Recent content by lacunae

seems like there should be better options available. via C3's are slow -- fastest one is 1ghz, but floating point performance is much slower than intel/amd. maybe this would be a good, cheap solution for you: http://www.krex.com/PPmain.asp?IC=1759&msk=PD it includes the mb/cpu (and...

its most likely what bbd said. many older motherboards cannot handle drives bigger than ~36gig (and can't be fixed by a bios update), so a lot of larger drives have a jumper which limits the number of cylinders that will be used (so the drive formats to 32GB). check your drive jumpers, and...

i'm goin with lunotick here... i just don't see how people can say that 256MB is more than enough without knowing what you're doing with it, and to some extent how you work. if you're gaming, or mostly just run apps singly, then definitely the faster 256MB. if you primarily run memory hogging...

stick with the original plan (extra nic + crossover cable)... its cheap (<$20), fast (100Mbps), and if you setup ICS on the desktop you can use your internet connection on your laptop as well. the other options (par, ser, usb) are pretty slow: upto 5Mbps usb, 0.7Mbps par, 0.4Mbps ser...

<< Working...First,is the x10 a brand name? Second, of what good is a mouse without the keyboard? Assuming web-surfing, how would you search &quot;cat&quot; or &quot;dog&quot;? Assuming games, the best mouse has 4 or 5 buttons, how do you control a game? Most require more inputs than that...

burn-proof is a wonderful thing... when i first got my 12x4x32 cdrw (w/burn-proof), i ran a torture-test of sorts that included burning an audio cd on the fly from mp3s stored on a couple of different machines on a network, while watching a dvd (software decoding on a k6-3/400) on the machine...

VB: you got a dead rat caught in your cooling fan??? :&thorn; how big a fan are you running? rats are BIG! anyways, add to the list: -poorly written software -excessive temperatures -bad power (meaning from the wall outlet, tho pad powersupplies are also a cause)

you could run the 266fsb 1.2 at 200fsb, but you'd only be getting 900mhz (unless you unlocked the multiplier). you didn't mention how much memory you have now, so its hard to say how useful it would be (tho it is cheap these days). if you already have a good amount (>256mb), you might just...

digital zooms (on digital cameras) can be useful in cases where you're shooting at less than the maximum resolution of the camera (ie- 640x480 on a camera that does 1280x960 or 2048x1536) the pix still turn out fine because the camera is just cropping out the 640x480 from the middle of the...

i'd pick up a self-powered hub... they're cheap (4-port ~$20-40), give you extra ports, and take the load off of your computer's motherboard and power supply. also, if your case doesn't have front-mounted usb ports, an external hub is nice just for convenience for connecting/disconnecting...

nice system... but if i was gonna spend all the $$ for the gf3 &amp; everything, i'd want at least a 19&quot; (or 21&quot;) instead of the 17&quot;

well, obviously a &quot;bare drive&quot; is just that... bare. but some video cards come with, other components too... for a friend's computer (that we put together from parts), we ended up with 3 different dvd players (didn't install them all obviously) -- dvd software came with the dvd-rom...