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My development team at work has been running the same hardware for 1.5 years now (733mhz, 384M Ram, 18 gig disk). Normally it would be about time to replace machines, but the company is cutting back on $ so we are just going to upgrade RAM and HD. I asked IT to figure out the cost to upgrade each machine to an additional 512 meg ram. It turns out that all of these machines RAM slots are full and all of them are using the older slower 600mhz Rambus RAM which is no longer available. So now I have to combine ram on half the machines to get them to 512meg and buy entirely new ram for the other half. We are going to end up with a pile of 64 Meg RAM chips that will proably be thrown away <sigh>. I know technology advances quickly, but it just seems rediculous that our RAM has become outdated in 1.5 years!
Chris Hafey
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How in the heck can you upgrade your computer weekly??? Hardware wise I am speaking.
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That was the fools-click-me option Chris often puts into his polls. He likes putting one silly answer in there 
Nish
![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) Has anyone seen my sig?
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Anyone who vote weekly or monthly are
either joking or wishfull thinking.
Lee
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Upon starting my system this morning I got a message on boot up: "Imminent disk failure detected"  
The hard drive then made a strange scraping noise  and Windows wouldn't boot.
I rebooted and tried booting my linux partition.  Fired right up no problem. w00t w00t!! Guess I better get my cd-burner goin' cuz I got alot of sh*t to back-up....GrrrArrrgh 
Josh Knox
that-guy.net
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes." - author unknown
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So Linux does have some use after all - as disaster recovery. Perhaps they should change their marketing angle. 
Michael
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Michael P Butler wrote:
So Linux does have some use after all - as disaster recovery.
Indeed. DemoLinux (new window) has saved me many times in this way.
Sometimes I only remember, The days when i was young
Nowadays no one remembers when they were young and stupid... ADEMA, The Way You Like It
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Cant you boot in with a floppy and over-install windows???
Nish
Has anyone seen my sig?
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Josh Knox wrote:
Upon starting my system this morning I got a message on boot up: "Imminent disk failure detected
I hate messages like that,
Its a bit like having a tooth ache, and you are unsure if it is going to blow up to a full grown problem. Yuk !
Regardz
Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I think it's interesting that we often qu-ote each other in our sigs and attribute the qu-otes to "The Lounge". --- Daniel Fergusson, "The Lounge"
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Once a year for both.
Work * 2 - Brand new PCs, I always get the fastest processor (AMD) and glugs of memory and 19" Display.
Home - new processor and more memory maybe a new graphfx card if needed.
Normski. - Professional Windows Programmer
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I used to be really into games, so I'd upgrade some part (usually MB/CPU or video card) every year to keep up with the latest games.
Now that I've stopped playing games, my current system is about 2.5 years old (dual Celeron 533s overclocked to a SMOKIN' 600  ) and it's perfect for Visual C.
Although I can't play some of the newer games on MAME. 
--Mike--
It's hammer time!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm
Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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Yeah, same here, at least once a year was buying a new thingy to comp
Well... was playing a LOT of time... now not, just have no time to play.
My current comp is P-III 800 with 512M memory and 40G hard drive (G-Force 2 VR, scanner, printer, whatever...)
Just not in need to upgrade, working fine for VC++ and InterDev, what else I need? lol
Philip Patrick
"Two beer or not two beer?" (Shakesbeer)
Web-site: www.saintopatrick.com
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Hi Mike
My home machine is a P-III 800 with 256 MB ram.
Right now I am planning on buying a CD burner so cant upgrade anything else.
But if I do upgrade, should I go for a P-IV and keep the same ram or should I simply add more ram and make it 512?
I dont play many games...
Just VC++ mostly...
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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P3-800 is plenty for VC, and fine for games (for now ). If you have a decent vid card and hard drives, RAM is probably a good upgrade since games keep becoming bigger memory hogs.
--Mike--
It's hammer time!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm
Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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I am not too keen on games, but I think I'll take your advice and go for RAM instead of processor.
My office box is a Dual P-III Xeon 550 with ONLY 128  MB ram and running XP prof.
The graphics is so slow. If I drag a window the painting is in slow motion.
Is this an XP feature that can be undone with more RAM?
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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Actually, that sounds more like a video driver problem. 128 MB should be enough for XP (as long as you don't have a ton of services or other stuff running in the background).
--Mike--
"Jobs that don't allow you to visit the Lounge 25 times a day at the minimum are not worth having anyway."
-- Nish, 3/28/2002
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm
Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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OhGawdddd!!!
After you said that I took my video adapter properties.
It says this :-
Adapter Type :-
Adapter Information :-
Chip Type : <unavailable>
DAC Type : <unavailable>
Memory Size : <unavailable>
Adapter String : <unavailable>
Bios Information : <unavailable>
Means it is using the bare minimum default video driver!!!
Yikes! What do I do Mike?
help!!!!!!!
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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Update your drivers!
If you don't know the video card type, look in the Device Manager or the first screen you get when booting the machine.
--Mike--
"Jobs that don't allow you to visit the Lounge 25 times a day at the minimum are not worth having anyway."
-- Nish, 3/28/2002
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm
Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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Michael Dunn wrote:
look in the Device Manager
I did!
My video controller is shown under Other Devices and it simply says VGA compatible.
Maybe I really have a dumb VGA compatible card
Nish
Has anyone seen my sig?
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Hi Keyboard Smasher!
Spend half a day (I think I used the policy manager o Tweak XP or something similar) digging the XP internals and deactivate anything related to fancy styles, animations, washing machines, unused services, user switching, etc... You'll end with a more or less windows 2000 that is, in fact, increasing my user experience . Unless, of course, you enjoy all of this... I did, the first two days.
Regards,
R.
ps: Just a little question: What is the average "duration" of your signature? I assume you just wake up one day and say "I think this one is boring and ugly", am I right ?
ps2: Have you ever considered stacking them??? I think most CPians would be upset, but it would be nice to see....
$2002/03/20$
I am the Keyboard smasher
$......$
My current miniput ....
$.....$
My latest article
$.....$
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$2000/01/01$
Regards, Nish.
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Ramon Casellas wrote:
$2000/01/01$
Regards, Nish.
The "Regards, Nish" was never part of any sig. I manually type that each time I post.
By the way I removed all the fancy GUI stuff a couple of days ago but felt uneasy and so turned them all back on. I want XP to look fancy and yet want it to be fast!!!
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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Well, I tend to get minor parts fairly frequently, bits and bats here. The other day I bought a caddy, and a new optical mouse (still to arrive). The most recent major upgrade I bought was a new 60gb hard drive, but prior to this I had been running an 8.4 gig for about 3-4 years. The only reason I upgraded at the time I did was to give my 8.4 to a family member.
Before this computer (a 1.4ghz Thunderbird) I ran an AMD K6-2 350mhz for about three years, initally with 64mb, then 192mb. Now I have 256.
How thrilling . My joy comes from the use and programming of computers, not from breakingupgrading them . I upgrade my computer when the need arises; compile times were so slow on my old machine it got unbearable.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew Peace wrote:
I upgrade my computer when the need arises
Well, that's because you can Andrew.
There are others here who can't just do that even if the need arises
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
There are others here who can't just do that even if the need arises
I should've added 'when the money is there' to that statement .
I'm not rolling in it either, but we have to deal the hand we're given - and remember, not everything is about material possessions; something society today forgets all too often IMHO. That's the end of today's teachings from Andrew Peace (R)(C)TM .
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
I am the Keyboard Smasher
So you found a racing game ?
--
Andrew.
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Andrew Peace wrote:
So you found a racing game
Nope. I actually used to smash keyboards
Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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