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Since I no long have any SCSI drives nor plan on getting any in the near future, I thought it was time I sold my trusty Adaptec AHA 3950U2B, a dual channel U2-LVD SCSI controller. I'll also throw in my two 24" 3-station (can connect 2 drives) 68-pin SCSI cables. I'd like $30 for the card and...

Hey Gang, I upgraded my laptop memory and now have a 256 MB stick of Crucial DDR PC266 (2100, CL2.5), and a 256 MB stick of K-byte PC333 (2700) memory unopened. If you'll pay shipping, I'll give you both for $30. Adcadet

What do people currently recommend for a decently priced, good quality AGP video card? It will be used for some gaming, and dual monitor output is a must. Good compatibility with all forms of Windows is nice, too. Would I go wrong with an NVIDIA 6600GT? Should I stick with ATi, say an X700...

What do you guys think of the Palm Life Drive? Don't know if you guys use PDAs much. My palm is nearly required for my school, and I find it very useful for checking email and carrying around files and such. I just saw this, and while it seems cool, I'm not sure how it's much different from...

In 3 short weeks I will largely get my life back from the moster that is Step 1 of the US Medical Licensing Exam. At that point I will occasionally have time to play with my computer, and won't need Windows for a few select, Windows-only programs. Is it time I give Linux another shot? I...

Does anybody have a recommendation for a memory card for my wife's new Cannon Digital Rebel XT? I was thinking 1 GB, but I have no idea which cards are fast.

My wife and I are on a 2-year contract which is up here in a few months, and Verizon has their "free phone" deal (basically, $100 off per phone). Are there any cell phones out there that people just love? Or just hate? I'm probably sticking with Verizon, since they seem to have decent...

Anybody know a good tool to help me get rid of redunant files on my computer - MP3, videos, .docs, .xls, .rm's, etc, etc. I thought way back when the Norton/Symmantec suite included such a tool that would look for similar files with similar names, types, and sizes. Thanks, Adcadet

I snagged a 200 GB drive after Thanksgiving for cheap and installed it in my PC (ironically, for backup purposes). I ended up moving around many of my drives (between computers and between controllers), and while waiting for the new drive to format, decided to delete some of the old...

why or why is it so hard to find a good, not horribly expensive email client for my Palm? All I really need is a cleint that can do SMTP with SSL. IMAP would be nice, too. Snapper mail is really nice, but I'm not sure I want to spend $60.00 for it. When will there be a Thunderbird port to Palm?

I thought this belonged in this forum since it's a little more of an academic question than urgent. Anyway .... I'm wondering if there is clearly an optimal way to configure my system: MSI K8T Neo, A64 3000+, 512 MB DDR 400 DVD, CD-RW. NO FLOPPY (ug!) 2*9 GB Cheetah 18XL's 1*74 GB Raptor...

I want to install my new SATA HD. The SATA controller on my motherboard (MSI K8T Neo) requires 3rd party drivers, which is provided on a floppy. I don't have a floppy drive on this computer. Is there a way I can burn the drivers to CD? Grrr..... Would it help if I just bought a damn SATA card?

hey crew, I'm thinking about getting a Atlas 15K drive in the near future. Is there any reason I should consider replacing my SCSI card - it's an Adaptec 3950 U2B (U2W-LVD, 80 MB/sec, dual channel card). I don't do much (anything?) that needs high STR as far as I know, and I don't know of any...

does anybody know a way of getting the audio track from a .rm and encoding it into an MP3 (or wave, for that matter)? I see that dbPowerAMp can do .rm to MP3, but it crashes on me every time I try, so I'm guessing it sees that I'm trying to convert a .rm video and not audio and gives up. It...

hey crew, my trusty Palm m125 is getting a bit long in the tooth. With internal memory it can hold only a single program (Micromedex), and it runs it painfully slow. Not to mention the horrible 160x160 black and white screen. After this last week in the ICU I knew that I needed a new Palm...

hey crew, I'm working on a project to help teach particular medical skills. The product will be largely HTML-based and distributed on CD and online (most likely), is considered an academic work (AFAICT), includes academic materials that have been copyrighted by publishers (scholarly medical...

hey Crew, I'm doing some epi research over the summer (and probably into the school year and beyond) which I do from home. I burn the day's work to CD every evening, which I then take to meetings with my research advisor (who dumps the data onto his PC for backup). I've broken a fair number of...

hey crew, any tips on TV's? The wife and I desperately need a new one. Our entertainment center will fit a 27" TV. We have $400 budgeted, though we'd like to say well under. Is HDTV worth it? Flat panel?

hey crew, my father-in-law wants to convert his old tapes to CD. He says it's worth $200 to him. Anybody know an easy way to do this? Are there places that will do it for him?

hey crew, my two wireless laptops connect just fine to some wireless network around my appartment called "MSHOME" (image that!). When I turn my wireless network on, I can't for the life of me figure out how to force either laptop to use MY network. Does anybody have a clue how to use WinXP...

hey crew, a group from school asked me to work on their webpage today. They would like to be able to post their clinic schedule anong with contact info behind a password so the general public can't get access to it (easily). Does anybody have a simple way of doing this? Thanks, Adcadet

hey crew - is the newer WD Raptor (740GD) worth the price (~$215 US) over the older model (~$115 US). It's 74 GBs vs. 36, but my boot/OS drive doesn't need much more than 9 GB. Think I would notice the difference over my old Cheetah 18 XL for heavy office stuff? Now that I'm using my desktop...

hey crew - my wife and I need a new TV. Something that turns off when you hit the power button. Something with a fully-functioning remote. Something that's not dying. Something that hasn't been dying since 1983. We have an entertainment center and have room for a TV 27" wide and 25"...

hey crew, so I'm a student at a large university (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities). My wife and I live in married student housing, about 2 miles off the main campus (Minneapolis) and a mile from the "other" campus (St. Paul). Our housing is a coop so we own "shares," vote, control rent...

hey guys, I'm involved in a projects where we want to take a bunch of material from the internet and put it on CD for our students to use offline (all for academic use, no copyright violations). Saving all the HTML files by hand is really getting to the old wrists (and is taking forever), so I...

hey Crew, on my school laptop I use Outlook. Why? To keep my callendar with email, to see what viruses are being thrown around, and to remind me why I use Mozilla Mail. But how does MozMail compare with Thunderbird? About 6 months ago I used it and liked it, but ended up replacing it with...

anybody else playing with Gmail? Just realized I had the option of opening an account earlier this week and set it up. Seems to work well enough. Very nice to be able to just email myself every potentially important document to leave on the server in case I feel the need to print it out at...

hey all - we've discussed at different times the possibility of SF doing metareviews of sorts in which we gather all available reviews of a product/technology, and critically appraise them to come to a sort of final judgement. This is done all the time in clinical research when there are a...

Hey all - so as many of you know I recently rebuilt my main machine. I decided to use my old(ish) SB Live sound card and disabled the onboard AC97 audio thinking that this would relieve my CPU of much of the sound duties and give better sound. On the other hand I went with the onboard LAN...

so, long story, but I've ended up with an extra Seagate Cheetah 18XL. I had two and was planning on putting WinXP Pro (hey, a med student has to have some gaming fun) on one, and Linux as the other as my main OS. Now I've got 3 Cheetahs. I must be getting distracted by something...

hey all - here's the deal. My wife and I both like listening to our MP3s. I also use my school's Lectures Online system, so I often have a few GBs or more of lectures that I need to have available. I want to be able to access these on any maching in our appartment - two laptops, my desktop...

just curious about how my Cheetah 18XLs compare to modern IDE drives (7200 RPM/8 MB cache drives, and raptors). They seem to be nice and speedy still. Just wondering if I'm missing out and should spring for a new HD (Raptor?) for my boot drive.

it seems many people think the world of Seagate's Barracuda ATA's. Maybe they were competitive when they switched from SCSI to ATA (does anyone know if they kept the same internal mechanics? I doubt they did...), but it seems ever since then they trailed the competition significantly, except...

I'm rebuilding my desktop PC, and I would really like to have a headphone jack and at least one USB port on the front of my PC. My case doesn't have either of these ports on the front, though it does have many extra 5.25" bays. Anybody know of a way for me to get these ports on the front? I'd...

just wondering if anyone else is intrigued by the Athlon64 3000, the one with 1/2 the cache of the 3200 but the same clock speed. Oh, and it costs significantly less :) As I'm getting tired of my trusty old computer, the time is coming for me to spend some holiday gift money, and I'm...

hey all - got a specific problem to solve by year's end (for tax purposes), and I'm wondering if you guys can help point me in the right direction. My father recently purchased his own optometry practice, and will be changing it's location (slightly) in March. When he rebuilds the place he...

hey all - my trusty computer is getting a bit long in the tooth. And I've realized that for most of what I do I would be better off with a single fast chip. So I'm looking to sell my chips/motherboard/ram in the near future. I'd prefer to sell to somebody I know through SF, so I'm starting...

Question: for dual monitor heavy office-type work with some photoshop, what card would be preferred: an ATi Radeon 8500 with 128 MB of RAM, or a Radeon 9000 with 64 MB of RAM? I've got two computers that need video cards, and these are the two I've got readily available. If one will be used...

I seem to remember that Sun split their office suite into the paid version called Star Office, and an open source one called Open Office. I've used Open Office and am generally happy with it, but have never used Star Office. Through my school I can get Star Office for free....just wondering if...

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed here or some other place, but my searches come up empty. Anyway, I'm wondering what hoops I have to jump through to read data off of a HD that's been converted to a dynamic disk if I decide to install it in a new computer. Since the FAT table is...

So I got a WD 1200JB for $90 through an Office Max special. Transfered the stuff from my old 800JB onto it, then removed the 800JB (for later inclusion into a new PC I'm building) and put the 1200JB in it's place in my case. That's when the problems start. The machine won't boot. Windows will...

So I got a WD 1200JB for $90 through an Office Max special. Transfered the stuff from my old 800JB onto it, then removed the 800JB (for later inclusion into a new PC I'm building) and put the 1200JB in it's place in my case. That's when the problems start. The machine won't boot. Windows...

Hey all - so my parents IT support staff (me) has about given up on supporting their old P2-266 machine. I'm building them a new machine for Christmas, and I'm trying to decide between a motherboard with onboard video vs. not. Here's the specs (feel free to comment): Without onboard video...

so my wifes 75 GXP started making clicking noises tonight. I got everything off of the drive, though it took multiple forced reboots. She needs a new HD anyway (and a whole new computer, but that will wait until Xmas). So....it looks like the Hitachi 7k250 is a pretty nice drive...

anybody else playing around with iTunes on a PC? On my machine it seems to use more CPU cycles than Winamp 3, and it's not as responsive. But I do like that I can create "song lists" on the left for every folder (I sort MP3s into folders by artist). Haven't found a way to do this in Winamp.

hey all - does it really matter what program I use to defrag? I used to religiously use Norton's Speed Disk, but now I wonder if it's worth the hassle of installing it. IIRC, Norton's claim to fame was (other than the pretty moving diagram it drew) that it put frequently accessed files at the...

Hey all - I'm running out of disk space :( So I started rumaging around, and found a ton of things that I want to keep but rarely access. Out of curiosity I tried zipping them with Winzip, and have found that some things can be incredibly compressed. My old Outlook folder was 232 MB, and is...

ok, so I FTPed a file from a school server that contained a humorous 2.6 GB movie (.avi) last year's class made. Windows Media Player can't play it, even after downloading a codec, so I assume I got a corrupted download. But now I can't delete the damn thing - when I do Windows asks me if I'm...

hey all - I haven't been around much with med school in full swing and all. My wife's old P2-400 is really getting too slow for her to use these days. She really wants it rebuilt, probably around Christmas. I'm going to talk to her family and mine and encourage people to just send me a check...

hey all - I just picked up my wedding video from the videographer. The only problem is that the DVD versions are burned onto DVD-R disks. My Dell (Inspiron 8200) DVD player can see the files but not access them. Anyone know of a work around? Thanks, Adcadet