Yes! April 20 Is New Computer Time!

Joeiss · 03-24-2002, 04:31 PM

Woohoo! My sister is coming home on April 20 (or around that) from University. And she is bringing home her computer. It is a :

P3, 900 Megs
256 MB RAM
20 Gig HD
19 inch monitor
bunch of speakers

Ummm... I dont know what else. But I cannot wait! I can finally buy some computer games... I'll probably buy Counter Strike because I think that game is the best computer game of all time.

sdtPikachu · 03-24-2002, 09:26 PM

Heh... well now I'm feeling all smug, I'll just use this as an excuse to update my system specs:

P3 1GHz
384 MB RAM
30 GB SCSI hard drive running applications
40 GB IDE hard drive for storing documents (well, mp3's anyway)
nVidia Riva TNT2 (sucks I know, but I don't care)
External v.92 modem (rocks severely - it'll even tell me if someone is trying to call the phone, and will even flash their number up on screen... best of all, it'll let me suspend my internet connection to take the call so I can get back online without dialing in - I had to buy this cos my old modem won't work under Linux)
DVD-ROM
CD-RW
100 MB USB Zip

Dual boot of Windows 2000 and Mandrake Linux 8.2, which rocks by the way

DeathsHand · 03-24-2002, 10:27 PM

cool... I'll probably upgrade from this 300 Mhz P2 in about... 2 years...

Joeiss · 03-25-2002, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by DeathsHand
cool... I'll probably upgrade from this 300 Mhz P2 in about... 2 years...

Yeah, I only get this computer until late August... But hopefully my paretns will notice the difference in speed, so they will be like, "oh, we are never going back to that old P1, lets get a P5!"

But I doubt that will ever happen.

GameMaster · 03-26-2002, 01:23 AM

Enjoy it while it lasts Joeiss.

Mushlafa · 03-26-2002, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by sdtPikachu

External v.92 modem (rocks severely - it'll even tell me if someone is trying to call the phone, and will even flash their number up on screen... best of all, it'll let me suspend my internet connection to take the call so I can get back online without dialing in - I had to buy this cos my old modem won't work under Linux)

Your telling me you use a dial up connection like you gotta free up the phone line ?

*laughs at SdtPikachu*

Well i get cable here for 30$ a month which is decent i guess :P

Revival · 03-26-2002, 07:25 PM

Bah! All you poor saps have to pay for an internet connection.. *laughs*

MasterMind · 03-27-2002, 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by .:Shooter:.
Bah! All you poor saps have to pay for an internet connection.. *laughs*

Well I get free dial-up. Not that crappy Netzero or Juno free net, I get no ads. Its dial-up, but it is free, or at least 50 hours is every month.

Blackmane · 03-29-2002, 02:18 PM

You picked an interesting day. 4/20... Your computer might actually be a bomb.

j/k

Revival · 03-29-2002, 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by MasterMind
Well I get free dial-up. Not that crappy Netzero or Juno free net, I get no ads. Its dial-up, but it is free, or at least 50 hours is every month.

I get free (unlimited) cable internet access all the time.

Joeiss · 03-30-2002, 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by Blackmane
You picked an interesting day. 4/20... Your computer might actually be a bomb.

j/k

What's 420? And why would there be a bomb?

Revival · 03-30-2002, 02:34 PM

4/20 - National "Get High" day.

Joeiss · 03-30-2002, 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by .: Shooter :.
4/20 - National "Get High" day.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that... But what does a bomb have to do with anything? Unless he meant bong. Lol.

sdtPikachu · 03-31-2002, 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by Mushlafa
Your telling me you use a dial up connection like you gotta free up the phone line ?

*laughs at SdtPikachu*
Well i get cable here for 30$ a month which is decent i guess :P

My dialup costs me £15 a month, which is a bit crap, but there's something weird about our telephone exchange which for some reaon means that the only people who do 24/7 access in these parts are BT. Or I could go AOL... but I think not. They also cost £15 a month and are even worse than BT to go with it.

Yeah, dialup sucks, but ADSL and cable just aren't options for me at the moment. Being a student, I have sod all money. ADSL costs about £30 a month plus installation and a new modem, cable costs about £30-40 a month plus installation and a new modem. Oh, and I move out in August anyway, so there's no point.

Once I get a job, I'm gonna get my own place, install a nice fat 2 Mbit ADSL cable, jack it in the back of a Linux box I'll use as my local server and just plug ethernet cables all over the house. Ah yes, then tyhe internet will be mine... I shall be able to download por... I mean, music 24 hours a day!

"Bah! All you poor saps have to pay for an internet connection.. *laughs*"

Well, if I'd gone back into halls I'd have a free share of one of the universities 8 T3 lines, which would have been nice. But living in halls sucks.

Ah well, now I shall return to my fantasies about what computer I am going to build once I have a job... I'm thinking of a dual Athlon at the moment...

Revival · 03-31-2002, 09:27 AM

Well, I get free internet because my dad works at home, so Compaq pays for a bunch of stuff -- they pay for the internet bill, 1/3 of the electricity bill, which in turn means less my family has to pay on taxes, so it's all good.