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like i said, my connection, pings and routes look good except for the evening peak hours. and that is a problem known to them, and they say they are working on it. so i will wait a while and see what happens.

aside from the speed the latency would be horrific. i have talked to people that were on sat phones provided by the army in bosnia, and you pretty much had to use CB like bla bla bla OVER bla bla bla OVER methods to avoid talking over one another. in a normal phone convo you figure when someone is done with a sentence and start talking, or you interrupt someone and that someone instantly hears you coming in. but with a 1 second or even 500ms latency (where the 1 second is even optimistic, imo) you end up talking over one another. and if you try to break into a sentence or start talking when you think the other person stopped and he didn't before you notice it you already said a few words. that really messes up the conversation, making it vital for both parties to end their 'messages' with OVER to let the other party know it's ok to start talking.

win 98 is not supported any more.

no it ain't. a-hole is an insult. this guy is tha shit is simply dudespeak.

haven't read the comments but i would figure that the extended support goes for home as well, since any bugs/security iddues in pro will be identical in home or nonexistent in home due to it not having the bugged feature. so i figure they will release the patches for all versions. and if not, 2008 is a ways off yet...

called em during sundays outage due to the switchover and got the reply i expected. it is due to the san juan cable buying the local split-off of adelphia that was never a 100% part of adelphia anyhow. with it now not even running under the adelphia name anymore they are getting the royal shaft from miami, where the PR link connects to the adelphia backbone. look at the traceroutes. all is well, usually, until it hits miami. and tracing a route to a PR server is worse, it goes to miami, then dallas then back. according to the tech i talked to they are working on it, which i take as they are in negotiations with either adelohia for a decent connect or some other backbone provider in miami. they said a bout a month to solve the problem, which sounds about right for negotiating a connection instead of fixing a technical problem. imo the adelphia servers in miami just can't take the load and/or the PR traffic is getting lower priority since it's not native adelphia traffic.

sounds like he either has a bad filter or his filter isn't installed right. hence the signal from the phone bleeds into the dsl freq and kills the connection. and what's so bad about it, you are about to loose and give him a call. problem solved. if checking/replacing the filter doesn't work he should contact his isp.

humidity would probably be beyond ambient, what with the dust bunnies sucking it up and the temperature usually being above ambient.

if you insist on buying both formats when they both come out... fine... but why take away the consumers right to choose between two formats?

oh, you bought it used without a manual? contact sony. www.sony.com

there are subtle differences between the two. it's betamax and vhs all over again. except that the differences in dvd's are less extreme and you can build drives that can read/write both. the groups of manufacturers that combined to form the plus and minus parties tried to gain an advantage in the market early on.

well, cholla, the trick with cooling with liquid is that due to the fact that you are using a heatexchanger on the chipset, cpu etc. to heat water and a radiator fan setup to cool it down you are never below ambient at any point in the cycle. that means there is no condensation. (unless of course the ambient humidity is at the dewpoint anyhow. this however is rare to nonexistent in a building) you are correct that cooling a pc (or anything else) with a method of refrigeration involved can lead to condensation. if you used a fridge to cool down the liquid for a liquid cooler you would get condensation on the exposed parts if tyhe ambient temp and humidity levels are high enough. cooling a pc inside a frdidge freezer should pose no condensation problems as - 1. the pc will be the warmest part in the fridge/freezer making it the part least likely to attract condensation - 2. unlike a regular freezer/fridge the door will stay shut 99.9 percent of the time leading to less influx of relatively warm/humid ambient air. the air inside the fridge/freezer will fairly quickly reach a level of humidity at which no further condensation occurs by condensing on the cooling coils. when you open a fridge/freezer everything inside it feels moist after a few seconds because you are dumoping warm moist air onto a cold object. same as the mist out of a freezer/fridge. that is the cool air from the fridge/freezer hitting the outside air causing condensation of the ambient humidity. you can always go on the safe side and place one of those chemical dehumidifiers into the fridge with the pc to ensure that the humidity in the fridge is lowered without condensation occcuring.

check the manual?

i haven't seen the other seasons, and i haven't been able to watch the reruns. so i think watching now would be kinda pointless.

i would say you're doing a good job. getting a g to reliably drop to 24 then 2 mbit can be difficult, but the right kind of appliances make it possible. i'm sorry, that was just screaming out for it. but seriously. appliances can ruin your whole day. cordless phones on the freq, microwaves, amything that sends out rf interference. first, see if changing the channel you use does any good. check if there are other wireless nets nearby, see if y6ou can find out who has them, ask to see if they will tell you what channel they are on so you can deconflict with them. if you can move your antennae try that. a girder or rebar wall can really block signals. also rebar walls can cause echoes of the signal, so moving the antenna just a bit can get you out of that bad spot. as always, wireless will be slower than wired. wired is to be preferred if possible. (running cable can be a hassle, but it is so much worth the effort. keep in mind that if netwoerking multiple machines one cable from the router to a story and then placing a switch there and branching off to the machines can make it simpler.)

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

i'm still waiting for the novel.

Ca3le is 1337!

raid 5ing the 3 120s would be good, but using the slowest drive of the lot, the 8 gig for a swap file, um, no man. just no.

see if you have a wiring duct in the house. or like i said, do you have central a/c heat? use those ducts.

hm, just thought of a drawback. anytime you wanted to work on it (upgrading, swapping cards) you would have to take it out and let it slowly warm up, let the condensation that forms evaporate, then work on it and lower it in again. plus the mainboard battery would likely die, so you would have to wire that in and run cables for it outside the vat. as for the power supply it should work under liquid N, depends on the exact kind of components it has. although the psu will be boiling off a /lot/ of N.

ah, ok. so it's not his comp hosting the connection, he is a 'client' to the router just as you are. dpending on the security setting for the wireless and the signal strength you get along with any interference from the environment that will slow your speed down. my recommendation is to lay an ethernet cable from the router to the comp, a/c ducts will work well for that if available, that will ensure you get the same speed as the other comp.

maybe build an insulated vat and immerse the entire pc in liquid nitrogen. although you wouldn't be able to do so with the drives, they would probably get brittle and shatter when moved. and i'm not sure what would happen if any of the materials become superconductive. but hanging the board with the cards into a bath of nitrogen, without even heatsinks should work. i don't think nitrogen is a conductor (need to look that up) and i also don't think that the liquid would go inbetween contacts and disrupt them. on the processor that shouldn't be a problem at all, it would just boil off, and the cards should be ok...

sure. just read the 2 links in my sig and post all the info and me or likely someone else will make some recommendations.

probably nothing wrong. just that the comp hosting the connection is likely wired direct to the modem hwile you are running off a shared wireless connection. that will slow things down. invest 50 bucks and get a router, you can get em with wireless too in case you don't want to run a cable to your comp, that should help.