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  1. Re:Peppers. on Plants for Cubicles? · · Score: 1

    I agree on the peppers. Some Thai or Chili peppers are great and will produce peppers year around in an indoor enviroment.

  2. Kudzu on Purple Weed vs. Beetle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Growing up in Georiga, all I have to say is Kudzu.

    http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu/

    http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/

  3. Darwin on Spider-Man 2 Game Rewarded To Tusk-Impaled Spidey Copycat · · Score: 1

    I see this kid getting a Darwin Award sometime in his life. At least he has something to look for.

  4. Re:Florsheim comfortech on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    The Florsheim insole will last 6 months to a year, then put in some Dr. Scholls. They work great for the airport, no metal. I've worn mine past 20 or 30 different metal detectors with no beeping...

  5. Re:SCOS on Linux Goes to Mars · · Score: 1

    I don't think SCO has filled any patents on Mars as of yet.

  6. Wrong... on Easy to use Household Temperature Monitor? · · Score: 1

    You have it all wrong. It's not the frozen pipes you have to worry about, it's the ones thawing that should be your concern.

  7. Re:Which Unix? on On The Death Of Unix · · Score: 1

    Funny I have three NeXT cubes in my basement running NeXT Step and it sure looks like Unix to me. I edit with vi, I have ports, services file, and LPR.

  8. Re:Good stuff on 10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010 · · Score: 1

    Since when did the laptop manage a Symmetrix or a DMX? The laptop is there to load code changes and to dial home when sick. The frame will run for days with out a laptop attached, you just won't get any error notification. I have personally replace many laptops live on Symmetrix with no problem.
    Secret tool?? It is a 5/16 socket wrench. Go to Autozone, Walmart, Sears and buy you one if you lost the one that came with the machine.You need to learn your hardware.

    No I don't work for EMC. I do install servers and storage subsystems including HP, SUN, EMC, HDS, and NetApps.

    My $.02

  9. No Caps Lock on Searching for Keyboards Loaded with Features? · · Score: 1

    I just want a keyboard without a caps lock. I break it off my PCs, Suns, and Xterminal so I don't hit it when I aim for the shift key. Really ruins a Unix CLI.

  10. Re:If you are looking for cheap� on Designing and Making Custom Wedding Bands? · · Score: 1

    I agree look at pawn shops. You can always buy a used ring, then have the stone set into a ring set you like. This will save you load of money. Also look to the local jewelry shops for used items.

  11. Good chair... on Advice for a Dad-To-Be? · · Score: 1

    My first suggestion is to get a good chair. A nice rocker recliner, Lazy Boy preffered. Both my wife and I spent many a nights rocking and sleeping in the recliner when out little one couldn't sleep. Along that same point, never let you little one sleep in your bed. You will never get them out. I know people that started leting the little sleep in their bed, now at three the little one still sleeps with them.

  12. Xtank on Whatever Happened to Netrek? · · Score: 1

    I prefer the old Xtank game, but I don't think anyone is updating it...

  13. Liberal Arts School on Seeking a Client Independent Calendar Server? · · Score: 1

    How come these questions come from Liberal Arts Schools?? Cause all the technical people went to real schools.

  14. Adminux on Monitoring Your Unix Boxen? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you looked at http://www.adminux.com It does security monitoring, error monitoring, performance monitoring. Cross platform support. It does cost... I used it to monitor 50 HP-UX boxes, 30 AIX boxes, some Suns, and Linux systms.

  15. Re:eMule Project on Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No you were suppose to keep it a secret, now the SPA, and RIAA will be after edonkey/emule next...

  16. Swiss Army Knives on Favor Ideas for a Geeky Wedding? · · Score: 1

    I gave Swiss Army Knives to my grooms men. What geek doesn't need a good Swiss Army Knife.

  17. Re:Just use old PC MBs on Network Attached Storage on a Budget? · · Score: 1

    I have one built to house my movies... I had an old P-90, bought a 200mhz upgrade chip off Ebay. Put 128mb of ram, a 10/100 nic, and purchased a 40GB drive. After a couple months I need more space, so I added a 120gb drive with no problems. Decided I'd let it handle other stuff also, so it runs a caching DNS server, Mail, and ITS for my lan. It could run DHCP, and firewall if I didn't already have a hardware one. Even a P-90's older IDE bus seems faster than the 100 full duplex network I have at home. For my next Nas I'm waiting on the 250GB IDE drives. 4x250GB drives in a desktop case for a little over a grand.

  18. Why not?? on Building a NAS Device w/ Embedded OS? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I also have a couple P-200's laying around with 40 to 80 gb drives in them. If you need something for production that is also small, why wouldn't this work with some case mods maybe. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/59ef.shtm l You could cover all the ports you don't need with a plate or something. Use some of those fancy screws like you Nintendo. Load Linux and setup some remote admin stuff. Plus your helping a /. sponsor. Just my $0.02

  19. Re:Shredding? on Oracle Investigation Grows · · Score: 1

    What backups?? Your talking about the goverment...

  20. Re:To tape or not?? on Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I know..... But Hp made some changes to the software... SUN is direct OEM...

  21. To tape or not?? on Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? · · Score: 1

    First question is tape the medium you have to move the data to, or could it be staged to disk then to tape. Also what kind of system is the dat stored on now? Is it a disk array or JBOD? Who is the manufacture of the disk system? EMC, Hitachi, HP, and SUN all offer ways to create an internal point in time disk copy of production data. This copy can be mounted on a system then backed up to tape. The copy doesn't have to be mounted on the original system the data was on, just the same type for mounting purposes. The next question is where will the tape be attached? Is it going to be attached to the system via SCSI, or Fibre Channel? A single 20mb/s tape drive in a best case might be able to do 36Gb an hour. But the average I've seen has been about 80% for a substanined transfer rate do to tape, and system overhead. So your only looking at 28Gb per hour. This does not include the time it takes for the library to exchange the tape. You would need at least 4 tapes drives to even be able to back the system up in this time frame, but your recovery would suffer along with you system during backup. The only way to get a the best performance out of a tape system is to strip you data streams, and have multiple data streams. All the major backup software vedors do this (HP, Veritas, Legato). The problem is the recovery hurts as most will only recover one stream at a time. So if you backup four stream at a time, your recovery will be 4x the backup time. I guess that is basic overview of DR. I can write for hours on this...

  22. Re:Windows IDE quirk on Single IDE vs Dual IDE? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the reminder... I forgot to chance this after my last MS reinstall.... Now my CD-Burner is actually writting like it should.