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I'd just like to say that 21.3" is way bigger than 19". I had no idea it would be this big*: Viewsonic VP2130b - 1600x1200, VGA+DVI, 4-port USB hub, 8ms Great base with lots of room for adjustments; about 8" vertical and 270 degrees horizontal. I had to turn the brightness down to 40% even...

I have "Brakhage" and "Avant Garde M.O.R." I'll give them a listen when I finish my system install...

Thanks Merc, working great. Currently have it batched to a folder of 1300+ WMAs :o That should keep one of my cores busy for a while...

I had an Inkjet that held up for years; an HP Deskjet 550C. That sucker never died; it was finally replaced by something with more features, and that did die (so did the countless replacements).

Of course. It's the most prevalent audio format out there that is DRM-free. I won't work with WMA or m4a for that reason; FLAC, APE, etc are too fussy when it comes to playback on different devices.

I'm looking for a program (free is really nice) to convert a whole bunch of WMA and m4a files to mp3. Does anyone have a suggestion?

dye sub is awesome; I used to have access to one, but the per page costs were extreme.

1GB sticks are a little under $100...that is where it's been for as long as I've been watching.

I love Gershwin; that's what made me learn the clarinet. Birth of Cool is nice; but I've never heard of the others...

Lots of boards support 8GB; but most only have 4 slots, requiring 2GB DIMMS (expensive) to do it.

I've been in touch with JTR, and his reason for not being here has nothing to do with forum drama.

Not my type; trust me ;) (She's the tall doctor ;) )

I can't say anything about the 150GB ones, but I've had about 20 36GB failures out of...erm...25 original drives (All in under 3 years). Some of them survived, some replacements failed, but that isn't a good record. The 74GB ones I have have all survived the duration to date.

I asked one of the women in my dance class what type of guy she was after (She's Chinese). Her answer? "Tall white doctor". I think you can tell a lot about what a person is looking for in a relationship by what types of traits they prioritize.

+5 Informative ;)

Considering S754 is still very available; I don't think I'd be too worried about S939. Besides, following Mark's suggestions, you'd have enough money to buy many spares. The only technologies I don't expect to see in 3 years would be PATA, AGP, PCI, and DDR.

Just one observation. If you really want more than 4GB of RAM, you have to make one of 2 hard choices: 1. Buy memory in sticks larger than 1GB 2. Buy a server motherboard with more than 4 DIMM slots Memory in 1GB sizes is $100/GB 2GB sticks are about $150/GB Regular Intel motherboards are...

Well, they're $380 now. I would expect a drop to around $300 by the time the 1TB drives ship (Q1-'07?), and a much slower decline after that. I would actually be surprised if they went that low ($200) within 12 months.

A lot; I'll leave this to others until I'm rested. But on top of all that; there is a lot wrong with Russian men. German men, too, as a matter of fact. It's much easier to be what they want, as their expectations are that much lower. For example; I've found a woman who I have encouraged to feel...

She was an OB/GYN in Moscow. Until she passes the tests here she is a medical assistant (part time) for a small boutique practice that doesn't offer coverage.

Actually, I was the last to be loose with the looser spelling...

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"OP" is "original poster", so yep...that would be you.

I'd assume that it's due to the massive potential security issues hosting on Windows. All the services I've seen require a layer of UI between you and the system. The only exception is when you rent a whole server.

I guess that would depend on what you want it to do. I use a buddy's godaddy hosting service at www.downdoggy.com.

I'm running it, and it's very stable...but it's fan speed reporting is a bit off...

I was really tired last night, and I was sure I knew what the OP said. Now, after 6 hours of sleep, I'm not so sure. I think Merc and Will got it right....sweet.

I was just talking to the girl about health coverage; as one of the things she will lose along with her husband is insurance. The quote she received to continue her current coverage is $500/mo. It seems that you either have useless insurance for piece of mind (like Merc) that doesn't kick in...

12 SATA ports is a bit much for me. With 750GB drives, 5-7TB would be enough. I agree that a low-powered CPU would be lovely, my 65W CPU makes me happy.

Marketplace, Car Talk, and Fresh Air are not available via podcast. I just got Wait Wait and Motley Fool. OTM is good; I'll have to look into it. TAL is a mixed bag for me; sometimes I can handle the reality, sometime I have enough already. Car Talk uses Audible, and charges. Fresh Air has...

64-bit windows is still more hasstle than it's worth. For the record, there is no way to get even the latest (released a few weeks ago) version of Act to run on anything 64-bit. I ended up running it in a VM. My sound drivers wouldn't run, neither would the Azalia drivers for my onboard sound...

I loved my P160, then I got a P180 and liked that even more. I'm currently using a P150 as a chair (one of a half-dozen I bought this week). And my new PS is in an Aria (SFF) chassis that has become awesome after some severe modding. There are QC issues, but their engineers certainly have the...

That would be why I asked. I most certainly don't want iTunes anywhere near my precious machine. But 3rd party tools are available. Right now I'm trying out one called iPodder that seems to do most of what I need.

Just bought the first album of a new band from SF called Honeycut. Not really the style of others here; but I really enjoy it, and I think the production is brilliant. I've been reading a book called "This is your brain on music"; and this band works all the right emotional angles in their songs.

Yep, hers is good for 10 years...yay. I didn't think it would be that big an issue, considering her divorce would likely take a year or so, and by then we would have a good idea whether it was going to work or not.

Nope, I'm on El Camino Real a few blocks from Stanford; practically between Stanford University and downtown Palo Alto. Very nice neighborhood. I actually saw a Mercedes SL55 AMG loose a drag race last week (to a Ferrari 550 Maranello) about a block from here.

If you give the host OS a static IP that is outside everything used by your company, it shouldn't show up anywhere. Or you could uninstall the TCP/IP stack from the host OS...

Thanks for the info Pradeep. I'm pretty sure she doesn't know the conditions, but I suspect they are there. Her husband is here on an EB-2 if that makes a difference. If that were a certainty, this wouldn't be a concern. But it's not, and I don't want anyone dependent on me for any reason, so...

750s are reasonable, in a $/GB kind of way. Not that much of a premium over the 500s.

I was thinking the same thing, but I do have a Makita 14.4v that I use for building computers...

Things are settling for now. Just got my new place, going to be buying furniture as income allows, establishing my new "work from home"/"brutal commute" schedule. This place is really affordable ($700/mo in Palo Alto is amazing) so that should help me from worrying about my tenuous employment...

I'm now commuting between 2 NPR affiliates that use different programming schedules. Most of the shows I'm interested in are available as a podcast. I want my system to automatically get these as MP3 so I can burn them to disk or whatever. Does anyone have experience with this?

Foxmarks works with 2.0, but it doesn't do extensions.

Not entirely solo...but more independent than before. My earlier inquiry into needing a divorce attorney with immigration experience speaks to this.

Yay! My move to the new, new place is taking place. Second move in as many weeks. I plan on being here for a while; it's nice to be back on the peninsula again. 20 minutes from San Francisco, 5 from Stanford, and waking distance to nice restaurants. It's 2AM and I've been sleeping in my car the...

:geek: Actually, I was 11 in 1991. But we were poor, so I got a 286 when I was 14. I had a 386-33 until 1996, a Pentium 133 until 2000, when I bought a Celeron 300A. It's one of the reasons I go high-end now...because I can.

From my memory, I seem to recall boards of that age using black boxes attached to the board with Velcro. IIRC, it was a AA-sized Ni Cad in the black box.

I had this happen with a number of video cards. Putting something else in during the install, then swapping after the updates worked fine.

I have this one and really like it. I got it at a local office supply store for around $400

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