Posted 09/18/2009 at 04:57:06pm

I have a piece of crap DELL Precision 380 with Hyper threaded P4 3.0GHz, four 80 gig Hard drives 2 are scratch drives and one local drive and one allocated for virtual box 4gig of ram and nVidia  quadro fx 570 running two 20 inch LCDS at performance settings yes all crap what can I say its my work computer they are cheap here. Anyway I am running XP pro sp3 minimal service. Now what I did here was install Virtual Box on my second hard drive then installed Windows 7 RC after I loaded the company software and a clone of my documents. also both XP and windows seven are running IE8 beta. Now our company software also includes Oracle 10b and another ERP system called MAX 4.0 and that's crap to but anyway I have been testing all kinds to see how it runs in our network with all our programs and its functionality. I have been quite pleased since my virtual box is running on the virtual core of my P4 and sharing the on board network card 2 gigs of my ram and half of all other resources. what amazes me is that my virtual box is faster than my computer. My test was to measure which was faster opening programs and first test stunned me was IE8 beta was opened first on my XP and the quickly after opened on my windows 7 and my virtual box won by a land slide. And from there on my I left IE open and opened Oracle on both then Max and then Photo shop 2 and my virtual box windows 7 smoked the computer it was residing on. that's a benchmark I brag about.

I am an IT Administrator I dislike the fact that old tech knowledge tries to supersede new tech knowledge with their old partition magic style data storage and windows 2k machines is a joke now they don't understand that if you don't keep up with the new wave of tech knowledge you will be replaced with a leaner and green version of yourself. Kudos on handling these old timers and their anti shinny XP in 2k mode I laugh at that one that like my boss wanting to install vista biz on a dell latitude 630 running with a Celeron processor and 512 gigs of ram and asking me why we can't DAAAA! Because you don know D#@K about anything that's why im here. I mean really if it ain't broke why fix it is  asinine, then why add ram why leave DOS you NUBS stick with your old hardware and see how far you go when your competitors can out bid you because your waiting for compatibility mode to load your ancient software. PONY up the dough you penny pinching old tech heads get with the program. DUMB DUMB DUMB you think upgrading now is too much when in fact the price has never really changed computers have been the same price value since they came out and if you compare software there is a not even a huge difference in the price. The dollar value isn’t nothing to how much a computer cost in the 80's and now. Why not upgrade its going to cost more to manage old shit  with user down time and support cost.  ooh and you Linux people complaining about Windows WOW! that's funny I don't remember having to type code to install a network card why! You are comparing manual to automatic tell an average user that they have to manually add hardware and dig for a driver they are going to look at you like "Are you calling me an Asshole" oh one more thing Microsoft has done wonders for you and you just don't know it or you refuse to believe it. 

CRASHOVERRIDEvsACIDBURN

Posted 04/09/2008 at 01:53:48pm

CRASHOVERRIDEvsACIDBURN... You can tweak it in the COM services if you want to you might have to allow anonymous login for some devices

Posted 04/27/2007 at 03:26:22pm

WEll I like to see someone thats has wasted as much time as I have on games I played every Final Fantasy game from nintendo to playstation except X-2, 11 online and the new 12 on Playstation Big disapointment when my memory card was stollen from my playstation but thats another story but I would like to have a chat on gaming and why they are calling PS3 a disaster when the codeing for the PS3 games is even better with the new blueray disk technology this has expanded the realm of console games and well X-Box is not to far but lacking in some areas like to poor design of the XBOX306 which had heat issues for those of us who play for days not hours. The box has poor air flow and then they sell a faan for it to make up for the hardware goof that MS made when they designed XBOX306 but anyway games are games if you are a true gamer you will play anything no matter what even the boggling MYIST crap but its a game and gaming is what we do CRASHOVERRIDEvsACIDBURN

Posted 03/29/2007 at 11:27:55am

thats why AMD is second best because they are too conservative they just need to buck up and if they can just blow INTEL out the water and stop two stepping it just do it like nike. Might as well because intel will take no prisoners and will out do AMD once again. I saw spec's on AMD and there not that greater that INTEL but the new stuff they are makeing seems like they are affraid to push the button on the whole project "come on AMD you can do it"

Posted 03/29/2007 at 11:22:52am

Nice H/W but why dont they use frontside bus and backside but wouldn't that increase data flow to and from the processor's