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No joy here. Best I can see is a $10 rebate.

would this be a good thing for a consumer?

Well, my SCSI equipment worked as it should, or at least as I thought it should so it was "easy" in my mind. I had a really fabulous professor, who is now unfortunately deceased, who would call up Dell for tech support for his home computer and explain that he was both a rocket scientist (had a...

It it hadn't been for the WWW I wouldn't have gone mad.

After playing around with my hardware some more, I'm now thinking the problem is with my WD 2000JB. It would refuse to allow my computer to boot when hooked up as a slave off my Hitachi IDE drive on the second onboard IDE channel no matter what the jumper settings. It wouldn't allow my...

Thanks, RW. I'll give it a shot tonight when I'm home.

$40 at ebay and it only includes a single PATA channel. Man are these things expensive if not soldered onto a motherboard.

Ah, good to know. But why would it matter if GRUB was trying to boot Windows off my Linux partition - wouldn't it just boot Linux? And why would it matter if it was trying to boot Linux off my Windows partition - wouldn't it just boot Windows? If you don't mind, can you point me to a nice...

I've got a new "job" of sorts doing some research. Anyway, OSes came up and the question about what we'll do in regards to Vista. We're very dependent on many different types of common and specialized statistical software (SAS, SPSS, Stata, and some weird ones I never want to hear of again)...

Well, I reinstalled Ubuntu, used ext3 rather than ReiserFS, and unplugged my other HD during the install. Not sure what was the problem, but Ubuntu boots now, no prob. No bootloader, but I prefer to use my BIOS for that anyway. I'm very impressed with it overall. Stupid name, but apt-get is...

I just haven't bothered to load the NT OS loader. No good reason.

Ah, Merc, you're like my own tech support company. My Windows MBR is fixed, and Windows is back. Now, if only I can get Ubuntu installed and booting. Maybe I'll try that late tonight.

Thanks, Merc. I'll give it a shot when I get home. I use the ATi drivers to get dual head support. Out of the box I get a mirrored monitor, and I'm under the impression that I need to install the specific ATi drivers to spread my desktop across both monitors. My SuSE 10 install had dual...

Tonight I felt like screwing with Linux, since I'm really getting tired of Windows. Tried to update my ATi driver in my SuSE install, which didn't go well, so I decided to give Ubuntu a shot. During the partitioning, I tried to set up my drives as follows: sda = WD Raptor /dev/sda1 - swap...

Oh, and I just found out this nice gem: when the Promise Fast Track does detect a drive, it will frequently make the drive product a lound click which freezes any operations involving that drive. Try browsing through files on a drive hooked up to the Fast Crap, and you hear a series of loud...

My MSI K8T neo has acted goofy for a long while now, being very picky about what drives gets plugged into where. I have a WD IDE HD, a Hitachi IDE HD, a WD SATA drive, a DVD reader, a DVD burner. My motherboard has the standard two onboard IDE channels, a VIA VT8237 which gives me two more...

When WinXP was getting ready to ship I thought seriously about shifting to Linux. It didn't happen, mostly because I'm too lazy and I wanted to run some PC games. Lesser reasons included a need to easily run Word, Excel, Access, and a plug-in for Real Player that would let me listen to...

Lets see.... from what I can remember off the top of my head, Windows Vista promised an awesome hardware accelerated desktop and a great new file system. Well, my ATi card apparently won't allow me to enjoy #1, and now #2 is gone. Is Vista going to be worth an upgrade?

Mubs- thanks for the recommendation. Very useful to know. Sol - you're absolutely right that the setup you described would work. The only problem is having 4-6 cables coming up onto my desk. I suppose I could twist-tie them together, but it still would be a pain to wrestle with those cords...

Yes, the problem is location, not number. I have a bunch (6?) located on the back of my computer. My computer is slid way under my desk, and thus those ports are not very accessible.

No silliness at all. Thinks I would like plugged in all the time: - PDA #1 - keyboard - mouse Things that can be intermittently plugged in: - USB drives - card reader - MP3 player - game controller - PDA #2 Some of my items can remain plugged into the USB ports on the back of the computer...

Anybody have a suggestion for a new powered USB hub? I've got a keyboard, mouse, 2 PDAs, card reader, 2 USB drives, and MP3 player that all connect via USB and I'm at the point of having to dig underneath my desk to plug them in. My keyboard has 2 extra ports on it, but it's not powered and...

I've spent the past 6 months looking for my next research project, and am very happy to have found one that is almost perfect (famous last words...). The research area* is back in my old stomping ground and matches the clinical area I'm interested in, and the field was basically invented...

why should we print all of our pictures? We never printed all of them in the first place - there are just too many!

My wife and I just passed our 3 year anniversary, and our photographer has released our pictures to us on CD. We have been very happy with the one we chose - very professional, very modern. Earlier today my wife picked up the 7 CDs. Now...what do we do to make sure they're archived properly...

I've heard of the idea of using a conventional HD along with a solid state drive (the type that looses memory when powered off) for data backup and I suppose it could be used with this type of flash memory. But what happens when the flash memory develops a few bad sectors (or whatever they're...

damn. I'm still running on 512 MB of DDR and am about at the end of my rope having to keep ctr-alt-del to kill off memory-wasting processes/programs. When I built this computer I decided to see how long I could tolerate 512...looks like it will be a while longer.

Hey all, The power cord for my Dell Inspiron 8200 is worn thin around the junction between the brick and the thin round cord going to the laptop. I can see the silver wire insulation. I'd prefer to get a replacement before it breaks. Are there "generic" version out there that are safe to use...

The last hospital I was at was switching between Celcius and Fehren...Fahrienh...Fahrenheite....F. Different hospitals over here generally use one or the other, and most people get used to both, which is fine as long as you keep them separate. One morning I was getting an update from a nurse...

Can somebody explain to me why pairNIC and Dotster list FirstnameLastname.com as available but GoDaddy lists it as unavailable and wants me to give then $18.95 to "backorder" it?

Nice. And the test page in question is still up.

Email first, and now word processing. What next?

ah, their Beta. I just signed up. Hopefully they add people quickly to the beta program. Thoughts and comments on the beta?

You really like the Yahoo mail interface better than Gmail? Are you referring to the paid version of Yahoo mail or something? I did notice that yahoo just opened up "dot addresses" so I can now get firstname.lastname@yahoo.com.

I gotta agree. I haven't used a chat client since I left college 4+ years ago, despite IMing being huge in college. Now that Gmail has a client built-in, I use it on occasion. Not extra software to install, simple interface, and the conversations are saved and google-able. Suits me well.

Nope, not working for Mayo, but indirectly paying to work/learn at Mayo. I'm considering them for residency, and want to get a good look since they seem to have a distinct culture that rubs some people the wrong way. The other major employer in Rochester is IBM. WD was there, but I don't...

Rochester, MN is correct. There is one program, general surgery at Duke that still requires their interns to wear a short white coat with white pants.

I thought most of their phones were hackable to get around the VZW stupidity. Perhaps the Treo 650 does as well. I'm stuck with VZW here - they have the best signal, and the most decentish rates for my level of use. Wish there was another good choice for my wife and I.

So, I'm enter a professor that appreciates suits for the right occasion. My trusty black suit has served me well, and I've so far had enough shirt/ties combos to make it work for most formal events. It is likely that I'm going to be spendinga month at another institution that values the suit...

I would be shocked if you couldn't out of the box. But Verizon does have a habit of crippling their phones.

The answer to both questions is The Force. I haven't seen a Treo sync before, but my two palm pilots sync by USB after installing the software on the PC, and my Tungsten C can sync by Wifi after going through a tiny little setup (takes 15 seconds) - no need to do anything to the Palm. The...

you want X, Y, Z....and PalmOS? Pretty sure that just leaves the Treo 600 and 650. Maybe a 700-non-W down the road (prototype here). Or did you mean you want X, Y, Z...and PDA? There are lots more PocketPC phones out there.

My solution to temp issues for the past few years is a full tower case even though all my stuff would fit into a midtower. Since it just sits under my desk, the extra height isn't really noticed.

Do you use a bare foot, sox, or some sort of shoe or boot?

Burn to DVD as stated, but re-burn copies periodically. That, and invest in a spell checker before burning any text documents. :mrgrn:

anyone else having problems with FF 1.5 with Adblock and Gmail? Seems either the entire page is blocked or nothing is.

Oh. I'm clearly not a monkey then. What do rats prefer?

Can somebody please explain to me why people would prefer Sea Monkey vs. FF+TB?

25 GB...hmm, it like my Gmail account, only 10 times bigger!

Not to disput you JTR, but I was under the impression that AC is inherently more dangerous, given that most electrocution fatalities come from cardiac arrhythmias which are more liken in AC electrocutions. I'm not sure about a quick AC vs. a sustained DC (which I think is what you're talking...