My proud history of survpc use starts with a trusty 486 for about 10 years, then a beginning 100Mhz Pentuim for another 5, running doe and win95 ( no yelling ...
howard schwartz
howardbschwartz@...
Apr 5, 2004 8:29 am
18897
... I'd get some more RAM since it's cheap these days. More of that never hurts! ... I'm valiantly trying to stay on Win98 until I truly get the family off ...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Apr 5, 2004 1:37 pm
18898
Find memory and stuff all you can afford (plus borrow from the kids piggy banks too) into any computer if your running windows or much graphical stuff on linux...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 5, 2004 3:27 pm
18899
... Not sure, but bochs might run on 98. Slightly different thing since it's an x86 emulator (does everything in software) rather than virtualiser (runs the ...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Apr 5, 2004 4:43 pm
18900
... disk ... NTFS ... Hmm, the processor is more than fast enough for 2000 -- I ran it briefly on my 400MHz P-II, and it was speedy enough. Only went back to...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Apr 5, 2004 5:48 pm
18901
... years, then ... yelling ... 13 Gig disk ... an NTFS ... speed to ... to replace. ... welcome new ... whereas ... devices like ... Get OS/2 warp 4. I've...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Apr 6, 2004 12:27 am
18902
OS/2??? Geez, IBM may still be shipping their 16-bit graphical interface product. However, I can assure you that their driver support sucks swamp water in a...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 6, 2004 1:38 am
18903
... I have only seen OS/2 in the gray market. I dont think IBM supports it anymore. But there are a lot of OS/2 Fan-atics who seem to keep coming up with ...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Apr 6, 2004 4:15 am
18904
Who would have thought a nice Toshiba laptop would ever be SurvPC? <G> I run W2Kpro on it, and it handles both my digital camera (which the mfr says cannot...
L.D. Best
l.d.best@...
Apr 6, 2004 10:44 am
18905
... *splutters coffee all over the keyboard* I got a new one ripped for suggesting a 400MHz P-II was a SurvPC not so long back! *grin* ... You should be able...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Apr 6, 2004 1:15 pm
18906
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15193...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 6, 2004 3:25 pm
18907
Geez what has this list come yo with DDRRAM heatspreaders. I can hear them 386 4MB folks falling off their three legged stools <BG> First off which brand &...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 7, 2004 2:33 am
18908
... Actually, the DDRAM heat spreaders are on the kid's XP "killer system" ... The kid's DDRAM chips came 'fully dressed' but DIMMs are naked. I was looking...
L.D. Best
l.d.best@...
Apr 7, 2004 9:25 pm
18909
InfoWorld enewsletter Wednesday, April 7, 2004 LINUX DESKTOP TEST DRIVE By Chad Dickerson Posted April 02, 2004 3:00 PM Pacific Time Since my reawakening to...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 7, 2004 11:53 pm
18910
L.D.: Regarding any issues about cooling and noise for later (or even early model "SurvPC") PC's go over to http://www.silentpcreview.com/index.php Also tell...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 8, 2004 1:39 am
18911
I have some older laptops that I was going to put on Ebay, thought maybe some of the people on this list might like first crack at them. Here is the list. ...
GDB-2mosMDK92
slugg0@...
Apr 8, 2004 7:35 am
18912
As a public service to all those on this list, it was announced today at the post office where I work (Carrollton, KY 41008), that FedEx will join UPS and ...
GDB-2mosMDK92
slugg0@...
Apr 8, 2004 8:42 am
18913
Hi lists, sorry for cross-posts, I was just wondering___ in the late '80's (I rode my 10-speed bike) to a computer programming job interview... the interview...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Apr 15, 2004 12:38 am
18914
Hello ANDY, Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 7:29:13 PM, you wrote: A> I found this task immpossible recently using QBasic It's been a while since I used...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Apr 15, 2004 1:09 am
18915
Thought folks would like the whole story. I'm a registered reseller of lindows, and an insider, so I get these types of announcements fairly regularly....
Travis Siegel
tsiegel@...
Apr 15, 2004 3:31 am
18916
Hello Travis, Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 10:21:26 PM, you wrote: TS> In the US, we have the rule of "double jeopardy," which says you TS> can't be tried for...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Apr 15, 2004 10:54 am
18917
Interesting that Micro$oft has never really put themselves to the test of the court of public opinion that democratically votes by trying to outright...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 15, 2004 2:57 pm
18918
Check out this article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15343 ... r !...
John Oram
norami@...
Apr 15, 2004 3:19 pm
18919
Exactly my take on the situation. I've been saying for years that if microsoft spent half of the time fixing bugs that they do suing folks, their software...
Travis Siegel
tsiegel@...
Apr 15, 2004 3:49 pm
18920
Interesting, though I don't think it's as bad as that. I agree that the interface has kept a lot of folks out of linux who might otherwise have tried it, but...
Travis Siegel
tsiegel@...
Apr 15, 2004 4:04 pm
18921
[I'm not subscribed to the PC-ASK or DOS-DISCUSS lists, only SurvPC; if this message gets through to those lists please cc: me any comments :)] ... QBasic...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Apr 15, 2004 4:10 pm
18922
Those who the gods would destroy, they first make proud. If Phil Katz can beat the courts and the lawyers by changing from '.pak' to '.zip', I expect Lindows...
daybrown
daybrown@...
Apr 16, 2004 1:28 am
18923
... There's another option. Rite now, I'm running Xandros, with a 500 mhz celeron, 128m DDR dram, 4 gig IDE, and an HSF *winmodem*. Performance is as good, or...
daybrown
daybrown@...
Apr 16, 2004 1:40 am
18924
... I think the mass conversion is coming sooner rather than later. I've been running COREL for a few years. It only needed a 233mhz with 32 meg dram (be...
daybrown
daybrown@...
Apr 16, 2004 2:13 am
18925
... Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:03:17 -0500 From: Scott McNay <Wizard@...> Reply-To: "PC-ASK is one-stop PC support forum." <PC-ASK@...> ...
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