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hey all - my fiance and I have been talking some more, and it seems we might want to turn my current desktop (Dual Athlon 1.2GHz, 512MB, two 19" monitors, etc) into a sortof media station. My fiance really likes cable TV, and she tends to record many shows for me (don't ask which ones...

...and certain other storage websites seem totally oblivious to this. :x

nice article LiamC! This is what we need to see more of.

ug. Yeah, I feel like a total computer ignoramous now. Oh well. See my sig.

AHHHH! Stupid mistake. OK, Evolution puts each mail account's email into it's own inbox. For some reaon the default inbox was set to my other account, and I didn't have the folder view option visible....so I've had a bunch of email in my university account, but just wasn't seeing it.

ok, I configured my mail account for my ISP which I rarely use. I can receive that mail. Must be something about my school's IMAP account.

Help...? Anyone...? Please....?

well, I'm not too keen on OCing my fiances computer, so the Celery 700 is out. The Celeron 800 is currently listed on Pricewatch for $50, and the faster ones actually get cheaper. At what point are the Celerons P4-based? Is it 1GHz? Will the board (440BX I'm pretty sure) support a Coppermine...

oh Blake. I'm sure Tea's gonna be pulling her eyelid down a lot after those bad jokes. Anyway...I talked with my fiance briefly, and she admitted that her computer is a little bit slow. Luckily, I've convinced her that the heart of any computer is the HD, and that as long as the HD (data)...

thanks for the info Blake. But the strange thing is, KMail wouldn't work either. After my last final today I'll see about setting Mozilla's mail client and see if I can get it to work.

My Red Hat desktop (KDE) is running Keramic, so I'm already on the dark side ;)

hey all - I recently setup RH8 on my desktop and generally love it. Two things really bug me: 1. Lack of multi-monitor support. If anybody can help me get my ATI8500 powering two monitors, I'd be very grateful. But I'm not holding my breath. 2. I can't receive email. I've tried both...

Somebody feels my fear!

I was trying to get a feel for what others think the lifespan of the P2-400 both for someone who's mid-range PC user (my fiance), a low-end PC user (my fiance's sister), how it is to share a computer with someone using multiple user accounts in WinXP, and the like. Of course I'll be (and have...

interesting info, honold. I take it the raw files tend to be pretty huge then?

What do you mean by "raw format?"

whoa. Good enough for me!

Good point, Merc. Although I am pretty happy using my laptop. In fact, right now I'm sitting at my desk writing a final exam, checking my email, talking to a friend on Trillian, and posting at SF on my laptop, while my desktop is sitting there just playing some MP3s and downloading RH8.

This is what my fiance and I have come to conclude. Do you know of any formal reviews of Ofoto and other digital-to-print developers?

If I can successfully move my fiance's stuff onto my main machine and setup WinXP with two users in a manner that is acceptable, we will probably give the P2-400 to my fiance's sister.

Thanks for all the info guys! But, should I be bothering to upgrade such an old computer, especiallly when I can let my fiance use my Dual Athlon 1.2GHz machine?

nice on ;)

I grabbed NetStat Live, and it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks guys!

looks like all the Celeron 700s and 800s are Sccket 370...are there any Slot 1s?

oh, re: a new HD on my fiance's computer: maybe a year ago she was running out of space (dang MP3s!), so I installed a IBM 75 GXP. I would assume there would be little benefit of putting in a newer HD. But what about one of the WD -JBs or even the newer IBM's with 8 MB cache? Worth the...

I find my Dell's 15" LCD at 1600x1200 to be MUCH easier on the eyes than my 19" CRT monitors. But it does take a lot of getting used to as the text etc on the screen is tiny. I've had the laptop for months now, and I still have problems now and then. I believe her P2-400 is running with the...

Does anybody know a relatively simple way for me to see how much bandwith I'm using on my little home LAN? How about for incoming and outgoing internet traffic? What about the traffic in/out for one computer? I realize WinXP comes with a "networking" tab in the Task Manager, but it seems...

hey all - as many of you know, I'm getting married in May. My fiance and I are both pretty addicted to our computers. I'm going to be starting an MD/PhD program soon, and we're eventually (hopefully by October) going to be moving into married student housing, and will have a small room we can...

last Christmas my parents gave my fiance and I a Kodak DX3500. So far I've been pretty happy with it, but my picutre taking needs are modest. My fiance has used a place called ofoto a few times to get 4x6 prints, and it's really hard to tell them from standard pictures unless you really get...

It's not a dress, it's a KILT ;)

above is me with the full bear, and here is me after letting my hair grow out a bit more ;)

Apparently it helps to get the URL right.

this is me and my fiance at one of her sorority's events: Hope that comes out right...first time posting a pic[/img]

I think we should pass a law requiring US drug costs to be within a percentage of international costs, say 200% to be conservative. I then think we should double the NIH budget.

No wonder my horse has been tasting like crap lately ;) As Dr. Dawg points out, the ability of a drug can be key to it's (side) effects. In the case of the nicotine vaccine, it is thought that the major way in which it works is to prevent nicotine from crossing the BBB.

Indeed. Again, if SR only disclosed their methodology, perhaps it wouldn't be as important.

Tea - regarding your suggestion: I will bring that up to our attending veterinarian. It costs us $0.94/day/rat, and I'm sure it would be about the same for a rodent such as the one you pictured. So I bet our UPS is a bit cheaper in the long run. But I have no doubt your method is actually...

Uh, no. I'm into nicotine now. Never been into diacylmorphine (heroine, I assume this is what you are referring to), though I've used some selective opiate agonists before (for research). Though some of my co-workers use cocaine as a positive control occasionally.

Yes, no more pot in the uterus. Though I do have* to do some interesting things these days. I'm working with the guy developing the nicotine vaccine, and I am looking to see if we can use it to prevent fetal nicotine exposure. So I've had* to do things like videotape rats having sex - using...

Here in the lab we need to run some small pumps 24/7 for months straight. They deliver drug to rats that, by the time we're all done, have easily cost us in excess of $5,000 a piece, and we typically have 4 rats attached to each pump with up to 4 pumps in our main animal room. For a pump to...

So that's where my goat went! I've spent hours looking for him here in the lab.

Tannin, you are one wild, Science-zealot. And I LOVE you for it. I entered an "honor-bound" situation when I began consulting with D&E with the DRS. And since then I've said next to nothing on the subject. But I decided that I've been silent long enough, emailed D&E, and told them that I...

I think I'm missing something here. Let me try to address a few things. I don't think the idea of a filter is inherently bad. In any large study you need to verify that the data is correct (I sometimes hear it called "trimming"). But unless you give the specifics of how this was done, the...

Somehow I missed this earlier. I blame it on the spotty internet connection here at work. I don't want to sound presumptuous (about myself) or condescending (towards Eugene), but I suspect Eugene may be referring to the relationship that I had with SR. At least that is the simplist...

I do believe that if the study is done well enough, you don't actually need a random sample to get meaninful results. But I think there are deeper flaws than that even. In the old reliability survey at least, methods were used to filter out results that were thought to be bogus. So if one...

I'm sure there's a way to get some good reliability data other than the manufacturer. Anybody here actually interested in doing a REAL reliability study?

I doubt that would get very far. But perhaps SF can issue a position statement saying that full disclosure is the heart of scientific communication, and that SR must disclose it's full methodology for the findings to be properly evaluated.

But how do they calculate that Drive X is more reliable than 48% of all drives surveyed? What are the other drives surveyed? How on earth do they factor time into the equation? How can you begin to compare a drive that's been out for one month against a drive that's been out for three years...

I just received an email from Davin tonight, freeing me of any previous obligation to silence. Some of you may know that I am doing an MPH in epidemiology, and when I started thinking of the SR Drive Reliability Survey (DRS) I realized that my coursework covered the basics of doing this...

I can see the conversation at Intel World Headquarters now. CEO: we need to really screw over the customer. How can we do that? Marketing guy: well, why don't we just cut the IPC in half, double the clock speed, and sell it as being four times as fast? CEO: been there, done that Engineer...