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Those vegans will probably say "so what"? Why do 'those' meat eaters think that we are missing out on something? There is a wide variety of food available. Seriously. We are fine. We eat heaps. We have banquets. We stuff ourselves. And most of us are really really healthy as a result of not eating animal products. Vegan lions on Futurama don't prove the contrary by the way.

Anyway, I am glad that this upcoming G-Rated SuperBowl wouldn't allow such a dirty puppet on-air! They even renamed the "Best Damn Sports Show Period" to the "The Best DARN Sports Show Period". God bless their hearts.

Whole industries got a boost or were even created with that money...computers.

The Tang industry is still benefiting mankind as well as other lots of other stuff too.

The only functioning imaging device I have right now is my scanner. Kinda hard to hold a chair up to.

But here are some commercially available options:

Seating platforms

They're terribly expensive though, and if you're the least bit handy with a saw and electric drill you can make your own experimental models out of little more than some scrounged MDF/Plywood and 2x4. Play with different hights.

In fact, if you just want to try out a low model to see how it feels, just go to Home Depot or wherever and pick up a precut 2'x4' piece of luan and set it on some empty coffee cans, and if you don't like it you've still got a coffeetable top.

Make sure to use a cushion though, or it'll suck.

Buy two of said boards and you can experiment with different desk/chair hight combinations. Low chair with coffee table hight desk is very nice, but probably not considered suitable for the office.

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I'm not sure if it "links business processes together", but it does get quite sticky if you dont clear it up prompty when it spills.

This guy here is selling off a mint Gatling Gun replica. It sits next to his office. Very nice, and would definitely worry the neighbors.

Marvin Minsky when he is angry? ... sorry, wrong Marvin.

Sounds like you need to upgrade your CPU fan to an 8000 RPM Delta fan. AT 55 decibels, It should keep you up all night. I put one in my system once but couldn't stand to be in the same room for more than 5 minutes so I promptly replaced it with a Panasonic Panaflo.

Easily breached using the proper Force-Field Deactivation Device.

The Vantec Nexus fan controller or similar products are a great idea. (Sorry for linking to an online store, but it was the only site I could find with good pics and info)
This thing is pretty nifty, 4 knobs linked to Pulse Width Modulation controllers to let you dial up or down the RPM, and thus noise and airflow, of your case/CPU fans. Great for turning down the noise overnight, and turning up the cooling when gaming or overclocking. My plan is to buy a few Vantec Tornado 92mm fans and hook them up to the Nexus, allowing me to decide what noise level I feel comfortable with. The blue LEDs also look pretty cool, IMHO.

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The space station is the biggest waste of money ever in the history of *ANY* space program.

Yes, we're living in space, but so what. The Russians lived there for years on MIR.

The scientists are supposed to be doing science, but all they are doing right now is maintenance. Over 75% of their time is spent doing maintenance of the space station.

What are we acheiving here? At least with the Apollo program we got to go to the moon and developed TANG.

A great opinion piece on this states, "This latest project is the international equivalent of a timeshare apartment. Sixteen countries have been conned into paying their bit towards a half-built orbiting holiday home." Amen.

Maybe you're buying your parts from Neiman Marcus, but you can get a great pump (RIO 180, 120gph, which I get a real world 40gph in my water-cooling rig) for about $10, blocks are less than $20, and radiators can be taken off of any wrecked ATV or motorcycle usually for free or just a few bucks.

there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950

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I have a server in a dusty environment too. What I did was put a metal mesh filter from 2cooltek.com in the lower front with a low-noise low-power fan behind it to suck the air through. It's VERY effective. I opened it up after 4 months and had no dust whatsoever in the case but one dirty filter (you can clean it by simply rinsing it under the kitchen tap). Ever since that experience I've started mounting those filters into every single PC I build. They're just too cheap and too good not to.

My box has an Athlon 600 MHz with an Asus K7M mobo. At this point, I'm trying for a quiet PC (at least as quiet as I can get it). I've already installed an Ultra Quiet power supply and a SilentDrive enclosure, and those are working well so far.

As far as I can tell, the primary remaining source of the noise is the chipset fan (an RDJD K701). Looking through 2Cooltek (a good source for cooling products), I came across the "Alpha P7125 Athlon/SECC Cooler (no fans)". However, does the "no fans" designation mean that the cooler comes without fans but needs them, or that it comes without fans and can operate without them? I'm thinking that if indeed it can operate without fans, then that could mean a significant sound reduction for me.

Then again, if that one does require the fans, then I'm guessing that it's about the same loudness as my current setup :-/. In that case, are there other quiet-coolers I should try? Or, should I just go straight to the acoustical foam?

My box has an Athlon 600 MHz with an Asus K7M mobo. At this point, I'm trying for a quiet PC (at least as quiet as I can get it). I've already installed an Ultra Quiet power supply and a SilentDrive enclosure, and those are working well so far.

As far as I can tell, the primary remaining source of the noise is the chipset fan (an RDJD K701). Looking through 2Cooltek (a good source for cooling products), I came across the "Alpha P7125 Athlon/SECC Cooler (no fans)". However, does the "no fans" designation mean that the cooler comes without fans but needs them, or that it comes without fans and can operate without them? I'm thinking that if indeed it can operate without fans, then that could mean a significant sound reduction for me.

Then again, if that one does require the fans, then I'm guessing that it's about the same loudness as my current setup :-/. In that case, are there other quiet-coolers I should try? Or, should I just go straight to the acoustical foam?

My box has an Athlon 600 MHz with an Asus K7M mobo. At this point, I'm trying for a quiet PC (at least as quiet as I can get it). I've already installed an Ultra Quiet power supply and a SilentDrive enclosure, and those are working well so far.

As far as I can tell, the primary remaining source of the noise is the chipset fan (an RDJD K701). Looking through 2Cooltek (a good source for cooling products), I came across the "Alpha P7125 Athlon/SECC Cooler (no fans)". However, does the "no fans" designation mean that the cooler comes without fans but needs them, or that it comes without fans and can operate without them? I'm thinking that if indeed it can operate without fans, then that could mean a significant sound reduction for me.

Then again, if that one does require the fans, then I'm guessing that it's about the same loudness as my current setup :-/. In that case, are there other quiet-coolers I should try? Or, should I just go straight to the acoustical foam?

Linux on my Libretto subnotebook is a lot slower than the original OS (Win95), because KDE uses more memory and all I've got is 32 MB. Sure, I could run it in console mode, but I like a GUI. Linux programs also seem to be less careful about making sure things fit on the little 640x480 screen.

I imagine any flavour of NT on this machine would be even worse than KDE. But Win95 works, so why change?

To add to the original discussion: replacing the hard drive on a Libretto is very easy and very worthwhile. For about $200 you can upgrade from the original 1.6GB disk to a 20GB disk. You have to watch out because the BIOS was written for 8GB max and writes the hibernation information at the 8GB limit, but disk overlays and careful partitioning solve that. Physical installation is a breeze: unscrew a cover, slip out the old drive, slip in the new one.

I got my disk upgrade from WEESCO; they were helpful and quick.

The funniest joke in the world is of the Darwin fish.

You can order a Doctor of Divinity from ULC for $25: Courses and Degrees

I love their silencer cooling fans ($9 each), open up your power supply and swap this fan in place of it, works great. A lot cheaper than the ~$100 for a new PSU.

Throw this fan in the front of your case too, to get extra airflow lost when moving to this quiet fan.

Their CPU coolers also work well and are very quiet.

After switching my K6-2 450 to their 275W silencer power supply, a silencer fan in the front, their CPU fan, the loudest thing in my case was the hard-drive.

Modern 5400 RPM drives are a LOT quieter than 7200 RPM and older 5400/7200 RPM drives. Pick up one of the new inexpensive Seagate, Fujitsu or Quantum drives, they run just about silent.

After all these changes, I can finally sleep in peace (only a very slight whirring left) with my PC on all the time.

If you have a faster CPU, the CPU coolers that PC power and cooling sells aren't up to the job IMO. In that case, you'll want to look at water cooling your CPU. Cheap, and a lot quieter than most CPU fans, since this one uses a 120mm fan spinning slowly at ~2K RPM instead of the normal 60mm fan spinning at 5-8K RPM.

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maybe a really interesting idea is a rubber/titanium shell for laptop hard drives, which has a modular connection at one end and so can plug in to USB, Firewire, or SCSI (I'd settle for just USB and Firewire, actually).

"Knowing is half the battle."

- G.I. Joe

These all seem like pricey-kinda-kludgy solutions... check out a review at http://www.tech -report.com/reviews/1999q4/mp-shuttle/mp-shuttle-1 .x or you can go shopping at http://xeenontech.safeshopper.com/.
Seems like a real solution to me.. 2 different models.. one has a pullout HD rack, and the other just has a CD drive in it to read normal burned CDs with mp3's on them.. and it is shipping now! This is what I want for Christmas!