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Yes, it's happened. Yet another "Wannabe Storage Freak" has joined the likes of CougTek and Handruin. Huzzah for Pradeep.

Oddly enough, the Giver is not the first person to tell me I'm good at being mean. 41. Aunt Jemima 42. Professional Fencepost 43. Forensic Dermatologist 44. Small Ungluate Taxidermist 45. Traffic Cone 46. Burn Victim 47. Sumo Accountant 48. Bikini-wax stylist to portly celebrities 49. Patient 0...

I met Hugh Hefner and his then-wife on a high school field trip. Some of my classmates showed up in the movie he was filming. When I was in college I met and spoke to Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan (the 1st and last men on the moon, respectively. Both attended Purdue.) I once got a hug from...

24. White House Phonics Tutor 25. Personal Assistant to Rev. Louis Farrakhan 26. Exhibit B in "The Trial of the Century" 27. Page 3 girl for "The Wall Street Journal" 28. Diversity Coordinator for the Ku Klux Klan 29. Jet or Shark 30. 2nd Bill in a Tijuana Donkey Show 31. Starring role in a...

In the US, knives aren't usually given out at school, even for meals that would normally require them. At this point, in the US, students are lucky that they can still use scissors and staplers.

4. Sanitation Engineer? 5. Colo-Rectal surgeon? 6. Ordinance Disposal? 7. Towel-boy at a San Francisco bathhouse? 8. Staff Writer for Ms. magazine? 9. Battery taste tester? 10. America Online Level 1 Technical Support? 11. Chicken Sexer (yes, this is a real job)? 12. Spice Girl 13. Iraqi...

You were at ORD and you didn't let us know? Can't believe I'm saying this, but that might've actually been worth a trip to O'Hare.

That really is a great deal. Sadly, my 3.5" drive bays are reserved for things that're at least 100GB bigger than that. Why are you selling it, if I might ask?

Well, that's 'cause there's only (very quiet) one computer in there... My whole apartment is fairly quiet, except for the AC units. I insulated the closet where I keep the obnoxiously loud stuff with carpet scraps. Works pretty well. :) Someone needs to make air conditioners that don't make...

Is this really a thread we need to continue at this point? About ninth. I'm actually fairly confident that SCO will implode nicely all by itself. The current situation really hasn't impacted my view of SCO. They were stupid and evil before they were bought by Caldera, and they're stupid and...

If we're talking liqour and people's rears, there's an even better answer: Alcohol affects the body no matter how it gets in there. Ingestion? Passe. Two gallons of single-malt, offered as an enema, would undoubtedly introduce alcohol poisoning AND lead to a certain feeling for discomfort for...

Um, Hitachi has 1-year-warranties, too. In any case, this story has hit zdnet and slashdot, which means basically the whole spectrum of techies has heard about it. The damage has been done.

And midgets.

That's weird. My best stuff is in my bedroom where it's quiet and the "little" stuff is out in the rest of my apartment.

Of course, if I could adulterate my filth, I'd be able to post it. Consider that an offer for UNadulterated filth, instead. While we're at it, AOL paid $4 billion for Netscape in 1998. At the time, Netscape's core assets were its browser, its various server products and the X million hits per...

I'm afraid, as a moderator, that my response to this news item cannot be reproduced in this or any other forum frequented by our membership. Anyone who wants 10 paragraphs of adulterated filth, feel free to PM me.

I don't play online games, but I can EASILY imagine how utterly annoying this stuff must be to "normal" players. Found this link on /. There's some naughty words. It's too funny to not pass on to the Clockers and Groltzs and Handruins, though. Link

Listened to a pair of these, along with a few other pairs in the ~ $200 range at a shop in Hinsdale, IL (Audio Consultants?) a couple years ago. They reduce noise somewhat at low frequencies. Traffic noise, for instance. A little bit better than plain ol' closed headphones. They had VERY LITTLE...

I was referring to professional network hardware. When the time comes, someone will no-doubt make a $100 box to replace the IPv4 one that consumers have now.

It was supposed to happen in 1980. Obviously, it didn't, and most Americans can't tell you whether a centimeter is bigger than a kilometer and whether either is bigger than a hogshead. Metric measures are fine, except temperature. Oh, yes, and just to amplify what Mark said: pretty much...

SF was down from ~10AM CST to 6:35. What happened to it? Was it just me?

PeeWee, if you'd bother to look, you'd find that independent objective measurements of Bose equipment - any Bose equipment - shows hardware that is highly lacking in fundamental qualities of speakers, like the ability to reproduce a full range of sound. Consumer Report magazine, here in the...

The cheap version requires a per-use serial number, won't save to network shares or to CD. The full consumer version supports saving to network shares, CDs, and USB/firewire drives. The EE offers mulitcasting, which is a killer thing, since it makes building many identical machines a VERY...

Try talking to GE Capital. I bought Ghost EE for $12 a seat in 50 seat quantities. I only needed 28 copies for the job I was doing, and I apportioned the rest to my various builds for awhile.

There are several different versions, just like there are different versions for Symantec AV software. The annoying bit to that is, Ghost has WIDELY different abilities depending on whether you have the EE or the consumer version, and how the consumer version was packaged.

I cropped off the part that said "AP photo credit", but yes. I can't help it that you're wrong so often, PW. If you'd care to dig back in the forum archive, you can find anti-bose statements from adriel, stereodude, timwhit, Gary, mubs AND myself.

Unpleasant. At least, that's what böse translates to. Or Buy Other Stereo Equipment.

honold: Sit in a $200k Bentley. Then sit in a $125k Rolls. Or a even a tricked out Mercedes. Either of the others costs less and - with the singular exception of the fact that the Bentley has finer wood fixtures - you'll find the others are also offer more comfortable rides, more legroom, better...

Expensive things are not always good things. Why does this not make sense to you? Ever been in a Bentley? For a luxury car, they're crap. They're purchased based on name alone. Your argument, so far: "Bose speakers cost a lot of money, and are found in other things that also cost a lot of...

PeeWee, I fully invite you to step onto a plane, fly to Chicago. I'll pick you up at the airport. After I get done administering the full-height-micropolis-SCSI-drives in a canvas bag beating, I will take you to my parents' home. My parents have one of those dreadful $2000 Lifestyle-series borg...

Did you maybe check out those link I posted? Someone who buys an Audi or a BMW with a Bose soundsystem isn't buying it for the radio. They maybe recognize the name "Bose", and they know from commercials or print ads that it's supposed to be "high-end". In actuality, Bose makes products that...

Chalk it up to their Quantum heritage.

Anyone willing to host the files?

Actually, I use multilink PPP with a pair of USR Courier modems, connected through a Digiboard 8-port high-speed serial router (each RS232 port capable of 1Mbit-ish speeds), to custom cat5e or cat6 (don't remember which I used) and fixtures all the way to my apartment's switchbox. I connect at...

Funny. I thought everyone knew Bose is crap. Ahem. http://liquidtheater.com/editorials/56 http://www.greengart.com/Columns/column005.htm http://www.reviewcentre.com/review10960.html and most comprehensive: http://www.intellexual.net/b.htm PeeWee, you're arguing about something you probably...

Mark, I question the reliability of drives held in rails rather than bolted directly to a case. I've never found truly snug-fitting rails (antec is a terrible offender here), and it seems that drives vibrate more in a rail-type chassis. Some rail arrangements also seem to be a bit louder than...

Bose noise-cancelling headphones are bletcherous. Awful. They were developed with the US Air Force, but flight crews wouldn't wear them. Sennheiser seems to be the name in headphones.

Of course, you forgot the "Mercutio" option (although I might not be the only one in sub-28.8-land). I've spent a substantial portion of my weekend dealing with a wireless ISP that's come into my area. Their techs and installers are morons, but $100/month for 1Mb/s seems pretty reasonable to me.

I don't care for them. Drive rails suck (part of the reason I'm not big on Antec also), their PSUs are loud and I always seem to be able to find the bits inside their cases that aren't finished. Better than Premier, not as nice as Aopen, Antec or Compucase.

Not that this in any way makes up for the fact that I have yet to see either of Carrie-Anne Moss's nipples in a Matrix movie, but somone with WAY more time on his hands has some interesting analysis of the story thusfar.

OK, so a few weeks ago, I recommened a series of books by John Ringo. His lastest book came out in hardcover, uh, yesterday. I didn't get home from working last night until about 1:00AM. I still managed to finish the book by 6:00 this morning. The cover blurbs specifically make comparisons to...

Radeon 9000s can be passively cooled. Probably the whole 9100 and 9200s as well. They aren't super high end cards, but they're more than good enough for someone who doesn't have designs on playing Doom3. You might have to check the various ATI OEMs to find what you're looking for. Tyan...

We're starting to see a move to "budget" and "performance" 7200rpm lineups. 5400rpm is dust in mainstream hardware. On the budget end, we have, er, Seagate and Samsung's offerings, the WD BB and the DM8. On the high end, DM9, *JB, and 180GXP. Fushigi or iGary linked to a Gartner whitepaper some...

I think they're middle-of-the-pack from a noise standpoint. I have some 80GB DM9s and a couple of 200s. No 160s. Louder than my Samsung drives, not quite as loud as some of the WD "BB" drives I have. They do have a distinctive whine though. Unlike current drives from Seagate and Samsung, they...

The shoelace? Yup. The Microflows have those, as I reported about 30 posts ago. They're a nice touch and certainly a cosmetic improvement. No complaints.

I can't see the pictures Blake. I do have a Microflow II. I don't understand how the author of that article can show such a big difference between Falconrock and Microflow.

If an internal drive is actually "internal", and the case isn't open, I'd say swapping a drive would in fact be something of a miracle. Of course, if I could do that I'd be walked out of Best Buy with a bunch of 200GB DM9s that I "hot swapped" out of their retail packaging.

Particularly given that the FalconRock is rated for at least an XP2800.

My experience from having both a Microflow and a FalconRock II has been basically a 2 degree temperature differents and a way, way louder drone from the fan. I'll take my FalconRock.

Just now, on accident, I installed a Via USB2 PCI card into a Gateway E-4200 (P3-450) running Windows XP. While it was on, and at an XP desktop. This is of course something that makes even experienced techs cringe. I didn't know it was on (these things are REALLY quiet and the power LED must...