Mac OS X 10.4 Upgrade Install on a PowerMac G4 400 MHz = LAMZ0RZ John-ErikApr 18, 2008November 28, 20140 That is all… Once again, we’ve saved civilization as we know it. And the good news is, they’re not gonna prosecute! Read more
Why Don't You Try Vista? John-ErikApr 18, 2008November 28, 20140 LOL, First use will be gaming, so Vista isnt a choice! Well even if he was just going to surf the web Vista still wouldnt Read more
PEBCAK Error John-ErikApr 14, 2008November 28, 20140 Actually, this sounds like a PEBCAK error (no offense). Since it sounds like you don’t load Windows XP too often, when you use the F6 Read more
350W should be plenty John-ErikApr 2, 2008November 28, 20140 A 350W power supply should be plenty. The Athlon processor draws on the 5V, and the memory and PCI on the 3.3V, and I’m fairly Read more
PAE and 32-bit memory usage John-ErikMar 22, 2008November 28, 20140 Technically, you still can’t use above 3.2-3.9 GB depending on the system. However, when you enable PAE it allows the 32 bit OS to use Read more
Vista SP1 RTW Yesterday John-ErikMar 19, 2008November 28, 20140 So now you can go to the MSFT download site and get it. So far so good on all of my systems. One thing Read more
Klipsch PC Speakers John-ErikMar 5, 2008November 28, 20140 Without going too overboard, I would look at the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 system. They’re way under your budget and are generally good for a small Read more
RAID 1 has some benefits of RAID 0 John-ErikFeb 20, 2008November 28, 20140 RAID 0: Also commonly known as a stripe set (as it provides no redundancy, one of the useful parts of RAID) data is broken into Read more
2 Large Repositories John-ErikFeb 19, 2008August 27, 20140 Personally, I have two large repositories of data. 1) My media center, which holds recorded TV and my ripped DVD images. 300 GB, 320 GB, Read more
What's Your Vista Base Score and Hardware Config? John-ErikFeb 16, 2008November 28, 20140 I’m just kinda curious to see what other people are running and with what results. Mine: Base score: 5.8 Subscores: 5.9, 5.9, 5.9, 5.9, 5.8 Read more
Ph4t l3wt list (so far, more coming tomorrow): John-ErikDec 26, 2007August 25, 20140 – A full set of lenses, hoods and adapters for my camera. Just need the speedlite flash now! – Star Trek 10 movie boxed set. Read more
My car loves the snow John-ErikNov 29, 2007August 25, 20140 My one car loves the snow. My sister was visiting and she has a Subaru Forester. She was coming to my place during a small Read more
In-Field Usage of Windows John-ErikNov 24, 2007August 29, 20140 Oh, I understand that, I just have practical in-field usage of 2000, XP and Vista across over 700 users and over 1000 systems of diverse Read more
Vista is Self-Healing John-ErikNov 20, 2007August 27, 20140 Vista is more self healing, less likely to crash, and so on. And my experience across hundreds of machines backs this up. As well as Read more
32-bit Limitations John-ErikNov 15, 2007November 28, 20140 And it’s somewhat of a moot point anyway – on 32 bit Windows, only 2 GB of RAM is available to user space programs, so Read more