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Skriven 2006-06-18 23:14:10 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: W2K-NTFS w/dual boot
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Maurice Kinal wrote James Bradley on 06-18-06 23:18

 JB> web site,
 MK> I can relate.

Lexmark is in line for finger click-itis too. It's like they compete to be the
most challenging!

Dell, to their credit has a FTP port, but I didn't see a quick-link directory,
where one could reach relevant "ln -s" particular to one machine. I took a
glance of the directories I downloaded to *for one machine*, and it was around
6/7 of a-G! ...And I didn't bother fetching everything. No wonder their pipes
get clogged!

 MK> themselves these days.  All the manufacturer
 MK> linux support I've run across is highly dubious.

I hear that. The best support I have seen, is some schmuck in a university,
publish a page + 1/2 explaining how he got his colour Lexmark LASER printer to
work with Debian.

 JB> Two are the power-monger desktop towers, but four are their

 MK> I like the cases.  Haven't had one but I've seen
 MK> them.  I'd change a few things but overall they
 MK> are very nice.

I've only opened dad's so far. Sure took some examination to open the bloody
clamshell, but at least there's no screws to lose.

 JB> (With a three channel SCSI controller, plus another scsi
 JB> controller or JB> two onboard... ... ... )

 MK> Adaptec?

So far as I've seen. One reported a "Dell" something or another, but I saw an
Adaptec chip on the MB.

 JB> those rack-mount.) I have a rack-mount Dell on the bench right now,
 JB> that needs JB> another 733 copermine.

 MK> Those are 133MHz fsb.  Are the s370's or
 MK> slot1's?

Slots, so far as I've seen.

 JB> two CPUs to max it out. Hopefully, I can reach close to 1G with it.

 MK> Should be able to.  I've seen a few places that
 MK> still sell new 1G s370's.

Slot 1 + 370 only went to 133MHz in the bus?

 JB> toss the EISA bussed Compaq's,

 MK> Good plan.  I have had problems with those in
 MK> the past.

Like the Dell cases, you KNOW *some* team of engineers had their way with them.
Mine are mostly the ones pre-management shuffle, so they sold at a minimum of
mark-up, and they *still* were priced out of reach. 

 JB> farm. If there were only more hours before dawn...

 MK> PCI or ISA?  I have a crapload of 3com ISA's

Ditto. There's a LOT of onboard NICs, with one containing *two* onboard.
...Make a nice firewall, if I had something to protect it from.

 JB> pickup in my back yard? Its S# has a "666" in it.

 MK> Sounds like my kind of vehicle.

I'm thinking of giving it a "The Beast" paint job.

 JB> Plant music: I hear they like full bore Metal best, so everyone gets

 MK> Really?  I thought plants were more into
 MK> classical music.

Likely, that's all they had in the University lab at the time. I think the Myth
Busters (Someone on Discovery anyway.) pumped different types of tunes in, and
only because the Metal was most consistent at being a shake table... Turns out,
they were only responding to the vibes. The message, not the medium. (-|

 JB> I wonder what the neighbors would think, if it starts a 9am, and runs
 JB> 'til JB> 22:00 automagically.

 MK> 'Highway To Hell'?  :-)

They hate me enough already! <LOL> What, with all the Dell SMPs, and monitors
planted in the garden...



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