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I could probably host a Chicagoland get-together, although not in the next few weeks. Maybe in spring or summer. There's plenty of room & spare beds for anyone who needs to stay overnight. We do have a dog & cat, so those with allergies beware. I had a great time chatting in person with...

Do what I do; create your own parody a la Wierd Al and sing it instead. Fleas on the Dog, anyone? - Fushigi

I strongly agree that using a spreadsheet is the better tool in this instance. Excel's file import routine is actually very flexible nowadays and can usually pick the field separators accurately on its own. Then write a function or use the VBA script that timwhit provided to parse the data &...

I would think PC Card/PCMCIA (People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms) would be better than CF. Yes, CF is popular with many digital cameras, but PC Card slots are already in millions and millions of laptops. I'd take Mercutio's wish list for a front panel device & replace the CF...

Check out a used Canon Powershot G1. The included LiI battery is quite sufficient for 100+ pictures to be written to a Microdrive. If you don't use the LCD, turn it to face the camera and it not only protects it from scratches but saves on power consumption. It's got most of the manual...

Back to SUVs, my wife & I are considering what our next vehicle will be. Considering the occasional need to haul stuff from Home Depot and that if we're fortunate we'll also have the need for transporting baby necessities, we are considering getting a pickup, SUV, minivan, station wagon, or...

That would mean it's open to many of the same security issues that plague wireless networks. Most important to realize is that your network doesn't end at the walls of your house. Like a wireless solution, with proper configuration it's probably not an issue. Is there an encryption protocol...

No experience with it. The concept has been around for quite some time and judging by the players named at homeplug.org, it seems like it should work. But I haven't read much about it and don't know how well it works across circuit breakers (err, switched LAN segments :P ) and if your data...

Look at the companies who developd the technologies... :wink: Anyway, another advantage to a web-based CMS is that delivery over SSL can occur to anywhere in the world. Sure, your documents are mostly for internal use, but there may be some folks who would want to review their documents from...

Well, jtr is certainly opening up a can of worms for debate. Its too early here for me to be entirely coherent so I'll just answer Blakerwry's post. Federal income tax: 28% Social Security tax: I think it's 7.75% but I haven't looked at it lately. State income tax: 3% Property tax: I forget...

While I'm a fan of many toppings, I would have to agree that Extra Cheese is the best. - Fushigi

Most companies treat email as a somewhat transitory; messages are not meant to be kept forever. Hence messages with attachments or links will probably be deleted over time. Using a web or file server with a decent hierarchical structure is probably the best way to store/distribute the...

http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1039125482,56287,.shtml and add a $125 15" CRT from a local PC shop. Sure, it's tough to walk into a store and get a deal like that, but you can find something like it almost any day online. Besides, I never said the monitor would be good quality. :D - Fushigi

Thanks. I run Office XP on my laptop so it needs all the security help it can get. :-? I check Windows Update weekly but don't check Office Update very often. Probably because it's silly to have to provide the Office CD whenever an update is applied. There's also a Dec cumulative patch for...

Yahoo webmail is easy enough for my mother in law to use. 'nuff said. - Fushigi

The best example of RAM pricing in the micro world was the Apple ][ Language Card. Basically an expansion card to let you go from 48KB to 64KB. IIRC, it was something like $499. $499 today gets a complete system with monitor & change in your pocket. - Fushigi

The graphic that SF hosts for this page: http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage.detailed?q=10047 is missing. Perhaps it didn't survive the server transition? http://www.storageforum.net/themes/projektx/images/logo.gif is where F@H thinks the graphic is stored. - Fushigi

I use a mix of surge strips & UPSes. I use an APC SmartUPS 1000XL (or XL1000; whatever) for my PC / monitor / WAP / cordless phone base station / Palm cradle and an older APC BackUPS 450 for my wife's PC / monitor. My printer & speakers (devices that should not be powered by a UPS) are on a...

My burner would create more coasters than it should, but the problems went beyond that. Sometimes it would fail to open. Sometimes, after the PC had been on for a few days, it would simply disappear from My Computer. Only a cold boot would bring it back. My usage habits are pretty light duty...

I'll ditto Dozer & Tannin. - Fushigi

At one place I used to work, the PC in the warehouse distribution office would get so caked in dirt & grime that it'd stop working every 6 months or so. I'd open it up and vacuum it out; afterwards it'd be fine for the next 6 months until the accumulation got to be too much again. Basically...

The corruption may be happening on shutdown or startup. Try using msconfig to strip out everything possible from the startup sequence. The mbr might even be infected. I don't recall anymore .. doesn't fdisk/mbr rebuild the mbr without destroying the data? If possible, I'd wipe & re-install...

Hmm. No option for 15K - 50K. I went with 50K+ as I'm still technically right even if there are millions of records & another answer is closer. :lol: I also have no idea how php stores things... - Fushigi

Die Another Day .. Lousy theme song by Madonna; nothing original and rather repetitive lyrics. Pretty good effects; Bond has better toys than Batman. Mediocre script. Thumbs up to John Cleese. Pierce seemed tired throughout. Some scenes & dialog felt forced. Jinx (Halle Barry) is a decent...

Siemens Gigaset. I went high-end and got the 8825 with extra handsets. 4 digital voicemail boxes, up to 8 cordless handsets + corded base station, all do speakerphone & have headset jacks, 2 line capable, intercom, xfer calls between handsets, each handset has it's own dialing directory, etc...

I've had my current TV, a JVC AV35BP6 (35" tube) for a few years now and it's been pretty darn good. I've done all the calibration that I can do w/o opening up the chassis using the Avia & Video Essentials DVDs and I find the picture to be just fine. Plenty of detail in blacks, colors that...

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What about the replacement filters from K&N that just replace the factory unit in the airbox ( http://knfilter.com/filtercharger.htm )? I am using one. Not for more power but for less cost. I'd rather pay about $50 once for a K&N + cleaner vs. $18 twice a year for regular replacement filters...

The fart pipes are, around here, called coffee cans. They are not necessarily installed for their musicality; they reduce the back pressure of the car's exhaust which allows for a less restrictive airflow which leads to an increase in power. How much power? I couldn't say but it's probably in...

Well, there's the moderate alert regarding W32.HLLW.Winevar yesterday, the ciritcal IIS bug from 11/20, the announcement of the change in reporting (what Tannin mentioned) on the 18th, moderate alert regarding W32/Braid@mm on the 4th, security bulletin MS02-061 on 10/17. Hmm, 02-061 .. could...

99 WUs and counting .. for some reason my score is decently higher than several others who have already processed over 100 WUs. I read the details on how each machine is benchmarked but it still seems odd that my score is rising disproportionately faster than some other folks. Not that I'm...

I don't think I know anyone who compares open source security to that of commercial OS products. Everyone I know compares product to product regardless of origin. To me it boils down to Microsoft not making security a priority in their products until recently. Sloppy coding, bad...

Well, I'm giving serious consideration to uninstalling my 36GB Atlas 10K II and replacing it with a 120-200GB 7200 RPM IDE drive. The Atlas is my current data drive & while it's sufficient for my current data needs, I'll need more space in January or thereabouts. A friend is writing an MP3...

True enough on the Yamaha but I got my 32x way before then & the 48x unit around the same time the Yamaha was released; I remember reading reviews. My old burner was SCSI .. a Yamaha 4x4x16. Frankly, for the duty it saw it became problematic before it should have. And LiteOn's reputation...

I'm thinking strictly in terms of SF posting. I don't think a Red Hill customer would want the S-->Z conversion on their Zalez Zlip. Or that nice email to mother ... - Fushigi

I waited and waited and waited for a SCSI burner that was comparable in write performance to what was available in the IDE units. I finally gave up and put a LiteOn 32x in my wife's PC and a 48x in my system. IDE, yes, but they work fine. Plextor is entering the market too late for me to...

Hmm. You're remapping differently than I would. I'd use a word processor or even just Notepad and Find/Replace S --> Z then paste it all into the compose window. - Fushigi

True, the TCO is definitely a factor. Also factor in some extra convenience like fewer trips to the gas station. BTW, Ars Technica reviewed the hybrid a little while ago. One thing mentioned was a federal tax credit that helps bring the price down. - Fushigi

Odd. Preferred/large account or small business? We buy 1000 - 2000 desktop/laptops a year + servers as needed. This year, that's been 80+ servers as we're building a BCP environment. That is, in fact, too many new servers to have to buy for our size company. So, we are going to start...

Dell's consumer support may well be brain dead, but their business support support has been pretty good in my experience. My company has standardized on Dell for our desktop/laptop/Windows server environments. Better machines than HP/Compaq and less expensive than IBM. The few times I've had...

Go for this Civic and you'll get more than just 6 extra MPG. - Fushigi

The common factor seems to be the slot. I would be more suspicious of it than the drives at this point. Possible problems: - Bad/loose connector (for the drive or the slot itself) - Bent pin - Slot going bad (I assume it's a hot-swap bay) - Slot position / insufficient cooling Another big...

I believe its actually an XP thing & not just IE. Right-click the task bar, Properties, un-check "Group similar taskbar buttons". - Fushigi

Well, Jeez, I'd come just to see the dancing cow. :mrgrn: - Fushigi

You can add to that portions of the lakefront in downtown Chicago.

Open the case & blow out the accumulated dust, which might be causing some fans to not work optimally or can even causes shorts. While you're in the box, re-seat all cables & cards and press on all socketed chips -- they sometimes work loose with thermal expansion/contraction. Other things I...

From the front page: I am inferring from this that it is clear that the manufacturer included the malicious code. I agree. My guess would be the cracker made the mod & it worked on their particular combination of hardware, OS, and applications. Once released, some other hw/os/app combination...

On-screen drive LED that shows read/write activity for local + network drives. http://www.oosoft.de/english/products/oodl/index.html - Fushigi

I agree that anyone using cracked apps is using them at their own risk. I think the difference here is that the dangerous code was in fact put in place by the original vendor and not the cracker. If a software vendor needs to protect their intellectual property, a disabling mechanism &...

On the surface I wholeheartedly agree. But I've got to point out that famous quote: "'Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!' - Bill Gates, 1981 (Which has been extended... "'Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!' - Bill Gates, 1981 'Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM.' - Bill Gates...