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Indeed it has. Although if I decided I needed the extra storage space I might go with the Raptor II's. But if I really wanted space I could also get a 7200 RPM 8 MB drive for about the same price but get what, more than twice the storage space?

nope, more insterested in a new boot drive. I have a WD1200JB for large storage, and my wife has a WD2000JB for her mass storage and network backup. Why WD? I haven't had a problem with WD stuff yet, they've performed well, and have been cheap per GB. The IBM/Hitachi's have been more expensive.

good point Greg about disabling the network drives. I left them unmapped (though easily accessible through a shortcut to "My Network Places" and most of the delays when saving stuff are gone. And I'm not knocking you for loving Seagate. I'm 3/4 of the way there already myself.

I was using "my" wireless network for a few *months* before remembering that I turned my wireless off. No wonder I was only connected at 1 Mbps.

oh, and I thouht the massive crash at SR a while back was purely user failure (he "dropped" the DB) and unrelated to hardware entirely. I know since I was IMing with Davin around that time (though it's possible I've forgotten, but I doubt it).

wow Greg, you really do love Seagate. Not that I don't think very highly of them.

on my school laptop I use nothing. It's Centrino so it's got wireless built in. On my home laptop I use a PCMCIA wireless card, but that's it.

Hmm.. SR claims "Overall, for non-server use, Western Digital's Raptor WD740GD is the fastest single hard disk one can buy regardless of spindle speed, interface, or price. The fact that it is so quiet, runs much cooler, and remains significantly less expensive than its SCSI counterparts is...

Why not go with the Maxtor Atlas 15K for $179 (Hypermicro)? Why all the Seagate love? (not that I don't like Seagate - their RMA process has been very pleasant to me)

Programs that I use: stuff in the system tray Symantec Antivirus Zone Alarm ATi hydravision Programs Moz Firefox (email) - always open Moz Thunderbird - usually open Winamp - depends on mood MS Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver (depending on my mood) Real Player with 2XAV (for Lectures on...

I may have found a clue. For kicks I took my WinXP's swap disk off of my second Cheetah 18XL and installed Server 2003. Much snappier, but that may all be UI stuff. The interesting part is that in WinXP my CD burner on the primary IDE channel is set to DMA if possible but is running PIO only...

yup, already SATA-compatible. I've got an onboard controller, as does my wife's PC. Unfortunately, I've only got one SCSI controller.

well, it's a "technology preview", yes.

Thanks for the tip. I'm thinking I will. My stuff isn't the loudest on earth, but it's definitely not quiet. I also don't like the idea of only having one SCSI controller (vs. having an IDE or SATA controller on multiple computers around the house) Any thoughts on what I should be asking for...

I've also been having issues with my SCSI setup. One of my 5-year old Cheetahs died about two months ago, and one died a few days ago. So my large SCSI collection is dwindling and I'm wondering if I should get rid all my SCSI stuff altogether.

Is there something else I should know about? Since I'm currently running my OS and apps off a 9 GB drive and have a 120 GB drive (plus more on my wife's on the network) 36 or 74 GB seems pretty sufficient.

control-plus works for me on the forum.

hey crew - is the newer WD Raptor (740GD) worth the price (~$215 US) over the older model (~$115 US). It's 74 GBs vs. 36, but my boot/OS drive doesn't need much more than 9 GB. Think I would notice the difference over my old Cheetah 18 XL for heavy office stuff? Now that I'm using my desktop...

just ask the guy to switch channels. And how do you know about the baby monitor? If you know through legit reasons, maybe you can ask him to move it or change it's channel too. Hey Kev - nice skull. You didn't get that from an anatomy site I was working on at the U of M, did you?

what about using an HDTV to play DVD's? Does it result in a better picture than a standard TV?

from looking at BB's website (gotta support the local guys) it looks like most of their 27" TV's will fit.

of course, many people here have cable internet or DSL...we could always set up an informal sharing system. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've accidently connected to somebody else's wireless network before (since it's really hard to connect to yours after you've disabled the wireless portion).

nope. No idea about floors.

hey crew - my wife and I need a new TV. Something that turns off when you hit the power button. Something with a fully-functioning remote. Something that's not dying. Something that hasn't been dying since 1983. We have an entertainment center and have room for a TV 27" wide and 25"...

not sure about the contruction. I've been in many apparetments where you can hear some sound from outside. In mine you can't hear the neighbor's loud rap music. I'm very impressed.

oh, and the walls, at least subjectively, are very thick. We've got two infant twins upstairs. Every now and then I'll be in the hallway and hear them crying, but as soon as I go into my appartment I can't. It's very nice, but I wonder how that will affect wireless.

we've got 360 units, which I'm thinking equates to 60 "coreways" which equates to perhaps 10 or so buildings, plus the administrative office. We're 2 city blocks long and one city block long. No cool areal maps (yet). here's a USGS/TerraServer image and another one zoomed out. From what I...

we've got 360 units, which I'm thinking equates to 60 "coreways" which equates to perhaps 10 or so buildings, plus the administrative office. We're 2 city blocks long and one city block long. No cool areal maps (yet).[/url]

hey crew, so I'm a student at a large university (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). My wife and I live in married student housing, about 2 miles off the main campus (Minneapolis) and a mile from the "other" campus (St. Paul). Our housing is a coop so we own "shares," vote, control rent...

in the above I'm only talking about ease of making it a full-time career, and not the difficulty or length of the training.

it's all about having enough patients. From what I've seen and heard, there definitely is a demand for peds cardiology, even in medium-sized cities (like St. Cloud, Minnesota, pop 50-60K). There is rarely a full-time toxicologist (MD) at even large cities (i.e.-Minneapolis, MN). Many people...

there are pros and cons to each. But yeah, if I only wanted to do tox I probably chose the wrong path.

at least in acute care, most OD's are probably on stuff people intended to take (attempted suicide, or accidental overdose on a legit med). The vast majority of my days in the ICU I've seen 1-2 acetominophen OD's (we get them since we do liver transplants). I'm interested in tox, but it's...

I usually don't use wireless in my appartment, so I just turn mine off when I'm not using it. Solves that security issue. I'm so clueless about wireless it's almost embarasing. And I use wireless at school 5 days/week. If you want to grab credit card numbers, just go to your local wireless...

so far pharm is my favorite class

Far from it. I'm at the very end of my first year. We've done gross anatomy, biochemistry/cellular biology, histology, genetics, nutrition, intro to clinical medicine (histories & physicals), micro, neuroscience, physiology. We're now just beginning a 6-week summer semester (general path...

holy cow Merc! Double bonus points for not only a great, easy to use tool, but one that plugs directly into my new favorite browser. If you're ever in Minneapolis and need....um....student-level medical care.....er, no.....a beer, look me up! You just saved me DAYS. Thanks again! Adcadet

hey guys, I'm involved in a projects where we want to take a bunch of material from the internet and put it on CD for our students to use offline (all for academic use, no copyright violations). Saving all the HTML files by hand is really getting to the old wrists (and is taking forever), so I...

hey Crew, on my school laptop I use Outlook. Why? To keep my callendar with email, to see what viruses are being thrown around, and to remind me why I use Mozilla Mail. But how does MozMail compare with Thunderbird? About 6 months ago I used it and liked it, but ended up replacing it with...

I was running dual a dual AMD 1.2 GHz system up until November or so. Now I'm running an Athlon 3000+ single. More bang for the buck.

oh, I registered another administrator account on my blog using another email address, and that account was not offered a Gmail account.

I signed up about a year ago, back when it wasn't Google-ized. I use it to post quick little things to my class webpage (www.student.med.umn.edu/class2007). The Class of '06 webmaster tipped me off, and sure enough, there on the front page was an invitation.

makes me feel wanted and needed sorry, stress of finals

zero ads so far. But most of my conversations have been very short.

anybody else playing with Gmail? Just realized I had the option of opening an account earlier this week and set it up. Seems to work well enough. Very nice to be able to just email myself every potentially important document to leave on the server in case I feel the need to print it out at...

I'm happy with my MSI K8T Neo FISR board. Also happy with the two AMD Athlon boards I built recently (forget the model number, but it's the Via one).

To help convince people that confounding isn't a big issue people (journal authors) usually give some info about potential confounders (not that there is a test for confounding, anyway). Last I checked SR has never done anything like that. Have they ever given any demographic info about the...

for reliability info you can just go to SR and use their Reliability Database. What more perfect data source and analysis engine could you possibly want? Don't tell me you don't believe their results.

as someone who has to deal with a boss that knows little about what actually happens and 160 users who show a range of abilities, I LOVE BOFH. Read them during today's microbiology lectures.

OK, so we don't like the guy, but is that really an appropriate comment? He is, however, a good example of a physician gone horribly wrong.