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  1. Re:I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, I drive past one every day that's being expanded on. The original building with offices at least looked nice with windows and such but the addition (which is way bigger than the original building) is just one massive ugly grey concrete box with no windows or any decoration whatsoever. A total eyesore.

    Eola Rd?

  2. Just improve the "resume" mode! on Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control · · Score: 2

    I just want a cruise control that doesn't go to 100% throttle when I want to resume 70MPH after slowing down.

  3. Re:5 days no government, is that so bad? on Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days · · Score: 2

    They have the power, they just can't get it where they need it without equipment overheating. Since it is a busbar overheating you can't just switch over to emergency power to fix it, you have to route power around the issue which is not economically feasible in this case except for the emergency services systems which can use their redundant power supplies.

    Run down to Autozone and grab a couple dozen jumper cables.

  4. Just retired my 486/66 on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    Just a few weeks ago I retired my 486/DX2-66 that I bought in June of 1992. Paid more then $3600 for it with a 4MB Cardinal video card with the Weitek P9000 chipset 8MB of RAM and an incredible 120MB hard drive. The harddrive controller, video board and I/O controller board are all full-length ISA daughterboards. There are no integrated devices on this MoBo at all! The system ran as my home firewall/router for the last 6 years running first RedHat 5.1 and now Debian 2.0. After replacing the bios battery with an external pack of AA batteries a few years ago, it ran fine until recently I tried to figure out why my connection stayed so slow.....the 486 couldn't handle the compression/decompression of the PPP modem connection fast enough. I popped out the hard drive and put it into a Pentium 200 MMX that I had, rebooted and continued on working as usual.

  5. Palm Doc Creation on Orphanages For Abandoned Free Software? · · Score: 1
    I ran into the same problem a few weeks ago trying to find this exact same utility. When I finaly found it, I decided to use it to create an export filter for AbiWord.

    The development version of AbiWord currently has the capability to export PalmDoc format .pdb files.

    www.abisource.com

    If you do not want to download from the CVS, you can get the latest release (0.7.11) later this week (so I'm told ;-)

  6. Re:Linux support on Vendors Paying Lip Service To Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    Wow....

    I am having this _exact_ same problem right now!

  7. Possibly this? on Cases for Multiple Single Board Computers? · · Score: 1
    Check out this company...

    www.emacinc.com

    Under their catagory of SBC PC Addons, they have an item listed as "20 slot Multi-system Rackmount Industrial PC Chassis."

    There is no picture, but they can (hopefully) send you the info.

  8. Glass is not a liquid on IBM 75G Hard Drive Ready · · Score: 4
    Contrary to popular belief, glass is not a liquid. Check out this article from Discover Magazine for a very good explanation of the physics of glass.

    The Physics of ... Glass