The US has fairly small plugs for most 110V things. 220V items (clothes dryers come to mind) use very large plugs, though.
What is annoying is the transformer-plug combos. I can deal with an in-line transformer, but when the transformer is the size of my foot AND is also the plug that I am supposed to plug into a full powerstrip it sucks.
I own a HP Pavilion n5310 and love it. It's a Celeron 750 (100MHz FSB), upgradeable to 512MB RAM via 2 SO-DIMM (no memory soldered on board), S3 Savage MX 8MB Video (plays Q3 acceptably and Counter-Strike just fine in Windows), 10 GB hard drive, DVD, floppy.
Everything worked in Linux with no problems (RedHat 7.1) except two things. Modem - it's a winmodem. NIC. There is no inbuilt NIC in this model (although the ones with inbuilt NICs are supposed to work in Linux). I had a 10Base-T IBM PCMCIA NIC that I used with my old laptop (and that worked just fine) but I wanted 100Base. I bought a LinkSys/Network Everywhere 10/100 16Bit (non-cardbus) PCMCIA NIC - NO JOY. As luck would have it, a friend gave me a nice 3Com CardBus 10/100 NIC which worked great. Its a Dell branded 3Com model 3CCFE575CT-D.
I use OS X.1 on my G4 400 PowerMac tower at work and love it. I know folks who run OS X.1 on older G3 iBooks. If you go that route, get ATLEAST 192MB RAM and preferably more. iBooks do NOT have a titanium shell - thats the Titanium Powerbook (which has a more powerfull G4 processor)
Hope this all helped.:)
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Once apon a time I purchased a Compaq C120 "HP/C". It runs WinCE 1. I payed 300$ for it at local ComputerCity. BIGGEST WASTE EVER. I bought it intending to use it in class instead of the mandatory school planner. I used it for about 2 weeks. I quickly realized that a pen and little sticky notes work much better for me.
Now I am in sticky note hell. At pressent I have 13 stuck to my monitor and keyboard. Oh well... the Compaq still lives... i sold it to my sister for 100$. She, now 11, loves to play Solitare on it. hehe... She even has a modem for it... CRAZY when you think about it. ---------------
Nah. You are giving M$ to much credit. They will ship each part of office 2009 on seperate disks. One for Word, one for Excel, etc. You will need to enter a DIFFERENT 192 digit serial number for each one. Also. those serial numbers... you need to convert them from decimal to binary before you enter them. And if you enter it wrong.... mad NSA people show up at your door.
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The US has fairly small plugs for most 110V things. 220V items (clothes dryers come to mind) use very large plugs, though.
What is annoying is the transformer-plug combos. I can deal with an in-line transformer, but when the transformer is the size of my foot AND is also the plug that I am supposed to plug into a full powerstrip it sucks.
Not everyone in Washinton is back online, but Vancouver is back!
Service went out early this morning at about 5AM. Cable modem lost sync, "Oh GREAT!"
Within 45Min the cable modem had re synced but still no internet. "WTF!"
Started poking arround, seeing what I could ping and what I couldn't. Then realized I had set my IP, Gateway and DNS staticly, "Doh!"
A few clicks on Win2K's TCP/IP controls and I was back on the net. "Tiiight!"
I have said bad things about ATT before, I take them all back! But, only as long as I stay online... gota feed that Slashdot addiction...
I own a HP Pavilion n5310 and love it. It's a Celeron 750 (100MHz FSB), upgradeable to 512MB RAM via 2 SO-DIMM (no memory soldered on board), S3 Savage MX 8MB Video (plays Q3 acceptably and Counter-Strike just fine in Windows), 10 GB hard drive, DVD, floppy.
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Everything worked in Linux with no problems (RedHat 7.1) except two things. Modem - it's a winmodem. NIC. There is no inbuilt NIC in this model (although the ones with inbuilt NICs are supposed to work in Linux). I had a 10Base-T IBM PCMCIA NIC that I used with my old laptop (and that worked just fine) but I wanted 100Base. I bought a LinkSys/Network Everywhere 10/100 16Bit (non-cardbus) PCMCIA NIC - NO JOY. As luck would have it, a friend gave me a nice 3Com CardBus 10/100 NIC which worked great. Its a Dell branded 3Com model 3CCFE575CT-D.
I use OS X.1 on my G4 400 PowerMac tower at work and love it. I know folks who run OS X.1 on older G3 iBooks. If you go that route, get ATLEAST 192MB RAM and preferably more. iBooks do NOT have a titanium shell - thats the Titanium Powerbook (which has a more powerfull G4 processor)
Hope this all helped.
Once apon a time I purchased a Compaq C120 "HP/C". It runs WinCE 1. I payed 300$ for it at local ComputerCity. BIGGEST WASTE EVER. I bought it intending to use it in class instead of the mandatory school planner. I used it for about 2 weeks. I quickly realized that a pen and little sticky notes work much better for me.
Now I am in sticky note hell. At pressent I have 13 stuck to my monitor and keyboard. Oh well... the Compaq still lives... i sold it to my sister for 100$. She, now 11, loves to play Solitare on it. hehe... She even has a modem for it... CRAZY when you think about it.
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Nah. You are giving M$ to much credit. They will ship each part of office 2009 on seperate disks. One for Word, one for Excel, etc. You will need to enter a DIFFERENT 192 digit serial number for each one. Also. those serial numbers... you need to convert them from decimal to binary before you enter them. And if you enter it wrong.... mad NSA people show up at your door.
Scarry huh?
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