Recent content by coredog2

Hammer's Slammers was his first book. If you can find the rest of the series (prolly in a used bookstore) you'll really like them -- he's learned a lot since then. Jim Baen understands exactly what RIAA doesn't -- free samples sell products.

Now that Sun has dropped the free Solaris binary program for SMP _capable_ machines (like my SS20), I'd guess there are quite a few folks who aren't interested in dropping $95 for the Sol 9 media and/or $300+ for a support agreement. Which is a long winded way of saying "I will definitely...

It doesn't look like the Compaq P910 does sync-on-green, which this (and almost every "real" Sony does), so if you need a monitor that does s-o-g, this isn't a bad deal.

I had this one in my hands and screwed up. I saw it on the shelf at $69.50, but decided I wanted to hit work and print the $10 off $40 coupon for even more savings. When I got back, they had the _box_, but when I had 'em open the box, the unit itself was "missing". Everything else was in...

GeForce cards should work under Linux. nVidia provides a binary only driver though, so be prepared to deal with that. When I got my card yesterday, it actually had the brand name "nVidia" all over the PCB. Sounds like CompGeeks had a mixed lot of these things.

Since you're using a coupon, I think you're pretty much stuck with using a PM card like Amex blue

It looks like the motherboard has 2 VRM slots. Buy a 1400SC and then give your supplier the number off the installed VRM ;)

SGI uses/used a custom 24 pin adapter in their first x86 workstations too -- Just try finding an original VW320 workstation powersupply. But SGI's weirdness predates that. They use 20 pin molex connectors for the PS in my Indy, but they don't use the same signals, so you'd have to hack up a...

The standards for VRMs are published by Intel, so it should be the case that as long as you find one that provides the correct voltage for a 1GHz P3, you're good to go. You could probably even get Dell to sell you a new, correct VRM for under $25 with a little bit of social engineering...

Before 802.11b went mainstream, I bought a complete set of Proxim's HRF products. 2 pc cards, a PCI card, and the ethernet access point. While it's only 1.6MB, I'm pretty happy with it. It goes corner to corner in my house, works well with Linux (on x86 anyways) and WindowsCE. The only issue...

Cyrix/Via is trying to market an embedded processor in the consumer market. A 733MHz Cyrix proc is gonna run about as fast a 500MHz Celeron. _But_ it runs damn cool. You can almost get away with passively cooling it. Good for a machine for a grandparent or a kid who isn't gonna play FPS games.

The Staples website let me order the $.09 sleeve but then I got an email saying OOS :( They also have the same item with a different number that shows up at the "real" price (~$150).

This deal is at least 3 months old. It's an okay thing to have. The music is wack, but ISTR that the full length movie is "To Kill a Mockingbird". Beats having to wait 20 minutes while it downloads from filmspeed.com

When I left about 6pm there were still at least 3 in stock at the Arrowhead ChimpUSA here in Phoenix/Glendale (zip 85382).

The reason there's no market for it is that these "Xeons" (and yes, I mean the quotes) are merely a marketing ploy. They're P3s in a slot 2 cartridge. They're not 4 way capable, and AFAIK, they don't have the eeprom and SMBus functionality that a real Xeon has.