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by colm
Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:24 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: More efficient LCD's coming
Replies: 10
Views: 6249

electricity to make a dark spot is like claiming lcd has a real pixel worth a picture.

crazier than a transverse FWD... :roll:

have fun kids.
by colm
Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:43 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Physical Address Extensions: explain
Replies: 6
Views: 3973

hey yes, I had to enable. I thought that stopped with xp as well.. but the DEP has to be hardware capable, I am on an old prescott workstation with windows 7. I did the usual routine: bcdedit /set pae forceenable and it did take a little while. My test is corel video studio.. if it is stuck at 564 m...
by colm
Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:46 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Physical Address Extensions: explain
Replies: 6
Views: 3973

The D510 is an x86-64 processor. It can run 64 bit and 32 bit operating systems. It's the same instruction set as the core 2, i7, and everything in between. It's as real as any other '64 bit' processor you'd buy today. Physical address extension (PAE) means that the processor will also allow a 32 b...
by colm
Sun Aug 15, 2010 6:06 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Eaarth
Replies: 123
Views: 116819

ya know, I am a mechanic... the first cats had a chance for crazy hydrocarbons. they did get smart. I then realized we are just moving the immediate crap temporaily because we are in it. Like massachussetts moving crap to a maine dumpsite. or the flush of a city toilet simply has a turd flownig unde...
by colm
Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:39 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: energizer "advanced" lithium
Replies: 12
Views: 11688

energizer "advanced" lithium

I was at the checkout, spotted the word "lithium", grabbed some, purchased two aa batteries by energizer for four dollars.. got home, no part numer visible, no "ma" number, just bragging rights on the package and a bunny with a drum. cute as a honda civic. I threw them in the charger for 12 hours to...
by colm
Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:28 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Mad Men Computer?
Replies: 27
Views: 16980

I would have gone camera stand aluminum type pegs.. that wood with no rubber feet, narrowed down..seems an ampitheatre of earthquake to climb up the crazy grain (as nice as it looks). I cut a piece of levallar laminate floor beam (the center beam you may find in a modern basement,) painted it, weigh...
by colm
Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:47 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: revisit antec 2600... update
Replies: 3
Views: 2543

Re: revisit antec 2600... update

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/other/pc2.jpg the reverse duct I made is snug and ugly...the curve does something, versus the straight blocky aluminum one.. this simply does better on same readings. could be because it is inert to any electrical. Electricity has no part in it, simpl...
by colm
Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: Ancient PC Silenced (without kicking the bucket)
Replies: 2
Views: 3604

nice work.
the case appears to be the first of half a mm and SECC, it needed eveything you gave it. Nice job.
by colm
Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:28 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: More Cache - What good is it?
Replies: 63
Views: 31931

L2 is exponential to multi tasking.. the multi core stuff is for people who like to make graphs and charts and giggle over nano pennies saved. 13.4 mhz crystals and fake collider is every pc known to man. multi core means nothing but business orientation. if one is going to brag up their multi core ...
by colm
Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:35 pm
Forum: General Gallery
Topic: revisit antec 2600... update
Replies: 3
Views: 2543

revisit antec 2600... update

29006 hours. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd255/soob87/HDTune_Health_WDC_WD800JB-00JJC0-1.png I used to document this here, got another mobo in december after four years, and kept right on going without documenting. I kept all the parts and simply swapped mobo. One of the parts keeps track of...
by colm
Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:01 pm
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: local recycle
Replies: 3
Views: 5803

local recycle

For the first time ever... I took my 1999 monitor to a recycle, finally catching the ever elusive schedule to drop it off. I would hope other locales had these gatherings more often than mine. I also turned in a 1983 RCA TV... :wink: It hung around for so long, I forgot it could be disposed of. A co...
by colm
Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Gotta love Faux News
Replies: 79
Views: 31511

I had a grandpa (RIP) say that when I was a boy...he was talking to my dad about trucking. I was always ears up, because, well, he was a ww2 god.

at least 30 years ago...

"too much consumption and borrowing and not enough production and savings"

he said it when american steel took a turn. :roll:
by colm
Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Vanity and motherboards; LPT and COM ports
Replies: 16
Views: 6813

Strid is obviously a newb. :roll: last century is alot of things. Take a look around.. there is less in everything demanding more money. The only thng with more money is the fake marketing carrying it. I paid 130 for a workstation mobo to take a prescott..this past december. my LPT printer plugs rig...
by colm
Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:06 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The World's Most Dangerous Person
Replies: 20
Views: 9967

in america, it is not possible to list a most dangerous person. barack speaks on behalf of a much bigger think than his own. He speaks well. good job. (him and his family just spent two days not far from me) then with knowledge gained with la costra nosa, minoroties in clanly ethnic idiocy (at your ...
by colm
Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:58 pm
Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
Topic: HIS HD 5550 & 5570 "Silence" Graphics Cards
Replies: 16
Views: 11457

so the big gain is 40nm... all other measurements have been around for 5 years (since the prescott) ..and that is a good point about power needed. altho 400 is realistic thinking of a modern system, 400 was once recommend for a voodoo and a p2. today alot more is getting done. :D I still want to see...
by colm
Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:59 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Historic Disaster
Replies: 226
Views: 107895

compaies do not step up half assed to dump millions of gallons into the ocean. I would not be surprised if they find a fracture in the bedrock, and conclude this was a natural event. haiti is right down the road with a chunk of itself sunk in the ocean.... I am in maine and could swear a california ...
by colm
Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:34 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Cellphones...
Replies: 45
Views: 26301

I can relate noise free guy. I can detect a computers micron level by beng near it.. a pentium 2 is not a 90nm pentium 4.. and thankfully, I can not detect anyhtng after getting 90nm and smaller. I do not like my cellphone at all. I hate using it, I hate charging it.. in fact.. it goes dead more tha...
by colm
Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:01 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Acronis True Image WD Edition: anyone tried?
Replies: 6
Views: 4340

tried it, did something stupid with system files.
It does what it says, windows don't like it.

I gave up vista just for a version that backs stuff up...and they do take ven more money to get the better version.

maybe linux understands, being more universal.
by colm
Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Donnie Darko - I still don't quite get it. (Spoilers)
Replies: 15
Views: 10058

too strange for me. I watched the trailer...did not even begin to understand the babble. Seeing schizo for real, I did not even think to believe it was entertaining. a comment on you tube: Ultimately it's a love story. He turns back time and sacrifices himself to save the one he truly loves. The fut...
by colm
Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Government Control of Names
Replies: 8
Views: 4416

be it my nature.. knowing what noble is, and even the use of the word. no doubt my past is euro bluntly murderously prophetically killer in defense of it. (once upon a time in a land far away) seeing a nickname for barack as "barry" or a well written last name like "donovan" as somebodies first.... ...
by colm
Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:20 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Re-Regulating the Internet in America
Replies: 4
Views: 2307

that story sucked. most bloggers do. :roll: google does not have an engine that works, it has a socilaist group allowing it. try looking up a photo of the only benz crank flat six on earth.. uh oh. not popular enough... wikipedia still thinks a v10 engine is correct at 36 degrees, further killing us...
by colm
Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' -- On Probation
Replies: 107
Views: 29480

I am at the other end of the continent for a reason long before me. I would ask the viking that found america first, his opinion, but hes dead, I am sure. :roll: For something so opposite, like a toilets water spinning the other direction north and south of the equator.. I still focus on sidewalks, ...
by colm
Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Historic Disaster
Replies: 226
Views: 107895

In the military, a plan for disaster is repeated many times if it means acting. It is never fun. Redundant beyond an E-4 it is a mind strain... so many times, the same plan over and over....acted out loud... one day the engine does catch on fire... and there is a pile of crewchiefs in subconscious t...
by colm
Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: quiet toilets
Replies: 12
Views: 5676

being the giant american self, wolfing down as much as a japanese dinosaur...at least 5 foot 9 way back when... collasal roamers of the earth. I want an even bigger toilet than the one I have now. if it is one thing our dense compilations need to dilute it to stay healthy..it is water, and lots of it.
by colm
Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:23 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Grease the Guillotine
Replies: 11
Views: 5609

planet of theapes... awesome post. I thought your others were strange.. this one...awesome post. :wink: the inhertiance to the surplus is the anti-life...the bigger this power moving ahead, is the bigger power needed to take it down. It could be a war...but knowing stocks and its concept is as stupi...
by colm
Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:10 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: My second round of unemployment, it seems worse.
Replies: 33
Views: 9087

this is the worst jobs climate i've ever seen, and i'm 56 years old. i finally got a temporary desktop support job last month, but only because i recently passed the comptia a+ certification... all of my years of pc repair experience wouldn't have gotten me the interview, they mainly wanted that sp...
by colm
Thu May 27, 2010 9:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: How do *you* pronounce "Kaze"?
Replies: 22
Views: 11674

judge56988 wrote:Here in England, "carzy" is slang for a toilet, so if I ever need to say Scythe Kaze, which I probably won't, I think I'll stick with kaze (to rhyme with haze or maze).
me too.
if to mention association with japanese, I change the vote to kah zee...

a dialect thing.
by colm
Thu May 27, 2010 9:19 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hey, how do I make 100 milion dollars?
Replies: 18
Views: 7814

Do what other people who managed to make that much did. If you can create the next google, facebook, etc... then that money and more will be yours. that is the modern phenomona.. given they have no concept of the a**hole side of things like defense and U.S. sovereignty.... it proves it is a local c...
by colm
Tue May 25, 2010 7:19 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Something is very wrong.
Replies: 10
Views: 4031

We need to get used to having less "stuff", paying more for it and getting things made in our own countries by our own workers. The era of conspicuous consumption fuelled by easy credit is rapidly coming to an end... ask the Greeks. I agree...and not only agree, but to further add history repeats i...
by colm
Tue May 25, 2010 7:05 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Is Texas going back to the cavemen era?
Replies: 118
Views: 48816

I can't even believe they did not acknowledge an entire country and stepped up like this.. I could agree with a segregated christian taliban... I mean if to challenge text books, Rewrite the columbus part and add vikings discovered america in the 1100s.. kicking spanish right in the big fat lie agai...