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I got a good laugh out of both of these.

I just took one of my growing clients to something similar. They now have a dedicated backup server. Here's how it works: Each server has a script that executes at 9PM every night copying any data on the machine to another internal drive that is shared with the backup server. At midnight, the...

Expecting it to is too much. This too was blatant human error. Expecting a computer to protect against even smaller degrees of human error is too much. In this case, what if there wasn't a computer running this sensor, what if it was a human? They'd still recieve conflicting information from...

Good to know humans can still make errors :roll: I'd blame this squarely on the captain. The computer did nothing until the captain attemped an impossible manuver (running 2 props in 2 directions with 1 engine).

There's been one of these on Hwy 101 between San Jose and San Francisco since at least 1999.

Neat idea. Keep in mind that my results, like everyone else's, will be affected significantly by what browsers we are more familiar with. Mozilla 1.7 or similar: $35 Mozilla 0.8: $5 Firefox 1.x: $50 Opera 6.0: $25 Opera 7.5: $30 Opera 8.x: $30 Netscape 4.x: $10 IE 4.0: $5 IE 5.0: $10 IE 5.5: $5...

I'm not sure what you mean about the download window...you would prefer to have individual windows for each download rather than a single list that includes your download history? Can't imagine why... Googling from the address bar? I've got all my firefox clients doing that, it's a one-line fix...

"Yea...no" hehehe

Nope. I'm trying out my new dual-opteron, so I need to keep it multi-threaded :groan:

I once dove 615 miles for a first date and ended up driving back with no underwear at all...

Who you callin' "sugar"? :o

Went to the second best steak house in SF last night for Prime Rib (House of Prime Rib), then went to the FIRST best steak house (Harris') for....desert :eekers: Also made stops at the others: Ruth's Chris, Mortons, and Zed's ... Then I turned around and drove back...225 mile round trip for...

I agree with Mark. I couldn't use a 17" screen @ 1280x1024 they way I use my 19". I like having the screen a little further away and being able to lean back in my chair. In contrast my 12" laptop screen @ 1024x768 is acceptible to me because in the typical use of a laptop, your face is much...

Some are less experienced at the PUI than others...this one nearly qualifies as irresponsable. I usually at least attempt to make some kind of broader statement or question...

That means one is a little more limp than the other. ;)

Used it. Liked it. It worked as advertised. I couldn't use it in the game center due to incompatability issues with Punkbuster and games that autoupdate at will. Monica Perez (on their sales staff) was very nice and hooked me up with a broader trial edition.

I'm afraid my frequent trips from mid-60s to mid-40s are beggining to get me ill...

Great idea Merc!

If noise is important, I'd be wary of anything with small fans in it. I'd prefer anything passive and mounting a 92 or 120mm fan behind them.

Installing anything is still beyond me. I was having issues with X, so I've decided to go directly to console...this is where I really need to start, anyway. I'm just using the 45-day trial of VirtualPC (PowerPack expired :(), I don't have VMWare.

So long as they're both PATA drives I don't forsee any massive issues. IIRC there's a switch that removes all devices and re-installs them on reboot. You'll probably want to to this right before the swap.

The problem I'm having with the NIC is 100% VirtualPCs fault. It's not passing the MAC address to the virtual machine. Not a problem. Still playing. Anyone have a link to a list of useful console commands?

I still do a fair amount of "free" fixes for clients that have purchased systems from me, but some of the more PITA clients now get this answer over the phone: "Back up your data, and re-image the system using that DVD I gave you. Did that fix it? Goodbye." After I install a machine, I spend at...

That's a hell of a list, Merc. Is that from your class? May take me a while...

Sounds good, although I came up on a problem a bit sooner than that...getting my NIC to work :roll:

I've decided that it's past time for me to learn Linux. So I'm running VirtualPC 2004 and have Fedora installed with most of the workstation and client modules. So here I am...now what? What tasks should I be learning to perform? Where should I look for instructions to perfor those tasks? Any...

Though I don't know how many of the MoBo mfgrs will actually implement both...

Has anyone found them in the channel yet? I'm sure I could find a client that "needs" an upgrade. Some of them are so geeky that me drooling over it justifies the upgrade.

I predict that I won't care. Unless they can schedule Angelina Jolie to have a wardrobe malfunction.

When I sell people on Firefox, I explain that it is a tradeoff. You gain system security, at the potential cost that something might now work the way it used to. Not really a choice in my opinion, why live with something that will slowly kill you?

I saw that as a plus. Care to elaborate?

Very nice indeed. I'd say that qualifies as the "ultimate workstation motherboard" to date. Dual Opteron, Dual true 16x PCI-E, PCI-X@133, SATA II. Drool.

I knew we'd talked about this before... In search of the perfect swingarm Something from this page should do it. I like this baby:

I'll be following my GF to wherever she goes to grad school. I'm rooting for my local ones: Stanford or UCSF. But she only has interviews there, so #3 (where she's already been accepted) looms large: Madison, WI Where it is currently 19F with windchill taking it healthily negative and the...

Last weekend I got to play in an ice storm in Portland, OR. As I was driving through it on my way to Monterey, I throught of Mark as I drove past him with 1cm sheets of ice slowly melting and peeling from my car at 80mph. Monterey was nice, 60/70s all week while I enjoyed the convertible. Now...

Should have seen how long the drive would run "topless" ;)

The P160 was also quite expensive when it forst came out...I didn't buy it until it came down to $120. I don't think I'll be able to wait that long with this one, though. I mount my LCD screen on the side of my chassis, and the composite case sides would be much better than the 1mm aluminium I'm...

That is definatl my next case. After reading though the thread on SPCR about it, it has just about everything I'd want.

Darn, wrong thread

Seems to be that time again for me as well, though my storage needs aren't as extreme as some of yours. When I encode DVDs using AutoGK, I shrink them to 2GB. Excessive I know, but I'd like to be able to re-sample them back to DVDs without loss. And for audio I'm still happy with 320Kbps ABR...

Nice tagwork, time. The main use for my home DSL is for remote desktop connections, having a chunky upload helps a lot.

I can also vouch for Mitsu 22" CRTs. When I had the space, it was the primary monitor of my setup. Absolutely beautiful. Now I'm down to just a single 191T :(

I'm only getting 4Mb down, but almost a full 1Mb up is nice. I am also drooling over the FTTP possibilities.

Maxtor for me. I had a great series of drives that would erase themselves if they overheated. A reformat would make them right again, but they were never quiet or fast. I put them at the other end of a 100MBit network connection so I wouldn't notice.

In case anyone is interested...here is their pricelist in PDF.

That is an option. I was expecting it to be more... Corporate Server Version 3.0 - $324.00 SmoothTraffic (2 Megabit/Sec)- $540.00 The difference between 1 and 2 Megabit/Sec is brutal. Shame they don't have anything in between.

I'm running a Smoothwall on the T-1 at my game center. The problem starts when someone tries to download something and maxes the connection, immediatly the CS guys are whining about 200ms+ ping times. I'm under the impression that some kind of traffic shaping could solve my problems? The...

Bartender! Nothing but Coors Light for our friend RW until he realizes the evil of his ways...

Yep, an A64 should smoke an equally clocked P4 (or anything, really except for a Pentium-M)

Go ahead Jan, I'm still a noob over there.