My putor has decided that it will only work when it feels like it - :)) It's on a slow down strike.
I'm waiting for it to call for a union rep, wanting less hours and more time off.
Little does it know I have a new one in the works, faster then greased lightning, with 16gig on board memory, hex core chip at 3.2 gig speed, and a terebite hard drive, and a 1gig video card. I just need another week for the rest of the parts to come in.
Doug
Wow...
I am well out of the "power" game when it comes to computers. At home we run chromebooks, old Acer's with Linux, and older Macbooks. I also have a couple of Pi's doing utility work, and two Buffalo NAS boxes that handle file sharing.
I will say...My last laptop came with a solid state drive. It was impressive. Even more impressive was how much performance gain there was to my wife's macbook pro when I put an SSD in it.
I keep beating on this older AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 Toledo dual core with 4 Gigs Ram, 1Gig HD at the moment, I built in 2005-2006.
I am needing to upgrade before long, but "Obama Care" Increases to our health care insurance just nailed us again, going up $185.18 per month. OUCH, I think I need a doctor! Wait scratch that, that will cost a co-payment of $30 or if I go to Urgent Care thats $125. ??? :( >:( >:D
At the rate things are going I'll need to go back to work... :'(
I kept my premiums the same...But slashed my coverage. Now on a major medical plan with a 12,500 family max out of pocket for the same money I was spending on a PPO plan just a year ago.
I've been buying the parts a little here and there - I build my own putors - to me its seems easy. My son has the good shit apps, and operating systems, but I build - or assemble and check out everything else. load OS and set it up. And now I going to have the broadband width to go with it - 25 down - 3 up for less than what AT&T was ripping me off for - 3 and .33 witch was more like.22 to 2.6 down and .33 up. when they put Uverse in my little bandwidth went to sh*t.
Doug
Who is your new provider?
About a year ago they dropped fiber to the local junction box and now I get a measured 34-36 down and 6-7 up.
I used to build computers from the ground up. But they got so cheap it was faster amd more convenient to just go buy one.
Of course I am OLD! I remember RAM costing about $40 a megabyte, and computers could only take four or eight Megs. And phone modems where the fastest ones were like 19.2 Kbps.
Quote from: gandog56 on September 09 2014 06:19:21 AM MDT
I used to build computers from the ground up. But they got so cheap it was faster amd more convenient to just go buy one.
Of course I am OLD! I remember RAM costing about $40 a megabyte, and computers could only take four or eight Megs. And phone modems where the fastest ones were like 19.2 Kbps.
I remember when memory was measured in K, usually using two digits, like 32, 48 or 64. And it cost hundreds of dollars for those quantities. I remember being in stitches laughing at the thought of EVER filling up my first hard drive, a 5 MB external drive about the size of two loaves of bread. I and remember having a 300 baud modem and watching the individual characters come in on the screen when dialed into the local university mainframe.
I guess that makes me proto-life age wise.
I built my first computer back in the 80's AMD 386 DX 40 chip, 30 Mb HDD & 5 1/4" Floppy and 3.5' Floppy when they were 720 bytes and the new drive I bought was 1.44Mb at the time 14.4 Modem and the infamous Windows 3.0 the 3.1 WOW!
Then my second was the AMD 400Mhz going through Windows 95, 98, 2000Professional
Built the one I on now but it has undergone several changes, started with;
DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI DR Expert BIOS (12/07/2005)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 Toledo w/Copper Heat Pipe Sink/Fan
ULTRA 2 X 1024Mb DDR400 PC3200 400MHz (Upgraded to 4gigs)
XFX GeForce 7900 GTX 512Mb PCIe w/Dual DVI
2 Seagate Barracuda SATA2 7200.9 300GB w/8MB NCQ 3D (upgraded to 500Gig and Windows7 then Upgraded to 1gig with Windows 7Pro)
Onboard Sound Card / Liteon DVD 16X Dual Layer (Added a Sony dual layer DVD)
ULTRA 3.5 FDD w/7-in-1 Media Drive
ULTRA Aluminus Mid Tower ATX Case BLACK w/2 UV Lamps
ULTRA 550Watt X2 PSU Titanium 2-120mm Fans (replaced with a New Ultra 650Watt)
D-Link DWL-G520 / Apollo V.92 Phone Modem (gone) (running on the DSL wired to network wireless Netgear router
Windows XP PRO X64 edition (gone)
Doug, I know exactly what you are saying about AT&T, I am on rotten copper lines, (very noisy) and was 29,000 feet from the nearest node, DSL didn't want to work at first, they managed to remove a loop, that put me at 28,000 feet from the nearest node. 3meg down and .26 up in spurts... ???
Things are being done in the area as they are running the fiber optic in and around some areas, but no U verse for me yet!
Oh well, all the new technology is not really my thing anyway! ::)
Barely remember floppy drives. Tey were probably already outdated by the time I started building computers. Never did like them, way too slow, and only held what, 1.44 MBytes something?
Wow...You are a relative "Noob"!
The 1.44 were the 3.5" disks. Not really very "floppy".
The disks earned their "floppy" name from the 8" soft enclosed disks that were the standard from the early 70's until about the time of the Apple ][. Those disks held between about 100K and 1MB depending on format as I recall.
Around the time of the Apple ][ the 5.25" soft enclosed disks were released. They were 360K, or if you had a special tool you could punch a hole, flip them over and get double that if your were willing to risk it with a single density disk. Double density disks came pre-punched.. I remember getting a Rana drive that didn't require the manual flip and treated both sides as a single file system (my memory of exactly how that worked may be a bit faulty as it was 35 years ago).
My exposure to the 3.5" disk came on my first Macintosh, a Mac 128 purchased in 1984. At that time it was a 800K disk, double side double density. In the late 80's it grew to 1.44 MB.
The 8" and 5.25" disks had not media access port cover like the 3.5" disks. You had to be careful not to touch the media. It could damage the media, plus the oils and debris you deposit with a touch could damage the read/write head on your drive. And since the were soft enclosed you could easily damage the media bending them. Careful handling of disks was a HUGE deal back then. The durability of the 3.5 caused many of us geeks to get a kick out of tossing them around when we got out first ones.
I had learned on a Mac for work at the fire dept. where I used to database Haz-Materials used in our district and close neighboring communities. Cute little machine...I was hooked. :o
Quote from: The_Shadow on September 10 2014 08:33:40 AM MDT
I had learned on a Mac for work at the fire dept. where I used to database Haz-Materials used in our district and close neighboring communities. Cute little machine...I was hooked. :o
I used them early on for desktop publishing/page layout as well as list management. We used Panorama for list management back then.
Now I work as a database architect. In my current role I work primarily with Microsoft SQL Server, though I am quite proficient with MySQL, PostGresQL and NoSQL systems.
Hence the SQL at the start of your screen name? 8)
You know it!
The bullet part actually has nothing to do with guns though.
Back in the late 90's I was part of a start-up that naively thought people might want to create and share online video content on the internet. I still keep the site kinda up for nostalgia, though it doesn't really work anymore:
http://orangebullet.com/orange/index.html
Two of the guys got big jobs, one with netflix, the other with texas instruments. I got busy with my career. And we just quit putting time in. I remember the day Youtube got bought. One of them texted me three words..."We blew it".
Anyway, that is where the bullet part of my handle came from.