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Hmm... I find the opposite: it's easier to backup/restore/manage My Docs with clean installs, etc. if everything is on another drive. That way you can "format c:" without worrying about backing up your data. I guess part of it is because my setup is conducive to that. I have two physical...

I think you are confusing the flu with the common cold. 80% of the time people say the have "the flu" (flu = infected with influenza), they really mean they have a "cold". Most of the time people are not infected with the influenza virus, but rather with the Rhinovirus, which is responsible for...

CrazyBrowser is awesome. I love it. All the advantages of using IE, plus it adds the two most important features found in the competition: tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking. Opera 7.01 is my 2nd favourite with excellent features like tabbed browsing, intelligent pop-up blocking, defining URL...

You can put "Your Documents" on another drive (if you didn't already know that). ... Games take up a lot of space... and time. Which is why I limit myself to old school UT on this computer. I put CNC Red Alert 2 on another computer, which occupied me for the better part of a month. Nothing...

blakrewry, I manage 5 GB just fine because there are only so many programs I use: If you note my drive setup, you will notice that my boot drive, Win2k (G:), contains only my OS and applications -- no games or data files. My data and multimedia files are stored on the various Fireball and...

(2) - W2k forever :) So you can software RAID your boot drive? How can the OS load up unless it has a driver that loads up at the beginning that knows what to do with a stripe set? You have seen one of the reasons for point (1) in action -- the complexities of RAID.

Can't do it Clocker because (1) I hate RAID, (2) I am using it as my boot drive, so I can't software RAID it.

Yes, see that's the thing Sherif. I already have the controller, and the 10k3 would be cheaper and faster than my first option, which was to buy the WD800JB. Come to think of it, I would have to buy a Promise ATA controller if I got the WD, as I already have 2 large capacity IDE drives for data...

Fujitsu Lifebook P2000 - if you're not too concerned with having the fastest CPU, this is a well-designed notebook that everyone's talking about (well, everyone I know). My personal experiences with notebooks: IBM ThinkPad 385XD: screen died, floppy died within one year; friend's 385XD had...

A Canadian online retailer is selling an 18 GB Atlas 10k3 for $160 CDN, which is just over $100 US. I know, not much of a deal in the US, but where I am, the cheapest I can find it for is about $220 CDN ($140 US). I was thinking of getting a WD800JB to replace my aging 9 GB Atlas 10k boot...

I heard this on the radio the other day. One of the worst gifts a husband can give her wife for xmas is a set of pots and pans. :mrgrn: (Remember that for future reference, Adcadet)

Yep. That's why they say integration is the biggest cause of HD failures. The drives are normally 99.99% reliable when they leave the factory, and yet there are significantly more drive failures than you might expect. Computer shops who put OEM drives into computer with those poor storing...

A lot of those 66 MHz Celerons can be overclocked a tremendous amount EASILY -- i.e., it's not something you should worry about for fear of decreasing stability, etc. I bought a Celeron 600 a while back and had it running fine at 750 @ 83 FSB with the retail HSF. I scaled it back to 675 @ 75 FSB...

Just you wait... when you have kids, they'll think mom's colours, sounds, wallpapers, ad pointers are so cool that they'll want every nauseating item replicated (and intensified) on their computers/accounts. You will be the only person in the house who wants a boring, professional desktop...

Ah, the dreaded female PC cutification and multimediaization syndrome. Always with the sounds, pointers, icons, wallpapers, and other eye and ear candy that causes us macho computer guys to shudder in horror :P

Ah, well in that case, the Fuji Finepix 2650 is an excellent value. (I know the 2600 was excellent in most respects -- the only notable shortcoming was with low light conditions, like in dim rooms indoor or in the city at night, which is why I got the Olympus C-2040 instead of the Fuji 2600...

What are you going to use it for? Mainly web stuff? Will you be printing much? Mostly 8x10's or 4x6's? This will determine what resolution you should get. Not having any knowledge of what you want to do with it, I would say the Canon G2. The best all-round digicam in the world. 4 MP, razor...

My Promise Ultra 100TX2 works perfectly with W2k Server + SP3.

OpenOffice.org ROCKS for a free program. This is the most capable piece of freeware I have ever used. While it cannot replace MS Office for advanced use in an enterprise setting (cross-file compatibility especially with advanced formatting and the lack of VBA are the only significant areas it is...

sales@real.com LOL... why didn't I think of that? I've always used something like lick@myballs.com. It would be even better to bounce the e-mails back at the originating company.

Can't remember exactly, since it's been a long time since I bought any (when it was on sale last year, I stocked up), but around 60 cents CDN (38 cents US) per 10 mg tablet is the usual unit cost when it's on sale. And, since you only need 5 mg per day, you can buy 10 mg tablets and take half a...

You could always visit me in Canada and buy a suitcase full of Reactine to take home with you :)

Another more common implication of drugs being able to cross the BBB is with antihistamines. I believe the older generation antihistamines used to be more lipid soluble and were able to cross the BBB and make you drowsy -- Benadryl (diphenhydramine HCl) and Actifed (tripolodine). The newer ones...

Yes, Adcadet, I was referring to heroin -- 3,6-diacetylmorphine (no halogenation of the carboxyl). I forgot what was acetylated where on the morphine molecule, so I used the general term 'acetylated' to be safe. Now I know it's the 3 and 6 hydroxyls that are acetylated. I knew you would know...

Heh, you got those rats strung out on acetylated morphine, Adcadet?

Is a webmail service is out of the question? Many of them have POP mail retrieval included and have automatic virus scanning of attachments. All you have to do is set everything so you are not on any contact lists, set the spam filters to maximum, and hope the porn mail will take a while to find...

And yes, excellent layout as well. Thankfully, there are no tasteless MIDI tunes and retina searing colours with poor contrast in the background as I have seen on too many amateur websites.

Quantum WD Quantum

For future reference, next time you have access to your dad's computer, set up a VNC server and use a dynamic DNS service to remotely administer his computer from anywhere in the world. Just tell him to go online (which admittedly is quite the Achilles heel if getting online is the problem) and...

mubs, I am using an Atlas 10k (U2W SCSI) as my main drive. Nevertheless, I always set IDE drives to their highest ATA mode, even though W2k displays PIO mode with its ATA mode reporting bug. Anyways, I wish Intel would have made HyperThreading available to the masses last summer instead of...

From what I've heard, Microsoft has released a successor to the wonderful Age of Empires franchise: Age of Mythology.

True, the WD JB drives don't work well for RAID. There is a thread going on at SR about this at the moment (and it deals mainly with RAID 5 problems).

IE has at last count ~95% of the browser market. Its much higher popularity, market leadership, and the high profile (and hatred) for the company who makes it all contribute to this. If Mozilla had 95% of the browser market, was made by a much hated company like MSFT, and had half the computing...

"world" should be "US"

I don't think Seagate was ever in the same league as the Top 50 public companies in the world. In the late 90's, it was around #250 in revenue. When it went public in 2001, it became the 21st biggest private company in the world. Incidentally, they are going public again in a month or two. They...

Well, at least it's cheaper than parallel cables that cost $20 US. Of course, I am referring to most big box stores that typically run these massive discounts on printers (and bend you over when it comes to cables and such). You can certainly find them for less if you go to a "real" OEM part...

That should read $40 for the Canon, factoring in the USB cable that you will have to purchase unless you already have a spare one.

Oops, forgot... Which one would I vote for? I would go for the HP 825c and buy a black ink cart for $30. You will spend $50 combined instead of $30 for the Canon, but at least you won't throw the printer through the window when print heads start clogging and it starts sucking in a dozen sheets...

Good point, Fushigi. In my limited experience, the HP inkjets are low maintenance. My DeskJet 720c rarely clogged, jammed, or fed multiple pages. (interestingly enough, the 825c looks like a rebadged 720c) My Canon BJC-6000, OTOH, did nothing but clog its printheads and feed multiple pages with...

Rebates and discounts are such a PITA. Personally, I wouldn't bother with all this fuss over $8. I know, it's easier said than done, and yes, it's a matter of principle, but I reckon you will have wasted enough time, effort, and sanity that, if one could put a price on it, would come out to...

You should see my computer at work. An HP e-PC with a 650-700 MHz P3, but with 128 MB RAM and a 4400 rpm Quantum lct15 hard drive. So not only is the small amount of RAM causing excessive swapping, but the hard drive is so slow that it further exaggerates this problem. I was pulling my hair out...

Deal with it, you say... hmm, I don't think Tannin would be too pleased if I strangled his furry friend.

Laptops are even worse. The Insert key is usually jammed right above the Backspace key or right next to one of the arrow keys. If I had a nickel for every time I hit the Insert key while pressing Backspace... Besides, who actually uses the Overwrite style of text input anyways? I would venture...

Multimedia keys are a useful improvement IMO. It may do nothing for typing efficiency, but it does much for computing pleasure. It's a real pain to have to bring up Winamp or mouse over to the tiny volume control on the task bar to pause/change tracks/raise/lower volume. Now you can hit several...

'tis true, Coug. Applying patches and service packs tends to require reboots. In a corporate setting, this can be a problem if you want to have the latest security patches. However, for a home user, this is kind of making a mountain out of a mole hill -- not only are the security holes rather...

I did. 193 days continuous uptime with Win2k on my desktop. Since then, I built a new computer which has been running non-stop with Win2k since I configured it to my liking. 31 days and counting. I don't forsee a crash or anything else short of a power failure forcing me to reboot for another...

As a side note, disabling NAV causes Outlook to run significantly faster. I don't know if it's a corporate edition thing, but the real-time e-mail scanner (rtvscan process) really bogs Outlook down far more than the e-mail protection feature of NAV 2001 (non-corporate).

Okay, folks. I have finally tweaked my corporate vomit box to the point where it is now usable, 128 MB of RAM and 4400 rpm HD notwithstanding. Here's what I did on top of everything I did in the first post: 1. Set the Folder View to Classic View from View as Web Page as per Tannin's suggestion...

Here's some info I found on the HP inkjets: PhotoREt PhotoREt II PhotoREt III PhotoREt IV Number of color inks 6 4 4 6 Drop volume 50/35 pl 10 pl 5 pl 4-5 pl Drops/dot (photo media) 4 16...

Dell selling Lexmark cartridges for cheap? Now why would they do that? More importantly, how could they do that? If the printers are based on the same print engines as the existing Lexmarks (and why wouldn't they be -- surely, Lexmark wouldn't be stupid enough to spend millions to develop...