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Congratulations mubs. When I'm not passed out, I look forward to reading your posts.

Congratulations Mercutio! Tea for me please.

Ha!

Hi NRG!

It would be interesting to try the same action with the same hardware, but running something like SuSE 10, and if at all possible, OpenOffice.

More than likely, you'll be stuck with those systems too. They can't afford to upgrade the hardware or software, and you need to make them better and faster -- the life of an IT professional. Coug, did you wear your t-shirt with the big hammer on the back and the slogan: "The beatings will...

I don't know, I think it is quite appropriate that they flagged MS stuff as a virus.

Beautiful day today -- the air is clean, the sky is blue, and our local mountains are filled with snow.

The VC820 gave me too many problems, so the whole she-bang was moved onto a 440 BX board -- much better. This will also allow me to double the RAM.

Congratulations to our furry french-canadian friend!

My father requested a computer for his garage. He has a nice system in his den, but would like something to play cards or surf the web with in the garage. So, after tinkering around with SuSE 10 for a few days, I figured that's the OS he gets in the garage. I'll couple SuSE 10 with a VC820...

Gnome shows that the WINE package is installed. How do I get it to work with a Windows application?

Thanks again Merc. The instructions work, although it is slightly different in reality than when he describes. Interestingly, Totem still doesn't work, but MPlayer does and I like the MPlayer UI. Some of the other packages that he recommends installing, such as Acroread and Realplayer are...

Wow, great link Merc! Thanks for the tip.

So much for liking the GUI. I tried to watch a DVD, and it wouldn't work with Totem or Realplay 10. Something about x-nautilus-desktop not being available. So, I downloaded and installed the rpms for Ogle, that didn't work either. :arge:

What, are you running Photoshop 6 on a Pentium 233MMX? PS closes quickly for me. Granted, it has a few jobs to end when closing (like cleaning up it's scratch disk and the pagefile), but I've never known it to be such a slug. After a quick comparison, it seems to close about as quickly as GIMP.

I just installed Suse 10/Gnome and I really like the combination. I've even gone ahead and installed Opera, which was easier than I had expected. I just downloaded the rpm file, double-clicked, and YaST2 finished the rest. Nice. I like the Gnome GUI.

Yup, Rochester . . . and you'll be working for the Mayo Clinic. There used to be another big employer there, WD, but they closed down their SCSI division and their technical support location. Must you wear a suit or can it be a combination? Let's say black dress slacks (wool combo) and nice...

Quote two flat fees for this process, one would be for the in-home service and considerably more expensive.

This is a tough one Merc. No modern connectors (USB, FireWire, Ethernet, Parallel), ADB, 1.44 FDD, and a 2x CD-ROM drive. It would almost seem that putting the SCSI drive into a newer Macintosh system would be best.

Nice work. What kind of press(es) do they use for printing the cartons, and what do they use for die-cutting?

. . . or we could pack 6 people comfortably into a Rolls Royce Phantom and carpool everywhere. I get first dibbs on the bar. ---------- In all seriousness, jtr is correct -- efficiency and safety seem to be about compromise. Yet, someone like Ford comes along with their new Fusion model, and...

Good price mubs, thanks for the find. However, I recently purchased a nice cannister vacuum cleaner that has about 6 blowing attachments -- great for cleaning computers, and less expensive then the compressed air (in the long term).

For those CPUs, 60-65 at 100% CPU usuage with the retail HSF combo is typical. At idle, you should see it dip slightly below 60.

I would highly recommend a 19" for the same reason that mubs explained. The AG Neovo F-419 is a nice monitor.

Proof? Hmmm . . . I have a customer who is running the appropriate anti-virus/anti-spyware software. However, she was still being infected by spyware. I took her off Incredimail and the problem greatly diminished. She recognized this for herself and swore to never use the software again --...

Dave, that is amazing!

Compucase towers.

Mubs, it's not like I mentioned S*ny in the same sentence.

Nice test and interesting findings Merc. Although it worries me, because two years ago I assembled four systems with Compucase cases. Recently, one of them has become flakey. All four have identical components and both sit in the same environment. They're used for recording audio from a...

WD has had their Passport Pocket drive out for a short time now. It's a USB interface with a 6 GB 1" drive inside (WDXMM60WPN). My disti carries them, but they don't seem to be moving. Something like $139.00 each. Six gigabytes for $139.00? Hoolie Doolie!

Sorry this took so long Splash . . . thanks for the explanation. I'm of the school that likes some of that riff-driven music from the 50's and 60's. Lately I've been playing songs from ELO -- glad I keep my albums around so I can always play them later in time.

Well, I know that Merc highly recommends to all of his customers that they backup all of their critical data to one of WD's external drives.

Great article mubs; thanks for sharing.

I agree with Handy. Not only is it difficult to merge with the fast-paced speed of traffic, but during rush hour, all of our on ramps have signal lights -- effectively cutting the length of my acceleration lane to 1/3 or less! My car will do 0-60 in 12 seconds, and I'm always holding up...

Zero to 60 in 9 seconds with what kind of weight, a heavy sod like me? I doubt it.

I was bound my size contraints in my media niche, but I am happy with my 32" Samsung LCD. Very back friendly when installing and has a great picture from 10' feet away (roughly the sweet spot for that size TV).

Google Earth doesn't show my 2.5 year old house. It still shows an empty lot.

I know this sounds silly, but did you press the reset button?

Twist them tight, and they should look better. Cigarette lighter, or one of those longer BBQ lighters work great. They produce enough heat without having the flame touch the tubing. Just gently wave the flame back and forth under the tubing, turn it a bit so the other side gets heated as well.

Aren't these enhancements basically used in games? This customer doesn't play any fancy games. This cusotmer wanted a range of quotes, and at the highend, this is what I specified: CPU: Opteron OSA265CBBOX x 2 Motherboard: Supermicro H8DCE-O RAM: CKVR400D2S8R3/512 x 4 Video: ATI-Sapphire...

Aren't they already in plastic holders with multiple cards on one page? Scan the entire page.

If I may muse along with the mubster . . . I have a customer that is interested in a new PC for different artistic type work in addition to the usual office stuff. The office end of things is easy for me, but I'd like to boost performance for their video and photographic endevours. Primarily...

I believe the AG Neovo X-20BV 20.1" LCD is a true 4:3 ratio display.

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There aren't any new television shows that interest me . . . actually, there haven't been any in years. I usually check out the following channels if I'm going to watch TV: History, Discovery, Science, Military, Foodnetwork, AMC, and TCM. Otherwise a laugh down memory lane with All In the...

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In my limited experience, the only way I can see it working in IE exactly as it works in FF is if you use a separate image tag instead of the CSS method.

Diesel all the way!

I purchased some SP2504C for my file server. They seem to work fine.