Unless you already have a decent amount of RAM that will be obsoleted by the upgrade. Say you have 1GB of ECC SDRAM. You can get a new MB, and TWO CPUs for about $400, but 1G of good RAM will run another $500. Extremely cheap. Yeah right. I only have a $500 budget, it looks like I'm going to be swapping an awful lot for a while. Thank god I have a 3.4ms seek drive to swap on.
You need to look somewhere else. $218 for a 9ms SCSI drive!? For ~$200 you can get a 36G, 15K, 4.2ms seek SCSI drive. Hell, I just got a 18G 3.4ms seek drive recently for $109 - shipped, with a U160 controller.
Ya know, this is what makes me sick anymore. Kids getting "extra credit" and getting 101+ percent grades. Huh? And college's giving credit for Algebra? Come on, "College Algebra" is Mat121!? When I went to college, M101,M102, and M103 were Calc 1,2,3.
Sorry, no real comment on your cluelessness, but I just got to ride home in a nice rain/snow mix, my helmut kept fogging up, and my cycle wouldn't run right (I don't think it likes prec.at temps below 35 or so), and I needed to rant about something;-).
Oh, and maybe you should look more into majoring in philosophy, although that may be rough too. What you need to do is this spring take a Logic (Phil) or Disco (Descrete Math), Modern Math, or whatever your school call it. Basicly, find something that teaches boolean algebra and/or propositional calculus.
- dave f.
I agree with the other replies that it is relatively easy to install. The disk partitioning is different, so that slowed me down (slices?!?). But I love "man afterboot" - it reminds you of all the other crap you need to do to a system after it's installed. Mandrake, et.al. could use that.
I'm going to guess... The high end one? No? Well, you missed some fun. I made a installer use my Kinesis, in Dvorak. After about 30-45 minutes, he gave up on my modem, and wanted to trade me my modem for one in the van. Even swap. So, he goes out to the van to get, and comes back in to me browsing Slashdot in Linux. So I tell him everything is fine, keep your modem.
If you currently know where things are, just start in one corner of a room, and start boxing. Label the boxes something like "LW3" for 3rd box on the west wall of the living room. The packing goes very fast - if you have help, they can pack too, and not have you complaining at the far end that you can't figure out where they put something. When you get to the far end, you have a good idea what room to put boxes in. Again, any fool can help move the boxes in. And if you are trying to find something that is still boxed up, just think about where it was before you boxed up. Damn, that Spider Robinson is a genius.
Yeah, I almost branded myself. See, my CPU fan cable got knocked loose when I was in the machine one day, and I didn't notice. About a week later, I booted into Windows for something (it had been running in Linux 24/7 in the meantime), and it kept crashing. Even trying to run National Geographic. So I went to the BIOS, and read ":9". Oh, sh*t! So, I swung open the side door, and the fan wasn't turning. I shut down the machine, and figuring I could cool the CPU back down quicker if it was running with a fan on it, I tried to plug the fan back into the MB. Ouch! Anyway, that was over a year ago, and no problems since. Sometime I'll tell you about the fire in the case that was the cause of me being in the machine in the first place...
No problem, get SCSI. 5-year warranty standard. Oh, and while you're at it, get a nice, roomy case that the drives will stay cool in, or maintain your room at a comfortable 65 degrees. That's what "the geeks and the pros" do.
Fingers? Nah, too complicated - and you run the risk of CPS. I say stick with the hands: 0,1,2,many. That should be enough for anyone. Just my 2-bits worth.
Did you read the article? "...having cracked the mystery last year, the company initially launched the product in Ireland, Austria and the US. Today, the bandwagon has rolled into the UK en-route across Europe." So, the news if for People in the UK, Italy, etc. Seems simple enough to understand.
Yeah, it's funny in the same sense as a Math Prof. saying: "There are three kinds of mathematicians: those that can count, and those that can't."
- dave f.
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Unless you already have a decent amount of RAM that will be obsoleted by the upgrade. Say you have 1GB of ECC SDRAM. You can get a new MB, and TWO CPUs for about $400, but 1G of good RAM will run another $500. Extremely cheap. Yeah right. I only have a $500 budget, it looks like I'm going to be swapping an awful lot for a while. Thank god I have a 3.4ms seek drive to swap on.
- dave f.
You need to look somewhere else. $218 for a 9ms SCSI drive!? For ~$200 you can get a 36G, 15K, 4.2ms seek SCSI drive. Hell, I just got a 18G 3.4ms seek drive recently for $109 - shipped, with a U160 controller.
- dave f.
Ya know, this is what makes me sick anymore. Kids getting "extra credit" and getting 101+ percent grades. Huh? And college's giving credit for Algebra? Come on, "College Algebra" is Mat121!? When I went to college, M101,M102, and M103 were Calc 1,2,3. Sorry, no real comment on your cluelessness, but I just got to ride home in a nice rain/snow mix, my helmut kept fogging up, and my cycle wouldn't run right (I don't think it likes prec.at temps below 35 or so), and I needed to rant about something;-). Oh, and maybe you should look more into majoring in philosophy, although that may be rough too. What you need to do is this spring take a Logic (Phil) or Disco (Descrete Math), Modern Math, or whatever your school call it. Basicly, find something that teaches boolean algebra and/or propositional calculus. - dave f.
You do realize the date for Huyden's decent has been pushed back by 7 weeks, don't you?
Where is bsd.slashdot.org?
I agree with the other replies that it is relatively easy to install. The disk partitioning is different, so that slowed me down (slices?!?). But I love "man afterboot" - it reminds you of all the other crap you need to do to a system after it's installed. Mandrake, et.al. could use that.
- dave f.
I'm going to guess... The high end one? No? Well, you missed some fun. I made a installer use my Kinesis, in Dvorak. After about 30-45 minutes, he gave up on my modem, and wanted to trade me my modem for one in the van. Even swap. So, he goes out to the van to get, and comes back in to me browsing Slashdot in Linux. So I tell him everything is fine, keep your modem.
- dave f.
If you currently know where things are, just start in one corner of a room, and start boxing. Label the boxes something like "LW3" for 3rd box on the west wall of the living room. The packing goes very fast - if you have help, they can pack too, and not have you complaining at the far end that you can't figure out where they put something. When you get to the far end, you have a good idea what room to put boxes in. Again, any fool can help move the boxes in. And if you are trying to find something that is still boxed up, just think about where it was before you boxed up.
Damn, that Spider Robinson is a genius.
- dave f.
Yeah, I almost branded myself. See, my CPU fan cable got knocked loose when I was in the machine one day, and I didn't notice. About a week later, I booted into Windows for something (it had been running in Linux 24/7 in the meantime), and it kept crashing. Even trying to run National Geographic. So I went to the BIOS, and read ":9". Oh, sh*t! So, I swung open the side door, and the fan wasn't turning. I shut down the machine, and figuring I could cool the CPU back down quicker if it was running with a fan on it, I tried to plug the fan back into the MB. Ouch!
Anyway, that was over a year ago, and no problems since.
Sometime I'll tell you about the fire in the case that was the cause of me being in the machine in the first place...
- dave f.
No problem, get SCSI. 5-year warranty standard. Oh, and while you're at it, get a nice, roomy case that the drives will stay cool in, or maintain your room at a comfortable 65 degrees. That's what "the geeks and the pros" do.
- dave f.
Fingers? Nah, too complicated - and you run the risk of CPS. I say stick with the hands: 0,1,2,many.
That should be enough for anyone.
Just my 2-bits worth.
Fry at 100? Celcius, right? Hell, my cpu has been at 109 (":9" by the BIOS), and it's still fine. - dave f.
Did you read the article? "...having cracked the mystery last year, the company initially launched the product in Ireland, Austria and the US. Today, the bandwagon has rolled into the UK en-route across Europe."
So, the news if for People in the UK, Italy, etc.
Seems simple enough to understand.
- dave f.
1x3x9? Multiples of three? I thought it was 1x4x9.
- dave f.
Yeah, it's funny in the same sense as a Math Prof. saying: "There are three kinds of mathematicians: those that can count, and those that can't." - dave f.