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I live in the greater Chicago metroplex (where I live isn't a suburb of Chicago by any stretch, but from where I live all the way to Chicago, there's an unbroken chain of truly urban landscape). Not the boonies. The are weird laws in the county where I live that make providing broadband service...

It's under the dust cover about a half inch in front of the parallel port, and it installs just like every other bit of laptop memory.

No broadband. I check about every two weeks. No outdoor antennas, either. :(

January 13th. The first people who registered for the site, including Handruin and Clocker, registered January 13th 2002. The first day the site was really open to the general public was January 22nd 2002, when timwhit and Will Rickards joined.

I was referring to people with broadband generally, not just Canadians. For reference: I pay a little under $50 for two telephone lines. Because of weirdo bundling, I can't get local unlimited free calling - I have to pay for long distance for that. "Basic" phone service is cheap ($10/month)...

All of you people suck. I mean that. From the botttom of my heart.

Alpha went to EV7 for 533MHz, IIRC Were I in the position of licensing the technology for the processor technology I was betting billions of dollars of engineering and fab work on, I'd at least license that technology for as long as practical. 8 years? 10 years? A long time. Were I a...

The EV6 bus used by AMD chips is Intel intellectual property by way of HP by way of Compaq by way of DEC. In short, that ain't gonna hold either.

I think it's funny, too. Don't feel bad. It must be the dixie-radiation that's keeping Dozer & Howell from thinking clearly. :D

I've bought low-end motherboards from econopc a time or two. Get their best pricing through pricewatch. It's usually substantially cheap. The hairy one is right that Gigabyte's AMD760 boards are good quality as well, but I know the biostar to be a solid if unremarkable choice. Shuttle's AK32L...

That Asus thing people seem to like: $75 or so Athlon 1700 - $50 or so. Duron 1.3 for $36. Decent fan - call it $10 (or $14 for a microflow from another place that's right up the road). As an alternative, EconoPC - just up the road from y'all - has a Biostar M7VKQ with the 1700 (onboard...

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The project is that I need a bunch of drives that work when I want to use them for my "classroom stuff". That means installing OSes, teaching people fdisk, using them as "hot spares" in case a classroom drive dies. So yes, having drives that work perfectly is a good thing. ;) I've got a small...

I've got it, if you can't find it anyplace else. I believe I saw a number of mirrors for the fix with the associated slashdot article (I mean, a LOT of mirrors, probably close to 20, spread out among the comments).

Also, in my tour of auction sites today, I note that ubid.com is auctioning external Sony DRU500s for $200 with abuot 3 hours to go. Ubid isn't terribly high traffic, and there's a decent chance to get one for under $250...

Ebay prices are insane, but I need to find 8 or so 4GB hard disks in the next few weeks. There is no way that pull/used drives are worth $35 + shipping each, and that's the pricing I'm seeing.

I only SEE 2 -3 a week. I must get 100s of spam messages over my 10 or 12 accounts.

Make sure you're playing with Moz 1.3 at least. The builtin filtering is pretty cool (under tools > filters)

I don't have an XBox so I can't test that, but the copies of "Lilo & Stitch" and, um, a movie that's less wholesome than that, both work fine for playback in nero and my JVC changer. I was using IFOedit to strip out boring parts and did the burning from Nero. I'm using Nero 5.9.9.0, or whatever...

Turn off NTLM2 authentication? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Paramete rs] "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001

Methinks you don't have anything installed to unencrypt the movie before viewing.

Ahem

Watch who you're calling an AOLer, bub. I use every part of the current version of Mozilla. If someone sends me a message I can't decipher from elm, I fire up Moz's mail. If I'm ever possessed and need to use an address book, there's one in there, too, and the IRC client works just fine for the...

Take a look at Streambox VCR. It's in legal limbo, 'cause the company that made it closed up shop a few weeks ago, but it's available for download lots of places.

In stream of consciousness order 1 The Antec should be fine. 250W Premier, maybe not, but what you have is fine. 2. The grease on the spire cooler will work well enough for what you've got. That stuff, like all thermal tranfer solutions, is one application only. Also, it smears very easily...

Bring it on little man. My burlap sack is already filled and ready for battle, and besides, I seem to recall an email full of blackmail material some weeks ago...

Also, EdwardK's signature didn't make it on it the shirt. I don't know why. I have it. :( I also missed time & JtD. I TRIED to remember to write in those who couldn't scan, but I was in a hurry to get everything in the mail and, well, you know. I did try, though. For those who weren't "in on...

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Are these .RA files or .RM?

Oh. You need a retail copy. The one that came with your LiteOn (or whatever) Burner won't do the trick. That's a big, important detail I forgot, isn't it?

The EE costs a young fortune. If you're looking into this at all, perhaps the standard server will be more to your liking. Main advantage, to me, is that it doesn't look like XP. ;) A big minus: "Windows Rights Management Server". DRM by any other name... You probably need to spend some time...

I am teh l4me. I just noticed that when I added CougTek's name to the shirt I spelled it with a lowercase "T". Sorry man.

I've already expressed my thanks to you as well, but I'll do so again. The users of Storageforum owe you a tremendous debt for providing us with a special place on the internet. I'm glad we could get together and do this for you.

Nero is fine for DVDs. It checks that you're burning Video DVDs with a Video_TS.IFO and checks that IFO for syntax errors. That's not a bad thing. It keeps you from making DVDs that won't play. Just the same, I use InstantCopy and DVDMovieFactory 2 for my DVD video burning needs (plus TMPEGenc...

That's funny. I normally don't like keeping my drives in a sweat spot. Normally after a while they start to stink... 2. Spread your pagefiles over the fastest drives you have. You have lots of drives in one machine, so it's a good thing to have lots of options for storage. 3. Real may...

Oddly quiet here. You'd think we all had other things to do on Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Or something. I have come to the conclusion that the natural enemies of cats are neither dogs nor mice. Nope. They're books and keyboards Case in point: I keep a stack of unread books beside...

Happen to be looking at a jewel case just now: Those are Verbatim 4x -Rs, not +Rs. It's easy to get them all confused...

SF rule of thumb: Any thread with a ratio of posts to reads that's better than 1:10 is a good discussion. Check out the forum and see how well that rule applies. You'll be surprised.

I still haven't given up on my mission-style case idea, but I ran across these on slashdot just now and, wow, are they ever gorgeous, particularly, I think, the antec. Wow. Little expensive for my tastes but... wow.

Small board. We all know each other pretty well. New guy shows up, maybe he knows networking, maybe he doesn't. That's why I asked. If you're a reformed lurker, may I ask where you found us? You can run multiple loops off a hub or switch. I'm not an electronics guy, but my understanding of...

Do you know anything about networking, charmedcat? A SAN can be conceptualized a lot like an ethernet network. Running one or two drives in a daisy-chain fashion (HBA to drive to drive to HBA) is pretty close to your old-fashioned 10base2 LAN (or xbaseT on a hub). Shared media, only one node...

I got a boatload of Ritek 2x discs (-R/+R) from allmediaoutlet.com for something like $.80 each. I use those at home. Bad experience: Imation +Rs. 50% coasters. Blech. They were the first things I bought, and when I got them, I thought my burner was broken at first. I found some 12-packs of...

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

I'm an ordained minister. D'ya think I could get a job with WD? :D

Spamihilator appears to work marvelously. I just set it up for some of my lab machines and from the default settings it caught about 85% of the crap in each machine's mail queue (average of 70 mails). Setup was painless and best of all the program is free.

1. Uninstall mouseware. It's evil and buggy. 2. inspire a heartfelt "Eh, whatever" from me, too. 3. are really pretty nice. Fewer buttons for less confusion, although I have to admit I miss the middle button for happy use of Xfree (actually all but one of mine have the cord but it's still the...

IIRC 3 operational battalions with SOP to place 1 additional battalion in reserve and one which serves for HQ/Logistics/rear echelon types (the HQ battalion is usually the biggest one, too). ... and that makes a division. Three divisions make a brigade. 3 brigades make a corps, which, all...

You guys who for upgrade for "faster" IDE drives are frickin' insane. OK, *I* can tell a difference between IDE drives in a generation. Sometimes. In particular situations. And that may be familiarity with idle & seek noises as much as performance characteristics. I doubt there are many others...

... which explains the technical event of the spring, WinHEC. Yup. Intel runs the show alright.

First thing that comes to mind. Not saying it's good or anything, is ezboard.com.