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Just to revive this thread, currently, my mainstream office machine is $1,050.00 + tax, which comes to $1,131.38 in this State.

My 20+ year old Toshiba television went bad (tube failed). So I decided to buy a new television and sprung for the Samsung LN-R328W.

lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!

work all night and a drink a rum

. . . as I was tapping the Louisville Slugger in my hand.

I won't assume that they're all idiots, but I should've recognized the situation beforehand. Nonetheless, her son is reasonably smart at learning these things, so I think now that he's gone through a bit of training, things will be much better.

I billed them for the hardware and warned them about the spyware. They fed me a late evening snack, and I left. I essentially talked with the son alone, and tactfully showed him his stupidity. I told him about Ad-Aware, installed and instructed how to use Spybot, and installed and instructed...

Typical. I assembled an office system for a customer a few months back. Basic, simple system: GA-K8VM800M, SDA3000, 512MB of RAM, plus the other necessities. I installed OpenOffice, NOD32, Ad-Aware, Thunderbird, and Firefox, plus provided instructions on not using IE, Outlook Express or...

Good information CityK, thanks for your help. The MyHD card has really peaked my interest. However, I'm not concerned about recording. Basically, as my primary office system, I'd like to be able to stay in my office, have a cuppa tea, and watch a little television once in a while.

Digital. No current ambitions for HDTV, but that may come down the pike in a few years.

I've seen a few Compaq Slot A systems, with these never used 2x DVD ROM drives. Essentially, if you replace all the peripherals, you're fine. But if that is what it takes to make it an acceptable system (plus a reinstall of the os), it's gonna get pushed out to pasture.

Okay, on the hardware side of things, here is what I was looking at: AMD ADA3500DAA4BP - Tray Thermaltake CL-P0200 Asus A8V-E SE (yeah, I know it's Asus, but it's also VIA) Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512 x 2 WD740GD - free Samsung SP2004C ATI-Sapphire X1800XL (AOE III will look awesome) OCZ...

I think I'll just stick with XP Professional for now. Thanks for all of your input. Now it's time to work on the hardware.

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The warranty starts from the manufacture date. Hard Drive manufacturers don't know when you purchased the drive.

It doesn't really matter. The entire system is still Dell engineered. It's like the older Compaq systems with AMD cpus -- they're still Compaq systems. :hurl:

Re: funny Lunar Let's see, 156 hours equals 6.5 days of use. Nope, not concerned. If an enterprise class drive can't last another five years because it has already run less than a week, it's pig fodder.

I agree with Steve.

Sounds like a lot of fun dawggy one.

Thanks for the feedback so far. Cost is not an issue with the operating systems listed. Also, how about the 64-bit version of XP?

Okay, so the time is coming for me to upgrade my system. I think this time around I'll actually buy myself parts instead of just mixing together leftovers. I think I'll go with a s939 solution. But, what Operating System should I use? Currently I'm using Windows XP Professional. It runs all...

e_dawg, you're not wrong for thinking that it happens. Botrytis happens with QmP wines, but is not used as the typical means for sweetening wine. Whereas there are wines, notably French varieties, that employ noble rot as a fundamental source for increasing natural sugar content while drying...

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Most certainly not. The sweetness for QmP, such as Auslese, Beeren Auslese, and Eiswein typically comes from the appropriate exposure to freezing temperatures.

Sounds good e_dawg. How do you know that it is infected with noble rot?

Motorolla V551 with an ear receiver.

Thanks for the link CityK.

I'm waiting for a response from him about this question. However, in his email he basically said, 'I have bluetooth on my cell phone, how can I get the capability on my PC.'

A customer of mine running a nForce2 system would like to get some Bluetooth hookup for his system so that he can connect his phone. Any opinions and/or options?

Nice.

You may also want to look at something from Eudora.

Visit redhill in person while Tony is out on a bird watch. You could even switch the shop over to ATI.

Barcode scanner for your wine collection: Article

Beautiful full moon this morning before sunrise.

I don't know anything about that site Coug (dont' really have time).

Tony, you might want to contact http://www.ipswitch.com and check out their Instant Messaging software. Although they don't show it on their website, I wouldn't be surprised if they sold that bit of software separately.

Look at our stat page. In the upper righthand corner of storageforum.net, there is a link to "Fold at home". It updates every 24 hours, so you'll have to wait that long before you information shows up for the first time.

Hmm . . . I could build a barebones Intel system like that for under $400.00.

What do you think would make a better folding machine, with everything else being equal: P4 521 2.8E + 915PLWDL or ADA3200BP + A8V-MX

I wish I had some faster machines for the bartender. Currently, he's folding@home on: P4 3.0 GHz - software & hardware testing Celeron 2.53GHz - disk cloning & audio recording PIII 1.2GHz - folding@home Unfortunately, two of the machines get interrupted from time-to-time for other work (as...

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For web hosting I use pair.com and for my domain names I use their sister company pairnic.com and have been satisfied with both.

The P650 will handle digital and analogue resolutions higher than you are asking, so you'll be fine. I personally use the P650 in conjunction with a Samsung 192T and love the results. It's amazing what a quality 64MB AGP card can do with 2D stuff. I don't have any problems playing AOE II (and...

Thanks for the research P5; good information.

I've only had to work with a few LGA style CPUs, and I haven't had a complaint yet. If I run into any problems, I'll just use Coug's special tool to remedy the situation.

"Ah, it's great to be back in the saddle again." :lol:

So, what is Windows infected with, Scarabaeidae Onitis viridulus or Onthophagus granulatus?

You forgot the 'much improved driver base'. Windows 2000 isn't much better with inherent drivers than NT 4.0. Two days ago I just set up a Windows 2000 system with an Asus V7100 GeForce2 MX video card -- 16 color, 640 x 480 resolution, until I installed the driver from the CD -- that happens...

Good point Bozo. Plus, if you're buying the OS, W2K3 is expensive.