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And the 2405W is on sale for $960.

I prefer Coug's version: A good computer technician should be able to smash non-cooperative hardware into consecutively smaller pieces for at least two minutes. :)

I think that is an excellent idea. A factory pre-installed I/O shield, spot-welded to the connectors or riveted to the motherboard would solve the problem completely. At least the size of the opening for the I/O shield is standard, right?

You boil the water. And yes, if the kettle switches off before you're ready to deal with it, you turn it back on so that you are guaranteed to be working with boiling water. But then you pour the boiling water into what's known as a teapot, which is where the teabag(s) is (are). At that point...

It took me ages to find an "Aurora" type I/O shield. I hate the inconsistency too.

I have to say I've never come across a drink hotter than McDonald's coffee. And in general, only rarely do I come across food that makes people more irritable than the majority of stuff you find at Rotten Ronald's. Any worse than that and we're bordering on illness. A side note to myself: If...

It's one I picked up as surplus years ago. I don't know if it's a retail CPU or not, but the fan was so cheap (with no RPM sensor ... the lead from the motherboard connector had been chopped off) I can't think it would have been part of a retail package. I can't figure this thing out. It's...

Hmm, yes I have a few of those types also. This one is different.

Yes, a real Slot 1 Pentium II. The currently installed CPU cooler has a dead fan, and I can't figure out how to get the heat sink off. It seems to be connected somehow via steel posts that are completely flush with the main slab of the heat sink. Any clues?

Who is it here who refers to them as Hibachi drives? I can't remember now. I really laughed at that one.

Definitely NOT from Hypermicro. I have no energy to describe my last experience with them (~2 years ago now I guess), but it was lousy. Lunar, you suggested ZipZoomFly back in January for hard disks. Seeing as how I never go for cutting edge stuff, I don't what their selection is like, but I...

Based on one experience last year I will never buy hard disks from Newegg again. Not ever. And given one other order-foul up, and their occasionally absurb shipping prices, I avoid them as much as I can for everything else, too.

Yah, for sure. I feel like I need to go and find some puppies to play with outside in the sunshine or something.

I'd apologize for being off-topic, but given the title of this discussion I won't this time. I watched some TV last night. Anyone else see ABC's "Nightline" with ye olde Ted Koppel? I'm still a bit shaken. It's not often that, with absolutely no warning on the part of the show or the network...

So they paid people off, and then they fixed the design flaw? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to go straight to the fix?

Yes. Just like Plextor.

Howell, that is the funniest story I've read this month. I mean it's great, but funny. :)

Oh, and for those of you in the United States, "Can we tape?" by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press should be informative. I suggest looking at the section titled, "tape-recording laws at a glance," first. And then be sure to read the section, "interstate phone calls". It...

I've been tempted to ask the caller to hold for a moment, put the receiver down somewhere within range of my speakers, play the infamous "sally.wav" file, then mumble something into the phone about being busy, and then deliberately fumble while hanging up the handset.

Ok, let me ask more directly: is your modem a so-called "voice modem" or a modem with "voice" capability? I can plug a 1200 baud, 8-bit ISA modem into my PC, install some badly designed audio software, and then see "modem wave driver" as an option for the record source. So I'll say it again...

Do you not hate it when people ask negative questions?

Yes. If it's a "voice" modem. And if you have an audio cable running from the modem's internal audio-out pins to dedicated "Modem" input pins on your sound card. Otherwise, you'd run a standard miniplug connector cable from the external line-out or speaker jack of your voice modem over to...

Scepter or sceptre?

Aren't they always though? Sure, some are less positive than others sometimes, but you'll never read "fightin' mad" reviews on newegg. Then again, if there were a lot of people unhappy with this product, there would be at least a few negative write-ups at other sites, right? I can't find...

You mourn your failures more than you celebrate your successes? Wow, that's a little ... depressing, isn't it? Maybe I should move to Australia...

Please forgive my ignorance but is there any similar nation-amalgamating or independence-oriented celebration in Australia?

It's just analog VGA (or whatever) with a different cable and connector system, isn't it? It's basically just "broken out" across 5 - or if employing "sync on green" - 4 BNC connectors. Or do I have that totally wrong?

Thanks Pradeep. I take it that's an external (?) adapter cable, going from an original SATA connector at the bottom, over to an SATA-2 connector at the right?

Does anyone have a link to a picture showing the difference?

The search based on author used to work here. Even for "i". If there's no fix, so be it. I at least wanted to mention it as there is more than one person here with a 2 character name...

e_dawg, you must be a programmer. :wink:

Drakantus, you have asked at the right place. I live in Arlington, VA, and I don't own a car. And I wouldn't have it any other way. You lose one type of freedom by giving up a car, but what so many fail to realize is that you get a different type of freedom back in return. Some people find...

Click on "View user's profile" below. Then click on "Find all posts by i" on the subsequent page. Does it work for anyone here? It used to work, and now it doesn't. I'm wondering if it's because one of the upgrades has affected the ability to search for posts from users with names that...

Do you mean calculus? Or calculus?

Linky linky.

Or four different profiles under one Firefox installation. Start Firefox with the "-profilemanager" switch and I'm sure you'll be able to figure things out from there.

Thanks, that's good to know. No one has ever mentioned them here before that I know of.

Personally, those are the most suicidal moments I experience.

Nice price, but I'm not sure I'd really consider contacting a company called "Go Go City" for a critical computer component.

Stupid submit button. Scratch the last Kenmore entry. It won't fit your window.

Alright, here are the applicable recommendations from CR given an 8000 to 12000 BTU requirement: "Efficient, quiet, and CR Best Buys" Frigidaire FAA087P7 (7000 - 8200 BTU/hr, $160, window width 23-36 inches, 53 lbs.) Frigidaire FAC107P1A (9800 to 12500 BTU/hr, $195, window width 23-36...

...and they don't have that Frigidaire FAC127P1A model listed. But then, neither does the Frigidaire website. And Lowes' website is even more lame than Consumer Reports' site. You're not guaranteed to be shown a given product depending on what zipcode you've entered as being your shopping...

That said, I'm checking Consumer Reports website right now...

(Funny, I read this discussion as "Windows-based air conditioners". I thought to myself, "Wow, there are air conditioner units running with embedded operating systems now?") I needed an air conditioner a few years ago. I searched around for the cheapest unit that would fit my (small) window...

It turned out that Verizon's Fios service is not offered in my area of Arlington. I went with Speakeasy. The first thing I learned is that, at least around here, Speakeasy is actually just a reseller of Covad's services. Had I known that earlier, I might have just gone straight to them as...

LOST, you don't enjoy travelling much I take it? Although I have to say, 3 continents in 2 days sounds a little grueling.

Nice! I'm clueless ... how far a trip are we talking about for a Boeing 757 (i.e. where did you go?). I've never heard of Song either. Yet another thing I'm apparently behind the times on ... airline companies.

I think 5 years is the longest I've gone without flying. I visited Atlanta for the first time in my life last month, and flew via Independence Air. I'd never heard of them before, but I don't have any real complaints. (Except possibly their, "we're going to try and make this amusing,"...

I think many of us here are decaying shells. Except ddrueding. That party animal. And well, Tannin of course. I think he's working on an Australian wildlife documentary or something these days. And I guess I haven't given up fighting yet. But you, LOST, wherefore art thou a decaying shell?

Oh hey, I completely missed this quote: