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I really don't understand why those things are that expensive. Aren't they basically a small LCD Panel, a memory card reader, and an inexpensive processor to do the extremely small amount of processing necessary to read a picture from a memory card and display it on the screen. Much larger LCD...

I have a Sony NEC Optiarc DVD Burner. I think I bought it based on Mercutio's recommendation and have not had a single problem with it. I've burned at least a hundred DVDs with it so far.

I don't have any advice but sounds like a cool project. Please report back what you find out and how you end up doing it.

I like the case idea too. You'd be surprised how much people care about the case selection after you show them what is out there.

I'd like the option to run either dd-wrt or tomato, but are there any draft 802.11N routers that support tomato?

That's a pricey router. The Linksys WRT150N has wireless-N and is $70. I don't think I really have a huge need for gigabit ethernet right now. It seems to support dd-WRT but not Tomato.

I think I'll stick with something I can order rather than building my own for now. Though I'm sure your $350 self built router is much nicer than what I'll end up with. It looks like the Linksys WRT54GL is easily hackable if the OEM firmware can't handle my load. I'm really not doing too much...

I thought this article about the destruction of earth was pretty amusing.

I need to buy a wireless router in the next couple weeks and would like to hear some opinions about people's favorites. I'd like to spend around $50-60 if at all possible. Are Linksys routers still highly unreliable? Which has the lowest performance degradation when I'm have 10 torrents going?

Hopefully reCAPTCHA can evolve faster than the spammers. I think I read something about 2 months ago of it being broken, but I can't find it now.

I installed it at work for cross-browser testing. It sucks.

Really?

I helped a friend move a 36" Sony TV a couple years ago. I think it weighed right around 200 lbs, but I could be off a little. We had to carry it down some stairs and I thought my back was going to break.

How many computers are you talking about?

I installed it yesterday at home and noticed no difference other than 1 of my extensions that didn't work works now.

Interesting article. I plan to never leave the city. My dream certainly isn't in a suburb. Several of my friends talk about leaving the city in a few years when they start having kids, they might change their minds if they have to be reliant on a car when gas prices are $8-10/gallon. Or if some...

I think I would at least try to get it fixed under warranty considering what it cost.

What whitelist do you use with noscript?

It probably keeps sessions alive for a certain amount of time. 15 minutes is what I would guess.

He didn't tell me exactly what he is going to use it for, I guess it could be anything. I think the main reason he wants it is because he's going to get his MBA and his current company is taking back his work laptop. If you are referring to the misspelling of the word "discrete," I apologize...

I just recommended a friend get the T61 with the 15.4" screen and discreet graphics. He said it wasn't an option to get Windows XP when he ordered it. Does he have to do something special? Good to see you back, Merc.

I would guess that WD wants to limit how this drive can be deployed. I doubt it would get nearly enough cooling in a laptop to function well. By giving it a proprietary connector and forcing people to remove the warranty-voiding sticker they are giving you a strong hint of what not to do with...

My workstation has been up for about 84 days, running the same OS as DD. On another note, is anyone else running Firefox 3 RC2? So far it is much faster, more stable, and has less memory leaks than version 2. I've been running it since one of the later betas and I'm quite impressed. On the...

You could try to hack the registry.

Yeah, it's quite slow for me also.

The tornadoes that I saw on the news were mostly around 25-30 miles directly south of the city, which is right about where my parents live. This was around 6pm yesterday, I didn't watch any TV after that.

What can any politician do to lower gas prices in the long term? I think people overestimate the amount of power that the US government or any government has. Petroleum is an international commodity and there is no replacement for it. There's only so much you can pump out of the ground each day...

On the topic of politics I have been watching Intrade a lot lately to see how well a futures market can predict elections. Check it out if you have any interest in a combination of a financial markets and politics.

What's the specific service or services that need to be running? If it's a web server you could open a specific file or files on the web server and if you get a 200 back then you know the web server is running. What'sUpGold can do this for you and generate emails, phone calls, pages, etc if...

I think a better question is how many of those people should own any vehicle at all? A car is a serious expense. Even a used car costs thousands of dollars a year. There are better alternatives if your monthly income is that low.

I've been reading the book Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air for the past couple days. It's written by a professor of physics at Cambridge. An almost complete rough draft is available for download, the finished version is supposed to be out sometime this year and will also be available...

The Memoright GT line is the closest you can get right now. The 32GB incidentally costs right around $1000.

I would agree with that.

Is this a problem if all the files are stored locally or is it only when you access it from a mapped network drive?

Do you think this is a client-side or a server-side problem? If it's server side you could try a samba share. I have a feeling it's client side though.

That drive only does 80MB/s write, not the 100MB/s that Lunar is looking for. To get 100MB/s+ write this is the only single SSD that does it I believe.

Could you try creating some folders and spreading the files across the folders. Windows doesn't deal with a large number of files very well.

I have an electric heat pump and 75%+ of my power comes from nuclear generation. I also drive less than 1000 miles a year. Should I get a prize?

Not everyone can live in the bay area, DD. There are very few other places in the world that have that constant of a climate year round. I'm not quite sure what you mean by an inhospitable climate. Does Chicago qualify? NYC? Toronto? Moscow?

I would love to ride it and see the stations. I'd like to see any pictures you happen to take. Chicago also has smart cards, the problem is that they aren't mandated. There are still old-style magnetic strip cards for sale and buses allow people to pay with cash. This really slows down...

I was just reading about the Moscow Metro last night. It has the highest ridership in the world. Some of the stations look very interesting too. What did you think of it?

I know this is an old thread, but it was the only mention of Lasik I found on the whole site. I had the procedure done yesterday. So, far everything is going well. It took about 10 minutes total. It was a little nerve wracking while it was happening, but it was over relatively quickly. I went...

The United States oil production peaked in 1970. However, I'm pretty sure that 38 years later it will be able to beat 1970 production and produce ~20.5 million barrels per day (consumption) even though the US produces ~8.3 million barrels per day. Good luck with that. Seriously if I were you I...

I think the govt would rather institute a tax on "record profits," rather than raising the gas tax. Which makes no sense because it should change the price the consumer pays anyways (all you armchair economists feel free to dispute this). I'm all for increasing the federal gas tax, but I doubt...

JTR, maybe you should consider seeing someone about your carpel tunnel. I know you hate doctors and all, but they could shoot you with some cortisone (which shouldn't be all that expensive) or do orthoscopic surgery (which will be expensive). If it works then you will be able to work more.

I watched that a few weeks ago. It was very interesting. Highly recommended.

High-powered wood chipper?

FYI - http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7113

I'd be worried about static shock or blunt force trauma wrecking a $350 drive. Plus, I doubt it has any kind of warranty. You buy one first and let me know how it works, then I will follow.