OT: Your Computer Stuff
by WalrusMan on Aug 7, 2008 1:07 PM PDT
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PrintOff day fun time. Since I just got a new computer, i thought it would be nice to go through and see what everyone's got. If you want to post specs, post specs. If you just want to put programs that you use down, post programs. If you just never use computers....well what are you doing here then?
Anyways, my new computer is an HP 17" Laptop. It's got a 2.0GHz dual core prossesor and 3 GB of memory. So far it's been a great computer, although it still is in the early stages of usage. One thing I'm very happy with is the battery life, which even if I have the screen brightness turned up lasts for quite a long time.
The new Windows Media Player is nicer than the old one, it'll sort your songs better. And using foobar2000 by Natto's tip has been working out really well for my .flac files. I think for any parties the new Windows Media Center will be nice, you can put together a random playlist of stuff and have it play forever with the visualizations on and it'll pop up the name of the song like a music video would.
So now the questions from me to you. What other programs would you suggest I get? I would like a torrenting program, I believe you said utorrent Natto? Also I have Vista (eh so far), are there any "Gadgets" that you think I should add?
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And, yeah, I use uTorrent. Baron mentions ABC, which I have also used in the past. It’s pretty good too. I went with uTorrent because it’s less of a resource hog.
I think I've used ABC before..
And yea uTorrent was I think what I was using on my old laptop as well because it was a smaller file.
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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I'll give ya all my 1's and 0's when I get home as well.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
Late to the party, but here ya go...if anyone still cares
Dell Dimension 8400 with a Pentium 4 running at a nice 3.0 GHz
Only 1 GB of RAM, but it works for me…don’t need more than that really…that’s what the work PC is for anyways!
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Video Card
Dell 1905FP 19” Flat Panel Display
HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One
Currently Running:
Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3
MS Office Suite with Outlook
Macromedia Freehand 10 (before Adobe bought them out and basically put them out of business)
AutoCAD Architectural Desktop (don’t ask)
Adobe Acrobat, Premiere Pro, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Photoshop CS2
SketchUp Professional
Firefox 3.01
Minesweeper, Solitaire, Hearts, and Pinball yo! What you got on that huh?!?
So ya, nothing special really. A good reliable machine that rarely has issues and can run many of the apps that I use in the office so I can bring work home with me. Had me a kickass 17” Dell Inspiron laptop back in the college days until I fried the hard drive a month before my thesis was due. Of course it was just beyond the warranty so I got a new HD only to have that one go tits up about a year later. Enough with the shitty-ass laptop HD’s I say, so I replaced it with a desktop so I can at least make the trip to Fry’s and get a replacement or upgrade the video card, memory, etc at will. Best decision I ever made in hindsight, as all I needed was something reliable for the “basics”. Amazing how you lose motivation to fire up that home PC when you spend 9-10 hours a day staring at one in the office!
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:13 AM PDT up reply actions
C5180..
That’s really proven to be a popular printer. How do you like it?
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Love it, love it, love it…
Never was a big HP fan in the past, but I couldn’t be any happier with this one.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a Dell B130 laptop. 15.4” widescreen display, 80 GB hard disk, wireless internets, Windows XP (thank god because Vista is a big pile of suck), blah blah. It’s pretty basic features wise. It’s not a gaming machine nor can I do anything fancy with it. It’s great for what I need it for; web stuff, working on school and sportswriting stuff. Plus it was cheap and that makes me happy. When I graduate from college my graduation present to myself will be a new lappy. Something small and more better than my current machine, as I learned the hard way that a 15.4” widescreen laptop is not so great in a crowded press box. I’m looking for a 13” or smaller. That’s what she said. There, I saved you the trouble.
The only remotely computer-nerdy thing I have on my laptop (named MUD, Machine of Ultimate Destruction) is the Opera web browser. I hate Firefox as it crashes my computer every time I try to use it, and Safari doesn’t appeal to me. IE is total crap. Opera provides me nice features plus a little bit of nerd cred.
As for a Torrenting program I use ABC, Another Bit Torrent Client. A friend of a friend created that one and it’s worked very well for me.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 1:18 PM PDT reply actions
Opera..
Teach me of this. I use firefox (IE FTL) already and have become used to it but perhaps a transfer to Opera would intrigue me. I’m always looking to be more fake nerdy.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Tis neat. Natto’s probably better at it than I am. For instance I still haven’t figured out how to change the hot keys on Opera. Basically what drew me to Opera is it was the first web browser (that I had seen) that had tabs in one window. I know all of them do that now, but to me the enlightenment of OMG TABS was pretty neat.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
To edit hot keys, go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts. Then go to the keyboard setup and hit edit. There you can fix your hot keys to your liking. This came in handy when the new SB Nation site came rolling around.
Thanks!
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
trade ya my broken game boy pocket for it.
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
First computer...
Apple IIe. I used to OWN the computer in blackjack on that thing. Had a nice dot matrix printer on it too.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I got ya beat there…Had both a Commodore 64 AND a Vic 20 back in the day. We had Frogger on a cassette tape drive…took nearly 20 minutes just to load.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 7, 2008 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
right on...
i remember waiting days for the UPS man to deliver my Vic 20. tape drive. soooo sweet. i seem to remeber that the vic 20 came stock with 3k ram!
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 7, 2008 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
damn... you guys are oooold.
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
BigO should know
she’ll respond faster if he sends it to her Yahoo address
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Is someone upset about mine being bigger than his? I’m sorry but you will all just have to get used to it.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
3 GB of RAM yes, 250GB hard drive. I’m a salesman at Office Max and they pound into your brain memory not RAM (supposed to make it simpler for the customer).
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
he's a beatles fan, so it's OK
"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 7, 2008 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
And I hate being a salesman...
And try to be the farthest thing away from a salesman. That’s why my managers hate me too lol.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I have a computer
And it works, mostly.
I’m a retired computer nerd.
Eugeniooooooo!!!!
Kickin it old school.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
You must still be on the ARPAnet...
Join the 1990s dude!
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
with all the b!#@*$ sayin. . . .
For WilltheThrill, this is Jon Miller saying goodnight. . . .
by WilltheThrill on Aug 7, 2008 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish I still had mine
I was only 5 or 6 at the time, but I still remember the game cartridges and the awesomeness that was the Koala Pad.
by rightcenterfielder on Aug 7, 2008 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Not quite yet,
but I will be purchasing the 17” MacBook Pro with the 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, high-res display (1920×1200), and the 200GB 7200rpm HD. And a 1TB external drive.
I’m stepping up a bit from my G4.
4GB?
Boo! Then you get the 64-bit Vista version.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Boris the Mac
10.4.11, 1ghz powerPC g4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM (don’t ask me what any of this means, ‘cause I don’t know). Programs I use on the Boris-baby are:
Safari
Mail
all the i-stuff (iCal, iPhoto, iTunes)
Adobe CS 3, all of it, but particularly InDesign
QuarkXPress 6.0
Adium to integrate all the IM programs
etc. etc.
Still-proud, adoptive mama of Notgardo Alfonzo, who's back from the 50-game purgatory. He promises never to do it again. I couldn't get him to promise to hit, though. We're working on that with bribes of M&Ms, kind of like potty training.
I just got all my parts
I’m attempting a build for the first time. Nvidia 780i 3-way SLi mobo, 6 GBs total ram, 8800GT 512 MB pcie 2.0(hoping to get another here soon), 500GB Seagate HD, and the crappy Vista premium. Figured I’d try it, hope it works out.
500 GB HD?
Damn that’s a whole lotta porn. I got me a 160 GB Seagate and it’s not even 25% full and I’ve got all kinds of kinky stuff on here…uhhhh…I mean…uh….ya, nevermind.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I got me a 500GB external...
So total I think I have about 800GB of memory between my laptop, external drive, and my old computer. Can’t find the movies I want to watch anymore.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
computer porn!
I’ve got a desktop with and what’s classified as an “ultraportable” laptop.
Desktop: HP Pavilion m9000t, 2.33 GHz E6550 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive. Runs Vista Home Premium. My display is a 24” widescreen HP w2408 with an ambient light sensor so I don’t blind myself at night. It effectively doubles as a TV, as I don’t have an actual TV.
Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad X61, 1.80 GHz T7100 Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 120GB 5400 RPM hard drive. Runs Vista Business. There’s no built-in optical drive, which I was a little worried about at first, but aside from initially installing Microsoft Office on to the thing, I really have found I never need one. All my music and what video I watch is nearly all digital, so I don’t need even need discs for entertainment purposes. (Plus, if I really need to use a disc there’s always the desktop.)
The two are connected through a simple wireless (802.11g) network. I use a sychronization application called GoodSync to (manually) keep the Documents folders on the two synced up. Other than GoodSync, I just use Office and Firefox mostly. I’m not much of a gamer; Vista’s simple little built-in games are enough to keep me distracted.
THIIIIIIIIIIS CLOSE
to buying a thinkpad.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 7, 2008 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Lenovo is going to come out with a new line of ThinkPads in the next few months, so if you are going to get one and can wait, I would. Unless you’re looking at the X300, which is already out.
the
THIIIISS close implied that I already bought one.
sold out; grandma bought me a mac.
BROCK BOND LIKES HIS MARTINIS PUNCHED IN THE FACE, NOT STIRRED.
by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Aug 8, 2008 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
SLO..
I currently have a ThinkPad T61 running XP Pro, Office 2007, Adobe Suite and assorted other Apps. It’s the 2.4 Gig Core 2 Duo w/4 Mb backside cache, 2 Gb Ram , ATI Mobility Video 512 Mb card), DVD/CD read/writer, and the most important part, the >b> 9 cell extended life battery. Adds about a pound, but gives you about seven hours battery life. Paid about $2G’s a little over a year ago. Absolutely love it. I have had various ( T20, T41, and now the T61) ThinkPad’s for the last eight years. They are well worth the investment. If you want something fast, sturdy and dependable, go with the T Series. I did quick check on Lenovo site and the T61 is on a price reduction right now.
ThinkPad T61 14.1” widescreen with integrated graphics, 2.5 Gig Core 2 Duo, 6Mb backside cache, 3 Gb of RAM Win XP (downgraded from Vista Home).
From: $2,067.95 *
Sale price: $1,601.71 *
Total savings: $466.24 *
After rebate:
That price also includes an IBM/Lenovo Dock. I use mine with an external monitor, keyboard and mouse at work. Makes a great desktop replacement. You would save another $200 if you take the dock off the price.
I have had one problem in eight years. A USB port went bad, and it was one of the ones that were soldered on the board. Just bought a powered USB hub. That is Mrs. NVSFG’s laptop now,
If you are looking for fast, light and small, go with the X series. There is also the new T300 and 500 which are beasts, but well out of most normal peoples price range ( about $3G’s loaded up right). Most of the coolest new Notebooks have the Solid State hard drives. No moving parts. Longer lifespan, much better battery life, but hella expensive. Got to play with a few at work. Pretty damn cool.
About the only bad thing I can say about IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad’s is that they are a btch to reload. All of the drivers and parts are loaded specifically by Lenovo and must be reloaded if you do a complete system rebuild. Not fun.
My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .
15" MacBook Pro
1.83GHz Intel Duo
2GB RAM
80 GB Hard Drive
OSX Rally Leopard
Adobe CS3
Quark Express
Safari
MS Office
iEverything
Giants! Giants! HELP US GOD!
love the case on that machine ;) the regular macbooks look like toys :P
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
it could make a rock so big that even it couldn’t lift it
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010435.html
That’s a fun look at the topic.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I has computers
My home system is a fairly outdated Dell XPS Gen4 with 3GB RAM, 160GB drive, some kind of processor, and whatever else I got in there. Nothing fancy, but it can play Madden, Oblivion, and it was great at handling World of Nerdcraft before child-rearing altered my gaming priorities.
At work, I have this kick ass Dell Latitude D530, with a 15”ish screen, a Celeron processor, 2GB RAM, and an 80GB drive. Yeah, I work in IT, and this is what they gave me… Weird. I’m running Vista Ultimate on it, which is just fine as far as I’ve ever been able to tell. Works great, doesn’t crash, and is only mildly disruptive. Not sure what all the complaining about Vista has been about.
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
Warning!
You are about to hear criticism of Vista. Do you want to continue?
No
I do not trust the person criticizing Vista.
Yes
I do trust the person criticizing Vista but will not trust what they say and ignore it.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Eh… don’t use Vista is you have an old computer / second rate processor OR if you do a lot of weird computery stuff with your internal settings.
Otherwise, you have nothing to bitch about.
This is the conclusion I’ve come to.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Go crazy nuts!
Complain away, no biggie on my end. I don’t do the geeky things many people do, so I guess that might be why I don’t have complaints, like HTS said…
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
yea..
But the thing is when you try and run a program from a CD it says that EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
You CAN disable that feature, you know...
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm
Just follow method 4 (I didn’t read it, but I believe that’s the right one), and those obnoxious WARNING messages will be a thing of the past!
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
I’m not an ubergeek as evidenced by the fact that my desktop computer is an old HP running win98, and not 98SE either! There is some talk of replacing that with a Linux machine, apparently it could be set up to run the old software that I haven’t found replacements for and it could share printers with “significant others” XP/Linux box. Apparently XP and 98 aren’t on speaking terms when it comes to printers.
Usually tho I’m on my macbook:
Processor 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Yea XP and 98 weren't on speaking terms...
Think if you went to vista with your printer. It’s a terrible printer, but if you need a new one look at a $100ish Brotther printer. They’ll have support from Windows 95 to Vista.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
I do a lot of printing so I need something that is reliable. Since 1993 I’ve had 2 Cannon printers, they were great, the new one is an HP printer that I’m less than thrilled with; the OS “failure to communicate” problem isn’t the printers fault tho’. It has other issues. [for example grabbing the paper so ruthlessly that 4 out of 10 printjobs end up with a paper jam]
Ain’t technology grand?
if you're looking lasers then...
Most of them should still support 98. The 5240/5250 brother lasers have great page yields and support down to 95.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Seconded on the 5240 Brother Printer
That’s my office printer. Best investment you will ever make. Rock freakin’ solid printer and very cheap to run.
My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .
Glad to get some more feedback too.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
yeah... I'm a Gamer. (the nerdy kind.)
hmm.. well, i have a crappy laptop that i’m gonna give away to my younger siblings.. just ordered an Alienware m15x notebook..
Specs:
Area-51® m15x
Design & Display: Silver Ripley Design
Display: 15.4” WideXGA+ 1440×900 LCD (720p) with Clearview Technology
Video/Graphics Card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB)
Operating System (Office software not included): Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2×2048MB
System Drive: 120GB 7,200RPM (8MB Cache) w/ Free Fall Protection
Optical Drives : 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Wireless: Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card
Sound Card : Internal High-Definition Audio with surround sound
Vista.. ugh. still trying to decide whether I want to keep it, since I have so much RAM.. or if I want to reformat it to Windows XP…
Programs on old laptop:
AOL Instant Messenger (chat a lot)
IE / Mozilla Firefox (I switch around cause I’ve been too lazy to reorganize my favorites/bookmarks)
BitComet
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (waiting for.. Starcraft II and Diablo III)
Limewire (uh oh.)
..can’t think of anything else
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
OMG if/when Diablo III comes out I’ll lose at least two years of my life. I beat DII:LoD into the ground.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Not very mobile is it? Must deplete the battery rather quickly when unplugged.
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on Aug 7, 2008 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
god i hope not… I hated my old laptop cause it barely lasted me an hour on power saving mode. the alienware arrives this saturday… i’ll check it out then.
and Baron.. Diablo III is gonna come out..in production already ;) go check out trailers/screenshots and stuff.
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
Gamer laptop
That’s almost exactly like the desktop I just built, but in laptop form. Impressive.
As for Vista, that system should easily handle it. I’ve got it running on both my 4GB desktop and my 2GB laptop, and it’s handled everything from web browsing to Adobe CS3 to Half-Life 2 without any major issues. So far, there hasn’t been anything that made me want to go back to XP, but YMMV.
by rightcenterfielder on Aug 7, 2008 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
STARCRAFT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Protoss FTW, bitches!
Terran and Zerg can suck one.
Soooooooooo ready for the new one.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Specs
Laptop:
- got it on sale at best buy. i was going to get the red sony one, but the hp one was $50 less and had a cool looking swirl on it.
programs:
- firefox (hell yeah!)
- adobe CS something or other. my roommate put it on. i once made a funny picture of willie mcgee on it!
- baseball mogul 2009
- hearts
- solitaire
- spider solitaire
- some other bullshit that came on it and i haven’t got around to uninstalling
operating system:
- vista, which lets me click this little icon on the bottom that lets me scroll through firefox, baseball mogul, and solitaire as if they were on a cube. i’ve used it once.
there’s a camera on it, but i don’t know how to use it. oh, and my girlfriend has all sorts of programs because she can write code and make websites.
in conclusion, computer stuff isn’t my strongest talent.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
HP camera...
Should just be start -> All Programs -> Cyberlink Cam.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
just built a new one! (finally)
AMD Phenom Quad Core 9950 4×2600mhz
ATI ASUSx2 3850 2×512mb
2GB ram (gotta upgrade!)
Asus M3A32-MVP Wifi mobo
it flies!
wow quad core ;) hard core.
If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)
No, not hard core. Quad core. I thought we established this.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Back off, bitches!
I still have a Newton, and I’m not afraid to use it.
Disfrute Los Gigantes every day at www.leftymalo.com
15-inch Macbook Pro, about a year old, 2.16 GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Browser-wise, I do OmniWeb, which uses the same rendering engine as Safari but has other features I like better (mostly to do with ad blocking and the like).
This gives me an idea for another Fanpost: photos of your desk or wherever you post your hateful rants to MCC from. I may have to start that after work, unless someone wants to beat me to it.
What if I make my hateful rants while sitting on top of my pooper?!? Would you want a picture then?!?
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 laptop through a discount program through my employer:
15.4 widescreen
2GB RAM
Dual Core processor
80 GB hard drive
A battery that’s supposed to be bitchin’
All for $665 + tax . Seemed like a good deal after shopping around. I’ve had no problems with Vista.
What I REALLY like is that I was able to also buy a docking station. It’s very cool to be able to have a real keyboard, mouse, monitor and power source when I’m at my desk, then just snap it out of the station when I want to go to another room or take it somewhere.
Adoptive father of howtheyscored. The beatings will begin momentarily.
OK, I’m dumb: what’s bit torrent mean?
Adoptive father of howtheyscored. The beatings will begin momentarily.
It’s a form of file sharing, essentially. There is a torrent application and a torrent file. The application downloads files from other users, and the torrent file tells it to do that.
“BIT” Torrent is just a brand name.
Something like that.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s also pissing of internet providers to no end. At one point it was getting so bad that Comcast was about to limit the amount of data you could send across the line for any given period of time. Last I heard they were backing off of that threat, but this was like 2-3 months back when I heard something on NPR about it.
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:27 AM PDT up reply actions
My son says it's really viral.
Gotta trust his opinion. You can’t live to be 13 years old without acquiring a world of technical knowledge.
Arizona thinks we're Washington which thinks we're Arizona.
by victor frankenstein on Aug 8, 2008 2:54 AM PDT up reply actions
From what I've heard...
If you’re a huge uploader on a torrent then they DO limit your data. And shut your line down.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
It’s a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that uses a tracking server to coordinate the sharing of assorted pieces of shared files.
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on Aug 7, 2008 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It's how you get...
Bootlegs now.
That and porn. Maybe you’d be interested then?
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!
Desktop:
Custom construction
Windows XP Profession Service Pack 3
AMD 64 X2 (Socket 939) 4400+ OC’d @ 2.3 ghz
2 GB RAM DDR400 (2-3-3-6)
NEC 16X DL DVD Burner
300 + 320 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (non-RAID)
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
Laptop:
Dell XPS M1330
Windows Vista™ Premium
LED – backlit 13.3” UltraSharpTM WXGA display with TrueLifeTM
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS
160GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
Biometric Fingerprint Reader
Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)
9 cell Li-ion Battery x 2
Only weighs around 4 pounds and with the two batteries I can get up to around 10 hours unplugged time with brightness at half.
Still in despair.
HP dv2500 laptop, 15”
2 GB RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.8 GHz
Whatever that means. About a year old. It runs just fine with Vista. The battery was better when I bought it, but I keep it plugged a lot, anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. It’s not quite good enough to game on. Ran Sims 2 fine until I updated my drivers. Wouldn’t run KTOR II until I updated my drivers… it’s a catch 22 sort of thing. No problems with Baseball Mogul, though. And the system Reqs for that game are INSANE!
When I get my own place I’m also getting a stationary comp that’s better for gaming. I like the lappy, though. It does everything I want it to and it does it all quickly.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
For a moment, I read that as KOTR II, which my mind quickly spun into LOTR II, which is Lords of the Realm 2, one of the greatest PC games ever made.
And if you were still playing that, you would have immediately been named one of the greatest people in the world. Your name would be placed in a special place of honor… On the wall of the cubicle I’m going to occupy for another month.
But, you said KTOR II. I don’t know what that is. So there’s no place of honor for you on this cubicle wall. Sorry.
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
Yeah, I missed an O. I meant KOTOR II.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Bah!
While I’d love to check that game out sometime, it’s just not the same as Lords of the Realm 2. It’s a classic!
"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler
Apple II
I plan to upgrade as soon as I complete Aztec
http://www.webomatica.com/images/blog/apple_iie/aztec_lg.gif
Warning: major geek below
I have a PC desktop (named Risa, in case anyone is curious [who would be?]) that’s running Windows Vista Premium with an AMD Athalon 64×2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ 2.10 GHz with 3 gigs of RAM. The graphics card is in-board and crap. It can’t run Bioshock properly, though I guess most computers can’t anyway. (That game has crazy requirements) I also have a tiny LCD monitor. When I get a job, that’ll be one of the first things I’ll upgrade.
I like to customize the look and functionality of Windows to my liking, and I use a lot of freeware/open-source programs to do so. I use LiteStep which allows me to replace the usual Windows shell with custom ones. Thus my desktop currently looks like this. See the three boxes at the top of the screen? The first one is like a Start menu, the middle one shows all active programs, and the third one reveals the system tray. The clock on the top left corner is from Samurize. The calendar is Rainlendar. The wallpaper features Otsuka Ai.
I never use desktop shortcuts, so I did away from them. I mostly rely on the keyboard for my navigation. I use Launchy to open programs and folders. To start it, I just hit Alt+Space Bar and type in a couple letters of the relevant program, and boom! Opened! Pretty nifty.
For my interwebs surfing, my main browser is Opera. It’s fast, functional, and feature-packed. Such built-in features include mouse gestures, ad-blocking, RSS reader, and an email client. Firefox is my backup browser for those odd web pages that don’t support Opera. IE is last last resort.
For my musics listening, I use foobar2000. It’s lightweight and can handle every file format you throw at it. Plus you can customize it to your liking by downloading components and user interfaces. Fer instance, mine looks like this. iTunes is poop.
I also have a Macbook (named 愛Mac. Get it?! Probably not…). It’s the most basic model, so it’s nothing special. I really need to upgrade the RAM. I pretty much use the same programs that I do for Windows, except substitute Quicksilver for Launchy. Also they don’t have foobar for OSX so I’m stuck with iTunes. Another neat little program I have on it is VirtueDesktops which allows me to make virtual desktops to organize my apps. The desktop looks like this. You can get the wallpaper here!
Of course, I have Adobe CS3 for my shops and etc. I also have Maya 2008 for 3D animation stuff and a slew of games, mostly old-school.
AiMac…I can’t bring myself to laugh, sorry.
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on Aug 7, 2008 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Addendum
For instant messaging, I use Pidgin because the new AIM blows. I used to use an old version of AIM combined with deadAIM but that was lacking in the feature department. Plus I can chat on MSN and IRC with it.
Uh , I have this wall of wires.
On one side it says something like “Cray”
What’s that , a fish? An R ‘n’ B guitarist?
I like Yahoo for IM because it has good photosharing,
That and I have no idea about anything else , which could be a universal statement.
Arizona thinks we're Washington which thinks we're Arizona.
by victor frankenstein on Aug 7, 2008 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I actually do have Ubuntu running on my old desktop, but I don’t use it very much nowadays. As for an open source alternative to Maya, here you go: Blender
Risa… Risa…
Goddamn, that sounds familiar… I’ll get it… just you wait…
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that from...
Lovely Complex???
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh…
I thought I had it, too. Not that Risa is uncommon or anything, just that I associate it with that series.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Aug 7, 2008 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Foobar eh?!?
Looks stunning…can it tap into the iTunes Podcast library by any chance? I download them daily and am too lazy to find something other than iTunes to manage them for me (even though I own a Creative Player and not the evil iPod).
Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.
by PacBellBoozer on Aug 8, 2008 2:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not really sure about foobar’s compatibility with Creative players (I own one too, but usually just use the Zen explorer or Windows Media Player). For a good music manager alternative to iTunes, check out Media Monkey.
I’ve had the same computer since 2003, a G3 Powerbook. I upgraded the RAM to 1.25 GB, but sadly, the hard drive (named Bob) is starting to die and I’m going to need to get a new one pretty soon. :(
But also :D because yay new computers. Except I’m supposed to wait until the new MacBooks are announced for pricing reasons and I’m getting impatient.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
My awesome contribution to this thread
My computer’s dying and old and I don’t remember the specs.
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
Apple MacMini 1.1
Intel Core Solo, 1.5 GHz, 55 GB
Booting OS X 10.4.11 from
NewerTech miniStack V3 700 GB
Browsers: all of them
Parallels booting WinXP Professional SP3 as required
IE, Windows legacy apps, etc.
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
I like that the site is now putting stars between the intro paragraph and the stuff that would come after the jump if Grant ever promoted a FanPost.
He promoted a Diary once… Once. ::raises index finger and looks at you all crazy::
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
I like my Mac -- best home computer I've ever had :-)
iMac, 24” display, Intel Core2 @ 2.16 GHz, 3 GB Ram, 250 GB HD, Leopard OS
Brand new MacBook Pro at home,
Shitty HP at work. I’m at a fortune 500 company and I swear my iPhone goes faster.
Angel Villalona: Waiting for fastballs since '07.
by AngelintheInfield on Aug 8, 2008 10:54 AM PDT reply actions
I think we all have shit work computers. Sucks cos at my old job I had a dual screen setup and man was it cool.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 8, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Yea,
Well, I’ll remember when my computer crawls when I have only outlook and excel open that I’m not the only one.
Angel Villalona: Waiting for fastballs since '07.
by AngelintheInfield on Aug 8, 2008 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
while we're on the topic of dorkdom...
anybody happen to have an extra waffles.fm invite? anybody anybody?
invites are TOUGH
I got a couple when i first reg’d and donated, but haven’t earned any more in like 3 months. it’s WAY stricter than oink. sorry.
:-(
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Meh
Laptop: Macbook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive
Desktop: iMac 24” 2.8 GZ, 4 GB RAM, 750 GB Hard Drive
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