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(...) Yeah, but the _cheap one_ is $250! I have a Lego habit to support! Seriously, though, one more reason why it wasn't a bad idea to replace the old 486 firewall with a hundred bucks worth of Linksys filtering router. :) On the other hand, I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It frightens me that you all have kept my subject line! well, it does say "low-end". (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Shuttle's motherboard manual is worse than most. Why can't these manufacturers hire at least one multilingual adolescent to proofread, who would end up working at Starbuck's otherwise? "If the beeps accordingly, fabricate the motherboard in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) that's too bad... I received SV25s as well and both survived my numerous mistakes. I used 1ghz P3s and Crucial 256MB. The BIOS startup on these things is superior to the ASUS P4 board I experienced. (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hadn't seen it, thanks. Worth the $900? hmm. Aside: I was told to put floppy drives in the Shuttles... one had a bad floppy (what do you expect for a $9 piece of hardware?) So I taught everybody how to use the CDRW and they've started to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Update: I've built 2 of these Shuttles P3/1ghz, concurrently with a friend's P4 upgrade. They're noisy little pigs, and need tailoring for a happy mix of components. The fan in the power supply is inferior to most, and the noisy cpu fan is (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Just to update. I did some calling around and digging on the net and discovered that the old celeron processer i was using isn't supported by the system. THis wasn't mentioned from the site i ordered from or in the manual (maybe it was but it was in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:GqMB65.Gss@lugnet.com... (...) On a similar have you seen this? (URL) more expensive, but a lot smaller! Dan (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I believe that Acroread (the program used for .pdf files) will handle .ps files? After all .pdf is basically a form of compressed PostScript. --Bill. (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I believe that Acroread (the program used for .pdf files) will handle .ps files? After all .pdf is basically a form of compressed PostScript. --Bill. (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Or, better, get a PC Weasel (URL), which emulates a video card (VGA for the PCI version, MDA for the ISA) and a keyboard during boot and sends the data <-> its serial port -- allowing you to access the BIOS config program. And then when it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Try to disconnect everything that you don't need to get a pic on the monitor, LED's, floppy, HDD, CD etc. Just leave the CPU and memory (and the power switch if it's ATX - or use some metal to short the right jumper pins (on your own risk)). (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Did you ever buy one? How did it go? I'm asking because I just went through ordering two SV25's (the later edition) and both of them ended up being dead on arrivial. :( All my components are good but I get no POST, no drive spinning, etc. The (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Viewing PS files (was: Getting Gear Ratios Right)
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(...) I use ghostview (URL) lugnet.off-topic.geek ROSCO (22 years ago, 21-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I see. I was talking about text mode, you were talking about graphics mode. --Bill. (22 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nope, they were two different things. MDA really didn't last long once CGA and Hercules existed. (...) Depends on the mode, actually. You could only do graphics in four colors, or text in eight, but the card knew how to display 16 total. You (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My old EGA card (by a clone brand) had a Hercules emulation mode and I had some games that used it! (...) Yes. 4 colors at a time, but you could choose which 4 from two possible palettes. Red/Green/Blue/Black or Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black, if I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Since Hercules is a superset of MDA, I thought "Hercules MDA" was the full name. It is, after all, a monochrome display adapter! (...) I've got a CGA card that's truly frightening - it's an 8-bit ISA card that is full of 74xx chips. It takes (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Which one's the standard? :) The MDA was the original PC display adapter (stood for, amazingly enough, Monochrome Display Adapter) and didn't do graphics at all. Two color, text only, 80x25. Hercules, on the other hand, was a different spec (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So put a Hercules MDA video card in it! :-) (That's the old monochrome standard, from the days when color monitors were rare on PC's.) I've got a storage locker full of old computer crap that I'd love to get rid of, but I can't quite bring (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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