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I have one, but only because I like to poke/test. It isn't a good investment, but it is a nice toy.

I did speed test the HDD of my netbooks, and they all sucked. The worst was the Intel 8GB SSD in the Acer AspireOne, but the spinning disk in my first Wind U123 wasn't much better. Don't both those use the standard NIC on a 945 chipset? Do you think it could be a driver issue?

There is no cellular service where I work/live, except that provided by the company's provider (Nextel). The repeaters that give service up here only work for Nextel; not even regular Sprint phones work. The only Wifi capable Nextel phone came out recently, and I now have one.

I do now. I had an i880 until last week.

No pix, I was too shaken and just wanted to go back to my office. I was told it was 40', but I had a 100' rope halved and it wasn't enough to make it to the top, I'm guessing 60'. Looked a lot like this.

Don't ask anyone else to do what you aren't willing to do yourself. Setting up the wireless WAN is one of my pet projects, no one else really believes in it.

So far the best use for my netbooks has been up on a tower aligning antennas. I was lead-climbing a free standing tower that near the top was about a foot across. At the top, clipped in, I needed to align the antenna I had just mounted. With the wind starting to blow a bit and the tower swaying...

Nope. They weren't there last week or I would have.

Wow, that does look good. I think the office might need one of those.

I've broken 30 on a few occasions, near 40 once, but the worst is getting less than 4 hours sleep a night for more than a week. I'm almost there now, and I know I'm starting to get stupid. The caffeine does nothing.

U123, 2GB DDR2 and a 30GB Vertex on the way.

I don't really need better performance, but better battery life is always good. Getting an X25-E in there will be sweet ;)

I managed to toast my Acer AspireOne (too much tinkering; must have opened it up at least 30 times). Now I'm looking for another one. The best out seems to be the MSI Wind U123, but I noticed it still has a 945 chipset. Wasn't there something better coming Real Soon Now?

Did they at least supply you with a rental for the duration?

I get my drivers for Broadcom devices from the vendor's website. Try going to HP/Dell/Whomevers European website.

There is a reason that Architects and Engineers are different jobs. All the floor plans I've put together maximize workflow and usable space while being efficient and cheap to build. They also look like a giant box.

Some routers have this capability in them already, but I always use DD-WRT for such things.

Not only that, have you seen his custom biscuit cutting tool with vacuum attachment? Damn.

Which SSDs are you putting in a MacBook Pro (and what apps are you running) that would cause real-world performance to be affected by a cap at 150Mb/s? Perhaps it was the lack of other features related to the spec?

Three for IIS, sounds like a winner. Thanks guys.

I would be the last person to get in your way ;)

You really have power outages where that would help? Here we have two kinds: <30 minutes, >6 hours. But that is what the generator and massive underground fuel tank is for ;)

Right now if you go to Newegg's LCD TV selection you see the following: 16x9 (95) 16x10 (10) Other (1) All the ones that are not 16x9 are low resolution (1680x1050, 1440x900). I know mine (Sharp Aquos 42", InFocus X10) are both strictly 1920x1080. Unless they have pixels they aren't...

I'm swapping out 16 750GB drives in RAID-5 with hotspare for 10 2TB drives in RAID-10. It is all backed up elsewhere anyway, so the extra redundancy isn't worth the poor write performance.

How does that work? Do they just discard the extra 120 pixels to display 1080P content?

That would be Lenin. Good call, paugie.

The first thing I thought of was the XLs, or running them in series.

The Audi takes SD cards full of MP3s directly, but the limitations on file count/size/folder depth sucks. In order to guarantee that it will accept the card, I'm keeping it under 400 songs/card. It likes it better when the filenames conform to 8.3, but it will read any ID3 tag. I'm using 2GB...

I have, in fact, watched all of those. I even have a subscription to This Old House magazine. At some point I will start a thread on tool recommendations.

I got the most progressive department at the company to start trying Google Docs today. I think they will enjoy it internally, but the fact that it is easier to send a document as a PDF from your desktop than direct from Google Doc is a hand-forehead moment.

Got these from the Russian e-mail circuit...lots of crap, but these I thought were funny.

It turns out that the three big, expensive multifunction copiers we have at the office don't support scanning to network folders, only FTP. I suppose I could set up an FTP server on the file server, with the necessary permissions, and allow it to go that way. What FTP app would you recommend...

Funny that, I just ordered 4 2TB drives 5 minutes ago.

I've had issues in the past when later trying to add/remove programs, or with future updates.

The most significant speed improvement is by disabling the right-click "send to" menu, but there are at least two dozen little bits that range from disabling visual transitions to disabling last-accessed timestamps. All are easily available from the usual Google sources. The most important one...

Sweeeet.

Nevermind, got the size wrong. (The box you were using for your networking gear before) - RS450?

I have around 7 companies and 350 users on Google Apps so far, I have at least 3 more companies in some phase of the transition as well. Privacy is a non-issue; their EULA says that it will take a subpoena to get information from them, and that any other uses only involve anonomized (sp?) data...

"Meticulously handmade with pride in the PRC" That sounds a hell of a lot better than "Made in China" Nice sub, though.

You can use "Internet Connection Sharing" to take an internet connection into the wired LAN port and broadcast it out the wireless PCI card, but it isn't worth it, IMHO.

That is a favorite movie from my childhood. I like the next bit, where all this wood is being ripped out and is falling around him: "It sounded cheaper to say no."

I had no construction skill whatsoever a few years ago. Since then I've had two big things on my wish list; build my own house and build my own car. The house is going to be easier, so I'm starting my studies there.

...or NorCal for that matter.

Every once in a while I think it would be nice to have a basement, but it adds quite a bit to the cost of a house vs. building on a slab (or even normal footings).

At least it is vibration isolated. I'm a big fan of the foamy double-sided tape for this, it works really well.

Yup, the guide/files I was using use 5eraph's update pack, but also include IE8, .Net, Silverlight, WMP11 (I don't use them, but they are better than the old versions, and I may as well have them) and support silent install of many other programs directly from the disk (Firefox, JRE, 7zip...

Sounds like a straightforward approach. Try to get some pictures for us?

My strong-man days were from 16-20; 6'2 230lbs, great shape. I do miss it, but not badly enough to do what it takes to get back there.

I've had it. Using this guide to build my next install of XP x64 now...

Nope. Most of the time it pages out bits that don't need actual RAM. It also only uses certain bits of RAM once across multiple VMs. I do go fairly crazy with my memory allocation (my current VM servers all have 12GB), but it really isn't necessary.