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Got it. A most un-enviable position. Their investors must be having heat attacks.

A lot of pretty tech speak and a flashy website...and not a single product.....bullshit...er, excuse me...whay I meant to say was, perhaps we should have another look at them in 6 months, and see if they have something concrete.

The shuffle has no display, and only about 6 buttons. Sweet, really. But I'm really liking the mini as well. I was able to get it up and running without using any of their software, which makes me happy.

Yes, it was University of Chicago. During one of her tours they said "See that? That's 48th street. Don't cross it." Yeah, no thanks. Besides, in order to make me tolerate such ridiculous cold a place had better be darn awesome. Big beautiful town with culture and art? I got SF, thanks.

I just impulse-bought an iPod Mini...it was just sitting there :roll: I'll get a shuffle eventually...

If I can plug one of these into the native SATA plug on a nForce3 mobo and install XP Pro to a SATA hard drive on the other channel without drivers, SATA will finally have arrived.

IIRC, SIMMS and RIMMS were the only ones you had to use in pairs...

Thanks for the link, Buck...very helpful. After reading the reviews on that site, it looks like the PlaneQuiet 6 is the better choice at one-sixth the cost of the Bose. But the smaller Sonys are still soo temting...

Ugh...sorry about that :oops: Any out there own a pair? I've been looking at the Bose model for some time, but the $300 price tag and being dissapointed with Bose products in the past has delayed the decision. In the meantime, some other products have shown up. Sony's Ear-bud type are really...

Any out there own a pair? I've been looking at the Bose model for some time, but the $300 price tag and being dissapointed with Bose products in the past has delayed the decision. In the meantime, some other products have shown up. Sony's Ear-bud type are really appealing due to their small size...

I would love to TRY it, but without a demo available, I'm not quite up to making the plunge at the moment.

It'll be nice to get the last (rounded) ribbon cable out of my chassis.

I've used the SuperMicro 5-drive enclosures in many servers with great success. The P-ATA version of the Vantec worked well, the (40mm non-replaceable) fan didn't fail for 3 years. Not bad, really.

MUVO: 1.32" x 2.58" x 0.51" = 1.73cu/in Weight: 1.2oz with battery 15hrs Playback on 1 battery Shuffle: 0.98" x 3.3" x 0.33" = 1.06cu/in weight .78 ounce with battery 12hrs on single charge Significantly larger, significantly heavier. Still sold on the Shuffle.

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Davis? Ugh...vetoed due to crappy locale. Same to a lesser degree to Chicago. At least Madison looks beautiful...

Molecular Pharmacology / Molecular Biology / Genetics IIRC, UCSF is #7 in these fields. Stanford is #3, and the others are all top-ten. Yeah, she's pretty smart ;)

Harpoon was a full-blown "War Games" type coldwar simulation. Entire militarys were yours to control to very fine levels of detail. This thread has cuased me to find the above link...sweet!

I tried reading a book while jogging once, the broken nose healed well and the tree has forgiven me. Seriously, with the amount of time I'm spending on planes these days, a basic audio source and some noise-cancelling headphones seem the best way to tune out the surroundings and get the old...

When I was in Jr. High, I loved playing the War Sim "Harpoon". Though Harpoon2 wan't as good. I wish I still had a copy of this oldy but goody.

Does anyone else enjoy palying simulation games? In the past, I've really enjoyed flight sims and driving sims. More recently, I've become a big fan of driving/racing sims. I really enjoyed the NFS series from #s 1-6, but "underground" doesn't do it for me. Right now I'm playing the demo of...

My new choice...$10 more

Thanks Gilbo!

While in Oregon, I semi-work from home...this page gets refreshed a LOT. I'm always in search of new projects to keep me busy.

I can confirm. It works fine with A8N-SLI Deluxe at least...

Though I have to give Buck the free shot he deserves...where I am right now (Eugene, OR), it just hit the highest temp that it's been the last 2 weeks. 11C it's regularly below freezing by 6PM and until about 9AM. Yuck. Though my GF has already been accepted @ Madison, Chicago, and UCSF...next...

I just put on Offspring's "Bad Habit" in your honor...

Poor Buck lives a bit too far south, and has to put up with excessive ghetto-ness and L.A. all at the same time. Poor Buck... Me? I have to put up with world-class local wines and the finest golf anywhere. Poor......Buck :P

I really ought to just break down and buy an OQO

No doubt. But lugging the receiver and a generator on a run or an airplane seems like more of a workout than I had in mind. One of the reasons I'm looking into this is to supplement my laptop battery on trips. If I'm not running my laptop at times where I JUST want to listen to music, than that...

RightFax Enterprise Server looks promising...thanks!

That's what my client wants to do. Basically be able to write an e-mail, and instead of having an e-mail address in the line, have a fax number. Then have a public folder that's the inbox. Any suggestions?

Yeah, I suppose I should put that into my requirements. I only want one drive, and it needs to be able to burn dual-layer DVDs, and I want the fastest one of those I can find. Noise for the optical isn't an issue, I find 10 minutes of noise a worthwhile cost of having a movie online.

No, :P

A good idea, but these drives will be suspended. As such, they will be pluggable, but not easily so.

Well right now my Optical is a Sony DRU-700A with the latest firmware. It works pretty well, and matches my current case (Antec P-160). As it will be well hidden in my current case, I could keep it. The one thing I want more than anything out of my optical drive is fast DVD rips using DVD...

Thanks for the feedback. The Samsung was selected from the random list on Newegg's cover 'cause it was under $50 and I've had good experiences with other Samsung products (LCD, HDD, RAM, etc). The only thing I really plan on doing with it is ripping video DVDs. Any suggestions?

Looks cool, but I specifically don't want another computer. I really like the simplicity of having some storage on the network (don't need permissions of any kind) that consumes little power beyond the drives themselves.

My logic is this: I just built some playlists that I would like to have. They all fit with 20% to spare. Also, since they don't have screens, much over a hundred songs would become unmanageable.

Well, a number of things have caused me to plan my new box. Comments are appreciated. Uses (most frequent on top): -Web/E-mail/Office -DIVX/MP3 encoding and playback -Media Storage/File Server -Gaming Parts: Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (90nm) 1GB PC3200 Mushkin (2x512MB)...

Nah, my system is on all the time. If this product or something else cheap doesn't work, I'll likely just buy longer USB cables and connect the drives directly to my machine and share them from there. Nah, screw it...I'll build a new machine. New thread forthcoming...

I plan on buying some 512MB iPod shuffles for my GF and I. Any experiences?

Just in case my math is off, I've been copying a bunch of 2GB files to the drive and they are taking 1 hour and 10 minutes each.

I don't have any other USB drives to try, but I do need to buy another one anyway (IF the next NAS device I get uses USB as well). I might end up going in that direction... Latest Firmware (Jan 15, 2005) is in place.

I have a Linksys NSLU2 USB->NAS device and it blows. I have a WD2500JB in a USB 2.0 enclosure and the best this thing can do is 500kb/s. Any reccomendations for a similar product at a reasonable price? I need support for at least 2 drives (4 preferred). If it supports SATA drives internally...

Many thanks. Works great!

As you guys may know, I travel quite a bit. I have a fairly substantial MP3 collection and am interested in having it available while I'm travelling. I currently just have a simple (private, of course) FTP server running that I can map as a drive and (try to) stream, but I've seen others with...

Death I'm not so worried about, the odds are low and cures common. Severe inconvinence, however, I'm strongly disinclined to tolerate. Time, Tannin, and Jake, what would you say your odds of being severely inconvinenced (bitten or otherwise molested) by one of these suckers in a given year be?

Yeah,me and my laptop's touchpad keep choking at around 75...I think I can do bette with a real mouse. Maybe this game is the excuse I need to buy a MX1000? I wonder if Razor will come out with a "runken man" variant of their product?

:wink: Sorry Greg, but I unloaded all of my gear just before christmas. I was moving, so many of my friends and relatives got slightly-used computer components as needed and quite cheap. Depending on your requirements, an AXP gaming box with a 9600XT should be had for under $500, an A64 with...