That has got to be the best monitor/case mod I have ever seen. Not my choice for colors, but I am really impressed with the quality that went into this. I'd like to see a company start making cases like this, with the LCD already mounted in the front. I do think there would be a market for it.
...as long as they don't take away the private/amateur portion of the radio spectrum. Even though I'm not a HAM yet, I do think that personal communications without the service of a big corporation is important.
100 ocean front homes are for sale, only 1 was sold, the other 99 were pirated. I dont live near the ocean anymore, but I'm assuming that ocean-front property isn't selling that well anymore.
I used to be the Hardware Director of CEBUG back in the 80's and 90's. It was a club that met once a month in a library meeting room. We had all sorts of topics discussed.
Some compaies that visited our club were Newtek (makers of the Video Toaster), CMD (Creative Micro Designs, makers of JiffyDOS, RamLINK, HD's, etc.). There were others, but I can't think of them right now.
Ah, the good 'ol days. Back before everything that appeared on a CRT was an ad or commercial.::sigh::
I looked at the prices on that inksell site... kinda pricey. I get ink from simplybargains.com or supermediastore.com. They're about half the price of what I saw inksell has.. (Was looking at the Photo 780 ink).
I have a couple REALLY old printers... Anyone remember the Gorilla Banana, and a Commodore MPS-801. Both of those printers use the spinning platen, and dual-hammer print heads. For those who aren't familiar with that design, the print head has two flat hammers that strike a spinning platen that, from the end, looks like a gear, with teeth on it. Those ridges when struck with the hammer, intersect at just the right place to form a dot on the paper. It's really quite interesting. They're loud, and slow, and the print quality is pretty poor. The letters are made up of 5x7 dots, and there are no decending characters... Letters like g, q, p, y, all sit up a bit higher than other lowercase letters...:)
I also have some Okidata Microline printers, and a couple Star NX-1000's, and a Panasonic KXP-1180. All of them are favorites for using on Commodore computers with my Xetec Supergraphix Gold interface... that thing's got some real value, actually, they're VERY hard to find.
My Epson Stylus Color 400 still works fine, even with cheap Chinese ink. I have had that printer for several years. My Epson Stylus Photo 780 works well, too, but needs to be used more often than the 400 to keep from clogging. Ohwell, good thing I'm not paying Epson for their ink anymore.
I dunno about yer budgets... I think hollywood may spend more money than the military does on wars. It costs a lot to keep all those celebrities flying around in their private jets that use... oh, gasp, jet fuel, which is made from... oh my god... oil. And they get driven around in limos that consume... uh... gasoline, also made from... er... maybe... oil. And the CD's and DVD's they produce, made from plastic, packaged in plastic... which ultimately comes from... ding ding, oil. Deep down inside they probably want oil prices to come down so that the RIAA and MPAA-related companies can make a higher profit on their movies, etc, because the price of media drops. Eh, or they can just raise prices again. What a tangled web we weave.
Nobody's really for high oil prices, see. It's just what they say to make them look all concerned and better than the rest of us.
I don't think thousands of lives are worth the price of a stupid clay pot. Great, they found a pot, it was made of this and that and has this stuff in it. Great, now we know. Now blow it up.
Whever the media spreads info like this around, it's easy for the enemy to get a hold of it, and adjust. Agreed, checking for pork is stupid.
Maybe checking for muslim textbooks in the bags when they are screen is a better idea. I still think my idea of looking at a person's race and originating country to determine whether they are coming from is a much better idea. Since most terrorists are muslims, then that should be the focus point for screening. I highly doubt Billy-Bob Flatbush from Podunk, TN is gonna be in a terrorist ring.
I think a simple look at someone could help determine if they're gonna blow something up. Someone made a comment earlier... "Little old ladies from Nebraska don't blow up buildings." Well, mebbe not those exact words, but you get the idea. Racial profiling is a good way to help weed out bad imports. So far, the VAST majority of terrorist attacks were done by middle-eastern men. So, you hit the group of people that will give you the best chance of finding someone who has some plans of destruction. It's not racist, or not being fair, but in the REAL WORLD, (as opposed to the government-speak, PC world) it works. The opinion polls may not like it, but polls shouldn't rule the world.
Why the hell would you hack the system like that? Orignal NEW NES connectors are still available, and they're easy to replace. I know that MCM Electronics (www.i-mcm.com) had them a while ago, and places like Hosfelt (www.hosfelt.com) Electronics, and even Parts Express (www.{takeaguess}.com) would probably have them, too... and you don't have to hack yer NES to make it work again. Sheesh. Sometimes cutting holes in the case ISN't the best fix.
Every one of my pc's has a floppy. There's a floppy port on the motherboard, i'm gonna stick a cable in it. Just like PS/2 ports. Why the hell would i ever buy a USB kb/mouse if my MB still has two perfectly good ps/2 ports. What a waste. Save USB for devices that will benefit from it... printers, cameras, flash readers, etc.
I still use floppies for booting/flashing, etc. I have a shitload of floppy images in WinImage format that I can make quickly. Even Nero makes boot CD's easily from a floppy. I can also use my 720K disks to x-fer files to my Commodore with the Big Blue Reader, or, the Little Red Reader. Though, it is kinda funny that C= was able to fit 808K on a low density floppy, and the amiga was able to fit 880K, while the PC's only fit 720K. Silly.
Agreed. The floppy is the only item that works under all circumstances. It's a piece of the BIOS that's a fail-safe when everything else is kaput. Ever hose a bios? You get standard vga, floppy and keyboard support. Enough to reflash the bios to bring the pc back up.
Oh, and in responce to the Apple person... Pleanty of PC's have been coming without floppies. HP and Compaq's laptops usually don't include them, and several small manufacturers have been leaving out floppy drives in their barebone or low-end systems. It's not a matter of being behind the times, it's a matter of cost savings... that's the only reason Dell wants to do it, so they can save a few bucks per computer they sell. I have enough 3.5" drives that I'll still continue to use them in my own systems. It's convienant as hell to be able to use WinImage to make a simple boot disk, throw some bios/firmware update files on it, and boot. Can't do a "safe mode command prompt only" in Win Me/2K/XP, need a floppy. And it's a LOT easier than creating a bootable CD-R, or RW.
Yea, if your DVD was kept in a vacuum, and suspended by an anti-gravity device. But, alas, things are handled by humans, and we're usually pretty abusive to the things we use. There's not ONE company who would promise me a free replacement DVD if I broke/lost/scratched or otherwise made inoperable my copy of LOTR:2T... oops, did I say I had that?
I have been doing research on BIOS settings for many years, and I have found good articles on what the settings do, and how to tweak them for the best performance/stability mix. But, I would like to know if the BIOS manufacturer itself would be able to provide an in-depth manual of all the BIOS settings, and what exactly they do. All the manuals that come with motherboards are very short on explanations, and I would like to see someone within the company actually explain to us hardware enthusiasts the down 'n dirty, nitty gritty, dirt under the rug, needle in a haystack type of information that we could use to make our computers run the absolute best they can. Because, as we all know, optimizing software and firmware is a lot cheaper than upgrading parts.
Even though I've had good luck with the thousands of dollars of stuff i've purchased from Newegg, they aren't perfect. I tried to get a KT7A-RAID MB from them a while ago, they had one refurbished, with a certian version number. The lunkheads coudln't get the v1.3 board to me, only a 1.1, or a 1.0. Tried several times, no good. The 1.3 board supported the Athlon XP's while the older ones didn't. Obviously some people there are too stupid/stubborn/ignorant/illiterate.
Ohwell, overall good as long as u stick with the free shipping items. I also recommend: tcwo.com, nexfan.com, bestbyte.net, FROZEN CPU!, and ocsystem.com.
Dude, ever visit anandtech.com? He's been runnin' his site on AMD based servers for years. His site is pretty damn fast, and I don't remember any downtime...
I've been using AMD CPU's since the K6 days. I still have a K6-3/500, XP1700 (OC'ed to 2000, Thoroughbred core, thank you), T-bird 1.2g, and just gave my mom a K6-2/550. All stable, all working, no defects.
I think the common factor in your system problems is you. You might want to RMA yourself and see if that fixes the problem.
ASE Certification hasn't helped the quality of auto repair at all. I find most shops really don't care about quality, they're just there to get the vehicle in, quick fix, and get it out. I've often had to go back for issues. For instance: Two broken wheel studs and lug nuts that didn't seem any more than hand tight. I normally check the torque on my lugs a week or so after swapping wheels/tires for the winter, but after getting them balanced at a shop, the lugs damn near fell off.
This is the reason I do most of the work on my truck, and ALL of the work on my computer myself. I dont even trust a computer company to build it right.
Hm... 800 cubic inch V8... 7000 horsepower (give or take a few hundred).... big honkin' blower. Distance between rebuilds... about 1 mile (including distance for burn-out, and slowing down at the end of the 1/4 mile run).
Yes, doing drugs would be a cheaper high, but not nearly as loud.
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That has got to be the best monitor/case mod I have ever seen. Not my choice for colors, but I am really impressed with the quality that went into this. I'd like to see a company start making cases like this, with the LCD already mounted in the front. I do think there would be a market for it.
...as long as they don't take away the private/amateur portion of the radio spectrum. Even though I'm not a HAM yet, I do think that personal communications without the service of a big corporation is important.
100 ocean front homes are for sale, only 1 was sold, the other 99 were pirated. I dont live near the ocean anymore, but I'm assuming that ocean-front property isn't selling that well anymore.
duh, just follow the link. I didnt known what it was until i went to the site and read the faq.
...is fixing Dell comptuers now...
They're at our place about twice a month or more.
I used to be the Hardware Director of CEBUG back in the 80's and 90's. It was a club that met once a month in a library meeting room. We had all sorts of topics discussed.
::sigh::
Some compaies that visited our club were Newtek (makers of the Video Toaster), CMD (Creative Micro Designs, makers of JiffyDOS, RamLINK, HD's, etc.). There were others, but I can't think of them right now.
Ah, the good 'ol days. Back before everything that appeared on a CRT was an ad or commercial.
I looked at the prices on that inksell site... kinda pricey. I get ink from simplybargains.com or supermediastore.com. They're about half the price of what I saw inksell has.. (Was looking at the Photo 780 ink).
I have a couple REALLY old printers... Anyone remember the Gorilla Banana, and a Commodore MPS-801. Both of those printers use the spinning platen, and dual-hammer print heads. For those who aren't familiar with that design, the print head has two flat hammers that strike a spinning platen that, from the end, looks like a gear, with teeth on it. Those ridges when struck with the hammer, intersect at just the right place to form a dot on the paper. It's really quite interesting. They're loud, and slow, and the print quality is pretty poor. The letters are made up of 5x7 dots, and there are no decending characters... Letters like g, q, p, y, all sit up a bit higher than other lowercase letters... :)
I also have some Okidata Microline printers, and a couple Star NX-1000's, and a Panasonic KXP-1180. All of them are favorites for using on Commodore computers with my Xetec Supergraphix Gold interface... that thing's got some real value, actually, they're VERY hard to find.
My Epson Stylus Color 400 still works fine, even with cheap Chinese ink. I have had that printer for several years. My Epson Stylus Photo 780 works well, too, but needs to be used more often than the 400 to keep from clogging. Ohwell, good thing I'm not paying Epson for their ink anymore.
Bah. The only thing this game will do to kids is make them sit in front of the computer/console longer and develop blood clots in their legs.
Freakin' kids wouldn't fight a war if it came marching into their town. They'd roll over like the french.
I dunno about yer budgets... I think hollywood may spend more money than the military does on wars. It costs a lot to keep all those celebrities flying around in their private jets that use... oh, gasp, jet fuel, which is made from... oh my god... oil. And they get driven around in limos that consume... uh... gasoline, also made from... er... maybe... oil. And the CD's and DVD's they produce, made from plastic, packaged in plastic... which ultimately comes from... ding ding, oil. Deep down inside they probably want oil prices to come down so that the RIAA and MPAA-related companies can make a higher profit on their movies, etc, because the price of media drops. Eh, or they can just raise prices again. What a tangled web we weave.
Nobody's really for high oil prices, see. It's just what they say to make them look all concerned and better than the rest of us.
I don't think thousands of lives are worth the price of a stupid clay pot. Great, they found a pot, it was made of this and that and has this stuff in it. Great, now we know. Now blow it up.
Whever the media spreads info like this around, it's easy for the enemy to get a hold of it, and adjust. Agreed, checking for pork is stupid.
Maybe checking for muslim textbooks in the bags when they are screen is a better idea. I still think my idea of looking at a person's race and originating country to determine whether they are coming from is a much better idea. Since most terrorists are muslims, then that should be the focus point for screening. I highly doubt Billy-Bob Flatbush from Podunk, TN is gonna be in a terrorist ring.
I think a simple look at someone could help determine if they're gonna blow something up. Someone made a comment earlier... "Little old ladies from Nebraska don't blow up buildings." Well, mebbe not those exact words, but you get the idea. Racial profiling is a good way to help weed out bad imports. So far, the VAST majority of terrorist attacks were done by middle-eastern men. So, you hit the group of people that will give you the best chance of finding someone who has some plans of destruction. It's not racist, or not being fair, but in the REAL WORLD, (as opposed to the government-speak, PC world) it works. The opinion polls may not like it, but polls shouldn't rule the world.
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That's That's Neato Neato!
Yea, I found it on MCM's website... !
4 71 21&SKUID=46365
http://www.i-mcm.com/Home/level_5.jhtml?PRODID=
Go get them, they're only $6, and they are exact replacements for the cart connector...
Duh.
Why the hell would you hack the system like that? Orignal NEW NES connectors are still available, and they're easy to replace. I know that MCM Electronics (www.i-mcm.com) had them a while ago, and places like Hosfelt (www.hosfelt.com) Electronics, and even Parts Express (www.{takeaguess}.com) would probably have them, too... and you don't have to hack yer NES to make it work again. Sheesh. Sometimes cutting holes in the case ISN't the best fix.
Oh very good grasshoppah. I always wanted to say something like that. If you're posting on /., you probably shouldN'T be buying Dells.
Every one of my pc's has a floppy. There's a floppy port on the motherboard, i'm gonna stick a cable in it. Just like PS/2 ports. Why the hell would i ever buy a USB kb/mouse if my MB still has two perfectly good ps/2 ports. What a waste. Save USB for devices that will benefit from it... printers, cameras, flash readers, etc.
I still use floppies for booting/flashing, etc. I have a shitload of floppy images in WinImage format that I can make quickly. Even Nero makes boot CD's easily from a floppy. I can also use my 720K disks to x-fer files to my Commodore with the Big Blue Reader, or, the Little Red Reader. Though, it is kinda funny that C= was able to fit 808K on a low density floppy, and the amiga was able to fit 880K, while the PC's only fit 720K. Silly.
Agreed. The floppy is the only item that works under all circumstances. It's a piece of the BIOS that's a fail-safe when everything else is kaput. Ever hose a bios? You get standard vga, floppy and keyboard support. Enough to reflash the bios to bring the pc back up.
Oh, and in responce to the Apple person... Pleanty of PC's have been coming without floppies. HP and Compaq's laptops usually don't include them, and several small manufacturers have been leaving out floppy drives in their barebone or low-end systems. It's not a matter of being behind the times, it's a matter of cost savings... that's the only reason Dell wants to do it, so they can save a few bucks per computer they sell. I have enough 3.5" drives that I'll still continue to use them in my own systems. It's convienant as hell to be able to use WinImage to make a simple boot disk, throw some bios/firmware update files on it, and boot. Can't do a "safe mode command prompt only" in Win Me/2K/XP, need a floppy. And it's a LOT easier than creating a bootable CD-R, or RW.
Yea, if your DVD was kept in a vacuum, and suspended by an anti-gravity device. But, alas, things are handled by humans, and we're usually pretty abusive to the things we use. There's not ONE company who would promise me a free replacement DVD if I broke/lost/scratched or otherwise made inoperable my copy of LOTR:2T... oops, did I say I had that?
I have been doing research on BIOS settings for many years, and I have found good articles on what the settings do, and how to tweak them for the best performance/stability mix. But, I would like to know if the BIOS manufacturer itself would be able to provide an in-depth manual of all the BIOS settings, and what exactly they do. All the manuals that come with motherboards are very short on explanations, and I would like to see someone within the company actually explain to us hardware enthusiasts the down 'n dirty, nitty gritty, dirt under the rug, needle in a haystack type of information that we could use to make our computers run the absolute best they can. Because, as we all know, optimizing software and firmware is a lot cheaper than upgrading parts.
-Jay
Even though I've had good luck with the thousands of dollars of stuff i've purchased from Newegg, they aren't perfect. I tried to get a KT7A-RAID MB from them a while ago, they had one refurbished, with a certian version number. The lunkheads coudln't get the v1.3 board to me, only a 1.1, or a 1.0. Tried several times, no good. The 1.3 board supported the Athlon XP's while the older ones didn't. Obviously some people there are too stupid/stubborn/ignorant/illiterate.
Ohwell, overall good as long as u stick with the free shipping items. I also recommend: tcwo.com, nexfan.com, bestbyte.net, FROZEN CPU!, and ocsystem.com.
C ya!
Dude, ever visit anandtech.com? He's been runnin' his site on AMD based servers for years. His site is pretty damn fast, and I don't remember any downtime...
I've been using AMD CPU's since the K6 days. I still have a K6-3/500, XP1700 (OC'ed to 2000, Thoroughbred core, thank you), T-bird 1.2g, and just gave my mom a K6-2/550. All stable, all working, no defects.
I think the common factor in your system problems is you. You might want to RMA yourself and see if that fixes the problem.
ASE Certification hasn't helped the quality of auto repair at all. I find most shops really don't care about quality, they're just there to get the vehicle in, quick fix, and get it out. I've often had to go back for issues. For instance: Two broken wheel studs and lug nuts that didn't seem any more than hand tight. I normally check the torque on my lugs a week or so after swapping wheels/tires for the winter, but after getting them balanced at a shop, the lugs damn near fell off.
This is the reason I do most of the work on my truck, and ALL of the work on my computer myself. I dont even trust a computer company to build it right.
Hm... 800 cubic inch V8... 7000 horsepower (give or take a few hundred).... big honkin' blower. Distance between rebuilds... about 1 mile (including distance for burn-out, and slowing down at the end of the 1/4 mile run).
Yes, doing drugs would be a cheaper high, but not nearly as loud.