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Some BIOS give you the option to control power button behavior from instant-on/off to 4 second (or so) hold to trigger.

CDW is a public corporation with a market capitalization of about 23 billion. They are reputable. I think I bought from them way back in the 1980s (we are talking ATI VGA Wonder times). They had a direct to consumer division for many years; don't know how corporate they have gone.

All the original Space Invaders used monochrome monitors with a green plastic overlay near the bottom for the color effect. Several other machines of that era used similar techniques - Star Castle for one. Breakout was another.

Game sounds like Space Invaders and you are describing a cocktail table style gaming cabinet.

Thought the 430TX generally used PIIX4, which supported UDMA 33. TX was a crappy chipset compared to the competitors as the time though. IIRC I was mostly running EpoX motherboards in that era, probably with VIA (or maybe SiS) chipsets. EDIT: After using Tannin's Red Hill Guide as a memory...

God of the Dead?

Cool! Dodgers / Yankees matchup. But I will greatly miss Vin Scully.

GWAR is still around? First heard of them in mid-1980's. EDIT: Oh I see; the name outlives the original members.

Agreed. If I can virtualize my setup, that would be ideal, but I am hardly a virtualization expert. I do have another newer entry level Dell Xeon server set aside for just that, if I can ever get my posterior in gear.

First, the official instructions for replacement state to disconnect UPS from power source before replacing battery - it is a higher end consumer APC model, not a datacenter one with external batteries. Also, if I were 25 years younger I could probably manage the contortions to manage the in...

I'm responsible for a Dell file server from around 2001 that supports a custom database application from 2004. Its a Pentium 4 2.1 GHz with IIRC 256MB SDRAM and mirrored 160GB PATA drives running Windows Server 2003. IIRC the drives were replaced around 2010. It really just sits there basically...

Corporate approved vendor lists?

Turns out I ordered my first Arctic F12 in November 2011; it's still running in the case I installed it into, despite several systems passing through [EATX tower, started with i5-2500K and a RAID5 PATA board that I might have acquired from a SF member (Handruin? Maxburn?); now contains a Dual...

They can try old tricks again, but remember their SCOTUS has given the POTUS magical royal powers to just become super-sheriff and order law enforcement to just round up those who would defy the Constitution and given the obligation the Oath the Constitution imposes on the President he could...

Maybe affected. Some reported problems: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-says-13th-and-14th-gen-mobile-cpus-are-crashing-but-not-due-to-the-same-bug-as-desktop-chips-chipmaker-blames-common-software-and-hardware-issues