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Personally, I really like the idea of 6 28-hour days rather than 7 24-hour ones. And yes, my beef with Celcius has everything to do with the scale not being fine enough to cope with what I feel are noticeable differences in temperature.

I put mine in the dishwasher with just a little detergent. Works great.

Near where I used to live, not far from Urbana, Illinois, there is a sign that says "Peoria: 100 kilometers". It has been there since the 70s, and is the only example I can think of that there was ever a push to go metric here. I have had enough science classes in my life that it doesn't matter...

Azza is a PC Chips psuedonym. Bleh.

Just noticed that Ghost v2003 supports writing (saved) images directly to NTFS-formatted drives. Symantec may be a crappy company in all other ways but that's really frickin' cool for a DOS program. Especially since it also does firewire, USB1.1 and 2, and CD/DVD-R/W out of the box, too.

IIRC FreeBSD uses UFS. The best answer I can think of is that you mount your UFS disk on a linux box and transfer all its data to something FAT32-ish.

Second board: After some idiocy in getting the board up and running - it didn't like the RAM the other one did, and I moved from Crucial to Viking to a stick of Samsung PC2700 before it actually fired up, it worked fine. Not fine as in "fine for ECS", but "fine" in general. A trouble-free...

It is the only non-integrated ECS board that my local distributor sells. I don't normally buy motherboards locally but I was in the mood for instant gratification.

OK, first post was when I just thought James wanted to reformat his disk. Then I thought... this is James. He knows how to do that. So I "stopped" my posted, re-read his post and wrote the second thing. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

I think you're SOL on that one. Check freshmeat to be sure.

Use a Linux install CD, and its fdisk, and all you have to do is change the partition number. You can exit the install at any time after that. You could also use one of the disk manufacturer's easy setup utilities to fix it, I think.

Got a new k7s5a this morning. Hopefully this one will go better.

Geese are pretty obnoxious in the poop department, too. I don't think you'd like pinkie-finger-sized goose poops all over whereever you kept 'em.

Mine are rev 3.1 and do not have network hardware. Of course I tried other things like switching PCI slots etc, and a Conexant PCI modem installed and worked in the machine with the NIC problems, so it's not as if PCI is just dead.

Honestly, Coug, I haven't installed debian in ages, so I don't know how bad it is. I imagine there's decent instructions out there somewhere. I'd might debian, but for the fact that I have some philisophical disagreements with the people who run the project (GNU/Richard Stallman). I guess...

At least use the SCSI drive. You're sure you don't have any quality Micropolis products around anywhere?

Coug, if you want package management that works, try Debian or a derivative. apt-get is just about as easy as things come in Linux. Personally, I download and compile sources for most of my stuff, mostly so I get a little bit better idea of how things work than just running rpm -Uvh.

Some time ago, I swore to myself that I would never buy a Shuttle mainboard again. I also said I would never buy an ECS board. But just to see what the fuss is all about, I went out and bought myself some new toys this weekend, including a Shuttle AK32L and a pair of ECS K7S5As (and a couple of...

I'll be drop-shipping Prof my congratulatory "gift" as soon as NRG gives me a place to mail it. :D

Sometimes I pry it off my keyboards. On my Linux box, where I do most of my wordperfecting, I do need it for copy/paste-ish functions.

I've got a 128MB radeon 9000 pro up and running on my game machine now. I'm not seeing much of a difference on the games I have installed (UT, Mechcommander II and Tropico), except that now Tropico won't start up except in safe mode. :(

If I fedex you a Micropolis drive will you beat him with it?

Must've missed it. If you're writing love-poems about asstastic hardware, I think I'd rather not know about it.

Sure I would: The solution to nvidia is a really big hammer. See?

You;ll be perfectly happy if you've got a decent amount of RAM - 128MB. A Pentium 200 would work fine for most of the rest,

You mean it's not "Waltzing Matilda"!?! :)

One of my students told me he had a warranty claim on a Tbird 1.33GHz because he returned it with thermal grease on it instead of the pad. If that's the case, I've been buying retail CPUs for no good reason. Did you gold certification course talk about that?

Some might argue that the ergonomic keyboard might represent an improvement. Not me, but someone. I can actually remember all the ASCII alt-sequences for Germanic characters, since I had to type papers when I was taking German in college. Other than that, I think that the biggest advance yet...

It works reasonably well, but I usually scrape it off and use artic silver instead. Pull the heat sink off and look at that pad sometime, though. The black and brown edges around where your CPU goes just don't inspire confidence.

I'm a Redhat person, but I don't pretend that Linux is right for everyone. I think Lycoris might be a good place for Tannin to place. I've read happy things about Xandros as well. Every distro does some things better than others. I think you'd need a wider sampling than just one distribution to...

The, Cliptin's nick has two "i"s. I don't think I've ever corrected anyone for describing Bill Clinton as "Slick Willy" or "Bubba", nor even particularly taken offense. One's opinion on the subject of presidential politics is personal. The matter should be dropped. The arguing parties aren't...

I love my HP48G. I especially like that it has a speaker. I almost got thrown out of a physics class for accidently starting my "eine kleine nachtmusik" program during an exam. ;)

The best machines I have - by far - are eight Tbird 1200s on mixed Asus and ECS boards. 128MB RAM, 12x CD-RWs and crappy 40GB U-series drives. They're more than adequate for the tasks they're given (four are mixed in the classrooms, four are dedicated to running the testing applications we...

The problem with an Intel board is that I'd be stuck with an Intel chip. Or, more correctly, I don't think my budget could survive a $104 motherboard plus a Celeron CPU. I'm thinking if I only had to do 50 PCs instead of 60, that would make a HUGE difference in what I could purchase. I really...

http://housecall.antivirus.com/start_corp.asp Works well enough for me, and as a bonus doesn't actually install anything on my PCs. f-prot for DOS does a pretty good job, too.

Obviously Tea's would be chose by Drunken Bastard. I think I've got PeeWee's picked out, though:

I'll admit I'd be happier with Biostar or (and again, I hate to say this) Shuttle than ECS. Honestly, I don't know what to think of their products right now. I've got a distributor telling me their stuff is "decent", in reference to, I think, the K7S5A. I've got Buck and Coug telling me not...

Or, um, Gary. We can't all be like adcadet and win something just for showing up. :(

And hey, speaking of bad bad experiences with nvidia, one of my dedicated testing workstations has been locking up intermittantly during paid-for exams for several weeks. Needless to say this is not cool. At first I blamed the testing vendor, then went looking for stupid windows problems, but...

I thought those issues were with the straight-up 760 chipset, not the newer 761/762. James, I'm going to buy Realteks at this point. If I can make them work with RIS, I'm a happy guy. Buck, would you actually be comfortable maintaining 60 machines with ECS boards in them? Keep in mind that I'm...

OK, I've *GOT* to do better than 3rd place. Top 10 Things to do with a Geforce4: 10. Piss on it. 9. Make sweet love to it 8. Detach GPU from PCB. Use as keychain. 7. Steal from loving idio... owner. Mail back one memory module at a time. 6. Actually use all the bits that come with your Dremel...

Maybe you don't remember the thread titled "P5 133XL has died" in the computers forum some months back?

John McCain has character and leadership traits that I can respect. So did Bob Dole (to a lesser extent). To name a few others on your side of the fence, Orrin Hatch, minus his songwriter's stance on copyright, seems like a decent fellow, as does Arlen Spector. On the other hand, both the...

Where and for how long?

I hate myself for this one but... Shuttle AK32L @ $55 (newegg) is just about as disgustingly cheap as things get. If the 1600+ can fall another $10 or so, this might actually be doable. Of course, RAM prices will probably eat all that... Gads this is awful. How do you stay in business, Tony?

That means a lot coming from someone who lives in DuPage county, IL. ;)

Well that certainly would make things easier.

... and I think that the ability to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear" should be a constitutional requirement of any nation has such armaments. Honestly, The, I don't see what character Mr. Bush has. I really don't. Nothing makes me think he's anything more than the shallow frat boy...

I wish I could use Tulip cards. Linksys NICs are dirt cheap, too, but not every Linksys 10/100 card is a Tulip and I don't know any other decent vendors for that one. RIS is Remote Install Service. Using a fully-patched Windows 2000 server, I can use a program called sysprep to remove all the...

Our machines are dual boot (Win98/2000 at present, 2000/XP starting next year). Some of the machines have two removable drive cages for "pristine" 98 or 2000 systems, and a few (in crummier cases) have both on the same disk. The majority of instruction involves the "consumer" system, although...