jsbowen

55% General American English 25% Dixie 20% Yankee 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern Makes sense that I'd be split between Dixie and Yankee.

I still have one more day, until I can "officially" go back, if I choose.

Good idea with the signature link.

I like it, but have one small question. Why did you make the link hover text larger than the normal link text? When you hover a link, it makes the text jump a bit. Other than that it looks good. I personally wouldn't have chosen the peach color, but whatever floats your boat

You're right, I do see them Nice work!

Just one minor input.... What about those of us who have avatar's disabled?

Since this is a wireless connection issue, you may want to set the wireless settings to a very unsecured mode to ensure you can connect. Try turning on the SSID broadcast, turn off encryption, turn off MAC filtering, and ensure you have DHCP enabled with at least one available IP address. Also, ensure that you don't have the AP setup to only accept G only. At this point (I assume you checked for interference as also posted earlier), any wireless device should be able to detect and connect to your AP without any trouble. If you are still having trouble, this is probably a hardware issue.

Were you able to update the firmware? http://forums.g4tv.com/messageview.cfm?cat...VAR_MSGDBTABLE=

I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm going to stick to my guns with this. I want to put something together myself, so I can control all the components. The main hangups I had with pre-built NAS devices (and I've looked at quite a few) were the lack of Novell support and proprietary hardware. As I've said, I'm not much of a hardware guy, but was hoping to find some help on picking out a case and motherboard, as those are the two things I'm most confused on.

Now, check yours

If you want, you can email it to me, and I'll convert it. jeff at jeffbowen.com

I've picked out my RAID controller: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/Product...ategory_id=5689 Dell had the cheapest price I could find. Any issues with this and the above configuration?

All good questions, Pete. My goal with this, is to create my own NAS, but not have any proprietary hardware that some NAS devices include. I will primarily be backing up two servers, one Windows 2000 and the other NetWare 6.0, but Windows XP workstations wouldn't be out the question. Total backup size should be in the 90GB range, currently uncompressed. This will be an automatic full backup nightly through BackupExec. Once or twice a week, I will also make a copy to DDS4 tape for off-site storage.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I was planning on doing a RAID 5 setup, but wasn't sure why types of hard drives to go with. When I learned hard drives, there were only IDE and SCSI. How different is SATA to work with? Also, I will have to run a Windows setup as I'm going to use existing BackupExec licensing. As you can tell, I'm not a hardware guy at all. I can handle networking, web development and software, but I've never had to deal with much hardware. This is what I have so far. I would appreciate it if you all could check to see if I've made any glaring mistakes in the following syst

First initial, middle initial, last name. I usually try to keep all my usernames the same. I used to use bowen18, and still do for a few older forums. bowen18 is my college username I was given. jsbowen was given to me from my current job. I've been using jsbowen since 9/11/01, my first day on the job.

Minivan??? No self-respecting soccermom would be caught dead in anything other than a gas-guzzling SUV

Chappy, you are a stand up guy. I appreciate all your hard work and helping us to understand what was about to take place. In my opinion, you need not apologize.

I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP Pro at 1024x768.

I was thinking that very same thing

Hey all. I am considering recommending a backup workstation to replace the current tapes backup system the Firm has now. What I would like to do is setup a RAID system with about 3 drives now and have it explanable to at least 6 in the future. Otherwise, I just want to put an average processor, RAM, etc. in this system. Since its only purpose will be to backup over the wire, I will need to put a gigabit NIC in it. The main points that I would like to get input on are the case, the motherboard, RAID controller, and hard drives. Here's what I'm thinking for each component: Motherboard - I have

Here is my explanation from MissFae for getting banned: I was going to reply to apologize for attaching her name to that message, but I can't until my ban is up.

Salary.com is a pretty good source for job titles: IT - All Job titles

If you don't mind me asking, what was the explanation you were given?

Looks good. Web designer/personal sites can be a little different than most professional sites, so I say the text and colors (or lack thereof) is fine. I like the layout, but I dislike the jumpy mouseovers. When I rollover one of the top links, the text jumps around. Also, your guestbook doesn't appear to be in the same format as the rest of the site, but I'm sure you're planning to straighten that up. Good job, you 15 year old!

2. What's your dream job?