September chat thread. 2.0
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I was saying it mostly as sarcasm, I know how a lot of guys like to compete
with each other over just about anything. That + I'm bored, sitting at work and
waiting for the phone to ring. BUT it is now 6:00, I'm outta here now!
We give out 'doze desktops wit 2GB RAM here where I work; the curernt Linux
towers that Engineering uses have 4 GB, the next generation will have 8.
Time to go home!
with each other over just about anything. That + I'm bored, sitting at work and
waiting for the phone to ring. BUT it is now 6:00, I'm outta here now!
We give out 'doze desktops wit 2GB RAM here where I work; the curernt Linux
towers that Engineering uses have 4 GB, the next generation will have 8.
Time to go home!
Ooh nice. I've seen some motherboards on Newegg.com that can handle 16GB....but you'd have to run a 64-bit OS to use all of that. 32-bit Winders would only see about 3.5GB of it or so.
I am so tired, I worked all day on 2.5 hours sleep. Tonight, I will make up for that.
EDIT: @greyghost lol
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4 gigs! BRING IT!
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COMPUTER -AND- MEMORY WERE GIVEN TO ME FOR FREE! BEAT THAT!
lol
Seriously though, this memory upgrade really helps. I take considerable advantage of tabbed browsing in Firefox every day, which takes up a decent amount of memory sometimes, so having right at a solid gig of memory available makes things easier. Plus things load faster and the whole computer is much more responsive. Where I'll notice the biggest improvement will be when I'm working with GIMP (an image editing program like Photoshop, but free and comparably powerful).
Ah yea greyghost, I'm tryin to stay awake for a while. It'd be a shame to go to bed at 9pm my time on a Friday night, lol. Also, be safe on your trip. Are you driving a Ford there?
Oh and on the subject of Fords, I read here on FTE today that the T18 manual transmission is rated at like 20,000lbs GVWR....schweet.
lol
Seriously though, this memory upgrade really helps. I take considerable advantage of tabbed browsing in Firefox every day, which takes up a decent amount of memory sometimes, so having right at a solid gig of memory available makes things easier. Plus things load faster and the whole computer is much more responsive. Where I'll notice the biggest improvement will be when I'm working with GIMP (an image editing program like Photoshop, but free and comparably powerful).
Ah yea greyghost, I'm tryin to stay awake for a while. It'd be a shame to go to bed at 9pm my time on a Friday night, lol. Also, be safe on your trip. Are you driving a Ford there?
Oh and on the subject of Fords, I read here on FTE today that the T18 manual transmission is rated at like 20,000lbs GVWR....schweet.
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COMPUTER -AND- MEMORY WERE GIVEN TO ME FOR FREE! BEAT THAT!
lol
Seriously though, this memory upgrade really helps. I take considerable advantage of tabbed browsing in Firefox every day, which takes up a decent amount of memory sometimes, so having right at a solid gig of memory available makes things easier. Plus things load faster and the whole computer is much more responsive. Where I'll notice the biggest improvement will be when I'm working with GIMP (an image editing program like Photoshop, but free and comparably powerful).
Ah yea greyghost, I'm tryin to stay awake for a while. It'd be a shame to go to bed at 9pm my time on a Friday night, lol. Also, be safe on your trip. Are you driving a Ford there?
Oh and on the subject of Fords, I read here on FTE today that the T18 manual transmission is rated at like 20,000lbs GVWR....schweet.
lol
Seriously though, this memory upgrade really helps. I take considerable advantage of tabbed browsing in Firefox every day, which takes up a decent amount of memory sometimes, so having right at a solid gig of memory available makes things easier. Plus things load faster and the whole computer is much more responsive. Where I'll notice the biggest improvement will be when I'm working with GIMP (an image editing program like Photoshop, but free and comparably powerful).
Ah yea greyghost, I'm tryin to stay awake for a while. It'd be a shame to go to bed at 9pm my time on a Friday night, lol. Also, be safe on your trip. Are you driving a Ford there?
Oh and on the subject of Fords, I read here on FTE today that the T18 manual transmission is rated at like 20,000lbs GVWR....schweet.
be as specific as possible, I have a ton of spare computer parts laying around the house that I am trying to get rid of. (postage is all i will ask for)
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Dell Optiplex 170L, 2.4GHz Celeron, DDR-1 memory.
Thing is, I don't even have the dough for postage.
Thing is, I don't even have the dough for postage.
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That would be a cool hack!
I had a friend who had one, I had an Apple //e.
Actually, no; it'd be painful....
IIRC the C64 had something likr 16k or 32k of RAM... maybe it was 64 and
that's where the name came from. Whatever; it wasn't a lot.
Nor did they have real UART chips and serial communications were done via
software emulation, I'd imagine at a blazing 1200bps if you could get that
high, default was 300 bps.
That worked fine for things like xmodem & zmodem and protocols like that.
But, there were 3rd-party add-on cards for the things, too, and maybe
somebody offered one with the 16550 or 16551 chip (if they'd been invented
yet).
But, you'd still need a TCP/IP stack for it, and then some sort of Web browser
software (and the RAM to run it). I guess you could try and make a text-based
browser work, soemthing like lynx or elinks or whatever.
But, it would be painful....
I had a friend who had one, I had an Apple //e.
Actually, no; it'd be painful....
IIRC the C64 had something likr 16k or 32k of RAM... maybe it was 64 and
that's where the name came from. Whatever; it wasn't a lot.
Nor did they have real UART chips and serial communications were done via
software emulation, I'd imagine at a blazing 1200bps if you could get that
high, default was 300 bps.
That worked fine for things like xmodem & zmodem and protocols like that.
But, there were 3rd-party add-on cards for the things, too, and maybe
somebody offered one with the 16550 or 16551 chip (if they'd been invented
yet).
But, you'd still need a TCP/IP stack for it, and then some sort of Web browser
software (and the RAM to run it). I guess you could try and make a text-based
browser work, soemthing like lynx or elinks or whatever.
But, it would be painful....
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For almost ten years I used the same old AMD Athlon computer as my main computer. 750MHz (cartridge CPU, pretty darn old), 512MB RAM, XP Pro. It would whip an 850MHz Pentium III easy.
To tell the truth, I still feel as though my Athlon is more responsive than this Celeron. Even though the Athlon is almost 1/4 of the MHz.
To tell the truth, I still feel as though my Athlon is more responsive than this Celeron. Even though the Athlon is almost 1/4 of the MHz.
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For almost ten years I used the same old AMD Athlon computer as my main computer. 750MHz (cartridge CPU, pretty darn old), 512MB RAM, XP Pro. It would whip an 850MHz Pentium III easy.
To tell the truth, I still feel as though my Athlon is more responsive than this Celeron. Even though the Athlon is almost 1/4 of the MHz.
To tell the truth, I still feel as though my Athlon is more responsive than this Celeron. Even though the Athlon is almost 1/4 of the MHz.
But, I do have to admit that Intel does make some good processors, I would just prefer to have an AMD.
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The paint I bought said that it resits oil, yet I am going to have to sand them down and paint them again, sadly.
My oil breather seems to have a bit of a leak, and the little oil that did spill over, left an ugly stain. I'll fix that soon enough.