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Eldon Newbie Larva Posts: 3 From: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Registered: Jul 2002	posted July 09, 2002 18:13 Feel free to copy my format or makeup your own Processor: AMD ATHALON XP 1900+ (1.6ghz) Video Card: ATI Radeon 7200 RAM: 1gig ddr (so i went a little crazy) Storage: 2 60 gig hds runing raid 1 Assorted drives: 16x dvd 3.25 floppy (it won't run without one) Operating system :XP Pro (if u can get pro why bohter with home?) Name: Krayt (pronounced Crate) After the tatooine dragons of starwars. Mynok is my old one Why I love it: well maybe love is too strong a word but it's great because i made it and it runs games. Lots of games all at the same time. I can play baldur's gate and watch a dvd all at the same time yeah. IP: Logged
+Andrew Alpha Geek Posts: 275 From: Boston, MA, USA Registered: Aug 2001	posted July 09, 2002 22:38 See also: this and this. You may also want to look into more careful spelling. IP: Logged
maxomai Super Geek Posts: 242 From: Portland, OR Registered: May 2001	posted July 10, 2002 08:13 Dream system: Processor: AMD Athalon XP 2100+ Video Card: GEforce4 Titanium-4200 RAM: 512 MB DDR Storage: 1x60 GB HHD (for /home and /usr), 1x8 GB HDD (for / and cache) Other drives: 3.25 floppy, 16x DVD, 16x/10x/40x CDRW, external ZIP drive OS: A form of RedHat 8 using rebuilt source RPMs instead of the standard i386 crap; Ximian GNOME; WINE and WineX. Name: Baby. Actual system: Processor: Pentium MMX 233MHz Video Card: ATI Rage Pro II, 32 MB RAM: 96 Megs Hard Drive: 1x20 HDD Other drives: 3.25 floppy, 16x CD-ROM OS: RedHat 7.2; Ximian GNOME Saving my pennies... IP: Logged
g026r Newbie Larva Posts: 4 From: Registered: Jul 2002	posted July 10, 2002 14:22 Today is not my day... I just lost what I was typing for the second time... Oh well, here we go again. This time going from oldest to youngest. (Not oldest to newest mind you, there is a difference) Name: Hoder Function: Currently between uses. Probably will end up as a mail server or something where speed isn't that important. (See below for reason) CPU: Intel 80386 (16MHz) RAM: 8MB (Go-go 30-pin!) Storage: 202MB IDE (Connor Peripherals) Video: Unknown, and too much of a bother to check right now. Other Drives: 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppies OS: Slackware Linux 7.1 Why I Love It: You mean besides getting to tell people that yes, I have a working 386 that atcually does stuff? Well, probably the fact that when I originally got it, it appeared to have GNU Hurd installed on it (I say appeared as it wouldn't boot from the hdd. fdisk reported the partition type as belonging to the Hurd, and the previous owner confirmed it had had some *nix-style OS on there) Name: Bragi Function: Audio machine. CPU: Intel Pentium MMX (166MHz) RAM: 64MB Storage: 6.3 GB IDE (Fujitsu) Video: S3 of unknown model (1MB PCI) Other Drives: 32x LG CD-ROM OS: FreeBSD 4.5 Why I Love It: I'm too cheap/lazy to buy a new sound card to replace my AWE64 (it works fine, sounds better than the onboard one on my Athlon machine) but since it's ISA and I have no ISA slots on my Athlon machine, it gets its own seperate machine (I need music, it drives me crazy without it. So it acts as a cd-player/mp3-plaer, and frees up 6 GB from my other hard drive) Name: Heimdall Function: Gateway/Firewall/Router CPU: PowerPC 604 (132MHz) Storage: 1.2 GB SCSI (Apple) Video: I forget, whatever was built-in on the PowerMac 7600 Other Drives: 3 1/2" floppy, 8x CD-ROM (both also SCSI) OS: Debian 2.2 PowerPC Why I Love It: Two words: RISC & SCSI (Ok, so really they're acronyms. Pick up the shattered pieces of your life and move on) Name: Bragi Function: Webserver CPU: Intel Celeron (300MHz, Slot 1 variety) RAM: 64MB Storage: 1.2GB (IBM) Video: ATI Rage IIC Other Drives: 5 1/4" Floppy (Hey, I needed a place to store it.) OS: OpenBSD 3.0 Why I Love It: It (motherboard & CPU, rest are not the original parts) is the first computer I ever bought (Not the first I owned, that goes to a Commodore 128 that I still have) Name: Loki Function: Whatever I feel like making it do at the time. (Main work machine) CPU: AMD Athlon (1.13GHz) RAM: 256MB DDR Storage: 45GB (IBM) (Yes, _that_ IBM drive) Video: ATI Radeon 7500 Other Drives: Lite-On DVD-ROM, Yamaha CRW8824E (CD burner), 3 1/2" floppy. OS: Currently Windows 98, XP Pro, Debian 3.0, OpenBSD 3.0. Previously (under different hardware configurations) has also had BeOS R5, QNX RTP 6, Plan 9 Release 3, and more Linux distros than I can count. Why I Love It: Who says I do? It's been in the shop 3 times in the past 2 months (1st time: Fried motherboard, which was caused by a defective PSU that was replaced the 2nd time 'round, still awaitng the results of the 3rd trip) Ok, but besides that, it's faster then anything else I've got, which means that if I want to waste time, it's the perfect tool. (Ok, so the 286 under my bed that I haven't gotten around to installing Minix on is also good for that, but that's another story entirely) There, that's them all. And what have we learnt from this? That I (a) have too much time on my hands and (b) really am too masochistic for my own good. (What other type of person would install Slackware on a 386? Not counting those who did when 386's were actually used for something other than paperweights) IP: Logged
g026r Newbie Larva Posts: 4 From: Registered: Jul 2002	posted July 10, 2002 16:04 Bah... 2nd one with the name 'Bragi' should be 'Hermod' IP: Logged
SpikeSpiegel Highlie Posts: 727 From: my chair Registered: Jun 2002	posted July 12, 2002 15:45 quote: Originally posted by Eldon: Feel free to copy my format or makeup your own Processor: AMD ATHALON XP 1900+ (1.6ghz) Video Card: ATI Radeon 7200 RAM: 1gig ddr (so i went a little crazy) Storage: 2 60 gig hds runing raid 1 Assorted drives: 16x dvd 3.25 floppy (it won't run without one) Operating system :XP Pro (if u can get pro why bohter with home?) Name: Krayt (pronounced Crate) After the tatooine dragons of starwars. Mynok is my old one Why I love it: well maybe love is too strong a word but it's great because i made it and it runs games. Lots of games all at the same time. I can play baldur's gate and watch a dvd all at the same time yeah. yeah why would u want to do that? are you actually running the dvd and playing baldurs gate simultaneously or do you want the novel joy of doing it just for shits and giggles? ------------------ "Get in my Belly! Im bigger than you im higher in the food chain!... Chili's Baby Back Ribs....." IP: Logged
ilovemydualg4 Highlie Posts: 675 From: GASP THE 3RD DIMMENSION Registered: Mar 2002	posted July 23, 2002 16:47 Processor: G4 Dual 450 Video Card: Rage Pro128 monitor: lacie 19inch electron blue III RAM: 1gig pc133 Storage: 80gig and 40gig Assorted drives: 8x dvd 16xcdrw Some crazy seagate backup drive SNAP! 40gig Zip100 (i'm far to lasy to take it out, i put it in for one time i needed it, and never found a reason to take it out, though i never use it USB Floppy Firefly 30gig firewire drive Operating system s x.1.5 and soon to be x.2..... also yellow dog linux 2.2 Name: scotty... patched together, always comes through Why I love it: playhs the games i want, is good for graphics work, web design, and whateva i want it to (no, not what spike or zorro may be thinking ), and yes, i know i can probably afford a slightly better rvideo card ------------------ my geek code Hazards: "There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty, miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed." IP: Logged
ilovemydualg4 Highlie Posts: 675 From: GASP THE 3RD DIMMENSION Registered: Mar 2002	posted July 23, 2002 16:49 Processor: G4 Dual 450 Video Card: Rage Pro128 monitor: lacie 19inch electron blue III RAM: 1gig pc133 Storage: 80gig and 40gig Assorted drives: 8x dvd 16xcdrw Some crazy seagate backup drive SNAP! 40gig Zip100 (i'm far to lasy to take it out, i put it in for one time i needed it, and never found a reason to take it out, though i never use it USB Floppy Firefly 30gig firewire drive Operating system s x.1.5 and soon to be x.2..... also yellow dog linux 2.2 Name: scotty... patched together, always comes through Why I love it: playhs the games i want, is good for graphics work, web design, and whateva i want it to (no, not what spike or zorro may be thinking ), and yes, i know i can probably afford a slightly better rvideo card ------------------ my geek code Hazards: "There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty, miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed." IP: Logged
ilovemydualg4 Highlie Posts: 675 From: GASP THE 3RD DIMMENSION Registered: Mar 2002	posted July 23, 2002 16:53 Processor: G4 Dual 450 Video Card: Rage Pro128 monitor: lacie 19inch electron blue III RAM: 1gig pc133 Storage: 80gig and 40gig Assorted drives: 8x dvd 16xcdrw Some crazy seagate backup drive SNAP! 40gig Zip100 (i'm far to lasy to take it out, i put it in for one time i needed it, and never found a reason to take it out, though i never use it USB Floppy Firefly 30gig firewire drive Operating system: os x.1.5 and soon to be x.2..... also yellow dog linux 2.2 Name: scotty... patched together, always comes through Why I love it: playhs the games i want, is good for graphics work, web design, and whateva i want it to (no, not what spike or zorro may be thinking ), and yes, i know i can probably afford a slightly better rvideo card ------------------ my geek code Hazards: "There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty, miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed." IP: Logged
snupy Highlie Posts: 756 From: Chicago Registered: Mar 2002	posted July 23, 2002 18:21 Ok, I wasn't going to brag, but this thread was just calling my name...tomorrow my brand new Gateway(I know, there are some of you who hate Gateway, but I've had great luck with them) will arrive. Pentium4 1.8ghz, 128mb(?)memory, and 80 something-or-other hard drive space. Also comes with a cdr so I can spend way too much time on WinMx. Considering my current system is 200mhz, I think I'm gonna love the speed!Woo-hoo! Those of you who know me from these forums will know that the most astonishing thing about this is how excited I am! I feel like a geek finally!(Spungo's so proud ) I know, I won't be officially until I name it, so I'm working on it. Can it be any name I want, or are there rules? My first car was an orange mustang my friends dubbed the"luv pumpkin", hmm.... ------------------ "I didn't know all of them." IP: Logged
neotatsu Uber Geek Posts: 830 From: A place my soul no longer resides Registered: Jun 2002	posted July 23, 2002 20:34 Wow, three copies of daulgs post..must be a record or sumthin.. IP: Logged
Oz, the Wizard of Geek Posts: 76 From: The Emerald City Registered: Jun 2002	posted July 31, 2002 18:16 Name: Hex Functions: Stereo/Game Machine/Word Processor CPU: Athlon XP 1800+ Mobo: Soyo Dragon Plus! Ram: 512MB DDR Videocard: ATI Radeon 64MB DDR (Soon to be Radeon 8500 128MB) CD: 40x Generic CD-ROM (Soon to add Plextor 20x10x40x12 combo drive) Soundcard: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer Mouse/KB: Microsoft Wireless Optical Explorer / Microsoft Natural Elite OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro Speakers: 4.1 Digital Surround (I forget the brand) Color: Scratched Orange Why I love it: Because it always prevails in the face of ever the more powerful systems, It always knows exactly what music I want to hear, I can always run Winamp (Serious, if I had a game called "100% CPU Utilization" I could still run winamp in the background), and with the delicious orange paint job, it's still the darling of LAN parties. -Oz IP: Logged
+Andrew Alpha Geek Posts: 275 From: Boston, MA, USA Registered: Aug 2001	posted July 31, 2002 23:51 quote: Originally posted by snupy: Ok, I wasn't going to brag, but this thread was just calling my name...tomorrow my brand new Gateway(I know, there are some of you who hate Gateway, but I've had great luck with them) will arrive. Pentium4 1.8ghz, 128mb(?)memory, and 80 something-or-other hard drive space. Also comes with a cdr so I can spend way too much time on WinMx. Considering my current system is 200mhz, I think I'm gonna love the speed!Woo-hoo! WinXP will absolutely crawl with 128MB RAM, no matter how fast the processor is. But there's chance that number's a mistake; most manufacturers don't bother selling systems with such a small amount of memory any longer. IP: Logged

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