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Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Tue, 30 June 2009, 08:27:23: I stole it from Qwerter's Clinic... :laugh:
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: iMav on Wed, 01 July 2009, 10:55:18: I like it! ;)
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: xsphat on Wed, 01 July 2009, 12:01:34: I think Wellington used that one before.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Wed, 01 July 2009, 12:29:52: Quote from: xsphat;100502
I think Wellington used that one before.

Well I took it fair and square...edited it myself :biggrin:
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 01 July 2009, 14:28:26: That's not a bad avatar. I like my new one of a box for Windows 3.1 installation diskettes. Fits with my username pretty well...
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Post by: watduzhkstand4 on Wed, 01 July 2009, 15:04:46: nice avatar =]
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 01 July 2009, 15:38:36: Quote from: microsoft windows;100528
That's not a bad avatar. I like my new one of a box for Windows 3.1 installation diskettes. Fits with my username pretty well...

I have the original diskettes for WFW and MS-DOS 6.2. Got them off eBay (for next to nothing) so I don't have the box though :(
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 01 July 2009, 15:54:11: Quote from: ch_123;100533
I have the original diskettes for WFW and MS-DOS 6.2. Got them off eBay (for next to nothing) so I don't have the box though :(

I actually have a copy of MS-DOS 6 which composes of all three original disks. I also have a copy of Windows 3.1 OEM diskettes for a Gateway2000 computer somewhere.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 01 July 2009, 15:54:48: Quote from: ch_123;100533
I have the original diskettes for WFW and MS-DOS 6.2. Got them off eBay (for next to nothing) so I don't have the box though :(

I actually have a copy of MS-DOS 6 which composes of all three original disks. I also have a copy of Windows 3.1 OEM diskettes for a Gateway2000 computer somewhere. I used them to install Windows 3.1 on my crappy old 450Mhz computer.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Wed, 01 July 2009, 16:16:36: I hate Windows
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 02 July 2009, 06:48:12: What do you use instead? A macintrash?
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Thu, 02 July 2009, 07:26:56: Quote from: microsoft windows;100646
What do you use instead? A macintrash?

I am above using just one OS. I've got Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 02 July 2009, 07:27:53: Linux, like any decent person should =P
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: lam47 on Thu, 02 July 2009, 09:40:01: I like it. A Japanese A01 switch mechanism. Very nice.
Much better than the funny looking guy you had before ;)
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: o2dazone on Thu, 02 July 2009, 09:49:36: you guys still have avatars on :o

(http://o2dazone.com/y/viewImage.php?id=f0fd7c1503e6b28b9129177eb1f0fade)
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Thu, 02 July 2009, 10:24:08: Quote from: lam47;100693
I like it. A Japanese A01 switch mechanism. Very nice.
Much better than the funny looking guy you had before ;)

Hey that was a picture of me!
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: lam47 on Thu, 02 July 2009, 10:33:35: I know mate I was only teasing.
You looked like you were trying to decide what to have for dinner in that pic and for some reason it was a harder decision than it should have been.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 03 July 2009, 10:53:55: Quote from: timw4mail;100653
I am above using just one OS. I've got Windows, Linux, and OS X.

A friend of mind does that too. He's got Windows Vista, Windows 7, OSX, and Ubuntu on his computer.

However, I would never manage to do that with my 10gb hard disk and I really don't really feel like it anyway. I've fought with that heap of junk of a computer too much already...
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: timw4mail on Fri, 03 July 2009, 11:22:16: 10GB is well within the '90s. I was managing with 2 4GB drives not too long ago. I've even got a Socket 7 computer, which the processors range from 66-550MHz.

I'm a sucker for old technology, too.
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: lal on Fri, 03 July 2009, 11:53:04: Don't feed the trolls! :fish:
Title: How'd you like my new avatar?
Post by: keyb_gr on Sun, 05 July 2009, 11:28:28: Quote from: microsoft windows;100945
However, I would never manage to do that with my 10gb hard disk and I really don't really feel like it anyway. I've fought with that heap of junk of a computer too much already...

Must be a pretty slow heap of junk, too - a 10 gigger probably is around 10 years old. Now if there is one hardware component that better be the fastest you can get, it's the harddrive. You can literally feel the difference.

Maybe you can find a Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 (18 or 36 gigger; LW version, not FC!) and a matching U160 HA and cable for little money. The 15K.3 was a sweet drive a few years ago, possibly the most civilized 15k rpm drive ever. The larger ones did get kinda noisy but the 1 or maybe 2 platter models should be fine. Good ventilation required though, even the 18 gigger draws 9 W idle.

I moved my Cheetah 36ES' (possibly the nicest 10k SCSI desktop drive ever) and U2W HAs to secondary machines years ago, going all IDE, but while a comparatively modern 7200 rpm drive like my Deskstar T7K250 tends to be superior for general use (and is less noisy to boot), the older 10k stuff doesn't seem to bog down as much when multiple processes are thrashing the harddrive at the same time (which makes sense, given that SCSI drives are typically optimized for server use).