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    Gateway advice

    http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Linksys+WRT54G. More than one. I suspect there may be some QOS options for some of the other Linksys kit, although certainly not if it's not user upgradeable.
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    One PC stops entire network

    Claiming the primary server's IP address (so long as everyone saw access to that box as being 'the network'), or claiming its MAC address. I don't know why it would develop this spontaniously, however, <brainstorm>unless the primary server were manually addressed, and the DHCP server had that...
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    Figured out how to max out a dual Xeon 2.8 machine...

    I recall seeing an MS copyright tag in what I recall thinking was a kernel binary. I also recall the disassembled code having a similar feel to the C64 kernel. (Style, not what it did. What it did was vastly different, due to different hardware.) Admittedly, this was well over 10 years ago...
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    The Best Mice are back...

    Ok, thinking about the Amiga, and then seeing this post next... what kind of processing power would that monitor and mouse have? Would their command sets allow for some utilization of those resources? I would assume that the monitor would have a sufficiently large buffer to hold at least two...
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    Figured out how to max out a dual Xeon 2.8 machine...

    I have, in fact, seen the wonder that was the Amiga. I think the most amazing thing about it was the extent that the Microsoft coders went to serialize a box that was built from the ground up to be an asymetric multiprocessing machine. I have also seen an Amiga with some critical Microsoft...
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    WHY, WHY, WHY DID I JUST SPEND MOST OF THE DAY TRYING TO A..

    Re: WHY, WHY, WHY DID I JUST SPEND MOST OF THE DAY TRYING TO This has been bothering me for a bit. Do you have a post somewhere that explains why you continue to run MacOS 9? Note this question is coming from an old unix hand, that only took another look at Apple after MacOS X had been out...
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    How long does your bad sector HDD survive?

    IDE family (includes *ATAs) or SCSI family (includes FCAL)? IDE drives have a reserved set of blocks, which the drive will use to automatically remap bad blocks as they're identified by the drive; by the time your OS can see any bad blocks, the drive has been degrading for quite some time. As...
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    27 hours

    So, um, the earth's rotation is accelerating? Incidentally, I've seen several studies involving isolating people from night/day, and they all agree that we shift to a longer day, they all agree that we generally shift to the same cycle as the people around us, and they all disagree on what that...
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    The Best Mice are back...

    Well, sorry to say, but one of my coworkers explained it to me. "It's just to annoy *you*." I'm sorry I'm so much fun to annoy; believe me, it annoys me at *least* as much as it does you. Thank goodness I have unusual tastes, or more people would be put out by this. Currently, I'm using a...
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    SATA II

    Well, once you have two nearly compatible protocols, having the protocol that was accomodated move the target would be kind of churlish. At my workplace, there's a lot of this backwards accomodation going on - the corporate LDAP team is required to not roll out new software that break systems...
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    Bold New Plan For Social Security

    To address those issues, they'd need to admit that they were wrong. Social Security itself has been around long enough that it can be completely revamped without slighting anyone still in office (or, for that matter, alive). However, many people are still in Congress who've raided SS for their...
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Some people! A 14 watt CF bulb is more than sufficient for me. :cyclopsani: Given the comments I hear from my cowokers about this topic, I'll suggest that, at least for those I personally know, the issue is more that people aren't spending enough time either outside or in the presence of...
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    SCSI questions

    Disclaimer: I don't know exactly how ATA works, so without further enlightenment, I'll have to assume it's the same as IDE. Multiple SCSI drives can be active at the same time. All SCSI harddrives I've seen support having multiple outstanding commands as well (basically, the idea is, the drive...
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    21 160GB drives tested

    But Cheetahs still cannot change them.
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Keeping sun-facing rooms cool Disclaimer: The below assumes that either your average summer day is cooler than 82F, or you have active cooling of some sort. Let me recommend you do something about that sun. The sun beating on the windows is almost certainly going to be your biggest heat...
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