Hi, Maydhyam. I'm absolutely new on the forum so keep that in mind. Also, I'm a biologist, computers are only my passion. My son builds computers and I'm the backroom person ordering and double checking compatibility. First thing that you may want to do is to decide what you want the computer to do when you are finished. My son is a gamer (heavy MMorpg's) which may bring up another limiting factor; how big is your wallet.... Anyway, once you've decided the function then you can decide if you want a functional case or a pimped out one. Happily, there are just a limited # of components that go into making the computer, a fair amount of quiet contemplation when it comes to making the connections, and given that you've paid close attention to compatibility you should have great success. Hope you don't mind the lenthy post and remember I'm a newbie but we have several computers under our belts and aside from a certain amount of frustration here and there (and crossed fingers now and again) it's been great fun. Best Wishes.
Thanks for that information Liisa, it is well appreciated...I am still trying to put together the purpose of the computer (because my mom, little sister, and big brother wants to use it too...lol)...but with work and all....*sigh*....after which I'll let you all know my intentions, and I could move on from there... :):):)
" Life is going to knock you down, from time to time, just like a good boxer. The difference in success and failure in life is whether or not you get up or stay down and it's a choice. I choose to get up and fight on." Written in 2008 by W.P. Garrett
The Story of Micro Micro was a real-time operator and dedicated multi-user. His broad-band protocol made it easy for him to interface with numerous input/output devices, even if it meant time-sharing.
One evening he arrived home just as the Sun was crashing, and had parked his Motorola 68040 in the main drive (he had missed the 5100 bus that morning), when he noticed an elegant piece of liveware admiring the daisy wheels in his garden. He thought to himself, "She looks user-friendly. I'll see if she'd like an update tonight."
Mini was her name, and she was delightfully engineered with eyes like COBOL and a PRIME mainframe architecture that set Micro's peripherals networking all over the place.
He browsed over to her casually, admiring the power of her twin, 32-bit floating point processors and enquired "How are you, Honeywell?". "Yes, I am well", she responded, batting her optical fibers engagingly and smoothing her console over her curvilinear functions.
Micro settled for a straight line approximation. "I'm stand-alone tonight", he said, "How about computing a vector to my base address? I'll output a byte to eat, and maybe we could get offset later on."
Mini ran a priority process for 2.6 milliseconds, then transmitted 8 K. "I've been dumped myself recently, and a new page is just what I need to refresh my disks. I'll park my machine cycle in your background and meet you inside." She walked off, leaving Micro admiring her solenoids and …
Firstly, I am not too sure if I am posting this problem in the correct forum, if so, please let me know...
My sister has a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2386, it's a little over 1 year old, and her USB ports have suddenly stopped working...when she got it from our uncle, she didn't receive any disks with it...
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You Know You've Been on the Computer Too Long When...
When you are counting objects, you go "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D...".
When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.
When your wife says "If you don't turn off that darn machine and come to bed, then I am going to divorce you!", and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause.
When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page.
When you look for your car keys using: "grep keys /dev/pockets"
When you look for your homework using: "grep homework /dev/backpack"
When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.
When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want.
When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.
When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the math in octal.
When you dream in 256 pallettes of 256 colors.
You're writing a homework assignment, and get the end of the line in the middle of a sentence, tack on a '\', and continue writing on the next line.
You try to sleep, and think ... "telnet xxx.dreams.heaven"
Actually, there are many laptops that serve well as desktop replacements and even game well. I build my own, but it's very easy to get someone to build one for you, or buy a factory job to just about any spec. There was a time you could save money building your won, but that's a thing of the past at the moment. To my mind, the only issue here is portability.
That's true, I remember a classmate of mine did exactly that..they bought a laptop that was totally with the specs they wanted, and not a pre-defined one from the company...it could be costly, but you would be getting the same functionality from it as you would off a desktop, just with the portability factor...
yea, I know...it could either be my explanation there or the fact that the computer was shut down for the entire weekend, and I restarted it this morning...:D ...I'm just glad it's working now...:)
While researching some ideas for one of my posts I ran across this screensaver and immediately dl-ed and installed it - then bought him a pint. Check this out!.
....this was displaying the data that was being uploaded...since I was trying to upload 300000+ records, it was a confusion to the computer to upload that much data as well as to display it at the same time...computer resources were totally used up...therefore creating the rows, without the data in the table...as well as the runtime error...and also freezing the upload....
