...

alas, but not to Canada... :cry: To me, 4500-5000 K is about pure white, and 4000-4500 K looks like todays' sunlight (granted, it is winter)... but I prefer 3500-4000 K in the bed/bath/living room for aesthetic reasons (those 3700 K/91 CRI GE/Philips "natural" tubes would be perfect). I could...

And just in case you were wondering whether these PAR20/30 and R20/30 bulbs were compatible with your existing fixtures/sockets, yes they are. (I wasn't sure if they would fit the sockets or the fixtures properly at first, but they are a direct drop in... PAR38 might be too big for most...

Have you tried PAR20/30 halogen (or even R20/30) Reflector floods? I needed maximum light output from a limited amount of fixtures. Most of these fixtures are recessed into the ceiling, so a typical incandescent loses half of its light output inside the fixture. Switching to halogen reflector...

I still don't like CFL's because of their colour temp and rendition. It's either yellowish 2700 K or bluish 6500 K with a CRI in the low 80's. My definition of white light is around 4000 K and a CRI approaching 100. So far, the only light source that truly satisfies me is those neodymium coated...

I wonder if it will ever happen, but the thought of Martha doing time in prison is just too funny. I mean, can you imagine: the decor of those cells? The slop they call food? Her innate compulsion to redecorate and cook will either turn out really good or really ugly. Either way, stand-up...

May the force be with you.

kreativ confirms that the Momentus drives have that lip that prevents full compatibility with some notebooks here

You gotta be kidding... My Logitech Cordless mouseman optical doesn't even work for left-handed mousers. Use it on the other side of the keyboard (transceiver base is on the right hand side of the keyboard, directly below the desk), and the signal is too weak.

They are all standardized like desktop IDE drives. Unless you have an ultra mini notebook, 9.5 mm height 2.5" form factor drives will fit anything. Sometimes, you will have a problem is with some drives that have a lip that prevent them from mating well with certain notebooks' drive slots.

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=12898 http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=12934 http://www.barefeats.com/fire39.html (NB: disregard the QuickBench random write tests -- write caching prevents accurate testing)...

linky: http://www.gyration.com/ultragt-compact.htm

Just wanted to recommend the Gyration cordless KB/mouse combos if you're looking for a black + wireless option. Double the range of Logitech and MS wireless products. Mouse is optimized to use without a desk. The Ultra GT Compact version is particularly suited for HTPC use, or basically if you...

Compaq DeskPro EN desktops from the mid-late 90's are heavyweights too. Weren't IBM printers (lasers) made by Lexmark for quite some time?

Good point. Which products, specifically? Their notebooks do seem quite well engineered, although I can't say that I've ever had a pleasant experience using them. 2 Thinkpads were like porcelain dolls, their TFT displays, motherboards, floppy drive, and CD-ROM failing within a year or two...

I didn't quite catch that, Merc. Did you just say "she wears your ring below the waist?" :mrgrn:

what the heck is a "global response team"? That's kinda inefficient flying you guys all over the place...

1. I rarely "start" my browser -- my PC is on 24/7 and the apps I use frequently are always open (myIE2, Outlook, Explorer, Winamp as a bare minimum) 2. And when I do, it's set to resume last visited pages, so I get the 20-30 tabs that I've been dealing with for the last couple weeks

I also despise sick people coming in to work and infecting everybody else. The worst is when you're stuck in a long meeting with virulent coworkers in a stuffy boardroom. You are trapped. There's nowhere for the germs to go except to be circulated throughout the room.

It depends on the culture of your group. I would feel comfortable with working from home for a couple days with my current group, but not with some of my previous groups.

Another article on credit card companies http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Yourcreditrating/P51865.asp

Cheaters. The centrifrugal forces imparted by the dryer help align the magnetic particles on the drive and ensure proper electron spin. WD drives have an unfair advantage!