Posts by allbad

woo hoo! at 4:30 this afternoon, it arrived in San Antonio, TX, and left for Austin at 9:30 tonight. I'm gonna get my lappy tomorrow! Let's just hope everything's A-OK. (hope i didn't just jinx it )

OK, just got off the phone with UPS. They said because it's ground, it's just sitting on the truck and will not get scanned along the way. Apparently, it's on a route straight from CA to TX. Well, bottom line, I feel better for now.

Here's the whole detail tracking: PACKAGE PROGRESS Date Time Location Activity Jan 24, 2003 3:50 A.M. VERNON, CA, US DEPARTURE SCAN Jan 23, 2003 11:30 P.M. VERNON, CA, US ARRIVAL SCAN Jan 23, 2003 11:04...

Well, hmm... The last activity on UPS shows: Jan 24, 2003 3:50 A.M. VERNON, CA, US DEPARTURE SCAN Does it really take 4+ days to get from Vernon, CA to where ever it's going? I'm in Austin, TX btw. I'm just wondering if...

Sure! show me your U. of Texas student ID! Only one per student/faculty/staff.

That's the really cool thing about PCTorque (or any small computer reseller for that matter). I'm not forced into paying $200 more for an OS I can get for $5 from school. Microsoft is slowly pricing thenselves out of the market, and...

I think what may be sufficient would be to run a Sandra or Fresh Diag benchmark on 1) the firewire drive, and 2) the internal drive... Whichever does better wins?

Well hell, all this time I thought it was measured in megabits. In fact, Seagate reports: "Data Transfer Rate: 100mb/sec" and WD reports: "ATA/100, Up to 100mb/s data transfer rate ". Being a network engineer...

Hello, I am wondering if I get a firewire or USB2 drive, will it actually outperform my laptop drive? It's a 40GB 5400 RPM. I'm guessing, yes as max throughput is > 400 Mb/s, whereas my internal drive is rated to produce 100 Mb/s. ...

Quote: As a product of my institution ... Ha, The only product of my institution is LBJ - lets hope yours fares better. Well, I did work 2 1/2 blocks away from Bush for a year when he was Governer of Texas.