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That Nigeria spam-scam has netted over $85 million: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/12/BU114885.DTL - Fushigi

The thing is, you're not buying the movie. You're buying a license to view the movie under specific circumstances (many HK discs, for example, restrict viewing on the oil platforms/drills used in the open sea). For instance, buying a movie and then showing it to a few friends in your home is...

ITAA article on IT hiring: http://www.itaa.org/news/pr/PressRelease.cfm?ReleaseID=1040248187

I can't say anything about the past 9 months, but my Dell Latitude P4M 1.6GHz (announced late March '02; I got mine in April '02) is roughly half as fast as my T-bird 1.4GHz when it comes to folding. Both machines are at the latest BIOS. Neither is overclocked. The T-bird is even saddled with...

I agree that the US likes vehicles with way too much power. Yes, I've a 3L V6 in my car. But the mileage penalty compared to the same car with a 4 banger is a whopping 1MPG. Not enough to get upset about. Also, some features I wanted were only available on the V6 model. My wife's car has a...

That wasn't me; that was Gartner (or some other anaylst group) who said it. That said, I somewhat agree with the statement. While companies may not be buying more equipment, they will at some point have to upgrade & replace their existing equipment. Perhaps less on the desktop front vs...

I've been laid off before, but it was when times were a bit better & we were transitioned to an outsourcer. It overall was a good thing because we continued with jobs and got severance pay .. I pulled essentially double pay for a while. But since 2000 .. I've been here just over 4 years. The...

As much as I take analyst predictions with a grain of salt, I think it was Gartner who said that many companies who have been delaying hardware upgrades & application upgrades can't really delay much longer and will have little choice but to resume IT spending. If not for new projects then just...

I've temporarily nabbed a few spare cycles from some servers here at work. They're not too terribly fast but anything helps at this point. We all know P4s suck at Folding when compared to Athlons. Any guess if a P4 Xeon would fare much better? - Fushigi

Just wanted to express a sigh of relief at surviving the "reduction in force" that just occurred at my employer. They had announced the RIF on 1/3 but didn't notify everyone until yesterday. Those being let go can stay on until the 24th. Details of the severance package have yet to be...

For me, it seems the halted mouse syndrome is a by-product of static. If I'm wearing shoes, and its winter, I have a relatively high chance of freezing the rodent. If I don't wear shoes, or during summer, it rarely freezes. Typically a warm boot is enough to bring it back to life. - Fushigi

I installed the LSI controller last night and finished the migration from the old Deskstar 22GXP to the Atlas 10K II with no problems. Partition Magic makes some things so much easier. The LSI OEM "kit" doesn't come with a manual or any drivers. Of course, the manual wasn't needed although my...

I'm mostly staying out of this as I don't follow the Intel side of things anymore. I just wanted to point out that AMD has Socket A for 1- or 2-way servers, Socket A for low-end (Duron/Thunderbird), and Socket A for mainstream. All one of their socket specs are in use and have been in use for...

From infoworld: Nothing really new to report, but you may want to bookmark the status page for future reference. - Fushigi

Thanks to Doug and everyone here for making my life more enjoyable. I very much enjoy the time I spend reading & occasionally posting. - Fushigi

I see Merc's avatar just fine. jtr's, though, doesn't show. I could host a few avatars for people if needed; I barely use my domain for anything other than email. - Fushigi

And it works! I successfully copied the large files between partitions & copied the largest file within the same directory. Thanks to everyone for their assistance. - Fushigi

Arigato. SP3, here I come.

Hmm. Is system performance impacted when the noise occurs? Possibilities that come to mind: - Power overload/underload to a device causing some sort of power cycle/reset to occur. HDs the most likely; opticals possible; fans unlikely but still worth checking (including the GPU fan if any). -...

I'm guessing that the page pool could be allocated from a more limited resource pool (like the user & gdi resource pools from older versions of Windows) vs. having the entire system RAM + pagefile available. Anyway, the kb article describes my problem pretty accurately, including mentioning...

I contacted WD's support this morning via email. They responded quite rapidly with a link to the following MS knowledgebase article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259837 This sounds like the problem I'm encountering but I'm already running SP2, which supposedly has...

OK, the driver itself was no different. The BIOS was an upgrade from 2.0.0210.1 to 2.0.0210.2. No difference on the file copy problem, but the new BIOS doesn't like the onboard IDE on my mobo; after everything initialized, the system hung. Annoying, but livable; I disabled the mobo IDE in the...

Thanks, Buck! Windows reports I'm already at the new driver level although the driver is dated from June & not December. Odd, so I'll update the driver anyway. I'm not sure what BIOS level is on the card so I'll update that as well. I'll report back later on the results. - Fushigi

I only have 1 IDE HD. I do have an IDE CD-RW on the mobo IDE, but it's not being referenced during this procedure. If need be I can move the CD-RW to the Promise card & totally disable the mobo IDE. The two times this have happened are: 1. From X15 on Tekram SCSI to WD1600JB partition on...

While it is truly a POS chipset, I'm not sure how it would be a factor when the drive is connected to the Promise controller and that the problem only crops up on files > 650MB. I can do aggregate transfers of over that amount without error as long as no individual files are >650MB (or...

And it also is happening when copying from the first big partition to the 2nd. NTFS for both so it's not a FAT32 issue. If I get some time I'll look up the error in the MS knowledge base; maybe there's a resource that's being exhausted that I'm not aware of. - Fushigi

While 2003 won't get here for about 16 more hours, let me echo the Happy New Year for everyone here. -Fushigi

Cougtek / Buck - To confirm Buck's statement, it appears to have 60GB platters as Winbench reports a beginning transfer rate of 56000 and an ending rate of 49900 KB/s. The partition I'm testing is the 2nd of 3 (8GB, 71GB, 71GB). Running in plateaus, about 14GB into the partition, the...

My notebook will seemingly stall out periodically when booting here at home. At the office it's pretty much always fine. I don't log in to the domain directly (instead I just attach to resources as needed). At home, it's connecting to the 802.11 LAN but that shouldn't slow down the boot...

Once it's installed and seems to be working well I'll see if I can run a benchmark or two. I'm on the list, but they don't send the ads out weekly & I haven't recieved the latest one just yet. Actually, the sale on the 200GB model doesn't start until 1/1/03 so it's possible the ad hasn't been...

Nuts. I could've bought the WD 200GB SE drive for $200 at Microcenter: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0147925 . Same retail kit w/the Promise controller. Damn them for not putting their ads in the paper! - Fushigi

Oh, I agree that the shows are definitely in the buyer-beware category, especially for anything with moving parts. Buying a case? Check to see if the PSU is UL listed. Used cards & all .. check to see if they look to be packaged in anti-static bags, look for driver disks where appropriate...

The saga continues... Before hitting the computer show I checked the Sunday Chicago Tribune ads to see what the retail giants like CompUSA, BestBuy, etc. had to offer. Thus, I had price comparisons at the ready for the show. Well, the show was a bust. Too much unusable used stuff (ISA cards...

Yeah, I'm going to go to a computer show this morning to see what they've got availablae. There's usually a mix of new + used stuff. If I find a used card like my DC390U2W that includes cables & terminator for less than the new LSI, I'll go that route. And ever since I had to re-enable IDE in...

CougTek, thanks for the suggestion. The LSI looks pretty good. Even it is probably overkill. I don't foresee needing 64bit PCI in my wife's PC anytime soon. :) The kit includes a cable & terminator. QLogic has a cheaper card but it doesn't include any cables or terminator. Any other...

I'm going to migrate my Atlas 10K II data drive into my wifes machine, where it will replace the Deskstar 22GXP as the sole drive in the machine. The Deskstar is going to another PC. In my rig I'll replace the Atlas with a 120GB+ / 7200RPM / 8MB Cache drive from Maxtor or WD. Something of a...

I've found the team stats page at Stanford to be updated usually within 10-15 minutes of any particular upload. SETI was always pretty much immediate. My individual page shows 4 CPUs, which is correct for me. Dunno how often the chart is updated, though. - Fushigi

Two months later and nothing received. Looks like Will was right. Did anyone receive theirs? - Fushigi

Among other things, my father-in-law bought my mother-in-law a vacuum cleaner. I bought my wife an under-cabinet CD player (with AM/FM/TV/Weather) for the kitchen to replace a broken boom box, a bracelet, a few novels, a sweater, a bagel slicer, gloves, the Back to the Future DVD box, a...

SR? Whazzat? :lol:

I just configured a spare P3/500 laptop and a mostly unused P2/333 server to run the Folding console. The server should be up 24x7; I'm not sure yet if I can leave the laptop on like that or not. Both are company resources that I manage, but I may have to discontinue use if the machines are...

The mobo, CPU, and heatsink/fan arrived quickly & everything works fine. I printed the current manual from the Abit site. True to his word, out of the box the Duron 600 was running fine at 950MHz. Being the cautious type, I backed it down to 800MHz for installing OS + apps and will likely...

FY? If you can't afford to buy the DVDs, just rent them & rip 'em. <pulls box sets from the wall-o-anime> Season 1 .. eps 1-26 .. 4 discs Season 2 .. eps 27-52 .. 4 discs FY The Mysterious Play (redundant title) a.k.a. the first & second OVA series .. 2 discs FY Eikoden a.k.a. the latest &...

I would guess they accidentally signed up with our team or lost interest in the project because of issues with running the client. More than likely they fat-fingered when entering a team ID. Dead wood with 1 or 2 entries is better than no wood at all. - Fushigi

Probably better to just scan the binary news groups & ask for a report. Just about anything from the past 5 years will be available digitally. Beyond that, availability will be spotty. What's the series? - Fushigi

I went with 700-1000. Not state-of-the-art but not yet a museum piece. Fast enough that most folks won't care about upgrading, likely that few components have failed, and meets the minimum requirements for many games. Also marks the rise of the Athlon/Duron and some real price competition. I...

I've run into it a few times. Maybe once every couple of weeks I'll notice a sequence like it. - Fushigi

But you would be wrong. :lol: I thought so as well, until I tried to download a few hundred photos from my digicam in a single pass. After the first 120 or so, about every other image had errors. Either in color rendering or parts of the image from a certain point down would be shifted to...

Internet Connection Sharing will let the DSL be shared over the mini-network. My W2K PC dials in and the other PC & laptop share the connection; there's no good reason why this wouldn't work for any connection. It's basically using the PC with the connection as a router. As to scanning ...

If both PCs are networkable, leave the USB devices in the hub attached to the main machine. On that PC, share everything you want the laptop to be able to use. On the laptop, access the devices over the network. You don't even need an Ethernet hub if you get a crossover cable; just plug the...