Recent content by unixmandan

Do you mean a home dvd player or a computer dvd player? I hear the pioneer 16x computer dvd players are awesome and they're about $110 canadian.

If your computer is so old (basing that on the 700meg HD), why use a window manager at all? The command line is extremely efficient and fast. When I had a small bsd box that I used as a firewall, I just ran netwatch and left it there. I didn't need a window manager.

It's been a few episodes since the premier of Law and order: Criminal intent, what do you all think of it? I've been a long time law and order fan, but i dont think i like the new series. Vincent just seems "too good" to me. And it seems as though his partner is useless, like he's doing...

Ahh, yeah i heard 266 somewhere in there. Can anyone confirm the performance jump?

I'm so jealous... that would be the coolest case ever. Nice man

Maybe because windows is a piece of crap? Heh, jk. I have no clue.

I was talking to my computer guy about prices and stuff because i'm getting a new computer soon. He said to wait for these new motherboards coming out that are sometimes 10% faster than the older ones. What's he talking about?

You said learn Unix... So I assume you're looking for a more Unix-style linux disrto? If so, go with slackware. If you just want to learn linux, try Mandrake. If you want to get even closer to Unix, try out BSD. There's 3 different kinds, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. FreeBSD has a ton of...

Agreed... do NOT buy a compaq 2 years ago dell had the lowest time on hold for people wanting tech support. I dunno if they still are.

Yeah, that's the thing. See if I get my own, I can leave it in FreeBSD (until i want to play games), i can set up a little server, i can connect to it from school and do our C++ stuff in emacs, i can have my friends over for little lan parties, etc. So, i dunno. I guess i'll just have to see...

Well basically the guys that build em for me buy the parts from NCIX.com and then build it for $100. That's pretty good, because if i tried to build one myself and screwed up... no warranty. How long would that comp last me for? I'm a little worried about the Geforce2, those are already...

Oops! I didn't mention that. Yeah it doesnt come with a monitor :P I would bring my 19" one over and give my parents the old 15"

Hey, here's the deal. My parents would like to upgrade the computer, or buy me my own. It's up to me. So I can either get a whole decent one of my own, or upgrade our old one into a massive beast. If i did get my own here's what it would be: ASUS A7M266 Motherboad T-bird 1400 MHz CPU 512 MB...

Actually i'm soon upgrading to a t-bird 1.4 \ 256 megs ram, so my new system should be able to take advantage of wichever card i get. "It doesn't take much of a system to max out a GF MX... they sucked. The worst 3D card out there." A year ago, they were cheap, decent performance, and...

Exactly 1 year ago today (october 5 2000) I bought a hercules Geforce 2 MX for $179 canadian. Oh the games we played... Quake 3, sacrifice, tribes 2, Max Payne, Wolfenstein test to name a few. I even put in a little fan myself and overclocked him. It's been the best card a guy could ask for, but...