Did you ever clean the fan? Dirt and dust will add to the electrical load from the fan motor while reducing the the cooling capacity causing it to over heat.

Add another me too to the glossy haters club. I think Apple started it as their form over function design criteria, and when you look at one in the store it would stand out.

Not Entirely. DVI-A can be adapted, but DVI-D can not. Most computers and devices that output DVI-A have the extra analog pins. They are easy to spot as the 2 above and 2 pins below the flat connector. I have seen a LOT of displays that are DVI-D only and are missing the pins. You can see them on a monitor that lacks the capacity. Overall a dual DVI-A&D is better then a VGA+DVI-AD

I worked at a microwave oven repair place, and a co worker would make it run with the door open, and put his hand in. I never did as I was worried about having a small spot in my hand get super heated due to a poor spread on the microwaves. He stopped when he forgot to take off a wedding ring and got a bad burn. After training I never worried about a microwave or other RF non-ionizing radiation.

Sorry but a bow tie is not going to help. Here in Las Vegas, I have the most problems with 3 NBC(broadcast on digital 2),8(CBS),10(PBS),& 13(ABC), All VHF. I can get channel 5(Fox) more then 99% of the time. The 2 main UHF 21 and 33 I can receive, but are worthless channels.

I have created a poor signal environment with my computers and servers with clear cases. The antenna is on opposite end of my condo to avoid interferance from the computers, and on INSIDE because of the Home Owners Association. I don't have a lot of options and my HDTV is one with a poor tuner. A good part of the problem is self inflicted, but it DID work better with analog TV. The only broadcast TV I watch is news. Everything else is via the internet.

I also get worse reception. My DTV picks up 1 channel. I tried everything including a 6' outdoor antenna to pick up a signal 35mi away, something that rabbit ears USED to pick up. I eventually settled for a converter box that down converts to 640x480. I get all the old channels at analog quality, with frequent digital freezes and glitches. Slight snow is easy to watch through compared with a digital signal. I do get some new HOME SHOPPING channels that I don't want. Thank %deity% for Hulu, netflix, ect. Is it too late to go back?

For a more entertaining look at a naked black hole see http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-McAndrew-Charles-Sheffield/dp/067157857X "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield Good read on how to use and abuse a black hole for fun and profit.

The law does not define what is human, other then by the generic description of "homo sapiens" How about a fully artificial set of chromosomes from a computer database created in a lab? Without a VERY clear definition of human, that we currently don't have, these type of laws are useless. Is someone with downs syndrome human? they have a extra whole chromosome. How about someone who gets infected with a retrovirus. They now have a mix of human and virus DNA. How about people who are XXY, XXYY, XYY or other sexual genetic abnormalities? We share a LARGE portion of our DNA with everything from monkeys, dogs, mice, insects and even flowers. First define "Human", and by then many humans will be mixed with "animals" to make the laws worthless and conflict with the bill of rights along with many other laws. People, mostly the very religious, just don't want the understanding that "human" is just another kind of specialized animal.

26/70 Here. My favorite was 11. If I'm sure I'm right about something, I don't waste much time listening to other people's arguments. I am NOT going to waste time arguing that 1+1 is anything other then 2 (except here where it is 10). Usually there is one right answer and a near infinite amount of wrong answers. Yes 11 is less wrong then potato, but both are wrong mathematically speaking.

I gave up my cable for a combination of OTA, BT, Hulu and the library in 2007. In addition to those other sources, SOME cities have a good public library system. Here in Las Vegas, NV you can get almost anything that is available on DVD. Sometimes they don't have a lot of copies of the popular items, but you can get on a waiting list. I am currently catching up on my SG-1, SGA, Star Trek DS9, BSG, Dr. Who & Torchwood. It's almost a perfect system.

Yea, I WANT one of the new Toshiba 4S reactors in my back yard*. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S A good idea, and I would have no problem living next to/on top of one of those.
*Currently in a condo, I need to get a back yard first.

You will always be able to find one on e-bay. I DON'T foresee drobos as a good solution for more then 10 years, 20 at the outside. The data would need migration after to a new medium. It is a good long term solution where long=10-20 years. I don't know ANY static solution that would work after 20 years. For longer terms periodic migration is a requirement, but there is also the question of computers to read the data, and programs to interpret the raw data. With so many scientific programs having copy protection, having copies of the data, copies of the disk, and no LPT1 port to put the parallel port dongle on, means no access to the data. There are many links in a chain to go from 1's & 0's on a storage medium to USEFUL data. If any link gets broken the data may not be usable or recoverable.

I though that everyone knew that you can eject a group of disks as a disk pack, then reuse the enclosure for the next client. I have a live drobo, and then a backup with 3 SETS of disks, for a total of 4 disk packs, 4 disks per pack, of 1tb each.
Sorry, I made a assumption that he would read up on the drobo and find that out.

You might look at a www.drobo.com as a set of 4,5 and 8 drive enclosures. 1 TB disks gives you 3 TB usable space with a 2 drive failure tolerance. I have the older 4 bay drobo (2 for myself, and 2 at separate clients offices). It is much simpler to use, and will scale to your 2-3tb use and allow mismatched drives that normal raid will not use. Get a enclosure to start with, and then financing permitting, get a 2nd for Drobo redundancy. Not the fastest or cheapest, but reasonably good by both accounts, and simple to use.