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Gads I can't believe I posted that. If you're doing the Linux thing, make sure you stick in a decent NIC. You'll do IP configuration during OS install, and it'll work, dammit. Make sure you turn off any daemons you aren't planning to use.

All the more reason that the Radeon 8500LE is a bargain, too.

You can use the same cables for 10 and 100mbit. Most NICs will auto-sense which to use. Depending on the network equipment, you may be force to 10Mbit if you attach a 10Mbit device. Since your sharing a modem connection, it isn't like you need a 100Mbit connection for that, anyway.

127.0.0.1 is a loopback address. If your TCP/IP software is working properly, a ping to the loopback should return a minimum-time response. On my linux boxes it's down around 200 mircro-seconds. Windows doesn't show anything below 10ms. Assuming IP is configured properly on your host, the next...

It isn't me. I know who it is, of course, but I knew the minute I saw the nick, and without using my fantastic moderator powers. *I'm* not the one who talks about his stuff all the time. Rocco's work is a bit much for my tastes. Although his accent is hilarious. Anyone else notice that Tea is...

I guess we 'mericans wouldn't be able to get away with anything like that, were we to make the trip. Oz is a place I would visit, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that it isn't really like all those damn "Crocodile Dundee" movies. On SR a few days ago, Tannin mentioned that, when...

We just need to work on getting the people who visit the tech support forum for a post or two to hang around. :) And Tannin needs to get his tech in here so our boys club becomes a slightly more civil place. Maybe we could even get the bartender to hang some curtains or something.

Radeon 8500 is neck and neck with the higher-end GF3, IIRC. Clocker, if you end up not liking that card, I'll buy it off you. For only a slight loss on your part. ;)

You know vi has a startup file? And that you can configure additional keyboard mappings if you don't want to use the "vi way" of doing things. Besides, the default mappings on a Linux box include all those keys - and their correct function - by default. As for first-week productivity, this is...

TCP/IP Troubleshooting 1. Start by verifying that IP is in Network Control Panel, that it's configured appropriately for your network (you're using ICS, so I think you should leave a dynamic assignement on, but 192.168.1.x is pretty reasonable otherwise), that you have a DNS server and a...

Unless I miss my guess, another of our esteemed members (oh, that's an awful pun in this case!) has taken another personality.

While I don't specifically remember Packard Bell motherboards or anything else about their limitations - I used to tell people to throw them away when they got old, an entirely defensible policy in my experience - I do recall the enclosure in your pictures being one of the worst sons-of-bitches...

Of course! That's the Unix way. I have a program that parses and orders a plaintext file in a specific format (the "mailbox" format common to all Unix systems and to some other stuff like Eudora), and another to edit text. It works beautifully. There's very little I can't do in elm, and what...

Pbbbbt. Some of us don't have a copy of Counterstrike or Half-life to play with.

elm + vi. Nothing more is needed. Everything else is fluff. Sometimes I use mozilla mail when idiots send me mime'd attachments or excessively long HTML mail message. elm does the right thing with both, and ignores them completely.

Unless you're willing to count the Mechwarrior games, never. Er, OK... "GATO". It ran on XT-class machines and featured exciting CGA graphics. Or maybe "Jet", which was wireframe CGA game that ran on PCjr. systems. I'd like to see screenshots of purported differences between highres and highres+AA.

I'd ask for advice prior to travel in your neighborhood, but truthfully I'm not much of a face to face sort of person, jtr. Like Faust before Mephistopheles, I'd rather learn from books than learn from living. Other than the single branch of the Smithsonian I've never visited I don't think...

[sarcasm mode] Wow, Groltz, you mean there's a benchmark that can make your spiffy new nvidia card as slow as any old 18-month old card? How is that possible? [/sarcasm mode] OK, really. Now that *I'M* done laughing, show me games that can cause your card drop to 30fps. For that matter, show...

And as you'll see, I offered my opinions within the confines of the options given - Wait or buy the cheapest one.

32MB will handle 1024x768xtruecolor pretty well, within some reasonable limits for texture size and scene complexity.

At this point, in 2D, it doesn't matter. A 16MB card does every desktop resolution any monitor can support. In 3D, it matters a little bit, but only up to the limits of what game designers are assuming people have... Which right now is 32 - 64MB. Memory is mostly used as framebuffer (a place to...

Just a second: Nvidia should have a new chip out in what? July? August? Whatever makes the current chip so zippidee-do-dah special, they'll probably toss a whole bunch more execution units in to do more of it, bump the local memory I/O and maybe add some special new stuff to make idiots with...

ICS is supposed to be brain-dead simple to set up. So like I said above, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if there's a software method to override client configuration. My books (I have lots of books) don't really give a good explanation of exactly what ICS does, exactly. You set it up, then magic...

Can't say I've ever done ICS from Windows before (only NAT), but I think there's probably a method for overriding the default IP configuration for non-static clients on the LAN with the ICS machine.

Correct. As I understand thing, nvidia's closed driver module is actually a pretty nice piece of software, but I'm highly suspicious of why anyone would need a 256MB GF5 under linux, anyway.

I've *always* had that problem with the latest versions of flash (yet I keep trying). The program I've found to work very well is an old version of Flask 4 that was optimized for AMD CPUs, called "FlaskAMD". I don't know if you can still download it but the modifications make it easier to use...

Hit this site for some updated 3dfx drivers. I'm using the Amigamerlin drivers on Windows 2000. They work very well for gaming.

What you needed to do, for future reference, was run WINIPCFG on the 98 box, then do a Release/Renew. It'd find the ICS quasi-DHCP server and take an address from that instead of the APIPA address it had been using.

The standard console client is called ircii. The X-ish one I've used in the past is called bitchX (no, I have no idea where that name comes from). PeeWee: Better hardware in this case means a less-generic NIC (I use Tulip and Intel-based NICs in my boxes), a video card with actual OSS drivers...

Methinks if you bought better hardware, it wouldn't be an issue. Nor am I the person trying to tell you to use Linux, only less crappy versions of Windows (NT3.5.1 was good, so is 2000. The rest suck eggs). At any rate, I haven't had a Linux box NOT auto-detect and install all the hardware in...

Go back and read why I ditched XP after a week. I think it's on the 2nd page of the computers forum by now. Lessee... Oh, yeah! I couldn't access better than 3/4 of a TERABYTE of disk space from my XP box, 'cause it was on samba shares. And on down the list, the wonderful, happy blue screens...

Wow PeeWee. Too bad I can't enjoy your scintillating wit. There is an image there I'm not seeing, right? Here's a thought for you: I've been doing this stuff for long enough to know good ideas from bad ones. I'm perfectly willing to use older technology if it's superior to new. I'm not...

I'll advertise an IP if for some reason y'all want to ytalk/ntalk me. I don't believe in nonstandardized chat applications. Especially if they're server dependent like AIM/YIM/MSIM/ICQ.

Since you have two instances of F@H running, have you set processor affinity for each to only one of your CPUs? Might help.

Msconfig is your friend, Tea.

I had almost the exact same thing happen to me when I was in school too, James. And also had people stick CDRoms in 5.25" disk slots, which was not usually good for the CD. You'd think people would learn that stuff somehow.

I spent around an hour and a half fixing a botched NAV Corporate 7.6 install last night. Anyone who wants to tell me NAV is a worthwhile product needs to spend a few quality seconds with the Symantec knowledgebase. Most of the time, after the description of a problem, the text reads: "Symantec...

I saw someone on SR mention a 1200AB a few weeks ago. I started a post to correct him, then did a search on pricewatch. It's not a cheap drive by any stretch of the imagination; 120GXPs are cheaper, but it is out, and OEMs have been selling it for a few weeks at least. I thought there had...

After learning that a dead pixel isn't enough to RMA an LCD, there's no way I'd consider buying one, even though I could really use at least a couple. A dead pixel would simply drive me nuts. So would the narrow viewing angles. I'm often working at one PC and looking at a different display. I...

Nope. I just use icecast to keep an MP3 playlist running on all my machines with speakers. That way I can wander around the apartment and hear the same piece of music without having obscenely loud volume someplace.

Good luck trying to get Samba and XP to play nice. They just don't. Although learning Linux is a more than admirable goal; I wouldn't be surprised if you find Mandrake more usable than the HP boxen you use at work.

It'd make a great little firewall. OpenBSD is your friend. Or a print server. Connect it to your network and to your stereo for instant MP3 access. Make it a dedicated virus-scanner. Test box for (some) parts? DOS gaming. Web Server. Backup point for little stuff like OS and driver files...

I don't watch much actual TV. I'm too cheap to pay $50 for cable TV (or for an actual TV, for that matter). The building's TV antenna only gets Fox and sometimes one of Chicago's spanish channels (motto: Every TV show is better with a thong!). Anyway, the only show I watch live is "Futurama"...

icecast. Win32 and Linux. Works great.

Crap like that is the reason I buy most of my stuff online.

The 120GB version is $165 shipped from a half-dozen places.

I've been watching the price on newegg.com. I've seen the prices drop probably 25% since the drive was introduced. Un-freaking-real. I still have TWO 75GB 75GXPs that have worked without interruption since I bought them. Of course, I think I've only had that machine off twice since I put them...

It probably sounds horribly seedy, but you already know where to find image-associated databases, don't you? Quite a bit of that stuff DOES make it to freshmeat.net. It wouldn't surprise me at all that there's something completely usable developed entirely in PHP and ready for use, just...

Another Bitter Amiga User (TM). Bitterness that one's favored technology did not carry the day is all too common in the computing world. I've met Bitter VMS Users, Bitter OS/2 Users, Bitter Be Users, Bitter Novell Admins, even Bitter Apple II Users, not to mention the host of malcontents who...

A long time ago I had a customer buy a video card from me. I sold him an ISA card. At the time PCI was not something that anyone had and it wasn't safe to assume VLB, either. A few hours later I got a message from my parents (see? This WAS a long time ago) that the guy's computer was on fire...