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Having been owned by five cats in my lifetime, and now my brother's cat, I definitely share your sentiments. We go out to buy food, serve it to them, clean their toilet for them, and make sure they have a warm place to sleep. They eat, sleep and play. Maybe if they're in the mood they'll give...

To put things into perspective, when my parents purchased their house for $52K in 1978 combined their income was around $26K. This was more or less an average income for a couple back then so the house cost about twice their annual pre-tax earnings. Even so, things were tight because they had...

I see nothing wrong with taking a big trip every couple of years if I could afford it (which I can't right now). It is the daily 60 mile commutes to work which many Americans take that waste the most energy, and which concern me the most. People should live near where they work, and for many...

I'm not talking about direct costs like tolls, fuel, fines, and insurance which drivers currently pay but indirect costs which they don't. Roads and parking lots occupy an enormous amount of land which can best be used for other purposes. Less available land drives up the costs of housing for...

My suggestion is to try eBay every day. You'll get the occasional person who'll have a very low Buy-It-Now price. I remember I got 4 32MB 72-pin EDO sticks for $5 and 360MB assorted EDO RAM for $10 at a time when a 32MB EDO stick was running around $10. Some people either don't know how much...

Well, except for Philadelphia all of those places cost less, and all of those systems are much more heavily subsized on a percentage basis due to the low ridership. According to this, riders pay 29% of the cost of a ride in Los Angeles, 42% in Atlanta, 47% in Washington, 50% in Philadelphia...

After spending quite a bit of time with this, I'm able to get Windows to boot off of a CD. There are quite a few omissions/errors in that article that I had to find by trial and error. In and of itself booting off a CD is very useful. However, no luck yet booting off the network. I copied...

Actually, that's not true. To quote the exact part of the article that's relevant here: And to add to that, New York State as a whole sends $15 billion more annually to the Federal government than it gets back in aid and spending. Despite the enormous Medicaid load in the city, NYC and NYS...

I'll also add that there is a significant minority of the population that expects essentials like food, shelter, and transportation to be free. While I don't fall into that line of thought, I do expect governments to take some measures to keep housing (and also food and transportation)...

DDR 400 is fine also but I'm sure the switch to PC3200 was mainly for marketing reasons. After all, I'll bet you had plenty of people (me included) who initially thought that PC3200 is indeed 24 times faster than PC133. While I did notice that there was nothing in between PC150 and PC1600, I...

In regards to housing prices or other areas??? I'm not alone in thinking that housing shouldn't cost and arm and a leg. A standard benchmark used for years was that you can't afford a home costing more than 2.5 times your annual income and/or that rent should be 25% of your income. With...

I rarely partake of the arts but I do like the cuisine here. My aunt upstate can't even find a Chinese takeout while I must have about a dozen within a mile of me. The way your cousin is living basically proves my point. A single person on an average salary can't afford to live alone. Unless...

Thanks for explaining that to me but why the hell didn't they just call PC-3200 PC-400 in order to be consistent? Maybe next they'll starting stating hard drive speeds in rotations per hour. While it's true that PC-133 is no longer made in large quantities, I'm surprised there's still that...

One thing that puzzles me is that for a given size there doesn't seem to be much price difference between, say, PC3200 ($66 for 512MB on Pricewatch) versus PC133 ($49 for 512MB) despite the fact that the PC3200 is 24 times faster. I just don't get it. I tend to think with the need now for...

My point is that housing prices are ridiculous even outside of big cities. It used to be that you could move to the suburbs in order to save money on housing. Not so any more. A house in Long Island or New Jersey runs at least $300,000. Add in the much higher real estate taxes and the need...

This article states that the rate of housing price growth is likely to reach the lowest level seen in three decades, and that in terms of inflation housing prices may actually decline over the next few years. I'd say this is long overdue. The rapid rise of housing prices was driven in part by...

Thanks for the info, miksmi, and welcome to StorageForum! 8) I'm thinking along the lines of booting into DOS via CD, loading the network drivers, mapping the remote folder where the Windows files are stored to drive C:, and then starting windows with the "win" command. I tried it once...

The only way to know exactly is to hook each machine up to a wattmeter. My 1.5 GHz machine with 3 hard drives uses ~100 watts. A PII with a single hard drive will use maybe 80 watts. A Pentium or MMX will use maybe 50 or 60 watts. A 15" or 17" CRT monitor uses up to about 100 watts. An LCD...

Interestingly, Netperf tells me I'm only getting 32Mb/sec transfers either way but I transferred a few GB of data (mostly large files) yesterday to the slower machine and I averaged about 5 MB/sec. I'm guessing I could probably approach the 10MB/sec figure you mentioned between two faster...

Best I'm able to do now from my machine is ~5.5MB/sec to a P200 machine and ~4.5 MB/sec from the same machine. I did get close to 7 MB/sec when transferring from my brother's machine. Except for my brother's machine, all my machines use the same NIC which uses a Realtek 8139 chipset.

Same problem here. In fact, I tried several times earlier today with no luck. Server down?

I found further information at the website of the company that makes them.

The box that stores the pictures taken by a small camera in a taxi. Here is a picture and description. Here is the web site of the company I repair them for.

As some of you may know from the tech support forum I recently set up a small LAN. After playing around a bit and searching I was able to create a boot disk (Bart's network boot disk) that lets me boot into DOS and maps the drives from a remote machine to another drive letter. Theoretically...

Thanks again, Fushigi. In the rush to set up and test my LAN I had forgotten about tweaking my mom's PC for maximum download speed. I had done so for my PC soon after setting up everything. Anyway, tweaking a few settings increased the download speeds on my mom's PC from about 2100kbs to 2800...

I bought my mom's machine upstairs and connected it to the router with just a 3 foot cable. No change in transfer speeds, which is at least a good sign that there's nothing worng with my cabling. So far it seems like this connection maxes out at ~4.5MB/sec. I suppose unless anybody has any...

I updated the drivers and removed the dial-up and dial-up VPN adaptors. I had already set the speed to 100Mbs/full duplex. No speed improvement using Windows file copying (still stuck at ~3 MB/sec) but I did get a slight speed improvement when transferring files using Total Copy (my transfer...

Thanks Fushigi. That came in handy. Internet connection sharing worked for all the machines with no problem but file transfers were a little more problematic. Once I got the computers to see each other over the network (which unfortunately is not explained in that document), it was relatively...

I'll be faced with a similar decision when I buy an HDTV next year. I'll probably choose a 32" or 34" wide-screen over a 36" standard screen for the simple reason that more and more is being shown in letter-box format. Most letter-box programming will actually appear smaller on the 36" than on...

The router came today along with three new network cards. Setup was easy. First I took out the old NIC (10 only) and put in the new one (10/100), installed the drivers, powered down the cable modem, powered it back on, and restarted my machine. No problems-my connection was fine. Next I...

Bad idea for a variety of reasons. For starters, if you accidentally get any liquids on the boards while they're operating you can probably kiss them goodbye (note that most liquids don't harm circuit boards when they're unpowered-I've cleaned urine off taximeter boards and they've worked fine...

Congratulations, David! :beer: It's nice to have someone around here whose views on many subjects are not too different from mine. It seems like not long ago that you started posting here regularly, and now you've reached the millenium mark. I greatly look forward to your next thousand.

I just tried a couple of online connection speed tests. Naturally, the closer the server is to NYC the faster the connection. Results varied from 711 Kb/Sec to 2679 Kb/sec. The latter result is about 60 times what I usually got on dial-up. Depending upon the site and time of day my download...

100 mW for 20 hours = 2 watt-hours. That's about what you can get out of a 2000 mAh NiMH AA cell. I know this is a first generation product but I'm hard pressed to see any advantage over standard rechargeables other than the "instant recharge" feature. However, I've seen 15-minute...

BTW, thanks all for the assistance. :cat: I think I would have spent many more frustrating hours on the phone with tech support otherwise.

With winipcfg would I use "Release" followed "Renew" or "Release All" followed by "Renew All" ? I assume in both cases I select "Fast Ethernet Adaptor" from among the choices in the drop down box.

I had my account activated by tech support rather than relying on RR's buggy activation software. Everything seems up and running(and fast!). Should I expect any further issues once I set up the router? No comparison to dial-up. Even though one of my regular download sites is capped at...

I tried to activate my account via RoadRunner's online activation and it hangs up at the system requirements part (undefined is in all the fields). The activation program is apparently too stupid to get some basic info (O/S, memory, IE version) about my machine, and there are no buttons to skip...

The self-install kit just has software that checks if the system meets minimum requirements and then sets everything up automatically. There are no detailed instructions whatsoever to do anything manually. The part where it hangs up is when it tries to set my network card to use DHCP. I click...

I called to have the service activated today and picked up the self-install kit. The cable modem has the option of either a USB or an Ethernet connection. Since both my USB ports are in use I chose Ethernet. Unfortunately, I'm not able to connect because the RoadRunner software wants to set...

Thanks, i. That seems very inexpensive and with quite a few features. I priced some cable, wall jacks, and other stuff at cyberguys. Anyone know what is the difference between CAT5 and CAT5e other than speed (and price)? Are they wired the same? Which is more universally compatible...

Since my brother is mostly moved in I'm getting close to the point where I need to decide what to do. Wireless is out-the components are way out of my price range and I'm less than thrilled with the idea of my Internet browsing being broadcast to the whole world, or at least anyone with the...

I'd have to say yes. I saw side by side comparisons at Best Buy, and even standard flat screen TVs can't compare with HDTVs, and that's with a regular NTSC signal. Large screen regular TVs look blurry close up but HDTVs don't. They're almost like looking out your window. As a result, I plan...

Thanks for all the ideas so far. It doesn't seem as daunting as I thought at first. I am seriously thinking about using one of my old P200MMX boxes as a Smoothwall (thanks, Tea! :)). I have to buy the NICs, cable, and hub regardless. If it doesn't work out I can always buy a purpose-made...

Cool. 8) Now maybe instead of hybrids you can cover the roof and hood of a car with these, and have the battery get recharged while the car is parked. No fuel, no engine, no paying for electric to recharge the battery. I haven't done an anaysis, but I think the amount of solar energy...

Mark, the problem is that I suspect all this was done against the aunt's wishes, or even without her knowledge. A person with power of attorney is obligated to follow the wishes of the person they are representing, regardless of whether or not it represents maximizing assets or securing their...

As I mentioned in this thread my brother will be moving back in with us soon, and he has gotten used to high-speed Internet. As a result, we need to hook up to RoadRunner. I'm planning to use the cable in my bedroom for the cable modem, and from there want to have several PCs sharing the same...

My brother will be moving back in with us within the next month thanks to circumstances beyond his control. For twelve years he had a great arrangement renting the top floor and finished attic of a private home for $600 per month (very cheap by NYC standards). The owner of the house, a very...

Congratulations! :beer: Even though I hate SUVs with a purple passion, I'm glad to know they're keeping a good person like you employed. I suppose there's a silver lining around every dark cloud. I agree that working on something like the Hywire would be very challenging and interesting...

If we really wanted to seal off the Mexican border we could. Fact is that we don't because big business likes cheap labor. As I mentioned in another thread my friend's taximeter business has to compete with others hiring $1 an hour labor. Short answer is he can't legally, and if not for the...