Recent content by sedrosken

He's not going to stop there.

Jesus Merc, when it rains it pours. That’s all horrible. Here’s hoping you’re at the end of it and things pick up from here. I’m up with my uncle visiting my dad, and he’s in better health than I’ve seen him for a good year or so. He’s got his upper body strength back and seems back to his...

If it’s any consolation, you did the right thing, the responsible thing, the loving thing. That doesn’t mean it feels good, of course, but these choices are always the hardest and will always replay in our minds regardless of how we play them out. I’m deeply sorry for your loss.

In my experience, SiS's primary sin is that it's slow and DMA is flaky under Windows 98. Under an NT based OS I haven't had any complaints, really. Yeah, from what I gather most of the attachment to 3dfx seems to be of the "you had to be there" variety. In $currentYear with access to 30 years...

Yeah, I jinxed myself. Still freezes. Seems to go longer before doing it, which is promising -- I wonder if I have this recapped if it'll be alright. Hmm. Time to put together a Digikey cart, I guess. I also have another 440BX board to try, this one is older and might not support Coppermine...

I don't want to jinx anything, because the PII-400 was stable too until it just locked up, but the PIII-600 so far seems to be fine. Had a very cool "back in the day" OEM experience where I got to unseal the PIII in its antistatic bag and install the cooler just like an OEM would have. Of...

I'm currently pounding my head against the brick wall that is Slot 1 again... I have a nice board, the ASUS P3B-F. After swapping the Seasonic SS-350ET I had with a more period-accurate Antec 350W supply with plenty of grunt on the +5v rail, it's much improved stability wise except for this...

Neither. Trump will cancel elections, die, and then they'll Weekend at Bernie's him with AI or whatever.

Some stuff I was surprised ran at all, albeit quite slowly: Zuma Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy... in general I did not expect these mid-2000s shovelware (affectionate) titles to even launch, I just copied them over because... why not. Some stuff I was surprised didn't: Age of Empires 2. It just...

The integrated video is surprisingly competent in some areas and the whiplash between the highs and lows is kind of insane: using FastDoom to run in mode 13h like Heretic or Hexen does instead of mode Y as DOS Doom does by default has the high-detail sound-on results of benchmarking demo1 going...

I found what Cathode Ray Dude on YouTube terms a 'beige whale' a week or so ago. That is to say, something I've been on the lookout for, wanted, but wasn't willing to expend actual time/effort/money into tracking down. I've wanted something based around a Cyrix MediaGX for almost ten years now...

I'm sorry, I wish I had something more useful to say... If I hear anything, not that it's exceedingly likely, I'll let you all know.

Horrible to see that happened jtr. Hoping your funds get recovered. It's been going around, we've had a former client who retired who called us all panicked about something similar... all we could do was forward her on to the FBI and SEC. I'd be extremely skeptical of any online-only...

The employees are already the ones left holding the bag. Micron's press release says they're going to minimize the impact insofar as they can by relocating them within the company, but I imagine placement for that's fairly minimal. It's basically another wave of soft layoffs. Steve from GN had...

Yeah, I mean... my demo unit is fine. It doesn't win any awards but it does its job and lasts forever on a charge. I've gotten to where I don't even bring my charger with me on a service call.