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Core2Quad is too geeky and too cheap to ignore. It is fast and will be fast for a long time. Gigabyte has a bunch of motherboards with tons of features. If you are interested in low power and you don't game, consider using onboard video. Do you need parallel and serial ports? More than 4GB of...

Move somewhere cheaper. Really, I mean it. If you can't afford to live where you are, it is your problem not the governments. Where I live is very expensive, and there is no cheap place to live nearby. Therefore even the illegal mexican maid or gardener charges $15/hr. Fine. If they are good...

Just curious Udaman...are you Asian? Or do you just have a thing for Asian women (like jtr)?

I just got home from splitting 2 pitchers of margaritas with 2 women, attention span indeed...

If he didn't use any shelters or deductions and payed exactly the declared percentage, how much extra money would the government get? Compared to having those shelters and deductions removed, making sure that everyone pays what they are supposed to?

People will try to avoid paying taxes regardless of the system or how much they are supposed to pay. Buffett not using a loophole doesn't fix the problem. Bringing it to the attention of the public so it can be closed is the more effective method. Any tax plan more than a few pages long is too...

Excellent summary Gilbo. I've heard Warren Buffet speak a number of times, and he seems to have a good grasp of the situation (go figure).

Check your local printer repair shop. Mine still gets parts and sells refurbed units with their own warranty.

I have about 20 clients total, perhaps 700 employees in all. This client in particular only has 3 offices; I visit each office about once a week, sometimes less.

Thanks for the link, timwhit! That is the best looking solution I've seen so far.

That is because it's really Friday morning. I doubt you are very interesting on a Friday morning yourself.

Interesting, but I don't think it would be fast enough. I've never done the digiscoping thing myself, so I don't really know.

I still have my HP 48GX (4MHz) with expansion memory (128kB baby!) I think I struggled more with RPN than with my first year of physics...

Perhaps only 5-10 items a day, but the trick is in my resolution schedule. What sometimes happens is that I will roll into an office with a single issue on my plate, and end up swamped for the rest of the day with items that I didn't even know about. Or get a call from the boss about...

Why is it that Mac owners are so fanatical? It has this tinge of desperation; like they are afraid if they don't convert one more user this week the ridiculous prices they paid for their hardware won't be justified even in their own minds...

Olga gets Tuesdays and Thursdays off; I try to work from home those days when I can. Sa, Su, Tu, & Th we walk between 4 and 8 miles. I'm trying to get her trained for some proper backpacking.

Just finished a 5 mile walk to a burger joint and back. I feel less guilty when I walk there.

Dual Core 1.8Ghz? That price can be beat elsewhere I think...

Wait a sec...(checks calendar)...today is Thursday! Aren't some of you people supposed to be at work, or something?

Where is everybody? Well, we all seem to be here; waiting for each other to post....

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Yup. I've actually been typing all that was needed in one, then going back and doing the Cyrillic bits. Though I'm sure your work is more intensive than mine, this was the best I could figure out.

25. Took probably a minute at each, plus the minute I spent yesterday (30+30).

I've recently moved away from KVMs entirely. I spent too much time troubleshooting the KVMs and cables when I should have been fixing the problem on the server that I couldn't get to! Solution? USB keyboard and mouse, and VGA direct. All hot-pluggable. Of course, I use remote desktop when I can...

I don't know nearly enough to help you, but it is an interesting insight into your workflow. It's actually not that different (though more complicated) from mine.

IMHO, the 4000, 4050, and 4100 series are the next best thing to the LJ4 and LJ5; as far as pure bullet-proof-ness is concerned. If features, speed, size, and noise are concerned; look elsewhere.

Thanks for the tip Mark. And I'm not joking about them being the printers to get; I'm still getting about one refurb a month to install for new clients or end users.

Either my declaration of Samsung drives as slow, or my attempt at spelling "areal" without the safety of a dictionary?

I'm looking for a way to manage the issues at a client. 3 offices, about 30 employees, and me stopping by occasionally to fix stuff. Things seem to end up forgotten or ignored for a long time, and I want something that lets the boss monitor how many issues there are, how long I've known about...

Both aren't bad. But I generally refer to "snappiness" which is probably more seeks than throughput. To be honest, with that much cache and areal density, it is hard to be slow.

HP LaserJet4.

I was running a 30 second time limit. I'll try again without when I get home.

I got 18 on the first try and 19 on the second. I don't think I'm going to get any better than that.

Not that I know of. I was getting tired of the conflicts, so I disabled the keyboard shortcut and but a button on the taskbar.

Aren't there settings to prevent a users first post from including links or images? I think that would fix a big chunk of it.

Hilarious. Thanks.

I think UPSes are just crap as far as QC is concerned. I've run quite a few Belkin/APC models from the basic to moderate size. They all fail way before I think they should. Even when used to ~30% of their capacity and never experiencing an outage.

Some background on my progress (for the record) and then more questions. Thanks to information here, I switched to pfsense for the firewalls and it is working great. I may begin using it for all my firewalls in the future. I have the new servers in place. They are all running 2003 R2 SP2...

Beijing in the summer reminded me a lot of NYC in the summer. The snow probably did the same thing; hide all the dirt and knock down some of the pollution. Couldn't hurt.

ReadyBoost didn't do much in the first place. I saw so little (no) improvement that I pulled the thumb drive just to clean up "My Computer".

I have 5 of them and they are working fine. Further, and this is the first time I can say this of a Samsung hard drive, they are fast.

They were hoping DX10. And it will become a bigger reason in the future.

In Media Player Classic, you can stretch the screen during playback with the NUM6 and NUM4 buttons. Not what you wanted, but the only way I know of.

I use this combo with my laptop. Works really well.

I like monitoring usage at the gateway, it makes things cleaner. Of course, this won't save you if he is playing Solitare or other non-internet stuff. Smoothwall has an easy to add plugin for DansGuardian and some other reporting capabilities. Probably not the solution you want, just an idea.

Yup, it seems like an awesome lens. I just convinced my buddy (who I got hooked on photography) to buy one. I'll borrow it in a couple weeks to see what it does. I know I want it to be part of the kit I bring to Moscow.

"...and the house." yells the GF as she walks by... ;)

I suppose I should have added: *after the 2x 32GB SSDs, and EF-S 10-22

A great analysis Tannin, but your software list is downright ancient. I'm not saying that it doesn't do what you want it to, likely better than newer software, but your customers won't stand for a DOS-based word processor or Quattro. I didn't switch to Vista for me, I did it for them. Now that I...

Because the day will come that some piece of "must have" software won't run on XP. QuickBooks, Photoshop, Some custom app that requires .Net version 55. Just hope that they have released some OS that doesn't suck before then.