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Not worthwhile is a subjective thing. There are at least 2 completely unsecured APs around me, if I have any security at all than no-one will bother. If I was the only AP around, I'd be more worried.

....but it would be easy to support. Tech: "Do you see a line of white text on a black background? Is the cursor blinking? Good. Your hardware is working, call someone else."

Great. Phone Tech: "The first thing you need to do is insert the disk and reboot. This will format your drive and restore it to it's original state." Who on earth is going to do that?

I'll second Chewy on the crappiness of V-Day. It, and my other holidays, are designed by corporations to cause more consumerism. Women, who seem blind to consumerism, still feel some degree of authenticity however and therefore apply pressure to guys to cave to the desires of the corporation...

Just do MAC filtering. It's pretty tricky to bypass and keeps the easy ones out. Mainly it let's you use any OS or other device without hassle.

But I think the price difference between the 24" and 22" wide screens has more to do with the resolution than the actual size.

$700 is out of line for a 24" widescreen. I can get another 22" standard for that price.

I've been meaning to learn Linux for quite some time. In fact, I have started a number of times without success. I am of the firm belief that Linux proficiency will be a prerequisite for employment in my business somewhere down the road. Ideally, I'd like a certification of some kind as...

If you sell a computer without an OS, you know for sure that you will get less tech support calls. That might explain the $180 difference.

In my experience, Newegg has been pretty good. Shipping same or next day with back ordered items and rebates quite clearly marked. But I only order from them about 3 times a month, and it's been almost a week now. Have they changed anything?

21% deceased isn't that high a percentage, really. Tony might back me up on this (or jump down my throat ;)) but this kind of thing has significant outliers (think asymmetrical bell curve). I'm much younger than you, and I would bet that it's already in the double digits percentage wise.

If I were to exploit machines, I would focus on people that are more lax about updates. Not only does this mean I could use an older exploit, but that the user would be less likely to notice. You also must consider that MS will EOL IE6 sometime soon, and then you will need IE7 to be patched at all.

Wow...that could hold vista premium :roll:

Interesting. I prefer the low-contrast blue-ish theme. Easier on the eyes.

Mubs, I know that it's 6:45AM here, and that I am awful this early in the morning; my brain simply doesn't work. But if you are waiting for the 50th person to die, they have sorted themselves ;)

Unfortunatly, those are 2 things I can't have. There are no mountains between me and the antenna I'm after, but an internal antenna will be a must and there are a few buildings in the way.

The "porn multiplier"? I need one of those, too...

Oh, that looks very interesting. I think I'll get one of them. But I do need an indoor antenna as well, most stations are 30+ miles away.

Eh, just went straight to my Level and Tonic. Works well after breakfast.

Tea, Sorry for the Monkey comment, that was undeserved. You may have memory issues, but you are indeed an ape. My apologies, I just burned myself making breakfast and I get mean when I'm in pain.

Intolerant little monkey. This has been discussed here before (and I think you were part of that conversation, or at least the old man was).

A lot of the Gigabyte motherboards I buy have an eSATA bracket included, even if they don't have 1394.

Craig, Thanks for the tip, that may actually be enough for me to dump my exchange server for an external mail-only solution. Thanks!

Alright. I still haven't finished all of CityK's very detailed and extensive descriptions, but I need a simple recomendation. I want to be able to display OTA (HD and standard) TV on my computer screen and/or VGA-based projector. I figure I'm in a metropolitan area and there's probably a fair...

Sol, I can't think that that is right. Placing so much significance on a single (the lowest) value could potentially really screw up the average. IIRC, one of the reasons for choosing Median instead of Mean or Mode was to prevent outliers from having a significant impact on the calculation.

Now all we need is a list of relevant ages. For Eric; we need to know the year of your birth, and how many of the people born that year are still alive. If it's less than half...count yourself lucky and double-check that I'm in your will. ;)

Try it. If it works, then great. If not, then no. This will not damage anything and the results will be immediatly apparent. It will either work or no, instability will not be a problem.

The talk of a licence expiring is from their beta period. If you got a beta licence to go with their beta software, it was designed to expire quite a while after the full version was released. Just go back and get a full licence (still free, and reverse compatible with your old VMs).

...and the 3-screen version is $600.

In Firefox I got a plugin that moves the downloads status bar to just that; another status bar along the bottom opf the window. Far more user friendly. Perhaps Opera has a similar plugin?

Sounds like a faulty thumb drive. I had similar corruption on some I bought super-cheap from a street vendor in China. It looks fine and the copy goes fine, but when you go to access it the data is simply not there. I kinda figured that it happened when they put in the memory controller for a...

...or a frog. It could be a frog. Don't discount that possibility.

I was thinking the same thing...

Perhaps some of my previous ladies would have appreciated that, but the current one likes it's present measurements TYVM.

ack...it got double-posted...sorry

I-RAM can handle 4GB and costs $115. It uses 184-Pin DDR DIMMs that cost $78/GB Realistically, motherboards only have 4 PCI slots these days. 4x$115=$460 16*$78=$1248 So you can have a 16GB, very fast RAMDISK for just over $1708. Makes the others look like quite the bargain.

Da dorogai

No kidding. I needed at least a 3" wide straightener when my hair was long. OK, so I only did it once (for Haloween; Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt) but it worked out quite well :twistd:

Can we have it in March? It's cold there now...

Completely new install, exact same issue. I also tried re-restoring an older image that was working perfectly. Same issue. WHat drives me nuts is that it is SO CLOSE to working properly. I can see the login screen flash by every few seconds.

So he has a wireless network without internet access? Or is the access via dial-up? Does he use <shudder> internet connection sharing? That thing will cause all kinds of trouble.

Thanks. Do they support external antennas? Do they support bridging in firmware? To complicate things, the remote office needs (local) wifi. So I'll be bridging from the main office with a powerful directional antenna, then re-broadcasting locally with something else. Any suggestions?

This is what Linksys sells for the purpose. 802.11g, connection done in firmware, looks to be compatible with an external antenna. Thoughts?

If you had to install a point-to-point wireless bridge, which hardware would you use? Is 802.11n the way to go? It's offices full of Macs, so my PC tools are useless.

;) Thanks. Unfortunatly, it was a bit chilly out. Next week is a hot tub party in Palo Alto, so I'll see what I can do.

I've got 0.3" on you, but I'm afraid that is the end of the road WRT 4:3 screens. I would love a 24" version with the same resolution, or a 30" version with 2048x1536.

If you are lucky, there are just some additional services that are in non-standard condition on the laptop. If you are unlucky, his wireless router has some kind of internet-cafe type setting; where each machine can see out, but it prevents them from seeing each other. (My Linksys 802.11n has that)

One of my best friends mother just died of Cancer at age 52 within 2 weeks of diagnosis. She is younger than me, and her parents are younger than mine. This sucks.

Yup. The big thing is that the ocean pounds against the shore, eating away at the cliffs and causing massive erosion that drags more massive rocks into the sea, exposing more cliffs (and closing the Hwy)

For my GF's B-Day weekend I took her to Big Sur. We stayed at the River Inn and ate at all the nice restaurants. Drove the pretty section of Hwy 1 both ways (Hearst Castle to Carmel ~100mi) and hiked quite a bit; down to the beach in at least a dozen places, sometimes involving cliffs and...