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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Overtaxed
I don't want to work. By the way... here is that silly timer thingy you can have....
CLOCKDOWN to The Two Towers
Sample... not current (actual is 223 days 12 hours 32 minutes and ... 5 sec)
To: HairOfTheDog
Me neither! And it's quitting time in 25 minutes! Thanks for the timer! I was going to play around with Javascript a bit and see if I couldn't make one of my own.
Pints in an hour!
To: ksen; irishtenor
Celeron + MS Windows = Disaster.
However, irishtenor has a Compaq with a Celeron and said his problems with Windows98 cleared right up with a utility that would "clean" unwanted files from his hard drive (like those banner-ads, etc.). That might be a better option than reformatting your hard drive if it'll work.
I'm not sure what the name of the software was, so I'm pinging him--maybe he can get back to you overnight and give you some pointers.
To: Penny1
I've never had any experience with celeron. Is it really that bad?
4,744
posted on
05/08/2002 1:19:21 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: Penny1; ksen
Hey, I found some
information that could help you in your computer restoring project, ksen! It's amazing what you can find online!
4,745
posted on
05/08/2002 3:16:21 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Celeron by itself isn't necessarily bad, and MS Windows by itself isn't necessarily bad. However, in my limited experience, the two combined together are definitely bad news.
To: JenB
....I should add that today's Celeron may be better. I remember when they first came out with the Celeron, all the tech people I knew were warning me away from buying anything with a Celeron processor because of issues of compatibility with Windows. I think this was around the time that Windows 98 was coming out as well.
However, that was before Intel started making the celeron. Now, they might be okay, but I am pretty leery of using anything other than a Pentium just because of those issues that cropped up several years ago.
To: Penny1
I had a professor who insisted that AMD made the best processors in the history of computing, but he was pretty weird. Most people don't need anything more than a Pentium 2 or 3... heck I know people with computers that still run off one of the old "x86" series processors.
4,748
posted on
05/08/2002 4:09:47 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB; Overtaxed
I actually wouldn't be surprised at all that AMD chips (at whatever speed they're up to now) are better and/or faster than their pentium equivalents. When the AMD K6 came out, it tested out at notably higher clock speeds than the fastest Pentium on the market at the time. The problems arise over compatibility with Microsoft's software, especially Windows OS's. That was even true of the Celeron. The techies told me that Celeron wasn't really a bad processor, it's just that MS software didn't particularly like working with the Celeron processor.
I still wouldn't put it past Intel and Microsoft to have some sort of backroom deal that gives the Pentium chips the edge over the others with regard to how Microsoft software works with the various processors. Just my suspicion, completely unfounded on any real facts...
To: Penny1;All
Well, facts should never get in the way of really good suspicions....
Top of the evening to you!
To: Penny1
I upgraded my old PB from a Pentium 90 to an AMD K6 450. Windows 95 wouldn't run with the AMD chip. After I upgraded the OS to Win 98SE it worked fine! (well about as fine as Win98SE ever runs.) In my new computer I'm running AMD Athlon 1.4 with Win98SE. My laptop runs Windows Me on a Celeron...it's not
that bad. :)
I think lots of RAM helps more than processor speed but then I'm not doing anything fancy on my computers!
To: HairOfTheDog
Evening Hair!
To: HairOfTheDog
Good evening!
4,753
posted on
05/08/2002 4:57:33 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
Have a cabbage!
(no I don't know why I had this overwhelming urge to say "have a cabbage" but I did.)
I looked, and sure enough, Penny has a pic for that!
To: Overtaxed
Have a cabbage!
To: HairOfTheDog
Hi Hair! So good to see the group still going strong! Haven't had much chance to post lately and going through LOTR withdrawal! Nice to be with like-minded folks!
To: sneakers
Have a cabbage!I am in such a strange mood, I am beginning to wonder who spiked my coffee, and with what.
We are still going, and some of us are still strong! Welcome back. Come and go as you please! Make yourself at home!
To: HairOfTheDog
Cabbage? Yuck, how about something good? Like, say, a pint?
4,758
posted on
05/08/2002 5:19:03 PM PDT
by
JenB
To: JenB
I just thought it had a nice cadence to it. It came to me in a dream... My dreams are goin' downhill fast.
To: HairOfTheDog
Obviously...
4,760
posted on
05/08/2002 5:23:37 PM PDT
by
JenB
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