I put a computer in the closet myself. The desk was right next to the closet door. My monitor cable was long enough that I only ended up needing to buy a keyboard extension cable. The only problem was the heat will slowly build up in the closet - my solution was to just open the door when I wasn't going to be around.
I don't know about now, but Kingston was Best Buy's "house brand" of memory back in the EDO days. Between myself, and a bunch of people I know, we bought quite a bit of it. It was terrible stuff, it would work for a while, but a couple of years later not one stick of it was trustworthy. I don't buy memory from Best Buy anymore, just mail order Micron/Crucial now.
I've had CD-RW's fail. These were CD-RWs that were used as RW's though - I burned and erased them quite a bit. The faster ones like the 8-10x's failed a lot more - the old 4x's are pretty solid but I still have problems with.
I don't know if they would be better if I just burned them and stored them. Then again, some of the failures have been that the disk is still readable - it's just that the drive refuses to see it as a RW disk anymore.
Many people, especially young people, use Hotmail,Yahoo, MSN, and probably Gmail pretty soon. That's the solution to non-portable ISP email addresses right there.
Most games don't need much bandwidth. There is the issue with latency, mostly due to the analog->digital->analog conversion. But get a decent hardware modem and a good ISP and you can do a lot of gaming on a 56k.
Actually, nowadays you can get a pretty decent $2000 car that 5-6 years of life left in it. I'm thinking along the lines of a 7-10 year old base model Nissan Sentra/Toyota Corolla. Those things just go.
Usually deleting the file, then naming a 0 byte file "readme shim.exe", then tagging it as read-only will stop most of those programs pretty well. Just hope the program doesn't get pissed and fubar the system.
I didn't care. That car did what I needed it to do for as long as I needed to do it before I could afford a better one. In other words, it was exactly like a computer to most people.
Atleast someone's spyware ridden computer isn't going to blow out a tire and cause an accident where people are going to be hurt and killed. Driving a car like that is stupid and irresponsible.
Most Linux distributions, when you install them, will automatically put in a boot loader like Lilo and configure it so that you can boot either Linux or Windows. Some can even repartition the drives for you to make room for the Linux partitions. Installing a dual boot system couldn't be easier.
There are some issues. First, there is a risk that one OS could mess up the other. The bigger problem is that Windows doesn't always play nice, but you can do some serious damage in Linux as root. The biggest problem with dual boot is that you can't use both OSes at once, and it usually takes several minutes to switch between them. Because of that my dual boot boxes usually end up sitting in one OS most of the time. Finally, it can be a bit cumbersome to move data between the OSes - writing on NTFS partions in Linux is still kind of iffy, and Windows in general won't see the Linux partitions. Nothing is more annoying than to boot into Windows and realize that you left something important in/home and then have to boot back into Linux, move it to a FAT32 partition, then boot back into Windows.
I just tried that with the classic skin, and he's right. The first time took several seconds, but after that it's fast (once Winamp has cached the directory contents I assume). I've never noticed because I always use the 'Insert' key. (load entire directory at once)
My TV is also almost always on, but rarely watched. I come home from work, turn on the TV then sit at the computer... Of course there's shows that I do watch regularly, but I find that I use the TV for background noise more than anything else. Oh, and video games.
I don't get it. If you want background noise, why turn on something as obnoxious as a TV? You're at a computer - if you want some background noise, that's what mp3's are for!
DVD-Audio players are required to have analog outputs only, which for multi channel music means you have to run 6 RCA cables (!) from your DVD-A player to your receiver
I have one DVD-Audio disk, and it plays just fine through my Panasonic standalone DVD player with it's standard complement of digital outputs. I've never put it into my computer's DVD drive (that would be an interesting experiment - too bad I don't have the disk handy), but I bet I could get it to play fine in Windows without much trouble.
Actually, Google will become better as it becomes less popular, as all scum that games Google's results will move on to game MSN, and I won't care one bit.
From what I have seen at college in the US, everyone uses either MSN or AIM. Before XP (or in other words, before MSN Messenger was bundled into Windows) most everyone used AIM, and a few used Yahoo. But now Yahoo has joined ICQ in the fringes, and it seems that AIM is losing to MSN. No one uses Jabber. Kind of sad, really.
I got tired of Windows crashing in the middle of playing back a movie on my computer, so when my sister's DVD drive broke I pulled mine and gave it to her. So my high end Athlon system just has a CD-RW. I haven't missed the DVD drive either.
However, if I wanted to play UT2004, I wouldn't have a problem spending $30-$40 to get a DVD drive.
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I put a computer in the closet myself. The desk was right next to the closet door. My monitor cable was long enough that I only ended up needing to buy a keyboard extension cable. The only problem was the heat will slowly build up in the closet - my solution was to just open the door when I wasn't going to be around.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 160 million years. Maybe when we've been around for 1% of that time we'll be ready to say something.
If you do feel the need to put such covers on your plates, DO check that they actually work. Lots of fraudsters selling cheap crap.
How would one check that they work? Run a red light?
I don't know about now, but Kingston was Best Buy's "house brand" of memory back in the EDO days. Between myself, and a bunch of people I know, we bought quite a bit of it. It was terrible stuff, it would work for a while, but a couple of years later not one stick of it was trustworthy. I don't buy memory from Best Buy anymore, just mail order Micron/Crucial now.
I've had CD-RW's fail. These were CD-RWs that were used as RW's though - I burned and erased them quite a bit. The faster ones like the 8-10x's failed a lot more - the old 4x's are pretty solid but I still have problems with.
I don't know if they would be better if I just burned them and stored them. Then again, some of the failures have been that the disk is still readable - it's just that the drive refuses to see it as a RW disk anymore.
Many people, especially young people, use Hotmail,Yahoo, MSN, and probably Gmail pretty soon. That's the solution to non-portable ISP email addresses right there.
Most games don't need much bandwidth. There is the issue with latency, mostly due to the analog->digital->analog conversion. But get a decent hardware modem and a good ISP and you can do a lot of gaming on a 56k.
Actually, nowadays you can get a pretty decent $2000 car that 5-6 years of life left in it. I'm thinking along the lines of a 7-10 year old base model Nissan Sentra/Toyota Corolla. Those things just go.
Usually deleting the file, then naming a 0 byte file "readme shim.exe", then tagging it as read-only will stop most of those programs pretty well. Just hope the program doesn't get pissed and fubar the system.
I didn't care. That car did what I needed it to do for as long as I needed to do it before I could afford a better one. In other words, it was exactly like a computer to most people.
Atleast someone's spyware ridden computer isn't going to blow out a tire and cause an accident where people are going to be hurt and killed. Driving a car like that is stupid and irresponsible.
Not to mention how many CD drives he's going to wear out in the process.
I think the original poster liked the fact it was a small 9" monitor. I remember seeing some tiny VGA's back in the day too.
Surely there are non-full length CGA cards out there. An EGA card should be able to drive that monitor, and I know there small EGA cards out there.
I've got IE configured to present itself to websites as Netscape ...
Isn't that like putting the "VTEC" and "Type R" badges on a '87 Civic?
Most Linux distributions, when you install them, will automatically put in a boot loader like Lilo and configure it so that you can boot either Linux or Windows. Some can even repartition the drives for you to make room for the Linux partitions. Installing a dual boot system couldn't be easier.
/home and then have to boot back into Linux, move it to a FAT32 partition, then boot back into Windows.
There are some issues. First, there is a risk that one OS could mess up the other. The bigger problem is that Windows doesn't always play nice, but you can do some serious damage in Linux as root. The biggest problem with dual boot is that you can't use both OSes at once, and it usually takes several minutes to switch between them. Because of that my dual boot boxes usually end up sitting in one OS most of the time. Finally, it can be a bit cumbersome to move data between the OSes - writing on NTFS partions in Linux is still kind of iffy, and Windows in general won't see the Linux partitions. Nothing is more annoying than to boot into Windows and realize that you left something important in
I don't get it. Don't you want the turn signals to grab your attention though?
http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/dbrunner/cbefire/
Wow, that was one hell of a slashdotting!
I just tried that with the classic skin, and he's right. The first time took several seconds, but after that it's fast (once Winamp has cached the directory contents I assume). I've never noticed because I always use the 'Insert' key. (load entire directory at once)
There is also a mostly complete list of old Winamp versions at www.oldversion.com for anyone who is interested.
Link.
My TV is also almost always on, but rarely watched. I come home from work, turn on the TV then sit at the computer... Of course there's shows that I do watch regularly, but I find that I use the TV for background noise more than anything else. Oh, and video games.
I don't get it. If you want background noise, why turn on something as obnoxious as a TV? You're at a computer - if you want some background noise, that's what mp3's are for!
DVD-Audio players are required to have analog outputs only, which for multi channel music means you have to run 6 RCA cables (!) from your DVD-A player to your receiver
I have one DVD-Audio disk, and it plays just fine through my Panasonic standalone DVD player with it's standard complement of digital outputs. I've never put it into my computer's DVD drive (that would be an interesting experiment - too bad I don't have the disk handy), but I bet I could get it to play fine in Windows without much trouble.
Got $300 million?
Sure, I'll just steal Bill Gates' credit card number!
But what's there to hear???
Actually, Google will become better as it becomes less popular, as all scum that games Google's results will move on to game MSN, and I won't care one bit.
From what I have seen at college in the US, everyone uses either MSN or AIM. Before XP (or in other words, before MSN Messenger was bundled into Windows) most everyone used AIM, and a few used Yahoo. But now Yahoo has joined ICQ in the fringes, and it seems that AIM is losing to MSN. No one uses Jabber. Kind of sad, really.
I got tired of Windows crashing in the middle of playing back a movie on my computer, so when my sister's DVD drive broke I pulled mine and gave it to her. So my high end Athlon system just has a CD-RW. I haven't missed the DVD drive either.
However, if I wanted to play UT2004, I wouldn't have a problem spending $30-$40 to get a DVD drive.