I thought that Win95 introduced a minimum requirement of 640x480 in 16 colours, 130 more pixels on the vertical than EGA can support. While I've run Windows 3.0 on an XT with a Hercules adapter and a 1MB RAM board for a disk cache, I don't recall ever being able to run 95 on an EGA PC. Mind you, before 95 had even arrived, I'd bought a 15-bit graphics accellerator for Win3.x, so I don't know that I've ever purposely run a properly functioning Win95 install in less than 32,000 colours or at less than 800x600.
Just so you all know, that's/. speak for "You're a pussy".
Seriously though, you don't need to market video cards to "normal people" at all. We don't use any 3D at work, so any damn card will do, as long as it's (at least) dual-head. It's only the gamers that you need to market these blisteringly fast cards at. Am I going to order an nForce4 dual CPU, dual SLI nVidia Ultra PCI-Express system for work? No. Am I going to build one for home? Hell yes.
Component output makes the S4 look ideal for home theater PCs, but as more HDTVs support VGA and DVI inputs, the value of component outputs may dwindle.
You think? With a standard old TV, S-Video is plenty, if you're buying a new high-definition screen, why would you buy one without a VGA connector?
(My next graphics card purchase is going to be an SLI-capable PCI-Express card.)
A bit nasty, but basically what I was going to say. As IT Manager I can tell you at any given time which machines are the oldest, which are the least stable, which get the heaviest use and could do with being faster, which still have room to upgrade and which are maxxed out. Sounds like you need an IT Manager. Or possibly a new one.
I don't think NASA has the public support not to. If you watch the agency let Hubble die are you more or less likely to request that your elected representatives find more funding for NASA?
But that's handy. After picking up a USB Superdisk FD32MB drive at a stocktake sale (maybe a year after it was discontinued), I found a 240MB disk for it at a nearby OfficeWorks. Handy for backups.
I made a profit doing what you describe way back in the XT days, but as ATs went to 386s no one wanted the old stuff anymore and it was impossible to buy secondhand parts for less than what you'd get for a complete system made from them.
Those were the days. If you got a 1MB memory expansion board for an XT you'd have no problem finding someone willing to buy the PC, particularly if you found an RLL 30MB HDD as opposed to a 20MB MFM. And you had months to look for a buyer.
Since purchasing dual-head PCs for the company we have not had the desire to dispose of a single working monitor. In fact, we've still got about five spots where there's no monitor at all connected to an available VGA socket. I'm about to make that six with the purchase of a USB2VGA adapter. For testing, yeah that's it, testing.
My 266MMX ultralight notebook is being an extra monitor for my main work laptop. It's also a small amount of network attached storage if I feel the need.
Since the product already supports PocketPC swapping without storing MP3s on an iPod, the odds aren't that bad. The iPod is just being a big storage area. A 1Gig SD card would probably be pretty effective too.
I remember hearing something about these, but my searches keep kicking up USB and Firewire PCI cards and external hard drive enclosures. Anyone got a direct link, or a magic word (like a brand) to feed the search engines?
I only get charged for SMS messages that I receive if I specifically setup the services that causes them. I get charged for "You've got Voicemail" messages, any news alerts I setup and any messages attempting to forward email if I want to set that up. I don't get charged for an SMS that someone else decides to send me. You've sure got some weird mobile phone stuff over there in the US, but I already knew that.
I like playing with hardware, I like having customised and unique hardware configurations. My computers are like an art exhibition when it comes to the hardware collected in them. Look some up: Catweasel, Plusdeck 2, Margi Display-to-go, Plexwriter Premium. Even the more generic sounding stuff like my PCI PCMCIA adapter I just installed is not a usual item in a PC. Sure, I can do most of my work on any PC in the office, but only my laptop has four screens and a USB AA/AAA battery charger.
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I thought that Win95 introduced a minimum requirement of 640x480 in 16 colours, 130 more pixels on the vertical than EGA can support. While I've run Windows 3.0 on an XT with a Hercules adapter and a 1MB RAM board for a disk cache, I don't recall ever being able to run 95 on an EGA PC. Mind you, before 95 had even arrived, I'd bought a 15-bit graphics accellerator for Win3.x, so I don't know that I've ever purposely run a properly functioning Win95 install in less than 32,000 colours or at less than 800x600.
I've just re-read that and I can't believe how pointless it sounds.
Seriously though, you don't need to market video cards to "normal people" at all. We don't use any 3D at work, so any damn card will do, as long as it's (at least) dual-head. It's only the gamers that you need to market these blisteringly fast cards at. Am I going to order an nForce4 dual CPU, dual SLI nVidia Ultra PCI-Express system for work? No. Am I going to build one for home? Hell yes.
Even better.
(My next graphics card purchase is going to be an SLI-capable PCI-Express card.)
A bit nasty, but basically what I was going to say. As IT Manager I can tell you at any given time which machines are the oldest, which are the least stable, which get the heaviest use and could do with being faster, which still have room to upgrade and which are maxxed out. Sounds like you need an IT Manager. Or possibly a new one.
I don't think NASA has the public support not to. If you watch the agency let Hubble die are you more or less likely to request that your elected representatives find more funding for NASA?
Same with Mozilla 1.6, though it took you guys pointing it out for me to notice.
Jeez, buy rechargables.
That's nothing, I have a working Atari 400 with 32k of RAM next to me right now, complete with Basic Computing Language cartridge CXL4002.
But that's handy. After picking up a USB Superdisk FD32MB drive at a stocktake sale (maybe a year after it was discontinued), I found a 240MB disk for it at a nearby OfficeWorks. Handy for backups.
Those were the days. If you got a 1MB memory expansion board for an XT you'd have no problem finding someone willing to buy the PC, particularly if you found an RLL 30MB HDD as opposed to a 20MB MFM. And you had months to look for a buyer.
Since purchasing dual-head PCs for the company we have not had the desire to dispose of a single working monitor. In fact, we've still got about five spots where there's no monitor at all connected to an available VGA socket. I'm about to make that six with the purchase of a USB2VGA adapter. For testing, yeah that's it, testing.
Have you tried terminal services? You could turn the best machine into a terminal server and run the remote desktop app on the 486s under 98.
My 266MMX ultralight notebook is being an extra monitor for my main work laptop. It's also a small amount of network attached storage if I feel the need.
Oops.
...like this guy. You can't get much closer to making your own webcam than this. It's not like you can print a CMOS Image Sensor from your bubblejet.
Since the product already supports PocketPC swapping without storing MP3s on an iPod, the odds aren't that bad. The iPod is just being a big storage area. A 1Gig SD card would probably be pretty effective too.
Because it's smaller. If you're carrying around a laptop why not just have the files on your hard drive anyway?
I've got a 2nd gen iPod. Is there any way to talk to a firewire device from a PocketPC?
I only get charged for SMS messages that I receive if I specifically setup the services that causes them. I get charged for "You've got Voicemail" messages, any news alerts I setup and any messages attempting to forward email if I want to set that up. I don't get charged for an SMS that someone else decides to send me. You've sure got some weird mobile phone stuff over there in the US, but I already knew that.
Photoshop an old anti-communism poster replacing the red scare with open source. Difficulty: This isn't Fark.
I like playing with hardware, I like having customised and unique hardware configurations. My computers are like an art exhibition when it comes to the hardware collected in them. Look some up: Catweasel, Plusdeck 2, Margi Display-to-go, Plexwriter Premium. Even the more generic sounding stuff like my PCI PCMCIA adapter I just installed is not a usual item in a PC. Sure, I can do most of my work on any PC in the office, but only my laptop has four screens and a USB AA/AAA battery charger.