uber_tom

well for those of you that don't already know the new nvidia linux drivers are out. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...4_1.0-8774.html for some reason there are 2 x86_64 packages and one of them seems to crash X, if anyone can explain this it'd be nice.

pffft women can't have orgasms, lies.....LIES AND WITCHCRAFT

get 'em from the sis site

I don't get it, you mean you have a 10 meg connection that isn't coming up as 10 meg, well join the club. ok, so i'll admit the speed test was well off with my upload speed (should be 4meg). so maybe it isn't sending enough packets, but i would consider the down speed pretty accurate. especially when you consider the network usage and other factors that affect you connection (by network usage i mean your ISP). As for full duplex, i was under the impression that meant you can send and receive at the same time, which my modem could do, please explain what you mean?

I recently updated Firefox to 1.5.0.6. i don't know what it was before but now its acting really sluggish. is it me or firefox? Konqueror and Lynx are fine, as is my conection.

i guess it would depend on the state of the network the server is connected too.

yeah 'meh' is pretty cool but my favourite is 'Quite!' or 'Indeed'

desperately wants your p66 laptop. i had a celeron 1ghz, man celerons are crap. I installed a game called risk2, the laptop somehow manage to hit a wall at high velocity. it don't work no more.

WOW that is so neat. i love the different server locations. i get 9 meg from London, 3.5 east cost U.S, 3 west coast and a whopping 514k from New Zealand. Funny i would have thought it would be greater the half a meg lost across the U.S i guess there's a good optical network.

i can't remember how i heard about it. i installed my first copy of SuSE 6.0 in late 1999 or early 2000, it took a while to get used to it KDE 1, wasn't that pretty. support was also pretty bad, getting dvd's to play took me about a week and i got a frame rate of about 5 (granted it was a K62 500). i finality had it has my main OS about 2 years ago, although about 3 or 4 months ago i started duel-booting again (on this machine at least) thanks to battlefield 2 and that's all i use windows for now. i can get most of my other games to run with cedega.

I don't know about greatest, but i can remember my favourite. I was given a 386 that wouldn't boot or do anything, and i managed to revive the half-dead dos installation and the completely dead 3.11 installation with no addition software nor tools. doesn't sound like much but the only real computing experience i had at that point was my Vic-20 and the acorns at school. it was my first experience with an IBM pc and i loved it.

i think i clicked on the wrong one, i forgot i use one at work

the paper clip demands you to phrase it like this.... do as he commands.

probably because i forgot to crop it after scaling it

Sheet metel is sharp. I once cut cleen through the tendon in my little finger, it didn't hirt but i needed two op's. It snaped again after the first one. now it wont straighten properly. im just glad it was my right hand and hasn't affected my guitar playing.

I like Bender. He's a robot. Didn't scale so good.

If your talking about an old parallel printer cable then i would get a null modem adapter, but then i'm sad.

Thanks Max but rdp is a windows protocol and is of little use to me. Would i open myself up for abuse if a said i didn't know what an isa server is? i take it its not a server bult on an isa mboard, although that would give me an excuse to use my SB16 (i refuse to throw it away). i think i'm getting the jist of port fowarding, do i have to set it up client, server side or both?

Linux is my OS of choice for anything but gaming, but id really like to have a fiddle with solaris, not that i can afford a sun system. I'd also like a go with the BeOS, i heard theres a freeware version floating about but im far too lazy to find it. Of course i cant get enough of MS-DOS just for the memories and the awesome games, but i think it'd be wasted on my modern boxes.

i used to have the win32codecs installed for xine, but they don't work on my 64 bit distro and mplayer sucks, so i'm kinda interested. although i would be far happier if the format was removed from the internet altogether, it looks so cheap.... i really can't think of any other way to describe it. i can spot it a mile off.

lights, now theres an idea. whats the voltage on the PC speaker? i'm sure it would be far less annoying if you replaced it with a LED. sure wolfenstein wouldn't be the same anymore but i don't think i could handle a beep every time i got a message, even if you did alter the pitch.

we only had one win16 box, it was a weird 486 DX2 / acorn it could be booted as either. it was mainly used as a server for the acorn network but when thay took that down they used the 486 function with the win network. i so wanted that computer.

i would recomend using a live linux cd but ntfs is usally read only with them. so if you must delete it without reinstalling i would say a dos boot disk with ntfs for dos (i think thats what it is called, i haven't used it in ages) or maybe you could use the recovery console on your windows disk.

I'd just use it to f**k about with. Play with different OS's see how many you can get on there, see how fast you can clock it or stick dos/win 3.1 on there and see if you can get any 32bit programme other than hearts to run with the win32 dlls. That'd be the best hack ever, i will forever worship anyone who can get a 32bit app running on 3.1 with the win32 dlls, (not including hearts of course. and without any decompiling or code changes to the app). oh wait its says 1000mhz, i read 100 mhz. it won't be all that much fun to play with. eBay it to some sukka. PC for sale with cd-rom drive and keyboard, will run windows XP, complete with cheap flimsy mouse shaped like a cute animal of some sort $1000. Also my definition of a crap machine would be 286 or less, i think i could handle a 286 as long as it had a harddrive.

Yeah, i started with KDE so i kinda stick with it. Its a little heavy but it does the job and i've come to rely on a lot of K app's. I can't really get into gnome it just doesn't feel right. fluxbox and blackbox are kinda neat for lite desktop's but no good for my main box as i need loads of kde lib's to run alot of the programmes i use and it ends up nearly as heavy as the kde and alot more crash prone. but these days i don't bother with X on my other boxes its easier to get remote shell than remote desktop and faster too.