Search results

You're a strange fella. Me, I'm invisible, so you won't know when I'm here.

After all this "sell your soul for a Core Duo" business, I was feeling bad about having just invested in a 939-socket 4400+ system. You guys cheered me up. Thanks :-D

A tad too late! Grrrrrrrr. p.s. Merc will understand what I mean.

I'm quite happy with my 2 x modified Antec SX-1030 cases. You may want to check out the Antec P150 as well.

You're a brave man, Handruin! Several vehicles I've owned have been cursed with warped rotors, and like you said, the problem never ever goes completely away. Glad you fixed it once and for all. Me, I'm too lazy, and dont have the strength to wrestle with nuts tightened by a pneumatic driver or...

If you need to dial a digit like 9 to first get an outside line, make sure that's been put in the modem properties dialog.

Buck: I've only used the Workstation product, and that too in Windows. You start VMWare (just like any other program); tell it you want to create a new virtual m/c; reply to the prompts; start the new VM; install your virtual guest OS in the VM. That's it, in a nutshell. Networking between the...

Ditto. Howell was going thru some rough times a while back. I really hope things improved for him and didn't actually get worse. It's human nature to become more sensitive when we go thru rough times. Doug, you're fine just the way you are. You locked a couple of my threads, but I never took...

Greg: I DID NOT SEND YOU A MODEM!!!

As an individual, you are able to purchase two types of licenses for an MS OS. Retail, boxed copies can be freely moved from one PC to another, and from one owner to another so long as the old and new owners are complying with the EULA (can be installed on only one PC at a time, etc.) OEM...

Sadly, this apears to become more true with the passage of time. My sadness comes not from the fact that we might become extinct, but that we are making entire species of flora and fauna extinct first, and from ruining this planet beyond reasonable hopes of recovery.

That is why I thought it was worth posting here.

Sechs: Sarcasm is all fine and dandy, and no, I'm neither retarded not living in an asylum. As Gilbo said, the articles are thorough, and while I'm fully aware that we're gang-raping the planet, I wasn't aware of the gory, sickening details. For instance, I wasn't aware of the problem off...

I want to thank the several generous SF members who have offered to let me download the VMWare servers from their own sites. Earlier today, I downloaded an open source download manager, and it is gasping and choking, but it got the Windows version of the server downloaded (MD5 hashes match!)...

Maybe I'm dense, but my understanding is that the two have formed a new venture. That does imply a merger of the two, or a takeover of one by the other. The news release is typical PR fluff with not much substance, so it's hard to tell.

I renewed my package, got another 1GB download for this month. After downloading 33MB, the VMWare server for Windows download died again. :puke-l: :frusty: What I need is: a) VMware Server for Windows b) VMware Server for Linux - don't know whether I need the TAR or RPM; I plan on trying...

Altered Oceans

Thanks Gary. Your kind of testing and numbers are precisely what I was interested in, not synthetic benchmarks in a lab. That's one heck of a performance improvement. And I just bought a pair of the same Hibachis. Oh well. :-D

The only thing you'd fail is a typing test.

Ain't that the truth. Been there, done that. Sorta like Dean Witter's tag line "one customer at a time" - sticking in one chip at a time, bending the pins just-so to make them fit...

Care to elaborate with numbers, Sir?

Super, Groltz! Wish I could do that!

ZA worked well, was easy to configure and worked on non-XP versions of Windows. One by one, most of those advantages have been frittered away by it's previous and current owners. Now it doesn't even work like it's supposed to. In the last couple of releases, computers in the trusted zone are...

I've become even more conscious of power consumption. A smoothwall box means yet another almost complete system (even if it's headless) and that's something I don't want to do.

I don't know which model Zoom modem you have. Their website is here.

Thanks Merc, I'll let you know; my monthly renewal is almost due and it's better to do the download with the full 1GB bandwidth available. Another dimension to the problem is that I don't know if the problem is with my ISP. :twistd:

Merc, I've owned VMWare Workstation from the 2.x days thru ver. 4.x. I take it the free VMWare server is not much different? The free VMWare server is on an http server, and I have been unable to download it. After about 60 MB, it craps out and in the meantime I've used that much bandwidth...

:rant:you're = your :cursin: I still think we should make a Linux thread in the Toolbox section with all the info in one place.....

Er...did I send you a modem :confused:? If I did, my Alzheimer's is worse than I realized.:crap:

Merc's a strange guy with a unique value system. He marches to the beat of a different drummer. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of those left in a world filled with lemmings.

Not on a regular basis, I hope.

Thanks Merc. I saw that link earlier today and have downloaded the PDF. I'm sure it'll come in handy. Since you're preference is SuSe over Ubuntu, I'll try both and see how it goes. Is ver. 10 the latest / greatest Suse? Is a newer version on the horizon?

You're a masochist, fella.

It's mid-day for me.:-D

Now I'm confused. I thought Tea was a green elephant wearing gray boots?

No, no, not the poles. Not cold either. The equator, and hot (well, comparitively). Whatcha doin up so late?

Thanks, Merc. Onwards and upwards!

I'm still hanging on to my Zoom external fax/modem. It's in a box somewhere. Add me to the list of Patron Saints of Dialup.

MS should have released Win2003 as an interim product between XP and Vistsa (priced at XP levels). I would have bought that instead of XP. Grrrrrrrrr.

I hope you're doing this on the side (not quitting your day job and your side-business). I do remember reading a few years back that MS had gotten a sudden attack of magnanimity and had offered to sell Windows at cut-rates directly to non-profits / charities. You may want to look into that...

You're cute, DD. Who's the guy, BTW?

Thanks Merc. A Mac would be too big of a wallop on the wallet. Some Adobe sw requires Win XP SP2 - current versions of Premiere Elements & Photoshop Elements, for example. Even if I run XP in a virtual m/c, I have all the activation crap to deal with, and WGA if I want to keep it up to date. I...

:rotfl:

MySpace for boomers comes with death alerts Disclaimer: I didn't read the article.

A quick search indicates it is a drive geometry problem; the BIOS to be reset and/or made to recognize the new drive properly. I don't know if this helps, but am throwing it in anyway.

I'm going to be a nitwit (I was going to say twit, but the word always makes me think that means "twin tits") and start a new thread for this. With all the WGA crap, inevitable MS prodding to upgrade to Vista etc., I've reconciled myself to not getting any mileage from my proposed migration...

Thanks Bozo. I wish damn MS would release an SP5 for W2k. Has anybody tried to slipstream post-SP4 hotfixes in W2k and been successful??

How did it go, Bozo?

Me too. I've been wondering where the "reglars" are - Splash (who's back), Fushigi, JTR, and others (who aren't). I miss them.

Greg's got PMS? (I'm feeling obnoxious today :twistd:)