Problem is, I totally detest every single laptop with a touchpad on it. The number of times I have had ghost movement of the mouse pointer, or a bogus click that fubared something up, I could have shoved the damn thing up the back side of the engineers that excreted it in the first place a few hundred times by now. Crap design - period. Give me a real mouse and let me turn the damn thing off...
Download and run CPU-Z. It will show you the CPU frequency. Notice that it is running at low speeds when your machine isn't doing anything but pops right back when something is happening. Looks like SP2 really micro-manages the CPU speeds on laptops...
When I upgraded to 5Mbp/s cable and my old SMC Barricade couldn't stand the load - it kept locking up and loosing its settings, I decided to replace it with one of them there broadband router/wireless access point gizmos. After checking out talk on various forums on D-Link, SMC, USR and Linksys products, I ended up getting a Linksys WRT54G. Why? People reported the least amount of problems with it and the fact that it runs a version of the Linux kernel - there are web sites dedicated to hacking this unit and it has some pretty cool features out of the box.
I thought of setting up an OpenBSD-based firewall, but who wants more noise and hassles...
Interesting. We had two E450s die withing a week of each other with exact the same symptoms. Swapping parts between them didn't make a working machine, so we bought a 'new' chassis with motherboard and built a single working machine out of the two dead ones. Wasn't very impressed by this given the $$$$$$ Sun charged for hardware in the first place...
Then you have the Prescott, which has twice the cache of the Northwood, sucks more power (generates more heat) than a Northwood, and benchmarks about the same. Talk about an engineering fubar...
Do you also do and log anal probes on the staff working there, before they leave at the end of the day, to make sure they aren't taking something out via their bung holes?
Finally. The only intelligent and relevant post on this topic. Yes, the issue at hand is that the LEDs they are putting into equipment these days are too frickin' bright - especially the blue ones.
Visit a model/hobby shop and buy a small paint brush and black jar of paint. Paint over as much of the offending LED as you want covered over. If you really want it to look nice, paint a blue LED over with blue paint. This way it will still glow somewhat so that you can see it is on or not.
Or, being the intelligent geek, you go to a store that has all the various plasma, LCD and CRT wide-screen HDTV sets hooked up to a good HDTV source and see for yourself. Then, you end up buying the Sony (widescreen WEGA CRT-based set) because it did indeed have the best picture of them all...:p
> because of the social advantages gained by owning such a status symbol
Bingo! You've hit the nail right on the head. Vanity will make people piss their money away like there is no tomorrow. How shallow modern civilization has become.
Sorry, have to speak up. Opposite view must be heard. The Director's cut, with the missing voice over, is a rancid lump of glop. If you had never seen the original movie with the voice over, seeing it without the voice over, you don't have a clue as to what the heck is going on. The voice over adds the character and flavor to the movie that made it so good in the first place. I'm still looking for a VHS, Laser Disc, or DVD of the original, unmangled Blade Runner...
Alas, people like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling.
I won' bother saying what I think of 'skinning' on account it would be moderated as a troll or less because most people like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling and I don't...
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Close your eyes and cut the red wire with the yellow stripe. Or is that the yellow wire with the red strip?
...except for the cheesy ending...
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Problem is, I totally detest every single laptop with a touchpad on it. The number of times I have had ghost movement of the mouse pointer, or a bogus click that fubared something up, I could have shoved the damn thing up the back side of the engineers that excreted it in the first place a few hundred times by now. Crap design - period. Give me a real mouse and let me turn the damn thing off...
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Nope. We have a 10.x.y.z range here and the XP firewall blocks traffic. Of course, this is a fresh XP w/SP2 slipstreamed install. No upgrades here.
Download and run CPU-Z. It will show you the CPU frequency. Notice that it is running at low speeds when your machine isn't doing anything but pops right back when something is happening. Looks like SP2 really micro-manages the CPU speeds on laptops...
YMMV, FWIW, etc.
> Yes.
But do a fresh install with SP2 slipstreamed into your WinXP install disk to ensure success.
Upgrades have been nothing but a royal PITA (working link to goatse guy)...
When I upgraded to 5Mbp/s cable and my old SMC Barricade couldn't stand the load - it kept locking up and loosing its settings, I decided to replace it with one of them there broadband router/wireless access point gizmos. After checking out talk on various forums on D-Link, SMC, USR and Linksys products, I ended up getting a Linksys WRT54G. Why? People reported the least amount of problems with it and the fact that it runs a version of the Linux kernel - there are web sites dedicated to hacking this unit and it has some pretty cool features out of the box.
I thought of setting up an OpenBSD-based firewall, but who wants more noise and hassles...
So we stop using Universal Stupid Bus devices and go back to Firewire.
Carry on, nothing to be see here you insensitive clod.
Interesting. We had two E450s die withing a week of each other with exact the same symptoms. Swapping parts between them didn't make a working machine, so we bought a 'new' chassis with motherboard and built a single working machine out of the two dead ones. Wasn't very impressed by this given the $$$$$$ Sun charged for hardware in the first place...
> Willamette, Northwood, Prescott
Then you have the Prescott, which has twice the cache of the Northwood, sucks more power (generates more heat) than a Northwood, and benchmarks about the same. Talk about an engineering fubar...
> HPs have a trend of using AMD chips in their lower-cost models
And I wish that I could give every single one of those AMD-based low cost models back to HP. They have all been POS'es in my experience...
...and all those Java craplets that run in web browsers. Don't need those either. Nor those Flash abonimations either...
And what did you think the JPG of the goatse guy really was?
Chewbacca is a mutated tribble, no?
Good gawd, man!
Do you also do and log anal probes on the staff working there, before they leave at the end of the day, to make sure they aren't taking something out via their bung holes?
> any device I could choose to uninvent
And the cell "shove it up your a**" phone...
That is why I refer to it as "Canadian Pesos"...
Only if he doesn't want Alien Archeologists reading his writings...
> blowing gases
Methane perhaps? Cow farts??
Finally. The only intelligent and relevant post on this topic. Yes, the issue at hand is that the LEDs they are putting into equipment these days are too frickin' bright - especially the blue ones.
Visit a model/hobby shop and buy a small paint brush and black jar of paint. Paint over as much of the offending LED as you want covered over. If you really want it to look nice, paint a blue LED over with blue paint. This way it will still glow somewhat so that you can see it is on or not.
Or, being the intelligent geek, you go to a store that has all the various plasma, LCD and CRT wide-screen HDTV sets hooked up to a good HDTV source and see for yourself. Then, you end up buying the Sony (widescreen WEGA CRT-based set) because it did indeed have the best picture of them all...
> because of the social advantages gained by owning such a status symbol
Bingo! You've hit the nail right on the head. Vanity will make people piss their money away like there is no tomorrow. How shallow modern civilization has become.
Sorry, have to speak up. Opposite view must be heard. The Director's cut, with the missing voice over, is a rancid lump of glop. If you had never seen the original movie with the voice over, seeing it without the voice over, you don't have a clue as to what the heck is going on. The voice over adds the character and flavor to the movie that made it so good in the first place. I'm still looking for a VHS, Laser Disc, or DVD of the original, unmangled Blade Runner...
Dear Bill,
Regarding mandatory Sender-ID licensing.
Get bent!!!
Yours Sincerly,
jo42 (on behalf of the rest of the world)
Alas, people like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling.
I won' bother saying what I think of 'skinning' on account it would be moderated as a troll or less because most people like shiny, blinky, glowy things aka bling and I don't...