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by TheCatt
Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: DOS Emulator for a WinXP machine
Replies: 19
Views: 4586

Although. Have you tried VMWare?
by TheCatt
Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: DOS Emulator for a WinXP machine
Replies: 19
Views: 4586

DOS boot floppy is probably the easiest.
by TheCatt
Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:45 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: Philly goes wireless?
Replies: 2
Views: 1052

Nice plan, but why not wait for wi-max?
by TheCatt
Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:48 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: VNC FYI
Replies: 2
Views: 1010

Strange.

Just set it up yesterday, but haven't used it yet.
by TheCatt
Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:01 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: More XP SP2 fallout
Replies: 21
Views: 5750

But doesn't it lock down the ports simply by turning the firewall on? So you could just turn it off to get back to where you probably were in SP1-world.

Unless you had individual ports turned on on each machine?
by TheCatt
Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:00 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Terrorists?
Replies: 8
Views: 2549

Yeah, foxnews/msnbc/cnn everyone stating the same now.
by TheCatt
Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:24 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: More XP SP2 fallout
Replies: 21
Views: 5750

GORDON wrote:Isn't it possible to just throw a switch and turn the software firewall off?
You're talking about county employees.

:p
by TheCatt
Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:49 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Reaching out to the middle.
Replies: 7
Views: 2424

They are both half-evil to me.

Though, I'm willing to try the evil I don't know.
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:44 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?)
Topic: Kevin Smith
Replies: 5
Views: 2022

GORDON wrote:I think you have "Anybody But Smith" syndrome.
:D
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:50 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?)
Topic: Kevin Smith
Replies: 5
Views: 2022

Good.
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:57 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: Tigerdirect.com month-end clearance sale
Replies: 10
Views: 3003

Cakedaddy wrote:In my opinion, even the $700ish laptops will play a DVD good enough from plane viewing.
Ditto.

Except you will need to check the battery life.

Pentium M (not Mobile, or Pentium, 4M, etc) chips have massive battery life, but still sell at a premium
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:54 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?)
Topic: Kevin Smith
Replies: 5
Views: 2022

Hey Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Mallrats, etc, etc fans.

Why didn't I notice that in addition to the above piles of shit, he also brought us Jersey Girl?

No talent hack.
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:11 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: Tigerdirect.com month-end clearance sale
Replies: 10
Views: 3003

Heck, you could go less than $1,000. I think Walmart has one for $650 or so.
by TheCatt
Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:10 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Terrorists?
Replies: 8
Views: 2549

by TheCatt
Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:01 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: RAID 0 for Free - Windows XP/2000
Replies: 3
Views: 1572

So I RAID'ed up my drives.

Damn they are fast.

CPU usage is up when large amounts of disk access is going on, but damn they are faster reading and writing.
by TheCatt
Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:00 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: More XP SP2 fallout
Replies: 21
Views: 5750

Apparently SP2 does actually fix one problem I've had with Partition Magic 8.

Oh well.
by TheCatt
Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:00 pm
Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?)
Topic: Remember this?
Replies: 7
Views: 2714

Had a copy of that at one time.
by TheCatt
Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:59 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Terrorists?
Replies: 8
Views: 2549

Could just be coincidence.

Could be.
by TheCatt
Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:56 pm
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: RAID 0 for Free - Windows XP/2000
Replies: 3
Views: 1572

RAID 0 is disk-striping, any # of disks. There is no data redundancy or cheksums whatsoever. It basically is a way of making (for example) 2 120GB drives behave like a single (and faster) 240GB drive. In Windows XP, it can be any # of drive partitions combined together, but they all have to be of t...
by TheCatt
Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:21 am
Forum: Tech stuff
Topic: RAID 0 for Free - Windows XP/2000
Replies: 3
Views: 1572

Formerly unknown to me, Windows XP provides free software-based RAID 0. I decided to try it out this weekend, as I'm adding a new drive to a machine. The basic instructions are here. Overall, it worked very well, except I made one careless mistake and wiped out one entire drive. Here is a more comp...