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fahooglewitz1077
 Post subject: Geekery/Computers
PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:40 am 
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This is the thread for all things geek and computer.


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Someone Try and Top me!


No prob.

Fujitsu laptop specs: Running XP Pro, Celeron 500MHZ :(( , TFT with 1024x480 naitive resolution, 20 Gig HDD, 200 Megs of RAM, 1 USB port :((

WLAN hub specs: Apple Airport, 802.11B, integrated TCP/IP 10/100, integrated modem

Desktop Specs: GEforce 2 video card, 1.5 GHZ Amd Athlon, 256 Megs of RAM, 60GB HDD, 4 USB Ports

Ha! I've out-geeked you!

EDIT: I forgot to mention I have 6 more PCs and 7 more Macs.

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Currently figuring out how to set up a proxy server locally so I can tunnel traffic from work. Cower before my geekitude!

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As Strong Bad would say "holy crap!"

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Ha! Dell 4600, 3ghz P4 HT, 1gb RAM, SB Live! 5.1 (commercial version, not Dell's knock-off), Flat panel monitor. I also went to Tweak XP and leeted my machine by deactivating all the unnecessary services (and uninstalling all the unnecessary Dell service applications). Also, I use a program called TuneXP to make it run even faster. Download it and give it a shot. 16X DVD installed, plus a 48x24x48 CDRW I installed myself.

I use it for games, music composition (Fruity Loops with a whole crapload of freeware VSTi plugins), Bible study (Greek and Hebrew texts), and checking out H*R.

My old system died about 3 weeks ago. It was a Dell XPS R350 with a 1ghz overdrive processor, 512mb RAM, the same SB Live! 5.1, the same CDRW, and the antiquated 2x DVD it came with.

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I still have my OLD Pentium MMX 133 Mhz PC. It hasn't died yet, but It's really, REALLY slow.

I have a Lexmark P3150. It is awesome
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I like the fighting Windows vs. Mac gif you got. Although ol' Bill runs both companies now. All Hail the Dark Lord Williamus Gatius!

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Although ol' Bill runs both companies now.

I Beg to differ. Just watch the Apple keynote speech.
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Really? I remember seeing something that DLWG (Dark Lord Williamus Gatius) owned a good chunck of Apple stock. Of course, that was a while back...

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Really? I remember seeing something that DLWG (Dark Lord Williamus Gatius) owned a good chunck of Apple stock. Of course, that was a while back...

BILL: {to broker} I thought I told you to get me some SNAPPLE! Ahh!
BROKER: Uh oh.
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There was a movie (maybe on the History Channel?) about the Dark Lord WIlliamus Gatius and Steve Jobs. At the end of the movie, it said that after SJ quit Apple, he came back and DLWG was his new boss! Now THAT would SUCK! The man not only steals your ideas, but he ends up running the company you helped to start! Of course, that was before that whole monopoly lawsuit against The Evil Empire.

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I know a lot about Apple, and first, Steve Jobs was forced to quit, the he started his own company, "NeXT", which was purchased by Apple in 1997. Apple was in a slump around 1997, so SJ, being crafty, designed the iMac, (released in 1998) which raised Apple's profits considerably, and the Board put him as CEO.

SHUDDERING FACT: Al Gore is on Apple's Board of Directors.
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so SJ, being crafty, designed the iMac


Um, Steve Jobs didn't design the iMac. Steve Jobs is upper management, he doesn't design anything any more than Bill Gates writes Windows code. The iMac design, according to the WikiPedia, is attributed to Jonathan Ive.

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SJ worked with Jonathan Ive, at Apple's Industrial Design Lab.
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Intel Pentium 4 2.6ghz
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My friend has a 3.0 ghz Pentium 4. I had a "holy crap" moment when he told me about it. :newsb:
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jeez, im just about as techie as a 12 year old gets, but hallf the stuff youve talked bout, ivve nevah heard of, i can fix most problemss on a windows '98, '00 and XP, but you guys are big!

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To Think that I'm 12
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Well, I'm 13, and I know most things about my iBook G4 (laptop):
1 GHZ, about 56 GB of storage, a 1024 x 768 resolution LCD display, and an ATI OpenGL card (not sure the specifics of it)

I know a bit of PHP, Perl and Python, am fairly skilled in ActionScript (the script in Flash), and am quite fluent in HTML.

Oh, and for those old-school gamers-- Ever hear of a game called Wizardry? My dad is Andrew Greenberg, one of the two main developers of it, so I have a geek-rich upbringing.

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Oh, and for those old-school gamers-- Ever hear of a game called Wizardry? My dad is Andrew Greenberg, one of the two main developers of it, so I have a geek-rich upbringing.

So you're dad went to the younger Cornell? And he's a patent attorney with Carlton Fields, a law firm in Florida? And he was also involved with the production of the game Q-Bert? And he is the Vice-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee for the IEEE?

That's totally cool.
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Motherboard: MSI KT4 Ultra

CPU: Athlon XP+ 2400

Operating System: Windows 98 SE

Video Card: Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB

Hard Drive: 40 GB 5200 RPM

RAM: 512 MB PC2700

CD Drive: 48X DVD/CD Drive

Sound: Integrated C-Media 8738

Monitor: 17" Samtron 76V

Keyboard: Logitech Internet Navigator

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Operating System: Windows 98 SE


Please explain why, on a relatively sweet system like that, you're running an abomination of an OS like Win98..

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Please explain why, on a relatively sweet system like that, you're running an abomination of an OS like Win98..


I wouldn't say an Athlon XP +2400 is "sweet".

Anyway,

Computer Model: HP a305w-b

Motherboard: Intel D845GEBV2

CPU: Intel Celeron 2.7 GHz

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (This got rid of "home" and "pro".)

RAM: 256MB PC2700

Video Card: Currently Intel Extreme "Incapable" Graphics. Switching soon.

Sound: Realtek AC '97

Monitor: 17'' HP v72

Keyboard: HP Basic PS/2

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (This got rid of "home" and "pro".)


No it didn't. If you have XP Home SP2, you still can't log on to a domain, you have to use workgroups. Still need Pro for that.
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Well, the versions still exist, it's just that they have almost equal features now (and the boot screen says "Microsoft Windows XP"- No version tag.)
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Tom wrote:
So you're dad went to the younger Cornell? And he's a patent attorney with Carlton Fields, a law firm in Florida? And he was also involved with the production of the game Q-Bert? And he is the Vice-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee for the IEEE?

That's totally cool.


Woah. How'd you find all this out?

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Woah. How'd you find all this out?


Have you tried The Popular Search Engine Google?

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thefreakyblueman wrote:
Woah. How'd you find all this out?


Have you tried The Popular Search Engine Google?


ALL HAIL TPSEG!!!
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Tom wrote:
So you're dad went to the younger Cornell? And he's a patent attorney with Carlton Fields, a law firm in Florida? And he was also involved with the production of the game Q-Bert? And he is the Vice-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee for the IEEE?

That's totally cool.


Woah. How'd you find all this out?

It's in Wikipedia under Andrew Greenberg.

And you've never Googled your dad? Give it a whirl, you might find something that would make for interesting dinner table conversation.
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