hitchies wrote:
Tony said (of me) -
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Oh dear you misunderstand again I am afraid. Isn't text ridiculous.
I have not intended to criticise or patronise or insult or anything else.
I was just saying what I had experienced.
I am sorry if you have read something else into the raw
hitchies wrote:
Tony said -
What a con!
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I'll take that as an apology then.
Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising
anyone.
Tony
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..that's enough patronising. Thank you Tony.
Regards to all,
John in
hitchies wrote:
hitchies wrote:
Tony said -
What a con!
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I'll take that as an apology then.
Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising
anyone.
Tony
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..that's enough patronising. Thank you Tony.
Oh
Hi Marcel,
IIRC that might be a design limitation of Windows (and perhaps most
other OSes) but probably not of the Core Duo chip.
I wasn't sure whether it was the chip ir the OS. Thanks for the confirmation.
Norman.
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Hi Marcel,
Not entirely true, using a processor feature called PAE (Physical
address extension) some Windows server version can address more memory
(up to 64GB).
That's the patch I was thinking of, but I was under the impression it only
allowed an extra i GB of RAM to be addressed. As an
hitchies wrote:
Tony said -
What a con!
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I'll take that as an apology then.
Apology for what? My you are sensitive today. I was not criticising
anyone.
Tony
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Tony said -
What a con!
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I'll take that as an apology then.
Also, why separate DELL only for the (valid) flaming? - surely MAXTOR need
to learn something too regarding their own advertised product support which
they honour not?
Not raining in Wales though!
John
Norman Dunbar wrote:
A good theory, in practice it is let down by either the design of the
Core Duo chip or the OS not utilising things properly - I'm not sure which.
In a Core Duo, all accesses to the Input Output sub-systems *must* be
done by the first core and only by the first core.
IIRC
] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones
Sent: 02 January 2008 00:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
The existing one is either 6GB or 8GB (forget which). Derek has
offered a similar size one for £10 which is probably good enough for
such an old laptop. It used to have Windows 98SE
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
--- Original Message ---
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
The existing one is either 6GB or 8GB (forget which). Derek has =
offered a similar size one for =A310
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Stewart
Sent: 02 January 2008 09:15
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Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Dilwyn,
The Toshiba Tecra 780DVD is a PII 266Mhz Laptop is well within the minimum
specification for Windows XP. The main problem is the BIOS onlyu
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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Even more successful was connecting my phone to my PC and setting my
Freeola dial-up to point to the USB-phone link as a modem. Dial out,
and the phone magically springs to life, connects to Freeola and a
little later I was downloading email and browsing via the
Dave Walker wrote:
Microsoft nearly always under-quote the minimum memory requirements for any
sort of effective use of their OS. For XP anything less than 128Mb is
painful, and 256Mb is really what you should regard as a minimum to avoid
excessive disk swapping.
Spot on, Dave (as you
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Firshman
Sent: 02 January 2008 10:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Dave Walker wrote:
Microsoft nearly always under-quote the minimum memory requirements for
any
sort of effective use of their OS. For XP anything less than 128Mb is
painful
Re;
This does not apply to Seagate (and Maxtor) or Western Digital. They do
not ask for any information other than disk serial number.
Tony
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Tony must think I imagined it ;-)
But, in case it is of further interest ,I copy two correspondences (from
April 2004) below. I
hitchies wrote:
Re;
This does not apply to Seagate (and Maxtor) or Western Digital. They do
not ask for any information other than disk serial number.
Tony
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Tony must think I imagined it ;-)
But, in case it is of further interest ,I copy two correspondences (from
I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that can
be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.
- Original Message
From: Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 10:31:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that
can be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.
- Original Message
From: Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 10:31
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
My son is 12 now and VERY into his computers (as you might expect of a
son of mine!). This Christmas, he got a little £60 Aiptek digital
video camera, spent most of Christmas day recording his mum, dad,
grandparents etc and made a very good half hour video of it all
Hi Dave,
Dave Walker wrote:
Modern machines have hyperthreaded CPU cores, so you are more likely
to load multiple applications and still get decent performance if
you have lots of memory available.
A good theory, in practice it is let down by either the design of the
Core Duo chip or the OS
Are You Sure The laptop will support win Xp???
Usually if it was originally win 95 or 98 it will not measure up
to XP, at least the ones I have seen of that vintage.
There used to be a utility that you ran while in 98 that
evaluated the needed upgrades before you could install XP or if
Norman Dunbar wrote:
database buffer cache, noit for program units etc.
Not sure whether XP suffers from the 2GB limit or allows 3 GB though.
Linux doesn't have this problem, apparently.
Indeed, XP can see and use up to 3.5GB RAM - I have this installed on
both my wife's PC and my
Dave Walker wrote:
I suspect that you are right for standard Vista, but if I was buying for a
new machine I would be going for the 64-bit version which has no such limit.
Dave
The only problem with 64bit Vista is that the driver support is still
appalling and the performance increase
]
Sent: Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 7:18:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
emails from QPC via mobile phone, though I haven't got that far
yet. I
also want to get a USB Bluetooth dongle like my son's to see what I
can achieve with that.
It will be at 9600bps. ... so at 25p a minute
Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
My son is 12 now and VERY into his computers (as you might expect of a
son of mine!). This Christmas, he got a little £60 Aiptek digital
video camera, spent most of Christmas day recording his mum, dad,
grandparents etc and made a very
Norman Dunbar wrote:
Andy Barber wrote:
I read in the Guardian (so it must be true!) that the maximum memory that
can be used is 3Gb but that could be just for XP.
Up to XP at least, Windows 32 bit can address only 4GB of memory.
However, this is split into 2 GB for the user processes in
- Original Message -
From: Rick Chagouri-Brindle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone have a cheap second hand 2.5 inch IDE hard drive of a
few
GB capacity to sell?
The hard
--- Original Message ---
From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] 2.5 inch HD
The existing one is either 6GB or 8GB (forget which). Derek has =
offered a similar size one for =A310 which is probably good
enough for =
such an old laptop. It used to have
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone have a cheap second hand 2.5 inch IDE hard drive of a few
GB capacity to sell?
The hard drive on my son's Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop has failed. We
lost Windows, so set about reinstalling only to find it refused. An
attempt to reformat failed after 13%
Happy New Year to all!
Tony said
Check the guarantee. Seagate have a seven year one and that now covers
Maxtor. Western Digital also have a long one. I have used all three
many times successfully.
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In case this raises too many hopes... I was ( 3years ago)
hitchies wrote:
Happy New Year to all!
Tony said
Check the guarantee. Seagate have a seven year one and that now covers
Maxtor. Western Digital also have a long one. I have used all three
many times successfully.
--
In case this raises too many
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Does anyone have a cheap second hand 2.5 inch IDE hard drive of a few
GB capacity to sell?
The hard drive on my son's Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop has failed. We
lost Windows, so set about reinstalling only to find it refused. An
attempt to reformat failed after 13%
Does anyone have a cheap second hand 2.5 inch IDE hard drive of a few
GB capacity to sell?
The hard drive on my son's Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop has failed. We
lost Windows, so set about reinstalling only to find it refused. An
attempt to reformat failed after 13% (drive made awful noise).
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