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Shamelessly lifted from Slashdot. Maybe higher and higher wattage chips are still possible after all.

DM8s are low-profile drives. That's certainly not a DM8. Maxtor has a history of OEMing drives to companies that rebadge them. I have a couple of Staples-brand DM9+ drives at home, too.

blake, I'd beat myself to death with a soup spoon if I didn't know to change change channels on an AP that's exhibiting interference problems. These are mixed clients as it is - Centrino-base notebooks (or that one iBook) with 802.11B integrated. The APs have had to be set in autospeed mode. I...

Mostly PCMCIA or integrated. One of the sites has a machine with a PCI NIC. Client PCs are all running 2000... except one machine that's using OS X (e.g. it ain't a software problem). I did site surveys as I did my installation - these are offices that are well-covered and have good signal...

I know a couple folks here have them (Linksys' G AP, WRT54G) Has anyone run across "frequent disconnect" issues with this device? I have a couple of clients with APs that I've had to replace because their NICs "lose" their AP periodically. One of them is complaining about this now on his...

She's not even very good with VB. It's kind of scary. Fortunately, it's not a complicated program, either.

The developer I'm working with isn't smart enough to use mysql. In fact, she doesn't know SQL at all.

I don't think the problems we have are that severe. Certainly not as bad as those on our first provider. I've actually been the "on site guy" for companies with colo'd equipment. Granted, it was a very different experience (36 servers, 168 disk drives, SAN hardware, etc) based on scale, but...

I really don't think Dell is bulletproof on the low end. Dell machines have IMO been going steadily downhill in terms of quality for the last couple of years at least, and their support at the moment is at an all-time low. It's bad. Really bad. Like "We only hire the Indians that have cleft...

SR? Did you maybe mean SF? I think I'd rather have dedicated than colocated. Unless one of us lived very near the host, anyway.

Doesn't appear to help. For a business, I'd probably just buy an extra AP or something, but I'm thinking I'll save money if I buy a USB adaptor instead. I pretty much only deal with Linksys at this point. All antennas are removable.

A lot of Onkyo's high-end consumer HT receivers can do that, too.

2 and 3, somewhere. I'll have to find the disc.

See, that's what I'm trying to avoid. :)

Pradeep is sub-28.8, jtr. Whatever you have, I assure you that you're doing better than he is. I'm presently on a mission to redline this service for as long as humanly possible. Handruin: Games-wise, I got ahold of some newer stuff not too long ago. UT2003 is the only thing that looks like a...

I've noticed that USB 802.11 adaptors work A LOT better for desktop PCs. I have two desktop machines I had planned to connect via 802.11A to my wired network, but I can't get decent signal strength (that's "2 bars" and frequent drops for both) for BOTH of them in anyplace I can put my AP...

Uninstalling NAV can screw up all sorts of stuff. Never HEARD of it screwing up an internet connection but I think the standard things to try are in order: Run a repair on the network connection. Delete the connection Delete the hardware in device manager Use netsh to reset TCP/IP on XP.

My ISP only has one service plan, EdwardK, "Up to 1.5MBit up/128kbit down". They more-or-less rely on the distance factor to sort out bandwidth. I don't have any cap for up or download. Yet. And Verizon is one of the ISPs fighting RIAA to keep customer info private. re: Games, I don't have...

Subject says it all. If anyone sees one, can y'all drop me a line?

At a certain point, I no longer care. Now that I'm used to copying DVDs instead of dealing with encoding, I WANT TO COPY DVDS. This is worth a great deal of money to me.

w00t!

I'd like it known that I came here before I went out in search of the 10 years worth of porno that I've been waiting until I got broadband service to download.

Does anyone actively recycle computer parts? The kind of recycling that's done for end-of-life parts, not "I swapped my old video card into one of my older computers." Dell and HP both have recycling services. Of course, if you visit their sites, you REALLY have to poke around to find anything...

Anyone else get a real sinking feeling as they read that? Damned shame.

I just outfitted a classroom with Sony dual format drives. <sob> Oh well. Any word on availability of the *GOOD* drives?

There's always Linux, Jan.

A score of 7 EQ really makes it seem like there's something wrong there, doesn't it? It's not like I'm an unfeeling sociopath or anything... There's just a very large gap between "the people I care about" and "all the filler people." Amy always said I was extremely sensitive toward her. I...

I don't know the answer to that question, jtr.

Fushigi, I think Comcast has largely moved or is moving to a 3Mbps downstream service.

It's just that they'd never seen a pair of boobs that big before, Howell. You really ought to stap those things down or something. :D

My scores were 7 for EQ and 62 for SQ. I did it by hand.

386 CPUs ran 16-bit Windows 3.1 pretty well, despite being 32-bit processors. I'll bet Athlon 64's do OK with XP, too. Running 32-bit code on a 64-bit chip is inefficient, sure, but if you remember back that far, it wasn't like you gained speed going from Windows 3.1 to OS/2, Linux or Windows 95.

At least they're responsive. Just about the perfect online vendor IMO.

I'm interested in that chart. Most non-retail drives still end up in the hands of ignorant non-computer people. Maybe the initial buyer "knows what he's doing", but I can assure you that 99% of the drives are going to end up in the hands of people who don't.

This is a social environment, but it is distinctly not face to face. I can take the time to be articulate in my comments here without having to deal with the stress of nonverbal communication. Body language and facial expression are things that I don't seem to process very well. Very possibly a...

Doug, what you really want to do is get a copy of the IE Administrator's kit to grab the whole install of IE6 SP 1. You can use that to grab the relevant install files to COMPLETELY reinstall IE. With that in hand, CraigLC can completely uninstall IE (as completely as Windows will let him...

Sun has $6 billion in the bank. There will be a long downward spiral unless the whole world suddenly discovers another need for expensive non-commodity, high-I/O minicomputers. It also has no sustainable markets anywhere but the high end, as far as I can see. Sun is really the last of the...

Which version of Windows is this? You can try running sfc.exe. Under 2000 or XP that should be "sfc /scannow". You might also try running IE's repair process, which is usually found in Add/Remove Programs, or in Win98's System Information applet under "Tools". Sometimes removing the existing...

That is my understanding based on conversations with telco guys in my area. I also know that GTE's first DSL rollout in Indiana had some customers reporting 5Mbit connections.

Your provider is artificially limiting your bandwidth, Howell. Every once in awhile you'll hear from someone close to a CO whose DSL ISP doesn't do that. Example from the "How Fast is Your Connection" thread from some time ago:

I think the issue in question is that button-down shirts (that's what I always call them, anyway), ensure a certain minimal standard of presentability for everyone. I wouldn't care if the 6' blonde in my office wore a skintight miniskirt but because I'm absolutely certain I don't want to see...

No deity of choice here, e_dawg. And flagreen, DSL service levels are in large part a function of distance from a CO. Which is why the lucky guy across the street from the Central Office can get 7Mbps service while the guy a half-mile away only gets 384kbps, for the same money. As it happens...

By shirt you mean something that has buttons down the front and perhaps on the sleeves, correct. Not "shirt" as in "covering for the torso"? I wear polo-style shirts or long-sleeve T-shirts when I'm working. I wouldn't accept anything else. Anything I have to iron or launder in a special way...

(Insert obligatory anti-WD comment ________here______________) Just to recap: WD: ass-all except for Raptor Hitachi: 3 years on 8MB cache drives Seagate: ass-all except OEM 8MB cache drives Maxtor: ass-all, except sometimes when you find a retail box that says 3 year warranty, or if you buy...

Perhaps there's a legal requirement that law firms keep email data?

Case law in the US is such that if any effort is made to retain e-mail for any length of time, it can be subpena'd for retrieval, regardless of the costs involved in processing or retrieving that material, even when that cost exceeds the penalties that might be invoked by the court proceedings...

I ordered DSL service today from Verizon. Supposedly I'll have it by the 8th of the month. Hopefully I'll have my own wiring done by then. I'm pretty sure the service I'll get will be crappy and pathetic, but it'll be faster than a modem and always on, which in my opinion is a good start.

You haven't seen enough bad motherboards.

Maybe someday. Tannin probably just put up a sign that said "Out to Lunch. Back in November."

Several mini-rants to follow. Maybe because of the externality of the renderer with respect to non-Email traffic? embedded 1-pixel transparent .GIFs as the perfect example of that. HTML does not need to exist in the domain of email. If you're spending as long formatting fucking text as you are...