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That's why screws should be used for everything, Tannin.

TweakUI for XP - available from annoyances.org if you can't find it on the MS site - has a "Rebuild Icons" function. There are other ways to do it but that's by far the easiest.

Tea - setting up NAT (network address translation; ICS done right) on a Linux box is as easy as editing a couple of files. Setting up routing isn't hard, either. When you get around to playing with Linux on your gateway machine. Either way, there's tons of stuff on google about doing it.

The really evil words in all this are "Per Seat License". That doesn't sound like any Linux I'd want to use. I'll be sticking to RedHat (the major distro not involved in all this).

No idea why I'm reading this thread but, yes, Tea, you can have multiple NICs in a single machine. Several of my PCs have two already. Anyway, you're going to have to set up routing on your dual-NIC machine to get the xBaseT to talk to the 10Base2 (coax) that everything else you're going to...

I love living in a place where less than $100 buys me 80GB of disk space. :)

Well, Clocker was OT:Police. And he was well known for restraint. I believe this is the rare form of humor known as sarcasm.

I did, didn't I? I could've said "German", although at the time my ancestors left Bavaria it was still its own country. My family had some kind of titular ranking (Graf?) in Bavaria. I don't know much about it.

<smack> And yes, with an aunt as interested in Geneology as mine, I can find out who was banging my many-times great grandmother. The simple answer is my many-times great-grandfather. :) But seriously, if you're into that sort of thing, there are more geneological resources online that one can...

You have your jokes, and I have mine. :P And I'd just like to say that Flagreen should be sentenced to two weeks running NT4 on a 386 with 12MB RAM for that last comment.

Just to correct PeeWee (again), NRG is a guy with greek ancestry living in the UK (I think). The only I-talian I can remember on SR/SF are PeeWee (who is also greek) himself and Christiano Salvadori.

You actually made it through an entire episode of Seinfeld without losing your lunch? I have newfound respect for you, Sol.

Maybe we could take up a collection and do a month or two of google adwords or something. I'm proud of this place and I wish more people knew about it.

From dictionary.com: jock2 Pronunciation Key (jk) n. An athletic supporter. Sports. An athlete, especially in college. Slang. One characterized by excessive concern for machismo. [Short for jockstrap.] -- I meant it in the last sense. Personally I'm not too fond of that type of individual.

You either need a dediccated uplink port or a crossover cable for that.

You'd have to try it and see. A good switch will just use 10Mbit to the node that requires 10Mbit.

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.