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I had a chance to fondle a Super RedHawk 454 Casull, with 2 1/2" Barrel, and the rubberized grip. Kind of liked it. Been thinking about getting something similar. gs

Macs suffer from a long time of lack of competition. They have had a monopoly on their little market, both hardware, and software, and have made large profit % compared to PC's. This leads to bloated, inefficent, companies. Going 64 bit, really first for current desktops, is going to be real...

Maybe the companies figure that we are responsible for the 100 million in testing charged by the government, then we ought to pay for that cost, added onto our drugs. s

Wonder if taxes on prescription drugs are anything like the gas taxes in Kalifornia? s

Non_PnP is why God created macs... s :council:

:wink: I looked at Tyan's when they first came out with dual Athlons. The Thunder had a bunch of problems not to mention a screwy power supply connection. The Tiger MPX dual board looks ok, and has worked for awhile. Tyan has a history of using Promise chips on their mobos. I don't think...

:wink: I looked at Tyan's when they first came out with dual Athlons. The Thunder had a bunch of problems not to mention a screwy power supply connection. The Tiger MPX dual board looks ok, and has worked for awhile. Tyan has a history of using Promise chips on their mobos. I don't think...

That would be nice. I've got a ribbon waiting for it already. I've also got a busted ide chip on the mobo. Cheaper then a new mobo, and works just fine. s

"Amazing" how much data making beer can produce :mrgrn: So your pick for home would be the P 650 Gary? Flagreen, and Gary: Bill, you bring up a very good question: Is it better to buy an old dual board, with slower processors, but superior quality, or a faster single processor, with a less...

How much better then the Voodoo 5500 are they, in 2d, form just text, and internet? I may have to take a trip down the valley. Bunch of stores have them, I have never looked at a monitor using one. gs OS BILLION colors????

Funny, I've been getting ready for the same sort of thing. Landlords' forced us to sign a less that went from 1320 to 1390, and another 100 a month in fake utility bill, plus requiring insurance, and saying ....it's screwed. At the time, I didn't have time or money to contest. Now I do...

Gary I gather you like the Matrox cards? s

I found a pioneer from HYpermicro for 99 bucks. Newest DVD reader they have out. It's about 20 dollars more then a ide, but, I hope it will work, and last longer. gs

Howell: My two mobo choices are Tyan and Supermicro. I like the idea of buying a super stable, server board, and Asus was certainly not that. The Tyans that I wanted, at the time, where just as expensive as the SM boards. I'm shopping. I like the onboard scsi chips of the server boards...

ROFL!!! :excl: Great post. I love the last 3 or so. They are just delighted. Ears flattened back, .... Happy cats. :wink: gs

iT ISN'T EASY. usb OR firewire. USB is on this mobo, but slow. The newer interfaces require a card, and I have no room. gs

Hi I'm looking for a SCSI DVD player. Anyone have one they Like? gs

Thanks The reason I was asking splash is he's pretty familiar with Supermicro Computers mobos. I was trying to find some sort of value in their offerings, but still be blazing fast. He has set up machines to run 24/7 on those boards, and that's kind of what I'm thinking of right now. I'm...

Well, thought I had a pci sound card laying around. Turned out to be a Soundblaster awe64. One in the machine was a SB 32 PNP. Sound quality is excellent, uses a bit more cpu. Both ISA cards. While not the best sound card I've got, it sounds really good playing music. Fun setup. gs

Nvidia drivers lowered the cpu usage by about 10-15%, from 75% to around high 50's, to high 60's. GS

Would you suggest using them as a home workstation? s

Quick networking question. Seems like whenever I do a large file backup from Lisa's remote computer to another computer, it takes up all the bandwidth, and makes access to the internet, through the router, impossible. The cure is shuting down the computers, and the router, and hub, waiting a...

Elephants are smart, difficult to move, and they just don't have the resources to keep up with the breeding. Same with most of the Africian animals. Governments bleed people dry, and the people have no money, while Mugabes live in Paris in 5000 dollar a night palace hotel rooms. Kruger really...

Better question would be how much lower would the cpu usage be, and would it really make any difference? I don't seem to get any choppiness at all. GS

Hmmm. The picture is pretty good. In fact it's brilliant and clear. Do you really think it would be noticeable to upgrade the video Card? It's a Dell version of a TNT with 16mb of ram. Is there anything wrong with running at 75% CPU? I'm using MGI Soft DVD Max by the way. I could install...

Hmmm. Mercutio, it's using 75% of the cpu, and I just finished watching Star Wars attack of the Clones. The graphics quality is pretty incredible. If you think the ISA is a bad idea, I could install a Creative Blaster pci based card. It's just that compatibility wise, I've found the older...

Yes. One of the winlots, PeterB, now a moderator, must be somewhere up there by now. I think they are somehow tied in, business wise, to ars. Never asked, but it seems to be a worldwide group, pretty much windows developers. Guy knows his stuff, but he whined his way into being a moderator...

Well, it seems I've been promised again. The only ide channel avaliable sucks. It crashes everytime I try and update the drivers. I'm going to see if it's something to do with the VIA updates for the motherboard, but I really just think it's a bad chip on the mobo. For some reason I thought...

I kind of thought so. At 100% constantly,that does seem stressful. Getting weird sound now on star wars on the other machine... Have to restart and check the mobo settings... s

OK: Went out and bought a cool little switch that allows you to change computers, but use the same mouse, keyboard and monitor, and there is little, or not noticeable, video distortion. Have had a DVD player laying around for about a year, and it blue screened the last time I used it with my...

Most of this came out of ARS. This guy, Jeremy Reimer, Lord Baldrick, did something like 6000 posts, arguing with Chris Cox. He knew just enough to create an argument, but really didn't know what the hell he was talking about. His goal was to see how long he could engage the guy, and perhaps...

Jake: Do you like your Raptors, and how's that new system? s

Something I put together after hanging around ARS for awhile: "First lesson in trolling: You didn't provide a link. 2nd: Prove it 3rd personal insult 4th attack spelling and grammar, 5th use above so you don't have to deal with any valid issues raised. 6th obscenity 7th Complain...

Current battle is the parks, like everything in africa, don't have any money, all stolen by their "governments". Elephants seem very productive, and they are eating Kruger Park up. Problem is they either need more park, or fewer elephants. Some would like to see hunting feeds for culling the...

Wow :excl: Great information. Thanks gs :wink:

I'll say. I'm not sure if it stuck, or the 200 pounds of cat on the window kept it from going up. So much for the dumb animal idea. Vindictive? You bet :excl: My little cat has cut me up, in about 1/4 second, twice. The first was when I turned on the blow dryer, to dry her off after she...

I got my first Teddy bear at 27. I get my first cat at 39 :wink: . I've had a deprived childhood... s

Yuck :excl: :excl: The cat just caught a large moth, and is playing with it like it was a live mouse. Letting it go, catching it again, etc. :puke-r: Now she ate it.... s

http://www.serveroptions.com/humor/thecat.mpg :mrgrn:

Yes. The electrical problem is called an onboard computer... s :jumpin: :tounge:

It's a weird time. I've always wanted to setup a 64bit/33/66/mhz bus board. Problem was at the time I wanted to do it, it was WAY too expensive. Other problem is the raid card I bought is 32 bit/33mhz, not the 64 bit, backwards compatible that I thought I had spent 700 bucks on. I'm really...

This may sound really weird, but I just put in an adaptec 2940, with 4 drives on it, external, and my system seems snappier at start up then before. Everytime I've connected the raid box, I've been amazed at how fast my first couple programs open, and function. That said, I do do regular mat...

I used their tests as a a mild indicator of a general performance for drives. My own experience showed many other factors lead to a persons ability to notice performance... GS

Splash: Did you get originate this technique? I think they stole it from you in the move Armeggedon, when the russian beats on the space shuttle to get it started... :wink: :wink: s

ROFL!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: s

With Eugene and David, any ide drive misinformation is inconsequential. Seriously, isn't the raptor a huge jump in seek time for ide? I don't care about no stinking sustained transfer rates... :wink: gs

SPLASH :excl: :excl: You rule! This time it formatted, and I'm verifying it now, which it would not do earlier. You saved a Cheetah!!! PETA loves you!! s :lol: :mrgrn:

:?: :?: How do you do this? I thought the utility did this on boot auto? Don't have an UW terminator. Always used the drives as the terminator. No problems in the past doing this... GD might have them on special at this point... s

OK: Pulled the case open, made it scsi 0, since it didn't work at 6, connected on the internal channel, with one of those nice, shiny, GD UW cables, jumped it to terminate on, and we are trying a reformat. It's taking a long time, but the good news is, it hasn't quit yet. Al Capone is pissed...

Gary: Heather farms is going east, out of town, sort of over a small hill, and near a large hospital, John Muir. gs