For Christmas, I received a Compaq Presario 5477 computer with an Intel Celeron 500 mHz processor, 56K modem, 13 GB hardrive, 64 MB SDRAM, and tons of other goodies. The only thing is, I have to transfer everything from the dinosaur (P75) to this computer. And there's a lot of stuff on there...
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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited December 26, 1999).]
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Death before Dishonor!
However Dishonor has
quite a disputed defintion.
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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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"SHOES!"
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"'...This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!' cried the Spirit stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end!'"
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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"I suppose you thought I was dead? No such thing. Don't flatter yourselves that I haven't got my eye upon you. I am wide awake, and you give plenty to look at."
Household Words, Aug. 24, 1850
From the Raven in the Happy Family
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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited December 26, 1999).]
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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation
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Frank's Home Page
"My son and I have this wonderful kind of rivalry. Since I've taken over the Mac department in our home, he's seen fit to take over the PC. I have a routine I do for him, walking down the hall, bumping into walls, doing corkscrews and stumbling. I tell him I'm a Windows operating system." - John de Lancie
--Baloo
P.S.: Now to start completing my Frankie/Annette beach movie collection!
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Some drink at the fountain of knowledge... others just gargle.
--MoosieGirl (From the SDMB)
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm
Oh, well. As said, it's better than a Mac.
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"'...This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!' cried the Spirit stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end!'"
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation
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"The battle is raging inside my weary heart
screaming for me to let it all go...
My body is weak and I can't take the struggle anymore...
the love that was here is filled up by anger and rage..." ~FOM
Ummm... *looks under the tree* .. nope no new computer..
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- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax
Ummm... *looks under the tree* .. nope no new computer..
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- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax
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- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax
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"Shoes, yes. Definitely. Shoes."
Fabrux: Compaq!? Uhh. No. Compaq's suck. My friend TJ has to bring his old Presario in to my house (it has many diagnostic stuffs and a whole bunch of spare parts) to repair it and/or get it reformatted, oh, about once every 3 months. Hehe...
I got a new computer (well, just a bunch of upgrades) for Christmas as well. Too bad it sucks.....
Intel Celeron 466MHz CPU (Slower than the old Cyrix-200MHz! And handles workload way worse. Listen to your MP3 slow down to a crawl as you scroll sideways on big text files. Mmmm. If I wanted to hear that, I'd use NullSoft's tempo editor plugin! )
PC Partner AGP AT Mainboard (Only has 2 ISA slots. Meaning, if I have a network, I gotta give up my [good] sound card (SB16). The board has an onboard soundcard......err.....sound-chip...that sounds like crap.)
32MB AGP 3D VideoCard (This component is actually quite lovely....too bad almost none of my games seem to want to work!)
InterAct V3 Racing Wheel (Sweet! But hard to get the hang of )
Now, if I could just get this stuff working properly, I'd finally have a computer as good as all of yours!! Hehehe.
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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Frank's Home Page
"My son and I have this wonderful kind of rivalry. Since I've taken over the Mac department in our home, he's seen fit to take over the PC. I have a routine I do for him, walking down the hall, bumping into walls, doing corkscrews and stumbling. I tell him I'm a Windows operating system." - John de Lancie
Go and buy a lovely SB Live value. Or if you can't afford that, a SB PCI 128. And if you can't afford that, get a job. Two ISA cards is MORE that enough.
And I can't believe that your Celeron is slower than the cyrix. Are you running your computer thrrough lard or something? And why doesn' your graphic card work? Have you got DirectX 7 installed? And if it still odesn't work,get rid of it and get either a M400, or TNT2, or that new nVidea card whose name escapes me.
I got the Simpsons season 1 box-set for Christmas. And a CD player for my car. And another 4 fleece's. And 2 coat's. I think my parents are worried about me getting cold. I now own 6 pair's of fleece's and 10 coats. Of which I wear maybe 4. Ish.
And 4 watches. I dunno why, they keep buying me them. Strange people. You'd think they'd go with aftershave like normal parents.
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
"Two ISA cards is MORE than enough."
Uh, no. PCI cards slow my system down. Just like that onboard SB ViBRA16X PnP...
"And why doesn't your graphic card work?"
The video card's graphics processor is an NVIDIA Model 64. It supports TNT2-M64. And it works fine...where did I say it didn't?
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
[ www.linneberg.com ] | [ [email protected] ]
Sorry, you said that none of your games wanted to work. i thought you meant it was due to your graphics card.
And PCI slots slow down your system? Are you SURE?
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
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No I'm Spartacus!
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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Driver won't work because I get a blue screen of death every time I try to load it. Quake III Arena - I haven't tried it yet, but it requires Windows Service Pack 3 (which I can't get because it requires Microsoft Internet Explorer) and Win95 drivers for my CD-ROM drive (which I only have DOS drivers for)
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
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R.E.M.
So is there an actual reason you don't like PCI apart from these two incidents which, to be honest, aren't exactly common. Show me someone else who prefers ISA to PCI and I'll show you someone who uses their computer as a microwave.
And why haven't you got Win95 drivers for your CD-ROM? Eh? ANSWER ME!
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"Obesity. Adiposity. Corpulence. Whatever word you use, it represents one thing: being a big fatass."
Geraldo Rivera
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No I'm Spartacus!
Yes. I don't like PCI cards because when I had a PCI video card, it fit in upside-down. *ROTFL*
Mucus: Yes, the PCI modem was a Winmodem. But TJ (the friend with the modem) maintains that his isn't...hmmm.
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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--Then, said Cranly, do you not intend to become a protestant?
--I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Frank's Home Page
"My son and I have this wonderful kind of rivalry. Since I've taken over the Mac department in our home, he's seen fit to take over the PC. I have a routine I do for him, walking down the hall, bumping into walls, doing corkscrews and stumbling. I tell him I'm a Windows operating system." - John de Lancie
And if Q3A did load, the B.S.O.D. (Blue Screen Of Death) that results on my computer whenever you try to load an application that plays CD-Audio would surely obliterate Q3A's chances of working. AND! If it got by those two barriers, surely something else would pop up. *L* I'm going to sell this P.O.S. and add the money from the sale to my mom's Car fund.
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I just turned 17! Well, it beats my other sig.
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