Is it that hard to supply a BIOS setup manual?
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I always wondered about the fact that (almost?) no manufacturer supplies a manual describing their BIOS setup in detail. Most of them mumble something like: "you can press DEL to fiddle around with things you will never comprehend during your lifetime" and that's about as much help as you get. They of course also have included this neat *sarcasm;)* help function in most BIOS setups that displays the context sensitive help. I don't know how often i pressed F1 in vain just to see the message: "Help: Enable A-20 Gate. PG UP=on PG DN=off" Stuff like that...
There sure has a reason to be for the lack of good documentation. The best manual uptill now was the one that came with my old ABIT KT7a RAID mobo, but maybe that's because back in those days it was considered a home "tweakers" board. So mr. Phoenix, Award, AMI, if you read this, please o please bundle nice manuals with your BIOS setups for us endusers to use, instead of hoping for great sites like Ars Technica and Tom's Hardware to help us out.
I was just proud i could enable all those fancy options like FSAA, quadrillion supersampling, image smoothing, mothion blur et cetera and now i still have these blocky graphics and jagged edges!;-)
I guess i'll have to buy an even fancier videocard to see the yellow dragon less blocky...
So if i understood it right Bertelsman bought Napster. So they've basically thrown away all their investments when they pull the plug out of the napster network? Why o why did they buy Napster in the first place? Not a rant, but just a question. Apparently the Bertelsman company (one of the five biggest mediatycoons, isn't it?) has so much money to burn that they can invest in a broad range of "hard-to-predict" new bussinesexperiments (as we shall call them) and then abandon them just as easy. OR they thought they could do something constructive with the Napster network, something that was legal (as opposed to (still) illegal mp3 swapping).
Oh btw, as a reply on the AudioGalaxy / Napster subsitute question: I heard good tales about SoulSeeker. It's said to be the best mp3 sharing program out there at the moment now AG is gone.
I think every european starwars fan will have a lot of trouble getting this car on the real road here in europe. All custom cars have to be individually tested by a traffic safety institute approved by the governement before you are allowed to drive in it anywhere outside your own (oversized) backyard.
But then again, it would look pretty in my garden next to the R2D2 fountain and Ewok treehouse...
CCD simply needs a few milliseconds to regain their 0-volt signal level again before they can emit a new pulse. This recoverytime makes it unsuitable for high speed filming. Helas.
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I always wondered about the fact that (almost?) no manufacturer supplies a manual describing their BIOS setup in detail. Most of them mumble something like: "you can press DEL to fiddle around with things you will never comprehend during your lifetime" and that's about as much help as you get. They of course also have included this neat *sarcasm;)* help function in most BIOS setups that displays the context sensitive help. I don't know how often i pressed F1 in vain just to see the message: "Help: Enable A-20 Gate. PG UP=on PG DN=off" Stuff like that...
There sure has a reason to be for the lack of good documentation. The best manual uptill now was the one that came with my old ABIT KT7a RAID mobo, but maybe that's because back in those days it was considered a home "tweakers" board. So mr. Phoenix, Award, AMI, if you read this, please o please bundle nice manuals with your BIOS setups for us endusers to use, instead of hoping for great sites like Ars Technica and Tom's Hardware to help us out.
I was just proud i could enable all those fancy options like FSAA, quadrillion supersampling, image smoothing, mothion blur et cetera and now i still have these blocky graphics and jagged edges! ;-)
I guess i'll have to buy an even fancier videocard to see the yellow dragon less blocky...
So if i understood it right Bertelsman bought Napster. So they've basically thrown away all their investments when they pull the plug out of the napster network? Why o why did they buy Napster in the first place? Not a rant, but just a question. Apparently the Bertelsman company (one of the five biggest mediatycoons, isn't it?) has so much money to burn that they can invest in a broad range of "hard-to-predict" new bussinesexperiments (as we shall call them) and then abandon them just as easy. OR they thought they could do something constructive with the Napster network, something that was legal (as opposed to (still) illegal mp3 swapping). Oh btw, as a reply on the AudioGalaxy / Napster subsitute question: I heard good tales about SoulSeeker. It's said to be the best mp3 sharing program out there at the moment now AG is gone.
yummy this is considered pr0n for all stargazers. mmmm starpr0n ;-)
I think every european starwars fan will have a lot of trouble getting this car on the real road here in europe. All custom cars have to be individually tested by a traffic safety institute approved by the governement before you are allowed to drive in it anywhere outside your own (oversized) backyard. But then again, it would look pretty in my garden next to the R2D2 fountain and Ewok treehouse...
CCD simply needs a few milliseconds to regain their 0-volt signal level again before they can emit a new pulse. This recoverytime makes it unsuitable for high speed filming. Helas.