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Agree 100% with you, Gary. IMO, 98SE is the best 9x OS while ME is possibly the worst. Maximum bloat, mininum speed and stability. What more could you not ask for in an OS?

Obviously, these things are becoming less useful as high speed gains popularity, but they are still useful for faxing. My Sony VAIO notebook is giving me fits when I ask it to do anything communications related (i.e., comunicate to other computers via modem and LAN). It has, until recently, been...

You know, this has the makings of a good computer humour book. Combine the retail/consumer stuff in this thread with corporate/enterprise tech support, and you have a bestseller that will be purchased by all computer professionals! (...that is, until the hacker/software/content trading...

Hmm... that's about 500 bugs fixed (judging by the list at timwhit's link). How many bugs does that leave unfixed? Back in Feb 2001, MS admitted that there were 28,000 bugs in Win 2k, and another 35,000 "minor issues". I am not complaining, because W2k works quite well for me... but it is...

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Aaaahhh! Please, James. I just finished eating. I don't need any help with implied visuals :)

Toilet outside the house? Must be a PITA in the winter.

After writing this, I noticed that this became much more than a "how did you find SR?" story, so if you are bored after the first paragraph, just move on to the next post :) Back in the summer of 98, I was looking for a new computer upon moving from Toronto to Edmonton (a couple thousand miles...

Nice CD rack :)

Quick, what are the CHS values for ________ ... crap, I can't remember even the model number of an old Seagate 80 MB drive, let alone the CHS values. I know what you mean about repetition, though. I used to have the CD keys memorized for Win 95 and Office 97 because I was reinstalling the...

My solution was to hook up an old drive with unknown CHS values to a newer PC with a auto-detect feature in the BIOS, get the CHS values, write them on an address label, and stick it onto the offending drive.

Heh, memories of IRQ, memory address assignments, and CHS values... If you can believe it, I had to maintain a fleet of computers with those features in 1999. I left shortly after making everything Y2k compliant, but I bet they are still using those 386sx computers at my former job. Ever try...

The last set of Logitechs I tried felt quite light and I daresay a little flimsy to me. Not that I didn't like the light feel, but they certainly don't give you a feeling of sturdiness.

While I can somewhat understand this jscript menu browsing CPU usage, I do not understand why opening a pop-up window can generate 100% CPU usage and freeze IE for up to 10 seconds with 2 dozen browser windows open for an extended period of time. It even pegs the CPU at 100% and freezes IE for a...

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I haven't had enough browser windows open for long enough yet, so my JavaScript pop-ups aren't taking 10 seconds yet, but I still notice quite a bit of CPU usage for such "simple" code. Here is an example of IE using 94% CPU usage when rapidly navigating through the jscript menus...

Mercutio, Interesting that you should create such large Acrobat files. Don't you ever have to distribute them to others? Most people I know are pissed when I e-mail them anything larger than 1 MB as they usually have problems either receiving or downloading them. I usually keep Acrobat files...

Video controller? ATi All in Wonder 128. It may be a little slow :) in 3D games and unable to do video capture, but it's usually rock solid stable and fast in 2D apps and general Windows usage. time, I am running "just" Outlook (2000), no Express. I seem to remember it being pretty slow and...

I exaggerate a bit, as anything above 5 seconds is likely to be in those rare cases where I am saving 5 MB Acrobat files, for example (when was the last time you have even seen a 5 MB Acrobat file?) or when I have 2 dozen browser windows open at the same time, and JavaScript takes over 10...

Cas, I have been waiting to hear your input on my problem with one application tying up my CPU and making multitasking an unpleasant experience in the "What do we all look like" thread, as you would probably know best what is causing this and how to fix it. One debate involves the notion of...

The volume and calculator buttons get a daily workout on my shortcut button enhanced keyboard :) Besides that, I use the following in the GUI shell: Alt + F4 Ctrl + F4 Alt + Prt Scrn Ctrl + Shift + Esc Windows + R Any kind of text editing: Ctrl + A Ctrl + X, C, V Ctrl and Shift to modify...

Yes, 7 Volts is the threshold. Hence, http://www.7volts.com .

Oh, didn't know that was isolated only to IE. And yes, Handruin, I think Shift+Refresh tells IE to check for a new version of the page. I assumed Tony would have tried that already. If IE still doesn't refresh, just go into your Temp Internet Files and delete the offending page.

Sometimes your ISP routes you through a caching server that thinks it's smarter than you are and refuses to refresh said page. So even if IE requests a new page, the caching server will still serve up the old one. Sometimes they do that by locally configuring your Internet connection to go...

Same sh*t, different pile, as they say. :) SF is a little more close-knit, as people tend to know each other better. Sometimes there are decent threads on one forum that are not on the other, so it may pay to do a quick scan of SR's board every now and then just in case. Then again, some...

Bill, How much did that dual Prestonia setup cost you (could you break it down into mobo, RAM, CPU, case/PS)? I would like to see how far I would have to stretch (okay, explode) my budget... I haven't been able to find any dual Xeon mobo under $400, BTW. That seems to be the most expensive...

It's one of life's luxuries to be able to do everything you want at top speed without ever having to wait for the computer. This, coincidentally, is my goal. My former boss was a Linux snob. And I have seen a bunch of people on SR that are strong advocates of Linux. I don't consider myself...

We shall have no comments from those running obsolete OSes like Warp! :) ... but yes, I agree with you to a point. I switched to W2k from 98SE for several reasons, including access to the far superior NT kernel with pre-emptive multitasking. I ran NT4 Server as a test case for a few weeks...

No traditional dual CPU applications in mind (like rendering, for example), but I very much dislike how my computer is unresponsive when the CPU is pegged at 100% by various processes while multitasking. Something I do quite frequently is compiling articles for research in Acrobat files. I...

Ouch. A damning statement against dual CPU's if there ever was one. I spit on IDE RAID and the very silicon its controllers are made out of.

You can also get quiet fans from Panasonic, specifically their PanaFlo "L1A" series. FBA08A12L1A 24 CFM 21 dBA FBA08A12M1A 32 CFM 28 dBA FBA08A12H1A 40 CFM 32 dBA FBA08A12U1A 47 CFM 38 dBA

Hmm... I wasn't hoping for more top-end speed, but to raise my "minimum" speed, if you will -- reducing the bogging that occurs when one CPU is tied up @ 100%. But if you and others are suggesting that there is no extra responsiveness during multitasking, then my whole point of wanting a dual...

This is somewhat related to the evaluation of various printers. Printers are often based on the exact same print engine (lasers) or printhead design (inkjets). For example, the PhotoSmart P1000 and P1100 came out several years ago with HP's PhotoRet III technology and that particular printhead...

Interesting indeed. Part of the differences are due to the electronics that go into the monitor, like video amplifiers, power supplies, etc., part of it is naturally high variability in quality between units, part of it is the video card used to drive these monitors, and part of it is the...

I'll have a screaming orgasm, if you don't mind. P.S., I was able to find the name of my shooter :)

These days, I get that way about chocolate croissants. Just bought a trio of them from the bakery yesterday afternoon and finished them in the span of 7 hours.

In her defense, I guess threatening "No banana for you!" would tend to make any banana aficionado defensive.

LOL... If you want me to remove the offending pic, just say so. No need to drag all the other despotic aliases into this :)

Gasp! Blasphemer! No banana for you!

Now what if you are using Norton Antivirus to filter your e-mails for incoming virii using the same mail redirection trick? Right now I have it setup as: Mail Server: pop3.norton.antivirus Username: username/mail.mymailserver.com Is there any way of "daisy chaining" the mail redirection so...

Yeah, the older, heavier duty printers never die and have lower operating costs, but if you don't want your printer to take up half your desk, you either have to get a bigger desk or a smaller printer. I am fairly sure that Lexmark is the manufacturer, as they state on their quarterly reports...

Gee, thanks, time. Now I'm traumatized by the resultant imagery.

Some interesting information I found... Lexmark is the OEM for the low cost Xerox and Samsung lasers. For example, Tannin's beloved Xerox DocuPrint P8ex is a budget version of Lexmark's Optra E310 printer, much like the Samsung ML-5100A but with the optional PCL6 support. The Xerox Phaser 3210...

Heh, heh... Great to see you too, old friend. And when I say old, I mean... :) just kidding, Tannin. Yeah, I get that all the time -- the babyface comment. Just a couple months ago when I was at a Mother's Day party, one girl asked me "so are you still in high school?" I was a little surprised...

How so, James?

Ah, well researched, time. Case closed. Kyocera it is for you Aussies :) We don't get them over here (at least I have never seen them in my limited travels), so I never knew they were so competitive -- certainly didn't expect them to outcompete Samsung on features per dollar. Do you know if they...

Note that I focussed only on 19" monitors in that previous post, but you can apply the same logic to many of the 17" monitors as well by incrementing (decrementing?) by a few model numbers. Unfortunately, 17" monitors are replacing 15" monitors as the budget models, so many manufacturers and...

Fortunately, I saved this from before the big DB crash at SR. I wrote this back in spring of 2001, so it's a bit out of date, but I guess you could use this as a starting point: There are only a few manufacturers of CRT's these days, and most of them come from the big 3 of Hitachi, Mitsubishi...

Great monitor. So is the Viewsonic PF770 and Mitsubishi and iiYama monitors based on the same flat 0.25-0.27 mm variable stripe pitch DiamondTron aperture grille tube. I have the Samsung 900NF, which is the same as the NEC FE950 and Viewsonic PF790.

I'll say this: CougTek knows what he's talking about. Not too many people look for the dot clock to check for the theoretical video bandwidth (and therefore video amplifier quality), but it is one of a few good specs to keep an eye on when comparing monitors on paper. Here are some candidates...