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12:03 AM

Oh god. This poor person.

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Q: Can I upgrade my Soltek sl-67a-c motherboard from Pentium II to Pentium III?

I have a Pentium III processor and I thought I would replace the Pentium II on my Soltek SL-67A-C. The motherboard has Slot 1 so the PIII fits in fine, however, when I turn on the computer the bios does not come up. Here's the link to some specs on the board: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherb...

cpu motherboard

Doesn't he realize that people give away P4s pretty much for free these days?

Journeyman Geek

lol

> I am thinking I may have to adjust the jumpers on the motherboard to match the speed of the processor

o_O

Journeyman Geek

he might be right

Slot 1 refers to the physical and electrical specification for the connector used by some of Intel's microprocessors, including the Pentium Pro, Celeron, Pentium II and the Pentium III. Both single and dual processor configurations were implemented. General With the introduction of the Pentium II CPU, the transition from socket to slot had become necessary. With the Pentium Pro, Intel had combined processor and cache dies in the same package, connected by a full-speed bus, resulting in significant performance benefits. Unfortunately, this method required that the two components be...

I'm too young to know that... :(

Journeyman Geek

hm. not the part of the question i wanted to cite

lol... i think PIIs were new when i was 13 ;p

12:13 AM

Where does it list that?

Journeyman Geek

under 440bx - click on slot 1 and it should link there...

what's the preview thing called anyway?

> You can adjust the external clock by changing jumper setting on your motherboard.

@JourneymanGeek: Oneboxing.

Sounds like old school overclocking... :)

Journeyman Geek

it is ;p

misses his PIIIs

one got dropped and stopped booting. the other just dropped dead.

The oldest thing I remember touching was

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Journeyman Geek

lol

12:18 AM

but it was dead, I got DOS to appear once but that's that... :(

Journeyman Geek

i had an XT, then a 486, then a PII, PIV, pentium M, core 2... then i inherited at various times pentium IIIs ... ;p. now my main laptop is a core i5, which is moderately more powerful than my desktop ;p

It's kind of one of the first laptops... :P

Journeyman Geek

that is sooo coool

how big is the screen?

Dunno, pretty small.

It's from AMSTRAD.

Journeyman Geek

that looks like a full sized keyboard

so i'm guessing something like 9 inches

12:20 AM

But well, it couldn't display that much.

Journeyman Geek

yeah, low res.

still, soo coool!

I dunno what I touched first, either a XT or a 486...

Journeyman Geek

mine was a XT clone

think my parents threw it out at some point :(

old school cases were so much better

granted..

is tempted to have a knife switch for power on his next build

Playing good old Dave

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and Rockford

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I remember playing a Sea Math game at school...

...and how my first computer was too old to be able to run Windows 98... >_<

Journeyman Geek

lol. my first computer had a CGA screen. windows? BLAH.

12:26 AM

My father was in the in the Windows 98 setup encountering an error about memory or something and saying "seems you've got to wait, let's reinstall Windows 95".

Journeyman Geek

lol

And at the Windows 95 and 98 time I remember having played Keen, Duke Nukem, Doom (had a nightmare once when we did multi-player too much) and the less known Rodent's Revenge:

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You are a cat and have to move blocks to capture the mouses and then go eat the cheese, although the above seems to be a quite hard level... (you can walk diagonal too)

Hmm, there's only one cat and one mouse, perhaps still easy. I believe the holes allow both to go through a random or linked other goal.

Now that's where Portal got it's idea from... :P

Journeyman Geek

lol

There was also a game where you would slalom down a mountain and avoid trees and an angry cat, I believe it was in a game pack.

There it is, Ski Free.

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And Missile Command.

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Good old times...

Now you've got to emulate most of them with DOS box, and the others are most likely 16 bit which are a hassle to get alive on a 64 bit system...

I wonder where limit in what Super User still supports in answering lies.

Because P II is pretty old...

Journeyman Geek

lol

i don't think there is one, with good reason.

we DID get a windows 3.1 question i think

12:42 AM

I wish the AMSTRAD laptop wasn't been thrown away... :(

Although I don't remember exactly, but I don't think it's still in our basement. Perhaps there are is other interesting computer stuff there, not sure if it has been cleaned out over the years...

12:53 AM

Is it just me or is the whole network apart from the chat offline or under maintenance?

Ah, I see a "we are offline" title... :(

Journeyman Geek

1:37 AM

lol

works for me

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7:58 AM

@TomWijsman Wow - I reember those!

First computer I used:

computinghistory.org.uk/cgi-bin/sitewise.pl?act=det&p=9361

Commodore PET 3016 1977 (when I was 12)

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8:43 AM

huh, are answer downvotes free or what?

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the only single vote was a downvote, but no sign of losing rep for that

but then again it doesn't even show that I downvoted

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@slhck no, only question d/v are, or maybe the answer was deleted? or maybe you d/v a community wiki answer?

@DMA57361 No, it's a "normal" answer

Maybe it was because I navigated away from the page a bit too early

could be

Well I'll just put it on meta, maybe somebody can find out

refreshed the question page and tried again?

8:48 AM

sure

oh

well seems somebody else downvoted it as well!

and mine wasn't counted :)

well, I'm off for a bit, cya all later

see ya

Journeyman Geek

moo

meeeh

Journeyman Geek

9:04 AM

hm, this is fun. I need to rebuild my clonezilla usb key cause it just.. stopped working

time it takes is not worth working out what's the issue, but its annoying

I found Bacon...

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Journeyman Geek

lol

9:57 AM

OMFG, I need a break from this site... I dreamt I was answering questions :/

Journeyman Geek

lol

I answered a question just before I went to sleep, and just checked the site the moment I woke up... no wonder why I dreamt I was doing something!

@WilliamHilsum: I went to sleep with the thoughts that I would gain edit privileges on PP.SE the moment I woke up, and it apparently happened.

I also once went to sleep in the middle of giving a first answer on a question.

But in the morning there was already an accepted answer but I posted mine anyway.

Don't know why I went to sleep in the middle of writing it, I probably locked the laptop and forgot I was writing an answer...

Which site is pp?

and lol...

Personal Productivity

10:04 AM

I thought Jeff was in favor of "don't migrate crap"

stackoverflow.com/questions/6476979/…

Journeyman Geek

lol. i had a question closed while i was answering it ._.

@JourneymanGeek: Have that too, and my answer was really kind of a reversal post.

Stack Overflow Blog: Optimizing For Pearls, Not Sand

Posted by Jeff Atwood on June 13th, 2011

In March 2010, we rebalanced our reputation system to favor answers.

While we value good questions (and asking a great question is absolutely an art), we want to explicitly encourage people to provide the best possible answers. Without people interested in providing good answers, the questions are moot. We know that answers have more intrinsic value than questions, and the reputation balance should reflect that.

The question asker already enjoys a substantial benefit beyond reputation gain from upvotes on their question — namely, they get great answers to their question! Thus, the asker shouldn’t need as much reputation gain. …

But well, nothing we can do about it, unless we can revive the question...

Journeyman Geek

@TomWijsman: and.. it was reopened ;p

Your question? Nice.

Journeyman Geek

the one i was answering halfway, yes ;p

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10:24 AM

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A: Why Standards Place Limits on Data Transfer Rates?

In general one of the advantages of a standard is, that with adaptors supporting a certain standard, and cables supporting a specific standard, it will work. With that in mind, most IEEE standards tend to be conservative, slightly overenginnered, and will generally work as advertised. There's no...

that one

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@JourneymanGeek: Learned about that on university, perhaps part of the text from above sildes to improve your answer... :)

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well, yeah ;p

hmm..

I thought ieee did most of the standards?

ISO is pretty well known too, they really have quite some standards.

ITU-T is specific to Telecommunication and IETF is specific to Computer Networks and Internet I belief...

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Q: Does UNetbooting need to generate a separate boot config file for each computer ?

I am trying to boot Linux out of my thumb drove to reset a Windows 7 password and destroy Deep Freeze . I used Unetbootin to extract BackTrack 5 and it boots up properly on my sys using Plop Boot manager . (for some reason my Asus mobo will not boot it ) Now the target PC does not have Plop boo...

windows-7 boot usb-flash-drive

Can anyone help me with this ?

Paper sizes for example, are ISO. And some drawing rules. But I believe there are a lot of computer science standards from them too...

Journeyman Geek

10:32 AM

@HackToHell: unetbootin only does one OS at a time.

@JourneymanGeek thanks

(Never heard about it, nice that Journeyman does know it)

Journeyman Geek

let me answer that ;p

wait

i misunderstood

hm

how did you prepare the drive?

@JourneymanGeek formatted to FAT32

Journeyman Geek

using what?

10:35 AM

@JourneymanGeek windows 7

Journeyman Geek

hm

that may be your problem

@JourneymanGeek why ?

Journeyman Geek

windows dosen't usually flip the bootable flag

this might do the trick bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

plop boot manager dosen't care about the bootable flag

@JourneymanGeek idk hat that means but will try bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm THANK

Journeyman Geek

oh shit

there's a hole in my exercise ball

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10:42 AM

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Q: Computer HALTS when booting up via USB or CD-ROM !

I have come across a really strange error my mother board ( Asus M4N68T-M-LE-V2) shuts down abruptly with a audible kink when I boot Linux from my USB drive or via CD ! it simply goes off ! http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1795603 Here is my Computer Specs

linux motherboard asus amd

Now I need help with this :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

how many problems DO you have?

Still another one Linux ain't booting

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Q: Switching to Kubuntu results in low graphics mode

I looked at some screen shots of Kubuntu and I liked it so I went to Synaptic and installed the kubuntu-desktop package and set my desktop window manager to kde and rebooted. After reboot, I saw Kubuntu splash screen then this message; running in Low Graphical Mode. Then I was not able to dismi...

mouse kubuntu-desktop shell

but I will stick with the former for a while

Journeyman Geek

same system?

@JourneymanGeek Far too many times... Annoying!

yep .. but that Unetbooting is a looong while ago and this right now

Journeyman Geek

10:45 AM

@WilliamHilsum: which one?

closed whilst answering, nothing in particular...

Journeyman Geek

@HackToHell: no idea for either of the other one ;p

@JourneymanGeek okay thanks for unetbooting :)

Journeyman Geek

did that work?

Anyone know if it is possible to loose the populist badge during a recalc if you no longer meet the criteria?

11:31 AM

hmm, is it even possible to lose a badge, at all?

Journeyman Geek

i have no idea.. prolly something to check on meta?

Seems that the recipe for getting the badge is posting a humorous answer!

Journeyman Geek

well, that's often a good way to get rep too

Yes, it seems. But I'm not really good at that :(

Journeyman Geek

apparently so does being high on flu meds.

11:49 AM

lol

wow, take a look at this gem!

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A: Windows 7 drivers for HP Laserjet 1000

ok: Since all you know Windows 7 such a despised Windows has been "arranged" not to have so many problems of compatibility as his predecessor Dress, to which me a possible solution came to the mind that to I my me work and not only in this printer if not in several to which I have installed this ...

I tried to edit it but it was impossible

1 hour later…

1:14 PM

i lold

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Q: Neighbors wifi why password doesn't work?

In new apartment, one of my neighbors wifi is called 'THE PASSWORD IS PASSWORD'. I tried to connect and enter the password with password and PASSWORD and Password and they don't work... why not?

windows wireless-networking router wireless-router

> I think my neighboor is weird and i want to move.

Journeyman Geek

1:35 PM

lol

1 hour later…

3:01 PM

@WilliamHilsum Supporting the fact that you can't lose a badge

Bill the Lizard, Charlotte, NC

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outlook windows freeware screenshot community-faq internet wireless-networking

Try to find the answer he's got the gold badge for :)

Journeyman Geek

eheh

3 hours later…

5:40 PM

@slhck cool... I am happy, thanks!

I wonder if I can game the system... e.g. there have been other times when I have very close to populist... wonder if I can downvote other answers then undo down vote!... I wouldn't do that though!

@slhck hehe, I can see the deleted answer! superuser.com/questions/4714/…

@WilliamHilsum Still need a couple of days until I can :P

hehe

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