Search results

Tuesdays with Morrie

Only because you believe it so be so. Eating in moderation is a good beginning, but more important is some kind of regular physical activity. That will "wake up" your metabolism and get your internal gear running more efficiently. For a person that "abhors physical activity of any kind", the...

Beautiful! Thanks!

And thanks, Merc!

Tell me you're joking, Blake. Isn't Little Mermaid animated?

Ha ha, you guys is funny! I hadta put in dat disclaimer; somebody *ahem* complained tvice in a row abote me last coupla links.

What does "pops a boner" mean? Sorry for being naive. :oops:

So vatcha doin there, fella?

Here. Varning: That's at Business 2.0. Bevare of pop-ups, unders and the like.

We all are. If we'll only try. We humans are unique creatures. For thousands of years, we've had the same exact set of problems. Yet each one us thinks our problems are unique in the world, and are insurmountable. Show me one human being who doesn't feel they're deprived in some way. Those that...

All good things must come to an end?

That's like a 50% overclock! Yikes! Good for you, Fushigi!

SteveC: Keep lifting those weights. Muscle is heavier than fat, and is more attractive too. Merc: Sorry to hear that. I missed the June stuff as well; wasn't even in the country for a year, with miserable dial-up for a few minutes once a fortnight. In the past 12 years, I've gained 50 lbs (was...

I came here a gazillion times and was the only one. Beat a hasty retreat!

I love this idea! Let's do it! Let's do it! Please, can we do it??!! Nothing like eating one's own dog food to drive the reality home (pun intended).

Israeli soldiers kill British television cameraman carrying white flag. Found this on Google news.

It has been proven many times over that the auto industry cries wolf at every request made to it, that it would be bankrupted by the expensive new requirements that are legislated. When the legislation is passed and becomes law, the the hue and cry dies down, they magically find a way to make it...

Thanks for setting me straight, n/9. That was certainly illuminating!

Onomatopoeic, isn't PCI-Express nothing but Intel's Infiniband? The so-called "fabric" architecture? IIRC mainframe storage I/O is also of this type. From what little I've read, PCI-Express is one heck of a technology. The two main drawbacks to it would be cost (initially, till volume picks up)...

Blake, didn't you know? MS was the original designer of Apache :mrgrn:

Merc, you truly have a gift for communicating. You should put that talent to more use.

As a result of a class action lawsuit for this problem, among other remedies, HP makes available a free kit that an end-user can use to fix the problem. It involves using a carboard template to insert a new paper separataor pad into the printer (the new pad has self-stick glue on it). HP warns...

Singificantly faster/better. It is slow once in a while, but only for a few seconds. A very measurable change, thanks Doug.

Maybe $399 is budget in your eyes, Sir. It surely is not in mine. The L series was not budget; they were personal laser printers. So are the 1100s. I bought my first laser printer in 1991 for $979 - an HP IIIP (along with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS for $389). It had a design problem - the fuser...

If the PC with the AOL connection is running W9x, it cannot be done. I tried and gave up in August last year after reading an MS KB article on why (limitations in # of adapters supported, etc.). You'll need an NT class OS to begin with. On top of that, AOL is really, really funky in how it...

Thanks, Howell, for now we need to hold off though. Installed a Vantec Nexus NXP-201 4-channel voltage controller. It's a great product, but I need to reconfigure a little bit to see whether it's sufficient (have too many fans in the case) or the HSFs still need to be replaced. Will post back...

HP's products made, oh, pre 1995 are rock solid, like MBTs. Quality and service have gone downhill at an accelerating pace since, in my experience. There's millions of 5L, 6L and 1100 laser printers out there with that darn multi-feed problem. A whole bunch of sharks got rich on that issue with...

I'm one of them. :mrgrn:

NRG, thanks for the link and the pics - very clear how it works. Amazingly, Zalman's own pics don't show that crucial part - how it's frixed to the case! Blake, I think you've misunderstood the entire problem. As of now, all temps are fine, but noise is a problem. I started this thread with...

How true! It's so sad to see a once great company falling to the lowest denominator. But HP's not alone. My niece bought a cheapo Epson inkjet. The first time she changed cartridges, it couldn't "see" any cartridges at all; kept saying install cartridges. These were genuine Epson cartridges...

Thanks everybody. NRG, that Zalman bracket you linked to looks interesting. Where does the bracket itself mount? Looks like the shelf into which add-in cards are screwed into? Wouldn't the weight of the bracket and the fan, and the rotating forces of the fan be too much for the shelf to...

Blake, thanks, but the idea is to cut down the noise with little or no rise in temps. I think going with a slow 50-60mm fan should be ok. Howell, thanks. The easiest would be to switch fans without removing the sink from the proc. Without going into the price issue, do your HSFs meet the...

:mrgrn: Guys, guys, the storage will be in our bodies. We'll all be part of the collective. For data transfer, you'll have to, um, exchange body fluids.

No, no, I didn't imply that you were rude! I did figure out how to quote, create web links, etc, but this one trick I didn't have the patience to. Till Buck told me how.....

Since there are system builders here, maybe someone can help, even though most are AMD only types. I need to replace the fans on a couple of Intel retail heat sinks; they're very noisy. The procs are Coppermine P3 800/100 FC-PGA's sitting in Abit Slotket IIIs in a dual Slot-1 Tyan board. So...

Thanks, Buck. As always, you're a real gentleman. Howell, buddy, I'm an old dog and over the years my troubleshooting skills have dimmed a bit from fatigue and from becoming a little ornery. One thing I know for sure is that one can't know everything. It's more important to know how/where to...

You can find some nifty little fans here.The "Miniature Chip Cooling Fans" link at the bottom is a PDF.

Well, Silly, dumb ole me, I've been trying to figure out how you guys don't get the "Quote" title when you quote somebody! If you'll tell me that, I'll tell you how I made the box disapper. Trade? :D

Howell wrote: the method of piping sunlight to the underground area. Unnatual lighting just doesn't cut it for long. Check out Solatube. I've known about them for a while, and always wondered why people that built homes never used these. I too love natural light and will use them if/when I build...

Fool: You didn't include the well-worn, old standby: May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch

The pastels for currency notes would make it look like Monopoly money! Yuck.

CQ, I downloaded it from Nonags, but the link you found will work as well.

Yes! The company moved, and while I moved all the computing stuff, I had weird feelings and refused to move the phone stuff and paid AT&T to do it. The guy showed up, put it in his truck, moved it, set it up, and the voice-mail PC wouldn't boot. According to him, this was an outdated model and...

I spent a lot of time last evening installing and uninstalling several free (including Ultimate Zip) proggies that were recommended here and that got the highest ratings on Nonags and Tucows. They all seem very similar in features, speed and interface (with minor but annoying differences)...

Thanks, folks! I'll check these out. :P

In the mid-late '90s I worked at a small company. We installed a new telephone system with "integrated voice mail" from AT&T. The voice mail part happened to be a PC. I was really crestfallen to see that it was a 486-33 white box PC (with AT&T screen printed on the front); 0.5 GB IDE hard...

Thanks. WinAce "standard" is $29. :(

I currently use PowerDesk 3.03a which came with Fixit Utilities that I bought ~ 4 years ago. It comes with features I don't want (full windows explorer, viewers, etc.). I'm almost done setting up a new instance of W2k, and am looking for a lean/mean utility that can uncompress, compress and...

You had me going back in time there, Explorer! In my brudder's office sits a Dell server with a Brooktrout 2-port ISA fax card in a Dell PowerEdge 2300 - a fairly critical part of the whole setup. It's been working flawlessly for almost 5 years. Brooktrout makes universal PCI fax cards now, but...

If he's running Win98/ME on the P90, use a USB flash drive; they'll have drivers for for those OSes. This would really be the easiest.