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I just procured an ATi Radeon 9550 AGP for my AXP. Some research indicated that there are, in fact WDDM drivers for it! Dunno if I'm actually going to install 7 on it, but it's nice to know that I can if I want to.

I kind of want to get my hands on my relative's old A64. Single Core. Same model computer, too! HP Pavilion A700N. Mine's an Athlon XP 3000+ with a 333MHz FSB. Theirs is a single A64. They don't use it anymore. I really hope they don't throw it away. Also, their monitor (exactly the same as...

Sherlock!

I don't want to sound ignorant, but how is Windows Picture and Fax viewer an attack vector, exactly? And wouldn't those vulnerabilities also affect alternate image viewers? mubs: Why not? I do it for my old games that crash WINE. Aside from UT '99 only being playable in a window (seems to be a...

I was under the impression that SSDs outlasted HDDs because of their lack of moving parts. Is this not the case? You can't write to an SSD as many times as you can an HDD?

I've used Macrium Reflect Free in the past, and honestly I was pretty happy with it. It cloned reasonably fast and had restore media, not that I ever got around to using it or anything... Of course, I haven't changed drives and tried to restore yet either, so I don't know how well that works...

Decided to give Mint another go on the laptop. I'm proud of myself! I managed to get wifi working first try! And now that I've really figured out VirtualBox, virtualization is a good choice for running my old games as it appears WINE is not up to the task. Funnily enough, the web handles...

It's in the vein of Xubuntu and Lubuntu in that it's a version of Ubuntu for low-end and/or older systems. WattOS though runs on far less (192 MB during install, less than 128 MB after) and is by far the most fully featured (including the option of three different shells, not unlike Mint). The...

When I went to replace my keyboard, this was my greatest fear because they made it plain as day that if you screw up you have to replace the whole board, or look ghetto as hell while using an external keyboard.

Well, it ran regular aero, transparency and all, just fine. I turned off transparency with the 8 theme enabled and I really notice no difference. If anything it's a little speedier, but nothing I'd write home about.

I happen to like the "flat" look and find it easier on RAM. My laptop isn't going to get a discernable speed increase from setting everything to classic.

What do you think about the more complex ones, ones that replace certain UI-specific system files? I installed a Windows 8 theme onto my laptop yesterday, and had to break out my Debian DVD so I could copy certain files that were in use while Windows was running. All in all the creator did a...

Dunno what Lubuntu used, but XP uses ~200 MB on a 1GB system. I noticed that Windows XP and Vista are not terribly efficient with RAM - XP is more efficient with 512 MB than with 2GB, and Vista isn't efficient with anything, but 7 ran all around very well on my P4, considering it was on minimum...

I'm done reinstalling. Windows 7, all my programs, and a fairly invasive Windows 8 theme (invasive as it replaced 99% of my original shell, from explorer buttons to explorer window borders to sounds to cursors to log on screens to boot screens and everything in between), are all installed. You...

Relative decided they didnt want to void their warranty. So Windows 7 it is. Will reinstall when I get home. Its probably for the best. With win7 comes Chrome again.

And while were on the subject of Windows 8.x, I couldn't really tell you if I hated it or not - - I'm having issues playing my games, but that's more hardware and driver related, and while everythings very different, I guess I'll get used to it in the long run. Like the jump from Win3.1 to...

I just think that since IE 9 they're starting to actually put some effort into it. I guess they kinda have to, considering they get very stiff competition out of Chrome, Firefox, and even Opera these days. It's almost like they're pulling an IE 4 on us, making IE seem faster but really...

Doesn't anyone else find themselves using IE more and more? In my experience, IE 11 is faster than Chrome because its hardware acceleration is enabled by default. I just switched over completely on my newly Windows 8.1-ified laptop. A note on that - - I, er, traded my Win 7 Home Premium key to...

Whoaly crap. Das'a lotta data throughput. Would it be fair to say that it would be almost as fast as RAM? I never figured out quite how fast RAM was, its speed was always communicated in MHz, not MB(or GB)/sec.

Now it's up to CM11 - KitKat 4.4.2.

Looking back that's obvious. Sorry about that. I really hate Gingerbread. Would much rather compile an ICS rom myself. I would too, if I knew the first thing about doing so.

PCI-e SSDs? $1000? Does PCI-e offer greater bandwidth than SATA III, or what?

I never mentioned iOS. I just wanted an Android app. It'd be awesome if it ran on Gingerbread because I currently can't get anything newer to run on the device. A bit on that... I'm going to see about editing the package for the GTab to see about making it run on the "phone". Their hardware is...

Would it be at all possible to develop an appear specifically for browsing storageforum at a greater speed and with more convenience than simply using one's web browser? Similar to Tapatalk for the android forums? Browsing speeds in Dolphin on my unlocked Illusion are... adequate... but I often...

I am running the latest supported driver (my best guess is 93.71 or something like that, don't have it on hand). I installed all my drivers. I dont know how one gets an opengl renderer working with UT, but I did install UT from an ISO of the original install media (never had an issue with that...

This. Hope you come out okay in the end.

Around here, when the wind kicks up the wind chill gets down to -30 F regularly. They cancel school because it's too cold. We've stayed surprisingly warm, despite being heated with kerosene (we can't get a gas tank out cause it's winter, and our water heater, being ancient, must be replaced...

Went there, did that, and something weird is afoot. I can run it fine in D3D mode as long as I keep it windowed. I have no idea what's going on here.

I payed $30 for it. Not impressed but not ashamed either.

Thanks, you just made me download Thunderbird. Previously I didn't have an IMAP email. Also, being thrown for a loop as Thunderbird is drastically different from anything I'm used to.

Weird. My DX version is 9.0c. Guess with this I'll just have to stick with software rendering, not the end of the world.

Quality is terrible and max res is 512x384, but the fact that it runs at all is much better than it was. It's framerate is really high - - it's still playable but all the animation is fluid.

I'll be deep fried and dipped in chocolate - - on a whim I set it to Software Renderer (I was using Direct3D support, as I always - - WAIT! I just realized why it wasn't working okay with Direct3D! My DirectX version is still 8.1, I'm sure of it! lemme check...) and it runs great.

but this is on my AXP - - All it has is the one CPU. Now, if this were happening on my 1545, which it is not, then that'd be applicable. But I'll give it a whirl.

(mental facepalm) I just realized there's a tech support forum. Should I repost this there or something?

No, they really don't call it anything rather than laughing uncontrollably and then later uncomfortably. I'm definitely not what they call normal, as for one my effective vocabulary easily dwarfs theirs. They mostly keep me around as a curiosity. Being in a rural area, being someone who...

'Kay then. Got it. I literally watched them create an account to deliberately screw with me... And then I lit the beacon to call for aid... I just fed the trolls, didn't I? Wow, that's like rule 0 of the internet, don't feed the trolls. Thanks! Thing is, I didn't know exactly where they were...

Sorry for the mood whiplash in my last post, just now realized that this is supposed to be a "happy" thread. Anyway, congratulations! I have a four year old sister, myself. By "rarer" in terms of snowfall I mean it's much higher than usual. Tack that onto the wind carrying it all over the...

Congratulations! I can't say I share your sentiment regarding snow though - - hate it with a passion. It makes me go to school into June, which is a big no no for me. That and add on the fact that it's A.) cold, B.) windy, and C.) one of the rarer years here in terms of snowfall (Grandparents...

I installed UT99 on my AXP, its normal routine for my systems. It's GUI runs dreadfully slow, I can't even start a game. I can literally wait tens of seconds for the mouse to move. I could see this happening on a Pentium 133, but on an Athlon XP with a GeForce2 MX card that worked perfectly...

Y'see, this is why I use AdBlock Plus. I hate ads, they ruin my browsing experience. Also, both Yahoo! and Gmail both have a HTML option, don't they?

Dad, my little sister and I are all allergic to cats, so cats are a no-go around here. I do so love me some cute kitties though. And no, that is not a double-entendre.

You know, the sad thing is that I know what that whole "I have a bridge to sell you" joke is all about, though it is long before my time. I honestly wasn't expecting too much, coming from Amazon, I just expected it to work, which it does, beautifully.

My 80 GB WD800 PATA HDD that is in my AXP has some interesting Power-on data. Granted, it has not been on for anywhere near as long as my 250 GB in my old Inspiron 530, but for a "new" drive (I bought it "New" from Amazon some 6 months ago). I have not by any means used that drive for 1015 days...

Well 98SE was short-lived. I liked its raw speed, but XP is infinitely more useful. In any case, I'd like the extra RAM but it's no requirement. Also, it can be PC2700 as well - DDR-333 that is (I've always been a little lysdexic regarding translating different notations). I figured out that it...

Did some lurking... You live (or lived, at some point) in or near Lansing? That's just over an hour and a half away from where I am.

D is for lysdexia... I make the same mistake all the time. Usually I notice and correct them, but sometimes things slip.

The thing is, he was using a school computer - - he's not exactly barred from making another account with a different e-mail at home or on his phone, is he?

I now have a definite username: TheOneWhoSpeaksTheTruth88.

Some people just saw me on here at school and decided they need to be on here too - - only not for any good reason. They're making accts as I speak. I'm sorry! I won't be on here at school again! I promise!