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LMAO Good one!

Just some more feedback.

If I open a terminal session in SuSE (by CTRL+ALT+F2), log in as root, and keep "top" running....it does'nt seem to close lmule. I can't explain this, but it works. Maybe its yet to crash in this state...but it has'nt done this yet.

Nic ... I can't seem to find a log file in the dir in which lmule is installed. Stevo --> I'm can't be 100% sure its not hardware related to be honest with you. My Linux box NEVER crashes anything, except for lmule occasionally. It also runs Win2k (dual boot), and I've never had problems with anythi...

Road_Kill wrote:Whats this Pc International?Is it really that cheap?

I'd like to know the answer to the above question as well!

Got a swanky new Hard Drive, when I tried to FDisk it, I accidently Fdisked my original Hard Drive, lost a whole chunk of info. Also once dropped a screw into a ram slot, couldn't figure out why it wouldn't boot, shorted and killed the mobo. 8O 8O 8O 8O These two entries are really deserving of the...

My elcheapo TEAC player won't play +R discs. But plays -R, -RW and +RW. Also does jpg and mp3. If it reads +RW then it should read +R I'm not sure which model you have, but a friend of mine also bought a cheapy Teac...and it plays all the + discs I've copied for him...Could be a totally different m...

Jonboy wrote:Didn't seat my new graphics card flushly into my agp port and cou;dn't understand why my screen was blank

At least you didn't mess up any hardware in the process...

Neon --> Its almost safe to assume *any* DVD player will play both + and - discs.....and that the MP3 decoder it has will decode VBR files as well....

Was a different story with the VBR decoding a few years ago!

Well, once i had this really noisy power supply fan. So i tried to stop it from spinning, using a screw driver and i accidently touch some metal behind the fan, it short circuted. Also another time i changed the format table on my hard drive, and it went from 10 gig, to 2gig and i've never been abl...

Most DVD players available today (even the el cheapos) will support both. I have 3 players...an LG, a Sanyo and a Pioneer....all these players play both + and - discs, from the cheapie OEM blanks right up to Verbatims.... My HP DVD200i only records to +....and not one person who has borowed movies f...

heheh - so some of your guys come really close to my act of stupidity...if not ...some of you actually beat me! lol :lol: Setevo : Your unscrewed AGP card story is a very close contender! hehe Mr Bean - After the whole episode was over....I thought about the whole thing and thought that it should ha...

Hi guys, Thought this might be an interesting post. I guess I have too little work to do. Whats the most stupid/careless thing you've done while building or upgrading a PC? My worst blunder ever is as follows... A few years ago I bought a (then) brand new R2000 Asus motherboard from a retailer I sho...

Try the ff 1) Make sure the PCI card is seated securely 2) Try another PCI slot 3) Try updating the motherboard BIOS 4) Try the card in another PC....there might be a 'brand' conflict. With regard to point 4) --> I bought a PCMCIA Firewire card once. It refused to work on a Dell Latitude K600 (just ...

Hi guys, I have managed to compile the source and install Lmule (Linux version of Emule) on my SuSE box. It works pretty well, the only problem is that it shuts itself down sometimes. I can't determine a pattern, as it does it at random... Does anybody else here use Lmule? And do you have this probl...

Thanks Nic --> since my original post, I managed to configure the SuSE firewall.....and did a leak test on the Windoze PC.......It passed the test. Seems pretty secure....but I have'nt installed a software client on it either. I do , however, regularly update my antivirus definitions. Also, I surf t...

Cool - thanks!

Well, I tested it this morning....I cut off power and after 5 mins I could'nt tolerate the beeping of the UPS! But, the TA still maintained power from the exchange. I tried to call out, but could'nt.. Seems like Abatis's explanation was correct!

Thanks guys...

aXe --> Will post a response on this tomorrow morning., when I intend to diconnect. Dont want to risk losing my connection now as I'm still downloading. And to answer your question, yes I am uing Infiiticall.

Yes, technically, it would be a SIMM...Have'nt heard that term in YEARS!

As far as I know , there is no performance difference between single sided and double sided RAM. The single side DIMMs have a greater capacity per chip.

Also, as far as I know, the double sided memory will use up two memory banks....My board is pretty old, so this may have changed nowadays...

I'm pretty sure I've seen an online service like that before... But, my memory is a bit fuzzy. If I did see something like that before, it definately wasn't a local service....

i saw that to...another intresting thing on my side is that my P4 1.8 use DDR266 but they have it listed as SD 133 so i am not getting a very accurate reading from them The early socket 478 P4's could run on the first Intel 845 chipset which supported SDRAM 133. I have a P4 1.5 clocked to 1.8Ghz, w...

Thanks Abatis... Its interesting that it still gets power from the exchange. There are two lights on the TA....a red and a green light. The green light goes out when you disonnect the AC power, but the red light still burns. Wonder how long it will receive power from the exchange? Need to test this....

You get also get a copy of "Proxy" from http://www.analogx.com if you're using Windows. Its a very simple proxy and can be setup in minutes.

haha