The first one I used was not a very good experience. We went to the store and purchased a parallel port zip drive. We opened the documentation and read the instructions how to set up the parallel port zip drive. We spent too much time on trying to make it work. Then I noticed the little dial on the back with numbers 5-6 on it.

Turns out they had boxed a scsi zip drive in a parallel port box. Since they were both 25pin everything connected just fine.
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wow, those things actually came out in 1983!

And worse, I remember them!

Seriously, I haven't seen a mainstream laptop in YEARS that had a trackball.

I had a Dell Pentium75 Laptop that had a rubbery trackball on it, was pretty damn cool Pretty much your basic inverted mouse. Then the company upgraded me to a P100. That one was awesome. Had a glass(like) trackball and OPTICAL tracking on it. Oh boy that thing was awesome. No more cleaning the wheels.

Now, no trackballs at all. WHY?!?! BRING BACK THE TRACKBALL.

This bad boy...
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I'm sitting here looking at unlimited mini-chocolates, dunkin' sticks, trailmix, beef sticks, bags of chips, coffee cakes, etc. Three feet beyond that location I know that in the fridge we have hummus, carrots, Bell Peppers and other generally good stuff I like.

Do you think I ever make it to the fridge? Not really. Well, except to get to the icecream in the freezer.

SuperDuperSpeed USB?

Bah, 24MB cameras are cheap these days. Lay out a 3x3 grid of your CDs (shiny side up) and take a pic. You may need to backlight them though.

I think you must be me. I would have posted the same thing.

The bad thing about it, when I was downloading said 60+ floppies on a modem, I didn't quite have enough disks... so I had to create 1-40, then once I used #1 I recycled it to 41...

The sucky part was the setup didn't tell you that you wouldn't end up using all the disks depending on what you chose to install, so a lot of them were skipped.

Consider rsync, works just as well on a local file system as it does remotely.

Your A/V files probably won't change much, so this won't help them, but if you do end up with a lot of files that do change, rsync may be great. just have it run nightly and it'll copy the changes.

Your -aRu is going to copy any file where the meta data has changed, such as the id3 tag in an mp3. rsync would just copy the delta, lots less to move.

I second this. We're going to be homeschooling our kids next year and there are some courses here we're going to integrate into the curriculum.

1970? That's not old.

- Peace

No you don't need a smart phone. You also don't need a computer, car, TV, ipod.

For that matter you don't need shoes, a toothbush, medecine or soap.... but damn if they don't make life easier.

Now, for MY job on the other hand, I need this phone. I'm expected to carry this phone and be this 'in touch' at all times. If I'm not, they'll find someone who will. So don't tell me I can do without when responding to email on a timely basis is part of my job.

Thanks

Well then... I guess we'll rename them the moral party and the immoral party.

Glad I have a 12ga... Been meaning to get a Judge or some other 45. Google for "The Judge"

awe stop whining, with 7500/gram under perfect conditions, there's plenty of room to cut corners on efficiency... Sure, we let a little steam into the atmosphere, warming the earth. And yeah, they don't talk about the 3 tons of radioactive water byproduct. Oh, and cars will all be 3x the size because of the boiler/turbine. And it's deadly to actually handle the stuff. And that china is the only producer of thorium. And you have to spend 85% of the energy generated running the laser. Oh, and you have to plug it into a wall to get enough amps to actually start a cold system, so people actually leave it running 24 hours/day. And that a gram of thorium costs $1000/gram or $5000/gram after taxes. And Al Gore says it kills polar bears, pandas and unicorns.

But after you take all that into account, you still get, oh, something like 25MPg. The Government will think it's a a perfect solution.

Because at the rate the dollar is going, in 5 years $15 billion is only going to buy you a box of girl scout cookies. And I'll take thinmint.