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by johnli
Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:08 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Tried Longhorn yet?
Replies: 6
Views: 11109

I wouldn't try it with less than 2GB of RAM in your system - 1GB for the VM and one for the PC.
by johnli
Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:50 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Deus Ex 2 first game to require a DirectX 8 card?
Replies: 11
Views: 16012

The trouble Halo has is that it was a port of a port - the developers were originally developing it for PC, then MS bought them and forced them to port it to Xbox first; now they've re-ported it back to PC.
by johnli
Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:48 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Office 2003
Replies: 5
Views: 10633

I'd love to know why people think it's worse than previous versions. Certainly Outlook 2003 is a lot nicer, word, powerpoint and excel aren't that different, but then there's only so many changes you can make to those sorts of programs.
by johnli
Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:30 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Generally speaking, does Win XP Pro work with the BP6?
Replies: 21
Views: 21939

And moving swiftly back on topic, my dual-533 (not OCed, and OCed) was fine with XP for several years, but is now much happier on linux.
by johnli
Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:28 am
Forum: Software
Topic: ABIT BP6 boot problems (happening recently)
Replies: 6
Views: 6959

Some very good advice on soldering processes. Personally for removing things from PCBs I tend to secure the board vertically (with a vice or some such) and then use one hand to heat the "legs" of the capacitor while using the other hand to shift it backwards and forwards until it comes loose. The re...
by johnli
Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SBLive - Clicks and pops during HDD access
Replies: 14
Views: 10387

I'd suggest you use the KX project drivers for SB Live and Audigy cards under windows XP/2k - creative can't write drivers.
by johnli
Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:23 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Gentoo
Replies: 20
Views: 28625

The trouble with gentoo is you need to take at least a week to get it all installed, and some of us just don't have the time.
by johnli
Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:19 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Tried Longhorn yet?
Replies: 6
Views: 11109

I've played with it in VMWare. It's very much a pre-alpha build, very slow, very sluggish, very prone to die. At the moment it's basically XP with a new explorer and the beginging of WinFS. You definitely won't be running it on a BP6 methinks, certainly at the moment you wouldn't want less than a gi...
by johnli
Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:02 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Generally speaking, does Win XP Pro work with the BP6?
Replies: 21
Views: 21939

Re: Apm+smp

jbo5112 wrote:APM (which supports the power off function) isn't safe to run with SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)
Ehr, what? APM always worked fine on my BP6 with windows, linux and anything else I tried to throw at it. What, exactly, is "unsafe" about it?
by johnli
Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:30 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What do YOU look like?
Replies: 77
Views: 113701

I think not :)
by johnli
Sun Oct 05, 2003 6:55 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Another one...
Replies: 3
Views: 5661

Yeah I saw it the other day too, very funky. Cunningly done with a series of concentric circles.
by johnli
Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:46 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: Half-Life 2 Source Code Leaked
Replies: 5
Views: 9632

To show that it could be done, mostly. It's a real shame, though apparently it's not why the release was delayed. It essentially opens up Valve to all sorts of lawsuits from the people who liscensed technology to them (such as the physics engine being used), with whom they've no doubt signed NDAs an...
by johnli
Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:58 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Win 98, 60gig HD THATS NOT READING!!!!!
Replies: 12
Views: 13155

It could be that the BP6 was set up with an 8gb HD before, and so the bios has had the cylinder count etc specified for 8gb.
Beezy: run the automaic disk setup in the bios, and see if that helps.
by johnli
Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: BP6 boot problems.
Replies: 23
Views: 14837

If you don't use it you shouldn't need to...

On point 4, you can find out about the crash by looking in the event viewer.
by johnli
Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Have you guys seen this?????
Replies: 10
Views: 11732

And that's why they'll stay on the expensive end of the market and loose out on the home users who don't give a shit about quality processors as long as they're cheap and fast.
by johnli
Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:16 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Streaming Windows Media Though Linux
Replies: 6
Views: 7626

If it can play them I'd have guessed it could steam them? Not played about much so can't say really. The other that might work is the VideoLAN streaming server widget, which does MPEG 1 2 and 4; not sure if WM conforms to one of those.

Edit by Derek: Link fixed.
by johnli
Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:11 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Win 2000 shutdown
Replies: 12
Views: 19062

Yeah, and thus why USB is evil for networking etc. :)
by johnli
Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:08 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Windows XP install hangs
Replies: 7
Views: 6605

Could be RAM, unless another OS installs cleanly - I've had issues with that in the past.
by johnli
Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Have you guys seen this?????
Replies: 10
Views: 11732

I would say, without any justification at all (because that's the mood I'm in) that AMD will top the low to mid end consumer processor market in a few years time. Intel will hold the server, laptop and high end workstation market, though the latter will be contested by the opteron.
by johnli
Sun Sep 21, 2003 5:41 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: MS Upgrade messages sent to non-MS IM's
Replies: 10
Views: 16263

Yeah the new version of Trillian is fixed in that regard.
by johnli
Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:16 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: MS Upgrade messages sent to non-MS IM's
Replies: 10
Views: 16263

Look at it from their perspective - they provide this service for free. The only way they make money is hits generated from downloads of their client, while trillian is sold at profit. In that way is it really wrong of them to want you to use their client for their protocol? And it does make it more...
by johnli
Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:16 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: MS Upgrade messages sent to non-MS IM's
Replies: 10
Views: 16263

Look at it from their perspective - they provide this service for free. The only way they make money is hits generated from downloads of their client, while trillian is sold at profit. In that way is it really wrong of them to want you to use their client for their protocol? And it does make it more...
by johnli
Thu Aug 28, 2003 3:16 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Redhat 9 installing
Replies: 7
Views: 8273

RH9 has been on my BP6 for about a month and a half now. Unfortunately that's in my room at my folk's house, which is about 100 miles away, so i don't get to use it much.
I'm thinking of buying a 1U case and setting it up as a colo server...
by johnli
Thu Aug 28, 2003 3:14 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Having problems installing XP Pro
Replies: 5
Views: 4292

Any hangs during instalation tend to mean dodgy RAM or hard disk, in my experience. You might want to check them.
by johnli
Tue Aug 26, 2003 7:01 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What do YOU look like?
Replies: 77
Views: 113701

I can't seem to find any photo's of me where I'm not drunk, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait :P