Gotcha! Well it may be time to upgrade. I have the Netgear WNDR3700 which looks good on paper. In practice, we have a problem with it maybe once every two months - wifi will turn off or freeze or something and it'll need a reboot to get back up. It was worse though, and I had to upgrade DD-WRT on it. Maybe there's another upgrade, I haven't checked in a while.

I'd look for one that's DD compatible and rock-stable... especially if you're feeding it 200Mbit fiber.

3Com Office Connect. I use this one and it is the cat's bunbun.

LOL since when does meow wordfilter to bunbun?

How would I create a batch file to open one executable program in/with another? I've read up on a few answers on Yahoo! Answers that taught how to open 2 programs at the same time using custom made .bat files, but how would one make a .bat file that opened one program in another?

Example: I want to run A.exe and open it via B.exe. The way I do it now is I drag the A.exe icon over B.exe, but I'm hoping I could just create a shortcut that would do this for me in one easy click off my desktop. @_@

Well, since you're able to drag A.exe onto B.exe and it works, it should be pretty easy. In fact, you should be able to do this with a shortcut and not have to deal with batch files. Just create a shortcut to B.exe on your desktop, then right click the shortcut and do Properties. Then under the Target field, you just add the path to A.exe after B.exe. So if both A and B are in C:\Program Files, then your Target field should look like:


Then that shortcut should do the same thing as dragging A.exe onto B.exe.

Now, my question is why the hell are you opening one program with another?

THANK YOU BASED JASON

The reason I need this is because of arcade board emulation... games that run on the Taito Type X2 engine require this, loading the executable program (the game board) inside another executable program (the arcade OS/loader, Taito Type X2), so I can create just ONE shortcut:



(still under construction @_@)

I see it requires Subaru as well.

Vampire Savior!

All right so. Tom and piroshki reminded me that since this adorable little device is supposed to be with me for a long time, I was intending to put an SSD in it so it would remain snappy into the far future. But I only know enough about SSDs to know that I have no idea how I should pick one. I know that there are some chipsets that the various manufacturers use, but my reading on the subject is at least a year out of date. I know sometimes there are firmware updates that correct problems that result from the pseudo-random distribution of data; I don't know if it's possible to apply those under OS X, though, which would be ideal. I'm not too current on which manufacturers are reputable, so I can't very well tell the difference between a bargain and a rip-off. In short:

help me find disk

Last I heard the Intels usually score highest in terms of performance, but they're some of the most expensive of the lot. I hear good things about the OCZ drives and they're not as expensive as the Intels. I think a new one, think it's called the Vertex 3, is supposed to be really good.

I bought an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB which is "last year's" model. It uses a Sandforce SSD controller which is considered one of the best. The newer Vertex 3 uses the newer model Sandforce controller. OCZ are an excellent brand and have had minimal troubles, mostly during early beta hardware and such.

Intels I have read of problem after problem. I'm sure they are isolated cases, but there were a few issues that resulted in total data loss for people. Not good.

A pile of manufacturers use the Sandforce controllers, so I'd recommend looking into any of them. Find one you like the price of then pump "nameofproduct review" into Google. Also just go to arstechnica, tom's hardware, etc and navigate around to their newer SSD articles to get an idea of what's out there.

I've heard that too, but I've been using an Intel X-25M for a little over a year and haven't had any problems with it so far. And I hit it pretty hard.

Oh good!

Last friday, my laptop fan would make an odd noise while spinning for a minute or so, the go back to normal. It's not the 'overdrive' mode, but a new sound. Josh told me that, yeah, the fan is on it's way out. It hasn't made that noise since then, though that doesn't mean it's not on it's way out. Josh mentioned to get one with ball bearings to have longer life, but It's a Dell laptop and nothing like that comes up when I search for that specifically. They all seem to be generic fans. Are there any points or companies I should look out for when getting a fan?

What's the specific model? I can dig around and come up with some recommendations.