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Offline Nilsen

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« on: June 05, 2004, 01:21:20 PM »
Have you ever found yourself buying computerstuff because its cool even if you have no real need for it?

I have.....again. :D

name the most useless piece of computer hardware you have bought, or the thing you regret most buying.
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« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2004, 01:24:26 PM »
That's what I do every time another rich client tells me to "make a decent rig" for him :)

The most expensive PC I ever assembled costed the client $7K with all peripherals, bells and whistles.
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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2004, 01:26:07 PM »
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That's what I do every time another rich client tells me to "make a decent rig" for him :)

The most expensive PC I ever assembled costed the client $7K with all peripherals, bells and whistles.


lol...hope he didnt work for KGB :D
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« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2004, 01:29:58 PM »
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The most expensive PC I ever assembled costed the client $7K with all peripherals, bells and whistles.


LOL x86 ?

Server or workstation ?

geeeeeez :D
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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2004, 01:44:34 PM »
I now for the first time in my life have WAY too much storage space.....need tips on how to use it :D
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2004, 01:45:09 PM »
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LOL x86 ?

Server or workstation ?

geeeeeez :D


It was a Pentium-133MHz, one of the first such machines here, with somehing like 128Mb RAM, Number Nine video, etc, with 19" display, printer, scanner and evetything. I remembert that onlyu the case costed $100+ and weighted 20kg (I got really tired carrying the damn thing).

The guy wanted to just play games and asked for something that he'll not need to upgrade for a year or two, regardless to price. Several weeks before that he had a car crash - his Audi A8 was smashed by a ZiL heavy truck, he just threw away the keys and called a cab...

The biggest profit I have made from one machine I assembled was in 1993 (super-puper 486DX2/66), $500. The whole machine costed $4500. Unfortunately these times are gone forever :(

Most useless thing I bought for myself was a Yamaha sound board, $150, and I failed to make it work under OS/2... I sold it to another computer-nuts person for $200 :)
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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2004, 01:47:28 PM »
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I now for the first time in my life have WAY too much storage space.....need tips on how to use it :D


Boroda's axiom: Every winchester disk gets full in two weeks.

I invented it in 1991, when I got my first machine: a 286 with a 40Mb drive. Every new drive I bought only proved it.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2004, 01:53:47 PM »
hehe, i had one 250gb LaCie FW drive that i had used 70gb's of....now i have 2 of those drives and after deleting all the crap both drives are now empty. I also got 2 spindles with 50 cd-r's and 10 empty dvd-r's ..... add it up yourselves, but as you may guess i need software/games/movies/music to fill it all up :D
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« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2004, 02:01:07 PM »
I have no problem with filling up the space :)

Another thing I discovered (it surprised me):160Gb drive costs about $100 now, while the cheapest CD-R is $.030. In a year or two it will be cheaper to buy another HDD then to store films on CDs.

Almost everything I watch is  DivX films I DL from Edonkey. I bought a DVD-drive for a home PC, but I have only 2 DVDs, one of them Yellow Submarine.
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« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2004, 02:01:46 PM »
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I now for the first time in my life have WAY too much storage space.....need tips on how to use it :D


feature length pr0n:aok
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2004, 02:05:42 PM »
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I have no problem with filling up the space :)

Another thing I discovered (it surprised me):160Gb drive costs about $100 now, while the cheapest CD-R is $.030. In a year or two it will be cheaper to buy another HDD then to store films on CDs.

Almost everything I watch is  DivX films I DL from Edonkey. I bought a DVD-drive for a home PC, but I have only 2 DVDs, one of them Yellow Submarine.


thx for the edonkey tips :D (is edonkye better then kazaa for movies??)

    
xrtoronto...... i have a gf hovering around me all day now. not gonna happen for a few months :D
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« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2004, 02:14:42 PM »
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thx for the edonkey tips :D (is edonkye better then kazaa for movies??)

    
xrtoronto...... i have a gf hovering around me all day now. not gonna happen for a few months :D


http://emule-project.net/

Edonkey traditionally has more Russian or Russian-dubbed films. I tried Kazaa once, Edonkey/Emule is technically two generations above it. As for content - I have DLed some music that I couldn't find even in good old Napster (Leaf Hound and Titus Groan).
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« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2004, 02:17:16 PM »
processing............

is there alot of spy/adware wiht emule?
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« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2004, 02:59:42 PM »
in 97 I baught (financed) a gateway pentium 166 W/ MMX

it had 32m of ram modem video and sound card and came w/ a bubble jet cannon printer.  Cost me 2k$  I just finished paying it off last year lol....it was only good for about 2 months and than was totally obsolute for most uses.
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« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2004, 04:01:26 PM »
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I now for the first time in my life have WAY too much storage space.....need tips on how to use it :D



 Get your self a DVD burner and start editing Video tapes... My wife does that and has a 100 Gig partition just for the editing buffer.....

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