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I'm starting to feel that way about Jump Domain. I'm just hoping they're slow. (Weren't slow about charging my credit card though.) If only Dotster hadn't been behaving strangely this morning.

...unless you have wood-framed windows and decide not to replace them with vinyl. If you run a humidifier during the winter, you'll risk condensation on the cold glass, which subsequently rolls down onto the wood frame, starting a nice fresh crop of mold and mildew.

Missed it by that much!

Are you running Windows 98? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there some kind of registry tweak required in order for Windows 98 to handle >512MB of RAM without performing like molasses?

... Thanks for pointing that one out, M & CT. I've taken a look at the 7VAX-A. The only extra thing the 7VAX-P provides that my father would potentially use would be the firewire ports. However, most of the add-on firewire cards seem to be in the $50 to $70 range (at least for those cards...

Ok, based on the responses (thanks all!) I think I have a list of stuff I'm going to go with: GIGABYTE GA-7VAXP ................ $100.11 AMD ATHLON XP 2000+ .............. $ 69.30 CRUCIAL 512MB PC2700 ............. $ 62.06 INTEL PRO/100+ ................... $ 29.50 ATI A.I.W. RADEON 7500 64MB...

Funny you should mention mini-ITX. I'd just started looking again this past week at tiny PCs as an option for a firewall. Several months ago I came across this one: http://www.annso.com.tw/annsowebsite/Product/CPU&SYSTEM/FireWall/FGM-563.htm I'm still in awe. :) Have you seen one of these...

Thanks Buck. Nice to be here again. :) Yup, I could still use a job (current one pays just enough to live on and will end in September). As for travelling, maybe not. I'm in the Washington DC area now and I have to say I'm really liking it here. That said, I can't think of anything else to...

Hiya everybody. :) Nice to be back here. I hope everyone is doing well. I have a question, and as I've been effectively absent from most aspects of system-building for more than a year (!), this seemed the obvious place to come looking for help. I need to build a computer for my father...

8) I'm back! I actually have money for food now! And an Internet connection too! At least until the end of September. :-?

Thanks Coug. Truthfully I'm just passing through and paused to add some spam of my own. :wink: I miss hanging out at this site. I'm sure a lot has happened in the high-tech industry over the past 6 months and I can tell you that I haven't heard about any of it. For the past several months...

Turnips!

By letting you pick one. :)

You're right. Plus I just remembered that Xmas is around the corner (huh, where I am? what year is it?) ... I imagine this will be on a few well-to-do Xmas lists. I'm sure Maxtor doesn't think SATA controllers are commonplace enough yet to risk minimizing that opportunity. Then again, if you...

Do you mean light blue text on a whitishgreyishsomething background? Or the text background areas?

Wow. It's Serial ATA, right? No way I'd buy a drive like that with an interface that's already obsolete.

Here's another vote for the old theme. I don't like the new one much (the header is very nice though) ... but what I think is irrelevant ... this is someone else's sandbox. :)

Best: Play Nice contrast while still being easy on the eyes. Appalacia Clean look, and very easy to read - a definite winner. Icicle Not my favorite, but still a good design and easy to read. The XiT Easy on the eyes. Another excellent choice ... if the red text were a different color...

Ok. :) I really was just asking ... my connection is so good that I can't tell if any change would be slow or not. I eagerly await the day that there are a few hundred real (as in not related to multiple personality disorders) members here. :wink:

Hmm ... yes, sorry about that: I should have been more clear. It's not the physical dimensions I was asking about (80 x 80 seems perfect to me), it was the size of the resulting file I was wondering about. The current limit is 6k ... would 60k be too much? That would allow for some more...

Any chance this could be changed?

Bah ... I meant to click "never have need for this much storage," not ">50 years". Some other form of storage technology will come along that will make the limit irrelevant.

New? I've been working on that damn work unit for weeks. Here's my post in this very discussion from October 8th ... when I started on the project: It took more than a month (granted somewhat intermittent) to finish one measly work unit. Do they think everyone has a 3 GHz PC nowadays? So...

WOW! I just completed a work unit!

Note to self: Homemade bullet-proof vest fashioned out of half-height hard disks may not be sufficient after all! Must try to switch to full-height drives instead.

Actually I like "charity organism" better than "charity organization". Sounds cooler. :) Except the first time I read it, part of my brain immediately re-read the word to make sure I hadn't in fact just read the phrase, "charity orgasm."

(And yes, I am humming "Old MacDonald" while sticking my fingers in my ears. :wink: )

According to the discussion on Slashdot, there were a total of 6 security-related bugs. 5 out of the 6 were fixed months ago by release 1.0.1. The remaining one is already fixed in the beta release of 1.2.0. Move along. Nothing to see here. :wink:

Oh yeah ... one other trivial thing. It runs kind of warm. (I hesitate to say hot ... define "hot" for me will someone?). Given that the only place for it was on the carpeted floor next to the desk, I decided to be overly cautious. I went to the local Home Depot and bought a 12" square...

I got a DI-604 for my sister during the summer. It seems fine. It came with a decent manual, which I understand is something of a novelty. The only problem I recall is that is has a hard time keeping the time of day correctly. It jumps around a lot ... often to the tune of several years...

Thank ye. :) I will give it a try.

(I'm not keen on alliteration, but that title is actually very concise.) How do I share a printer using Samba? This printer should have no restrictions at all. Anyone who can browse to it or otherwise connect to it over the network should have the ability to print to it. I'm basically...

Sorry to hear it's going poorly Clocker. I'm likely to start playing with Samba in the next few weeks ... I'll post here if I have any success (others will too I'm sure). Maybe you can give it a try again later.

I'm nervous already. :wink: Presuming this is a home network attached to the Internet, how good a firewall do you have set up? If you've got something solid, then things get easier and you can be more adventurous. As for which distribution, that's a tough question. I'm using RedHat 7.2...

It will definitely work. VNC supports a host of different platforms and offers seamless interoperability between them. On the rare occasion you come across an OS where you can't get the VNC client installed, you can configure the server to accept connections over the web. This means you can...

Duplicate work units already contributed by yourself may not be counted ... but work units contributed by others that happen to be duplicates of your work are counted. Remember, that has been one of the long-running complaints about the SETI@home project: that so much effort goes into...

Tannin, I meant to ask you this when you first posted your story - can you post a copy of it to your webpage somewhere? I know some people who would find it a great read, but would find its location here confusing.

I can understand your frustration Cougtek ... upgrading components of a Linux system can be a chore sometimes. I keep detailed notes in a dedicated notebook any time I install/change/update something in my Linux system. It's very useful when the installation for xxxxx software winds up taking...

I went with the distributed.net project because it was the only such project out there at the time, and I needed a way of stress-testing new systems. The fact that it gave me the chance of winning $2000 was the reason I continued to run it. Oh well.

I'm still having a hard time believing that the RC5-64 project at distributed.net is finally over. Like so many others, I dedicated years to that project. I guess I'll try Folding@Home for a while.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. This turned into a very interesting discussion - thanks especially Mercutio and Time (that whitepaper was very interesting). I wasn't expecting how difficult it seems to be to effectively "shield" a section of network wiring in a noisy location...

Those pictures are really nice Handruin! I might rotate in the pictures of the fishies for my desktop. The colors are pretty amazing. It's been ages since I've been to an aquarium. :( I've got to visit Baltimore again.

Anyone have experience with running RJ-45 cable through areas where close proximity to 120VAC power cables is unavoidable? I've been keeping my cable runs a minimum distance of 6 inches from all sources of power, but I'm now facing a particularly brutal wiring area where I have no choice but to...

From http://www.compactflash.org/: Connector – The connector used with CompactFlash is similar to the PCMCIA Card connector, but with 50 pins. Years of field experience in portable devices have proven the reliability and durability of this connector in applications where frequent insertions and...

I got a DLink DI-604 cable/DSL firewall/router/switch for my sister a couple of months ago. If your DI-704 is anything like the 604, then it might be that the 704 is trying to synchronize its internal clock with an NTP time server. The 604 tries very hard to determine the correct time for the...

I wish there was one of those near me. :( Mmm ... frozen pizzas. Now I'm hungry!

Occasionally when I'm at a business site that includes its own search engine, I'll search for random, completely off-topic stuff just to see if anything turns up. Usually nothing does. I figure someday I'll get a hit for something amusing because the creator of a page included a hidden comment...

If blue is the "in" color these days, I'm pretty sure Logitech was the first to market a blue optical mouse. The details about it are here. I installed 7 of that specific kind a couple of years ago. They worked fantastically well, and all were still doing fine last I saw. Also note that...

Even before September 2001 I referred to it (as I'm sure many others did) as, "the world's biggest terrorist target." My thoughts sure haven't changed any.

Yes, it is! I didn't really draw out that aspect very well in my post. I shop for my network wiring/jacks at Home Depot really for two reasons: 1) I want stuff now. Not in 2 days, not overnight. Now. Shipping via express takes too long. :wink: (Not to mention adding to the price.) 2)...