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  1. Adcadet

    Raptors really worth it?

    Why not go with the Maxtor Atlas 15K for $179 (Hypermicro)? Why all the Seagate love? (not that I don't like Seagate - their RMA process has been very pleasant to me)
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    Raptors really worth it?

    Programs that I use: stuff in the system tray Symantec Antivirus Zone Alarm ATi hydravision Programs Moz Firefox (email) - always open Moz Thunderbird - usually open Winamp - depends on mood MS Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver (depending on my mood) Real Player with 2XAV (for Lectures on...
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    Raptors really worth it?

    I may have found a clue. For kicks I took my WinXP's swap disk off of my second Cheetah 18XL and installed Server 2003. Much snappier, but that may all be UI stuff. The interesting part is that in WinXP my CD burner on the primary IDE channel is set to DMA if possible but is running PIO only...
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    Raptors really worth it?

    yup, already SATA-compatible. I've got an onboard controller, as does my wife's PC. Unfortunately, I've only got one SCSI controller.
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    Firefox question

    well, it's a "technology preview", yes.
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    Raptors really worth it?

    Thanks for the tip. I'm thinking I will. My stuff isn't the loudest on earth, but it's definitely not quiet. I also don't like the idea of only having one SCSI controller (vs. having an IDE or SATA controller on multiple computers around the house) Any thoughts on what I should be asking for...
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    Raptors really worth it?

    I've also been having issues with my SCSI setup. One of my 5-year old Cheetahs died about two months ago, and one died a few days ago. So my large SCSI collection is dwindling and I'm wondering if I should get rid all my SCSI stuff altogether.
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    Raptors really worth it?

    Is there something else I should know about? Since I'm currently running my OS and apps off a 9 GB drive and have a 120 GB drive (plus more on my wife's on the network) 36 or 74 GB seems pretty sufficient.
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    Firefox question

    control-plus works for me on the forum.
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    Raptors really worth it?

    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...
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    My new neighbor: The most evil man on earth

    just ask the guy to switch channels. And how do you know about the baby monitor? If you know through legit reasons, maybe you can ask him to move it or change it's channel too. Hey Kev - nice skull. You didn't get that from an anatomy site I was working on at the U of M, did you?
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    Need a TV - help please

    what about using an HDTV to play DVD's? Does it result in a better picture than a standard TV?
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    Need a TV - help please

    from looking at BB's website (gotta support the local guys) it looks like most of their 27" TV's will fit.
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    of course, many people here have cable internet or DSL...we could always set up an informal sharing system. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've accidently connected to somebody else's wireless network before (since it's really hard to connect to yours after you've disabled the wireless portion).
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    nope. No idea about floors.
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    Need a TV - help please

    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"...
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    not sure about the contruction. I've been in many apparetments where you can hear some sound from outside. In mine you can't hear the neighbor's loud rap music. I'm very impressed.
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    oh, and the walls, at least subjectively, are very thick. We've got two infant twins upstairs. Every now and then I'll be in the hallway and hear them crying, but as soon as I go into my appartment I can't. It's very nice, but I wonder how that will affect wireless.
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    we've got 360 units, which I'm thinking equates to 60 "coreways" which equates to perhaps 10 or so buildings, plus the administrative office. We're 2 city blocks long and one city block long. No cool areal maps (yet). here's a USGS/TerraServer image and another one zoomed out. From what I...
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    we've got 360 units, which I'm thinking equates to 60 "coreways" which equates to perhaps 10 or so buildings, plus the administrative office. We're 2 city blocks long and one city block long. No cool areal maps (yet).[/url]
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    Married Student Housing wireless network

    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...
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    web spider tool

    in the above I'm only talking about ease of making it a full-time career, and not the difficulty or length of the training.
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    web spider tool

    it's all about having enough patients. From what I've seen and heard, there definitely is a demand for peds cardiology, even in medium-sized cities (like St. Cloud, Minnesota, pop 50-60K). There is rarely a full-time toxicologist (MD) at even large cities (i.e.-Minneapolis, MN). Many people...
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    web spider tool

    there are pros and cons to each. But yeah, if I only wanted to do tox I probably chose the wrong path.
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    web spider tool

    at least in acute care, most OD's are probably on stuff people intended to take (attempted suicide, or accidental overdose on a legit med). The vast majority of my days in the ICU I've seen 1-2 acetominophen OD's (we get them since we do liver transplants). I'm interested in tox, but it's...
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    WiFi astonishment

    I usually don't use wireless in my appartment, so I just turn mine off when I'm not using it. Solves that security issue. I'm so clueless about wireless it's almost embarasing. And I use wireless at school 5 days/week. If you want to grab credit card numbers, just go to your local wireless...
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    web spider tool

    so far pharm is my favorite class
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    web spider tool

    Far from it. I'm at the very end of my first year. We've done gross anatomy, biochemistry/cellular biology, histology, genetics, nutrition, intro to clinical medicine (histories & physicals), micro, neuroscience, physiology. We're now just beginning a 6-week summer semester (general path...
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    web spider tool

    holy cow Merc! Double bonus points for not only a great, easy to use tool, but one that plugs directly into my new favorite browser. If you're ever in Minneapolis and need....um....student-level medical care.....er, no.....a beer, look me up! You just saved me DAYS. Thanks again! Adcadet
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    web spider tool

    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...
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    non-Outlook mail clients

    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...
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    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    I was running dual a dual AMD 1.2 GHz system up until November or so. Now I'm running an Athlon 3000+ single. More bang for the buck.
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    Gmail

    oh, I registered another administrator account on my blog using another email address, and that account was not offered a Gmail account.
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    Gmail

    I signed up about a year ago, back when it wasn't Google-ized. I use it to post quick little things to my class webpage (www.student.med.umn.edu/class2007). The Class of '06 webmaster tipped me off, and sure enough, there on the front page was an invitation.
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    Gmail

    makes me feel wanted and needed sorry, stress of finals
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    Gmail

    zero ads so far. But most of my conversations have been very short.
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    Gmail

    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...
  38. Adcadet

    Entering the 64bit era

    I'm happy with my MSI K8T Neo FISR board. Also happy with the two AMD Athlon boards I built recently (forget the model number, but it's the Via one).
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    Ever deepening hatred for WD

    To help convince people that confounding isn't a big issue people (journal authors) usually give some info about potential confounders (not that there is a test for confounding, anyway). Last I checked SR has never done anything like that. Have they ever given any demographic info about the...
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    Ever deepening hatred for WD

    for reliability info you can just go to SR and use their Reliability Database. What more perfect data source and analysis engine could you possibly want? Don't tell me you don't believe their results.
  41. Adcadet

    [NEWS] BOFH rulezzzzzz!

    as someone who has to deal with a boss that knows little about what actually happens and 160 users who show a range of abilities, I LOVE BOFH. Read them during today's microbiology lectures.
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    [NEWS] - Command queuing at Tom's

    OK, so we don't like the guy, but is that really an appropriate comment? He is, however, a good example of a physician gone horribly wrong.
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    [NEWS] Mandrake has changed a few things . . .

    seems reasonable to me. I'll still be about to get my non-beta release quick, or can choose to wait for the patched version a few months later. Or (more likely), I can do both.
  44. Adcadet

    RAID 0 - a call for a metareview

    uhh..make that "but conducts no new data collection"
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    RAID 0 - a call for a metareview

    metareview (from Adcadet's Instant Dictionary) - a study type that reviews previously published studies but conducts no new data analysis.
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    RAID 0 - a call for a metareview

    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...
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    ECS uses double-sided tape for their KT400 mainboard too.

    hmm...who was it asking why I didn't go with ECS's Athlon 64 motherboard?
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    Onboard vs. PCI sound and LAN

    Huh?
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    Onboard vs. PCI sound and LAN

    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...
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    Good point. Although now that I try to duplicate what I said before I cannot. I noticed the problem mostly when Windows had just booted but stuff was still loading. Now when I test it well after a boot it's better. And this is even loading programs for the first time to try to mimize the...
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