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lokoike

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  1. Snort! Found him on the Laser Hair Removal Forums! (and I'm not joking, BTW!) Must be an advertiser for Google, since that is the only link he gave. Like they need ads.
  2. Well it won't make a very good backup after I've thrown it out the window. But actually, I already promised my girlfriend she gets it once I build my new comp (should be fairly soon). Even though it's slow for me, it's still way faster than her crap-of-a-Dell.
  3. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Heh, you guys didn't know I was Russian, did ya? @ zaph: That guy in the orange was awfully nimble. I'll stick with headbanging, thank you. Turning up "Kill the King" by Megadeath.
  4. That's the beauty of Flash ROM: it is still called "Read-Only Memory", but yet it can still be rewriten (without the need of a soldering iron ). Kind of stupid to still call it ROM, as it misleads, but that is what Flash ROM actually is. You can still save and re-save things on it, so Windows treats it like a normal drive. The only downside is that it wears out faster, because the number of reads/writes of Flash ROM is far less than that of a hard drive or CD-RW.
  5. You must be thinking of RAM zaph. Flash ROM retains data without the necessity of a battery or capacitor. That is why you can save something on a Flash ROM memory stick, take it out of your computer for months, and the data still stays on it. But, Eldmannen is right about Flash ROM's limited number of writes. I think it is in the tens of thousands, which is fine for a backup device, but I suppose if it was used as an OS drive, which reads and writes all day long, it wouldn't last too long. Oh well, maybe they'll up the capabilities in the near future. I sure hope so!
  6. Well, it probably helps that your four-year old machine is way better than my two-year old machine... grumble grumble... But any day now I'll break down and build myself something half-way decent. I have the money, but I hate to spend it... sigh... We'll see how long I can put it off before I get sick and tired of my paperweigh-of-a-notebook and throw it out my window! I guess then I'll have to build a new one, cause I'm not about to give up my Internet!
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    Lokoike

    No strong drink for me tonight. Just a 2 pound burrito and some day-old donuts. Probably not a good thing to eat right before bedtime... ooooh.... stomach churning...
  8. Well slowday444, I just looked up pictures of your motherboard (see picture below), and sadly, you have neither an AGP or PCI-E slot. All your board has is three PCI slots, and while you can purchase PCI video cards, they blow. You might as well stick with your integrated video. @ DjLizard: I suppose saying "most Dells" wasn't a very fair statement, but it seems like most Dells for individual consumers (not for businesses or for gamers) have no AGP or PCI-E slot. At least, that has been my experience on the majority of the Dells I've worked on (mostly Dimensions, which probably explains my viewpoint).
  9. Turning the analog into digital won't give you a better picture, because as you mentioned, the source is analog, and you can't get something from nothing. It would be the equivalent to encoding a 128 kbps MP3 into FLAC (fully lossless audio codec); you wouldn't gain any quality from it. If you really want to get better video, the only option would be to get a cheap 64-128 MB video card (you'd pay anywhere from $30-120). The only problem is, most Dell's don't even have an internal video slot (AGP or PCI-E) so you probably don't have that upgrading option in the first place.
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    Lokoike

    No, but I think another 40 would do nicely.
  11. Well, considering right now the biggest HD you can get is 500 GBs (at least to the best of my knowledge), that means that this 750 gigger will boost the top HD size by 50%! So my personal feeling is that since this drive is designed to not only hold more files, but also bigger files, it should have a larger cache to help handle the workload more efficiently. I've always found that getting a drive with a bigger cache makes a huge performance difference! (much more than defragging ) In fact, I personally prefer a bigger cache to faster platters. So basically, I just think that it would be cool if they would start doubling and quadrupling the cache for the new perpendicular recording disks. That way, your drives wouldn't have to reaccess the same data as much (since a lot of it could be retained on the cache) which means less repetitive platter spinning, so you would get better performance and longer drive life span. Hopefully they'll at least bump it up a little once we get into multi-terabytes of storage...
  12. Sounds good, MrG. Thanks for the update.
  13. Even better and faster than those, Flash ROM hard drives! Nearly instantaneous data access, not to mention extremely low power consumption and practically no heat produced! As soon as the price comes down and the data density increases, you can bet I'll be getting one as my primary OS hard drive. I can't wait!
  14. Her?! I'm a masculine lokoike, you silly boy. And out of curiousity, what burning program(s) are you using? Just wondering.
  15. Yeah, that was kind of my feeling as well. I've done defrags on all different machines running all different OSes and all different types of hardware, and I have yet to actually notice any performance boost after a defrag. And since I'm pretty sure you've worked on a lot more computers than I have, and you feel the same way, that basically confirms what I thought. Theoretically, disk defragmentation sounds like a really good idea, but in reality, I just don't see how it helps. That said, I still defrag my HD, in hopes that perhaps I actually am shaving off a few tenths of sec or so, and I just don't realize it.
  16. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Alright! I always shoots bestest when I'm good and drunk! Well... it is a very nice "a"... *cough* dial-upFTL-lololol *cough*
  17. I'll make sure to celebrate when I get off of work.
  18. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Where did I put that Tommy gun...
  19. I couldn't agree more. I personally have been using CCleaner for a long time (way before I ever joined this forum) and I have yet to have an Issues scan remove anything necessary or useful from my registry. Not to mention I put it on every single computer I work on, and on all of those dozens of computers, CCleaner has also not caused any problems at all. A lot of PC repair groups, such as the one who gave you your information, write their own software for installing drivers or other tasks that they don't feel like manually performing on every computer they work on. I would be willing to bet that if something went wrong on the computers they worked on, it was due to their own cruddy software, and not CCleaner. Either that, or like Andavari said, they're just feeding you a line so that you get nervous about trying to fix computers on your own, that way they get more business form you. Don't let em' sucker you into wasting your money. Commercial software is definitely not always the best software.
  20. Glad it's fixed now. Just curious though, is there any chance that the "false drive" was in fact, an image drive? There are a number of disk burning apps that can create an image drive so that you can run programs without having to use the disk. These image drives show up in My Computer as if they were physical drives, so perhaps that is what you have.
  21. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Well, you'd better enjoy him while he's still here, cause if he keeps making nasty remarks about my Yugo, you may never hear from him again! Bwa-ha-ha!!!
  22. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Girl, u be talkin the smizack?! Step dA fizuck up! I'mal busta a cap in yo ass like I did to my ho, Mike Rizochip! You wanna end up like dat cracka foo?! LOL. Tequila FTW. And at 1:20 in the morning, no less...
  23. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Nah. K's one of the guys in my book. And that's a compliment, BTW! Ahhh... that would explain the high heels...
  24. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Drop dem Nike's fo I blast yo ass, mutha $#@!er!
  25. lokoike

    Lokoike

    Fershizzle ma dizzle up in da' hizzle. Ebonics FTW.
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