I had someone give me a case w/ a nice KX450 based PPro motherboard. It has an odd NVRAM error with it. Other than that it works fine. After upgrading my 8KTA3 (KT133A) with a newer DDR capable board, I stuck the 8KTA3 in that case, when the board was on the motherboard tray, it acted like something was shorting, I couldn't see anything shorting, double checked the standoff placement 20 times. Remove it, it works.... with the exception of the POST code feature. That's now dead. But like the 450KX board, everything else works fine....bastard!
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About 1996, I had graduated from high school, had $1000 in a savings account, and I wanted to REALLY learn about computers. So I picked up a $900 Packard Bell P133. It was a screamer compared to my parents 486SX33 (also a packard bell). Other than being the start of a massive upgrade path that has no signs of the original computer except for the speakers (literally, I still use them). I sold it to my dad after the first major upgrade. All the way to a 233K6 on a 430TX board. He quickly bought the latest and greatest games, which filled up the hard drive, they required 1.1GB, the HD's size was 1GB. A few upgrades later and a few windows reinstallations late, it was sold to his brother... 400 miles away.
You'd think this is the end, but given the fact that it was shipped back twice and had windows reinstalled both times. You can tell that it wasn't. He eventually upgraded and sold it to my dad's OTHER brother so his kids can use it.
Last thanksgiving I was down there visiting family. And yet again, did a bit of tech support on that old PC. Six years after I bought it, and four years after I sold it, 3 years after my dad sold it, and 1 year after my uncle gave it away.
Personally, I strongly perfer email to the phone. Why?
You can check your email when you're done with what you're in the middle of.
You don't have to respond right away, you can find the correct and complete answer.
Reduced accent errors. Ever work in a place with people from India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Germany, England, US, Vietnam, and the Phillipines? Sometimes it's hard to tell what everyone is saying even though it's all in English.
It keeps a record. You don't need to remember exactly what the guy said, it's written down! Very handy for part numbers.
You know who you're dealing with. "Hey, this is Mike..." on the phone is replaced with something like "Mike Smith -mike.smith@company.com-". You're not dealing with Mike Jones.
Long, technical matters can be spelled out in detail. If a procedure on how to do something can be spelled out in words, it's more likely to be followed without errors than if it's orally passed over a half hour phone conversation.
Cool down period. If you're getting upset and starting to argue, you can pause, cool down, and take care of it with a cool head isntead of ending up in a verbal flamefest.
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If you want something that breaks your concentration, it's not email, it's the phone and PA systems.
Next time you're driving around, note the number of cars driving like idiots, barely running, NOT running, and with dents.......now put them above your house.
Hell, at this point I'm thinking Broadband is another name for bands like Hole and the Spice Girls. Because cable modems service in my area isn't available, and if it were there has to be cable TV service first (which there isn't). DSL? Sure you can get DSL. IDSL. $100/mo for a 144/144 line. Sound like ISDN? Yup, it's ISDN w/o voice. ADSL? The A stands for "absent" because at over 4 miles away it isn't going to show up. And people whining about thier 42k connections can blow me. I get 24kbps ON A GOOD DAY and I have one of the better lines for my neighborhood. 14.4k isn't uncommon. The phone company guarantees voice. That's it. If you want more, your options are ISDN, T1, and the USPS.
Currently, for transferring large amounts of data the USPS has the best throughput.
I got 17 pieces of spyware that's called part of WinXP, spyware in the programs that I use to share files, people snooping my ass while I surf the internet, and shady places selling my email address so they can offer me both penis enlargement AND breast enlargement....so what has security done for me lately?
"not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes"...so they pay lawyers and give themselves what's left over?
Sony and MS don't get along well. There's always been some tension between those two and Sony doesn't mind pouring a little alcohol on the open wound known as the embedded/console market.
That which does not kill me only makes me stronger (but hurts ALOT!)
Granted that's slowly changing. I currently also run a Windows 95 based MP3 player, every time I look at putting Linux on it it boils down to "I have a slow internet connection". My semi-portable DVD player is the same. I'm extremely close to requiring only a single Windows machine. Do other OS'es have thier place? Sure, my dialup router is Linux based, and I wouldn't replace it with a Windows machine unless you paid me some fat stacks of cash. For the other two systems, to convert to linux I'd just need a CD w/ the files and someone to help me through configuration. For my main system, it'll be a while. I have alot of apps that I'm settled into, but very few that I'm locked into.
Reluctant to switch? Sometimes. But it works both ways.
I find this odd, because people regularly LOOK and actively search for porn. But almost noone does the same for spam. It's like saying a rude door to door salesman is better than a strip club, even though the strip club doesn't affect anyone that doesn't want to be affected.
"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. If some girl really needs $5 and some guy really needs a squib job, it sounds like a match made in heaven!" --Random standup comic quote.
Remember, they CAN withold information pertaining to antivirus, DRM, and anti-piracy measures. And a lawyer can easily argue this covers 100% of Palladium's "ideas"
A doctor could email a hospital of some symptoms in the field and get a reply of what the illness and proper care for it is. Although the individuals wouldn't get a benefit directly there would be an indirect benefit.
We can't even carry a pair of nail clippers onto an airplane without being called a terrorist. Buying a gun will soon be grounds for a public trial for endangering the public.
...MS saying that they're not going to cripple PCs with restrictions over copying stuff? Add that to the list of stuff that MS marketing and PR have blatently lied about.
I'm into anime a bit, and there's a LOT of anime that just never makes it to the US because it wouldn't be profitable. Some of it is quite good, others make it over only to get hacked to pieces by americanization.
One upcoming example is a show called ".hack//SIGN" (pronounced.hack). It is an excellent show in Japan that will be released in the US by Bandai, the main character has already been renamed from "Tsukasa" to "Kite". And Bandai has made an OVA, which from what I hear is nothing short of a train wreck. Now remember that this is a show that's already on TV in Japan. Not a theatrical release.
An example of a show that will NEVER make it to the US is "Puni Puni Poemi". If you wanna know what it's about just use your favorite search engine. Due to various themes that range from sexual to silly it just doesn't fit into any of the main stream US "catagories". "People" want either pr0n or silliness. "They" don't want both. Personally I found the show to be downright hilarious. Even though I wouldn't show it to any kids:)
"Disabled people are quite clear that we need adequate support and personal assistance which is flexible.
"This is not only to do the basic tasks, but also to do other, more sophisticated tasks, which are essential to our well being, such as getting out of the house, meeting new people and having genuine control over our daily living."
The problem with this quote is basically it's saying "Disabled people need slaves". Last I checked there's not a large pool of reliable, trustworthy people that want to become slaves. My grandpa has gone excessively senile and my grandma has to do everything for him. Now, I love my grandpa, but I'd never be able to stand having to be on call 24/7/52 whenever he needed anything. What these "gadgets" ARE good for is working towards the next best thing: independance. Being able to do everything you want to do under your own initiative instead of having someone else do it. Leaving the house and meeting friends when you want to, and not having to convince, or order, someone else to.
Lets face it, you can't manufacture human slaves. At least not in the US:)
If you write or edit your novels on you computer. Have you noticed any difference between how different word processing programs handle the reletively large document size, and does the format it's in affect how well the program can manipulate the document?
(as a subnote, do auto-spell checkers go nuts with all the puns?)
This appears to be more of a function of consumer dollars shifting to something that IS coming out with new and good material.
The music industry has been so stagnant that new material worth the gas to drive to the store is rare. There are GOOD movies on DVD that people want to watch. They can claim piracy is killing them but until they wake up and realize that they have to market stuff the record sales are going to fall.
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I had someone give me a case w/ a nice KX450 based PPro motherboard. It has an odd NVRAM error with it. Other than that it works fine. After upgrading my 8KTA3 (KT133A) with a newer DDR capable board, I stuck the 8KTA3 in that case, when the board was on the motherboard tray, it acted like something was shorting, I couldn't see anything shorting, double checked the standoff placement 20 times. Remove it, it works.... with the exception of the POST code feature. That's now dead. But like the 450KX board, everything else works fine. ...bastard!
About 1996, I had graduated from high school, had $1000 in a savings account, and I wanted to REALLY learn about computers. So I picked up a $900 Packard Bell P133. It was a screamer compared to my parents 486SX33 (also a packard bell). Other than being the start of a massive upgrade path that has no signs of the original computer except for the speakers (literally, I still use them). I sold it to my dad after the first major upgrade. All the way to a 233K6 on a 430TX board. He quickly bought the latest and greatest games, which filled up the hard drive, they required 1.1GB, the HD's size was 1GB. A few upgrades later and a few windows reinstallations late, it was sold to his brother... 400 miles away.
You'd think this is the end, but given the fact that it was shipped back twice and had windows reinstalled both times. You can tell that it wasn't. He eventually upgraded and sold it to my dad's OTHER brother so his kids can use it.
Last thanksgiving I was down there visiting family. And yet again, did a bit of tech support on that old PC. Six years after I bought it, and four years after I sold it, 3 years after my dad sold it, and 1 year after my uncle gave it away.
Personally, I strongly perfer email to the phone. Why?
You can check your email when you're done with what you're in the middle of.
You don't have to respond right away, you can find the correct and complete answer.
Reduced accent errors. Ever work in a place with people from India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Germany, England, US, Vietnam, and the Phillipines? Sometimes it's hard to tell what everyone is saying even though it's all in English.
It keeps a record. You don't need to remember exactly what the guy said, it's written down! Very handy for part numbers.
You know who you're dealing with. "Hey, this is Mike..." on the phone is replaced with something like "Mike Smith -mike.smith@company.com-". You're not dealing with Mike Jones.
Long, technical matters can be spelled out in detail. If a procedure on how to do something can be spelled out in words, it's more likely to be followed without errors than if it's orally passed over a half hour phone conversation.
Cool down period. If you're getting upset and starting to argue, you can pause, cool down, and take care of it with a cool head isntead of ending up in a verbal flamefest.
---
If you want something that breaks your concentration, it's not email, it's the phone and PA systems.
You have to PAY to get "First Post" now?! What is this place coming to? SELLOUT!
(as promised)
Next time you're driving around, note the number of cars driving like idiots, barely running, NOT running, and with dents.... ...now put them above your house.
You wanna keep them on the ground now don't you?
Hell, at this point I'm thinking Broadband is another name for bands like Hole and the Spice Girls. Because cable modems service in my area isn't available, and if it were there has to be cable TV service first (which there isn't). DSL? Sure you can get DSL. IDSL. $100/mo for a 144/144 line. Sound like ISDN? Yup, it's ISDN w/o voice. ADSL? The A stands for "absent" because at over 4 miles away it isn't going to show up. And people whining about thier 42k connections can blow me. I get 24kbps ON A GOOD DAY and I have one of the better lines for my neighborhood. 14.4k isn't uncommon. The phone company guarantees voice. That's it. If you want more, your options are ISDN, T1, and the USPS.
Currently, for transferring large amounts of data the USPS has the best throughput.
80882 0
80186 (yup, they exist)
80286
80386+80387
486DLC? (don't remember the exact number)
486SX33+487
486DX33
486DX2/66
P90
P1
6x86 PR133
PPro 150
P166MMX
K6 200
Athlon 850 (that's lived it's entire life at 1GHz)
AthlonXP 2000+
I've had more, but I've given alot away or sold them. Like 5x86-133s, a DX50, DX2-50s, PR150L, 300M2, 233K6, 300K6-2, and 500K6-2.
They were developed by Arc System Works, however they were published by Sammy.
Whether this is a correct, clarification or admission of fault is upto you.
They've also done the Guilty Gear series (which I'm particularly fond of)
I got 17 pieces of spyware that's called part of WinXP, spyware in the programs that I use to share files, people snooping my ass while I surf the internet, and shady places selling my email address so they can offer me both penis enlargement AND breast enlargement. ...so what has security done for me lately?
"not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities to be used for music-related purposes" ...so they pay lawyers and give themselves what's left over?
Sony and MS don't get along well. There's always been some tension between those two and Sony doesn't mind pouring a little alcohol on the open wound known as the embedded/console market.
That which does not kill me only makes me stronger (but hurts ALOT!)
Granted that's slowly changing. I currently also run a Windows 95 based MP3 player, every time I look at putting Linux on it it boils down to "I have a slow internet connection". My semi-portable DVD player is the same. I'm extremely close to requiring only a single Windows machine. Do other OS'es have thier place? Sure, my dialup router is Linux based, and I wouldn't replace it with a Windows machine unless you paid me some fat stacks of cash. For the other two systems, to convert to linux I'd just need a CD w/ the files and someone to help me through configuration. For my main system, it'll be a while. I have alot of apps that I'm settled into, but very few that I'm locked into.
Reluctant to switch? Sometimes. But it works both ways.
I find this odd, because people regularly LOOK and actively search for porn. But almost noone does the same for spam. It's like saying a rude door to door salesman is better than a strip club, even though the strip club doesn't affect anyone that doesn't want to be affected.
"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. If some girl really needs $5 and some guy really needs a squib job, it sounds like a match made in heaven!" --Random standup comic quote.
Remember, they CAN withold information pertaining to antivirus, DRM, and anti-piracy measures. And a lawyer can easily argue this covers 100% of Palladium's "ideas"
I wish it did mean goodbye though.
A doctor could email a hospital of some symptoms in the field and get a reply of what the illness and proper care for it is. Although the individuals wouldn't get a benefit directly there would be an indirect benefit.
We can't even carry a pair of nail clippers onto an airplane without being called a terrorist. Buying a gun will soon be grounds for a public trial for endangering the public.
...MS saying that they're not going to cripple PCs with restrictions over copying stuff? Add that to the list of stuff that MS marketing and PR have blatently lied about.
ADV licensed Puni Puni Poemi? Man, I didn't see that one coming.
Thanks for the notice.
...called competition.
'Microsoft was worried that the NSA's releasing open- source software would compete with American proprietary software,'
Apparantly MS is worried that it'll catch on.
I'm into anime a bit, and there's a LOT of anime that just never makes it to the US because it wouldn't be profitable. Some of it is quite good, others make it over only to get hacked to pieces by americanization.
.hack). It is an excellent show in Japan that will be released in the US by Bandai, the main character has already been renamed from "Tsukasa" to "Kite". And Bandai has made an OVA, which from what I hear is nothing short of a train wreck. Now remember that this is a show that's already on TV in Japan. Not a theatrical release.
:)
One upcoming example is a show called ".hack//SIGN" (pronounced
An example of a show that will NEVER make it to the US is "Puni Puni Poemi". If you wanna know what it's about just use your favorite search engine. Due to various themes that range from sexual to silly it just doesn't fit into any of the main stream US "catagories". "People" want either pr0n or silliness. "They" don't want both. Personally I found the show to be downright hilarious. Even though I wouldn't show it to any kids
"Disabled people are quite clear that we need adequate support and personal assistance which is flexible.
:)
"This is not only to do the basic tasks, but also to do other, more sophisticated tasks, which are essential to our well being, such as getting out of the house, meeting new people and having genuine control over our daily living."
The problem with this quote is basically it's saying "Disabled people need slaves". Last I checked there's not a large pool of reliable, trustworthy people that want to become slaves. My grandpa has gone excessively senile and my grandma has to do everything for him. Now, I love my grandpa, but I'd never be able to stand having to be on call 24/7/52 whenever he needed anything. What these "gadgets" ARE good for is working towards the next best thing: independance. Being able to do everything you want to do under your own initiative instead of having someone else do it. Leaving the house and meeting friends when you want to, and not having to convince, or order, someone else to.
Lets face it, you can't manufacture human slaves. At least not in the US
If you write or edit your novels on you computer. Have you noticed any difference between how different word processing programs handle the reletively large document size, and does the format it's in affect how well the program can manipulate the document?
(as a subnote, do auto-spell checkers go nuts with all the puns?)
This appears to be more of a function of consumer dollars shifting to something that IS coming out with new and good material.
The music industry has been so stagnant that new material worth the gas to drive to the store is rare. There are GOOD movies on DVD that people want to watch. They can claim piracy is killing them but until they wake up and realize that they have to market stuff the record sales are going to fall.
Am I the only one that zoomed into that picture to try and see what hardware was in those computers?
:)
They looked like some pretty sweet systems. I wonder what thier specs were.