The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Mycanid]

Some Christmas present! Last time I upgraded was... 2001, I think. It was a dual 440MHz P2(3?) processor system, with something like 192 or 128 MB of RAM.

Needless to say, in 2007 terms, it's a bit slow nowadays.

I'm not sure what all it'll have, but I'll let you know when I find out.

I believe I'll be harvesting the rest of my current machine to give something to my parents, as they've been needing something new.

Yeah. Someone gave us an older Dell workstation with dual p3 500mhz chips last year. The thing had quite a hard time in Win2k. Win XP was near impossible. :\ So - we wiped low-level formatted the hard drive and the gave the machine to the Salvation Army. I hope someone gets good use out of it!

I always like giving leftover machines to people who can get some mileage outta them. Many people only use comps for surfing the web, email and word processing, and older machines can handle that fine, even after all the security stuff and updates, etc.

We have a few more machines here in the office to be upgraded (lessee ... about 6), so I am going to slowly give those away to needy folks in the upcoming years. I already have two "slots" taken for new comps. We will see what time unfolds.

But yes ... do post the specs when you find out. I always love looking over the spec sheets. Like doing it in rpg's too....

 

[Darth K'Trava]

c-c-c-c-c-cold....... will b-b-b-be back to-tonight.......



3 degrees and now the wind is picking up. Heard that with wind gusts it will be -40 at times tonight.



Can someone once more tell me something about the greenhouse effect....?

It was rather chilly here too. Not *that* chilly... but it was about 20 degrees last night and got up to about 45 today plus wind chill.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

"Those people, whoever they are. They're right too."

 

[Mycanid]

No - I am more inclined to think they're left ... I mean they've left ... I mean ...

[sigh] ... time to "close up shop" for the day.... See y'all later!

 

[Tinker Gnome]

"They think I'm a wimp, I'm spineless, a coward..."

 

[megamania]

Celsius or Fahrenheit?

F


If Celsius it would not have been as bad. If I remember my stuff 32 F = 0 C so maybe....
-10 C before wind chill.

 

[megamania]

"They think I'm a wimp, I'm spineless, a coward..."

?!?!?

What are we referring to?

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

F


If Celsius it would not have been as bad. If I remember my stuff 32 F = 0 C so maybe....
-10 C before wind chill.

actually F and C use different size degrees.

The formula is (F-32)/9 * 5=C or (C/5)*9 +32=F

so 77F -32 =45
45/9 = 5
5*5=25C
so 77F = 25C

or 32F -32=0
0/9 = 0
0*5=0C
and 32F = 0C

-40F -32 = -72
-72/9 = -8
-8*5= -40C
Therefore -40F = -40C
It was a trick question

 

[Aurora]

I hate the cold. I like snow, but hate cold. I preferred livng in San Diego where if i wanted to see snow we just hopped in the car and drove 45 inland to Julian to see it. That way, we never had to shovel it! I remember the Christmas I got new roller skates. I was 10, and I went outside and skated in shorts and a tank top because it was 70 degrees.

Well, I am back from St Louis. In a bit of a funk though. Not spending much time online. Maybe it will change. Hope everyone is doing well.

 

[Aeson]

?!?!?

What are we referring to?

You know he comes in here with random quotes.