Recent content by Spleeze

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    Will This Fit??

    will this case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811182566 fit this mobo http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P3/HE-SL/370DE6-G.cfm it's a gigantic mobo, and after buying one case (a standard case not a rackmount) and not having it fit i want something...
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    ATI drivers and slackware 10.1

    nope its a radeon 9600pro, single card, i believe i need the proper radeon drivers to get it to drive both monitors as one big desktop... also thank you so much for that link to that slackware package, i didnt even think of that i'll let you know what happens
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    ATI drivers and slackware 10.1

    Hey guys i'm having a bit of trouble installing the newest linux radeon drivers from ati's site on my install of slackware 10.1. I've used swaret to update to current and i've compiled a new 2.6.11 kernel with agpgart as a module along with the module for my appropriate chipset if this helps...
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    Two Linux Questions - Firefox and profiles and Mouse

    hey guys, i've got a two linux questions so i hope you guys can help me out! 1. i have a logitech mx500 mouse and i would like to know how to make all of the buttons work, i managed to get the scrollbar working but the other buttons are all recognized as just the 3rd mouse button, its driving...
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    Linux problems HELP

    Thanks for your help guys. Linux is... well, different, but I'm picking it up. :D
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    Linux problems HELP

    I just installed Slackware 10, and I have some questions... First off, how can i install firefox so it WORKS! I did all that tar -xzvf firefoxblah blah ./firefox-installer stuff, but after i install and browse to the directory in a terminal and type firefox it says it cant find the command.. If...
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    Partitioning For Linux/Slackware and some other questions

    Thats what I would think too... But I cant do much in the way of using a different CD-rom drive, since this is a laptop and all.... WinXP installs fine, and is already on there, No errors copying any files during that install... Thing is, can I make that 1 gig fat32 partition house my /home...
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    Partitioning For Linux/Slackware and some other questions

    I know there are some very good linux guys here so I think this should be a very easy question. How should I partition my disk for linux? 6 gig disk broke down like this: 2 gig for winxp 1 gig for a "Storage" partition, I wanna make it pat32 so linux and windows can both reliably read/write to...
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    Windows can be so wierd sometimes

    But it shows when i click the little icon in the sys tray... every single time. its not like that with the other icon.
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    Windows can be so wierd sometimes

    Here's a question that I hope someone can answer. When I go to my network connections folder and double click on my LAN connection, it should display the status of my connection. It doesn't do anything. When i right click my LAN connection and select status it does nothing. The only ways I can...
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    Is this RAM gonna work for me?

    So: Don't waste the cash? There is no dual channel ram packs form crucial (by the way i know its more of a gimmick than a necessary thing) and if i buy 2 of thier 512mb sticks it's gonna cost more than the OCZ. All that money? the reason i'm thinkin of getting this ram is BECAUSE it's cheap. I...
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    Is this RAM gonna work for me?

    well i linked to pc3500 in fact, and i was asking is if it will work ok in an nforce2 chipset motherboard, since it says everywhere that its optimized for those intel chipsets.
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    Building My First Computer

    Just wanted to say, don't bother getting some crazy raid array, The performance gains are nill and you double your chance of losing data.
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    Building My First Computer

    go get yourself a nice socket 939 athlon64 and at least a gig of ram... with that kinda budget and all those components taken care of already, I would even take a look at 2 gigs.... As far as a vid card goes, I would say GeForce 6800GT, but that's my opinion, you might hear otherwise from other...
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    Is this RAM gonna work for me?

    anyone?