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If you're looking to pick up equipment without any hassle, you may be surprised to learn that Home Depot carries Leviton's line of keystone ethernet/video/audio jacks (and a huge array of related equipment). Both Home Depot and Lowes stores also carry Cat 5e networking cable (plenum and...

Heh ... that'll teach me to start replying one night, and then finish the next day. Pradeep's already given you good advice ... look into a better application for handling FTP transfers. :)

I think Mercutio's explanation is correct, but perhaps missing some details. What's likely happening is one of two things: 1) The FTP server is reporting the problem back to you -or- 2) The FTP server doesn't say a thing, but instead it simply closes the connection (as opposed to you or your...

Thanks for asking timwhit ... it's an old ATI Rage Fury (32MB). I'm running Linux, and apparently nothing other than the latest ATI cards or an NVidia card will work. Even if that weren't an issue, it seems I'd have bigger problems anyway. The README file also mentions that a 600 MHz system...

What software were you using to download the file? Was it a web browser by any chance?

Thanks for the notice, Clocker! Looks great! Alas, my attempt at running the demo ended quickly: ------------------------------- Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0". OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. History: Exiting due to error...

Are you sure they were new? Really, how could you tell? Perhaps they're just more open about what they do with returned drives than they used to be. I wonder because a few years ago, after I returned a WD drive, the replacement I received from WD had a suspicious letter "R" included as an...

Heehee! You realize that's probably an actual federal offense. :roll: I do know that some people used to (still do?) believe that the "security threads" were part of a government conspiracy to keep track of how much cash people had on their person anytime they went through a metal detector...

I was a year off. Those embedded strips have been in US paper currency ($2 bills and up) since 1990. From http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/7/35 : "A security thread is a thin thread or ribbon running through a bank note substrate. All 1990 series and later notes, except the $1, include...

The redesigned US bills weren't the first to have the embedded strip embedded. They've been around for years - even in the "old" bills! I've got an "old" style $5 bill right here (printed in 1995) that includes an embedded strip. Anyone know when they were first introduced? I'm tempted to...

Crickets? :wink:

Thanks for posting the Australian denominations. No 1 cent coin (a great idea) and only 20 cent coins (as opposed to 25 cent) was a surprise. I was living in Canada at the time the $2 coin took over from the paper bill. One thing I noticed was that the number of losers on the street asking...

You can get information about US paper currency from the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Images of the fronts and backs of all current US paper bills, including the $2 note, are available here. (That's a very convenient page actually.) Yes, $2 bills are very rare ... and off...

Right here: http://partsurfer.hp.com/ All the rollers for that printer are still available. The cost would depend on which roller(s) you need to replace. They range anywhere from $0.40 up to $33.00. In other words, pretty darn cheap. You need to figure out which rollers you need (the...

That was a great article. It was quite amusing. :)

jtr, it's not Macromedia that's popping that window up, nor is it the sites you are visiting! It's Internet Explorer. It's noticing that you don't have the plug-in for xxxxx (whatever) and is offering to install it for you. You'd get the same annoying window if you were visiting sites that...

I don't think it's a pop-up ad that jtr1962 is referring to. I think it's the stupid window Internet Explorer shows every time you visit a site that happens to have Flash content ... when you don't have the flash plug-in installed. Internet Explorer tries to be helpful by posting a huge dialog...

I'm sure you've still got your hands full with moving-related stuff, but please let me know if you come across any. :)

Hmm ... does anyone have any 32MB EDO SIMMs they'd be willing to sell?

Yikes! You got me with that one too ... I held my breath while clicking on the forum topic!

I don't have any good advice about furniture, but I have one very heartfelt piece of advice about moving. If you're planning on moving on your own, for 4 or 5 days before you start the move, don't eat out anywhere. If you're not an expert chef, stick with canned, instant, or otherwise pre-made...

(Anyone else notice this is topic #1000? Woohoo. 8) )

Hi all ... just dropping in for a moment... Dozer, I just finished my Linux install. As of today, here's my laptop's configuration: IBM ThinkPad 560: Pentium 100 MHz processor 24 MB RAM (will perhaps be upgraded to the max 72MB RAM) 6 GB IBM Travelstar hard disk (upgraded from the original...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/26/entertainment/main516518.shtml

Wordprocessing? I think she's going to need something from Cray for that, don't you? :wink:

I've got a TRS-80 in storage. It runs at a stunning 0.91 MHz. I forget who the CPU manufacturer was ... I believe it was Motorola. Woohoo! Extended Color BASIC! Now _that_ was an awesome OS. :)

My mistake ... Geo Tracker.

Ahhh ... but did you notice the Hello Kitty laptop mod? http://www.exonome.com/fj/phkl/ Well, now you can regret that you have. 8) Can you imagine someone driving around in that green Geo metro using one of these things? I'm afraid I can ... all too well.

How does that song go? Old enough to know better, but still too young to care?

I wonder why no manufacturer tried this sort of thing earlier. What would have happened if they had? What would everyone's reaction have been if, say, the i386 motherboards you saw in the late 1980's/early 1990's had come out with colors like these? Would it have been thought of as cool back...

Well, Steve Gibson is a very knowledgeable guy, but he has a bit of a reputation for occasionally being a sensationalist. You're right though, it works fine for what it sets out to do ... it's just limited in terms of the ports it checks. Like I said, it works as a quick test after I've set up...

Sorry ... someone came to the door and I just clicked "Submit." When you get to that page, click on the "ShieldsUP!" link. Then run the dorky "Test My Shields" and "Probe My Ports" options. Like I said, cheap and cheesy, but it's something.

After setting up any firewall, if I can't find a way to run nmap or some more complicated tool to test my firewall, I at least go here: http://www.grc.com/default.htm It's cheap and cheesy, but depending on what you've got running on your system, it may give you some indication that your...

ROTFL!

Can someone explain how Acrobat not being "dual processor aware" impacts what e_dawg has stated his problem is? James, you advocate a faster CPU as the solution. I don't understand how that's an effective solution to e_dawg's problem. For example, say he just picked up a single processor...

Thanks for posting that link Handruin! Honestly, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time!

It hurts my eyes!

Congrats Cougtek. :)

Is this as pointless from a security perspective as I think it is? http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp Why not just use a hot-swap SCSI drive with a write-protect jumper?

If you want to run a mail-checking system at work, but would like to use OS/2... It looks like there might be a VNC option for OS/2 (look under the "Contributed" section at the VNC site, specifically "New Platforms"). The contributions from Bosse Nyström seem to have moved (I didn't search to...

Tea, I'm no expert, and because of that I'd actually try something a bit more simple: 1) Install Mozilla on a system at work. You can set up Mozilla to check multiple mail accounts. The mail is kept neatly separated reflecting the different accounts from where it came (it's hard to explain...

Anyone used fans made by the Elina Fan corp? I became interested in them after realizing that the external drive enclosures made by Sun used them. I could barely hear them, and they were putting out good airflow.

Oooh oooh ... I've got an idea! You kind folks can find me a job, and then I'll have some money with which to buy a new computer. Then I can start running the F@H software. :)

Sorry timwhit! Wow ... I really need to snap out of whatever cloud I'm in. I honestly thought that post was by Will. But thanks to Will anyway for his follow-up posts. Ignoring the LG drive for now, anyone have a favorite suggestion for an IDE CD-RW drive?

Thanks Will! That CD-R Labs site is very informative.

Well it seems the price isn't that great. Then again, if she had to have an alternative drive delivered by a group of nomadic reindeer herders, perhaps this one's not so bad. I still don't know about performance though. I checked StorageReview's product review list and I didn't see any LG...

I have a friend way up north (Manitoba, Canada) who's just asked me out of the blue if the CDRW drive she wants to get is a good choice or not. My luck with optical drives has been awful lately, so I'm hoping for opinions: It's an LG 24x10x40 CDRW, specifically the GCE-8240B...

Is that what that awful, really high-pitched whine is?

I don't know if the rest of you are still seeing the effects of a "tech downturn", but I need the opportunity to complain (briefly) about it: This sucks. Since my first post in this discussion 5 months ago, I've been sending out at least 2 job applications per week. If that seems low it's...

Ooops ... here's a link: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/