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Just playing DA. It would suck driving to San Diego in a rental, to pick up my surfboards??? Added expense, etc. s

I try and kill any spider I see first. She seems to be more cautious about spiders then moths, insects. s

Well, my little girl is 1/2 feral, and, she's NOT your normal cat. I have pics of her jumping straight up, oh about door handle height plus a foot, turning 180 in the air, using tail, and taking off chasing a fake mouse. She also does things like jump over 6' from the ground, to my shower top...

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Tannin: For some reason I thought Margarat River was just up the road from you, near Adelaide(sp) or Bells Beach, not near Perth. Guess that would be a bit of a drive. Hope to stop by David's place this week, or next. That's a bit closer... s

I bought a Toyota Tercel, 1988 Ez, new, outright. Right off the bat, cheap insurance, since I didn't cover it for comprehensive. I'm a good driver, so low rates. No payments. With tax results, I make money when I drive. I still have the same car. 110 a year for state use fees, also known as...

That case is close. I wonder if they have anything with 5-6 drive bays? Or does that cost another 150 dollars??? s

Ditto. Likewise everyone here. Thanks again. s

Mine isn't quite THAT tough. Still, the quality Panasonic puts into their books, is well, up to their reputation as the best Japanese tech company. That's their rep in Japan, anyway. s

Which model, and what did it cost? Keep me posted. I'm looking for one down the road, and the HP's cost of ink cartridges scares the heck out of me... s

WOW!! You guys recorded the few times I logged in off my mac Lombard, running Jaguar. Cool Yes, though you never answered the real advantages of Firefox, over IE, you have convinced me to set Firefox as default browser, and even teach SO what button to hit to get internet access. s

Tannin: Between appl support, HP support, etc. one might think you are on an island, almost off the edge of the world, near antartica.... :mrgrn: s

From looking at reviews of HP's, it looks like you have to spend about 1600 bucks, or more, to get a decent printer. I paid 2 g's for the 4000N, with 72 mb of ram, and duplex unit. Is it worth it? Still going. If I bought another printer for school, it would likely be the 4000 series...

Just a little tongue and cheek, but, with drives with visible, and audible, though not right now over the darn 600 watt, noisy power supply, activity lights, you can tell when stuff is running that shouldn't be. In the prior config, with 68 pin drives, and 4 boot drives (Raid 0) I could hear...

Other costco was a VERY nice, huge screen, HP laptop for 1200 after rebates. Still, the panasonic I just bought is a toughbook, and that means a bit to me. Best laptops to drop are Panasonic, IBM second. :mrgrn: s

I think it was a 19" Princeton that caught my eye at costco for 349. However, next to it was a waterproof digital camera, Pentax???, can't remember, for about 300. One day... s

http://breakingnewsblog.com/printer/archives/colour_laserjet_2840_review/ That ones noisy... s

Mercutio: HP still has great support. I called em up, and spent about an hour trying to figure out my 4000N networking settings. Why not call up and ask them which of their color printers is quiet? The 2250 is too far down the food chain for me to really buy. HP's lower end stuff is...

David: couldn't find the case you linked to, and all I get is a picture using that link. I pulled my new box apart, and the Swifttech cooler is, at least with the current weather, a passive cooler. The fan is controlled by a sensor, and the temperature never gets over 85 degrees F on the...

I wonder if they changed fans? When I put mine in, I booted up, and listened to the fan. Not loud. Of course that's relative, and, at the time, I had the screaming meanies in residence, the stock Xeon cooling fans... See if we need to change that after the new power supply is installed. s

Mercutio: Costco had a decent Dell network color printer, for some decent price, and it got great reviews. Don't know if it's quiet. I thought Dell printers were HP's, underneath? s

I should have asked: Box, case? etc. :wink: :?:

OK: I would like to build a 939 socket machine, with an ATX Gigabyte motherboard, using AGP. I'd like it to be silent, so Seasonic PowerSupply, cheap, so 3000+ Athlon, 1 gig ram, but, I'd like it in a case that is designed for a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817121401...

Thanks CougTek. I did a bit of research, and considering the 5 scsi drives, and the SCA box, ATI 800XL, two NEC DVD writers, speakers, and anything else I might connect, and the dual xeons, I went with the SeaSonic 600w S12. Yes, it's very expensive, but, I did get the S12 400W in my other box...

Thanks CougTek. I did a bit of research, and considering the 5 scsi drives, and the SCA box, ATI 800XL, two NEC DVD writers, speakers, and anything else I might connect, and the dual xeons, I went with the SeaSonic 600w S12. Yes, it's very expensive, but, I did get the S12 400W in my other box...

Mercutio: ATI's software is pretty sucky. Not totally awful, but pretty bad, don't you think? Minimal install solves that, but I'm not sure customers would be jazzed. That said, the drivers can also suck. Guy telling me my 700XL didn't work, becuase it froze with the windows 64 bit drivers...

Well, the 700XL with 256 mb of vram is pretty impressive. Combined with the 3000+, it flys. Gives my dual Xeons and the 800XL a run for the money. I kind of wonder if for 250, it isn't the value card, overall.

I'm getting to the point where I remove the Internet Explorer Icons from the desktop, and the launch menus, and replace them with Firefox. I will say Firefox is better then it's been, and so far, all of my favorite sites work fine with it, and, I've even been able to download the plug-ins, and...

X5DA8 motherboard. I got rid of the snarling hornet stock xeon fans, but the darn power supply is just too loud. Suggestions for a power supply?

COOL THREAD. THIS SHOULD BE LIKE A POST IT... S

Good thread. I like Mercutio's running from safe mode trick. Why does Firefox avoid the tracking cookies that I do get a few of, in Internet Explorer? The only problem I have with manual cookie handling are websites that try and load graphics, like logos, etc. onto your machine, so you...

You may have a point. I have a CF-51 laptop, and the processor stayed at about 600MHz doing all my regular computer functions, for surfing etc. I had to open every program I use to get the processor to finally kick up to 1.6 ghz. WMP and my DVD player, etc. Now it runs at proper speed, or I...

Great. I need to go to San D to pick up a couple surfboards. After my torn hamstring, and gaining 5 pounds, I have no idea if I'll fit in my wetsuits, or, if I'll even be able to stand up.. Keep in mind, I surfed the North Shore of oahu for 10 years.... s

Actually, I would REALLY like to surf North Point, Margaret River sometime... s

I buy a lot of 19" Sony flats for 80 bucks around here. Bought from dead companies... s

Sad part is they seem to be following Intel's pricing structure, before AMD came into existence. :cry: s

I'm currently planning on building a new box for my girlfriend. The P2 400 mhz has a quantum LM to boot from, 384 mb of ram, P 550 matrox graphic card, and it's silent. I was planning on using the Sonata case, since it's small and sort of bling-bling, and cheap, the P550 should be fine for...

Buck, I should have said, your recommendations were the first ones that I looked at doing this box. Tony also seems to love gigabyte. s

Hi Buck: I looked at your recommendation, but it's a PCI-E board, and I have an ATI 700 XL with AGP8X I wanted to use in this box. Other then that, I think the features are nearly identical, so I have the GA-K8NSCC-939 sitting here, and, it may not have a bad motherboard ATA channel, after...

Haven't figured it all out right now, but, running with an ATI 700XL, it seems to run games as fast, or faster, then the ATI 800XL, on the Xeon dual 2.8ghz. NO PROBLEMS WITH THE VIDEO CARD. It must be ATI's drivers for Windows 64 bit that aren't compatible with the Nvidia 3 chipset. Guess...

Thanks. Up and running. So far, looks ok. Apparently the lit keyboard only works out of the back USB ports, which sort of sucks. Running at 1.8 ghz, and it's pretty quick. Can't wait to get cables, and reinstall on cheetahs. XL 700 seems to work fine with 32 bit OS. ATI drivers suck again. s

The ATI card has 256 mb of vram, and, I put two gigs of ram in this thing. It's quiet, and it seriously rocks :excl: :excl: :excl: Thanks for the advice. S

Splash: I would like to say, your advice on the Supermicro, dual Xeon 2.8 ghz, with adaptec 2010s, and the SCA box is just the cat's meow. Everytime I use this thing I'm just amazed. The ATI 800XL I put in it isn't bad, either. :wink: s

OK. I was wondering where the magic number came from. refrig, or freezer? s

93%. Why I love SCSI drives..... s :mrgrn:

75%. Darn, these 160 gig ATA drives take forever to format... s

Well, this cheap computer is turning into a money hole. The GA-K8NSC-939 Gigabyte board came with a dead ATA channel. So, it's going back. In the meantime, I bought a K8nS Ultra "Limited Edition", and put the 3000 processor on that, with the Swifttech heat sink, and vantec fan. 1 gig ram...

What's the best way to store your laptop battery? In the machine, out of the machine, while you are using it on the power supply? If it's out of the machine, should the battery be fully charged, or discharged, or. whatever??? Thanks GS

and then you die, and death sucks... s

It's really: Life sucks... s