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1. A PC that won't fully boot. 2. Apps that would crash unexpectedly.

I think it's a big deal because we got caught. Seriously. You don't think this sort of thing happens in a war situation? Of course it does. People are human and do stupid things. Soldiers under a lot of stress can make irrational decisions. Most of the time it's never found out and life...

Yeah, I'd have to agree. Better to set a minimal page file, like 64 or 128MB. Running without one altogether produces unpredictable results.

On the new Power5 i5 boxes IBM is releasing, the published performance is like this on a 2-chip (4-core) server: Active Cores -- Performance Rating* 1 -- 3300 2 -- 6000 3 -- ? 4 -- 11700 So the Power5 doesn't lose very much. But then those CPUs probably cost $5-10K each... * i5 Performance...

Maybe it'll reduce Intel's horrible throughput loss on additional CPUs in an SMP machine. Or, to put it another way, improve the efficiency of extra CPUs in an SMP rig. Right now, don't Intel chips lose 30-40% or more of each additional CPU to SMP overhead? Maybe the loss will be lower, like...

No noise from my CRT monitor but my 35" TV's chassis once in a while gives a nice crack/pop sound. Definitely sounds like thermal expansion.contraction. The wierd thing is that it'll even happen after the set's been on for hours and everything should have been fully warmed up for some time...

Drew A. Kaplan. Sorta published a catalog of stuff he liked. Or so was the spin. Think of it as a different spin on the Sharper Image catalog, only less expensive. I used to get that in college. Don't remember if I ever bought anything from them. I also vaguely remember the BSR name...

http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh050304-story01.html or the official (and boring) IBM page: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/announce/ - Speed: 1.65GHz, dual-core - SMT in each core (Symmetric Multi Threading; equivalent to Intel Hyper Threading) - Cache: 64KB L1/core, 1.9MB...

Congrats! Sounds like real estate is moving quickly nowadays. My next-door neighbor put their house up for sale a couple of weeks ago and basically sold it the first weekend. The contract has gone through, too, as the sign now says 'Sold'. I'm presuming they got asking price or very close to...

As Coug said, i865 & i875 chipsets seem to be the way to go based on pretty much everything I've read. Beyond that I can't really make a recommendation as I don't buy Intel for myself. I won't question the sanity of what you're doing. I would caution you, though, to not expect anything in return.

5 platters in a 1" drive. Makes you wonder how hot it'll get.

Given the choice I'd go IBM, but then I'm biased. I would say, though, that IBM is trickling their midrange & mainframe technologies into their PC servers. While it may or may not add to performance, it will in general boost reliability. These are nothing current, but we had some old Compaq...

Fantastic!

The mapping as Howell mentioned it would happen at the command prompt: net use lpt1: \\servername\printername net use /persistent:yes We use this in 2K & XP as we have a DOS batch file that prints reports and this allows us to use network-attached printers.

According to hp ( http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bpy20239&product=72886&dlc=en&lang=en ) it should be pretty cut and dry. That is, there shouldn't be any unusual steps involved.

Those things are pretty goofy. Like my 5Si here at work where if I don't manually install the drivers I can't duplex. Have you tried something yucky like this: PC1: Has Photo Printer (PP). PC2: Wants to use PP. Connect PP to PC2, install drivers. Disconnect from PC2 and connect to PC1...

I've got 14 systems crunching. Not all are up 24x7, though, and they range from a lowly P2/333 to an Athlon XP 2800 (1700 OCed). Eight are 1GHz PIIIs (1/2 of a dual-CPU server). If they had a unix PowerPC version I could run it on my 400s. That'd bring 6 decent CPUs to bear. As far as...

40GB advertised size = 40 billion bytes (40,000,000,000). The 38GB you see formatted is because the computer calls 1GB 2^30bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. But your 32GB partition size is due to something different. It's either a BIOS limitation or a drive controller limitation. In the...

I used to use a UMax router/switch. I think what killed it was overheating. It was a slow death. One by one the 100Mb ports would stop working at 100Mb but would still work at 10. I have no experience with Linksys equipment but have you checked to see if the box is getting rather warm? Do...

Tempting, especially since the Global / TigerDirect facility, with outlet store, is only 12 minutes away. I also like that it's not some huge >$100 rebate you have to wait for, although I've read some negative things about Tiger/Global rebate fulfillment.

What about Xeons? Specifically newer ones like the Dell PowerEdge 2650s :D ?

While the Prodigy suit wasn't identical, it does establish a precedent for filtering electronic communications. Namely that if only A, B, and C are blocked then D, E, F and everything else can be considered approved. Anyway, agreeing to the HR policy is a condition of employment and is...

I always use the Submit News link on the home page.

Yeah, lots of us have MS Office. What's your point? :lol: Yahoo mail, if read via a browser, is fine. My wife's been using it for years. YIM & AOL, OTOH, I couldn't say. BTW, to add to my above post, we do specify IE at the office. Beyond my beloved AS/400s, we only really run MS stuff...

We don't restrict people's browsing habits by computer policy - just by HR policy. The HR policy simply states to keep internet access related to work. From a legal standpoint, that's a much better position to take since as soon as you explicitly block some specific content, you are, by...

I haven't read the spec, but maybe it uses a start bit/stop bit sequence like old modems. Or it could use about 10% for CRC checks or other forms of error detection/correction.

Thankfully, we're planning on incorporating AdAware in our corporate PC software image. Deployed & updated through SMS or SUS. Forced onto the machine via policies; same as we do for AV software. Not only will it be good for my company, it'll pump a few grand into Lavasoft's pockets (we're...

Looks like Doug types faster than I do. :D

The article seems a bit one-sided. They fail to mention the saved lives and reduced injuries from all those airbags. I'd think reduced medical costs would far more than outweigh the cost of a few airbags. Personally, I'd be happy to total a car with every accident I get in as long as my...

$190 for a 128MB 9800 Pro right now: http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1082404162,9523,.shtml

I find I do best on either 4-4.5 hours of sleep or 6-6.5 hours. Anything less than 4, between 4.5-6, or more than 6.5 and my body just doesn't function normally. I have, however, been known to sleep <2 hours and still get by. And there's nothing wrong with 5AM. I'm up at 5 6 days a week...

And CERT's response:

And the latest....

"Swedes" & "supercars" are words not typically said in the same sentence. But it does look pretty sharp. Are they street-legal in the US? And do we even want to know the price?

HPs are junk. :lol: You want power? Go with a pSeries 690. Anyway, on to the task at hand. I like Merc's idea of a base config with Windows and the 2 or 3 most popular games and using Intellimirror or somesuch to JITI (Just In Time Installation) anything else. Honestly, though, if you want...

I think you just eliminate the space: dangit.

BTW, you may want to ensure your camera uses CF/CFII media. Then you can buy this 4GB microdrive-based MP3 player for $200 and rip it apart for the storage. Much cheaper than buying the 4GB drive alone. And you can put some other CF media in it and still use it as an MP3 player. 8)

http://www.find-digital-cameras.com/Indiana/

Merc, have you tried Ritz Camera/Wolf Camera? I'm pretty sure they've got a presence in your area.

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PORT LOGGER MAKES TRACKING TCP/IP ACTIVITY A SNAP One of the scariest things about TCP/IP is that you can have so many things connecting or trying to connect to your computer and you never even know it is happening. Because of these security concerns, Microsoft has created a nifty new little...

The main problem as I see it is that IBM is indeed focusing on services. More than half their revenue now comes from services. The iSeries (latest name for the 400) only brings in a couple of billion a year. Anyway, so services are IN. But the 400 traditionally doesn't need much in the way...

IBM does a fine job of marketing the system within the installed user base. We get plenty of info regarding upgrade paths, OS products, etc. Where IBM falls down hard is marketing the system outside the installed base.

In the years suffixed with AD, when exactly have churches not been businesses? Otherwise, an excellent eulogy. Obviously, the sufferings of Mr. Sense were greatly abbreviated.

Read a great line from a 400 consultant yesterday. When talking to companies that are considering moving off the 400, he always asks: Why do you want to move to a product that includes a database repair utility? How can you possibly trust a system if such a utility is necessary? (Hint: The...

I won't give you my standard "AS/400 is better than everything else" speech, even though it is. :) But I will say that there are AS/400 resources all over the place online. And I don't mean IBM's site, although it is getting better. Feel free to PM me if you run into any specific questions...

A friend just bought this Sony. He doesn't have the final screen up yet but images projected onto a sheet of foam core (poor reflectivity but otherwise white) look pretty nice. Better than any large flat-panel display I've seen to date.

Nothing specific, but it looks to me like a laptop internal drive would fit there.

Which is, of course, wrong.