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An odd thought just occurred to me, and since I'm talking to a couple of people who sell WAY more computers than I do... Have either of you ever actually tried focusing on the high-end? For the longest time Dell stayed out of the sub-$1000 PC market. Now they're the biggest PC maker there is...

Hope he doesn't find the Bar and Grille for a few days.

Small world. I got the distinct impression that Lucht doesn't sell new equipment all that often.

I'm quite certain that Philips has an East-Asian connection... Yes, A look at the press releases on Philips web site mentions the release of 34 million shares of preferred stock in LG. So LG is probably owned, at least in part, by Philips.

I notice now that it also buts a little "save" button over images when I mouse over them. IE6 has to do something else besides that and the cookie options. This is a 55MB upgrade? timwhit, try Mozilla on a slow connection sometime. Or try it at all. Also very fast. Also never crashes. Is more...

What's different, if anything? It looks like 2000 Server with that silly XP interface. Nice hardware, though. I'm sure it's quite responsive for server tasks. Maybe it would seem less sluggish if you "optimized performance for applications" rather than Background Services, as is the default...

Unlike Jason on SR, I was already taking that into account. I made almost exactly the same post just about a week ago. Geez. You'd think the el-cheapo stuff in Oz would at least cheap enough to be actually disposable. I might feel bad about throwing away a US$50 scanner. No probablem at all...

Yeah. Comdisco gives 30 days on complete systems or 90 days on monitors and printers, and that's all the warranty I get. I cover replacement cost for a year out of the goodness of my heart for everything I sell, but so far I've had a monitor die only twice, which isn't bad at all. I wasn't...

Is Cougtek really all that bad? Mostly I get called Mercurio. I have no idea where that comes from.

Is Cougtek really all that bad? Mostly I get called Mercurio. I have no idea where that comes from.

I noticed IE6 is on the latest driver CD for the Modems I normally buy, so I installed it on one of my machines. It looks the same as IE5. It acts the same as IE5. All the menus are the same. Speed is the same. It's IE5 with a slightly different icon, near as I can tell. So for you every-day...

Mostly I buy Dell-branded monitors that have been OEM'd from Sony. Trintron tubes, exceptionally bright, or low-dp Gateway displays which I believe are made by Mag (Gateway and Mag share a warranty repair depot, at any rate). Way, way better than the KDS or AOC displays that would otherwise by...

Well, I drive a four-year-old Crown Vic and I love it. It's black, and I put an old CB antenna on it so everyone thinks I'm a cop. Fast or not, people get out of my way and slow so I can pass them. It's almost better than having a car that's actually fast. :) Ever seen "Roger and Me"?

It's not a big deal, is it? Might it be bettter to simply stick the post count in with the user profile stuff? Post count really doesn't matter anyway. Most of us remember the SR rankings and sadly, that's probably how we think of folks at a certain post counts. I'm sure 1000 posts will...

Geez those generics are expensive. The drugstore(!) down the street from my apartment sells crap-o Canon and Lexmark scanners and printers for $40. My experience with imaging stuff is that there's a big difference in what can be done with low-cost consumer stuff and dedicated-use professional...

You bought a Japanese car and you live in Michigan? I'd say you're a brave man. :)

Still no response to the little bastard. Too bad. I was nice and polite in my first message, but if he writes me back I really want to let loose with a Picard-style smackdown. He took the trouble to register on SR, but he still hasn't posted, either (user #1163).

To Cougtek, now: A lot of the college kids I deal with have good internet connections, friends with CD-burners and some clue how to operate their machines. Maybe their old PC at home has a 4GB drive in it. Whatever. It's full, they know it, and their roommate has 10 or 20 CDs full of stuff he...

Why no takers on the high end? Look what I sell for $700. 1.33GHz CPU. 17" display. 256MB RAM. 64MB video card based on a modern chipset. 40GB drive. What more could you want? A 19" display maybe, or big, superfast hard drive like a WD100BB. We're still under US$1000. Premium 5.1 speakers...

From my experience, I'd say Maxtor makes the best 40GB 7200rpm. The 740X is a marvelous drive. I'd say the WD400BB is second, followed by the older Quantum AS and/or Maxtor DM40+, both of which are still being sold. I've never used Samsung's drives at all, and Seagate for IDE is verboten. IBM's...

Here's what I sell. First thing is, most of my customers are either college students - I know some people at the local Purdue and Indiana U campuses, so my flyers stay on all the bulletin boards all year-long - or they're people in my neighborhood, which mostly means they're poor and probably...

I have image blocking set up on my main browser, so I don't see most of them. I do see your ghostbusters logo. It looks out of place with everything else, but that's probably just because I don't see any of the others. I don't see a problem with the images, except that they increase page load...

Most of my machines don't have them, either. I have a couple of USB floppy drives if I ever need one. AD, you can use TweakUI for XP to get rid of that link if you don't want to see it.

How about a FAQ question regarding what new users can do to help? My only idea was that new users help by contibuting to the regular forums. I've been asked this a couple times and that's the best I can come up with.

The keyword is "low-end". I'd be willing to bet your attachment's light source isn't right, regardless of what Epson says. Is the source color temp adjustable? I think if you can set it up around 9300K (it's four digits, right?), you should shift your "normal" output toward red, rather than...

Perhaps some work with a more sophisticated photo editor? Gimp is free, if you don't have anything else. Also are you sure your monitor is properly calibrated for image work?

Is anyone else really bothered with the AthlonXP nomenclature? Cyrix got seriously slammed for using PR ratings. Now we have AMD doing the same thing - and making essentially meaningless comparisons - and nobody's bothered by it? P4 does have something else going for it. Parity, for one. Most...

Replace "RAID0 mirroring" with "RAID1 mirroring". That fulfills my idiot quotient for the day.

Let's face it: Lose two drives in any redundant RAID, and you've lost data or had to deal with a major service interruption. Personally, I'm happy with the recovery options and greater available with RAID5 on big-dollar hardware, or just sticking with RAID0 mirroring. RAID10 isn't something...

Actually I am from Illinois. I grew up in a farm town not far from Urbana. What's the sales tax rate on your side of the line, again? Is it 10% yet? I emailed MirQtio back. I'm hoping he responds. Or admits to being Trinton. Whichever.

On IDE disks, there's no good reason to do performance-enhancing RAID0 (striping). This is the major application of IDE RAID, and to be honest, it's not terribly helpful for everyday sorts of things. RAID1 represents an expectional value, if you have a system that can do it. 20GB drives are...

Both, actually. Turns out the man wasn't big on spelling his name the same way every time. But Cougtek is right about the accepted modern spelling, if anyone cares to be pedantic.

The fact that I received a reasonably coherent e-mail suggests that he can, in fact, read. Either that or the "million monkeys/million typewriters" thing holds water and this particular monkey got very lucky. Yes, that must be it. This guy had his handle registered on THE ENTIRE INTERNET and I...

Oh, there's no doubt I would keep my handle. I just can't believe the nerve. Wow. I was the second person user registered after the SR crash (Flagreen was first). I have 180something posts in the last month - more than a lot of members had in years. He registered last night, and wants me to...

OK. This is a joke, right? Or is this guy just nuts? Does anyone remember seeing a post from "mirQtio" on SR?

Personally I find myself hoping that all parties on both sides of the suit fall victim to some horrible civil engineering tragedy like "spontaneous building collapse." Man, that's a tough call. I really think I hate AOL more than microsoft.. Microsoft may make bad software but I really think...

I'm never going to get to bed, am I? Let me know if there's anything I can help with, Tony. There's lots to talk about now.

Tim, I pay $450 a month for 1000 square feet and utilities paid. The neighborhood sucks, but I'm a half hour from the loop, close to my family and my fiance's school, and since my apartment is scheduled for a total renovation when I move out, I get to do whatever I want with the place. There's...

Honestly, there's a good reason for it. Namely, to keep immature people from flooding a forum with posts. Besides, us modem people never even notice. :)

Oddly enough, I've emailed timwhit because 1.) A post of his was near the top of the SR Computers page when I was looking for people to mail 2.) He's a good contributor to SR and 3.) We were just talking about how close our homes happen to be and grousing about local traffic on B&G. Tony, how...

If she wants to get her money back (or you want her to get her money back), you can always let Mcaffee know you're refusing the software license. They'll give you a refund. Takes a couple weeks, though.

I like the embossed lettering of the first version and the darker colors of the second. I'm siding with Handruin on the ".net" issue.

The benchmarks I've seen for newest P4 are pretty impressive. But intel's dizzying array of chipset choices, coupled with the rogue nature of the current Via chipset and my complete distrust of all things ALi and SiS, means that despite good performance (finally!) there's no way I'd consider...

Long story short: This site came as a result of some correspondence that passed between a number of SR regulars - basically a continuation of the "The Proposal" thread and the later parts of "Horrified" on SR. Eventually Davin and Eugene were brought in for comment. Eugene made the offer to let...

Sorry if things seem a little cryptic, Helldriver. Hopefully as you read what you can on this site, you'll get some idea of what's going on, but you certainly are welcome here.

Thanks for coming, SD. To any new member who happen to show up in the next few days, there are some kinks that have yet to be worked out - think of this as a "live beta test", and there certainly won't be the crush of traffic that SR has right away. Hopefully, everything will work out, one way...

Ah. I understand. I had similar problems when I was playing with slashcode.

Er... I don't see a confidential forum. Did I upset someone?

Re: MySQL backup... Do a mysqldump. I don't remember the exact syntax. It's something like "mysqldump databasename username >> backupfilename" I think.

What's this site running on, Handruin? It's amazingly fast.