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Both. My grandmother still pays $65/mo in property taxes.

AFAIK around here Proposition 13 prevents them from going up, and you can request a re-appraisal every 5 years if you think it should go down.

You had your property re-appraised? We certainly plan on doing a fixed mortgage (20 year if we can manage it comfortably, better rates).

The last time I played with 1000baseSX was just for the uplinks between switches, and the Cisco adapters cost triple that.

We are currently renting at half what the mortgage payment will likely be. I'll have to look into the tax situation.

That actually looks really good.

Pradeep, While I'm aware of the added costs of taxes, financing, and maintenance, saying that buying vs. renting isn't financially advantageous seems a bit pessimistic. I agree that we aren't at bottom, our company's outlook for next year is that it will be worse than this one. One of the...

RAID doesn't count as a backup anyway, and if your data is backed up (as mine is), why not get the performance?

In the '90s I did Microsoft, now I go Google. Up 15%+ for the year.

I've got an 8TB AID-0 right here ;) (and a 7.5TB RAID-5 backup of course)

Kidding, right? Have you driven one? They are very impressive. You did hear that they are turning a profit, right? That they have a considerable amount of IP that they are licensing to the major players?

Thanks Will. Did you write that macro yourself? I know nothing of that stuff, which probably explains why I keep breaking it. I'll figure out the obvious mistakes on my part before asking you to clarify the less obvious stuff.

Because it really makes a difference. Boot and app load times are night/day. I would rather have a netbook with a fast SSD and 2GB of RAM than a $2k laptop with 7200RPM drive for day to day stuff (everything but games and photo editing).

I'll be ordering a Lenovo IdeaPad S12 for a customer in the next week or so, along with a Vertex SSD and more RAM. I'll get a mini-review up when I can.

Thanks guys. It looks like Excel is the winner. Does anyone care to submit a sample spreadsheet? I've never done bookkeeping of any kind, and am curious to see what people are including in theirs. We are planning on getting a house that is about 40% under what we are pre-approved for, but...

Side-scrolling is annoying, but 1000 pixels wide would be OK with me. Other than uda (who wanted to be able to embed video as well), is there anyone else on dial-up?

Up to now, we haven't worried about it at all. Income has been more than expenditures by a wide enough margin that it was a non-issue. Now the market is such that we can finally afford to buy a house...we think. I would feel much more comfortable if we actually kept track for a while. Some...

Nope. This was the 1999-2003 timeframe ;) I was -4 years old when Disco Duck came out.

I haven't been to a club in ages, but IIRC, you just needed to get one girl to flash them and the rest wanted the attention as well...

You mean like the recommended reading link on the site?

Concours weekend in Monterey is always fun. Took the wife out to The Charthouse for dinner, on the way in an original GT40 was parked out front. On the way out a new GT40 had taken its place. At the valet, the guy with the Merc S600 (V12) was feeling really good about himself until the SLR...

I have. And I see similar numbers. Is there a particular test you would like run? I can do X25-Es and Vertex drives over the weekend. I'm out of X25-Ms at the moment (waiting for the high-capacity G2s).

No, if you are talking about small files the G2 is much faster. If you are talking about large files (STR) than it is much slower. Intel X-25M Avg Read = 229.8 Avg Write = 77.6 OCZ Vertex Avg Read = 223.1 Avg Write = 199.2

I noticed that even my netbook, after calibration, was pretty darn good. It wasn't as good as my nicer monitors, but it was clearly better, and I would argue "good enough".

Has anyone here had a CPU die on its own? I've had a MB or PSU fail and take the CPU with it, and I've had a failure of the CPU cooling system cook it, but I've never had the CPU fail independently.

I've sold OC'd machines before. I only guaranteed them for stock speeds, but I would OC and test them upon request. I never shipped a non-stable OC, and it never bit me. The last dual-CPU machine I had (before the new dual-Xeon) was a dual 300a @ 450 with the slotkit "magic fingers" things.

...but the Intel drives still suffer from low write speeds.

Feel free to blame me, I'm used to it.

The risk would be in not telling them. If he says "look at this great potential bargain I may have for you!" then he's a hero. Coug, do you have a link to the "how to..." for this procedure?

They did at one point. That is a major reason I'm still on XP.

That sounds like a neat idea. What is the feature called?

Very, very true. I don't think the "wait for SP1" line applies to 7 as much as it has to older OSes. They didn't even pretend that this was all-new.

That would be me.

?? I see him at over 4500 already?

Doesn't look exceptional to me. The images that are good are good because they are of something interesting. The shots that aren't of something interesting aren't interesting. But what do I know. ;)

And if you find yourself not reading the prompts and clicking "OK" all the time, disable them. They aren't helping, anyway.

Let us know how it works. I'm always interested in new toys for the camera!

1. Make sure you have the latest display driver 2. Make sure you have the latest flash player I'm having issues playing any 1080p content on my Q6600 with new ATI card, but the i7 with 250GTX works fine. Perhaps the newest ATI drivers are to blame?

1999? 19? ~32 days total, starting from Pokhara and ending not too far away from there (got a lift on a tractor the last bit). In town, the elevation was only around 800m (~2,500ft), but we did manage to get up to 6,800m (22,000 ft) near some peak. I wrote about it at SR at the time.

Congrats to Lunar's 3,000th post! You certainly provide a different viewpoint on many subjects. Thanks!

Grrrr. 1 week after I pay not much less for a TX-SR507. Crap.

Interesting explanation of SSDs, block erasing, and TRIM.

I agree with Merc. 7 is fine, certainly better than Vista. I prefer XP, and will be keeping XP at work for everyone.

Very interesting.

I've bought around 20 of the Vertex drives, with no issues (performance on reliability) so far.

I wish there was a filter...ignore posts from a user if their post contains "apple" and no other posts in the thread contain "apple".

Watched a bit of True Blood last night, and my wife nailed it. "Real porn has better acting, character development, and better action".

How so? The 4850 I have here is running a copper Zalman flower thing stock.

Most likely they aren't random hex strings, but GUIDs. Which are the same, but of fixed length.

I may have been off, but not by as much as many around here thought.