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I disagree. I imagine that Dell hardly made that clear in their proposal, and I find it quite extraordinary that a reasonably expensive PC still had obsolete USB just a year ago. Even budget desktops have had USB 2.0 for at least 18 months.

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Yes, a service is what you would reasonably expect. They managed to setup Win2k to use the generic 'run as service' facility, but this meant there was no error messages and no way of telling if the app was getting the data from the PABX. As it happens, it stopped working after a couple of days...

I have a client with an ISDN PABX who is trying to analyse call patterns, specifically linking incoming calls to free call numbers used for advertising feedback. He also wants summaries by time of day to help predict staffing requirements. The software effectively requires a dedicated PC that...

I'm aware that some Samsung hard drives seem to vibrate excessively, but I've got a 160GB SATA here that's worrying me. I'm actually concerned about the effect on other drives in the same cage! It's mounted on compressed rubber grommets, which may be making it better or worse. I thought these...

It's not food as we know it, brother. It's a nutrient solution delivered through a tube into her stomach. The only reason it's not an IV is because you can't sustain people for extended periods with the latter. There would be no point in offering her food and water; she wouldn't know what do do...

AFAIK, your SATA controllers are treated as SCSI devices under Windows.With the server OS, I believe write caching is disabled by default on SCSI drives, but not on ATA drives. Storage Review has a summary of the 'problem'. Alternatively, perhaps Windows has some sort of read after write...

Thanks for responding, RWIndiana. Unfortunately, your contribution left me none the wiser. I can understand the parents' feelings. I can understand politicians' need to repay their sponsors. What I don't understand is what sort of reasoning is driving the "religious right". Libelling the...

Keeping her "alive". From what I hear, 4 out of 5 Americans oppose intervention. Surely someone here can explain how the other 20% is reasoning?

AFAIK, Seamonkey is kinda dead for future versions. We're all supposed to embrace Firefox and Thunderbird. Or Netscape. Someone told me the other day that the latest version has refinements over Seamonkey - I've haven't checked.

Whoa! I was just venting. For all I know, LG now stands for "Luscious Grapes" and represents the pinnacle of Low Calorie Displays.

Over a couple of months, I compared Spamhilator with some email clients that integrate spam filtering; the thread is somewhere here but I can't be bothered to look. I think there may be a plugin or something for Spamhilator. Otherwise, it looked good initially but quickly fell by the wayside. I...

Well, it isn't remotely new, it's just a Genuinely Sucky Technology. I predict it will be perfected about the time OLEDs or similar hit their stride. :P Well, I'm irretrievably prejudiced here. Unlike Merc, I don't normally hold a grudge indefinitely, but I'll make an exception in the case of...

I don't want to start a fight here - I'm genuinely perplexed. Can someone who believes in this explain to me: why? I like to think I can put myself in a lot of people's shoes, but I'm unable to comprehend the mindset behind the protests.

Because it's a server, the cheapest I can get. That happens to be a Sapphire X300SE. I haven't checked lately, but there was a Gigabyte GF6600 or 6600GT that was exceptional value (high clock, low price). The GA-K8NF-9 was my first choice for a board, but I still can't get any. In any case, the...

Oops! I forgot about that. You're right of course, the Gigabytes are the best - if you can get them. The other reason I went with an Asus is because my Gigabyte distributor forecast no stock for weeks (except for the top of the line model). Gigabyte + nForce anything often seems in short supply...

Okay, now I'm pissed. I meant this. Sheesh.

Damn! Wrong post. :oops: I meant this one. BTW, does anyone know why in my current skin/theme at least, links are no longer highlighted or underlined?

Very cute. Is this how you did it?

I'm going crazy here trying to find decent keyboards. Is it too much to ask? Part of my frustration is the inability to test drive contenders. I don't want much, just a reasonable feel that facilitates accurate typing. That is, not too soft but not too clacky. There's tons of Microsoft and...

You're joking, right? I've been beating them off with a stick, and this is the Antipodes. Recently, instead of an Opteron setup, I went for an A64 on an Asus SLI nForce4. It's smirking at me while I type this. It may well be the twin 10000rpm drives, but by God it's fast - in both Windows and...

I'd just like to take a moment to warn people off 2nd Copy 2000. We were having difficulties getting 2nd Copy 97 to run from the Windows Scheduler on one site, so downloaded the 2000 version in the belief that it must surely be a huge improvement. It does have a couple of extra features, but the...

I'm still hazy about which APC software does what, and therefore which model I want. I'm looking for what we were able to do with a former local brand called Sola: Software to run on a server (Linux or Windows) and monitor the UPS via a serial cable. When power interruption is detected...

Looking for a networkable color printer, preferably midrange inkjet. The application is to produce the occasional glossy presentation (with photos). I say networkable to exclude those pieces of bastardry such as host based printers, as well as drivers that won't play unless the printer is...

Well, I had a look at an Asus M5001 today. As a DVD-RW/RAM equipped unit, it came in a rather spiffy white finish, which is definitely chic. Asus is currently bundling it with both a 2hr and 5hr battery (8hr battery is an optional extra). The screen was very sharp with a reasonable viewing...

The Dell Latitudes look much better than the Inspirons, despite the price difference. They were looking good, except ... When Dell came to Australia, it opened a showroom in each capital city so that customers could at least see what they were buying. This is no longer the case. In fact, the...

Okay, I solved it by: 1. Disconnecting the second drive. This allows it to bring up the RAID setup with an error. 2. Using the RAID setup to delete the array, then restarting. 3. Entering the BIOS setup and disabling RAID on the first drive. 4. Reconnecting the second drive. The RAID setup...

T&L?

By my reckoning, the screen is just 6.4" high, giving 125 lpi. If it wasn't widescreen, it would actually be a 10.8" screen. Sorry, I think that's just ludicrous, especially for something that weighs over 4lb. Oddly, it's way cheaper in the US, but not significantly so in Oz. :-? Well...

Trying to create a mirror from two SATA drives on an Asus A8N-SLI using the 4-port nVidia RAID function. After configuring the RAID, the PC hangs at "Detecting array" every time it starts, even if you press [Del] to enter the BIOS setup. The only way around it is to use the Clear CMOS jumper. :(...

Perhaps we could help more if we understood what it is you are trying to achieve. For example, will this be an ongoing automated process? Why do you need to copy to two targets? And in particular, why do the copies need to be concurrent?

I'm considering an IBM X-series laptop for a client who craves something really light. They weigh about 1.2kg (2.7lbs) and even include a keyboard light. Different batteries provide runtimes from three to seven hours. I have a few reservations: 1. The 12" screen 2. The 90% size keyboard (so...

How about Kopimaster? It appears to support multiple jobs and speed seemed okay when I tried a single copy just now. I'm sure there are many solutions that are faster than Windows Copy.

The enterprise appears to exist for the sole purpose of sucking in money from foolish investors - I'd call that a scam. Untrue. Solar panels have an efficency of at least 12%, solar hot water heaters about 40%, and this project claims total conversion efficency in excess of 60%. Yes, it...

Unfortunately, I'd be confident that the "Solar Tower" is a scam. The numbers quoted are actually incredibly poor for the collection area. As a rule of thumb, you can count on about 1kW of heat energy being absorbed by every square meter of surface exposed to the sun. That works out to 100,000...

You must be speaking from an alternative universe today. :) I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Serv-U, AFAIK the most common Windows FTP server software around. The basic version is free (all that David needs), and the secure version is only $80. It's so easy, George W. Bush could set it up...

With older versions of Windows (don't know about Win2k, but Win98 anyway), the OEM key will not allow you to perform an upgrade, whereas the full retail version will. I'm hoping M$ left this particular piece of bastardry behind.

Yeah, I know the retail version will work, but what about the OEM version?

What does everyone think about the use of conventional, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM in 1GB modules? I'm speccing a workgroup server with 2GB RAM and wondering whether the extra cost of a Tyan board, Opteron CPU, and ECC RAM is really justified. It's never going to be upgraded past 2GB (it really...

There's also bound to be a keyboard driver to make some of the extra buttons work, and possibly a power management driver. And maybe 'common libraries' etc, a la Toshiba. There wil also be several different versions of each, with little or no explanation about which should be chosen (confirmed)...

Sechs, I assume you're referring to an OEM copy of Pro? If so, I'm cheered. Tannin, now you've depressed me. Gathering and reinstalling all the random goop to make a 'name-brand' laptop go is not one of my favourite past-times. I'd guess a couple of hours if all goes well. :( On top of this...

Has anyone done this? I'm planning to fly to another country and upgrade a Compaq laptop running XP Home. With the multitude of drivers involved, I wonder if there's an easy way to just upgrade rather than wiping it and installing from scratch?

That's okay, it will be milk cooled.

I don't know if the YY-5601 supports EATX, but the dimensions show it's more than deep enough.

Coincidentally, the interior of that particular Antec marks it as made by Compucase. :) FYI, the Compucase 6A19 is also available in black, at least in this part of the world. It looks way better in this color, IMO.

Although the domain name exists, there's no website, just email. It's a country primary domain (.co.nz), so is the first option preferable?

Well, it's a better service than I need, but it sounds great. Any additional info such as quota and cost would be helpful, as well as how he deals commercially (if we want to purchase his service). Thanks, Doug.

Bump.

That's the reason I asked. I spent quite some time scouring that thread (and others) and no-one actually owning the case has had a problem. The reviewer became increasingly frustrated with an idiot called Bluefront, who made it his mission to badmouth the case - despite never having seen one...

David, have you heard from anyone who actually has the case and had incompatibility issues? Like with the NCU-2000 heatsink, for instance.