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Can't really say much about the graphics capability of the printers other than comparing specifications because I rarely have printed much graphics and never really compared the graphics outputs to successive printers. HP 4 series specifications HP 4Si and 5Si specifications HP 4+ and 5 series...

The 4 or the 5 series are great printers. I have a 5M with duplex and have not had any problems with it. Just keeps printing like it was new. With the 5 you can get a duplex unit and I don't think that was an option with the 4's. I also prefer the 4+ over the 4 because there was less paper...

correction: The web page isn't down - The forums are.

It ain't down for me

I'm having problems with XP SP1. Specificly I'm getting the Explorer process going to 100%. It does not occur immediately after boot, but rather may occur hours later. After that the machine becomes very sluggish. I'm going to unistall SP1 and see if that helps.

I think ESD is a really big deal. My observation is that stuff that I built without paying attention to ESD had much shorter lifespans and a high return rate 6 months+ from building. before instituting the controls, I was getting around a 35% return rate for some HW failure within a year...

Sorry but the P3 is actually less then the Celeron because the additional $100 cost for the P3 is offset with an additional $100 rebate. The less comes from the fact you apply the 10% coupon to a larger (pre-rebate) total.

I'd pick the 1.13 PIII @ $499 with a $200 rebate, 10% coupon, with free shipping for a grand total of $249.10 delivered. I think that is an even better deal.

and a cookie isn't a biscuit either.

Try http://inetprivacy.com/dl.htm#a4proxy It might work, hard to tell from their marketing. The above service is a one shot fee. The question I have is how long will they be in business after they get your money. I found another service which is highly likely to work ( A VPN to their server...

James, That was a true bargin for that UPS: They cost at least an arm's worth in the states

Hard to believe the amount of mis-information per linear inch of text.

Much better format than the previous posts. Thanks

With a gezzer like me, I use paper-tape memory (write once memory). Since paper tape takes so much room in my brain, which has a limited amount of space, I've thrown away lots of memories to keep what's important. The phase "I've forgotten more than you'll ever know" seems to be appropiate...

Will miracles never cease?

While MSprobably has a right to disable copies of their OS, they have issues doing stuff like that. The first is of public opinion. Alienating a large bunch of people does MS no good. There undoubtably will be repercussions when purchasing an OS: they remember what MS did to them. Second...

Don't we want to give away a working computer? More to the point if we are to give incentive for someone to belong to the team (beyond just association with our group) don't we want to give something they are going to want like a dual Athlon machine rather than a useless 133 Pentium that won't...

Merc, No thanks but thanks for the offer. The case does not fit modern ATX motherboards otherwise I'd just plop in a new motherboard and the machines original purpose is no longer valid because I need to test HW/SW on more modern machines. All things come to a natural end and I think it is...

Couldn't do it. I'd feel bad about myself because Santa is supposed to give away is stuff not sell it. It just isn't right that a salesman has the right to enter your premisis without even knocking (through the chimminey no less), eat your cookies and milk and then sell you those presents in...

You've sold me. There is much truth in what you are saying. You're a very good salesman, unlike me.

As if I have any right to complain about others folding performance with my one machine computing vs people with lots and lots.

Sorry folks. I have a sick sense of humor. I'm sure I could have done better by eliminating the shock value.

Tannin you are not keeping the specification the same. An example: If you are going to compare then please do apples to apples compare a 1.8 P4 against a 1.8 P4. Yes I know that the Athlon is better and cheaper but the point is if someone came to you with a Dell specification could you beat...

Have we given up the ghost or at least started slacking-off? Look what AusTech is doing They will be beating us around 9/13 or so and team MacRumors is now keeping pase. Who's going to pass us next? StatsMan

No, not me, but rather my infamous computer that I named myself after. It is having problems staying alive without extraordinary measures and it is not worth repairing - So I'll donate the body and all its organs for transplant to save another computers life. It wouldn't want to live life as...

What I've noticed is that not only is there a preferance of AMD compared to Intel, There is also a preference for specific WU's over other WU's. The question I have is how can I choose the WU's assigned to me?

I'd consider backing up to a HD in a removable carrier. It tends to be cheaper as long as the amount of media isn't excessive. It's reatively easy to do the math to determine at which point the tapes start getting less expensive.

Reading what I just posted I noticed an error the 3rd P5-133XL quote is a jtr-1962 quote. "agree regressive taxes are horible..." It ends in the middle with "you do your job diligently, or not". After that is my reply (Should not be quoted) that starts "If you agree that ..." and ends at...

To everyone, I appologise for the size of this post but it became necessary if I was to keep the appropiate quotes with thier answers. If you are aware of what the purpose of Welfare is then quit trying to expand the program beyond its mandate. Welfare is not there to break the cycle of...

Sorry to disagree but everyone seems to have the wrong idea about Welfare. The point is not to support or help the poor; It is to help and support the children of the poor. Children have no control concerning their living standards and the poor parents may not be willing/able to supply basic...

I came to the same conclusion years ago; It's been that way for both Gateway and Dell for years. One can easily create a better system, but it is very hard to produce an exact duplicate system, but lower priced and make a profit. When push comes to shove, for value oriented customers, Dell or...

The quick answer is No. The performance scores are related to ram, Network card, CPU MHz, and HD space and have little to do with actual performance. At one time I actually solved the multiple equations to actually get the coeficients, but I didn't keep the data. However, I will refer you to...

Hey folks, Even though these WU's have very long frame times the number of frames have dropped to 10. It all evens out.

SCSI HW raid is normally truely hot-plug with no booting involved. However, you still have to break the raid, replace the drive and rebuild (unless there is a hot spare)

As long as all drives are running in ultra DMA mode and the CPU is 500MHz+, the performance hit for software raid-1 tends not be signifigent. There is no noticeable performance improvement with Software raid-1. There is a slight CPU usage increase and the standard block size becomes 64K rather...

Generally, caching to a HD is a good thing because the HD is far faster than re-downloading. So rather than trying to stop the caching process, encourage it. With cable a normal spped is 1.5Mb/s which comes out to around 200KB/s and even a very slow disk with lots of seeking can operate at...

Yes, yes, plutonium != polonium

It is my understanding that plutonium is not a naturally occuring element on earth (It has to be manufactured in a reactor). I would be very surprised to find that any is contained within fertilizer. I do note, that some has escaped into the enviornment, but not enough to be detected in any...

If you think the P133 is me, you're wrong. My P133 does United Devices, not F@H. It is my observation that UD gives much more credit for low-end machines than F@H. The UD algorithum gives credit (even if it does not use it) to ram, network card and HD space and discounts CPU capability. My...

Q) Sex A) floaters: You know those things that cause disturbances in the eyes.

Sorry, I believe W95 when it was first released was the absolute worst both in functionallity and buggyness. Windows 98 was a signifigent improvement over W95.

Here is a reference for CHS values for a Microscience HH-1060 Hardware Bible Cyclinders=1024, Heads=5, Sectors=26. Amazing what a google search for Microscience HH-1060 will turn up.

It would be nice, for comparason purposes to have multiple months of stats together to see trends. I believe that trends are more important than an individual months numbers. Is it possible to have an spreadsheet that is FTP'able/linkable that contains this months numbers combined with all...

Merc, I understand your dificulty because I have the same problem all the time. I've come to the conclusion that Gateway/Dell is a reasonable alternative for most. I explain that they won't produce a high quality machine, but it isn't total junk either. further, I give them the idea that...

In case you haven't noticed, we have moved on from A->Q to Q->A. I suppose this is progress.

You forgot the worst one of all ------> Marmaduke

A) No. Imaginary people come from imaginary places and Finland is real. Q) How many ________________ does it really take to screw in a light bulb?

New versions of client (3.11) Bug fix's Graphical Windows client Screensaver Windows Client Console Windows Client Linux client Mac OSX graphical 3.0 client Mac OSX Screensaver 3.0 Client Mac OSX Console 3.0 client

I just looked at the current version of dm (2000) and you are probably right now, but that was not the case untill recently. The previous versions would not work with NTFS and NT4 did not support Fat32. The result was one could only create 2 GB FAT-16 partitions and that was where you had to...

Q) What that that have to do with it? A) The 3rd letter of the 3rd book on the 3rd shelf in the 3rd house owned by the 3rd person on the 3rd street in the 3rd town that Jack built.