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  1. Re:You mean people still buy Pentium 2s? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How 'bout http://www.dumpinggoods.com/dumpinggoods/itemdesc. asp?CartId=8-ACCWARE-321007DVDKM267&ic=CP-INT-0004 &cc=&tpc=?

    It's $3.99, and as far as I can tell, it's new (with heatsink, even ;-))

    If you just want a 233MHz chip (to help your collection, maybe? Anand found that in low resolutions, in many games (back in the day), the 233MHz PMMX beat the 266MHz P2), that's free+S&H.

  2. Re:Pentium II lives on as a military processor. on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's still being sold as an Intel Embedded Legacy processor, along with the 186 (which was really only used in embedded environments) and the 386. In fact, you can buy a whole wafer of any of their embedded legacy chips if you want to do your own packaging.

  3. Re:Portable Thunderbird 1.0 available already on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Slightly offtopic, but I've thought of a better use. Windows 95 (maybe 98SE if necessary) with a NTFS driver on the USB drive. That way, I can boot into a Windows environment, and even work with NTFS volumes, all from my USB drive. Preinstall AdAware, Spybot, and Avast, and I'm ready to go, and can clean ANY machine I come across.

    Yes, I know, it's not Linux, but there are reasons I want to be running Windows if I'm servicing Windows machines.

    Problems I forsee: 95 might barf if it realizes it's running on a USB drive, and I'd have to disable swap, or it would FRY the drive.

  4. Re:MOOX optimized versions? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Oh, and before I get flamed for being a Gentoo zealot or something...

    By small speed increase, I mean that you might shave 1/10th of a second off of startup or something, and maybe shave a second off of a search of the mailbox. Not much. And not worth the work, IMO.

  5. Re:MOOX optimized versions? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    You'd be amazed at how much CPU work IS done by an e-mail client...

    Gecko eats processor, the XUL engine eats processor, etc., etc.

    Now, not saying that this is worthwhile, but you could probably get a small speed increase from using these builds.

    FWIW, Outlook needs a shitload of horsepower to run with usable speed ;-)

  6. Re:Why won't they add a calendar? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sunbird is the calendar you're looking for. Also, there's an XPI (IIRC) that's been around for quite a while that will plug into Mozilla, Firebird, or Thunderbird (Sunbird is actually a fork of this XPI to a standalone program). It's called Mozilla Calendar. Both are available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

  7. Re:Download.Com on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    And THAT is why I use Windows on my laptop. I can keep it fairly secure, even - I use Opera (7.6P4, now) for browsing, and GMail for e-mail, and I'm always behind a NAT (only one has any ports open to it, and it's just a couple ports for, ahem, BitTorrent).

    Now, my old PMMX @ 233MHz with 96MB RAM? Yes, that runs Mandrake (10.0 Community, because I'm too lazy to download 10.1). The versions of Windows I'd run on that would be too slow for my needs (2000 or XP - NT4's a bit old for me), and for what this box is used for, I don't need more than a couple (WINE-compatible) Windows apps.

  8. Re:Azureus doesn't.... on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    Same here - not me. Then again, when I need a program, I just usually Google what I need with site:sourceforge.net at the end, but I could see why this could be a problem...

    FWIW, now I'm not so sad that my school's ISP filters download.com (as Games (which is now an "UNDEFINED_CATEGORY" in their new filtering software version, as it's NOT defined by the Children's Internet "Protection" Act)) ;-)

  9. Re:boo on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. He said that he didn't give Microsoft, Epson, or HP permission to reproduce his resume, so he was going to take some of their products - some printers and a few copies of Office.

  10. Re:CPU probably irrelevant on Running a Server at Freezing Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    Let me clear up some stuff...

    Covington Celerons are Pentium II (don't know which core) chips without ANY L2 cache on the board.

    Mendocino Celerons are modified Pentium IIs that have on-die L2 cache - a first for Intel processors, at the time (the PPro had it on a second die). In some cases they are actually FASTER than P2s, where fast cache access is necessary, but not large amounts of cache.

    Coppermine Celerons are Pentium IIIs with disabled cache. This is what the OP has, as the only 733MHz Celerons are Coppermines.

    Tualatin Celerons are .13u Pentium IIIs with disabled cache.

    Williamette Celerons are .18u Pentium 4s with disabled cache.

    Northwood Celerons are .13u Pentium 4s with disabled cache (notice a pattern, now?)

    Celeron Ds (AKA Prescott Celerons) are .09u Pentium 4s with disabled cahce.

    Celeron Ms (AKA Banias Celerons or Dothan Celerons) are .13 or .09u Pentium Ms with disabled cache.

    That's all of the Celerons that I know about, anyway...

  11. Re:2 Problems on ATI Unveils the X850 Series · · Score: 1

    Not that rare, just VERY expensive. Newegg links:

    Mobos:
    http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=13-137-057&depa=0 (AOpen i855GMEm-LFS - $269, in stock)
    http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=13-136-150&depa=0 (DFI 855GME-MGF - $270, in stock)

    CPUs:
    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=p roperty&catalog=343&propertycodevalue=5170,%200,%2 00,%200,%200,%200,%200,%200&minprice=&maxprice=&mf rcode=0&DEPA=1&InnerCata=343
    Pentium M 725 (1.6), 735 (1.7), 745 (1.8), 755 (2.0), and all at (slightly over) Intel list. They DON'T have the 715 (OCs just as well as the 725-745 on the DFI board) or the 765 (OCs to 2.8GHz).

    Still, you can get a P-M desktop, and easily. It just costs a lot :-(

  12. Re:IE renduring engine feature on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    If that were the case, then FeedReader couldn't be open source. You can embed the IE rendering engine in an open source app, as MSHTML.DLL allows ANYONE to connect to it (FeedReader, Netscape, Quicken, FrontPage, Outlook, Money, you name it, if it's got an embedded browser, it's either the Gecko ActiveX control or MSHTML.DLL (with the exception of Dreamweaver and GoLive, which use Presto, Opera's renderer)).

  13. Re:Perfect Name for a Ripoff Artist on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    I usually use ls -lart, so a simple dir should do the trick (I need some logic to see what the argument is, and then modify it), except I forgot what the switch is for the equivalent of -a (show hidden files)... I know /a:sh will show hidden and system files, but nothing else. Maybe dir %1 AND dir %1 /a:sh?

  14. Re:Full circle? on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    Eh... IE never had a known rewrite (unless 4 was a rewrite). IE was a branch of Mosaic code. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few lines in there.

    Now, NETSCAPE, there's no Mosaic code (and I don't think there ever was - things might have been done the same WAY as Mosaic before V6, but not with the same code). However, ALL of the Netscape code was thrown out for Mozilla.

  15. Re:Attack! on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Then what is http://img68.exs.cx/img68/709/makelovenotspam.png? I'm connected through the Licking (County, Ohio) Area Computer Association, and it's working fine for me.

  16. Re:Perfect Name for a Ripoff Artist on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    How 'bout I just put an LS.BAT with dir %1 as the whole file, and put it in my path? Seems a hell of a lot simpler than Cygwin (granted, not as clean, but...)

  17. Re:Perfect Name for a Ripoff Artist on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 1

    This is typical Netscape. They made the Mozilla project SO THAT IT WOULD BE USED IN THEIR NETSCAPE PROJECT. The Mozilla project then made Firefox, and Netscape decided to use it instead of Mozilla. Mozilla knew this would happen from the beginning.

  18. Re:Already ordered it! on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    It's a joke ;-)

    Note that your grandparent misspelled Tirith, and your parent saw the Sauroman misspelling of the OP, so he made the joke.

  19. Re:that's all well and good.. on Hacking The DS's Wireless · · Score: 1

    In support for this comment, I'll add:

    A sub-1MHz 6510 can host a browser. A 33MHz 386DX can run IE (not well, but I've done it). You bet your ass that a 66MHz ARM9 AND a 33MHz ARM7 could do a browser, especially seeing as cell phones have less, and there are browsers for them.

  20. Re:What we need is to remember... on Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90% · · Score: 1

    MDI means that each document is in a subwindow. NoteTab just has each document in a tab.

  21. Re:Too damn easy to bypass on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Preprint a full yellow page?

  22. Re:Stuff it with games on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... there are USB soundcards...

    However, what model is your laptop, and what soundcard does it have?

  23. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox on Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90% · · Score: 1

    Why is this atroll? I'm just reporting my experiences. I've NOT liked Firefox. I'm impressed with the project, not the product, though. However, I will recommend it over IE to normal people. I usually recommend Opera first, and if they don't like it, tell them that there's Firefox, and some people like it over Opera, but I don't, but I'll set it up (if I'm installing the browser) if they want to give it a shot.

  24. Re:What we need is to remember... on Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90% · · Score: 1

    NoteTab is tabbed, but not MDI. I don't know about Lotus Notes, but when did the first version that did tabbed MDI come out? If it was after 1998 (IIRC), Opera wins.

  25. Re:Stuff it with games on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    Sound card: not THAT hard - most everything is compatible
    Printer: If it's an HP or an Epson, great. If not, hit or miss.
    Modem: Forget it. Modem support on Linux is appalling (granted, not Linux devels faults, it's the modem manufacturers fault).