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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3630 on: May 30, 2008, 11:57:43 AM »
Managed to avoid biting extraneous digits off anyone who came within 10 feet of me.

(I hate mornings.)

We should get along fine.

I love mornings and I love my ME Time, early in the day.
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3631 on: May 30, 2008, 12:25:14 PM »
Tried to sleep off my cold but it didn't work
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3632 on: May 30, 2008, 01:42:57 PM »
Worked. Placed an order on a new pooter. Finally got back the papers I need to make the tax man happy.

What are the specs of the computer you ordered?

It's a dual core Pentium at 2.66 GHz, a 500 GB HDD, 2 GB of RAM and a GeForce 9600 video card. There's a Samsung DVD burner, too, and I'm going to use my old Audigy 2 sound card, instead of the built-in thing. A fairly modest setup, I'd say. Had to make sure everything was supported by Linux, and so I didn't pay extra for the 9800 card.

Thinking of including a new screen, too, and giving my old one to my son.

Yeah not bad, do you know the brand/model of the motherboard?

A Gigabyte motherboard that is supposed to be decent.

Do you now of any reasonably priced (but good) 22" screen?
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3633 on: May 30, 2008, 01:43:44 PM »
Monitors are those heavy old things you had before LCD screens arrived. :laugh:

The geek has spoken.

You mean Flat Panel Display?  :laugh:

:laugh:

sounds just a little dodgy, to me.  ;)

They are all dodgy, but it's the old ones that you need to dodge. :P
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3634 on: May 30, 2008, 02:51:42 PM »
Monitors are those heavy old things you had before LCD screens arrived. :laugh:

The geek has spoken.

You mean Flat Panel Display?  :laugh:

:laugh:

sounds just a little dodgy, to me.  ;)

Sadly I'm not kidding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_panel_display

i did not need to know that.  :GA:

:laugh:

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3635 on: May 30, 2008, 02:52:43 PM »
spent the best part of an hour and a half trying to retrieve my inbox, cos thunderbird had eaten it.   :grrr:

however, i did work out how to do it all by my own self.  yay, me!  :belly:

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3636 on: May 30, 2008, 03:51:39 PM »
you pooter geek, you. :-*
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3637 on: May 30, 2008, 07:08:03 PM »
We should get along fine.

I love mornings and I love my ME Time, early in the day.

Long as I can get my me time at 3 at night, we should be good to go.  :P
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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3638 on: May 30, 2008, 07:31:12 PM »
A lot... I'm fucking exhausted.
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Fuck it, we'll do it live.

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3639 on: May 30, 2008, 11:51:03 PM »
Managed to avoid biting extraneous digits off anyone who came within 10 feet of me.

(I hate mornings.)

We should get along fine.

I love mornings and I love my ME Time, early in the day.

Pretty much describes me and my wife, she's a morning person and I'm a night owl so we both get our "me" times.

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3640 on: May 30, 2008, 11:54:14 PM »
Worked. Placed an order on a new pooter. Finally got back the papers I need to make the tax man happy.

What are the specs of the computer you ordered?

It's a dual core Pentium at 2.66 GHz, a 500 GB HDD, 2 GB of RAM and a GeForce 9600 video card. There's a Samsung DVD burner, too, and I'm going to use my old Audigy 2 sound card, instead of the built-in thing. A fairly modest setup, I'd say. Had to make sure everything was supported by Linux, and so I didn't pay extra for the 9800 card.

Thinking of including a new screen, too, and giving my old one to my son.

Yeah not bad, do you know the brand/model of the motherboard?

A Gigabyte motherboard that is supposed to be decent.

Do you now of any reasonably priced (but good) 22" screen?

Good Motherboard that, one thing I like about it is the dts Connect out through the Digital out. My main PC has Dolby Digital Live through Coax SPDIF and my Medai PC does dts Connect through Optical SPDIF and both have digital amps that do both. (yes, perhaps a little decidant).

On 22" LCDs, not really sure, but what I usually is look around at what is for sale reasonbly local and then check hardware reviews on models which look interesting to you.

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3641 on: May 30, 2008, 11:55:56 PM »
Monitors are those heavy old things you had before LCD screens arrived. :laugh:

The geek has spoken.

You mean Flat Panel Display?  :laugh:

:laugh:

sounds just a little dodgy, to me.  ;)

They are all dodgy, but it's the old ones that you need to dodge. :P

Yeah, you want at least something that does 2ms.

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3642 on: May 30, 2008, 11:57:39 PM »
spent the best part of an hour and a half trying to retrieve my inbox, cos thunderbird had eaten it.   :grrr:

however, i did work out how to do it all by my own self.  yay, me!  :belly:

 :plus: for using Thunderbird, it's awesome!

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3643 on: May 31, 2008, 02:50:28 AM »
you pooter geek, you. :-*

you're infecting me, you horrible geek.  :P

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Re: What have you done today?
« Reply #3644 on: May 31, 2008, 02:52:08 AM »
spent the best part of an hour and a half trying to retrieve my inbox, cos thunderbird had eaten it.   :grrr:

however, i did work out how to do it all by my own self.  yay, me!  :belly:

 :plus: for using Thunderbird, it's awesome!

:-*

to be honest, i haven't really noticed why it's better than outlook express.  but then, i don't know enough about pooters to notice, if you see what i mean.

although... i DO notice the difference between firefox and Idiotic Excrement (i.e., IE - you have no idea how much i enjoyed typing that!  :LMAO: ), but then you'd have to be dead not to.