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"Peter Stearns is very interested in sex. So if you don't understand something in the textbook, it probably has something to do with sex." -- Jim Longhurst

If I recall correctly, Smith met with Jesus in upstate New York. And polygamy used to be okkay with them. Things change.

I have Dell here with one of the older Fujitsu MAJ drives. Except for the whine, it is perfectly acceptable -- sonicly, at least.

Com'on now. Everyone needs someplace to put their kingdom of god. Don't be jealous just because the Mormons grabbed a whole state, while most only get compounds in Texas or South America.

I like my musci loud -- nonetheless, I wouldn't be able to get high-enough quality silence to even try. Given the existing din in the computer room, only something beyond low humming and whirring, and the gentle clicking and clacking of seeks might be unacceptable. In fact, it's nice to know...

Are you saying that Utah is "forward-thinking?"

Naproxen is absorbed more slowly, but it's stronger. It also won't eat your liver as quickly. I have arthritis in my knees (although a new doctor a year ago was the first to figure this out). So I've worn out the welcome of aspirin, ibuprofen, and ketoprofen. Naproxen was the drug of choice...

Pradeep, I sold you that drive. There are two reasons that I got rid of it, and neither was performance 8) Anyway, this drive would go into my external enclosure, which already has three 15k.3s in it. As long as there's no funky harmonics (whine, etc.), it sounds like I shouldn't hear a...

Celebrex and ibuprofen are both NSAIDs. You should consider naproxen (Alleve). Vicodin is over-prescribed as a pain killer. There are much cheaper and safer narcotics to give to people.

You'd just need an access point to act as the signal repeater. Completely not worth while, but it should work.

Drop-down menus? I don't get any of those.

You're no fun.

Where's that? Heck, I don't even know where I am. GMT-8?

It's not so much the amount of noise (which I can get from the SR database), its the nature of it. Quality, not quantity. No. But I running a RAID 1 isn't strictly necessary for me to feel comfortable. Except for refurbished drives, which I've started scoping out.

Yes, but he wasn't wearing the clown suit when he won. Still won't.

8:30 where?

1. I don't trust ATA drives. I trust SCSI drives more. 2. I don't have serial ATA. I have parallel ATA and SCSI. 3. I'm not an enterprise. And I think they've got it wrong. 4. As a Pisces, I often feel the need to go against the flow. Due to 1 and 2 above, I have these files on an ATA...

If I could get the 74GB 15k.3 for cheap enough, I wouldn't even think about it. Hadn't considered the older x15. I'm not sure that they'll have enough space for my needs. I had initially thought that I could get a nice cool, quiet, large 7200RPM SCSI drive. Then I learned that such a beast...

Ah, but did you get the narcotics?

I don't think that I'm Scottish enough to do it. I mean, I enjoy wearing kilts, but people look at me oddly.

In my inexorable march away from ATA and towards SCSI, I'm looking at replacing an ATA drive which serves media files with a 10k SCSI. My only concern for such a move is noise. I've been looking at Atlas 10k IVs and Cheetah 10k.6s. Does anyone have any information on the kind of noise that...

"You have choices here, one of which is don't eat Tampax. I mean fish. Don't eat fish." --Bev Sauer

I've always said that we in the United States need something like the Raving Looney Party to lighten up our elections. But no one wants to compaign while in a clown suit....

The problem with current machine translators is that they don't understand anything, let alone what they are translating.

For nearly all people, leaving those suckers in only leads to trouble. They'll eventually break and hurt a lot, as SteveC has evidenced. If you get them out sooner, they can crack them in half and take them out, clean and controlled. If you wait, like my dad did, you'll end up having them try...

The power supply calculator uses some VBscript instead of Javascript some reason. That's why it doesn't work in Firefox. The IIHS site works fine for me in Mozilla. It appears to use Javascript to do the fancy stuff.

I'm bummed. 8)

"When I was an undergraduate, there was an, uh, unfortunate incident between a group of fraternity pledges and sheep." -Doug Tygar

Once again, too late to the party....

I disagree. This was a major failure.

why is it that the error box that tells you "document contains no data" only has an "ok" button in it.... how about a button that says "bitchslap the server until it gives you the document" or "no, that sucks" -- Charlie Ballowe

"Ten years ago, when asked about their favorite sport, American men would put sex at number 1. Women put it at number 4, which raises some interesting issues . . ." -- World History Prof. Peter Stearns

Considered changing local exchange carriers?

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Should have gone to college in the US. They hand out credit cards like candy on campuses.

I used to have a True430. At about a year, the +5 and +12 volt rails started to slide. If you've been stressing one of the rails, I'd be inclined to believe that you may be dipping below necessary power levels.

I have no personal experience, but from others, I gather that it's hit or miss. For most people, it seems that if it's going to go kaput, it'll do it in those first thirty days. Whether you're up to the risk for the gain is up to you.

The car is an investment with utility... not *just* sending money into oblivion.

Generally speaking, you just have to watch yourself on the Microsoft-supplied drivers. They're usually acceptable and stable if you don't try to use more than the basic functions of a device. They're also usually very dated. Any device where I already use a Microsoft-supplied driver, I always...

Despite what you may have learned in school, with an over-supplied commodity with high price sensitivity, demand spikes tend to lower prices, not raise them. So, if a bunch of poor college students want to buy harddrives, the prices should go down, as each manufacturer or retailer attempts to...

I recall seeing some Asian company with a computer in a small cube (~5 inches a side, I believe). They. of course, use flash instead of a harddrive.

A guy that I know wants to buy a condo, but can't because he has no credit history! He has no credit cards, makes plenty of money, and was lucky enough to have his parents pay his way through college. So he ended up buying a car with a loan (which is apparently far easier to do with no...

Isn't that neat?

"Basically, republicans would be libertarians if they weren't facists." --Jer, on a libertarian news group

At last check, orchids are saprophytes -- they grow on trees, not in soil. I'm not familiar with domestic varieties, but commercial farms always have them growing on a trellis and getting sprayed regularly with water (they are native to rainforests, after all). It sounds to me that it may not...

I would also suspect that the drive has an IBM-specific firmware. There may have been a firmware error.

Think again. I poked around, and new drives were $70+. Not worth it, in my opinion.

Ditto on LSI. Very cheap and reasonable performance.

Are LS-120 drives a major inprovement over a floppy? There's a guy on eBay with a stack of used drives (with SCSI adapters, no less) for what appears to be a reasonable price. Might take the plunge.