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I have a 24dBi D-Link one here, and it's letting me use the coffee shop's connection at least a quarter mile away. There are nearly two dozen "2wire" APs within range, all of them secured. I wish I could get one of them; they are much closer.

If you want to know what a 7300 is capable of, I just installed one in one of my machines. Let me know what you would like to see.

*it's not. The DL test here is really pathetic.

Around here, at least, parallel parking may be a necessity for any driver. Parking is scarce, public parking lots even scarcer; I parallel park on average 2-3 times a day. Therefore, some competence should* be demonstrated before one should be allowed to drive here. The likelyhood of the...

Actually, I never have. In the past, I've lived with friends or girlfriends. This is the first actual contract with my name on it since 1999.

I've moved 3 times in the last 30 days. I moved out of my EX-GF's into a temporary place, from the temp place into a potentially permanant roomate situation with some friends, and now into a 1-bedroom apartment with a new GF. Ideally this will last longer, as it's a 1-year lease.

I just signed a lease on a 1 bedroom apartment with Olga. Should be fun...

I dated a Mormon in High School. Our second date was dinner...at her parent's house...where her mother suggested to me what our first child should be named...that was our last date.

Sorry, it was really early for me. Just remove the "therefore" and add some capital letters.

probably not. religious types are generally not that smart. govornment employees are not that smart. therefore govornment employees are generally religious types.

I had a rottweiler/shepard mix called "Baby" (weighed about 125lbs) that served this purpose nicely.

I was laughing very hard for quite some time at this...thanks ;)

I plan on transplanting all the contents of my SFF system (Antec Aria) into the P180. I haven't been able to get the temps or noise down to my analy stringint levels. Increasing the volume of the case and airflow by a factor of 6 should fix those problems.

Interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.

I've actually had luck using IETab for this kind of thing. You can create a list of websites that automatically render in IE when FF is opened. Windows update, Office update, and Housecall Antivirus all work using this method.

Acronis does it in Windows, both create and restore, very easily. All I do is store a backup image of my entire system drive. I don't do incremental, I just re-do the whole thing when I think it's been a while (if you've ever had to do a restore from incremental backups, you know it sucks). The...

Chewy, yes I recognise you from way back in the day. Good to see you around. I like the iPods because of the great interface. Unfortunatly, the Shuffle doesn't have the interface; and I have no experience with other players. Mainly just wanted to say hi, and wish you luck finding any info on...

If his system drive is 40GB, getting a drive larger than 40GB to hold an image of his system is silly. This is a smaller USB drive that doesn't need seperate power so it's easy to use. That, plus Acronis ($30) is all you need.

It's all good Mark. I didn't mean that he should know better; just that unless you are on top of things, whatever part of the world you are in will screw you. Too many people are under the impression that if they go though the world open, honest, and accepting that they will be met in kind. I...

You got it. Acronis TrueImage and a USB drive is the way to go. For such a small target drive; I'd actually think about getting 2x 40GB pocket-sized ones, and rotate them through.

There are still options for intelligent people. The masses are being screwed by M$; but they were being screwed by Apple before that, and by Real before that...if you aren't knowledgeable, you will get screwed by corporations. When (not if) M$ prevents non-DRMed media from being played; then I...

IIRC, you mean the Action Pack. Last time I got one it was $300 and good for one year. I make my clients get them so I can set up non-production servers or do other testing. I end up using the 2003 standard and enterprise licenses there, and use the web edition on my workstations at home.

Most fun workstation ever: 40-core, 256GFlop goodness

I'm only there for freebies. I'm sure I never want to spend my own money on MS products.

I just signed up for the Feb 1st launch conference in Santa Clara. On the bill: Vista Office 2007 Exchange 2007 I'm doing the "IT Pro" track in the morning and the "Partner" track in the afternoon. We'll see what they have to say ;)

That is one hell of an OC Merc...I may have to get me one of those...

I know everyone knows this, but... EAC+LAME+Winamp=better.

Have fun Tannin; I'll second the request for pictures, and I won't even pretend that I'm not jealous.

:crap: Not really, that was a long time ago. I just remember buying a mobile chip, then being mad that the next gen was that cool anyway.

Same price...same shipping (free)...faster delivery ;)

Just picked one up locally, Fry's is 3 blocks away...

I used to run one of those chips. Unfortunatly, it was a .13um part; later non-mobile versions @ .09um ran cooler/faster and were cheaper.

The best price/performance can be had by either nVidia or ATI. Pick the best of either that will fit in your budget, and stop worrying about it ;)

Well, if everything had HDMI, then it wouldn't be that big a problem.

Sweet. Time to get another 2GB ;)

Spending one day nuking the current system only sounds like a good idea if you know the problem will take 2 days to fix. Justifying the expense of a redundant system only makes sense if you suspect that a 2-day outage is even possible. This started as a simple server migration. Active Directory...

No, having 4 guys from Microsoft spend 8 hours fixing everything for me while I watch (and bill). The client was less worried about my charges and more about what the army from Redmond would charge. Their total cost? $300.

2PM...still here...I've had MS on the line (and connected to my network) for the last 8 hours. One team in Bangalore working on Exchange and another somewhere in China doing the AD work. Both are frustrated as hell and have been running around in circles for hors. Not bad for a $300 phone call...

Looks interesting. And considering it is now 6AM and I'm still buried in AD/DNS issues, very tempting.

4AM. Got the DNS poisoning under control; still can't get the ISTG moved away from the dying DC. Replication is starting to work again except for one DC that opted out because of an IP conflict for double the tombstone time limit (that no-one mentioned :boom: I'll see if the new exchange...

...stupid ISTG role holder...3AM, contemplating the blanket in the back of my car...would make this server room just a bit warmer...

...and as 1:30 AM rolls around, Exchange has managed to take all of Active Directory with it, and when I lost one of my DCs...DNS got shot to hell. What a mess.

No, it isn't. He had personal problem unrelated to SF (or the internet in general for that matter), that required tending to. He is fine, and will be returning when his affairs are in order. I have been in e-mail contact with him, and know this information first-hand.

Here I am, 4.5 hours into a (botched) simple server migration, looking at hours more work before I can even restore simple service, still with some hope that I can do so without losing any data and completing before start of business Fri (7.5 hours from now). If there is another client/server...

I didn't actually do it, I had an electrical contractor do it. <shrug> He was certified, the work was permitted, and I don't live there anymore ;)

Sorry 'bout that. I did 30A breakers, in anticipation of all the computers ;)

Joe is fine, and he will be back.

If you feel up to it, show me. What is the better corporate e-mail system? How does it tie into a global contacts list? What should we use for a calendar that supports sharing? How would NOD32 integrate with it on the server and workstation sides? Does this include a replacement of all of office...

I little more than 2 years ago Merc was at 6k...now he's almost at 9k. A victim of his own success, this mark is eclipsed by his potential to be the first (by a long way) to 5 digits!

I actually agree with Merc as well; Outlook is crap software. But it isn't as bad as he makes it sound. It is an integral part of any "MS shop", and works for that purpose. It's also the most available contacts/calendar/task list/whatever app for those already doing the MS thing. If someone has...