DeadCats

A slow beater? Hey, I'm running one of those: a 333Mhz P2, albeit w/192MB RAM. How does Win2K do? Just fine, thanks. Much, much better than Win9x.

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Four and Twenty: I have too much pot.</font> I'll help you with your problem. My snail-mail address attached... ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

The original "Windows" was created by Bill Gates and Microsoft while coding OS/2 for IBM. Gates disagreed with much of the software architecture requirements that IBM demanded for OS/2 and wanted them to incorporate his ideas for a windowed, graphical operating system, instead. This led to the great falling-out (a/k/a "War") that happened between IBM and Microsoft in the early '90's. Regardless of who came up with the mouse+gui (and it was indeed PARC), I have doubts that federal courts would uphold copyrights/patents to either. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 24 February 2001).]

Are you sure? Maybe he has another partition with an old version of DOS on it and wants to know how to configure a multi-boot. Or MAYBE he doesn't understand that Win2K IS the stinkin' DOS. MUAHAHAHA! ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 20 February 2001).]

The best "tech answer" for that problem is to have 'em format and do a clean install of Win2K...MUAHAHAHAHA! (P.S. I'm really not joking.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Sorry, OLEerror, but the retail Voodoo 5 5500 does NOT have TV-out. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lukish: Topic: this is hilarious</font> I agree, posting a new topic with no reference as to what is considered hilarious by the poster, is indeed hilarious. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

I've tried installing just from the residual files, but could not. Perhaps DosFreak or someone else more advanced can help you with this quest. Downloading and keeping Sp1network.exe is the only way I know how to do it. Something you might also want to consider: Service Release 2 is due at any time. It incorporates all the fixes from SR1. It might be worth waiting until it's released. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

What does ZOOM have to say about it? ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

So we got DosFreak AND AlecStaar vying to give help. Kewl! ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

The V5 6000 will never fix it. Not unless nVidia decides to produce the board. (For those not current with the state of 3dFX's affairs, they are out of business, with nVidia acquiring most of their assets.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

We have our share of lamers and flamers, that's for sure. You won't remain virgo intacta forever here. But the ones that remain tend to turn into contributors. (And YES, jdulmage, I AM referring to you.) Extremely knowledgeable, helpful folks here for the most part. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

I hear ya, which is why I started frequenting 3D Files a while back. A nice change of pace. You won't find things nearly as hectic here. Things have been rather slow of late. However, there've been more posts regarding WinXP and with it's increasing nearness there will be considerably more. Let's see; what else... Much less schmoozing here. Most posts are at least somewhat computer related... No 300+ posts a day to wade through... DosFreak has not attained Gawd-status here (yet). He's pretty much mainstream in this forum. And oh yeah; no having to re-register every week!!! ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Hurts to think, huh. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by OLEerror: Something about crack. You should really stay away from that stuff. </font> Especially stay away from crack while attempting to apply game cracks. (No-CD game patches work just fine for me under Win2K, as well as duplicated game CD's.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Four and Twenty: ...I used to have pictures of kind buds on my desktop but I have found that that is dangerous to my stash cause I think about it and then go smoke it.</font> I sympathize with you. I work at home. Self-discipline (for me) is a foreign response, I've found. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 07 February 2001).]

Good deal. Thanks, clutch. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

CUViper, the problem with the CONVERT utility - at least from what I've found - is that it converts FAT32 partitions to the default NTFS 512-byte sectors. Which means a whole LOT of them for the file system to keep track of. I'd much rather have them a bit larger, say 2K, on my 8-gig partitions. But I haven't found a way to do that using CONVERT. Partition Magic 6.0 has the same problem with it. It appears that it uses Win2K's CONVERT utility for that function, anyway. I can do a destructive format, but it sure is a pain in the butt. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 06 February 2001).]

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Oooh, wow!...where can I get that version of Half-Life? I haven't walked down hallways like that since the early '70's. (Sorry I'm no help.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Speaking of formatting and NTFS, does anyone know a way of converting a FAT32 partition to NTFS using something larger (like 4k) sectors instead of 512-byte sectors? Possibly using the CONVERT command instead of destructively formatting my drives? (This specific operation even PM 6.0 doesn't appear able to do, either.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 04 February 2001).]

Just out of curiosity, what does a Dvorak keyboard provide that a qwerty keyboard does not, since you can now find all sorts of split-board, all-angle qwerty keyboards? ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

I did exactly the same thing a few weeks ago. The solution was simple, very simple. Perhaps I'll not be so brain-dead in the morning, and able to remember what the solution was. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Because I be kewl! (Ipso facto, I must then run the kewl-est OS.) ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001

Have you considered installing a larger wattage power supply? ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." -DeadCats, 1999 "Talking to DeadCats is like talking to a dead cat." -MrsDeadCats, 2001