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That glass looks tinted. I imagine it would distort the colors of the monitor. Anyway, desks with upward facing monitors remind me of those stupid ergonomic chairs where the person looks like they're going to accidentally slide off. I can't imagine getting too comfortable on one of those...

The best possibility for me is the adaptor and 1.4 GHz Celeron(100 MHz FSB). The CPU alone is going on Pricewatch for ~$65. I should be able to overclock to at least 112 MHz, which would give me 1.568 GHz. :) Now it's just a matter of paying as little as possible for the adaptor.

Thanks Mercutio and Cliptin. It looks like the Powerleap adaptor will be the best bet here since it will let me go up to 1.4GHz. The system is flashed with the latest BIOS so I should be OK according to the compatibility list. I guess all that's left to do is check eBay from time to time for...

I'm interested in upgrading my current processor and I've noticed that 1 GHz PIII slot 1 processors are available which use a 100 MHz front side bus. My AX6B motherboard is slot 1 and 100 MHz bus(currently overclocked to 112 MHz). The current processor is a PII-450. The problem is that...

Given the poor state of the economy plus the fact that even a 5 year old machine such as a PII-300 is still good for basic websurfing and other common home uses, I would say many people are holding on to their old machines longer. My fastest machine is a PII-450. About the only time I wish it...

Well, I thought the one of you in the suit with short hair was an imposter, but the other one is certainly you. As to whether your personality matches your looks, that's difficult to say. Generally, once I've spent any time with a person, I say their personality matches their looks because I...

I like the idea of a group meeting, but since we're from all parts of the world and have different vacation days the logistics would be a nightmare. Also, some of us are either students or broke and just don't have the money for long distance travel, or in some cases the time. I've been...

You must have a thin skin. How could you possibly be cold with all that fur? I was doing some gardening last week with just a light jacket when it was a bit over 0° C. I was even perspiring a bit when the digging got tough. I start to feel cold around 0° C if I'm not moving around too much...

It might be a good idea to check the news to see if the MTA is on strike. The deadline passed at midnight today but if the talks break down we could still see a strike. A transit strike will make getting around NYC that much harder. Driving around the city, especially in Manhattan, isn't a...

Just to update everyone it's going fairly smoothly. I did 30 files so far, and it's not bad now that I have a method. I paste the lines of interest(which incidentally are only a small part of the entire file) in a text file. I can then open this file with Excel and configure it to put each...

Funny, I watch the Chinese channels quite a bit. I don't understand a word they're saying, but sometimes the subject matter seems interesting. I even listen to Chinese pop music sometimes, although as of late it's gotten almost as bad as American pop music. In fact, they seem to be imitating...

Not really, but occasionally when I just feel like watching TV and there's nothing worth watching, and I'm too lazy to look in my tape collection I might watch an infomercial or two. At least infomercials go in depth about whatever it is they're selling. You just can't do that in a 30-second...

New York started this over a year ago, but as with the Kansas law, there are too many loopholes. For example, charities and political parties are exempt, as are any companies that you did business with in the previous year. The Direct Marketing Association fought the law all the way. I guess...

The biggest joke of all with most spam is the "Click here to unsubscribe" link. Either the link is broken, or if you hit it your e-mail address gets put on a list of "good" addresses that are then sold to other spammers, and you end up with 10X the crap coming in. I once had a webtv address...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm going to try out a few of the suggestions here and see how it goes. Yes, I do have Office97 installed so I should be able to paste the numbers in the cells properly, and then hopefully import them back to the text file in the same format as they were...

There's the problem of transferring the numbers from the text file to the spreadsheet and back again after changing them. Using cut and paste I get the whole line of text in one cell of the spreadsheet, not one number in each cell. By the time I go through all the manipulations to get the...

I assume this problem would be solved before we started using NVRAM for long-term storage. :wink: Since Mercutio expressed his wish list I figured I might as well express mine. Motherboards with slots for NVRAM modules are near the top of my list. CF or something similar for removable...

I'm currently in the process of editing a couple of hundred unicode text files. The editing process involves changing a few dozen to a few hundred numbers in each file that appear in the following format: point ( -115.214 0.2 648.984 ) point ( -115.214 0.325 648.984 ) point ( -115.356...

This shouldn't cause that much of a problem since most circuit boards made these days are coated in electrically resistant lacquer. There is a chance a whisker may lodge between two pins of an IC, but even this can be made a non-issue by coating the board(and all parts on it) with lacquer after...

Believe me, I wish CF were near universal right now. I hate spinning media, especially anything susceptible to magnetic fields. I just think the reason more people haven't bought into it is because after seeing all the so-called floppy replacements fail, they've become jaded and are not...

With compact flash selling for tens of dollars for 128 MB it doesn't seem like a viable replacement for floppies-yet. I'm sure at some future date solid state media will be dirt cheap like current CD-R disks but until that time I just don't see compact flash as a viable floppy replacement. One...

Actually, I consider backups and archiving to be two entirely different things. Generally, backups are of data that changes fairly frequently, and are therefore worthless if they are more than a few weeks old. Archival life of the media is just about irrelevant here. I make the backup, verify...

Maybe I've had more luck than most with UDF CD-RWs, or maybe I'm just more willing to put up with their limitations, but here's a point of view from the other side of the fence: I always assume that CD-RWs will only work in a CD-RW drive, and not in plain CD readers. Using this as my working...

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. The guy actually has the nerve to complain when he's getting a taste of his own medicine. The sooner SPAM is made illegal, the better. Anyway, this just goes to show what I've said all along, which is that 99.9% of all the SPAM we receive is...

A P4 system with onboard video?! Why? I didn't know such an aberration existed. Seriously, I don't use Autocad but I use GMax, which is a freeware version of 3DStudio Max, on my PII-450 with a Voodoo3 video card(16 MB RAM). Even with this system it seems reasonably fast, so I think any...

I just installed it and it does seem to be a reasonable replacement for MSOffice. There are some compatibility problems, at least with Excel. The graphs on a few of my spreadsheets were messed up, but other than that everything's OK so far. Maybe it's just a matter of getting rid of a few...

While the answer to this question was obvious when RAM was very expensive, I'm wondering why nowadays motherboard makers don't put a certain minimal amount of RAM(say 128 MB) on new motherboards. It would only add a few dollars to the cost and would definitely be a good selling point...

Another nod for the Promise controllers. I bought four Ultra100TX2 controllers on eBay a few weeks ago, and they come in very handy when you've filled all your M/B's IDE ports, as well as when your built-in controllers can only do ATA33 or less. About the only issue I've had with them is that...

The rate is 7.65%(6.3% retirement, 1.35% Medicare) for employees, and the employer pays a matching amount. For those who are self-employed the rate is 15.3%(12.6% retirement, 2.7% Medicare). :o The retirement portion is only taken out of the first $84,900 in earnings(in 2002), not that many...

I don't feel the current tax system is fair in the least. I hear of far too many rich individuals and corporations that get away paying hardly any tax while the average working person pays over 25% in income taxes alone-more if you add the the additional taxes the employer pays on their behalf...

I didn't know they even made anything that could do 1600x1200 8 years ago. I would have to guess it cost well over $1000. Nowadays, I've already seen a flat screen 19" monitor for about $200 after rebates. It's amazing how cheap computer parts have gotten. The $200 4 MB SIMMs price was...

I'm not surprised. It seems nowadays they would rather hire morons so that they can justify paying them $7/hour. I guess they figure anyone better qualified will either eventually want too much money, or will leave once something better comes along. Also, the part time market is by definition...

I figured as much, but it didn't hurt to ask. ;) I imagine it would be technically possible to make, but not at a price that would make sense since the SIMM stacker would cost more than the RAM I'd be using in it. Those probably made more sense in the days when a stick of 4 MB RAM went for...

As some of you may have read here, I recently tried to upgrade my PII computer to 1 GB but mistakingly purchased single-sided 256 MB sticks. The machine has 2 256 MB and 2 128 MB sticks in it currently. I also have 2 128 MB sticks that I removed to make room for the 256 MB ones. It would be...

It's definitely a hardware problem. My machine is flashed with the latest BIOS(April 2000). I think that was the final version for this board. In any case, I don't think a BIOS upgrade would help since it's a matter of the chipset being able to physically address the RAM. BX chipsets just...

Unfortunately, the thread you're referring to isn't among my saved threads but this is a topic which is rarely discussed, and it's a pity because any electronic equipment is only as good as the power supply going to it. I've personally never had any need for anything more expensive than $15...

I was once in a very similar situation to you. When I was a kid I used to live in a NYC housing project which was steam heated. Each room had it's own radiator and in addition there were two pipes running vertically from floor to floor. There were openings where the pipes went through the...

I didn't return them yet, so if you or someone you know are interested in buying them let me know. I'm probably going to CompUSA tomorrow but I'll check this thread and my PMs before I go. I imagine shipping to Sydney would be a bit pricey though.

I can only imagine the sight! I don't suppose you would have been able to ride a bike instead. I'm not sure if an ape your size would be too comfortable on a normal sized bicycle. Tannin made a good point, though, and I'll add another. Never, ever be economical if it affects your health in...

I actually love walking that far in the winter(I can do five miles in under an hour), just not twice in the span of three days. It was about 35°F when I went on Friday, and I was sweating a bit by the time I got there believe it not. Doing it in the summer is the real pain. Too bad they don't...

The lowest price on pricewatch for something compatible is $21 last I checked. The only reason I bought this RAM was because it was only $10. Remember that I need to remove 2 128 MB modules to make room for the 256 MB ones, so I'm really only gaining 256 MB by doing this, even though I'll wind...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. As best as I could tell from looking up things on various sites, the problem is that the single-sided memory uses 8 RAM chips configured as 32Mx8 versus the double-sided ones which have 16 chips of 16Mx8. The M/B chipset needs to be able to address 32Mbit RAM...

Here's one I found that might interest you: http://www.iguanalabs.com/maintut.htm It has beginning, intermediate, and advanced tutorials. Learning in detail about electronics is far from trivial, and I only really started understanding how things worked once I started making my own projects...

I purchased two sticks of 256 MB PC133 SDRAM at CompUSA today. Though the machine I plan to put them in needs more RAM like I need a hole in the head(it already has 768 MB), the price was right at $9.99 each after rebates, so I figured what the heck, even though it meant I'd need to remove two...

While there's a lot of research, it seems that most of the new technologies scheduled to be implemented in the not too distant future are either read only or write once. While these are good for archiving, they will hardly replace hard drives. Among technologies that are rewriteable it doesn't...

A bit off topic, but does anyone here know why PC clocks keep such lousy time that they need to be synched to an external time source on a regular basis? A simple thing like a TCO(temperature compensated oscillator) will cost less than $10 and would make the clocks accurate to within a minute...

There shouldn't be since it doesn't warm up very quickly. On the other hand, don't put a blow dryer to it the minute you bring it in since the sudden temperature change might make it crack. ;) There is a minimum temperature under which the LCD will actually sustain damage due to the liquid...

The problem is the condensation that occurs when you go from a cold climate to a warm one, and if the laptop has indeed gotten down to -20° F then I would give it overnight to warm up before I booted it. The instructions for installing a hard drive, for example, always say to wait something...

The idea of having a controller is a good one-if it's done properly. I've seen too many temperature control devices that control cooling by having the cooling element(usually a compressor) full on all the time and using a heating element to counteract the cooling effect and stabilize at the...

I'm not 100% sure that's true. Most of the steel in autos is recycled, not made from ore. That saves a tremendous amount of energy. Consider that an SUV getting 10 mpg burns 25,000 gallons of fuel if it lasts 250,000 miles. Even one getting 25 mpg that only lasts 100,000 miles burns 4,000...