Pythagoras

Hmm only works for dos commands...

Asus P2B-F mobo (kinda old) 550 Mhz PIII 128 megs of pc100 sdram (will be 256 within days) 45 Gig IBM 75GXP Hard Drive (7200 rpm) (cooled w/ coolmaster) 13 Gig Western Digital something or other (7200 rpm) 32 Meg ATI All in Wonder 128 17" MAG Monitor Regular ole Soundblaster PCI 128 Logitech Itouch Cordless keyboard (A Dvorak) USB Microsoft Optical 5 buttoner 100 Meg Zip drive 8 speed/32 speed Toshiba sumthn or other DVD deallly Running Win2K, latest stuff Red Hat Linux 7.0.

Hmm... mebe I should read threads b4 I post one... anyway I am a devotee of gnutella. And until recently I thought it was cool - except there were no good clones - then I found bearshare (www.bearshare.com). And bye bye napster!

Just curious what people know of out there. I have WinMX which is an enhanced napster that allows sharing of vids and pics too... Then I just got bearshare which is an awesome gnutella clone, and from what Ive seen in gnutella clones, it takes a huge leap forward... Anyone else have any progys theyd like to share?

Ok I have made the switch to dvorak, and its great. For most applications it works, and gets my kb input from windows, but for some games, 2 in particular (Half Life and Madden 2k1) It just dont work, it seems to bypass windows and assume I have a qwerty keyboard! It sucks when someone I know on a cs server is talking to me and all I can say is ",aa;fr!" Anyone know anything I can do?

Hell no! First of all I cant - doctors orders, and Ill live with no typing in 2 games...

Ok I wanted to get some viewpoints from those with experience. First of all I have 2 things I have done or will do for my sys. As of now I got my case open w/ a box fan and a sorta air filter for dust. What I want to do is use the outdoor winter air to cool my comp. First off- has anyone tried either of these? Second of all, does anyone have any other weird ways they cool their systems? Thx

Current USB I believe you can have 32? devices a port.

The moisture problem can be taken care of I believe by using a catch and maybe a dehumidifier, besides it cant be that different from the humidity inside, unless ofcourse ins raining.

I think nothing is really dead, I think USB is gonna be allowing a great deal of flexibility to the pount that nearly everything could become USB, (even maybe mobos) so that any upgrade someone wants to make to any system wiil be fast and painless. so So in a sense PCs will become indistinguishable from consoles with USBs and so on. Another thing is, the PC is winning! Consoles and web appliances are being forced to be like pcs in upgradability via USB, while PCs are staying the same. [This message has been edited by Pythagoras (edited 19 January 2001).]

Occasionally, only in Win2k, my cdrom drive just freezes the computer, while my computer is reading from it, the computer just freezes, and the only way to restart it is to unplug it physically. My computer doesnt respond to anything, including numlock/capslock. I have the latest BIOS update, and the latest drivers for everything. Any ideas?

its actually a DVD-ROM, Toshiba - SD-M1212. Toshiba tells me to upgrade my bios which I did. I'm not sure if its a hardware problem or a software problem... I just dunno.

as engines go: I hate the unreal engine, its preferance of glide, and only glide, its lack of portability essentially ruined Deus Ex as a graphical experience for me, while Quake is very platform independant and supports a full range of api's open gl, glide, direct 3d... The thief engine was also fairly decent. gamewise: I'd say there about even here. UT came with many more features, and lots of customization, but Quake is a definate must for raw deathmatch, and is sorta the standard. I just wish it came with team stuff.

Hmm... this was happening earlier, after I clean installed win2k, It worked fine in NT4. It stopped freezing up around after I got SP1 for win 2k, so I figured that probably fixed it. I recently had to reinstall win2k again after I got a new hard drive. During this installation I had to flash my bios, and recently during a cd intensive program, it just froze. I cant find anything on either microsoft or toshibas site. This happens w and w/o DMA on. I'll have to screw with it more, hopefully I wont have to buy a new cdrom.

Some EA games will run in Win2k. I have gotten Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire to run fine. But it is highly annoying when developers refuse superior operating systems ie nt, and moreso, unix/linux. In my opinion, if you want an equal and fair OS market you should open source directx, and allow it to be ported to unix/linux platforms, and get rid of the 9x line forever.

I'm wondering if perhaps there is a conflict between your 3 os's. Like one trying to get the others add/remove programs. Which drives do you have what installed? I believe 98 can only be installed to the C: drive, and it dont matter for 2000, but I'm not sure about Whistler at all. You might want to try and get rid of whistler and see if that fixes it. I wouldnt trust a pre-beta OS anyway...

Yo- could you provide some info: did you upgrade to windows 2000 or did you do a clean install? How did you go about installing your triple boot? Whats your sis config? Do you have all recent windows updates? Have you looked at microsoft tech support at all?

Lots of times this is due to an overheating hardware component. You might want to go in your bios and check your cpu fan speed, and see if they report any errors.