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thanks Pradeep!

Yep, for now 2D is what I need. 3D will only be a distraction as I'm writing my thesis. But it's very nice to know that I can go to a GF4Go (or whatever is next) later on if I so desire. Thanks Pradeep!

when I first saw that news article I thought it was a joke.

Not if you're running OS 8.6 like I am at work (at least until my shiny new laptop arrives). I sometimes use an iMac running OSX and I HATE waiting 2 minutes for OS9 to load so I can run word. Grrrrrr!

grrr....another reason to go SCSI. I won't buy a drive with a 1 year warranty. If anybody from Maxtor is listening, please tell whoever that I disapprove. I expect the 3 year warranty to be put back in place by morning. DO YOU HEAR ME MAXTOR?!

The P4Ms are the newer Northwood (?) core with 512KB cache, correct? But they're still on a 400MHz bus, no?

Now is that EDO or an older type, Mr. Turner? Oh, and I was only joking earlier about you being a geezer. After all the PDP-8L was around in what, the 4th Century AD?

Christ Mr. Turner, I know you're a geezer and all, but I didn't expect you to just up and die like that! You scarred the living daylights out of me (especially as I was wondering how your wrote you own post about impending death)

in everybody's pricing calculation, are you including relevant taxes and shipping costs?

downloading >100KB/sec at 11 PM Central Time (what is that...2300 central which is GMT -6 so that'd be 0500 on September 6th).

oops. Minor corrections: I DID include a floppy (have to have a quick low-tech method of swapping files) And the total price (after $100 rebate) is $2167 (that's before I add in the $81 for 256MB of Crucial memory)

Yeah, I ordered it tonight. Although after reading what was said about the GF4 vs. GF2 I think I may change my order (I assume Dell has no problem changing my order so quickly if they can charge me more money). Some background on how I'll be using this computer. I live in a Suburb of St. Paul...

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hmm... seeing as how I'm getting a new laptop, and am totally sick of my crappy iMac here at work (at least I could put Mozilla on it, but I can't run Moz and MS Word at the same time).....perhaps somebody could send me a special email (acalvin@mmrf.org) as a going away present for this "horrid...

I feel a bit foolish asking this of an MS product, but....what's the benefit of the new media player (other than being able to decode the newer codecs)?

Does anybody know what the big changes are? Any major fixes or feature additoins? Does it contain that rumored anti-piracy code that'll freeze up PCs with common MS registration numbers? I wonder if we'll start hearing the screems of pirates who are frozen out of their computers soon. All...

thanks for the info guys. I decided not to go with the Complete Care 'cause I tend to be rather paranoid about $2000 purchases and the cost of it is a bit high for me. But I did get the 3 year warranty, and the 15" SuperDuper screen (hey, I'm sick of eye strain from CRTs!). One other...

Ah, thanks guys. I thought I knew the answer, but just wanted some confirmation. And if I spent >$2k on a laptop I sure as hell would keep it for 3 years.

Hey all - sorry I've been AWOL lately, but I've been trying to finish up my degree and all. Anyway, I need a new laptop, and the Dell 8200 looks great. I was wondering if ya'all think it's worth the price to get a 3 year warranty vs. a 1 year warranty. Also, if you have opinions on the 8200s...

arrrg! I now boot off the floppy, it warns me about not having SmartDrive, then begins copying files...then freezes while it says please wait while Setup copies files to your hard disk" yet in the lower right corner no file is listed. My HD activity light is on, but the HD isn't making any...

Man, installing Linux over WinXP was a thousand times easier than installing WinXP over Linux.

just checked the BIOS. Nope, it's trying to boot off the HD.

OK, so I zaped the drive (wrote zeros over the entire thing), and then used Partition Magic to create a FAT32 partition. Rebooted off the Win98 boot disk, and began the WinXP install. After a while it asked me to remove the boot floppy and reboot. I did and it gives me a "error loading...

Bartender - which program(s) can I use to write zeros to the front of the drive as suggested? Oh, and another Summit Pale Ale, please.

oh oh. It asked where the setup file were located (I said the i386 directory) and then it said it couldn't load smartdisk and that I didn't have enough HD space (prolly since I've got Reiser and Linux swap partitions taking up all of my HD space). Do I have to format these over to get the...

hey all - for the past few months my laptop has been running Mandrake happily. But, I'm starting a number of projects at work that require MS Word, Excel, and some other Windows-only software. So I'm going to install WinXP...but, my laptop can't boot from the CD. Any suggestions on how to...

Note what they say about seek time/access time and buffer size. Perhaps they should read up over at SR. Seek time: This relatively meaningless number describes how long it takes, on average, for a hard drive's read/write heads to find a random track. A better number--which you won't always...

Linux on laptops can be nice, especially the newer RH and Mandrake distros. I'm writing this post on my Celeron 366/128MB laptop running Mandrake 8.2 while RPMing myself to KDE3. </$0.02> Adcadet

I just installed RH7.3 on my laptop (IBM iSeries). The major problem I'm having is getting AA fonts to "stick". In KDE (3) I tell the "Control Panel" to use AA fonts, but every time I reboot the box is unchecked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Adcadet

Thats what I was afraid of. But a guy can dream, right? At least I'll get the CD player to work again.

3 years minus 8 days ago, I purchased an IBM iSeries 1452 laptop and a 3-year warranty. About a month ago I noticed the built-in CD player stopped working - it wouldn't turn on or anything. This CD player is really nifty - you don't have to turn the computer on to use it, so it's great for...

Just in case anybody failed notice, Clocker is still Da Man! Not only did he post here, but he also ICQed me the link. Talk about service. Adcadet ICQ:9764549

Which drivers are you referring to? Did I miss something? Interesting observations...any comment specifically to the "snappiness/peppiness" others (including myself) mentioned? Are we all deluding ourselves (or just using our machines more intensely)? Thanks all!

Based upon what test?

I'm a rat man myself ;) Cool to know why the up arrow trick sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. Now, how can I get it to tab-complete?

I'm sure that most hardware sites exagerate the speed differences between chipsets. Suggesting one chipet over another since it's slighly faster is fine. Suggesting that people run out to buy a KT266A when they already own an AMD760 is misleading and irresponsible. Hopefully you didn't make...

I prefer to think of Mozillites as Stalinistic fascists. (note: I use and like Moz, but I do regularly use IE and I even tried Opera this past week, although I forget which version)

I have a (dead) G3 sitting on my desk right now. Perhaps I'll setup F@H if/when I get it working again.

I'm a DualieHead. let's see...my modern computing history is as follows: P2-266/96MB EDO - Sept. 1997 P4-450/128MB PC100 - December 1998 Dual Celeron 400/256MB PC133 - Sept. 1999 Dual P3-700/256MB PC100 - Sept. 2000 Dual Athlon MP 1200/512 MB PC2100 - Sept. 2001 I remember the dual Celeron 400...

Can someone give me the lowdown on running F@H on my dualie? I assume it's NOT multithreaded, and that I should slave it to a single CPU. Any other suggestions?

well, I can add my dual 1.2GHz Athlon MPs if that will help. Just give me a day or so to set it up.

Nice to know I can still count on you guys to take an interesting topic and run with it in a number of really strange directions. Ahhh, I feel much better now. Thanks guys. Back to my rats.

With the recent discussion on Intel vs. AMD chips, and the speculation about the immediate future, I thought I would open a discussion about what's going to happen in the next 5 years. Who will dominate? What will we use for memory? HDs? SCSI/ATA/serial ATA? USB3? Firewire 3? Does anybody...

thanks for placing the files on the SF server...I downloaded the drivers at ~170KB/sec.

does anybody know the status of the first service pack for WinXP? When is it due? Does anybody have concrete info that it will include some devious anti-piracy tricks?

interesting indeed. I knew I should trust Via less than AMD. Hopefully this will be a lesson learned.

is this a sign of things to come?

Opera does seem fast. So why is it that is doesn't clearly win in bechmarks?

Has anybody installed Mozilla 1.0? If so, what are your impressions, especially as compared to RC3? I've tried downloading 1.0, but I get "file does not exist"...I assume it's 'cause the mozilla server(s) is (are) being hit very hard right now. Adcadet

I forget if RH 7.3 comes with this option turned on or not, but for more snappiness try setting the noatime option in /etc/fstab (I think) - this will let Linux skip writing back to the disk the time each file was last accessed. I've found it improves things a bit. I too like RH7.3, although I...