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One of the things I found about my regular trip was that is was much busier on Mondays, people has been boarding the train all weekend as it headed south. Point being that it isn't necessarily about who got on at your stop, but how long the train has been accumulating riders.

Heh. Actually, considering that cases aren't made from hardened steel, basic jeweler's hard tools work very well. I have a half-sized hacksaw that should do nicely.

Neither of you have your location in your location! Even a vicinity would make things easier. :p For a while I was putting together a Google Earth folder with the locations of the members on it, but I didn't gather enough information.

That is a great picture. Did you take it? Where/when?

Once, riding from Oakland to Salinas (70 minute trip with one stop), the train was 7 hours late getting to Oakland and took 150 minutes to complete the trip. Apparently it had engine problems in southern Oregon and the replacement engine was in Santa Barbara. Moral? A train is more likely to be...

I've ridden the Coast Starlight many times. It used to be my monthly trip home to see my parents, and lately I've taken it from San Jose to LA a couple of times for Disneyland/Las Vegas vacations. The only downside is the once a day schedule, if it isn't convenient, it doesn't make sense. How...

I've been wondering what it would take to mod a 3300 into taking an ATX PS. It looks like the compartment is wide and tall enough provided the airflow is purely front-to-back, like the Antec NeoHE series.

Thanks for the tip. I have the "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool", and have been experimenting with different system files. I'd like to support FAT32 if possible, so the whole thing can be one partition. I've been playing with BartPE, and it is the only app to date that I can get to completely...

Does that mean you disagree?

...and don't pizza places deliver over there? I have a client whose office is at least 30 miles from the Pizza place, they charge more for delivery, but it beats driving most days.

There was a time when I would have wanted one, but they might have well gotten rid of the battery altogether and just required constant AC.

I doubt Merc is hard-up for cash. My point being that if you don't want many things, it makes no sense to place limits on getting the things you do want.

Considering the hardware Alienware is notorious for putting in their laptops, heat issues are likely to happen regardless. The only thing they are efficient about is converting their battery to heat as quickly as possible.

Why is that stopping you? What else do you want to do right now? Screw it; if you have to fly somewhere to get a pizza, do it. Rent a limo...who cares?

It doesn't take an ATX power supply, but the form factor is a standard.

With 4GB thumb drives now super cheap, I'm looking at building all my software tools into one. Goals of this project: 1.Bootable Ubuntu WinXP Anything else useful 2.Recovery tools Antivirus Data Recovery Anything else useful 3. Hardware Testing Memtest Hard Drive Error Checking Anything else...

Merc, Considering the conversations we've been having elsewhere, I suggest you be decisive on something you know you want. Do whatever it takes; leave work, take a taxi, and get a f-ing pizza. For me, moments where I know exactly what I want are rare, and not to be missed.

MetroFi around here offers spiffy WiFi repeaters...something to think about.

If I'm really lazy, the local Round Table pizza is 80m away. At 120m and across a street is a Papa Murphys. The closest good pizza is Pizz'a Chicago, whose on-line ordering system gives the geek in me something to look forward to. If I were to talk about how good it is, all you people who live...

I am clinically bi-polar, so don't expect too much out of me ;) In the second paragraph you posted, you presented the standard line. "You should be happy, there are people worse of then you." So what? Just because people tell you to be happy doesn't mean anything, and just because that line has...

That's a nice commute. I'm about that far from the freeway, then my commute actually starts ;)

I'd go with an NSK3300 as well, if you can get them to OK the size. It's essentially the smallest normal tower I've ever seen. Below that are too many compromises to be comfortable with.

I can second Merc's experience on that one. That's why I always pay the extra ~$300 for the Latitude.

I flash WRT54Gs with aftermarket firmware that is supposed to double power output, than I add the larger 7dBi antennas. With this config I can get to the other side of a downtown block or across the street 2 floors up.

I think the question should always be "why not follow an industry standard" as opposed to "why have an industry standard". Just a thought.

I can link it to my phone for faster text messaging ;) Seriously, I've replaced the stock Bluetooth receiver with an aftermarket one from Linksys that has an antenna. Much better range for use with my projector/HTPC setup. It also links to my laptop without having to plug in a dongle of any...

I've lived in about 20 places in Berkeley and San Francisco over the years. Most of that time I took public transportation BART (subway), trolley lines, busses, and CalTrain (longer distance commuter rail). There is only one bus I would take if given the option, the Marina Express. "The Marina"...

Right now I'm using an MX500 and it is nice. There is an almost imperceptible amount of lag on the MX1000 (bluetooth) that I can now appreciate.

5 of the 6 Seagate 750GB drives I currently have came from Newegg, the 6th died in an aftermarket USB enclosure at Merc's and is now a refurbished drive from Seagate. Even the WD740s I have from Newegg are still running. When I order large amounts of drives from them, they come in whole cases...

My Logitech MX1000's rechargeable batteries are going bad. I'm thinking of adding a wired mouse for desktop work and just using it for the HTPC stuff. I recently added a Logitech G15 keyboard and am really happy with it so far. I suspect I'll get one of these.

Occasionally, on a really good day, I care about the future of humanity. When I do, the biggest concern I have is that stupid and poor people are breeding way more than smart/rich people are. I wholeheartedly agree with Merc and Will that the world needs less people, not more. I think if the...

Making everyone spend a higher percentage of their time in the car is not a worthwhile trade off. Increased economic efficiency benefits everyone. Where are the lower coefficient of drag vehicles? Where are my TV camera side-view mirrors? My sixth-surface bodywork? Closer tolerances on all body...

Good point, Will. A friend's first child just got their first job out of college. Engineering degree, about to buy a house, obviously under control. They decided to go for round two; twins, at age fifty. Truly nuts...

Happy enough is a simple term to me. There are things in life that need to be done to continue living. Some of these things I don't enjoy, or even consider work. If the positive things don't outweigh the negative, then a neutral position (death) is the better choice. It's the most basic of...

I've had a fun time playing with Russian keyboards lately, and apparently there are 2 versions. The first is the one supported by MS; a complete relocation of all keys into something that probably makes sense to someone. The second is identical to an English keyboard wherever possible, replacing...

This doesn't make sense to me. Businesses stay in business by making money. Currently, they must not think that making efficient cars is in their best interest. Why is that? What could be done to change that (without simply putting up laws to make them)?

A side-note to get you up to date ;) Her divorce is taking longer than expected, but fortunately doesn't involve a trip to Russia; her husband is just making things difficult. We will likely get married shortly thereafter, but not because of what it means to us (we really don't care), but what...

The government shouldn't restrict anything, just make sure we pay for it. I was going to buy a Honda Insight, but I'd need to do something about that top speed...

Actually, I was thinking that 4-Port 3Ware PATA controllers might come back into style... Unfortunately, none are PCI-e

Funny how their arrival almost perfectly coincided with motherboards that have no PATA connectors at all... :(

I've always been dependent upon myself for entertainment, so I know that isn't it. The closest analogy I can come to is a video game. Have you ever played a game that was really hard, and took days upon days to complete, with countless moments of stress and success? And finally, when you have...

2003 VW Golf. 145k miles. It did 40mpg @ 40k miles and 70mph; but it's closer to 30mpg now @ 100mph. I buy more gas than most of the group here combined (about $700/month) and am willing to pay many times that amount if it will get soccer moms out of SUVs.

Thanks for the heads-up Mark. I'll be all over this once I scrape together enough cash for a few of them. Any word on when an SATA version could be available?

Because the other idiot is driving an SUV. Get into a wreck with another of the same and you wouldn't be so bad off.

Passing laws that are against peoples short-term interest is dumb. People are cattle, and will make decisions based on what they think is best for them. This gives you 2 options; remove their ability to decide or make the choice obvious. Considering that I like to be able to decide, we need a...

Cute story e_dawg. Of course, it wouldn't have to look like a pistol, just have the traits that make it's design useful. I suspect if would look more like a radar gun than an actual pistol.

That is a good response Sol, but what metric do we use to determine what is happy enough? How happy do I have to be, and for what percentage of the time, before death is no longer the better choice? How bad is death, anyway? Is it actually bad? Should we intentionally avoid it? Fear it? If I...

I would suspect that a pistol-like format would be the most stable, easy to use. Considering that the objective with a pistol and a camera are the same (easy to move around, easy to aim quickly, easy to hold still, precise timing of the trigger) I think it makes a lot of sense.

Did some looking:

I assume you have a 7xxx series card? IIRC, it is an array limit; so partitioning isn't going to help you. As to whether it would choke completely or not, I don't know.