Though there do exist other issues such as controller overhead/large drive compatability/burst speeds that make ATA66 a BAD choice.
Also...since the drive I have is SATA, there isnt much I can do about it (except for hope someone else on ebay starts selling SATA cards without massive shipping gouging)
I think ebay needs a method to curb retalliation feedback. They would only have to do something simple like withold feedback until BOTH parties have left it.
Too often I am looking at auctions from the really big power sellers and I see either A)Positive feedback with a negative message like "dont buy from this seller, scam artist" that were positive to avoid retaliation or B) when I look at the profiles of people who did go ahead and leave negative feedback, they ALSO got a negative feedback to which they left a reply like "This is retaliation, I was a perfect ebayer, he is a scammer"
Yeah, its definately my wrist from mousing that hurts and not typing. Typing feels fine on my wrists and the only wrist that hurts (and has a cyst) is the mouse hand.
The worst is web browsing where it is just sitting there and scrolling. I bought a griffon Powermate with hopes that I could sit it in my lap or somewhere comfortable and use it for scrolling but I havnt been able to convince myself to use it like that most of the time.
In my experiance they cary very little in terms of SATA and they often charge a premium for it (or at least there arent as many rebates). Maybe its changed in the last 2-3 months while I have been away and not reading the sunday ads but before, they were very PATA centric.
Out of curiosity, what drive did you buy 2 weeks ago? There are some good deals on the 300GB 7200.8 but I have heard that they are fairly noisy(for a seagate) and arent really that fast. I still want to buy a seagate because they tend to be quiet and have long warrantys but that 300GB maxtor MaXLineIII (with 5yr) is looking mighty tempting.
I'm about to do exactly that. I'm buying a new drive for my main machine which already has a SATA drive. It is cheaper to buy a $20 SATA controller than a whole new drive for what will be a dual PIII fileserver (especially considering it's either deal with ATA-66 speed or pay bug money for scsi since the system was originally a dual PII 440BX workstation)
I'm pretty sure anything with an athlon 64 is also guaranteed SATA. I've got a 2+year old computer with the first realeased A64 and its running SATA drives.
Also, as to the controller card adding aditional cost: My PIII-600 Dell from many years ago came with an ATA controller card in it and SATA cards can be had for about $20 so dont put it past any of the retailers to do this just so they can say "This one has SATA drives so it is clearly worth $50 more"
But apparently they released a patch to fix this (I just installed Win98 on a computer yesterday and it showed up in windows update). Apparently the problem was that as processors got faster and faster, they would shut down and cut power faster than the harddrive could dump its cache. This simply forces it to write out its cache before cutting power.
And KDE is easy as pie to install and Ubuntu and it actually looks good and works (unlike other distros where switching to the non-standard leaves you with dead menus and features combined with UGLY looks).
Just apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (or use synaptic or some other package manager)
It leaves you with both GNOME and KDE installed and set up...Easy.
granting of university degrees to some extent. Kids these days need to learn to earn achievements, not merely feel entitled to them
Shit...At the University of Chicago I dont feel like they are just handing the degrees out, I feel like they are fabricating my degree from the fingernails they torturously pull out.
I've got KDE running on a PII 333 (actualy its dual, but I just switched distros on it and experianced a little bit of KDE without the SMP kernel) and 384mb of RAM.
The computer is obviously slow, but KDE runs fairly well. Better than GNOME on the PII450 with 128mb of ram (though it reads as 96 since I think the rest is shared video). Both are ubuntu.
My (k)Ubuntu install is probobly more mac looking than the default Gnome. I run it with dual panels (menus, tray, etc on top with taskbar and quicklaunch on bottom) and if I end up copying what my Mandriva laptop looks like, it has Baghira so it even looks OSX-esque. The kde control panels in ubuntu are set up to be extremely similar to the mac control panels (which are far better than either teh windows or mandriva setups).
KDE with its extra eye candy combined with very robust features make it feel a lot more like OSX to me. GNOME almost feels more like OS9 which...eww...
I dont know about you but Comcast just made my very very basic cable a good 80-90 cents cheaper. Now this probobly isnt because of the ads more because they are cutting every single useful non-broadcast channel. I dont even get to keep a news network anymore but apparently I cant complain since they made it cheaper.
I am sure the 18 year old knew her age just fine (she was just lying to myspace).
The statutory rape is only an issue if they were having sex and odds are that she was an old 14 year old and he was a young 18 year old (since most people turn 15 as a freshman and turn 18 as a senior). It's looked down on by a lot of people but its fairly common for seniors (especially guys) to date freshmen. The books response is your typical stupid freshman girl...maybe she wants to go to "cosmology school" because you dont need books to cut hair and a lot of people put parties because well...they just do.
Oh...back when geocities had you "move into" your site. You had to pick like what block you wanted to be on and pick a number on that block since seemingly they couldnt figure out how to offer personalized addresses. I'll never forget you www.geocities.com/alien/zarbstreet/9982/...or was that xeroave/8892?
Sorry to reply to myself but I remembered another disparaging trait about myspace that I just noticed a severe case of when I went to look while writing my last post:
The people who have conversations via posts on each others profiles. It makes like a stream of nonsensical posts since you can only see one side of the conversation and simply seems inefficient. Any number of tools would be more efficient, IM, Email, Phone, even MySpace's own IM system since both people are both obviusly signed into myspace.
Maybe the reason that myspace has gotten so bad compared to something like Facebook is that while facebook requires enough intelligence to get into a Facebook school (though they keep adding lower and lower quality schools so...), Myspace requires you to be nothing more than a stupid 14 year old skank.
Yeah, pretty much. Read my summary of the first post for my blatant feelings about myspace.
I just dont understand how people can think it looks good to have bright pink text and a purple background overlayed with a floating image while forcing you to listen to music and squint past the animations. As a college student I get to use the Facebook which is similar in the social networking but different (and I applaud them) in the fact that THATS ALL IT IS. There is no ability to make your profile bright and unreadable. There is no way to play music...etc. They are adding new features but I hope they stay true to their ideal...
I once made a myspace account to look at a friends (I believe mine is titled "myspace sucks" if anyone wants to hunt me down) and even though I have always known hers as a nice, smart, intelligent girl (well, she is kind of a whore but...a smart one). I look at her profile and though she has abstained from the completely unreadable format, I read all of the things her friends have written on it and they are like "Aw damn gurl joo be shakin on HOTT" and unfortunately have the ability to choose thier own color schemes. Within a few days of making my account, putting in nothing more than a little basic info that they asked for when I made it, I got several friend requests from people I went to highschool with that I probobly hadnt talked to since my sophomore year. It's amazing that they check enough to decide "hey this person wasnt my friend and I will never see them again but they JUST made a myspace account so I should friend them"
Now of course it wasnt intelligent about what you can output, simply a thing you turned until it clicked into place. Actually I think it was just an empty box with mirrors inside and not much to insure that the data stream actually gets where it is going without a lot of loss
It was actually kind of nice when chatzilla was included with the mozilla install.
It meant that you always had an irc client on any computer with mozilla. At the time, most people with mozilla probobly had some sort of IRC client tucked away, but with the popularity of firefox, it would be much easier to tell a user to go ask for help on IRC if all they had to do was click a button in firefox.
yeah, I still rememember mine 22049194 a and I remember running it on a 486.
When I got a new computer (PIII 600), I was having a very tough time figuring out how to get my contact list to the new computer since it had grown to be something like 2.3mb in size which...on a 486 with a floppy drive was painfull. I am not sure how they manage to bloat something as simple as a contact list to that size (granted it had 100+ people if I remember right but still...word documents arent even that large).
Yet somehow, aim has always been able to have server-side buddy lists.
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Also...since the drive I have is SATA, there isnt much I can do about it (except for hope someone else on ebay starts selling SATA cards without massive shipping gouging)
Too often I am looking at auctions from the really big power sellers and I see either A)Positive feedback with a negative message like "dont buy from this seller, scam artist" that were positive to avoid retaliation or B) when I look at the profiles of people who did go ahead and leave negative feedback, they ALSO got a negative feedback to which they left a reply like "This is retaliation, I was a perfect ebayer, he is a scammer"
The worst is web browsing where it is just sitting there and scrolling. I bought a griffon Powermate with hopes that I could sit it in my lap or somewhere comfortable and use it for scrolling but I havnt been able to convince myself to use it like that most of the time.
In my experiance they cary very little in terms of SATA and they often charge a premium for it (or at least there arent as many rebates). Maybe its changed in the last 2-3 months while I have been away and not reading the sunday ads but before, they were very PATA centric.
Out of curiosity, what drive did you buy 2 weeks ago? There are some good deals on the 300GB 7200.8 but I have heard that they are fairly noisy(for a seagate) and arent really that fast. I still want to buy a seagate because they tend to be quiet and have long warrantys but that 300GB maxtor MaXLineIII (with 5yr) is looking mighty tempting.
I'm about to do exactly that. I'm buying a new drive for my main machine which already has a SATA drive. It is cheaper to buy a $20 SATA controller than a whole new drive for what will be a dual PIII fileserver (especially considering it's either deal with ATA-66 speed or pay bug money for scsi since the system was originally a dual PII 440BX workstation)
Also, as to the controller card adding aditional cost: My PIII-600 Dell from many years ago came with an ATA controller card in it and SATA cards can be had for about $20 so dont put it past any of the retailers to do this just so they can say "This one has SATA drives so it is clearly worth $50 more"
But apparently they released a patch to fix this (I just installed Win98 on a computer yesterday and it showed up in windows update). Apparently the problem was that as processors got faster and faster, they would shut down and cut power faster than the harddrive could dump its cache. This simply forces it to write out its cache before cutting power.
well, there is always the parked car technique or if you are really daring, the extended-life laptop in the bushes technique
Just apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (or use synaptic or some other package manager)
It leaves you with both GNOME and KDE installed and set up...Easy.
Shit...At the University of Chicago I dont feel like they are just handing the degrees out, I feel like they are fabricating my degree from the fingernails they torturously pull out.
The computer is obviously slow, but KDE runs fairly well. Better than GNOME on the PII450 with 128mb of ram (though it reads as 96 since I think the rest is shared video). Both are ubuntu.
KDE with its extra eye candy combined with very robust features make it feel a lot more like OSX to me. GNOME almost feels more like OS9 which...eww...
I dont know about you but Comcast just made my very very basic cable a good 80-90 cents cheaper. Now this probobly isnt because of the ads more because they are cutting every single useful non-broadcast channel. I dont even get to keep a news network anymore but apparently I cant complain since they made it cheaper.
No, but I believe they have had NetBSD booting on it for about a year
Thats because ICQ uses the same protocol as AIM now
The statutory rape is only an issue if they were having sex and odds are that she was an old 14 year old and he was a young 18 year old (since most people turn 15 as a freshman and turn 18 as a senior). It's looked down on by a lot of people but its fairly common for seniors (especially guys) to date freshmen. The books response is your typical stupid freshman girl...maybe she wants to go to "cosmology school" because you dont need books to cut hair and a lot of people put parties because well...they just do.
Oh...back when geocities had you "move into" your site. You had to pick like what block you wanted to be on and pick a number on that block since seemingly they couldnt figure out how to offer personalized addresses. I'll never forget you www.geocities.com/alien/zarbstreet/9982/ ...or was that xeroave/8892?
The people who have conversations via posts on each others profiles. It makes like a stream of nonsensical posts since you can only see one side of the conversation and simply seems inefficient. Any number of tools would be more efficient, IM, Email, Phone, even MySpace's own IM system since both people are both obviusly signed into myspace.
Maybe the reason that myspace has gotten so bad compared to something like Facebook is that while facebook requires enough intelligence to get into a Facebook school (though they keep adding lower and lower quality schools so...), Myspace requires you to be nothing more than a stupid 14 year old skank.
I just dont understand how people can think it looks good to have bright pink text and a purple background overlayed with a floating image while forcing you to listen to music and squint past the animations. As a college student I get to use the Facebook which is similar in the social networking but different (and I applaud them) in the fact that THATS ALL IT IS. There is no ability to make your profile bright and unreadable. There is no way to play music...etc. They are adding new features but I hope they stay true to their ideal...
I once made a myspace account to look at a friends (I believe mine is titled "myspace sucks" if anyone wants to hunt me down) and even though I have always known hers as a nice, smart, intelligent girl (well, she is kind of a whore but...a smart one). I look at her profile and though she has abstained from the completely unreadable format, I read all of the things her friends have written on it and they are like "Aw damn gurl joo be shakin on HOTT" and unfortunately have the ability to choose thier own color schemes. Within a few days of making my account, putting in nothing more than a little basic info that they asked for when I made it, I got several friend requests from people I went to highschool with that I probobly hadnt talked to since my sophomore year. It's amazing that they check enough to decide "hey this person wasnt my friend and I will never see them again but they JUST made a myspace account so I should friend them"
Myspace is a festering heap.
Now of course it wasnt intelligent about what you can output, simply a thing you turned until it clicked into place. Actually I think it was just an empty box with mirrors inside and not much to insure that the data stream actually gets where it is going without a lot of loss
It meant that you always had an irc client on any computer with mozilla. At the time, most people with mozilla probobly had some sort of IRC client tucked away, but with the popularity of firefox, it would be much easier to tell a user to go ask for help on IRC if all they had to do was click a button in firefox.
When I got a new computer (PIII 600), I was having a very tough time figuring out how to get my contact list to the new computer since it had grown to be something like 2.3mb in size which...on a 486 with a floppy drive was painfull. I am not sure how they manage to bloat something as simple as a contact list to that size (granted it had 100+ people if I remember right but still...word documents arent even that large).
Yet somehow, aim has always been able to have server-side buddy lists.
charging is quick either way and lasts plenty long.