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Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Fantastic book. His other books are great, too, but Snow Crash is a really exceptional novel. It's the right time of year for HP Lovecraft, too. About 95% of what I read - and I read a lot - is either SF or...

Nope, but it does have full support for USB2. I tested it a couple of days ago and it works beautifully.

Coug, if you want a copy shipped to my apartment, just PM me, and I'll make it happen. Ghost 2003 is quite an appealing product, since it's not the PE version (no serial number input) and integrates CD-R and USB disk support from DOS.

In Mozilla: View > Text Zoom > 120% In IE: View > Text Size > Larger It take a bit of patience to get used to the extra scrolling, but it does help with the eyestrain.

Can you post your smb.conf? I bet it's something stupid, like mapping all users to the guest account or something.

I have a bad time with FIC boards losing their battery early - sometimes only eight months or a year along. I just tell my customers how to fix it themselves (short lecture on ESD included, no charge) and that one really doesn't know how long a battery has been sitting around or what conditions...

The version of Nero that ships with Lite-On 24x - 48x Lite-On burners works with 32x Sony burners. So I guess that's worth a try. It has a red label and a Nero logo. I must have 50 copies of it. The purple-label AOpen version does not work with Sony burners.

Jetway = PC Chips' dumping ground. Worst of the worst. Bad enough that when I talk to old-hand techs at screwdriver shops, the very name causes either a laugh or a whimper. The whimper tells me the poor bastard had to service more than one or two of 'em. Shuttle's MVP3 (the HOT-591) was the...

Several years ago, I had an experience with Shuttle that makes Tannin's experience with ECS or Jetway or Alton or any of the other low-budget manufacturers look like a peaceful night's slumber. However, I also know at least two local resellers that consider Shuttle a decent mid-range product at...

Anyone else who feels the need to badmouth Seagate, the line forms here. ___________________________________ We've been badmouthing IBM for awhile, so I guess that's nothing new. That leaves Maxtor (er, does Fujitsu still make SCSI? I forget) in the leadership position, warranty-wise. Somehow...

I don't see anything at all wrong with using the stuff that works. That's why I use a text-based mail client, after all. OS/2 is a functional system. At least as functional as NT4, last I checked (and probably about the same level of driver support on today's hardware).

I'm pretty sure I have the slowest normal-use connection here (650ms ping to sf.net), and for a coupe of short-ish posts in a row *I* can hit the "You can't post again so soon" limit. Load times aren't that bad.

Two minutes, at an uppoer maximum. I'm thinking "fix that annoying spelling error", here. Honestly, I'm not totally comfortable with the idea at all, but ten minutes+ is almost certainly enough time to re-write a major post, which would fall into the "changing history" trap we've never wanted...

Tea, a printer connected to a dedicated print server has some additional management software available (accounting, security config, administrative alerts via SNMP), and may also have a simplified client configuration (er, for a network support-type person. Tannin probably wouldn't call it...

A printer with a builtin NIC, such as an HP4500N or my Phaser 850DP, can receive data at network speeds, which are at the very least faster than the 2MB/s of parallel or 1.5MB/s of USB. A print server such as blakerwry's doesn't really offer any performance benefit at all, since you still have...

Also "uptime" works pretty well. Or "top" All these are console programs.

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Do you really even need to ask that question? I believe I've enumerated my complaints sufficiently in other posts.

I've never used an MSI-anything, but I've had some decidedly awful experiences with Abit and Asus. Gigabyte's been good. One DOA (an AMD 750-based board) out of about 60 purchases, which is pretty good. As I think back, I'm having a pretty hard time thinking of a brand I've had better luck...

Compucase has a web site that's in English? That's news to me. I really like the Compucase 6812.

It is incredibly hard to lose someone special. I'm sorry for your loss, jtr.

I'd suggest waiting just a touch to see pricing on the 333MHz FSB Athlons. If nothing else you'll get a "free" price drop on your 2400-ish CPU but since an FSB improvement is usually worth a few steps in CPU power, it might be worthwhile to move up a bit more. For a video card, I just bought a...

Actually, I'm fairly certain that I'm safest of all, since my mail reading is done primarily on an HP workstation running OpenBSD, with a client that doesn't even understand MIME or HTML, and Office document attachments are opened only on Linux machines. I wouldn't load an AV package on my PCs...

webmin doesn't use apache. Webmin has its own web server, written in perl, that sits on the port you configured it to use.

I can think of something worse than a whiny girlfriend. But every time I do I have to go take a little blue pill.

My only thought is that nvidia's products, across several brands, have been utter, utter crap for me, and I'd hate for a friend to get stuck with something that bad. I don't see any reason for ANYONE to purchase the super-high-end graphics cards. By the time anyone gets around to making a game...

I just bought four of the aforementioned Soltek boards. MSI is a little bit too proud of theirs to merit my full consideration.

Jake, it's a given that Outlook is utter crap. It is. If everything in outlook worked, was not bloated or unresponsive, prone to data corruption and viruses, it would at least have a respectable feature set. I give it that credit. And that;s as positive as I'll be. I've said a great many...

Er, this is your laptop, then? Set up two user accounts on your PC (assuming 2000/XP). Configure them for "home" and "work", and set up Outlook with all the same data stores (your Outlook address book, PST etc). You can configure seperate incoming and outgoing servers per user account. That...

That would be the mirror (or shiny rock) that is no doubt handily available in Rome, land of leather pants.

If you look around SR's forums just this moment, you'll see HDTach results for a variety of next-gen drives, from WD, Maxtor and Seagate. Guess who is trailing the performance pack? And yes, I misremembered the basis for the poll as being access, rather than seek, times. Not that I think the...

I'd like to direct everyone's attention to This Thread on SR, while pointing out that, at least according to Eugene's iPEAK tests, even a 13ms access time was being optimistic. To Prof and Platform/Giant/Explorer/Splash - I don't know what Seagate is making nowadays, but it looks brown and...

Sorry. I was off teaching. Now I'm here, and Tea is asleep. Typical. Now I have to wait all day and hope somethnig interesting happens in the next few hours, so I have something to post about. Sigh.

Mozilla's mail has those features. I just don't use them, owing to a lifetime of having other ways to do all those things.

Mozilla's mail client is the weakest part of its feature set, in that it still has a few observable bugs. Every now and then I get an indexing error between my display and the stuff that's actually on my mail server, which requires me to go read email elsewhere until I get around to closing out...

My personal favorite is a Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (the IDE) Error: "This error should not have occurred." in a modal "OK" box. I tried to take a screenshot of it but when I clicked OK, the machine bluescreened.

There's a Hobart in Indiana, too, about six miles from where I am right now. It isn't nearly as pleasant as the Aussie one. Or pleasant at all.

So, I'm guessing you tested on single-CPU machines, then rolled it out to the big boxes, where it's crashed and burned? I always loved working on stuff like that. The pressure and release from resolving a deal-breaking problem is one of the things that makes working on computers so damn much fun.

10Gbit ethenet is designed for trunk lines and aggregation points, Doug. It'll get to the desktop eventually (my guess is probably four or five years from now), but I don't think it'll be widely deployed, deskside, unless someone can get it to work over copper wire (coughNotBloodyLikelycough).

Only daily? Your guys must be patient. I hope it's all in-house. I've worked places where they'll kill a contractor for less.

Right now I'm avoiding going to work. This is working out pretty well this morning. ;)

slo, the DVDs I was watching have a trailer for the next movie in the "series", which will be called Naqoyqatsi - "Life as War". Since this will be the first of the movies since the advent of inexpensive computer animation, I'm really looking forward to seeing how the new one compares to the two...

Prof, if you'll go read the front page of arstechnica.com right away, you'll see that there's no talk of a Pentium5 until 2005, long enough for Pentium4s to hit 10GHz.

Or don't. See if I care. :( <sniff sniff>

time, when I can put 2GB of RAM in an SDRAM board not even get into my 256MB modules, I'd feel guilty about not at least making an effort. :) My requirements are general because I have pretty much the hardware for anything I want. Whatever I build, I'll find a use for or sell. It's just a shame...

Is there a board out there somewhere that'll do a modern AMD (or P4 even) chip, something in the neighborhood of 1700+, and PC133 SDRAM? I've got a couple of old FIC AZ11EAs, but they're fuzzy over 1GHz. I only ask 'cause I'm looking at a pile of 256MB 168pin DIMMs on the table in front of me. :(

Yes. I leave windows open all winter long. I have no idea what this "cold" is. Glad I don't have to take care of a lawn, though.

StorageForum is a real home to many of its visitors. For some, it's a technical reference, for others, a way to pass time. Regardless, Storageforum can get better. Some of us have, at various times, suggested ways to improve SF and its content. Among other ideas that have been floated... 1. A...

Hey Kev, you know that if you look in the advanced properties for IP on 2000 or XP, you can assign multiple IPs to a single physical port, right? You set up IP for your VPN. You set up IP locally. You don't really need to establish routing unless you want to be able to hit your work machines...

ihsan, I suspect you'll see some serious performance loss in any case. Will the processor handling IPSec on, say, a 3Com NIC really do better than the processor handling parity calculations on a mid-range RAID controller? VPN = a lot of overhead. That's kind of a cool experiment to do in any case.