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The HOT-591 (the MVP3 board Tannin refers to) the board I had a bad experience with. Specifically, I bought 20 at once, had most of them arrive with bits of the SIMM/DIMM (IIRC that board had both) brackets floating around in the boxes, one with the CPU SOCKET floating around the box (ie...

Beyond those you really get in to vendor-specific certs. Cisco asks for CCNP certification that you complete, IIRC, four exams, covering topics like Router and Switch configuration. You wouldn't think that stuff would be that hard. Well, neither is brain surgery, if you know what you're doing...

In the US the absolute entry-level certs are MOUS and A+. I've seen, exactly ONE TIME, a job posting asking for MOUS (I only have it because I won a bunch of free exam vouchers from Prometric and ran out of things to certify in). A+ basically requires that you have a reasonable knowledge of PC...

The place that offered me a job is over in Chesterton, a little three-classroom training company that gets its business fulfilling the training requirements in steelworker's union contracts. I have to take the Network+ exam tomorrow for them... Anyway, I told those people I'd take their offer...

Fine. Then I'm taking #996, #997, #999 and #1001. :P

I don't think you'll have a problem, although Slokets are somewhat less than ideal solution. Certainly you won't have a problem as far as your PSU.

Does the MSI sloket support voltage regulation?

WD600AB = $90. 60GB and pretty damn fast for a 5400rpm-class drive. If nothing else a Maxtor DM40+ 20GB will run you a little over $70. I'd pay the $20 for 200% more space.

Look at the "Systems people buy" thread. Try a Gigabyte GA-72X (GA-7DX if you're not a VIA fan) or an FIC AZ11EA + a Duron 900 or 1GHz, 256MB SDRAM, 40GB WD or Maxtor hard disk... maybe a $500 machine with a decent monitor. Not terribly upgradable but it's a really nice machine for the money...

You can get some benefit from using processor-specific optimizations in compilation. The benefits of this are dependant on the nature of software. You'll get a lot of mileage out of a well-optimized kernel. I don't even know if you'd notice an optimized version of kword over the precompiled one...

I don't want to talk trash about your PC, honesty, if it's what you can afford (see threads elsewhere on this site), but for the $15 - $20 difference between a PC Chips and a Soyo, FIC, TekRam, Gigabyte or Epox is really a HUGE difference in terms of reliability. There's a couple of resellers...

the continuing saga of m747 Have a different ISA slot to try? Can you get sound in DOS (yes, that's probably a hassle to set up, but at least it'll tell you if it's something with the board/card or some Windows problem). I'm not about to go look, but I'm sure I've worked on that board...

My first-ever post to a China thread You call 40F cold? That's horrid. Come visit me or Clocker or timwhit (or, if you're truly a glutton for punishment, Cougtek), next time there's a real cold snap. 40F cold... 40F is just about cold enough to put on a jacket, that's how cold 40F is. Of...

For the 300/450 thing: You've almost certainly got the jumper for 66/100MHz bus operation set incorrectly. If your jumpers are all perfect, fiddle with them anyway. My experience with PC Chips poorly-illiustrated page of documentation is that it's usually wrong. Er, if they're right, maybe you...

Did you disable the on-board sound device? Nearly every PC Chips board has one, whether the header is on the board or not, and the resources will still be reserved even if you haven't loaded the driver. Make sure your preferred playback device in Windows is the ISA card. I *have* seen it set to...

You're talking about the rack itself, right? Can't say I've ever seen those.

In the US, it's possible to get AOL-branded keyboards, mice, surge protectors, AOL-approved telephone cables, and AOL "travel cables" which come in a retractable-case, like a measuring tape. Does that qualify?

Lately Compaq's server equipment hasn't even been very good, either, and most of their re-branded non-PC equipment (RAID controllers, displays, KVMs, network hardware) is pathetic, too. A bit of research on the SuperMicro bit reveals that PC Chips did not buy it but instead took over the...

the NET commands have been part of 32-bit Windows for as long as it has existed. And yes, given that any version of OS/2 can connect to a domain controller and XP Home can't, I don't think Tea's statement is wholly unreasonable.

I am doing the dance of capitalist superiority even as we speak.

Personally, I'd hate to lose Compaq or HP, just because there has been such a history of great stuff from both, even if neither is the innovator of years' past. Given the choice, though, I'm glad that its HP that's buying Compaq. Better stuff (HP makes fantastic enterprise switches and...

Just noticed that newegg.com has started carrying Soltek boards, for those of us in the US who haven't been able to get their stuff until now.

What I'd rather see is the results of Tannin's search for '*' on a 'JB and on one of the new 10k Atlases... 'cause if it takes twice the spindle speed on an x15 to make it ~ 20% faster, and nothing else compares (as SR's benchmarks suggest), well, that kind of changes my opinion about SCSI...

Well, I would've voted "Other", since AOL somehow didn't make the cut, but then I saw my other least-favorite company on the list, and I knew what I had to do... And like it or not, there are some things to appreciate about microsoft, however crappy their OSes are. A great deal of...

Well, I just got an offer from the training place... pending completion of Network+ certification, to be completed immediately. I told them I need to wait on the other firms and, uh, to actually find out what the heck the Network+ cert is, so hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday I'll know whether...

Easiest fix is probably to turn off plug-and-play on the motherboard, manually assign IRQs and use whatever DOS utility came with the modem to make it stick to the IRQ you assigned to it in the motherboard BIOS. I've seen boards that use the same IRQ for the second-to-last PCI slot, USB, and...

Oh, yeah. Thanks everybody!

Really liked my last interview. One on one, with a techie (one who had at least heard of SR, even <G>) and no HR reps at all. Got a full hour's time. We spent about three minutes talking about the job and the rest of the time just talking shop. I'd be working independently, suppporting remote...

Amazing what you can do with yacc. :)

Interviewed for the trainer job today. Small company. They were impressed that I (a techie) bothered to pick up a MOUS cert, but hung up on the fact that I don't have Network+ or Certified Internet Webmaster (although I do have a CCNA and MCP+Sitebuilding)... and I'll have some really nasty...

I've used I-don't-know how many different cards wuth a realtek chip. They're perfectly acceptable for your average workstation, just as Conexant's Winmodem chip or generations of S3 chips make acceptable hardware. However, I far, far, far prefer to buy brand name NICs (Intel, 3Com, Linksys...

Find a company that buys lots of IBM equipment; IBM gives away a copy of smartsuite with just about everything they sell. Almost no "real business" uses smartsuite, so those licenses are usually up for grabs. I've gotten new copies of smartsuite for free, and I don't think I've paid more than...

I've found it's pathetically easy to get SmartSuite licenses for Windows boxes for next to nothing. Too bad. I have installed Star Office on cutomer's machines in the past. To be honest, it wasn't a very popular choice.

No. I got a bunch of interviews. But that's something. A reason to iron clothing, if nothing else. :)

Unbelievable. Last year I had a total of five interviews for full-time jobs. Since last Friday I've had four calls requesting interviews. Not all for jobs I'd particularly like... all cold-calls, in fact. Really disgusting - I didn't send anyone my resume or anything, these people all just...

Sweetshon on SR works for Seagate. My guess is that Mickey works for WD - he's commented on differences between WD drives sold in retail and to OEMs... not the sort of distinctions someone who DOESN'T work for WD would be party to. I also had a correspondence with a Maxtor engineer a few...

OK, I've recently come into posession of a whole bunch of .mov files that won't play in anything but Quicktime4, which has to be the crappiest movie player ever made. Certainly the worst interface. Anyone aware of software that'll convert quicktime to any other movie format?

Reader old and crappy. Anything faster than about 8x should be able to read a CD-R.

Linux is just a kernel. Drivers for hardware are written by interested third parties or by different software groups than the main product development people. Often, because of commercial interests, the people writing the linux drivers are given incomplete or even incorrect (based on an old...

How is a Voodoo5 or a Matrox G450 not "current generation" hardware? The V5500 is at least equivalent to 7x00-series Radeons or low-end Geforce2s, and as far as I know there are no games out there for linux that stress those cards.

Prof, last I checked there were Live! drivers on the asian and european sites. Also try manually browsing their FTP site (you'd have to get the address from a download link on their web site. I don't know it offhand). And yes, Creative doesn't really support Creative. Their Linux driver people...

I have a few commercial titles for my linux boxes. Quake 2,3, UT, Alpha Centauri. Those were mostly pretty easy to install and set up. Your best bet for Linux gaming is probably a 3dfx or Matrox card - which is probably not what you have - for whatever reason, the people who work on mesa (the 3d...

Not completely RMA-related, but this thread reminds me of a bad experience I once had: When I was 15 - 18, early 90s timeframe, I hired myself out for PC repair housecalls, and did pretty well for myself. I got a call to fix a "broken PC". Went to the nice lady's house, found a genuine AT&T...

Well, sean wasn't kidding when he said internet.com buyouts don't lead to anything positive. What a huge pile of crap.

It was Moreau. That's who it was.

Bingo!

Anyone know the story? Resellerratings.com isn't there any more. How royally crappy.

TriOcular? Or Occupant? Man, I should know, too.

WD 1.2GB IDE - four tries in a single year (1995 - 96). I hated that drive. It was new when I bought it and at the time 1.2GB was a good-sized drive, but along with a number of other failed WDs, I finally got tired of it. I set it out on a fence post and shot it with a BB gun until I blew the...

Pre-step 1.) Make sure that your hardware is reasonably well-supported (check your NIC, video card, SCSI controller, and modem). I strongly suggest installing on a second PC if you're someone who gets frustrated Step 1.) Pick a distro Step 2.) Spend a goodly amount of time on google/google...