Posted 05/15/2009 at 10:38:48am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... who cares if its RISC or not? Its half as fast as a processor thats been out for years now.

Posted 05/15/2009 at 10:23:16am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... ok...good job. You just made a processor thats HALF as fast as IBM, Sony, and Toshiba's Cell Processor... I pulled this bit from http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell1_v2.html "An individual Cell is one hell of a powerful processor, they have a theoretical computing capability of 256 GFLOPS (Billion Floating Point Operations per Second) [GFLOPS] at 4GHz. In the computing world quoted figures (bandwidth, processing, throughput) are often theoretical maximums and rarely if ever met in real life. Cell may be unusual in that given the right type of problem they may actually be able to get close to their maximum computational figure." Glenn Condrey

Posted 01/27/2009 at 08:43:43am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img]

 One of the staples of Microsoft O/S's of the past was the ability to somewhat customize the look and feel to something you are already familiar with....
In XP...this meant being able to make your Start Menu resemble Windows 98's CLASSIC Menu for example.
Windows 7 is better than Vista.....hands down. I ran it adequately on my old celeron 1.8 gig machine with 650 megs of memory and a 40 gig drive.
Still.....to me its just Vista with a better paint job.
I would prefer that 7 be based on Windows XP's kernel than Server 2003.
The compatibility that existed between XP and Windows 2000 was awesome...and I think Redmond needs to reexplore that.

Posted 01/27/2009 at 08:35:07am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img]

I have a Sony Playstation 3....and since I am one of the early buyers....I have one that is 100% backwards compatible (the Ps2 Emotion Engine CPU is built into the 60 gig PS3.)
therefore I can play all my PS2 games with ease.
I have had no problems or issues with my PS3..and all I hear on these boards is about people who own 360's have 'Red-Rings of Death' etc etc.
What is it about Microsoft that they cannot make a quality product anymore?
I mean one minute you're seeing a BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH....now the RED RING OF DEATH.
Sounds so final, and wasteful my wallet would cry.

Right now...hands down no comparison.....my PS3 blows the 360 outta the water hands down.

Posted 01/09/2009 at 01:58:05pm

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img]

I installed Windows 7 on my test machine last night.
I am impressed with the overall speed of 7....as opposed to its older sibling Vista. The overall memory footprint is also impressive.
My gripes with this O/S however...have to do with the changes made.
Microsoft seemingly made changes to the O/S for spites sake.
There is no customizing the START menu bar to 'classic' Windows computing that we all know and love.
Also you are having to relearn a new GUI map. 

All in all....Vista fans might like Windows 7.
I think people migrating from Windows XP however.....are going to want to continue to stick with XP.

Glenn Condrey

Posted 08/09/2008 at 05:15:59am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one.......

Another good resource is an online virus scanner.
I occasionally use Trend Micro's free online scanner called HouseCall.
It can remove any threats that my anti vrius scanner doesn't detect...and has helped me out of many a jam.

Glenn

Posted 08/07/2008 at 05:26:29am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one...

My current computer is a Hewlett Packard 2.8 ghz computer.
I dual boot with a Debian variant Sidux on one side...Windows XP on the other.
My pc comes equipped with onboard video memory...which you HAVE to keep activated in order to install linux on this computer. When installing...I have to dedicate at least 32 mb of video memory...even  though I have a ATI Radeon X1300 graphics card installed.
You'll want to boot up in video safe mode....otherwise you'd have top hit ctrl/alt f2 or f3 and edit your xorg.conf file as such

sudo apt-get install nano
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

scroll down the list until you see what driver is listed.

On my computer...it would list Driver="Intel810"

I change it to Driver="vesa".....hit ctrl O to save the change I just made....then ctrl X to exit.
Type exit to exit sudo....then type start x.
If the problem is in your video....your linux distro should boot.

 After your linux has booted...dtermine WHICHdriver you will need...and holler back.

Glenn Condrey

Posted 06/05/2008 at 02:46:47am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img] Pardon my french....but Micro$atan is full of shit. I have run Vista on a Pentium 3 933 mhz Hewlett Packard with 512 megs of memory. Granted there was no schnazzy 3d Aero display...but it ran capably. If I can do it on a PENTIUM 3 computer...why can't someone run it on oh say a Pentium 4 1.8 ghz processor with at least a gig of memory??

Posted 03/22/2008 at 01:39:11pm

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img] Howdy, and welcome to linux. You should understand that there IS a learning curve...but if you are willing to put in a little time...you will discover for yourself how rewarding Linux is. First...as a new user...I would NOT recommend Linx From Scratch. I consider myself an intermediate user...I can solve most of my own problems...and even I am not ready for Linux From Scratch LOL A good learning distro would be something like Linspire/Freespire, Ubuntu, or Xandros. All four are user friendly...and Ubuntu and Xandros both grow with your level of expertise...and also interestingly enough...all four are ultimately based upon Debian. If you'd like to learn the basics...get a book by Rickford Grant 'Ubuntu Linux for Non-geeks'. The distro he uses may be dated (6.06) but it will also work with 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04. Best of luck to you...and if you have a question...go to the Maximumpc Alt/os forums to voice your questions. I promise you...no one will tell you to RTFM. Glenn Condrey

Posted 02/09/2008 at 08:24:20am

Registered Linux User #404122 Microsoft has encountered a critical system error and must now shut down. Better get Bill Gate$ on the phone for this one....... [img]http//i35.photobucket.com/albums/d183/NunofyaBidness/404122.png[/img] Thats whats at stake if M$ gets ahold of Yahoo. The two major chat programs (aside from IRC) are MSN and Yahoo chats. On the plus side...M$ would get rid of the annoying spam bots...but it would continue a legacy of monopolistic practices by M$.