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I don't know how safe I would feel booting off of a USB thumbdrive for an extended period of time. Do thumbdrives use algorithms to vary where data is written so that the drive does not die an untimely death?

If I could get a drive like this, for about 1/4 the price I would be quite happy. A bit larger would be nice too. It really seems to be taking ages for SSDs to come out.

Sounds dirty. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I just read through a bunch of those posts on that old thread. Priceless. The guy just wouldn't give up.

If I were you I would not mess with the odometer or speedometer, that way your mileage would stay a bit lower with the larger tire. Might not be ethical, but no one selling cars is ethical.

Yeah I tried some wings in it last night. Quite good. Corn dogs were good. I need to go grocery shopping so I can construct some more complicated things to put in there.

I got a deep frier for Christmas. Anyone have any good ideas of things to cook? I am going to cook some corn dogs in a moment to test it out.

Are you going to keep him or bring him to the humane society?

Speakers in an office is a sure way to annoy the hell out of fellow coworkers. They make headphones for a reason.

Check out the Samsung ML-2571N, which is only $90 after rebate for a monochrome laser. I know a couple people that have been quite pleased with inexpensive Samsung lasers. You can also get toner refills on eBay for this cheap.

I am not on Comcast. I use RCN. I tried it from work as well and it was in the 30KB range throughout the download. Here is my tracert from home on my RCN connection: Tracing route to storageforum.net [69.57.180.83] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 149 ms 15 ms 7 ms 172.30.48.1 2...

Around 70KB/s. I am on a 10Mbit line, so that is quite slow compared with my usual speeds.

Maybe a better option would be to find a program that could perform batch FTP commands, rather than writing your own batch file. I don't know if such a thing exists, but hopefully it would encrypt your password also.

What kind of steak do you use?

The Wikipedia article talks about the economics behind oil shale. It is probably economical to start mining oil shale at the moment, but after production of oil shale starts to hit the market, this will increase supply to a point where barrel prices will drop. Basically, I think the oil...

In the Chicago area about 85% of electricity is nuclear produced, so this would reduce emmissions. Plus, power plants are more efficient energy producers than any automobile.

Are you sending the actual packing slip or a copy? I got my case yesterday. It is pretty nice. Took me quite awhile to get all my components installed, which included 5 hard drives, 2 optical drives and every PCI slot used. Seems pretty quiet also, I have all the fans set to low right now, but...

Newegg is now selling a Samsung 500gb hard drive for $150 and free shipping.

Didn't you just move into a new apartment?

Do you celebrate Festivus?

I would go with the bigger drive now, so that if/when he upgrades, he doesn't need to purchase a new backup drive.

I have a couple friends that own the Casio Exilim EX-Z850, and they like it a lot.

I'm confused. Did the cat steal the glasses off of your face? Or was it while you were sleeping?

Sweet deal. I think the rebate from Frys is good until 11/23/06. So, I put the order in. It is still not a bad price either way, and free shipping is always nice.

That only lasted about 22 minutes to sell 374 units. Is that even a good price?

There is a Woot off going on. I haven't seen anything that particularly interested me today. I will keep watching though. www.woot.com

Your first mistake was going into Jamba Juice. I hate that place.

Does the P180 use drive rails? From the pictures I have seen, it looks like it uses them for some bays but not for others. How many hard drives can you reliably fit in there? Does it come with enough fans to provide cooling for a hot system? Do these fans need to be replaced or modified to be...

What metro area would this be in? Or is it all of them?

Just go for FreeCiv, which is based on Civ 2.

Maybe they should start testing in Spanish in California.

I tried it when it came out awhile back. I like Civ II better.

Try to get your money back. Can't hurt to try.

I think the good things that Daley has done for the city far outweigh his corruption. I have my doubts that anyone that reaches that level of politics doesn't have plenty of skeletons in their closet.

Personally, I don't give a flying f*ck about SR. I believe one of the reasons this forum was initially created was to escape SR and start something for people that were pissed off by the massive failure of the SR database, many people losing (loosing for DD and Handruin) thousands of posts. I...

I was being slightly sarcastic. I know you like to live in one of the most backward states in the whole union. ;-) Good news, Illinois just reelected one of the most corrupt Governors possible.

I checked this album out. Not too bad. It's not what I would normally listen to, but I try to be open to new music.

Merc, you need to move to Cook County. Not a single Republican was voted into office here. Many Democrats ran unopposed.

I wouldn't buy it out of principle. I hate windows.

Sounds interesting, I would like to hear a few.

It's lose, damn it. LOSE, LOSE, LOSE. Examples: I lost the race. He is a loser. My pants are loose. That chick is loose.

Interesting article; the one thing I don't understand is how using paper ballots can eliminate votes from being thrown out? If the electronic machines are produced by a reputable source (and in a perfect world, had all of their kinks worked out), I would much rather trust an electronic voting...

I have had very good luck with DeWalt drills. I would also try to get a keyless chuck if possible, makes changing bits much easier. I think I paid about $40 for mine and have had no problems with it at all. The yellow color makes them easy to find also.

Gotta discriminate against someone.

Please take no offence, but you are a weird guy, DD.

Based on #2, maybe you should tell her that you will come over again and try to fix the power supply. (I wonder how many members will quit based on this comment?) (This is a joke.)

That pisses me off too.

iPod with some speakers attached?

Talk like a pirate day!!!

Wow, they used 2 Gigabyte I-Ram in RAID 0, talk about safe storage.