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Odell

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  1. I feel the same way about bacon.
  2. The Buffalo Linkstation Duo is just about right for what I am looking to do. According to what I am reading the drives are not hot-swappable but I can replace a drive if/when one fails if I run it in RAID 1. The fact that it comes with drives is a selling point as well. I'll just have to do some price comparisons.
  3. Sounds like you're on the verge of becoming the Fist of Goodness. Don't fall into a dinner party.
  4. Just to be clear, the DC market includes DC proper, Northern VA and as far south as Stafford as well as most of the Maryland suburbs and extends to parts of Frederick and as far southeast as Hollywood. That's just a rough outline so please don't get upset if I didn't define the borders exactly. Of course Sponsors can see the interactive maps and see exactly where the DC and Baltimore Markets fall.
  5. irev210 makes a good point about mitigating HDD failures with a hot swap solution. That wirecutter review referenced the same concerns about drive reliability with the Western Digital as I have experienced. Thanks for all the insight guys. I think I have to reconsider my budget. Now that you guys have me thinking I realize that a storage solution with no redundancy is just as bad as no storage solution at all.
  6. The QNAP and the ReadyNas are both out of the budget for what I need. We use a ReadyNAS at work and it does very well but it's overkill for me. Something along the lines of what AJ recommended is about right. I have looked at the MyBook products but I have had some bad experiences with WD external drives (early drive failures) before so I am a little leery of them.
  7. I'm hoping that some of you tech-heads can help me with finding a good home NAS (network attached storage) solution. I don't need a boatload of features and I don't need multiple discs for RAID configurations. I need something that is reasonably fast and user-friendly that I can back up the my and my wife's laptop, share files, possibly stream media to my PS3. Remote access via web would be a bonus but not required. Something under $200 would also be nice. Do any of you have any recommendations you can share from your own experiences? Thanks!
  8. No, it comes about as close as parts of Laurel, MD.
  9. Yeah, I can see a guy climbing all the way to the top of a tower, humping his tool bag and then seeing a bird's nest and turning around and not doing his work. Yeah, right! It'll be a quick look around and then; "Fly! Be Free!' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9g1yRXF8I8&t=0m16s
  10. I wonder what Sprint attributes the lower customer support needs of iPhone users to?
  11. Where else are you getting this kind of grassroots investigative journalism? No where else, that's where! S4GRU-skis rule!
  12. Well to be fair, you get so much more than just wifi...
  13. Well I didn't have any problems with using my phone in Canada. The problem was in my hotel room in Detroit. I guess the signal couldn't reach up the 49th floor. Of course they didn't have free in-room wifi and I wasn't going to pay 12 bucks a day to get it either. Sent from my EVO LTE using Forum Runner
  14. Yeah so was the guy in that movie "Wanted". Turns out he was from a long line of assassins. So the killing with a calculator thing is probably just one of your many skills.
  15. I've decided that it's not really that important to me right now. As I get older I find that I pick my battles a little bit better. If my in-home service degrades or becomes more needed then I will revisit the issue.
  16. It had not been activated by the rep who originally sent it to me nor was I told that I would need to activate it when I requested it. It's been sitting in my garage for nearly a year after I wasn't able to get it to work when I first got it. I haven't been billed or charged anything.
  17. That's like getting a recently graduated student as a substitute teacher for a week. This should be fun. Maybe danielholt and I can switch seats and change names for the week...
  18. Guys (including any members of the female persuasion), I was in an area of pretty strong 3G signal yesterday but I was getting speed results that were lower than I would have expected given the signal strength. Is that a result of a capacity issue with the cell or is there something else that would cause this? I know the speeds aren't the worst but I figured they would be a lot better. Can you give me any insight? Thanks!
  19. That was the second part of my adventure that I decided not to post about. Long story short, the device was not on my account and after being told I would have to pay an activation fee and contract for 2 years if I wanted to activate the device I decided not to do it. I didn't think I should have to pay to activate a device that would allow me to get a usable level of a service that I already pay for. The tele-sales rep said he spoke to a "supervisor" who would not waive the activation because they had already sent me the device for free and with free shipping.
  20. Sounds like a blurb on the cover of Women's Health Magazine...
  21. Odell

    Hello

    Welcome to the site. Is it strange that when I read your thread title the next words in my head were "...Is it me you're looking for"?
  22. Just as a troubleshooting step have you tried securing your wifi network with WEP and then see if you are able to connect with the Evo? I know WEP is considered less secure but it might be helpful in diagnosing your problem if the phone will connect with a different setup. Are you also having trouble connecting to other secured wifi, especially networks that you could previously connect to like your work or a friend's house? I can't say I can fix your problem but those were just a couple questions that came to mind.
  23. I always thought wardriving was what I see everyday on the Maryland Beltway...
  24. As I think about this in light of something that AJ wrote in another thread, maybe doing work on this site while on vacation and not encumbered with job responsibilities is part of Robert enjoying his vacation.
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