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That's what my client wants to do. Basically be able to write an e-mail, and instead of having an e-mail address in the line, have a fax number. Then have a public folder that's the inbox. Any suggestions?

Yeah, I suppose I should put that into my requirements. I only want one drive, and it needs to be able to burn dual-layer DVDs, and I want the fastest one of those I can find. Noise for the optical isn't an issue, I find 10 minutes of noise a worthwhile cost of having a movie online.

No, :P

A good idea, but these drives will be suspended. As such, they will be pluggable, but not easily so.

Well right now my Optical is a Sony DRU-700A with the latest firmware. It works pretty well, and matches my current case (Antec P-160). As it will be well hidden in my current case, I could keep it. The one thing I want more than anything out of my optical drive is fast DVD rips using DVD...

Thanks for the feedback. The Samsung was selected from the random list on Newegg's cover 'cause it was under $50 and I've had good experiences with other Samsung products (LCD, HDD, RAM, etc). The only thing I really plan on doing with it is ripping video DVDs. Any suggestions?

Looks cool, but I specifically don't want another computer. I really like the simplicity of having some storage on the network (don't need permissions of any kind) that consumes little power beyond the drives themselves.

My logic is this: I just built some playlists that I would like to have. They all fit with 20% to spare. Also, since they don't have screens, much over a hundred songs would become unmanageable.

Well, a number of things have caused me to plan my new box. Comments are appreciated. Uses (most frequent on top): -Web/E-mail/Office -DIVX/MP3 encoding and playback -Media Storage/File Server -Gaming Parts: Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (90nm) 1GB PC3200 Mushkin (2x512MB)...

Nah, my system is on all the time. If this product or something else cheap doesn't work, I'll likely just buy longer USB cables and connect the drives directly to my machine and share them from there. Nah, screw it...I'll build a new machine. New thread forthcoming...

I plan on buying some 512MB iPod shuffles for my GF and I. Any experiences?

Just in case my math is off, I've been copying a bunch of 2GB files to the drive and they are taking 1 hour and 10 minutes each.

I don't have any other USB drives to try, but I do need to buy another one anyway (IF the next NAS device I get uses USB as well). I might end up going in that direction... Latest Firmware (Jan 15, 2005) is in place.

I have a Linksys NSLU2 USB->NAS device and it blows. I have a WD2500JB in a USB 2.0 enclosure and the best this thing can do is 500kb/s. Any reccomendations for a similar product at a reasonable price? I need support for at least 2 drives (4 preferred). If it supports SATA drives internally...

Many thanks. Works great!

As you guys may know, I travel quite a bit. I have a fairly substantial MP3 collection and am interested in having it available while I'm travelling. I currently just have a simple (private, of course) FTP server running that I can map as a drive and (try to) stream, but I've seen others with...

Death I'm not so worried about, the odds are low and cures common. Severe inconvinence, however, I'm strongly disinclined to tolerate. Time, Tannin, and Jake, what would you say your odds of being severely inconvinenced (bitten or otherwise molested) by one of these suckers in a given year be?

Yeah,me and my laptop's touchpad keep choking at around 75...I think I can do bette with a real mouse. Maybe this game is the excuse I need to buy a MX1000? I wonder if Razor will come out with a "runken man" variant of their product?

:wink: Sorry Greg, but I unloaded all of my gear just before christmas. I was moving, so many of my friends and relatives got slightly-used computer components as needed and quite cheap. Depending on your requirements, an AXP gaming box with a 9600XT should be had for under $500, an A64 with...

I got a good laugh out of both of these.

I just took one of my growing clients to something similar. They now have a dedicated backup server. Here's how it works: Each server has a script that executes at 9PM every night copying any data on the machine to another internal drive that is shared with the backup server. At midnight, the...

Expecting it to is too much. This too was blatant human error. Expecting a computer to protect against even smaller degrees of human error is too much. In this case, what if there wasn't a computer running this sensor, what if it was a human? They'd still recieve conflicting information from...

Good to know humans can still make errors :roll: I'd blame this squarely on the captain. The computer did nothing until the captain attemped an impossible manuver (running 2 props in 2 directions with 1 engine).

There's been one of these on Hwy 101 between San Jose and San Francisco since at least 1999.

Neat idea. Keep in mind that my results, like everyone else's, will be affected significantly by what browsers we are more familiar with. Mozilla 1.7 or similar: $35 Mozilla 0.8: $5 Firefox 1.x: $50 Opera 6.0: $25 Opera 7.5: $30 Opera 8.x: $30 Netscape 4.x: $10 IE 4.0: $5 IE 5.0: $10 IE 5.5: $5...

I'm not sure what you mean about the download window...you would prefer to have individual windows for each download rather than a single list that includes your download history? Can't imagine why... Googling from the address bar? I've got all my firefox clients doing that, it's a one-line fix...

"Yea...no" hehehe

Nope. I'm trying out my new dual-opteron, so I need to keep it multi-threaded :groan:

I once dove 615 miles for a first date and ended up driving back with no underwear at all...

Who you callin' "sugar"? :o

Went to the second best steak house in SF last night for Prime Rib (House of Prime Rib), then went to the FIRST best steak house (Harris') for....desert :eekers: Also made stops at the others: Ruth's Chris, Mortons, and Zed's ... Then I turned around and drove back...225 mile round trip for...

I agree with Mark. I couldn't use a 17" screen @ 1280x1024 they way I use my 19". I like having the screen a little further away and being able to lean back in my chair. In contrast my 12" laptop screen @ 1024x768 is acceptible to me because in the typical use of a laptop, your face is much...

Some are less experienced at the PUI than others...this one nearly qualifies as irresponsable. I usually at least attempt to make some kind of broader statement or question...

That means one is a little more limp than the other. ;)

Used it. Liked it. It worked as advertised. I couldn't use it in the game center due to incompatability issues with Punkbuster and games that autoupdate at will. Monica Perez (on their sales staff) was very nice and hooked me up with a broader trial edition.

I'm afraid my frequent trips from mid-60s to mid-40s are beggining to get me ill...

Great idea Merc!

If noise is important, I'd be wary of anything with small fans in it. I'd prefer anything passive and mounting a 92 or 120mm fan behind them.

Installing anything is still beyond me. I was having issues with X, so I've decided to go directly to console...this is where I really need to start, anyway. I'm just using the 45-day trial of VirtualPC (PowerPack expired :(), I don't have VMWare.

So long as they're both PATA drives I don't forsee any massive issues. IIRC there's a switch that removes all devices and re-installs them on reboot. You'll probably want to to this right before the swap.

The problem I'm having with the NIC is 100% VirtualPCs fault. It's not passing the MAC address to the virtual machine. Not a problem. Still playing. Anyone have a link to a list of useful console commands?

I still do a fair amount of "free" fixes for clients that have purchased systems from me, but some of the more PITA clients now get this answer over the phone: "Back up your data, and re-image the system using that DVD I gave you. Did that fix it? Goodbye." After I install a machine, I spend at...

That's a hell of a list, Merc. Is that from your class? May take me a while...

Sounds good, although I came up on a problem a bit sooner than that...getting my NIC to work :roll:

I've decided that it's past time for me to learn Linux. So I'm running VirtualPC 2004 and have Fedora installed with most of the workstation and client modules. So here I am...now what? What tasks should I be learning to perform? Where should I look for instructions to perfor those tasks? Any...

Though I don't know how many of the MoBo mfgrs will actually implement both...

Has anyone found them in the channel yet? I'm sure I could find a client that "needs" an upgrade. Some of them are so geeky that me drooling over it justifies the upgrade.

I predict that I won't care. Unless they can schedule Angelina Jolie to have a wardrobe malfunction.

When I sell people on Firefox, I explain that it is a tradeoff. You gain system security, at the potential cost that something might now work the way it used to. Not really a choice in my opinion, why live with something that will slowly kill you?

I saw that as a plus. Care to elaborate?