OT? The latest bare-bones from Fry's, Windows-free

[Rich Grise, but drunk]

Here's a link:
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
but yesterday's Fry's ad supplement in the noosepaper has it listed at
$189.99.

But the thing that caught my eye was the very last item in the "Detailed
Description": Operating System: Linspire 5.0 .

Dood! I wish I had a couple hundred to plunk down on one of them puppies!

Cheers!
Rich
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[Rather Play Pinball]

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

but yesterday's Fry's ad supplement in the noosepaper has it listed at
$189.99.

Cool. Wish it was $189 rather than the $259 or I'd buy one.

 

[Anthony Fremont]

Here's a link:
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
but yesterday's Fry's ad supplement in the noosepaper has it listed at
$189.99.

But the thing that caught my eye was the very last item in the "Detailed
Description": Operating System: Linspire 5.0 .

Dood! I wish I had a couple hundred to plunk down on one of them

puppies!

It's junk, pure and simple, especially for $269.99. Go here:
www.directron.com
and purchase this stuff:

$59.99 MSI 865GVM2-LS motherboard
$69.99 Celeron 325D (2.53GHz) retail box
$20.99 DIM-DDR400-256 (I'd get two and operate them as dual channel)
$32.99 CDR-COM5232 (CD-RW/DVD Combo)
$45.99 CS-Z583TB (Black Inwin micro-atx w/300W supply)
$57.99 HD-MAX-6L08 (80GB/7200RPM/8MB cache)

So for <$290.00 you can have something that actually has something to
offer. The equipment I listed is FAR FAR FAR better than what you're
gonna get at Fry's. DONT BUY COMPUTER STUFF FROM FRY'S

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

puppies!

It's junk, pure and simple, especially for $269.99. Go here:
www.directron.com
and purchase this stuff:

$59.99 MSI 865GVM2-LS motherboard
$69.99 Celeron 325D (2.53GHz) retail box
$20.99 DIM-DDR400-256 (I'd get two and operate them as dual channel)
$32.99 CDR-COM5232 (CD-RW/DVD Combo)
$45.99 CS-Z583TB (Black Inwin micro-atx w/300W supply)
$57.99 HD-MAX-6L08 (80GB/7200RPM/8MB cache)

So for <$290.00 you can have something that actually has something to
offer. The equipment I listed is FAR FAR FAR better than what you're
gonna get at Fry's. DONT BUY COMPUTER STUFF FROM FRY'S

Sounds good. I'd go another $7 and get a Sony 16x DVD+/-RW (burns CDs
at 48x) rather than the obsolete CD-RW/DVD combo. Also for another $15
or so (+$22 total), 50%-100% more HDD capacity (120G-160G) is worth
considering.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Anthony Fremont]

Sounds good. I'd go another $7 and get a Sony 16x DVD+/-RW (burns CDs
at 48x) rather than the obsolete CD-RW/DVD combo. Also for another $15
or so (+$22 total), 50%-100% more HDD capacity (120G-160G) is worth
considering.

For just a few dollars more......isn't that the way it always is?
Reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie. ;-)

 

[Dan Major]

Here's a link:
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4714029?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
but yesterday's Fry's ad supplement in the noosepaper has it listed at
$189.99.

But the thing that caught my eye was the very last item in the
"Detailed Description": Operating System: Linspire 5.0 .

Dood! I wish I had a couple hundred to plunk down on one of them
puppies!

Got one for m Mom last year. Immediatly put WinXP on it. Added a CD
writer I had laying around. All she does is play games and occasionally
browse the internet. I put a couple pf other programs (Open Office and
such) on so when the kids/grandkids are there we can do work.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

For just a few dollars more......isn't that the way it always is?
Reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie. ;-)

The sequel to _A Fistful of RAM_?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Frank Bemelman]

Sounds good. I'd go another $7 and get a Sony 16x DVD+/-RW (burns CDs
at 48x) rather than the obsolete CD-RW/DVD combo. Also for another $15
or so (+$22 total), 50%-100% more HDD capacity (120G-160G) is worth
considering.

How much GB have you used on your C: drive, if I may ask?

Even if you download 2GB per month... an 80GB drive lasts 3 years
before it is filled. My C: drive on my internet PC holds only 17GB
of collected rubbish, that's after three years usage.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

How much GB have you used on your C: drive, if I may ask?

Even if you download 2GB per month... an 80GB drive lasts 3 years
before it is filled. My C: drive on my internet PC holds only 17GB
of collected rubbish, that's after three years usage.

~91GB as of now, but I have neither videos nor porn on it, and little
music.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Frank Bemelman]

~91GB as of now, but I have neither videos nor porn on it, and little
music.

Not bad, you must be a great collector of other interesting things
then, but not interesting enough to make weekly backups I make
backups by copying files to my other PC, but that is ~3GB of stuff
I would be really upset about if I lost it. And most of that stuff
is kept on a bunch of CD's as well. I should find a backup provider,
and store my stuff there.

 

[Joerg]

Hello Frank,

Not bad, you must be a great collector of other interesting things
then, but not interesting enough to make weekly backups I make
backups by copying files to my other PC, but that is ~3GB of stuff
I would be really upset about if I lost it. And most of that stuff
is kept on a bunch of CD's as well. I should find a backup provider,
and store my stuff there.

3GB isn't much these days. Many web site hosting companies provide lots
of space that can be used for FTP and other stuff. Maybe not XS4ALL, I
think they only have an "Eigen Server" option which is quite expensive.

Frank, since you are in NL, a question: Is there a NG similar to this
one in Dutch? My Dutch really begins to become rusty and it'll be gone
some day if I don't hone it a little. There are a couple groups in
German but I haven't found any in the .nl, .be or .za domains.

The only "training materials" I have here is an Urbanus CD, somewhere.

Regards, Joerg

 

[Frank Bemelman]

Hello Frank,


3GB isn't much these days. Many web site hosting companies provide lots
of space that can be used for FTP and other stuff. Maybe not XS4ALL, I
think they only have an "Eigen Server" option which is quite expensive.

I have three domains hosted, but the space is 50MB per domain - not
enough to use it as a backup storage. I see various offers, but I
don't want to pay 15 euro's a month for just a couple of GB space.
Should my house burn down this night, I'd be more than happy to
pay 15 euro to get all my data back

Frank, since you are in NL, a question: Is there a NG similar to this
one in Dutch? My Dutch really begins to become rusty and it'll be gone
some day if I don't hone it a little. There are a couple groups in
German but I haven't found any in the .nl, .be or .za domains.

There's nl.hobby.electronica, but a better name would be nl.tv.repairs
as 90% is about tv repairs. Most of the time it's pretty boring.

The only "training materials" I have here is an Urbanus CD, somewhere.

Try to get some CD's of Herman Finkers.

 

[Rich Grise]

Sounds good. I'd go another $7 and get a Sony 16x DVD+/-RW (burns CDs at
48x) rather than the obsolete CD-RW/DVD combo. Also for another $15 or so
(+$22 total), 50%-100% more HDD capacity (120G-160G) is worth considering.

Boy! Does anybody remember when 40 MEGAbytes was a lot?

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise, but drunk]

The sequel to _A Fistful of RAM_?

Yes, of course, and predecessor, as we all know, to "The Good The Bad, and
The Windows." ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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[Rich Grise, but drunk]

How much GB have you used on your C: drive, if I may ask?

Even if you download 2GB per month... an 80GB drive lasts 3 years before
it is filled. My C: drive on my internet PC holds only 17GB of collected
rubbish, that's after three years usage.

What's a "C:" drive?

richgrise@thunderbird:~
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 4192800 1856052 2336748 45% /
/dev/hdb10 8000084 587780 7412304 8% /mnt/hdb10
/dev/hdb11 8570376 685768 7884608 9% /pub
/dev/hdb5 8369532 6505064 1864468 78% /D
/dev/hdb7 497960 32840 465120 7% /mnt/hdb7
/dev/hdb8 1999992 32840 1967152 2% /mnt/hdb8
/dev/hdb9 8000084 4331364 3668720 55% /home
/dev/hdd6 12000148 516196 11483952 5% /usr/local
/dev/hdd9 24000336 2175932 21824404 10% /mnt/hdd9
/dev/hdd10 24141888 5917824 18224064 25% /J
//ops/Server 33654784 17761280 15893504 53% /Server
---------------------------
;-)

Cheers!
Rich
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[Anthony Fremont]

Boy! Does anybody remember when 40 MEGAbytes was a lot?

I remember when a 5MB hard drive was $5000.00 and of course ram was
about $100.00/K (that is K not M ;0)

 

[Glenn Gundlach]

Rich Grise wrote:

Boy! Does anybody remember when 40 MEGAbytes was a lot?

Cheers!
Rich

Like my first PC-AT clone in 1986 1 meg RAM, 10 MHz 286, mono monitor
and Hercules graphics, 1.2MByte 5.25" floppy and NO hard drive for
$2400 (gasp). First HD was a 20 meg Seagate for $300. wow.

Right now I have a $90 300gig Maxtor drive un-opened waiting for the
next upgrade machine.

GG

 

[Wes Stewart]

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:24:55 GMT, Rich Grise

[snip]

Boy! Does anybody remember when 40 MEGAbytes was a lot?

Before PCs on every desk I was using an HP9836 running HP Basic to
control three relay racks full of HP-IB controlled equipment with the
resident 64KB and one 250KB memory card inside.

 

[Richard Henry]

Boy! Does anybody remember when 40 MEGAbytes was a lot?

I can remember when the PC in the Software Lab had an external 10 MB drive
attached.

 

[Joerg]

Hello Frank,

I have three domains hosted, but the space is 50MB per domain - not
enough to use it as a backup storage. I see various offers, but I
don't want to pay 15 euro's a month for just a couple of GB space.
Should my house burn down this night, I'd be more than happy to
pay 15 euro to get all my data back

Try 1and1, their web space is huge. Maybe a GB or so and the cost (in
the US) is under $40 for 6 months.

There's nl.hobby.electronica, but a better name would be nl.tv.repairs
as 90% is about tv repairs. Most of the time it's pretty boring.

Thanks, I'll try (the other 10%). TV repair is boring these days, those
things are often really junk.

Try to get some CD's of Herman Finkers.

Got to try next time I am over there. I like the Twente accent, worked
there for a couple months. Strange thing is, they did not understand us
Zuid Limburgers too well. They also did not get many of the Urbanus
jokes and were wondering why we were laughing so hard.

As long as it's not too much song. That was the problem with the Urbanus
CD a friend sent me, way too much song and IMHO he cannot sing. But his
cabaret sketches are truly superb, especially the one about the Hells
Angels.

Regards, Joerg