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Damn. I loved Christmas in Hawaii, on the beach, in 1985. I lived right on the beach, at Sunset Beach, and my mother, and brother came ove :( :cry: gs

Thanks. The irony is the ocean has always sort of kept me sane, or maybe close. I end up land locked, and, on last veterans day, it took us 2 hours to the SF zoo, and 2 1/2 back. It's about a 45 minute drive, on normal traffic, and, the Zoo is right on my favorite surfspot. HAVE TO FIGure...

ROFL!!! Yes: Elves, when aroused, are TRULY scary. :excl: The producer/director played around with a few things, like the dead coming up and clearing out Sauron's army, but, I will say that I could live with the director's changes in the movie, something I can't say about most of Clowntown's...

I agree. Well, new school district says it pays on the last work day of every month. Apparently they just sort of neglect that's except for December, when you get no pay check until Jan 5th. I decided, and it works out ok, that Christmas is going to be around January 5th. So far the only...

After reading the Matrox board about Para drivers, I may buy an ATI card, instead.... gs

Why not a beagle??? gs

from home, over the holidays? Wondered why you are posting on Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas, and thanks for all the help.. gs PS Hope your beagle enjoys his journey, and sends back lots of info over the holidays... :mrgrn: :mrgrn:

The X 15's are first generation, 68 pin drives. Currently, with the atto Dual Channel 32 bit/33 mhz card, they pretty much max out the bus on this mobo at 110 mb/sec. Since I'm booting off the array, and I'm not sure if I want to give that up, just yet, I don't think I really need to quickly...

OK: I currently have 4 160 drives in raid 0. I also have 4 CD/DVD drives, and a floppy. I would like enough bays so I could mount those drives, and, ideally, have a hotswap/sca/scsi or sca/sata for storage. 2-4 bays would be plenty. Stupid question, but is it safe to mount drives at 90...

Splash: You are right. I changed my mind, since I fixed up my box, and it's running ok right now. Required Granite Digital cables, and managed to get a Lite on cdrom to install the os, properly. If it works right now, I'm going to wait, and buy next year. In another thread, you mention a...

CGB: Great choice. What I like about the swiftech is even if the fan fails, they still suck up a huge amount of heat. Mine is noisy, MC 462 IIRC, but, it's cooling the hotest chip at the time, the Athlon 1.4 ghz, and, does an excellent job. 7k fan, IIRC. Guy that makes those heat sinks seems...

CGB: Great choice. What I like about the swiftech is even if the fan fails, they still suck up a huge amount of heat. Mine is noisy, MC 462 IIRC, but, it's cooling the hotest chip at the time, the Athlon 1.4 ghz, and, does an excellent job. 7k fan, IIRC. Guy that makes those fans seems to...

That was one of my main problems. I wanted to network the machine, and even after getting a book, on Samba, I just didn't have time to figure it out. Guess I'll stay with Win 2k on that machine, until I build another box... GS

Anybody used Red Hat 9 on old hardware? gs

These databases make me REALLY want to try a Matrox parahelia... gs

Hi Tannin: Yes, we had that discussion, long ago. Given time, 2000 did prove to be an excellent system. Wonder if you could have repaired your version, rather then reinstalling? I recently lost an install, and I believe it was due to a loose scsi card, and a bad cable, corrupting files...

Splash: Thanks for the info on the memory speed support. Always helps... gs

Cougtech: I understand the advantages, but on the last new release of chips, and mobos, the Tyan Thunder didn't exactly win any reliability contests. I think a bit of patience always saves money, and headaches, with technology. gs

Splash: When do you expect the prices to drop to reasonable for the 246 or 248? Also, I'm kind of reluctant to be on the bleeding edge. How long before they get all the bugs worked out of the new boards, and the new cpu? Thanks gs

Splash: When do you expect the prices to drop to reasonable for the 246 or 248? Also, I'm kind of reluctant to be on the bleeding edge. How long before they get all the bugs worked out of the new boards, and the new cpu? Thanks gs

WOW!!! :eekers: :bounce: It's amazing how slow the clock speed is, yet how fast the results are with the Opteron. Why? 64 bit? So I buy a mobo and single Opteron, at 1.4 ghz and it's as fast as a 3.0 ghz, Xeon??? gs

"The writing's on the wall: The Opteron rules the workstation performance roost and probably will for a few years (at least)." When did this happen? The prices on the processors you mentioned are WAY up there. I found a couple shops around here that might want to sell older boards for Xeons...

This should be sticked near the top of the board... gs

In the 80's, things were a lot more wild west, and a lot less pc. I'm not sure what we have now is better.... gs

Pradeep: You have the beauty of the Klipsch line. In the old days, when a 35 watt tube amp was a grand, when a grand was a LOTT of money, you could have insane speakers, with a Yamaha regular amp, with 30-35 watts, and still not break the bank. At less then half volume, in my little house in...

A LOT of beautiful courses down there. I used to play Pasatiempo all the time. Snuck on, till I got caught, and since my boss was the president of the club, I decided I should stop it;-( In that area shot a 77 at Boulder Creek, IIRC. Beat a pro at the Olympic Club, and he came back and beat...

Never played there. Is that kind of fancy, set off in the mountains, and new? gs

WHICH LOCAL COUNTRY CLUB? PASATIEMPO?(SP?) ETC. Used to live down there, and played golf, as well. gs

You can't beat this deal with a stick: http://store.klipsch.com/details.asp?prodID=35 gs

Why? Look at Ann Hesh, or whatever her name is. Most lesbians I know are REALLY unattractive. Women go on what they feel, so, your hope might have basis, if you can figure out how to make her FEEL differently about you. gs

Tonight I've been watching JLO videos, on my computer, with crystal clear picture, and, at half volume, the 5 speaker klipsch setup really rocks. I could easily tune the same speakers to do Mozart. gs

You can, and I do, tune my klipsch speakers to play well whatever the music is. Mozart 427 is simply fantastic. However, keep in mind the Yamaha amp has different sound settings that allow you to go from a rock concert, to a concert hall, to a 70mm spectacular, without having to tune much of...

By the way, I agree with the guys that the Klipsch horns are not all that. My pick was the Hereseys over the horns, and, if I had had a LOT bigger house, the La Scalas. NOW THOSE ARE SPEAKERS TO DIE FOR... S

I firmly believe the Kennedy"s, three of em, were killed by the Mafia. They had been business partners with the mob, running alcohol, under Joe K. The mob swung the election for JFK, using the unions, in one of the north eastern states. Kennedy wins, and, his brother turns around and...

I have a set of Klipsch, the first computer speakers they made, and, with a proper sound card, and sound editing, they will pretty much do anything you want. Klipsch still makes the Hereseys, and, along with a 10 inch thumper, and a decent center, plus 300 dollar back speakers, all from...

Do the older slots provide sufficent through put for the newer cards to function properly? 660 vs. 3200 for example? gs

If your reciever is adjustable, for volume on each channel, I've found Klipsch to be the most efficent speaker, requiring the least amps for sound. Their only weakness is they do tend to be rock and roll speakers, requiring fair volume to really get good sound quality. My system resembles all...

If anyone would know, working at a beer factory, it would be Splash. However, it wouldn't be PC if the theory is right, for him to comment. GS

I like this thread. The information really helps, but, it doesn't address one, big issue for me. If you have an AGP slot, what cards will work int it? To use the newer video cards, will they work in the AGP slot on an Asus A7M? Stuff like that. When I see Matrox cards with fill rates nearly...

What does Prescott bring to the table that would make it worth waiting for? Dual cores on the same chip? Do Xeons have the same features? gs

I'm wondering if my hard drive setup is the real culprit. I wonder if one of the cleaning utilities, or a bug, got in, and deleted a few essential files neccessary for 2000 to boot. It was a corrupted .cab file, IIRC. Also, the floppie drive may not be functioning right, or that neccessary...

The other problem is the case I have is full. No more more drive bays. Could go external firewire one of these days, or, I've been looking at removaable drives for backup. Are the DVD RW format a viable solution for large storage? The firewire writer I've been using is really cool, allowing...

Mercutio: It is. The problem is migrating to the new standards, and most of the mobos don't have many pci slots, and, those that do, usually don't have that many 32 bit/33mhz slots. Machine currently has 5 pci 32/33mhz pci slots. Ethernet, and firewire, and scsi, could all be taken care of on...

Tyan vs. Supermicro... Well, the discussion goes on. I've lost my entire data, on array, and I'm not sure why. I'm considering an upgrade, but can't make up my mind. I currently have, in PCI slots, an atto UL3d, Adaptec AIC-7850, Texas insturments Firewire card, Philips PSC 706 audio card...

The company intro sort of says why they designed such monsters. On site video editing, on location. Looks like they might also be using solid state ram disks with the machines. Wonder what they use those for? Storing video you are working on? gs

I have the Canon lense. But, need a decent memory card, reader, etc. Total investment is in the 1300-1500 dollar range, in Kalifornia. Arnold: Get rid of sales tax. gs

Well, that and I did found, and head, our high school photopgraphy club, and, we've always had SLR's in the family since I was in grade school. My mother used to buy Nikon's, and I still like them, though it seems Canon has surpassed them, at this point, valuewise, and performance wise. I've...

HMMMM. MY ARRAY rocks. 4 X15's on dual channels of an atto dual channel card. 110 MB/sec, and, I think that's maybe bus limited. IDE raid?? Well,... Forget about it!!! Firewire raid I'm keeping an open mind. With an X 15 for a boot drive, who cares? It's a raid in a single drive. gs

Delmonicos are great steaks, if you can find em. You guys are making me more hungry then I was before, and that's not good. :mrgrn: Guess I did ref for 7 hours, and only had a can of tuna, and a tamale. gs

I'm used to seeing killers in ties, after being in the DA's office in SF for 6 months. I errored on the side of too many killers... gs :jumpin: