So two "gentlemen", One known as Mr. Tri and the other Mr. Caster walk into a bar. The bartender has an obvious weasel in his shorts so Mr. Tri asks Mr Cast......

well good luck on getting it fixed

Welcome back Robert.

//Magnus from sweden

yea,welcome back robert. we all miss you. glad to see you on the camera again. what a great episode guy's. stream was a little laggy on my end but was still watchable. :)

So, does that mean Robert now has 20/20?

Netstat dont work well...
It has a tendancy NOt to save IF you shut down..

Welcome back, Robert!

Glad to see you in good spirits and on the mend.

Man...! They took the jelly out of your eye and replaced it with a gas - which I guess, is now being absorbed.... Yikes!

Best of luck on a complete and speedy recovery!

Good to see you back Robert. If I see any mailboxes flying overhead I'll let ya know :-)

excellent episode, robert was on fire

Welcome Back Mr. Heron

Its great to see Robert back on the show. And yes i am twitter so.

http://www.tritter.com/siouxmoux

Robert, monitoring and reporting of system parameters in Windows NT - XP is handled by the same program as it is in Vista. The program is Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe). PerfMon has the ability to display graphical statistics on almost any parameter, including network usage. It also has the ability to log those statistics for later analysis. But, PerMon also offers the ability to do alerts or perform an action (execute a script that could email or page an admin or place a pop-up onscreen) based on a monitored element.

Reliability Monitor is new in Vista but, it's far less useful than perfmon, which you weren't aware of despite the fact that it has been a critical component of Windows NT and later since circa 1996. But, don't let a lack of knowledge stop you from cluelessly pontificating. It never has before.

In response to Brian's viewer question concerning setting up a network RAID array using some random HDDs he's got laying around, I'd recommend he signup for the Microsoft Windows Home Server Beta. I've been playing with it and like what I've seen so far. While I've run into a fair number of bugs, I can see it's going to be a very cool product when it ships. Two of the key features I like are its "infinite" storage expansion capability using any size hdds AND the ability to selectively enable data redundancy on a per folder basis without using RAID... the difference is MS's proprietary redundancy solution doesn't cause you to lose storage space when you're using various HDDs of differing capacity. It's a timed beta, but my copy is good for 1 yr. Plus it's based on a scaled back version of Windows 2003 server so I've been able to load up other apps on the box like bittorrent, FTP, HTTP, DDNS, etc...

OK, so I just joined Twitter -- but I don't see a way to search for DL.TV and ask to be added to your group. I only see that I can send out invites...

Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just fate's way of telling me that I really don't need to bother with Twitter?

Welcome back Robert.

I use to use Netstats. Now I use Codebox's Bitmeter. Its free and it can give you an alert based on amount downloaded or uploaded.
Per month I average between 30 and 40 gigs.

Great to have Robert Heron back!

Thanks for the advice on the RAID idea of mine. I appreciate and keep up the great work!

Welcome back Robert.

Been there with the eyes dude. I have an equally interesting eye condition..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus

Hope it works out for you and you get full recovery.

Great ep. by the way :)