Search results

  1. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    There is this thing callled Mexico to our south. It also has no gun laws. Like America, only the police, and the criminals have guns. The criminals help supply some of the biggest gangs that have existed in the United States with guns, and drugs. One gang, I think it's the 13's or something...
  2. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    You really don't get it. The laws DO NOT AFFECT THE AVALIABILITY OF GUNS TO CRIMINALS. THE LAWS SIMPLY LIMIT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS FROM HAVING GUNS. S
  3. Santilli

    Virus Infestation

    Weekly, and I use AdAware. I'm careful, but I do get cookies, and a trojan or two, recently. s
  4. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    A conservative is a liberal that gets robbed.
  5. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    Sechs: The great thing about living now is we have tried the liberal, against the 2nd amendment crap, in many states, and it just hasn't worked. Crime has gone up. Carry states, crime goes down. It's funny but if you really research accidential, or stupid shootings, the numbers are incredibly...
  6. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    Hmmm. My understanding in Florida was that as soon as right to carry was passed, violent crime decreased. I believe it's the same with any other state, as well. I also think it increases crime in states without right to carry laws. I once did a study of violent crime liklyhood in different...
  7. Santilli

    I've changed my mind : I'm for carrying guns...

    CT: You may find that actually carrying a firearm adds a different perspective to driving, and life. Being able to follow through makes one more tolerant. s
  8. Santilli

    Solid state disc

    Does Windows XP EVER stop paging, even if it has 4 gig of ram? s
  9. Santilli

    Pictorial representation of what the war has cost

    Bitch spends like he's a democrat. He should win on that basis alone. s
  10. Santilli

    Best speaker set for PC with coax for ~200U$

    Guess I'm DD, like the kids I teach... (Developmentaly delayed)
  11. Santilli

    Jennifer Lopez at 1280 X 960 in billion colors on a sony...

    Cpdg4000. Cost: 85 bucks for the monitor, Maxtor P650 112 dollars. Klipsch 5 speaker setup, 250, Motherboard sound, included with Supermicro, help from friends about Media Player classic(priceless) Simply amazing quality sound, and visuals. By the way, same setup plays loud, perfect, HDTV...
  12. Santilli

    Hard Drive Drawer / Caddy - what's good?

    Granite Digital? Other options? SCA?> s
  13. Santilli

    SCA: SCSI, IDE, or SATA?

    Splash: I looked at Granite Digital's external firewire drives, and the case alone is the cost of an ide/sca, or sata/sca housing from Supermicro, or others. What would you suggest for an external firewire solution? I'm beggining to wonder if setting up SATA cards on all my machines might be...
  14. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    The reason I had made up my mind was the VIA chipset, etc. problems of the previous Athlons. Too much drama, buying a motherboard, finding out later the chipset was not all that great, etc. I'm still a bit out of sorts about the processor eating twain driver, and Photoshop. Doesn't affect my...
  15. Santilli

    Solid state disc

    http://arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/memory-1.html this helps.
  16. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    Or, better yet, look at the "Splash what are you using..." thread. s
  17. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    Ask Splash. s
  18. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    I forgot to mention I've been watching the HD stuff at high resolutions, that sucked on the G550, on the 650, with no problems. In fact, no problems with any of the stuff that was in the prior thread from MSFT. I really enjoyed viewing the Step into Liquid in HDTV on this setup. It's crystal...
  19. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    The real key to this is Supermicro doesn't support Athlons. If they did, Tyan would do it better, and the price factor would be better. s
  20. Santilli

    Stupid question of the day Firewire

    Pradeep: I don't even know what the cable is that came with the Lacie's. I've run into cheap cabling, in ethernet setups, that will run on macs, but not PC's. Guess I need to buy a premium cable, and see if that helps. s
  21. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    Pradeep: You are right. However, I do like having everything on the motherboard, and being able to raid my boot setup. I also didn't like the problems with the first athlon Thunder boards. I have already invested in scsi, and so far, sata has not offered anything I'm intrested in. No drives...
  22. Santilli

    Stupid question of the day Firewire

    It's a cardbus, IEEE 1984 card. As for the cables, I'm using the ones that came with the FW external Lacie CDRW drives. s
  23. Santilli

    Solid state disc

    Thanks; I can do that... s
  24. Santilli

    Best speaker set for PC with coax for ~200U$

    Well, I'm listening to Klipsch 4 + woofer speakers, on the AC97 that came on my Supermicro motherboard. I would like it slightly louder, but, if it did that, I would be evicted. It's pretty incredible, at about 75 percent volume, it maxes out the speakers, and, almost, my old ears. The...
  25. Santilli

    Do your CRT's make noise in the middle of the night?

    Yes, but nuder the full volume Klipsch speakers, my wine glass moves, who knows what the CRT sounds like???? s
  26. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    DD I must be missing something. I look at the entire combination of features. Expandability, motherboard features, values, etc. When I priced this setup, Splash has, and I'm convinced, made the right performance choice. I looked at the Athlons, since I fully believe, without them, we would...
  27. Santilli

    Solid state disc

    Prices? I'd like a PCI-X, solid state ram storage card, for the pagefile in XP or windows. s
  28. Santilli

    [NEWZ] Intel Going Entirely Dual Core In 2005

    Clocker got rid of his dually? :cry: He, and Splash are my inspirations... Not to mention Flagreen. OK: Please see the Splash, what are you running...? Thread. My two cents are the Athlons are overpriced, weird in some cases, at doing some tasks, scanning in Photoshop for me, using a Canon...
  29. Santilli

    SCA: SCSI, IDE, or SATA?

    Thanks. On the subject, when I installed the P650, the usb setup that connects to the motherboard didn't work, since the cables, when streched over the matrox card, are too short. I can put it over one of the PCI-x slots, but I loose the slot. Do you have any usb 1-2 type connectors that work...
  30. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Well, I downloaded the latest bios flash, and the latest beta stuff, and unlike most beta stufff, it all works. I'm at billions of colors, and, it's about as good as it gets. The matrox cards are both pretty incredible. Thanks for the suggestions. gs
  31. Santilli

    Stupid question of the day Firewire

    OWC suggests the card maybe defective, since it doesn't work to connect to either PC or mac, from either a pc laptop, or a mac. I guess you get what you pay for... s
  32. Santilli

    Stupid question of the day Firewire

    I Suspect you are right about the power requirements, and the hub. My external power devices work fine when hooked up to powered boxes. They have serious problems hooked up to laptops, like they don't even work. Still not having luck with connecting a laptop, through firewire, to a regular...
  33. Santilli

    SCA: SCSI, IDE, or SATA?

    86 Raptors.... s
  34. Santilli

    SCA: SCSI, IDE, or SATA?

    I'm trying to figure out which to go with. Scsi drives are avaliable all the time, cheap, on EBay, and they are fast, and cheap. They have lower capacity, but better longevity, for storage, even if they have lower capacity. IDE looks pretty good, since buck for mb they can't be beat. SATA...
  35. Santilli

    Best speaker set for PC with coax for ~200U$

    I really have to say that while I agree with about 99% of what's said here, for this kind of use, the Klipsch 2.1 5 speaker sets, running even off my AC97 onboard sound, is plenty for DVD's in my house. I've got a couple Philips PSC 706, and another, one step down, collecting dust. Seems to me...
  36. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Ok: Moved the Matrox G550 over to the attorney home/office computer. When she gets back, she should be in shock, it's so clear. Typing on it, right now, watching my cat go patszo. She must have house fever, since she's climbing all over everything, and tearing the screens up. At 2-4 pounds no...
  37. Santilli

    Best speaker set for PC with coax for ~200U$

    How can you hook up a real amp amd speakers to your computer? Please explain. gs
  38. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Splash: You were right. Even though it doesn't have the 128 or 256 mb of vram I was after, the P650 sure is one heck of a video card. It's so clear, it's scary, and, it's fast enough to run most anything I can throw at it. Been watching DVD's and it's a definite step up from the G550, speed...
  39. Santilli

    Stupid question of the day Firewire

    OK: If I hook up two computers by firewire cable, and cards, can one see the other? If so, does it just see the disks? Thanks gs
  40. Santilli

    Best speaker set for PC with coax for ~200U$

    I like the Klipsch 4 speakers plus a sub. They were 250 new. Now you might be able to find a cheaper set some where, if you look. s
  41. Santilli

    Adware - The New Scourge

    I just did a fast install of 2000, thanks to a legal program, Dissomaster, requiring an old version disk that we didn't have. We had the newer version, but that wouldn't work to stop the loop. Anyway, the point is, I ended up with Real Player and some other crappy programs I never...
  42. Santilli

    Registry tweaks with XP?

    Hi I've had good luck with a couple tweaks in XP that I used in 2000. With sufficent ram, DisablePagingExecutive, value 1, and LargeSystemCache value 1, along with clear pagefileAtShutdown at 1, seem to noticeably improve preformance on my XP machine. The same settings, with 384 mb of ram on...
  43. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Well, so far things are going pretty well. The Epson is about 4-5 times faster then the Canon scanner. It doesn't give me much time to type stuff. I just got done burning two CDS, scanning papers as fast as I can, Trying to watch the net, and do email. The highest the processors went was...
  44. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    Well, I just looked at two empty PCI-x slots when installing my last cheetah. I guess I could move my G550 to Travel Whore's machine, and put the PCI-X card in place. I'm sold on the Matrox multi screen gaming, and abilities. I'm must wondering if 700 bucks is a bit much for a card, that in...
  45. Santilli

    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    Well, glad to hear that's your recommendation, Splash. I decided on this one: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=35836301 Costco carried it for about 170 bucks, and with tax, and shipping, it's 200 dollars. Anandtech did a test on the 3200, and...
  46. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    The only problem with the database stuff is it's missing the 650 and 750, so comparing them to the PWHATEVER :wink: is king of hard. PARHELIA, PARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPAR HELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELIAPARHELI...
  47. Santilli

    Figuring out the graphic card universe...need for a database

    Splash: If they are doing pro-editing, will their new cards be targeted at that market, and how would that differ from the current cards? I just got done reading a real good review of the card, http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/matrox_parhelia/index.shtml The guy did a great job of really going...
Top