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Slashdot has just posted some news about StarOffice 6.0. Depending on who you ask, it's either available now, or it will be on May 21st. Cost is $75.95 (US).

I thought Australia was full of deadly poisonous insects though. What are those spiders called? Funnel webs? Eeek. Living here in North Carolina is hard enough. I'm sick of it actually ... it seems like I can't even get near plants higher than about 3 inches without finding at least a...

It's not a managed switch, but I noticed this one: http://www.dell.com/us/en/k12/products/model_pwcnt_networks_pwcnt_2508.htm 8 port gigabit switch, for $499. Not bad.

Best of luck Mercutio with whatever is going on. Bartender is correct - even my multiple personalities would offer support. 8)

The pictures are very nice. Actually, I think the whole site is nicely done.

HURRY! StarOffice 5.2 is still available and it's FREE, but when 6.0 comes out, that may no longer be the case! Get 5.2 from here: http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/get/get.html As far as I know, one of the major differences between OpenOffice and StarOffice (in terms of...

I am so confused. Does this mean my wild speculations are way off? Can someone tell me what the effect of increased hard disk buffer sizes would be with respect to power failures? Anything to worry about or not? I need to go back to bed and try reading this discussion again later. My head...

I don't understand much about the internal workings of hard disks, so here goes: wouldn't increasing the on-disk buffer to something that high increase the chances of serious data loss after a power failure? You say, "not really ... the operating system could just as easily be caching 64 Mb...

How about, "Infernobreds."

I think that's a great idea. (Except I have no life at all ... so that sort of thing would appeal to me.) You could almost extend/integrate that idea with the calendar (is it still on the beta server?).

I didn't want to flare up a bad subject (sorry!). I wasn't trying to make light of violence of any sort. What I found funny was that in all the things I've partaken in life, the one place where I felt everyone was on completely equal footing was during taekwondo practice. It's the place in...

Well said, Cougtek. The only time I've hit a woman was back when I was taking taekwondo. I miss those days. Not because it gave me some cheap excuse for violence (towards either sex), but because in that environment, everyone really was equal. It was just ... nice, you know? I can't explain...

But as a system builder, you're one of the people who can actually start fixing that problem! Seriously! Not on that Abit MAX motherboard. :wink: I agree with you though. Floppy drives are well overdue for a final disappearing act. Along those lines, at my former place of employment I...

How do you mean "floppy replacement"? Flash memory technology is already well established ... doesn't that qualify?

Whoops! I did say full-height didn't I. Sorry ... full height in the true "half-height" sense. :wink:

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I'll hold on to them for now. If I actually find a job and can afford some new stuff, I'll send them to one or the both of you (heck there are enough of them). If I'd known last summer about your hard disk collection Tannin, I would have saved the 65 MB Toshiba RLL drive I threw out. I...

Yes, I liked the statistics page too. And the "printable" option could come in handy. It might even be useful for regular reading by people on really slow, dial-up connections. :wink:

But I'm up to my armpits in old hardware! I really need to decide whether to put these things to use, or grind them up and use them as plant fertilizer. As far as software RAID under Linux goes, apparently it's possible: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html There seems to be...

Is it worth using these old SCSI drives for anything? Five Seagate Hawk 1LP drives - 1.06 GB - 5400 rpm, 9.3 ms seek - Fast Wide SCSI-2 - 80-pin SCA connector Three Seagate Decathlon 660N drives - 545.29 MB - 4500 rpm, 12 ms seek - Fast SCSI-2 - 80-pin SCA connector I hate to just...

Ahh heck. Tyan MPX ... that does have 64-bit slots, doesn't it? Well, I'll just go crawl back under a rock then. I think one of the points the article mentioned was that performance was typically a lot better if you were able to use 64-bit cards in 64-bit slots. Point number 2 still holds...

Two things: 1) Yes, the card might be cheap, but finding a cheap switch or hub that supports gigabit rates through more than one port is going to be very tough. 2) Yes, that card you're looking at is rated for gigabit transfer rates, but let's face it ... you get what you pay for. How often...

Sorry Buck, no offense intended! I read your post and I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Truthfully I figured the same as you, that it would be solved with no help required ... it was just the way you wrote the post that brought back toooo many tech support memories. :) Oddly, they all make...

Heehee ... guess who hasn't had a job as technical support. :wink: Here's the full page I got this evening while trying to access the forums (main site was ok): ------------------------------------ phpBB : Critical Error Error doing DB query userdata row fetch : session_pagestart DEBUG...

Thanks a lot, me. You realize of course that you're the loser. And as for the topic of what myself's avatar is, I'm not telling. I'll just see how long it takes you or someone else to figure it out. And for that matter, how long it takes someone to figure out what the heck your avatar is...

Holy phospholipid bilayers, Batman!

Ooh ... thanks for the link Cougtek. From that site, I managed to find a picture of the speakers I hate with a passion: http://www.altecmm.com/product_details.asp?pID=ACS22&sID=2 Don't buy those ones! I've got a pair, and they drive me nuts. The AC transformer is built into the base of one...

Thanks Handruin! I'd hadn't noticed that setting. :D

How come it seems like I always show up as a "Hidden" user these days? This is a recent thing. What exactly is a "Hidden" user anyway?

Thank you Mercutio! Wow, I would have been annoyed about that for ages. It seems to happen to me so often these days ... I'll remember seeing something on the web a month or so ago, but I won't remember where, and never find it again. Anyway, here it is...

Thank ye. :)

Hmmm ... I've seen an ATX motherboard recently that had surface-mount power and reset switches right on the motherboard itself. Just small momentary push-button switches. They were strictly secondary ... most normal people would have switches on the case attached. The board manufacturer was...

But the P75 system was the only system that worked at all with these drives after the original system failed! It's an Intel EV6 series motherboard, with the last BIOS update Intel ever made for it (if that makes a difference). Out of the motherboards I tried (an ASUS P2B-D and another board I...

Thanks for the advice Mercutio, et al. I managed to get the data I needed back! Once I'd found a motherboard that could detect the drives, I created a basic system using a spare, functional hard disk and installed Red Hat Linux 7.1. Then I moved one of the damaged hard drives back onto the...

Thanks Mercutio. You're right of course ... and I really should have had some type of alternate backup around somewhere. I've got a full backup on CDR from mid-February, but as luck would have it, I did some really critical stuff just a couple of weeks later. Any suggestions for data recovery...

Given the odds of this sort of thing, I guess the other things worth mentioning are that I've been working casually with computer hardware since 1988, and that I'm the second most paranoid person I know with respect to avoiding ESD and physical shocks. The system itself was getting power via a...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Here are the details: System #1: MSI 440TX motherboard (now fried) Pentium 233MMX CPU 2 x 128 MB DIMMs 2 x WD Caviar 136AA HDD (now fried) mfd Feb 27/2000 and Aug 2/2000 "Synergy" power supply (now in the trash) The system was fine two days ago. I turned it...

Blah! I managed to get the disks at least detected at startup in an older system, but no OS can actually access them ... they're BOTH fried. This has to be the worst stroke of luck I've had in years. I can't believe they're both dead. What the heck are the odds for something like that?

Rhetorical question: Why is it always the day you've decided to do a complete backup that your hard disk fails? Yesterday, every time I'd power on my computer, after a very short period of time (before even reaching the point it could start booting the OS) the system would lock up solid...

I take it back. I think I know what would work for both the headings and the Administrator tag color: a light grey.

Umm ... wasn't orange the color the site originally used? The blue was even more glaring than the red. With that in mind, I didn't think the red was too bad. Then again, those who are red-green color blind would have a hard time telling the difference between the Adminstrator/Moderator tag...

*lol*

Thanks Mercutio! That was a good suggestion. However, I use neither MS Word or MS Works because they both celebrate the existence of Satan. What I do use is StarOffice ... and once again it's completely surprised me! Your suggestion really played out well there - it turns out StarOffice was...

Yes, now that you mention it, I remember the size difference. I tried to grab an image of my full-version card via a Logitech QuickCam (seeing as how you know what the VE card looks like now), but the image was way too blurry to be of any use. So I took the card out of the computer (I'm using...

Hmm... 1) Size is a primary concern. 2) "...most importantly for software and network testing..." Well, if you want to take this to the extreme (while simultaneously impressing your friends) how about one of these: From their website: * Web-ready, low-cost server device * Insanely...

I like drive rails ... but I can totally understand why some people do not. That said, I know this is a laughable fantasy, but when Serial ATA half-height devices start coming out later this year, I hope they come with integrated drive rails. Then no one could complain. I know, I know. It's...

Sorry, I should have said why I have a grudge against the VE card. I wound up dealing with one at my previous place of employment. I had asked for the full version card, but my supervisor made a mistake in the ordering (as usual), or the purchasing department screwed us over (also as usual)...

I've used both the ATI TV Wonder and the ATI TV Wonder VE ("Value Edition"). Do NOT buy the "VE" version. (Avoid the USB version too.) Spend the little bit extra and get the genuine TV Wonder. It's great! I've been using one for years, albeit for mostly basic stuff. I also find it nice...

The one major drawback to the text-based FTP program included with Windows is that it doesn't support passive transfers. Which means if you use a half-decent firewall, you're out of luck. Unless I missed something.

Flagreen, your avatars crack me up. Even the speeding smiley face made me laugh. I think I need to get out more.