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Thor, sir, where are you?
« on: May 28, 2009, 08:31:02 AM »
Thor, i need a ink from you that was posted here, but now I can't find it, despite my reading every single thread in this forum, which is a lot of reading.

Some months ago you posted a link to a web-site that autopsizes a computer.

I did that with the computer I had until yesterday, and sent you the information, after which you sent me advice and recommendations.

Well, now I have this computer, and while it's fine and dandy, it seems rather slow.

I'd like to run that thing again and send you the information.

But I can't find the link.

It doesn't measure only internet performance, but whole-computer performance.

Thank you, sir.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 09:02:59 AM »
I'm not sure which one Thor was talking about, but Belarc Advisor will tell you what you want to know.  It gives details on hardware and software.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/belarc.html
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2009, 10:15:27 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 28, 2009, 09:02:59 AM
I'm not sure which one Thor was talking about, but Belarc Advisor will tell you what you want to know.  It gives details on hardware and software.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/belarc.html

Thank you, sir; I ran it.  It looks like what Thor had once posted.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2009, 11:00:59 AM »
Yes, it was Belarc Advisor.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2009, 11:16:41 AM »
Quote from: Thor on May 28, 2009, 11:00:59 AM
Yes, it was Belarc Advisor.

Can I send you the link to the results, or does that not work?

Also, it alleges two printers are hooked up, but there's no printer hooked up at all.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2009, 11:26:40 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on May 28, 2009, 11:16:41 AM
Can I send you the link to the results, or does that not work?

Also, it alleges two printers are hooked up, but there's no printer hooked up at all.

The two printers are probably leftovers of what was once installed. You'll have to do a screen print of the results. Alt+ PrtScn, then paste into MSPaint or Paint. Save as a jpeg or jpg. Upload to a photo hosting site, like Photobucket and then send a link.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2009, 11:36:46 AM »
Quote from: Thor on May 28, 2009, 11:26:40 AM
The two printers are probably leftovers of what was once installed. You'll have to do a screen print of the results. Alt+ PrtScn, then paste into MSPaint or Paint. Save as a jpeg or jpg. Upload to a photo hosting site, like Photobucket and then send a link.

Will get started on it right away.

But give how slow this new computer works, give me time.

Thanks, sir.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2009, 12:01:22 PM »
Another way is to just highlight, copy and then paste into a reply.

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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2009, 12:38:24 PM »
Now you tell me, sir.

This is really slow.

You have a message, which shows what I did.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2009, 01:43:17 PM »
Got it and answered.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2009, 06:37:10 PM »
I like pretty pictures..........   :-)
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2009, 06:48:10 PM »
Quote from: Thor on May 28, 2009, 06:37:10 PM
I like pretty pictures..........   :-)

Okay, I was already in the big city today, and won't be going again until next week.

The price for each of the harmonica-looking things seems to be between $35-50 each.

But the even bigger question--are you SURE they're easy to install?

Won't I have to do a lot of things with that mothersonofabitchboard or that BIOlogy thing?  Stuff in the deep depths of the computer?  It just sounds too easy to be true, putting those things in.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2009, 07:27:20 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on May 28, 2009, 06:48:10 PM
Okay, I was already in the big city today, and won't be going again until next week.

The price for each of the harmonica-looking things seems to be between $35-50 each.

But the even bigger question--are you SURE they're easy to install?

Won't I have to do a lot of things with that mothersonofabitchboard or that BIOlogy thing?  Stuff in the deep depths of the computer?  It just sounds too easy to be true, putting those things in.

Make sure you get the correct type for the computer, for yours it will be PC 133, and each stick should 512MB. (you currently have 2 sticks of 256MB ea.)

Memory is about the easiest thing to install in a computer. There is a good walk through on this site, with step by step instructions, and pictures .  Yours won't look identical, but it's close enough.
How to install memory.

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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2009, 10:19:12 PM »
Installing memory is as easy as plugging in a refrigerator...... Opening the case will probably take longer. The biggest novice error is not seating the memory modules correctly. Hell, even nowadays, I sometimes don't always get it seated properly. However, it only takes me a few seconds to discover my mistake. ;)

BTW, order it from Crucial. Don't buy it from a local vendor. Crucial isn't as cheap as many online places, but the ram is guaranteed forever. You can buy decent RAM from many online retailers, though, many with lifetime warranties. I just bought some for a friend, seemed like it was some $60 for 2-512 MB sticks from Crucial.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2009, 11:56:15 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on May 28, 2009, 06:48:10 PM

The price for each of the harmonica-looking things seems to be between $35-50 each.

Oh Boy...
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2009, 12:01:04 AM »
I remember buying my first computer...

It was a TANDY, 25mhz, 8 MB RAM, 200MB HD, CD drive (one of the first?)

I put in a 33.6 kpbs modem, a new sound card and upped the RAM to 28 MB

I remember having to delete a game to play another game... I remember TANK! and Gunship 2000
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2009, 12:18:48 AM »
Quote from: FGL on May 29, 2009, 12:01:04 AM
I remember buying my first computer...

It was a TANDY, 25mhz, 8 MB RAM, 200MB HD, CD drive (one of the first?)

I put in a 33.6 kpbs modem, a new sound card and upped the RAM to 28 MB

I remember having to delete a game to play another game... I remember TANK! and Gunship 2000

My first computer was a Tandy too.  We didn't get hard drives back in those days.  It had an 8086 (16-bit, 8mhz) processor, 256Kb RAM, and a single 5-1/4" floppy drive.  The Tandy always had better sound (3-channel stereo) than the regular PC, which could only beep at you.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2009, 12:23:54 AM »
Quote from: FGL on May 28, 2009, 11:56:15 PM
Oh Boy...

:rofl: Those are heat shields (I think).

Thor is right... installing memory is as easy as plugging in a toaster oven.  They're only supposed to fit one way.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2009, 12:52:58 AM »
Quote from: FGL on May 29, 2009, 12:01:04 AM
I remember buying my first computer...

It was a TANDY, 25mhz, 8 MB RAM, 200MB HD, CD drive (one of the first?)

Commercially available CD-ROM drives started showing up on the shelves around 1988/1989.  The tranfer rate was 150Kbps.  If'n you wondered why your CD-R and CD-RW discs say 52X or something similar, the original 150Kbs is the baseline for CD-ROM data trasfer rates.  The X is the multiplier/rate for the disc.
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2009, 12:56:55 AM »
Quote from: Chris on May 29, 2009, 12:52:58 AM
Commercially available CD-ROM drives started showing up on the shelves around 1988/1989.  The tranfer rate was 150Kbps.  If'n you wondered why your CD-R and CD-RW discs say 52X or something similar, the original 150Kbs is the baseline for CD-ROM data trasfer rates.  The X is the multiplier/rate for the disc.

It was an old putter
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2009, 03:09:44 AM »
Quote from: Chris on May 29, 2009, 12:52:58 AM
Commercially available CD-ROM drives started showing up on the shelves around 1988/1989.  The tranfer rate was 150Kbps.  If'n you wondered why your CD-R and CD-RW discs say 52X or something similar, the original 150Kbs is the baseline for CD-ROM data trasfer rates.  The X is the multiplier/rate for the disc.

and it used Netscape 1.33 or something like that
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2009, 06:51:53 AM »
I learned on a Macintosh in 1988, when I was manager of a student union.

There wasn't much to it, but man, I miss it.

There was some sort of game called "Strategic Conquest," and I played that for hours, for days, at a time.  I was young yet, and easily obsessed.

I mean to say I used to play it for hours, for days, at a time.

Whenever I would go live in houses of wealthy people while they were on long vacations (cheaper to pay me to be there, than to board the pets), I would hole up and play that game nonstop.

It perhaps wasn't healthy, but ultimately I outgrew it, about the time I took off for the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants.

I've seen post-1988 versions of Strategic Conquest, but they aren't nothing, compared with that ancient version. 
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #22 on: May 29, 2009, 03:00:22 PM »
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Re: Thor, sir, where are you?
« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2009, 03:03:03 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 28, 2009, 07:27:20 PM
Make sure you get the correct type for the computer, for yours it will be PC 133, and each stick should 512MB. (you currently have 2 sticks of 256MB ea.)

Memory is about the easiest thing to install in a computer. There is a good walk through on this site, with step by step instructions, and pictures .  Yours won't look identical, but it's close enough.
How to install memory.




Now theres something I haven't seen in awhile!
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