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Well I laughed. Thanks for posting that Clocker, I haven't laughed out loud in a while now that I think about it. Hope that event was for charity or something ... would have added a nice touch. Still funny as heck though. :)

Did I miss news of this somewhere? If this review is for real, it looks like Dell is introducing a follow-up to the 3007WFP, the 3007WFP-HC. From the article:

Thanks Merc!

Blast from the past: Does anyone know if you can stick a 100MHz FSB Slot 1 Pentium II into a motherboard that's expecting a 66MHz FSB Slot 1 Pentium II and come out with some kind of normal functionality (albeit in an ancient sort of way)?

. What, no cat pictures?! I'm seeing 75-80 KB/s, which is the best my connection will do. Glad you got them to look into it and resolve the problem. :)

Second non-vote for a Macintosh here.

I don't know enough about Outlook and Exchange (I'm just an end-user of that garbage), but I do know it's possible to create a distribution list with Exchange. One address could therefore reach multiple recipients. Would that solve your problem?

True, with the exception of the most indestructible material known to mankind. I am, of course, thinking of the chicken at the average fast food restaurant.

Would you believe ... the original Get Smart is back? It actually happened. They released the full Get Smart series on DVD! Apparently the release date was last month (November 15th, 2006 to be exact). And for whatever reason, Time-Life is the company that is offering it. The set includes...

Centrix is selling off a nice, older-model Logitech optical mouse, specifically the Logitech M-SBF69, for $5.99 (and they're new, at that) with volume discounts available. A possible drawback is that they're PS/2 only. Also, if you tolerate 3Com products, in another deal they're selling off...

I guess I'm more suspicious than most. I always assume that the store managers intentionally tweak the settings to bring out the best-looking images on the televisions that they make the biggest profit on. To hell with any other consideration. (At least that's what I'd do.)

What did you end up getting?

Woohoo ... I posted too soon! I found the discussion! Note that it's a side conversation in a discussion titled, "Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver". (Yikes. Have I mentioned that, regardless of manufacturer, I prefer the open-source video drivers? :) ) The open-source...

Note: I didn't start looking into Linux graphics capabilities in any sort of detailed way until this summer. Prior to that I was usually happy with one monitor working at a standard resolution, using any bland 8-year-old analog video card with a DB15 RGB connector. As a result, any useful...

(Thanks Sol, Mercutio.)

Currently I'm in ye olde "metro DC" region. But I've started looking further afield. At least for now just within the USA though.

Oh, and if anyone's looking to hire a somewhat-rusty-but-determined-as-hell-to-ditch-his-current-job-and-get-back-in-the-saddle IT support & applications analyst, please let me know. :frusty:

Can anyone suggest a good book or site that provides an in-depth technical background to VoIP, preferably Cisco's implementation(s)?

They aren't. I wasn't comparing identical capacities. I shouldn't be shopping this late. :)

I was considering the SP2504C when I came across that patch. Now I'm not so sure I wouldn't be better off with a cheaper Hitachi.

Has anyone mentioned this patch from Samsung before? I did a search here but didn't find any mention of it. This surprised me: A similar patch is available for their 2.5 inch models manufactured during the same time frame.

Actually P5-133XL, I bought my first optical mouse in 1990. It was made by Mouse Systems, in Fremont, CA. The thing about optical mice back then though was that they required special reflective mouse pads. Do you remember them? They were mirrored surfaces, covered with light blue and light...

It's a great price, but the main reason I'm posting here is because I'm almost certain someone (Mercutio?) liked the original MS Intellimouse. It's available via a clearance special right now at Mwave.

Thanks time!

The weather's cooling down a little, and as I haven't contributed a work unit since January 30th of this year, I guess it's about time I started the heating system back up. As my F@H client is running on a 1.6 GHz Duron, I doubt it'll make much difference, but I have a question anyway. The...

Geez, Tannin. I never take trips even half that interesting...

Anyone have any good get-rich-quick schemes? Tea?

Yes, I'm managing to hang on. I've come to the conclusion that I don't really earn enough to be living here though. That's kinda sad because Arlington, VA really is a nice place to live. Furthermore, while renting is a financial strain, buying is out of the question because home prices are...

This is random ... sort of: Thanks everbody. Somehow this summer I managed to reassemble a life. It's still pretty basic, but it's stable. And for the first time in years I actually have some optimism about how things will progress. I don't know how exactly, but for years the opportunity to...

She would, except she's financing a trip to Australia in October. The Macbook is going to have to wait until afterwards.

I was at a friend's house this weekend when she happened to mention that her computer's sound was no longer working. I offered to take a look. When I powered the system up, the process paused for a hardware monitor warning. She immediately said something to the effect of, "Oh yeah, it started...

Again.

Sorry about that ... I guess it's "super video", not SVHS. I'm still stuck in the 90s. And I missed your post about widescreen, so nevermind.

Well heck, it kinda sounds like you just described the Dell 2001FP. 20.1 inch diagonal, comes with 1 x DVI, 1 x VGA, 1 x RCA, and 1 x SVHS selectable inputs. No speakers. On sale right now for $431.20, with a 3 year warranty. Maybe?

Beware the eyeball fungus. More here or here.

Yah, no kidding. Losty ... why the down-sounding post?

Congratulations Coug! :)

I picked up four 9250 AGP cards -- they've been working very well. I've got 2 more systems that need the same options (passive cooling, boring and stable, just 2D graphics, 1 x VGA and 1 x DVI simultaneously), only in PCI Express form. I've been looking at a Radeon X550 128MB. Anyone have any...

Nice! I've never been lucky enough to have more than 1 monitor around to try a dual setup, so this is all new to me. Thanks!

Buck, do you know if that card can drive both outputs simultaneously? More specifically, I need an inexpensive, 2D-capable card (just desktop app usage), that can support both a CRT and an LCD simultaneously. I know someone who uses Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., and he'd like to be able to...

I was suprised Tannin didn't attempt to give his airplane discussion even more old-world charm by writing it as, "Æroplanes or for the linguistically challenged, airplanes." But then I looked up the character in an online encyclopædia, and that lead to this interesting article. Apparently the...

Thanks Handy!

Those are the sort of friendly, constructive thoughts that I've come to expect from you, sechs. I want to thank you so much for sharing them. Handy: what would you like? I had cared enough to post my original request, but everyone had good thoughts against creating a separate forum. I liked...

I just bought three SATA adapters. One of these has to work: First, the questionable parentage VIA Vectro VT6421 / SYBA SY-VIA-150R card, for $12.85 Has scary RAID drivers, if you're into that sort of thing. Supports two SATA devices (and two irrelevant PATA devices). It uses a VIA VT6421L...

Priceless. :) But you still have my sympathy. :-?

Oooh ... awesome! Thanks!

That's some high praise coming from you Merc. :) Have you ever had the chance to try it with Linux of some type? Anyway, thanks to both you and Will for the Syba recommendations. I haven't had any experience with Syba before. Adding the question of Linux into the situation makes things a...

If the placement of this thread confuses you that much, sechs, you go right ahead and move it.

Wow, thanks mubs! I will definitely look at #2, and #3. As for #1, I'm not sure I'd ever trust the adapter to really be working with the drives in a standard fashion. One of the reasons many people suggest software RAID over hardware RAID, at least for small-scale implementations, is that you...

It looks like I'm going to be out of luck on this one. I believe both of these motherboards have 33MHz, 32 bit PCI buses. All the PCI SATA cards I'm finding out there appear to be 66MHz, 32 bit. I doubt that there is any option for some backwards compatibility there. I also found some...