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I do know what cold is! Cold is when you go to bed alone and you wake up with two cats ucuddled up to you under the blankets. Anyway, I now have: Athlon XP 1800 DDR Athlon 1333 SDRAM K6-III/450+ @500 all running. Tomorow, if I remember to take my NT CD into the office so I can finish...

Alllrrriiigggggggttt!! I've cracked it. We now have TCP/IP networking at the office. (Who cracked it?) (Well, you did. Thankyou Tannin.) As expected, it turned out to be simple enough once you know how. But believe you me, finding out how to use an ECS 1.01 server to provide an internet...

By the way, what does your sig mean, Soup_Nazi, and why is there no apostrophe in "Your"?

This is out of my line, but you could try: http://easydivx.does.it/

What's the matter with that second aircraft? I can't even see the propeller properly.

(But Tea, you don't know anything about video cards!) (Never stopped you before, Tannin.) Ahem. As I was about to say, Nvidia are famous for having a particular approach to video card problems: essentially it boils down to "never mind the finesse, just thow a lot of transistors at it." Not...

Thanks for the tip, Steve. Appreciate it.

When it comes to games, I like Quattro Pro quite a lot. But while any comment I could make about the relative merits of the cards themselves would be merely a distorted echo of the things I have learned from you guys (especialy Sol, who helps me out quite a lot), I can comment on the relative...

P5 is The Enigmatic One, Coug.

Huh? Just how much RAM do you think it needs to do a given resolution? For example, 1024 x 768 x 16.7 million colors?

Why the relationship between monitor size and RAM?

Actually, if you feel inspired to, do just that. I was enjoying that common theme being tied together so neatly and summaried effectively.

OSS = Open Source Software in this context?

Thanks Clocker. Did that, they are different.

Whoohoo! Back in front of The Prof, and the second machine hasn't kicked in yet. Dare I hope to challenge The Enigmatic One next?

487. Hoolie Doolie! Look at that Bartender go!

As for the corroded thing, JoJo, you can read all about it at: http://www.redhill.net.au/d-99.html#cr Quite a drive that one, isn't it. :wink:

Hello, Pradeep is in! Cool!

Soup_Nazi is crunching too, I gather. Expect results from him soon. (Athlon 1200C, DDR board, if I remember correctly.)

PS: is there anything special I need to know about getting the two machines to run in harmony? All I did was copy FAH3Console.exe over to c:\Program Files\Folding@Home and then double clicked on it. It asked me username (Tea), team number (10047), ask before connect (no), something about CPU...

To hell with this business of having Southerners and Europeans ahead of me! Look out Chatanooga! Look out Rome! I is a comin' through! There is a spare a Soltek KT-133A sitting in the corner of my room, which has had 256MB of RAM, a G450, a 17 inch Delta monitor and a PSU attached to it for...

That describes my experience almost exactly. LiamC.

Hat Monster is concise, to the point, and 100% correct.

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You can get Tannin on 31148695 But we almost never use it. And yes, Tannin too: he is very trigger happy with the ignore list. Nuke the bastards first and ask questions afterwards, that's our motto.

Oh I ain't saying that Matrox are no good, Gary. Just that they too have their problems. Yes, I am mildly dissatisfied with my Matrox cards - well, with the drivers to be more exact - and would prefer to switch to a better - i.e. "perfect" brand. The day I find that perfect brand, I'll switch...

Thanks Steve. (Memo to self: take that XP MSCONFIG and put it on the same floppy disc that lives in the workshop and has Win 98SE MSCONFIG on it for using with Win 95 systems - that works fine, so long as certain other conditions are met on the W95 system, IE 5.0 or higher, I think. Haven't...

The Reg seems to think that the net result of all this window dressing has another purpose: History, it seems, never forgets a good evil idea. The MS - Standard Oil parallel grows ever stronger with each year that passes.

W2K. No MSCONFIG. There is a version, for XP I think, that is supposed to work just fine with W2K, but I can never remember what I filed the link under.

Nope, just deleted it from the startup. I forget how. But thanks, I found in now, with your help. The fact that I needed your help speaks for itself, really.

Now there Platform raises (or at least implies) what may well be the heart of the matter. It's not what is "a good product", it's what products work together properly. Perhaps Matrox do all their testing with the sort of ultra-expensive exotica that Mr Platform plays with. Out here in the real...

Well spotted, James. A GA-7VTXE+

Thanks Gary, I'll try flashing the BIOS. But note well: this ain't something I have to do with any other brand of card that I can think of. Good Lord, we sell a host of cheap no-name cards in amongst the classier stuff, and in general they just perform. Let me see now, I've run my assortment...

My XJ810, and most of the other MAGs I've seen has a single wheel, like the jog/shuttle control on a VCR remote control. To adjust brightness, just turn it. To do anything else, press, then turn to select the function you want (vertical size, let's say) press again. turn up or down and press...

XP 1800 512MB

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10047. Yup. Sent my first batch of results 18 hours ago. No update. sigh

Doesn't that damn stats thingie ever update itself? HTF is Sol in front of me. XP 1800 and - hell - I don't even exist yet!

Yes, Clocker. I was very happy with mine. I'll certainly not be selling it. I'll either use it for another machine (not likely though, as the office moniters at present are pretty well-off) or else give it to a family member. But which one? Don't you love that single wheel control arrangment...

Now the main office monitor is a two-year-old Hitachi CM753ET, which was their absolute top of the range 19 inch model before they discontinued it about three years ago. (No typo there, I've had it for two years but it had sat in a warehouse somewhere for twelve months prior to that.) It is...

I've been dissatisfied with my three year old MAG DJ810 19 inch monitor at home for some time now. At 1024 x 768 it's damn near perfect, but the moment you push it up past that res, it's unpleasant. Odd that it looks so good at 1024 but even at 1152 x 864 it is clearly below par. So, the other...

Dat man Sol is a damn miracle with a toothbrush. And it works!

I already aswered "no" Coug. You got it, Clocker. Right now, only thing that happens if I rip out my 1800+ and slip in a 2100+ or a dualie is I get to wait faster.

How do I tell it to get more work at a time? It just wasted 4 hours waiting for me to wake up and give it a network connection.

I don't know what it is about these background apps, every time I instal one it crashes my system. Nothing crashes my system! Except Genome@home (until I disabled the United Devices one, which now runs only as a screen saver). And nor Folding@home, the graphicl version of which crashed twice...

I loved DR products: CP/M 2.2, I ran CP/M 3.0for years and years - I went direct from CP/M 3.0 to DR-DOS 6.0 to OS/2 2.1 on my main machine - and always admired the company. But GEM was .... Well, Windows 3.0 was better. Hell, Windows ME was better. And yes, depending on your choice of...

Tannin seems to have slipped out for the moment, Prof. But I remember watching you two going at it hammer and tongs. I was laughing at the pair of you. :)

Went to see the Royal Shakespeare Company this weekend. Not doing Old Bill this time, but an anthology of writing and song by and about the kings and queens of England. Ian Richardson is a master. http://www.oncueonline.com.au/oncue/shows/sydney/hollow_crown/ Wonderful stuff.

I have severe writer's block. sob

I like Splash the best. One of the few really intelligent creatures around here. (Like me.) :wink: