Re: NEW iPhones

Posted on 2019-09-10, 20:28

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I think new iPhones are nice enough, but Apple made it very difficult for themselves to sell new iPhones by supporting their old devices for so long. Even my ancient iPhone 5S from 2013 is running the latest iOS (alas, it won't be upgraded to iOS 13 but I think it's time for me to retire it once and …

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Re: Lowest CPU to play MP3s?

Posted on 2019-09-10, 20:18

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All this talk about using integer based decoding to make MP3s playable on 486/early Pentium really makes you appreciate the P6 FPU, eh? Playing a 320K MP3 with foobar2k on a P2-300 only uses 1-2% of the CPU (Win2K SP4). There's no perceptible slowdown during playback, and you couldn't make it skip …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 19:51

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by ShovelKnight

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Bought an ESS ES1869F sound card for my upcoming SuperSocket7 build. Also bought a 32GB IDE SSD and a 40-pin to 44-pin IDE adaptor.

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Re: Latest Bios Revision ASUS P5A SS7 mobo

Posted on 2019-09-10, 19:22

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by ShovelKnight

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It appears you have the latest non-beta BIOS. You can get the latest beta BIOS (not guaranteed to work perfectly) from ASUS themselves: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/P5A/HelpDesk_BIOS/

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-09-09, 21:21

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by ShovelKnight

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bjwil1991 wrote: I have a Model M released in 1987 That's one of the good ones!

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-09-09, 20:43

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yeah you can also find the lexmark ones cheaper too... practically the same experience anyways The Model M became progressively shittier as time went by. The first variant (square badge) is arguably the best. The next one (oval black badge, still made by IBM themselves) was slightly worse (thinner …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-09, 19:38

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Just bought another SS7 motherboard -- Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4.1. Hopefully this one works 😒

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Re: Vintage amps: my experience so far

Posted on 2019-09-08, 09:13

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Pics would be nice. Here you go! My cabling is a mess :-D meridian - 1.jpg The amp is very pretty with its glass top and minimalist design. The heatsinks on the left and right sides of the case are absolutely enormous, most of the inside of the case is taken by a massive toroidal transformer with …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-09-08, 09:05

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Some components are here... 1 (1).jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg The motherboard looks great, the seller even recapped it with polymer caps for me. However, upon closer inspection, I found one troubling bit. This small resistor pack looks like two of its legs were eaten away by corrosion. There are also some …

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Re: Vintage amps: my experience so far

Posted on 2019-09-06, 12:08

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Are amplifiers made in the 90s already considered vintage? I run a very nice Meridian 551 amplifier and it gives most recent integrated amplifiers a run for their money. It’s small in size but extremely heavy with full dual mono construction. It’s also the only solid state amplifier I know of which …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-09-04, 11:20

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foil_fresh wrote: overclock them both and give us some juicy stats If I remember correctly, Phil already did this and found that the difference is within a couple of percentage points.

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Re: The most RAM I have ever had in a computer

Posted on 2019-09-03, 16:43

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I've also heard of 48GB RAM, but I've never knew of a lot of people who use that kind of memory, because in my perspective, the choices for memory amounts usually skip count by twelves, but it's a little rare for people to use 24GB, 48GB, or even 12GB. Some of Intel's workstation/server platforms …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-09-03, 10:00

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The CPU that was delivered to a wrong address unexpectedly turned up today -- the box has a lot of handwriting indicating that it bounced all over Ireland! So it seems I will have the choice between K6-2+ 500 MHz and K6-III+ 400 MHz.

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Re: Off the grid

Posted on 2019-09-02, 19:09

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I haven't had a TV for 15 years. There are much better uses for my time.

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Re: Anything worth keeping from this lot?

Posted on 2019-09-02, 09:59

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by ShovelKnight

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That desktop case on top of the Compaq is really cool despite heavy yellowing

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Re: The most RAM I have ever had in a computer

Posted on 2019-08-31, 10:18

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I have 32GB of RAM in my Mac mini because things get tight very quickly when running Docker containers, virtual machines etc. (I do this stuff because I'm taking a part-time course in Computer Science.)

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Re: *nix software and systems

Posted on 2019-08-31, 10:02

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by ShovelKnight

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I remember our local university had classes of MIPS workstations that ran some kind of BSD with GNUstep on top. It was in 1998 if I remember correctly. The machines were quite old even at the time and they were donated to the university by some kind of charity.

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Re: Quake 2 in DosBox

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:49

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by ShovelKnight

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Quake 2 is not a DOS application.

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-30, 19:27

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Any notebook, from which I cannot get data, when anything happens to it, is a big no-no in my book. And MacBook with it's soldered SSD chips on board is absolutely leading this awful category... Have you heard about, I dunno, backups? What if your laptop gets stolen, how would you get your data …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-08-30, 15:00

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You did well by buying that FIC -- if I remember correctly, AnandTech claimed it was simply the fastest SS7 motherboard on the market. Edit: Yes! Found the review: https://www.anandtech.com/show/152 When dealing with performance, the VA-503+ is the name to beat. Benching in at the top of all charts, …

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