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Feel free to throw in a little rum, now that I'm in!

Mountain Dew for me. If I feel wild, then Code Red. See my other thread:http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=21440#21440

Hey all - you may have noticed that I haven't been around much since June. I have been heavily distracted by applying to medical school. In the US, admission basically requires a bachelor's degree, you tend to apply to man y schools (I applied to 20), and you need to apply about a year in...

Nice to see people supporting education! Wait...isn't that what SF is all about?

IE lacks tabbed browsing. For me, that's a killer feature in Moz.

tempting...very tempting.... but yeah, I'd like to see the rebate paperwork first. Only one day left.

speaking of mail clients....quick question: I use Outlook 2002. I need to use my work's outgoing SMTP server, but can't check my ISP's email (attbi.com) at work - I think because of the firewall we run. Is there anyway I can get Outlook to not give an error message when at work (and it can't...

The Lions? The Lions? Ug. But hey, at least they're not the Vi-queens. Ok, but to prefetch - interesting. Thought I'd wonder why MS would include that service if it didn't improve performance. Is it in Win2K? Perhaps that's one reason why XP is more resource intensive.

ah, suppose I should include the negatives about the i8200. 1. Weight. This is a heavy notebook. Be warned. 2. I find the location of the DVD and ethernet and modem plugs inconvenient. The ethernet is in front of the DVD, so I have to avoid the RJ45 to put a CD into the drive. 3. I...

I'm very happy with my i8200 as well - P4M 2.0 GHz, 256MB RAM (single stick, will upgrade to 512 if I feel like it), 40GB 5400 RPM drive, GF2Go 32 MB DDR, etc etc. I'd bet that the current deal is designed to move the older plastic case i8200s out so they can start shipping the magnesium alloy...

oh, and welcome to SF, Bulldog. Just out of curiosity, how'd you find this place?

I used to be the same way, until I used Crucial's memory selector forr my Tyan Tiger MP. They shipped some memory which woudldn't work properly. . They said it wasn't certified to run on the board (at the time), yet their memory selector (online) still recommended their memory. Ug. Now I...

Thanks Merc, that's about the best I've found so far Googling.

I've never actually run Linux on my Radeon card. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Hey all - I have a Radeon 8500 which runs my two 19" monitors in Windows. Is it possible to get two monitors working off of this card in Linux (preferably Mandrake)? Any idea how? Thanks! Adcadet

I still refer friends and family to our local Mom&Pop shop in town. I just looked at a machine they built for a friend - great parts, good price, good service. A no brainer.

Thanks Cliptin and Ali G...uh, make that Jake the Dog. I didn't know WCPUID now had a real time CPU speed checker. Tre cool

My friend from London introduced me to Ali G. I find him hilarious, though it usually takes me an extra second to translate his British English.

I have a friend who just raves about Lycoris. There are a number of people at his work who are tired of Windows and have/are building themselves new computers and he's putting Lycoris on it. Stupid Question: how on earth do I create boot floppies for it? I want to keep my WinXP installation...

Hey all - so here I am, with my beautiful new Dell Inspiron 8200 wondering about how to tweak the power saving featues of the Intel Speed Step stuff. First, does anybody know where within WinXP I can alter CPU speed preferances? So far I haven't found any way. And second, does anybody know a...

I'm waiting for RH8 personally

damn! That was a scam?

Forgive me if this has been talked about in the previous 7 pages... how good is a P4M 2 GHz (512K)? I just dedicated my laptop to F@H...it doesn't run 24/7, but it usually just sits here at work for hours per day. Hopefully it'll help my dual 1.2GHz Palomino setup. Which, by the way, I need...

Hey all - a friend told me about this a while back, and I kindof like it. www.myrealbox.com I'll let them explain... What is MyRealBox? * MyRealBox is a free E-mail service with no advertising. * You can send and receive E-mail anywhere from any Mac, PC or other device with an...

I was just reading E_Dawg's post about optimizing his machine at work, and some stuff about MS Outlook came up. I decided to give Outlook (XP) a shot since I like OE and I use a Palm pilot and was always curious about using Outlook with it. I've been using it, but it seems a bit slow. I was...

From the people I've talked with, it seems IBM has a reputation for high quality stuff (though often expensive) - good manuals, good design, durable stuff. I know a guy who travels alot (4-6 days/week out of town) and works for a large company that gets loads of Compaq laptops, and he swears...

didn't Anand or Sharky review one or two "Desknotes" - basically laptops without batteries that use desktop CPUs to give good performance at a good price while sacrificing portability. But those I could see being a bit expensive (~$1000?)

No bad pixels that I can see. I'm very happy. With so many pixels I know there must be at least one bad one, but I can't find it. And I like the stick...and the pad.....I can't decide. But mousing with two hands ROCKS!

as some of you know, I was looking for a new laptop. The old IBM i1452 just wan't cutting it. The monitor was dim, and the Celeron 366/128 just wasn't keeping up. What pushed me over the edge was always having to email myself files and email messages at work and forgetting half the time what...

my Red Hat installs typically need all three disks....I should just set aside three CD-RWs for burning the lastest version to.

http://www.inklineglobal.com/adsales/burstmedia/pcb_offer_468_bm_tuneup.html Hmm...this said my PC was in need of a tune up and that my PC probably runs slow and Windows crashes often. Umm...I'm running an iMac here at work.

wait a second...Celerons are up to 1.7+ GHz...perhaps the 1.2 GHz Celeron is the older P3-based Celeron that performs half way decently....tempting for my parents...and they wouldn't mind a server case.

seems going with the 1.13GHz P3 Tualatin costs an exta $100 over the 1.2 GHz Celeron....if you're going for a budget box perhaps the savings are worth it. My parents need a new desktop...tempting.

on the other hand, for probably about $200 you could but parts for your case, NIC, graphics card, etc. And aren't the 1.2GHz Celerons the new P4 celerons which perform really really really poorly? I'd have taken the 1.13GHz P3 anyday. In fact, I bet a 1GHz P3 Celeron would be faster than...

thanks Pradeep!

Yep, for now 2D is what I need. 3D will only be a distraction as I'm writing my thesis. But it's very nice to know that I can go to a GF4Go (or whatever is next) later on if I so desire. Thanks Pradeep!

when I first saw that news article I thought it was a joke.

Not if you're running OS 8.6 like I am at work (at least until my shiny new laptop arrives). I sometimes use an iMac running OSX and I HATE waiting 2 minutes for OS9 to load so I can run word. Grrrrrr!

grrr....another reason to go SCSI. I won't buy a drive with a 1 year warranty. If anybody from Maxtor is listening, please tell whoever that I disapprove. I expect the 3 year warranty to be put back in place by morning. DO YOU HEAR ME MAXTOR?!

The P4Ms are the newer Northwood (?) core with 512KB cache, correct? But they're still on a 400MHz bus, no?

Now is that EDO or an older type, Mr. Turner? Oh, and I was only joking earlier about you being a geezer. After all the PDP-8L was around in what, the 4th Century AD?

Christ Mr. Turner, I know you're a geezer and all, but I didn't expect you to just up and die like that! You scarred the living daylights out of me (especially as I was wondering how your wrote you own post about impending death)

in everybody's pricing calculation, are you including relevant taxes and shipping costs?

downloading >100KB/sec at 11 PM Central Time (what is that...2300 central which is GMT -6 so that'd be 0500 on September 6th).

oops. Minor corrections: I DID include a floppy (have to have a quick low-tech method of swapping files) And the total price (after $100 rebate) is $2167 (that's before I add in the $81 for 256MB of Crucial memory)

Yeah, I ordered it tonight. Although after reading what was said about the GF4 vs. GF2 I think I may change my order (I assume Dell has no problem changing my order so quickly if they can charge me more money). Some background on how I'll be using this computer. I live in a Suburb of St. Paul...

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hmm... seeing as how I'm getting a new laptop, and am totally sick of my crappy iMac here at work (at least I could put Mozilla on it, but I can't run Moz and MS Word at the same time).....perhaps somebody could send me a special email (acalvin@mmrf.org) as a going away present for this "horrid...

I feel a bit foolish asking this of an MS product, but....what's the benefit of the new media player (other than being able to decode the newer codecs)?

Does anybody know what the big changes are? Any major fixes or feature additoins? Does it contain that rumored anti-piracy code that'll freeze up PCs with common MS registration numbers? I wonder if we'll start hearing the screems of pirates who are frozen out of their computers soon. All...