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    Gateway advice

    http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Linksys+WRT54G. More than one. I suspect there may be some QOS options for some of the other Linksys kit, although certainly not if it's not user upgradeable.
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    One PC stops entire network

    Claiming the primary server's IP address (so long as everyone saw access to that box as being 'the network'), or claiming its MAC address. I don't know why it would develop this spontaniously, however, <brainstorm>unless the primary server were manually addressed, and the DHCP server had that...
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    Figured out how to max out a dual Xeon 2.8 machine...

    I recall seeing an MS copyright tag in what I recall thinking was a kernel binary. I also recall the disassembled code having a similar feel to the C64 kernel. (Style, not what it did. What it did was vastly different, due to different hardware.) Admittedly, this was well over 10 years ago...
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    The Best Mice are back...

    Ok, thinking about the Amiga, and then seeing this post next... what kind of processing power would that monitor and mouse have? Would their command sets allow for some utilization of those resources? I would assume that the monitor would have a sufficiently large buffer to hold at least two...
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    Figured out how to max out a dual Xeon 2.8 machine...

    I have, in fact, seen the wonder that was the Amiga. I think the most amazing thing about it was the extent that the Microsoft coders went to serialize a box that was built from the ground up to be an asymetric multiprocessing machine. I have also seen an Amiga with some critical Microsoft...
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    WHY, WHY, WHY DID I JUST SPEND MOST OF THE DAY TRYING TO A..

    Re: WHY, WHY, WHY DID I JUST SPEND MOST OF THE DAY TRYING TO This has been bothering me for a bit. Do you have a post somewhere that explains why you continue to run MacOS 9? Note this question is coming from an old unix hand, that only took another look at Apple after MacOS X had been out...
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    How long does your bad sector HDD survive?

    IDE family (includes *ATAs) or SCSI family (includes FCAL)? IDE drives have a reserved set of blocks, which the drive will use to automatically remap bad blocks as they're identified by the drive; by the time your OS can see any bad blocks, the drive has been degrading for quite some time. As...
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    27 hours

    So, um, the earth's rotation is accelerating? Incidentally, I've seen several studies involving isolating people from night/day, and they all agree that we shift to a longer day, they all agree that we generally shift to the same cycle as the people around us, and they all disagree on what that...
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    The Best Mice are back...

    Well, sorry to say, but one of my coworkers explained it to me. "It's just to annoy *you*." I'm sorry I'm so much fun to annoy; believe me, it annoys me at *least* as much as it does you. Thank goodness I have unusual tastes, or more people would be put out by this. Currently, I'm using a...
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    SATA II

    Well, once you have two nearly compatible protocols, having the protocol that was accomodated move the target would be kind of churlish. At my workplace, there's a lot of this backwards accomodation going on - the corporate LDAP team is required to not roll out new software that break systems...
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    Bold New Plan For Social Security

    To address those issues, they'd need to admit that they were wrong. Social Security itself has been around long enough that it can be completely revamped without slighting anyone still in office (or, for that matter, alive). However, many people are still in Congress who've raided SS for their...
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Some people! A 14 watt CF bulb is more than sufficient for me. :cyclopsani: Given the comments I hear from my cowokers about this topic, I'll suggest that, at least for those I personally know, the issue is more that people aren't spending enough time either outside or in the presence of...
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    SCSI questions

    Disclaimer: I don't know exactly how ATA works, so without further enlightenment, I'll have to assume it's the same as IDE. Multiple SCSI drives can be active at the same time. All SCSI harddrives I've seen support having multiple outstanding commands as well (basically, the idea is, the drive...
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    21 160GB drives tested

    But Cheetahs still cannot change them.
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Keeping sun-facing rooms cool Disclaimer: The below assumes that either your average summer day is cooler than 82F, or you have active cooling of some sort. Let me recommend you do something about that sun. The sun beating on the windows is almost certainly going to be your biggest heat...
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    Bold New Plan For Social Security

    The problem with this approach is that many people will spend any money they get their hands on, even though they know better. (This is why direct-deposit investments are seen by many to be a very good thing.) This bill is purportedly doing something similar to that. (As I haven't seen the...
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    SCSI questions

    Just to expound upon this detail, the main reason servers may need more SCSI channel bandwidth than PCI bandwidth is RAID, especially RAIDs 2-5. (RAID 1 typically takes twice as much SCSI bandwidth for writes as PCI bandwidth. But the fact that you're going to be using other PCI devices in the...
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    Political Cartoon: This Land

    It requires javascript and flash. Banner ads courtesy of doubleclick.com and advertising.com. I especially enjoyed its balanced approach.
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    Bold New Plan For Social Security

    True. The only reason why I'd support something like the afore-mentioned bill is that, on average, people are better managers of their own money than Congress. If Congress as an effective whole was able to leave a large pile of money, that they had promised to reserve for a specific purpose...
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    Bold New Plan For Social Security

    Due to the current state of the Social Security system, they could not possibly do what you'd like them to do - they don't *have* the money you've put in. It's been pilfered. Part of the reason this plan won't get any better is that they need to continue stealing money from younger people to...
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    Wish me luck

    My understanding is, these days, being bi is in vogue (at least, so long as one is female). This does not mean that the young women giving this image are, in fact, bi; many are straight, and a number of them are lesbians. This is not intended to speak to any specific encounters you may have...
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    Wish me luck

    Of course she was intimidated by you. Very glad to hear it. :D Having finally finished my recommended reading list, I've been trying to figure out how to suggest that might be the case for the past four hours, as well as a few other bits. Actually, to be honest, I'd pretty much decided to...
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    APC UPS buying time

    When I have multiple hosts, I have a tendancy to go with multiple UPSes. However, I only do this if, after a value judgement, I decide some hardware is more important than other hardware. For example, at the moment, I have three UPSes. One for my main system, one for my monitor and dev...
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    Best, most efficent DVD ripper software, and reader?

    ... I know a few people who back up DVDs to CD-Rs. I'd like to be able to pretend they meant DVD-Rs as well. What I do instead is pretend that I don't know anything about Windows PCs; this usually works ok for these items, and covers a few others as well. However, I tend to not have the same...
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