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I can't download the application from where I'm at right now. Is this basically a knock-off of the MS TerraServer? That's been around since late 1998, and you don't have to download any software to use it.

*sigh* I'm such a pack-rat. Just ignore me. :-)

True. However, you can get a new pickup roller (assuming that's what you need) for your HP LaserJet 6L by visiting here: http://partsurfer.hp.com/ It shouldn't cost more than about $20 Australian, and they are trivial to replace. You haven't done anything drastic and thrown the printer out...

Thanks Dozer. The reason I ask is that I've got an IBM ThinkPad somewhere in storage ... it's a 100 MHz system. It came with an 810 MB hard disk and 24 MB of RAM. I recently found a 6.1 GB replacement hard disk, and I can apparently upgrade the RAM to 72 MB maximum. I have this crazy plan to...

What OS are you running on that laptop?

Hey there Mercutio. Sorry to hear about your recent (and ongoing) troubles. I really hope things improve for you soon. Actually the reason I (and my cohorts) haven't been around here much over the past month or so is because I'm trying to develop a life of sorts ... but that's another story...

I think I'm too tired to explain what I mean, but here goes anyway . I don't have a Windows 2000 system to look at, but does it continue the tradition of allowing a drive to be set as a REMOVEABLE device or not? Under Win9x, all you have to do is look at the hardware in the System part of...

Jetez-moi une enclume! Vite!

Errr ... distributed.net blows the doors off of all the other projects in terms of client availablity and server reliability. They were the first to "cash in" on the distributed computing project and were around for, I believe, at least two years before the Seti@home project started.

Please stop ... you're scaring me.

On further thought, a script that just changes the permission of the directory to allow access to anyone would probably be safer than having the script itself delete the directory.

Hmm ... yes, sorry Handruin. It occurred to me after posting that this was probably on someone else's box. With the permissions and group set as they are, I can't think of any normal way to get rid of the file. If I were really desperate, and it were a box I had authority over, I'd check to...

(Ignore the superfluous "1" on those last two lines.)

Handruin, I'm not sure what you're having trouble with. As root, you should be able to do whatever you want with that directory. You say you've tried a whole bunch of commands to modify it - what exactly happened when you tried them? Did you get an error message or what? I tried this as a...

Ignore him Prof Wizard. He's unstable.

Blarg! This is not my year for hardware. I never mentioned here that a few months ago, my Plextor 'Ultraplex Wide' CD-ROM drive lost its tiny mind. It was only about a year and a half old, and rarely used, but over the span of a couple of months, it started doing things that made me suspect...

Thanks Buck. :) I had looked into the warranties - both are still covered until at least early next year. I'm not sure I'll bother returning them though for 3 reasons: 1) I'm experiencing a lazy streak. Packaging up a hard disk - evern without the special packaging required - seems like...

That was my point, Flagreen! No one has any right to any special privileges than anyone else living in the Americas today.

They're Caviars. And they're now enjoying their retirement in the bottom of a box in my closet.

I'm American. I decided (unwisely) to go to university up in Canada. I say unwisely because my decision was founded primarily on the notion that it was the furthest I could afford to get away from my parents at the time. :wink: What happened of course was that I wound up with a heck of a lot...

Heehee. I'd guess most Americans think of Paul Hogan when someone mentions Australia. If you find someone especially bright, they'll add, "oh yeah ... and Nicole Kidman." Or maybe, "hey ... isn't Mel Gibson from Australia too?" Personally, my image of Australia includes a lot of semi-desert...

But you live in the country called Canada though, right? Were you born there?

You're not Canadian?

Semi-OT: I was looking through the PowerLeap website and noticed this. It looks like a single board computer ... that's marketed as a computer "upgrade". Anyone else finding this unique marketing?

Thanks! I had no idea there were products out there that could do that.

Clocker, is this the thing?

Wow ... where did you find that one?? I have to ask though: will the processor actually run at 400 MHz in that board? Case in point, look at this motherboard for sale at HyperMicro: http://www.hypermicro.com/store/motherboards.htm Could you really expect this motherboard, that was designed...

Oh hey, Mercutio! There's one case style from Packard Bell that ... well ... I'm sort of divided over whether it's a good thing I never ran into them or not. I think it would have been ok to have run into one of them: http://www.priorityonesupport.com/downloads/pb/chassis/pb2000.htm It's so...

Yes, given the odd memory configuration and what's stuck on that BIOS chip, I'd say you've got a PB 600 motherboard. That's too bad! There are several motherboard designs from that era at Packard Bell, and you happened to land one of the two that supported less than a P166 processor. Head...

I shuddered when I looked at those pictures. I dealt with a whole galloping herd of "Executive" series of PB systems that used that specific style of case. Personally I always found the RAM to be the worst thing to have to touch in those things ... the memory modules were wedged under the...

http://www.drodd.com/seinfeld/TheSoupNazi.htm Search for "pushing" using your browser. You can also hear a bad recording of it here. He needs to fix that, otherwise he'll offend the grammar gods and the Seinfeld gods. Soup Nazi, it should be "You're" as in the contraction of "You are."

Well Clocker, with that search function still down on the priorityone site, I figured I'd try a general search on Google. According to this site: http://www.memoryx.net/legend1990cdtw.html ...the Legend 1990CDTW is limited to a maximum of 136 MB of RAM. Now, I've seen online discount memory...

Ugh! Sorry about that Clocker ... you're right, the look-up function appears to be out of commission. I've sent them an email about it. Hopefully I'll get a reply and they'll fix it. If the labels are at all like the ones I've seen, they'll have a few numbers and/or barcodes scattered around...

Did you try to follow the instructions I posted? If you don't want to wade through that site, I don't mind looking through some of it. You'll have to post here all the information off the labels on the computer though. There should be a couple of paper labels on the back of the case. At the...

I signed up for one ... probably back in 1998 or so. I never used it. I have no idea what it is.

Interestingly, it's prime number. But that's not the real "significance" of the number. Here's one of many pages offering information about it.

I just spent 20 minutes writing up a post, only to have Mozilla crash on me. I don't suppose posts that were "previewed" get cached somewhere on the server? Bah. Here I go again.... Clocker, keep that system. Or give it to me. :D Despite having worked on more Packard Bell systems than I...

Thanks Mercutio. I went ahead and grabbed the icecast stuff. Everything installed ok (I think). In order to do streaming from "live" sources (e.g. a microphone, etc.), I downloaded the "liveice" pacakge. Have you had any experience with it? It seemed to install ok, and I have it running...

Hmm ... I think I figured out what's happening (not that I have a solution). This X-terminal setup I have is fantastic, but occasionally confuses the heck out of me when I try to figure out what's happening where.

I'm still running distributed.net - I figure that's about the only project that's worth running on my older system. Besides, I use Linux. :)

I'm running out of ideas on how to troubleshoot this. I don't suppose anyone here has had the misfortune of dealing with a SB Live card under Linux? Normal playback from file or CD sources works fine, but I don't hear anything if I plug in a source via the SB Live's "line in" jack. I've had...

It appears to be here: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=10047 Assuming I've got that right, you'll have to wait until after the next stats processing before you see anything useful there.

Thanks for those stories Mark. Seriously! For the first time ever, I feel slightly better about the time I ignited 2 liters of a hydrogen-oxygen mixture about 3 feet away from my head. All I really remember about the event was the most god-awful noise, and a 4 foot high, pale whitish-blue...

I have a suggestion for the main StorageForum.net page: Would it be possible to include a list of the current StorageForum.net members who are running Something@Home and what systems (CPU and OS) they are running clients on? Having only a dual PII-400 myself, I think joining any such team...

Sorry to hear you may have lost some stats (maybe they'll transfer the credits from one project to another?), but personally I'm glad to hear they are merging. There seem to be a lot of similarly named and targetted projects out there - from my perspective this just makes it easier to choose...

Interestingly, the rank doesn't change if you use quotes around the search term "storage forum" or not. StorageForum.net must be high enough in Google's list of sites that include both the term "storage" and "forum" that people are lucking out when they search for "storage" AND "forum" (which...

Most people (well, amongst those that care) seem to agree that it is western (US) in nature. Look here for one account: http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/D0414600.html Interestingly, I have a semi-decent dictionary here that claims the word "dude" is actually of German origin, meaning "fool". It...

Yes, silent ... and deadly. :wink: I don't have a problem with ticks in general either. But I do have a problem when they decide to attach themselves to me. I read the names of more types of bacteria yesterday while perusing tick literature than I have since first-year biology. That's my...

Hey ... look at what I just stumbled across while trying to identify the bast ... err, tick ... currently attached to my leg: Australian Spider and Insect Bites Includes some nice succulent ("juicy" doesn't do it justice) details. :wink:

What OS are you using?