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madlilnerd Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 5885 Location: Slough, England
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:10 pm |
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This guy who lives down the road from me has the coolest computer ever. It has a glass door and LEDs and *beep* all over it. And it's super fast.
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lionhead Rear Admiral
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 4020 Location: The Delta Quadrant (or not...)
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:18 pm |
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if it can go 50 MpH i'm impressed.
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madlilnerd Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 5885 Location: Slough, England
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:03 pm |
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/\ all depends how high a window your drop it out of.
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:43 pm |
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URG, what Ihave? Win XP, 256 MB of memory. Yeah,...sucky
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Sam Kenobi Not a Duke
Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 10373 Location: The 'Verse
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Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:50 pm |
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In front of me I've got an old Compaq Presario laptop with about 4 GB memory.... only about 400mb left somehow.... because my family uses it sometimes... or my dad got it at work and it has all this old surveyor software that I don't think I should take off. '
At school I've got a custom built desktop with Pentium IV, XP, and 115 GB.... who needs that much space? I only have 98 left.... whatever will I do.
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lionhead Rear Admiral
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 4020 Location: The Delta Quadrant (or not...)
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:27 am |
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madlilnerd wrote: | /\ all depends how high a window your drop it out of. |
I actually saw someone do that for real. Makes a whole lot of noise, and from 4 stories high nothing survives.
At my work i have had the pleasure many times of putting computers into a gigant Pressing machine(a garbage disposal)
Now thats fun.
Quote: | In front of me I've got an old Compaq Presario laptop with about 4 GB memory.... only about 400mb left somehow.... because my family uses it sometimes... or my dad got it at work and it has all this old surveyor software that I don't think I should take off. '
At school I've got a custom built desktop with Pentium IV, XP, and 115 GB.... who needs that much space? I only have 98 left.... whatever will I do |
We have 250GB of hard disk space and we have only 55GB left...........
Guess we like to save things.
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Seven of Nine Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001 Posts: 7871 Location: North East England
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:36 am |
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I have my desktop and my laptop.
My desktop is:
80GB harddrive
AMD Athlon64 3400+
256MB ram
Radeon 9600SE graphics card
Running Kubuntu Dapper Drake
My laptop is a Thinkpad T23:
20GB harddrive
Pentium III 1.1gHz
512MB ram
Running Kubuntu Dapper Drake (main OS) and Windows 2000 (for college work/games).
I'm actually happier with my laptop- things seem just to work on it
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madlilnerd Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 5885 Location: Slough, England
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:40 am |
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I only like laptops if they're on the ground or a table or desk or summat. I hate having them on my lap- it feels like they're cooking me alive.
Quote: | Guess we like to save things. |
I save doodles I do in paint and any old rambles in MSword, and now I have hardly any memory left.
Hey, can anyone tell me what "defragmenting" your computer means? I think that's what it's called.
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lionhead Rear Admiral
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 4020 Location: The Delta Quadrant (or not...)
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:06 am |
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Defragmentation is the computer sorting out the Hard Drives, putting all the pieces back together physically(the free space together, System files, putting lost files back etc). If you do the full scan, it takes a long time.
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WeAz Commodore
Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 1519 Location: Where you aren't
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Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:29 pm |
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Depends on how fast your pc is. It takes almost no time for me....Also how much data you have stored.
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tomparis Stooge Three
Joined: 25 Jun 2001 Posts: 5964 Location: At your computer, hacking your files.
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:34 am |
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Well, my primary computer is basically my laptop, soooo
Model: Dell Inspiron 8200 (Yeah, I know. Old. But I upgrade it.)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 Mobile CPU 1.7 GHz
RAM: 768 MB
OS: Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 4 440 Go
Hard Drive: 40 Gig
CD/DVD: CD Burner/DVD Rom (Not sure what speed)
Monitor: 13 inch
USB: 2 USB ports
Cost: Not too much since I bought it used from my bro. (Normally, I wouldn't buy a computer used, but I know my bro took care of it.)
I'll get the details on my desktop when I'm on it.
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99.9% sure I'm not a zombie.
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lionhead Rear Admiral
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 4020 Location: The Delta Quadrant (or not...)
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:19 am |
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The 2 computers we have at home are bought with my dad's extra hour of work.... Sort of a easy way to get rid of all your free time.
So basically they are free.
I also have an Xbox and Xbox 360 at home, but for the specs i need to find them. They are computers you know.
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Never explain comedy or satire or the ironic comment. Those who get it, get it. Those who don't, never will. -Michael Moore
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tomparis Stooge Three
Joined: 25 Jun 2001 Posts: 5964 Location: At your computer, hacking your files.
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:35 pm |
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As for the desktop:
Model: Custom Made
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.80 GHz
RAM: 1.00 Gig
OS: Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Hard Drive: 80 Gig
CD/DVD: DVD Rom and CD/DVD Burner (Not sure what speed for either)
Monitor: 16 inch
USB: 5 USB 2.0 ports
Cost: Can't remember. Slightly cheaper than buying a premade computer.
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tomparis: The artist formerly known as the "Forum Nerd."
99.9% sure I'm not a zombie.
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:18 pm |
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My HD has a total space of 52.9 GB, with 38.5 free, but I put stuff on CD's . Otherwise, my HD would be full . I make full use of my burner, I figure if I want to keep pictures or videos I have downloaded, there is no use for it on my HD other then to take up space.
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