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I used to use a hosts file before Firefox/AdBlock came around; I haven't had a need for one since. All you need to do to fix it is find out what IPs the links/logos point to and delete those lines from the hosts file; this is a really easy thing to do.

Nah, I don't think anyone will be trying to take my steak away from me any time soon.

So n functionality is a bad thing? Doesn't it make sense that devices that support cutting-edge wired connections (GbE w/Jumbo Frames) would also support cutting-edge wireless?

I'm happy with my Gateway, and I am neutral WRT Dell Latitudes - they are "normal". Acer and Gateway are better, Lenovo is the best. Compaq, HP, eMachines, etc. are all much worse IMHO.

Besides being IDE? nope.

I could survive without meat; but I'd rather not (survive).

I count at least two more...

What support documentation would you like to see from a motherboard manufacturer in this case?

The last time I did it was because I used the same server for file/print serving and routing. Since I switched from MS ISA to smoothwall, I haven't looked back.

If you brainwash a kid and they blow up another kid, that is indeed a shame. If you instead brainwash the kid into brainwashing other kids, that is an epidemic. Terrorism is not here, but religious extremism is.

I don't see any errors in your layout Mark. It is a mess of work, that's why I now have local storage for all my goodies.

Our commercial ones at the apartment complex do a through wash in 38 minutes and dry a large full load (including jeans) in about the same time.

Thanks Mark. You don't happen to know what a/the cheapest router capable of doing such a trick, would you? It would be too easy if this baby supported it...

Lost! A post where every word was spelled correctly and punctuation was included! What has come over you?

Nope. I've broken the plastic shell of most of mine, and now they are dishwasher safe (top rack ;)) The really small ones I have (Sony micro-something) are totally bulletproof; I've squashed one under my heel without incident.

Steam is running fine on my Vista machine, but I didn't get the games because of my 7950. I am giving Sid Meyer's Railroads a try, though.

IIRC, you need a VLAN of some sort that will convert your jumbo frames to regular frames for other devices. Thats as far as my research got.

Involuntary p2p plus spyware, with an extra helping of DRM and bloat?

Bovine-schmovine ;) The only stuff I've actually gotten significant weight-loss from was Yak. The carcass had been hanging on a hook outside the hut for at least a month (not cured) before I boiled some of it and had a go; then I had to go for about 2 days. Those crazy tibetans must have...

It is designed as a laptop replacement drive (2.5"); I suppose the majority of laptops are still PATA. Mine is SATA, so it wouldn't help me there either.

Wow, it actually checks the hardware in the machine to see if you are eligible. I'm not sure that it's worth it...

Sweet. I'll need to break out my old X1600 for the serial I suppose... I hate Steam, but I can kill it later.

That would be quite the uneducated guess on your part. I'm fairly certain it starts with a cow ;)

Does anyone know if AMD's quad-core will be Socket AM2 or something completely different?

The new google maps streets view catches my apartment and my car. Neat.

Interesting. But I'm really liking the multilane connectors as well.

I thought that a QoS-capable router would drop incoming frames, forcing the download stream to slow down?

If they can manage 128GB for under $2k, I'm sure they'll have a market.

If I had to choose, it would be the Zalman stuff that comes in a "nail polish" glass jar with brush. Mainly because it is much easier to apply properly.

The 32GB model is down to $480. I suspect a couple of them will be part of my next system build.

Your point is taken Mark, but I want a chef when I have a steak; I need a chef when I have rabbit food.

sweet.

vegan chef...there's a contradiction in terms.

From the "fix" Bozo pointed to, it seems things just work better if one OS partition can't see the other OS partition. This is basically the same as using a boot manager or removable hard drives. I don't think any of these issues would impact a data drive.

The reason I thought Supersize Me was a publicity stunt was because I'm the counter-point. I ate fast food 2-3 times a day for at least 3 years without issue. If I did eat somewhere else, it was Pizza or Burgers. No weight gain, no heart-attack, nothing. I still eat fast food at least once a...

??? I'm missing the correlation? One backed by tons of scientists and countless findings over many years, one backed by a journalist?

Perhaps Bozo could clarify. When you use System Restore in XP, how does Vista do anything? If you are running XP, isn't it XP that is messing things up?

He being a she doesn't help her argument, and it wasn't a pleasant read in the first place, so I'll duck out of the thread now.

Thanks Chewy, will check it out. I haven't liked any of their newer stuff as much as The Downward Spiral. The Fragile just didn't do it for me.

Fortunately we know where it went ;)

The potential for boot managers to mess things up has always concerned me. When I need to run multiple OSes I give each a hard drive and use the BIOS to pick which one; or just use VMWare.

I don't think mine has ever crashed...

I know Vonage sells a router that includes the VoIP gateway, I'd assume that it has QoS built-in.

yep.

We can talk about how robust to make the system and how secure you want your data forever. Considering the primary storage location for your data is on your computer and this is only in case the first fails, crazy redundancy is just that. I don't think you need RAID at all, your redundancy is in...

If you are OK with the power consumption of your existing PC, that would obviously be the easiest solution. Considering that it will be in another room, noise and space aren't really issues. I'd just throw a hard drive in there and use the Microsoft SyncToy to send things over, it works really well.

As soon as you disable the NIC, it will dissappear from the taskbar.

Vista is compatible with XP, but XP is not entirely compatible with Vista. I'd assume this is all one could ask for, considering Vista didn't exist when XP was written.

Mine takes on the order of 10 minutes to start, due mainly to the 2 different RAID controllers I have initializing. Do what I do, leave it on ;)

For the record, this is the .bat file I'm feeding to smartmontools to get the info I need. @echo off echo smartctl 3Ware Port 0 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p0 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 1 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p1 pause echo smartctl 3Ware Port 2 smartctl -A /dev/tw_cli/c0/p2 pause echo...