I can't tell you the number of times I nearly deleted my archived data, going back to 1997 in my case, not just e-mail either.

Then I got falsely accused of everything except 9-11 as part of a separation / child custody battle that started with a nuclear attack out of the blue.

It is amazing how much of that old data is relevant in such cases, "He did x on 1st June 2000 at our house!" and you have data showing you were 200 miles away doing something you had completely forgotten, with someone you haven't spoken to or seen for 7 years, at the time...

DO NOT DELETE YOUR ARCHIVES, EVER!***

*** unless of course you are a bad person and they incriminate you, in which case you'd better avoid everyone else who archives data.

4 tickets to Snoop Dog + 2 copies of Norton.

Just something to scan for example from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254 and produce a map.

Something like NetworkView, but hopefully free / open, ideally to run on Windows.

What you say?

NO NO NO NO NO.

It is NOT 3d, it is NOTHING LIKE 3d.

The "object" that I am viewing (the flat, 2d, screen) is a fixed distance from my eyes, the parallax for EVERYTHING displayed on the screen, and the focal length for EVERYTHING displayed on that screen is the same.

This is as "3d" as those optical illusions are "motion". eg NOT.

As subject, this just for lameness filter.

I have always found them to be excellent, if you like, a sort of Cisco lite.

A ride so smooth it feels like it is parked, a 130 mph top speed, and 45 miles per imperial gallon at 65 mph, and 35 miles per imperial gallon around town. Cost me the equivalent of about 1200 bucks US.

Tell me why I need to buy an electric car, or indeed any new car, to be "green".

Please tell me how / why / what the difference is (SPL? Hz? Interference pattern?) because on the face of it you're talking about two opposing effects.... ... unless of course it is decreasing male sperm counts correlating with the use of ante-natal ultrasound scans...

thank fuck I'm old enough I only had to (retrospectively) worry about thalidomide and rickets.

damn, that should be "the traditional electric SHOWER"

Here are two real world examples.

1/ the traditional electric kettle, normally a 3 kW element immersed in a few pints of water, or the traditional hot water cistern, a 6 kW element immersed in a few tens of gallons of water.

The above works on open circuit (immersion) and thermosyphon / convection.

2/ the traditional electric showed, normally a 8 kW element in a unit a tad smaller than a soda can.

The above is closed circuit and forced flow.

Simple changing from immersion and convection, to closed circuit and forced flow, UTTERLY changes the device.

Immersion liquid cooling is something I have done in the past, and that is all well and good, it is after all HOBBY level tech.

For commercial level tech it isn't even a joke, imagine opening the bonnet / hood of your new 2010 car and finding a big tub full of water with the engine immersed in it.

Internal combustion engines have had closed circuit internal liquid cooling circuits for decades, and frankly computers and electronics have had closed circuit internal liquid cooling circuits for decades too.

Think backplane technology and hollow main boards, the liquid coolant flows through the hollow PCB, and mates and either side with the "backplane".

All the advantages of liquid cooling, and almost none of the disadvantages of liquid cooling.

Air cooling has one great advantage, "leaks" don't matter. Provided you have sufficient mass flow you can leak air all over the place.

Older internal combustion engines didn't even have forced circulation in the closed loop liquid coolant systems, they used thermal syphon, much like the space between the racks.

The salient fact here is you have to design in the cooling circuit at the engine block / PCB mechanical design stage, until and unless you do that you are going to be dealing with some god-awful heath-robinson kludge, like fitting an old "stationary engine" (google it) into a 2010 Dodge rolling chassis.

Instead of a 50 buck case containing a 100 buck mobo, you end up with a 100 buck case and a 200 buck mobo for closed circuit air cooling, or a 200 buck case and a 400 buck mobo for closed circuit liquid cooling, and these prices are for large volume manufacture with full economies of scale.

Now go back to your Dodge dealership and take in two 2010 rolling chassis for the annual service, one is running a bog standard cummins, the other is a kludged up stationary engine, and ask the mechanics which one will be more expensive to service.

Closed circuit liquid cooled electronics are not new, it is routinely used in avionics, which of course means that you can back 200 watts of thermal rejection (a modern desktop computer) into a package the size of an iphone, and run it flat out 24/7.

But it costs.

Unless you are in Hong Kong then the cost of land per acre is cheaper, and air is free, and leaks don't matter, and the coolant doesn't cause shorts.

The only other advantage of liquid coolant is it is much quieter, but even so, you can cure that problem by making everything bigger to accommodate much larger passive heatsinks.

http://hackedgadgets.com/wp-content/_hs2.JPG for example, this stuff is extruded and bought by the metre, it doesn't have a failure mode.

I recently downgraded from traffic shaped 20 mbit virgin coax cable to 8 mbit post office adsl... so let's do the math.

On virgin I could get 20 mbit for 90 minutes, and then hit the cap, which cut me back to 5 mbit, so, doing the math at 3,600 seconds to the hour...

20 x 3600 x 1.5 = 108,000 mbit before the cap
5 x 3600 x 22.5 = 405,000 mbit after the cap
for a total maximum of 513,000 mbit or (/8) 64.125 gigabytes in 24 hours.

This was UK£ 35 a month so 1.15 a day, therefore 55.76 gigabyte per UK£

On the ADSL I actually get 7.2 mbit, no traffic shaping, no cap.

7.2 x 3600 x 24 = 622,080 mbit or (/8) 77.76 gigabytes in 24 hours.

This is UK£ 19.95 a month so 0.66 a day, therefore 117.81 gigabyte per UK£

This gives is the MAXIMUM cost to the ISP and the MINIMUM revenue.
It also gives us MAXIMUM daily traffic for the ISP (assuming no local content, cache, etc)

Say my actual usage is 10% of this theoretical maximum, then just divide the cost, eg "x" GB/UK£, by ten, so virgin cable would be 5.57 GB/UK£ and PO ADSL would be 11.78 GB/UK£

SO.. a lot of the packages are like the family sized toothpaste tube, yeah, the tube is twice the size of the normal one, but the diameter of the hole in the cap is much bigger too, since they know you put toothpaste on the brush by length, not by volume...

as subject, cos I can't talk about nntp

That covers 99% of what anyone will ever use.

Have to say, Office 2010 does what it says on the tin, not perfectly, but better than anything else, with certain provisos...

Open Office is great, it does everything, until you start regularly exchanging data with companies that are based on MS Office.

Where MS Office has always excelled is in the actual office environment, multiples users working on the same files in collaboration, think lawyers offices, that sort of thing.

Outlook 2010 wins the prize for "best e-mail client on windows" by default, Outlook kept evolving, and while 3 year old versions of Eudora or Pegasus are again fine for the single / home user, as soon as you get anywhere near that real world office environment, Outlook 2010 kills everything else stone dead.

Outlook 2010 is Mail / Calendar / Contacts / Tasks, all integrated, someone send you a Word.doc attachment, dude, previewed live and correctly within the Outlook application, all seamless productivity.

Took me all of 15 second to configure it to send text only emails and all the other usual conventions.

ABC Amber also do an excellent little app to export just about any mail or data format that you can imagine to Outlook format, well worth the 19 bucks to migrate a decades worth of Eudora mail archives in 30 minutes, complete with folder structures etc.

Summary.

MS Office 2010 is strictly optional if you're a home user.

MS Office 2010 is the only game in town in a commercial office environment, or for regular communication with one, such as you are going to get a divorce and spend lots of time sending stuff back and forth to your lawyer.

HTH etc