In the fast-disappearing Circuit City stores, I found a 2-GB SD Memory
Card, MSRP $39.99, for...$2.96. I bought several!
Alex
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Wow!
I remember that I thought I was getting an incredible deal when I found one
for $19.99, 18 months ago. Maybe at the time it was...
-WaV
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Alex Sproul imoca...@comcast.net wrote:
In the fast-disappearing Circuit City stores, I found a 2-GB SD Memory
Card,
Check out some of these memory prices on a 1 gig stick of DDR2:
http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=720
Most are in the $ 15 to $ 20 range.
I don't quiet understand how RAM is not affected much by inflation.
If you bought a desktop computer a year or 2 ago, it probably
only came with 1
For most computer users, 2 gig of ram seems to be the sweet spot, this
applies to most power users. The only caveat to that is anyone doing
a lot of graphic or work, photoshop, etc need a lot more.
And you are correct, XP (32 bit) which is most of the XP installs, can
only address a max of
ANOTHER Caveat -
And this especially applies to VISTA (Oh, I forgot they call it Mojave
now):
Many peripherals have no drivers written (yet) to handle 64 bit operating
systems.
One of the presents my brother gave to himself and his home entertainment
system on Xmas was a new HP computer to go with
Just a few days ago, I was saying something about how the next Intel
computer to come
along would probably be more than most users would ever need.
Now, there is a computer that has all of its components completely
submerged in a
cooling fluid.
Charles,
In 1990, I was working for a respectable engineering company that had
computers doing
drafting ( Intergraph ).They were powered by a mainframe, using a
language by DEC.
I wanted to impress the IT guy, and was trying to learn as much about
it as I could.
Fortunately, this guy was
A few days ago, I briefly reported a new Intel chip and motherboard.
Here is a complete computer using this:
http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668210.php
Looks like a nice computer for $ 1,300.
It will probably drop to $ 1,100 in January.
I imagine that in 2 or 3 years or less, this
David, this is the latest and greatest from Intel. In 6 months, we'll
see an upgrade from them, if not sooner. This isn't the end-all,
be-all of processors, and while it is a decent upgrade from their
Core2Duo technology, it's not that significant.
The price of these processors will drop to
At 11:01 PM 12/2/2008, Don Cooper wrote:
Oh yeah - using a quantum pre-fetch add-on appliance on the
backplane of the golden idol power matrix, your applications can
load before you even start the computer. It only costs 35 billion dollars
Not to worry. Just last weekend the corps of
to 120... Date: Tue, 2
Dec 2008 20:56:10 -0600 From: dlocklea...@gmail.com To: o...@texascavers.com
Subject: [ot_caving] computer news - Intel According to this story today,
computer geeks have broken a record for desktop computer speed at 5 1/2
gigahertz: http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id
: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:56:10 -0600
From: dlocklea...@gmail.com
To: o...@texascavers.com
Subject: [ot_caving] computer news - Intel
According to this story today, computer geeks have broken a record
for desktop computer speed at 5 1/2 gigahertz:
http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13624
According to this story today, computer geeks have broken a record
for desktop computer speed at 5 1/2 gigahertz:
http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13624
They used the new Intel motherboard ( X58 ) and the new Intel
chip - the i7.
The base model of the X58 with the i7 is currently available
Try 'Naked DSL' from ATT. I'm paying only $34 a month for access that
usually tests downloading at about 2.5Mb/sec and uploads at 410 Kb/sec (
http://www.speedtest.net).
I think Naked DSL is also available at about 800 Kb/sec for $18/ month (But
then you'd probably not *even* be able to watch
You can now buy the new Intel CPU the Core i7.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rfJtSu6rL._SS500_.jpg
It is around $ 300.
It is getting good reviews on the web.
It not only requires a new motherboard, but there are only
a few compatible motherboards on the market and they are
expensive.
desktop icons and naming docs, they've gotten
easier to use. Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:28:39 -0600 From:
dlocklea...@gmail.com To: o...@texascavers.com Subject: [ot_caving] computer
news - Windows 3.1 Did anybody notice this week that MicroSoft has finally
buried Windows 3.1, and put it in its grave
Did anybody notice this week that MicroSoft has finally
buried Windows 3.1, and put it in its grave?
I would like to give sort of an eulogy.
In 1977, my mother re-married and to a man who
worked for a computer company that had main-frame
computers. He tried to show me computers, but
I was
I think my $300 Dell Laptop has a liquid cooling system. Apparently all
that does is help pipe heat away from the CPU so the heat sink matrix and
fan don't have to be centered on the CPU.
(Man, the bottom of that thing runs HOT when it's running wide open -
hooked up to external power with all
MicroSoft has posted a patch to fix 4 things aimed at users
of the new service pack ( SP1 ) of Windows Vista.
So you would think now that they are going to start fixing SP1's
other problems on a monthly basis.
They have also announced that they will have a version
of Vista's successor on the
you can now purchase a USB stick with 64 Gb.
It cost around $ 4,000.( I think )
Fry's has a 32 Gb for only $ 240.
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You will soon be able to buy a video card for your computer
with 2 processing chips. Expect to pay over $ 1,500 at first,
but the price is supposed to get down to the $ 500 range.
I remember about 10 years ago, I was doing computer-aided
drafting on a PC that had a 2 megabyte video card.
I
David, dual processor video cards are already here, I purchased this
card a week ago:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10007730
I'm a gamer, so keeping up with the technology is a hobby of mine :)
I thought I got a great deal on this card, but I didn't research it
Geez Charles -
What kind of games take so much video co-possessing power?
I'd think it would take a whole lot less hardware to support very smooth
display and accurate response of the very best flight simulators!
-DC
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Charles Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.org
wrote:
The latest flight sim X will eat modern video cards for lunch. Modern
games need as much horsepower as possible for higher resolutions.
Crysis is one, it wants multiple video cards at 1900x1200 resolution
at a decent framerate :)
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com
A company that makes memory for computers has announced
a they have a more expensive memory ready for the market:
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Corsair_2000MHz_DOMINATOR_4GB_DDR3_%40_Computex/5810.html
Corsair plans to sell them for around $ 675 each.
( You can put up to 4 of these on the
Here is an interesting article about a futuristic CPU.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080605-ibm-demonstrates-water-cooling-for-3d-processors.html
The human brain pipes data in 3 dimensions, so why shouldn't a
computer circuit?
A CPU that could do that sounds like it has a lot of
The BBC also has an article about this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/7439406.stm
It says that Apple was using this technology in 2004 in some of its G5
computers.
If only in some, and only in 2004, I wonder why it seems to have not
panned out for apple?
On 6/6/08, David
My dentist puts my x-rays into her data system. We can see them on the screen
in each examining room. Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:06:33 -0500 From:
dlocklea...@gmail.com To: o...@texascavers.com Subject: [ot_caving] computer
news - medical related Here is a story about how a fancy desktop
I have printouts of a heart scan I had. He told me he was giving me very pretty
pictures
Quinta
Here is a story about how a fancy desktop computer
can be used in a real world application to replace a more advanced
special purpose computer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/PC-supercomputer,5513.html
It is related to CT scans of the body.It is apparently more
common now for a
Charles -
Is the 'buffer overflow' vulnerability still an issue or is that ancient
history? I never quite understood how it could be exploited - I cannot
imagine how such an attack could make it past a firewall or even a router
anyhow...
It was one of my former IT bosses big excuse for not using
Well it seems that my statement that I would not go back to XP was not clear. I
like Vista - It is user friendly and it just took the old I do not like
anything new bit to settle down and learn a bit about it. I do not like the
reminder that I need to do a full back up but it is nice for ones
Don, that was just an excuse, sure there have been a varying amount of
exploits that utilized buffer overflows, but those get fixed rather
quickly. The linux kernel is an evolving animal, with changes and
fixes coming out almost daily. I monitor several security mailing
lists, that cover linux,
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ot@texascavers.comSubject: Re: [ot_caving] computer news - Vista relatedCharles
-Is the 'buffer overflow' vulnerability still an issue or is that ancient
history? I never quite understood
I actually did install Ubuntu on my fastest PC (AMD 64 3500+) which also has
a partition dedicated to Fedora 8 - so now its a triple boot.
The UBUNTU version was touted as being installed from Windows. I took it to
mean that it would switch back and forth between one and the other - but not
so.
] computer news - Vista related
Charles -
Is the 'buffer overflow' vulnerability still an issue or is that ancient
history? I never quite understood how it could be exploited - I cannot
imagine how such an attack could make it past a firewall or even a router
anyhow...
It was one of my former
You are probably right about the chipset and your dvd player, I
usually stick with intel or asus mobo's and have never had a problem
with ubuntu on them.
As far as your root problem, give this a try:
sudo -s
when it prompts you for a password, put your password in, by default,
the initial
For the past few months, web-sites discussing MicroSoft
Vista have portrayed the software as being inferior to
the older XP. Even after the release of the 1st service
pack, they still grumbled.
But in the past few days the tide seems to be turning:
At least 3 of these sites are now giving
Vista was loaded on a computer I bought ( the old clunker died) and I was not
sure I would like it but I would not go back to XP now.
Quinta
Hmmm - maybe you should try Apple OS X..
-WaV
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, qui...@clearwire.net wrote:
Vista was loaded on a computer I bought ( the old clunker died) and I was
not sure I would like it but I would not go back to XP now.
Quinta
As Quitna stated, her new computer came with Vista, and most computer
manufacturers aren't developing XP drivers anymore. So with some
computers (especially laptops), you can't even downgrade to XP.
Work gave me a laptop with Vista, I haven't had any problems with it,
just having to learn where
I still don't have any idea how to make a web-page.
MicroSoft just released version 2 of its web-site making software:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145398/microsoft_releases_new_version_of_web_design_tools.html
Would you pay $ 700 plus tax for such a product by MicroSoft?
I
I think the general public can now download
the Service Pack 3 of Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=114F3599-12AF-42B2-AAB1-B969A62C68A7displaylang=en
Note that they indicate that this is not the final version of Service
Pack 3, but
rumors are that in 2 or 3
Supposedly MicroSoft has nearly finished tweaking its next update for
Vista - the now infamous Service Pack 1.
But read this latest news from today:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9060998
Sounds like another reason to buy a Mac.
David Locklear
MicroSoft has a new download available to the public for upgrading Windows XP.
More than likely you are using their latest version called Service
Pack 2 ( or SP2 for short)
The new download is a pre-release of Service Pack 3 ( SP3 ).
You will need a high-speed connection to download it and it
The web is quite about the new release of SP1 of Vista.
So far, all the reviews I have found have been negative.
Some expressed frustration on the complicated download, and
mentioned that even if you down-load it, you will have to un-install it
in a few months after MicroSoft releases the final
Here is a 128 gig solid-state memory drive for your laptop.
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/1-7-08-a-data-ssd-card.jpg
I think it cost with tax over 4 thousand dollars.
But in a few years, it will be in mainstream laptops.
The advantage will be faster access to
There are already a few laptop manufacturers doing this:
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/System_Drives/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=dhscs=19sku=341-5582
Pricey right now, but you are right David, this will be mainstream
soon, good for battery life and
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