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Or, you could zip up to Fry's in Fountain Valley (up the 405) or to the one in Anaheim (near the 91 & 57 Fwy junction) and get one of the Antecs. A guy I know used to be in the business of selling power supplies (to Intel for their server cases, to Cisco for their gear, etc.). Whenever we...

I'll risk stating the obvious: are XP drivers available for the PERC3/DCL? It may be a rebadged LSI/AMI, but it likely has "Dell" firmware.

Thanks for the replies. COmpression is a last-ditch option for me; I'd rather not use it unless I have to. I'm velly velly sure somebody somewhere has run into my problem and written a util for it.......

I'm launching a semi-formal effort to backup my data to CDs. I'm sick and tired of seeing a message similar to "file x is in a directory that is nested more than 8 levels deep, some OSes will have a problem reading this CD, do you want to proceed?". I'm using the Disc-At-Once option. I take it...

Awright, maybe I'm the only one here that powers his PC down when done for the day. Have to give some rest to those little bits that have been running around all day, you know.

You should've considered a waterfall in your apartment, Merc. It could've cooled your PCs, and according to Feng-Shui, would've been good for you as well ;)

You sure are an enterprising guy, Merc.........

That was interesting reading, thanks! How'd you do the CAT 5 cabling in-wall? Used a fishtape? Didn't any studs get in the way? How do you keep the things that are in the closet cool?

Yup, I can see them Dumbo ears in your avatar. And that thing in the center must be when you bumped your head in the doorway, I guess. Glad to have found ya, twin bro!

Dozer! So you're my long-lost twin our parents kept telling me about! Do you also have the big bulbous nose, the cauliflower ears and.....I'll let you describe the rest so I know you're rally my twin.

What an utter lack of self control.... :arge:

Thanks James. I've been sleep deprived for the last two weeks, and unlike Merc, become incoherent as a consequence. In the specific case I brought up (internists' office), there are medium sized requests from multiple users as opposed to large-sized requests from a few. So IMHO, the ability to...

Merc wrote: And in another thread, he wrote that he has 60+ drives in use at his place. Merc, seriously, you might dmagae your hearing. Another 10 years of this, would be very, very bad. You have to do something about it.

GIANT wrote: Guess I missed that point :(. I'm coming strictly from a situation where they already have a server with a 100Mb nic, a 10/100 switch, and transfer quite a bit of scanned images back and forth (internist medical office). They're the kind that won't pay $450 to buy a switch with a...

Their diagram shows baffles (like an auto muffler) to reduce noise. That's true, but their claim that air flow is not reduced is pure bull. How can you do both at the same time? Even an auto muffler generates quite a bit of back thrust. Noise vs. air flow is a trade-off. It makes most sense to...

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...