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Jul 27, 2001, 3:15pm

I'm entitled to one for putting up with all the morons here, right? www.systemrecall.com
Some of the funniest stuff you've ever read on life's toughest and most sensitive issues and the world through the eyes of two
Maryland teenagers.

Jul 27, 2001, 6:32pm

That's why it's a shameless plug rather than a plug.
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Jul 30, 2001, 11:14pm

I'm bored outta my mind, so I'm gonna make this somewhat entertaining, to me anyway.

Situation:
Test machine K6300
Running OS WinXP Preview Program borrowed from friend that was a dumbass and paid for it
AW Viewscreen 100% white

Not a clue about the version of DirectX, it won't accept a 7.0 install.
Windows properietary TNT2 Vanta LT drivers (Won't accept Detonators)
Windows proprietary Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI drivers

Hardware configuration:
AMD K6-2 300 CPU (Barely runs the friggin OS)
128mb RAM (Barely enough to contain the OS)
2gb HDD (The OS fits, but rather snugly)
Intel 56k Winmodem
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI
VideoExcell TNT2 Vanta LT

Jul 31, 2001, 3:54pm

Between that and it's unwillingness to accept my own drivers (Which were all designed for Win9x) or their Win2k counterparts is
definitely the problem. As soon as XP starts going OEM to Dell and the like, may god help us all........
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Jul 31, 2001, 7:30pm

nonono, when XP goes OEM, people buying their brand spanking new top of the line $3800 Dell Dimension 8100 with it's "Lightning fast
Pentium 4" will be MUCH MUCH dumber on the whole. XP is leaving later today, heh. Win98 shall return.
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Jul 31, 2001, 10:14pm

Have any problems with OGL games? It would seem that the drivers that M$ supplied for my TNT2 don't support OGL......
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Aug 1, 2001, 6:32pm

*shrug* Never again, never again.

(GIVE ME AW FOR LINUX OR GIVE ME BILL GATE'S DEATH)
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Aug 3, 2001, 5:01pm

Heh, Microsoft has a history of making Previews worse than full releases. I.E. WinME pre-release didn't give registry errors every
20 boots (That just isn't my problem either, it shows up on machines OEMed with ME)

The roots of my problem are probably tracable to the 1998 vintage hardware vs. extreme bloatware.
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Aug 1, 2001, 6:19pm

Oh, they didn't play nicely?
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Aug 1, 2001, 11:33pm

I realized this shortly after posting. However, that still isn't playing nice.
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Aug 12, 2001, 8:47pm

You're one very troubled child. One more unproductive, unneccessary flame and you're offically a 0 on my list.

BTW, Fac's post was most certainly not off-topic. Learn to read.
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Aug 2, 2001, 6:07pm

Just associate .cgi files with AW. This is perfectly fine assuming you don't edit CGI files...
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Aug 5, 2001, 9:27pm

This is the closest it gets. Damn man, and people complain that plaintext posting is in the past.
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Aug 6, 2001, 1:30am

[View Quote] Uh oh, you're using 21'st century spellings now. Not to mention combining it with 1980's-early 90's grammar.

Aug 5, 2001, 9:56pm

GENERAL DISCUSSION!

And yes, anything that M$ does is known to slow down computers :)
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Aug 7, 2001, 5:28pm

*grin* Typical. Ingenius though, one of the more creative worms that I've seen in awhile. Not malicious in itself, except for the
rebooting. However, 600k servers in one day, that means that mathematically, by the time the worm stops propagating in October, ALL
W2k and NT4 systems that havn't been patched are infected. *thwacks M$ in the head*

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Aug 8, 2001, 12:39pm

[View Quote] Theres a rule that I always follow while installing M$ O$'s. NEVER do a typical install. It installs components you don't want and
not the ones that you DO want (Solitaire but no charmap, IIS but no Dialup networking, IPX/SPX protocols but no TCP/IP, demented
things like that)

Aug 8, 2001, 12:42pm

Also, who installed it? I don't trust most technicians as far as I could throw them.
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Aug 8, 2001, 4:36pm

Are all the CDRWs from the same "batch"? (Were they bought at the same time and place and brand?) If they were, they might have all
gone faulty, because simultanious death to both drives is an extreme rarity. Perhaps Windows has fucked up? Do CDRs work? Do you
have all your IDE drives manually jumpered to Master/Slave? Cable select and Windows don't always get along..... If you can't find
any other cause, try installing Windows on top of your current copy. Won't require formatting and will fix most problems a format
would.
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Aug 8, 2001, 9:51pm

Simple solution, if it didn't ship in the case, don't put it there. Dells are picky about anything and everything. Cable select and
Windows don't work right half the time with either multiple CDROMs or multiple hard drives or both. Dell power supplies are normally
insufficient, etc. etc. etc.
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Aug 8, 2001, 11:29pm

The server is a server, you don't wanna fuck with people rich enough to buy high end servers. Laptops are simple machines, only have
a few options, don't have to deal with variables like IDE cable, M/S/CS jumpers, BIOS, etc. Though I'd still rather spend $2000
cramming a full size Athlon based ATX PC into a briefcase (I've seen it done) and devising a battery system than buying a $3000
Pentium 3 based laptop.

The desktops on the other hand, are incredibly overpriced and incredibly picky and unending in their bitch-fits about new hardware
(This is from experiences with all 3 current production model Dimensions, the L, 4100 and 8100)

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Aug 9, 2001, 12:43am

Now that I've recieved word that the high school truly IS going to allow laptop computers to any student who wishes to use one, I'm
interested in shopping for one. Since it's too short notice to build a full ATX PC into a breifcase (plus that'd be kinda heavy to
lug around) I guess I'm going to look into buying one. I've decided that I don't need anything particularly fancy, just a 13+ inch
screen, a CD, floppy and at least 10 gigs of HDD. An A/C adapter is also neccessary (Hah, knowing me the battery would die in the
middle of somthing important). At least 800MHz of Pentium 3 (Or any AMD mobile CPU) is neccessary. The OS should be Win2k, but if
it's cheap enough I'll settle for ME or XP.
3d graphics a neccessity, doesn't matter what brand so long as it'll do some 3d rendering. A 10/100 ethernet adapter would be nice
as well, or at least some way to connect it directly to any normal PC (Can you do null modem via USB?) Modem not neccessary.

Carrying weight doesn't matter, but price does. Preferably less than $2000 when all is said and done. If anyone can point me in the
general direction of a few companies (I don't care if they're big name so long as they do good work) it would be much appreciated.

BTW, I'm also looking at iBooks, but they're just too fruity in color, so don't tell me about that

Aug 9, 2001, 12:55am

Forgot system RAM. I need at least 256mb (Photoshop+Word+Excel+Truespace)
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Aug 9, 2001, 6:54pm

I'm no ace at news headers, but it would appear that his IP address is the same as the server's (NNTP posting host? It seems unique
for each poster)
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Aug 12, 2001, 9:37pm

Wow, this is the second thread in a week meant purely to attack others that provides a list of names. Original Lane. Lets look at
this post in depth, on both a "DUH" and a psychological level.
[View Quote] So you're gonna talk about us. However, why you put this up front and seperated from the actual message is most likely you wanted US
to respond to it because we'd provide the more entertaining responses, most likely because you think you can "hurt" us. I don't know
about any of the others, but I'm certainly not hurt or affended, I'm just laughing.

> E N Z O makes a (off-topic) post

He's exempt from our rules here, primarily because that was only the FIRST post he made. It's effect was to show us he's just like
the average citizen and that "no concern is too small."

>and you all bitch down like punk ass
> bitches..

Clarify the meaning of "bitch down." Due to the extreme profanity in this part of the opening sentence, it kills off the entire
meaning. However, I'll try to make sense of it. We most certainly did not bite off ENZO's head for it, and we also did not shut up
about it. The lack of posts in the past 24 hours is most likely due to the fact that about two thirds of AW's population was
involved in a ceremony over the course of last night. To my knowledge, you weren't there.

>get a clue..

*coughLAMEcough*

>E N Z O doesn't care about any of you..

He DOESN'T NEED TO! My only concern about him is that he cares about the community. If he doesn't he has little purpose in being a
CEO and will lead AW into the night and destroy it.

>he doesn't
> try to make AW better for anyone..

To use your own word and sentence patterns...

THATS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, NUMBNUT!

>Roland (somewhat) tries.. but E N Z O's
> "perfect" staff don't know a needed feature from a pointless one..

Who ever said the staff was perfect? Who ever said the staff made design decisions? Hell, according to information we've recieved
ENZO doesn't make the design decisions anymore, that's JP's department.

> just
> thought it was funny that you idiots punk out when "the big one" posts
> something..

Again, I'm going to make an assumption as to what you mean by "punk out."

Rick has been invisible for a LONG, LONG time. Yesterday's silence was due to the aforementioned event, and before yesterday, for
the most part, was simply shock.

Who died and made you god? BTW, you've now achieved the ranking of überloser in my "book." Congrats on being the first.

Aug 13, 2001, 5:35pm

He'll be gone for a lifetime soon as he gets back a few more times, he'll never stop. Also, Fac, how can we be sure this jackass
doesn't reincarnate himself under different names/citnums?
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Aug 13, 2001, 5:40pm

Heh, that post's purpose was to simply state my current "emotion" (Somthing you no doubt are desensitized from having) as shock and
speechlessness. It also turned out to be somewhat humorous concerning the lighting command that ENZO had replied to.

Why the hell am I explaining this to you anyway? Enjoy your week off, twitfuck.
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Aug 13, 2001, 11:44pm

The xsign still hasn't been fixed, what gives?

Aug 14, 2001, 2:16am

Would it help any if someone from the community created a valid registry for it? Doesn't exactly take a genius to look at an RWX
file and determine it's dimensions, especially one that simple. Just say the word and I'm sure 10 people will jump on it
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Aug 14, 2001, 3:03am

xsign.rwx 1 -295 5 -1 295 395 10

I can't test it though.

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