Recent content by Phloodpants

Nice deal on that Jointer if you're into woodworking! (seriously into it...)

Worked for me!! I went to the CC here in Madison, knowing they were out of stock. They went ahead and charged me for them for pickup later. As I'm standing there, an employee rolls up with a cart with three drives on it! W00T! Took two of em' home. The sales guy was even really cool about...

This sort of thing happens in manufacturing every now and then. It's a reversed capacitor. Either the robot that places the parts got one backwards or the cap came from the manufacturer backwards. I don't think it's any reason to avoid this product.

There is a hard drive bay called the Promise Super Swap that I have a question about. Can I use this as a single hard drive that I can yank out at will while the machine is running? I want to use this as a backup drive. I would be using Backup Exec to create backups to disk. When the backup...

I would suggest mounting the drive vertically rather than horizontally. That way the heads will not slap down on the platters when the car hits bumps. Might not matter, but a good precaution if you can do it.

I've been remote controlling WinAmp for about a year now! I'm using the IRMan. It has a lot of other uses as well. There is a plugin for Winamp. You just use any remote you want and you program the plugin to "learn" the Winamp controls. I use a universal remote. IRMan BTW, this is...