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questions and ideas for faster hard drives:

soccerman: in regards to your last comment about what Adul said. I believe he was talking about the EMC 8000 which he provided the link for and not about solid-state storage. Also I'd just like to say that I think a breakthrough in solid-state storage is very close and when it happens the...
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- Post #19
- Dec 2, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Important, help please.

blah, I wrote a msg, and decided it was stupid so this is what's left =)
- Optikal
- Post #8
- Dec 1, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Important, help please.

go to tucows, or any shareware site. You mentioned you have ZoneAlarm, I've never used it but I believe it has firewall capabilities. Basically, all you need to do is shutdown all non-essential ports, and if your still having the same problem enable some form of logging on your open ports to...
- Optikal
- Post #5
- Dec 1, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Starting up a new computer for the first time?

win98/ me are on bootable CD's
- Optikal
- Post #6
- Dec 1, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Important, help please.

get a good firewall and if configured properly it will block any attacks. Just monitor all your open ports and see which one all the traffic is on. or close down everything and do a netstat to see what kind of activity is going on.
- Optikal
- Post #3
- Dec 1, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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questions and ideas for faster hard drives:

boberfett: I don't know if you know it but RAM is volatile memory, meaning when you turn your computer off all data stored in RAM is erased.
- Optikal
- Post #6
- Dec 1, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Are Macs faster than PC's

TheRaven: Most of you don't seem to know that the new G4E run at 1 GHz Does anyone know if this is true?
- Optikal
- Post #39
- Nov 21, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computers Starting a Fire/Smoldering

I was putting a comp together and I'm still not sure what exactly caused it but I think it's because I had the motherboard out of the case resting on a conductive surface. Anyways, I started it up to test it out and the CPU starting smoking, and a whole lot of smoke came out of it, pretty...
- Optikal
- Post #2
- Nov 21, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Are Macs faster than PC's

everyone keeps saying clock for clock macs are faster, but what if you took the fastest available Athlon/Pentium and compared it to the fastest available mac. Comparing it using something like Quake 3, or RC5/Seti, encoding MPEG-4 or any other CPU intensive benchmark style application, which...
- Optikal
- Post #17
- Nov 21, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Are Macs faster than PC's

Whenever I get into arguments with my friends about Macs vs. PC's the argument has always been that PC's have far better (and more) software, but macs are faster. Is it still true that macs are faster than PC's. I have never actually seen any benchmarks of PC performance vs. Mac performance...
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- Nov 20, 2000
- Replies: 46
- Forum: Computer Building
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PC vs PS2 vs Dreamcast

In response to what Dwell said: "As much as I hate it, the Xbox is really looking like a good platform for American developers. If it takes off it could be then end of PC gaming as we know it." No console will ever be the death of PC gaming. PC gaming gets more impressive every 6...
- Optikal
- Post #11
- Nov 20, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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How do you get through a firewall?

if you know the IP address that you are trying to connect to you could easily write a utility that will route the traffic from the game through port 80. In the game you would just type in your own IP address as the one to connect to then have your utility listening on the port that the game...
- Optikal
- Post #12
- Nov 19, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Direct X 7

MS doesn't allow you to go back versions. If you want to go back to a previous version the safest way would probably to format/reinstall windows (and reinstall DirectX 7). You should be able to download DirectX 7 from most shareware sites such as www.download.com
- Optikal
- Post #2
- Nov 19, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Sound Dampening

actually I believe it IS dampening NOT damping =Þ
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- Post #3
- Nov 17, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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is there a differance...

there is no just GeForce2, there are 2 models of GeForce2 cards, either GeForce2 GTS, or GeForce2 MX, there is no plain 'GeForce2'. And if you want to know the difference between the GTS model and the MX model read the reviews on the site
- Optikal
- Post #2
- Oct 17, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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How computers will be used for home entertainment in the future?

This is my response to the 'What would you do with $10,000?' question that was recently posted. I figured I'd start a new thread because I'm going off on a whole different topic. with 10k I'd drop a few grand on a fast comp(possibly dual cpu) with mostly top-end stuff, 1(maybe 2) Ghz, 256MB...
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- Oct 17, 2000
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building

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