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Better than Absolut Peppa?

Does a pot-belly make me half way old? What if I dye my hair? :) I've always used the 'net for news/research - old before my time, or just always old? Time for a nap.

http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ :)

Heh Mubs, is there any 300A/BH6 combo that's not overclocked? :) When I started swapping things out, I thought the biggest oomph would come from the memory upgrade 128MB -> 384MB. I was wrong. The apparent hold up was getting stuff off of, and on to disk. I ripped out the 256MB stick and...

A few of you know that I have one of these kicking around. It had a Quantum 4.3 ST, 128MB and ESS 1869 ISA sound card in it. I use it to play the occasional old DOS game (runs W98SE) such as Master of Magic or Panzer General, where the game needed direct access to the sound card (ie no sound...

Now isn't this something that we should benchmark - to find out the truth? Would make a great article - all we ned is for someone to fork out for 8 NG raptors + hi-end SATA controller as well as some USCSI luvin' :eekers:

And here's a smack down: http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105052634 someone posted a link about a "review" of RAIDCore's RAID controller, and the above is a response - thought it funny enough to share. PS, anyone notice how quiet the forum has been without Tony :)

If no one puts their hand up, I would be willing to give this a try, as I have been "following the scene" on and off for a while.

What a twist. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5089168.html?tag=nefd_top SunnComm plans to sue the student who "discovered" the "hack" using the DMCA. How about he countersues SunnComm for fraud and incompetence.

I thought it was only the Tonic water :)

Bah! Duran Duran my man :) Oh Barbarella...

Bananas! Now I know you are :) And you're probably off to the Gold Coast, with all those scantily clad orangatangs (sp? Bleh!) I know, you'll say that it is really the Tweed Coast - because it has bananas, and the GC hinterland has lots of birds and other wildlife :eekers: But we will know...

Congrats Pradeep. Just remember, it was self-inflicted :) From a Married Man.

Jatuhan, there are others way cleverer than me on this board but thanks for the compliment. 12GB is an odd number, but it may be because of this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263045&Product=w98 If so, there is a hotfix available from Microsoft here...

LunarMist, there is a link to James Boags in the first post :)

Near Germany/Deutschland. :wink:

The reviews are out and so the latest weapons in the chip wars have been revealed. Prices are high, and a socket change is imminent, so I'll be waiting for Socket 939 and the 90nm Athlon 64's, PCI Express, R420, SATA-II etc... Looks like that's going to be one big upgrade. For the curious...

So Coug, you're a leatherman ehh? :)

Comin' atcha from a Mitsubishi 19NF :) Luv it!

Here: http://www.overclockers.com/articles831/

Howell, the problem isn't that NVIDIA is making optimisations - they are entitled to do that. The problem is that they are detecting when benchmarks are run in their driver and running the driver with lower image settings than were set in the benchmark/game/comtrol panel. This artificially...

Tea, my opinion is that the NVIDIA cards are still reasonable, but the NVIDIA marketing is sleazy, underhanded and deceptive - and that makes me angry. My brief synopsis of the situation is this. NVIDIA worked closely with MS on DirectX 6, 7 & 8. The DirectX code very closely approximates...

A brief snippet from JC. http://english.bonusweb.cz/interviews/carmackgfx.html NVIDIA's latest trick is to force Eidos to pull the Tomb Raider:AOD patch as it is not "representative of performance". What a crock! Every benchmark and every respected developer says the same thing - NV3x parts...

Adcadet, are you sure it's just the machine slowing it down? My in-laws inherited my old Celeron 300A/BH6/G200/128MB SDRAM/Quantum Fireball ST (4.3GB) When I first built it with Win95C/Office95/IE4.0 it chugged along just nicely. It served them well for a couple of years. Office 95 gave way...

Found a use for my Celeron 300A/BH6. Windows 98SE and Terror From The Deep. I have a bootable Win98SE partition on my nForce 2, but old DOS games do not recognise the sound hardware, as the IRQ's are all funny. So I have an old DOS game machine sitting in the corner for when I get all...

Best NVIDIA card? Looks like none. I have been following the NVIDIA driver saga closely and I think NVIDIA have been cooking the books. I should point out that the since the TNT2 came out, all of my gaming cards have been NVIDIA (TNT2, GeForce 2 Pro, Ti 4200). Recently I found this...

I get the old bit, but interesting? :D

Tony, I thought this might be right up your alley :) http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7072551%255E421,00.html

Excellent. Moving still sucks but it is exciting moving into your own place.

:) http://www.quantumphilosophy.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=listarticles&secid=7

I'll have a cold beer for you too Merc. Is this a forced move or voluntary? ie moving to better digs?

Thanks Jan. Good drive?

Post count gone to his head methinks... :)

Eric S. Raymond weighs in - heavily! :o http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11168

Here http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105032007 and here http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=105032009 FWIW, Groo knows hisa stuff. hbg, tsayin, Joe Stewart, Tim Christensen are worth reading.

bump :)

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1280 x 960 is the correct (4:3 or 12:9) aspect ratio - which is what I run. Divide the larger dimension by 4. Multiply result by 3. If the number is the same as your smaller dimension, then your sweet. 800/4 = 200 200 X 3 = 600 Widescreen DVD is 16:9.

luckily he is a better engineer than I am a speller :oops:

Careful lads, I live next door to their cheif engineer :)

Does anybody know the size limit for HD's for the BX chipset? Specifically the Abit BH6. I really don't know what I'm going to do with it (+ Celeron 300A), maybe set it up as a server and leave it on.

Nigerian SCO :) http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030811 ;)

Cost.

Hi all, some advice if you wouldn't mind. A non-profit org has asked for my input on a scheme they have for their employees to work from home. What they want to do is to be able to share files with one another, but there will be no offoce, so no server to connect to. Broadband isn't available...

Good point fool. Why do our U.S. cousins like fooling around with donkeys so much? :)

Well I found the MS link, but it didn't work. So I blew the partition away and copied it back, then removed the old drive first and then booted OK.

CityK, I had a drive with three partitions C:\ -> Primary, 1.5G, WIN98SE FAT32 Extended with two logicals D: -> Win2K NTFS E: -> Data. FAT32 I'm fairly sure that the swap was on E:. I ghosted the C: and D: drives and then installed the new. restored the ghost images to the new drive and...

OK, I ghosted a drive with W2K on the D: drive and now when I boot into W2K it loops continuously at the Loading Profile bit. I know somebody posted a link to MS support on this problem a while ago - something to do with the swap file being in the wrong place I think, but I can't find the link...

Thank you guys for explaining the pitfalls. Best off to get a 9.0 distro and go from there.