Cute, but it sounds like another urban legend to me.

: hello::h ello:

Gerry

 

I'm sure it's just a joke.

 

I'm sure it is too......

By the way, I'm having a computer built to my specs. I pick it up possibly tomorrow.

Ever since 1976, with the exception of a Mac and a Sun SPARC 1, all my computer have been based on an Intel chip. Well that's about to change. My new computer has an AMD Athlon 64 3000 cpu, a 2 ghz bus, uses SATA drives with RAID capability built on the motherboard and has other bells and whistles on it. Besides the cutting edge technology, another reason for specing out my own computer was to get away from all the extra software and spyware manufacturers like HP, Dell, Sony and so on put on the computer before it's shipped.

This is truly my computer.



Gerry

 

Gerry, good luck.

Will you be running a Microsoft x64 OS (XP or 2003) on it? Or, will you use Linux?

Yeah, the pre-packaged systems do seem to come with an inordinate amount of crap on them. Our Compaq at home had dozens of things pre-installed, some of them we still don't know what they're for.

AMD's 64-bit stuff is very nice. Good choice. Intel has an equivalent product (they call it IA32E), but AMD has the advantage for now. I think you'll like it.

SATA is OK, but not as good/reliable as SCSI. Much easier to wire up, though, and I'm sure SATA RAID will work will for you at home. I can't actually remember if Microsoft supports boot from a RAID array, but probably.

 

One thing I missed is this puppy has optical networking I/O. Woo hoo! What can I do with that?

Running XP Home, Chaz. I have two other boxes with Fedora capability. When I went to pick it up, the builder had a pleasant surprise for me. He'd loaded some of the free software on the computer for me. I wanted to disassemble him, but I restrained myself.

I have no experienca with overclocking. Isn't it generally done in hardware, i.e. changing jumpers? This box has overclocking in software! You can tell it that when you run certain programs, the system should go into overclock. This would be precious to someone who plays action games online.

If you want to look up the motherboard, it's an Abit AX8. Bet my computer can blow the bumpers off your S2000!!

:d ance2::dan ce2:

Gerry

 

Whoops, forgot. RAID 0,1, 0/1 and JABOD are supported in hardware. Up to four SATA and one IDE drive are supported. Was hoping for RAID five, but I can live with this.

I'm positive XP boots of the RAID array.



Gerry

 

Sounds like a nice box, Gerry

I built my last computer myself. I got most of the parts from Newegg, with some minor stuff being sourced from CompUSA. Pentium 4 3.2GHz Northwood core, 1GB ram, 80G IDE drive, two 200G SATA drives (didn't do RAID with them), ATI display card, DVD writer, CD reader, tower case with more room than I'll ever need. It took about 3 hours of careful assembly, and it fired up on the first try. I'm running XP pro along with Office 2003 and Photoshop, among other things.

I went with the Pentium because supposedly it's slightly better at rendering and Photoshop types of operations. My next box will be AMD, as Athlons are supposed to be better for gaming than Pentiums.

I'll never buy a prebuilt (consumer) system again. Laptops are another story though, it's kinda hard to roll your own and have something state of the current art (not that anything stays that way for long )

Tom

 

Is there an e-mail client that has the automated reply feature. Outlook has this but it requires Exchange Server which I don't have.

I am looking for a piece of software that I can set to send a reply automatically when I am out of the office.

 

Rob,

I think Eudora can send vacation (auto-reply) messages. Eudora is free (with ads).

check at: www.eudora.com


Dennis

 

Thanks, I'll look at it tonight. Does Thunderbird have autoreply ability?