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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: RudeCat7 on 1 September 2002, 08:19

Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: RudeCat7 on 1 September 2002, 08:19
The current posts between you and the other guys are pointless, you know that. So why don't we forget about trying to one up each other when it comes to operating systems. Nobody's gonna convert this way. Right?

I think there's hope for you yet, if you want. After all, why would you keep coming back here? I know you like to spew piss and venom, and these guys only edge you on. But deep down, I think you have an interest in *Nix, don't ya? Go ahead and deny it, I wont force it out of you.

Maybe, you like hardware though. Do you get a tingle when you see a barebone kit for sale? Does that give you ideas about a new system? Are you excited about 3ghz coming soon? Are you using a big ass 19 inch monitor? don't you want one? Come on, I know we have something in common! Are you browsing on a sweet cable hook-up? Give the OS wars a break for a while. Let's talk tech.

I'll show you mine (specs)

AMD Athlon XP 1800/ AMD fan
Epox 8kha+ DDR motherboard
256MB Crucial Micron DDR
GeForce2 Ti
Sblaster 16 pci
Logitech Z340 speakers, very good for $40.00
20gig hard drive (weak I know)
Lite-on 24x cd-burner
Pioneer 12x DVD #116
Iomega 100mb zip
Antec KS282 case (sx830 is way better, but$)
Cheap ass $19.00 15" monitor (but the picture is sweet)
Most important, blazing cable hookup thanks to Cox@home.

so come on, share.


    ;)    

Thix goes for XP User #whatever, but I don't think he's even around anymore, is he?

Oh yeah, I also have a HP 5100c scanjet, and Suse is supposed to have FULL support, Yay! I haven't tried it though, but so you know, this damn POS wont work in anything else but Win95/98! Not even WinMe, until now.. it's a Linux scanner!

Same goes for that old POS Canon lbp-465 printer, don't even think about it! It sucks as a printer period, plus Win95 drivers only! Fortunately the toner works in my $7.00 HP Laserjet 5L....Yeah, I'm a hardware bargain hunter!   (http://tongue.gif)  

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Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: Bazoukas on 1 September 2002, 21:10
ah let them be man.

  If we ignore them, they will get bored and leave us alone.
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Post by: choasforages on 1 September 2002, 21:15
damn you people with hardware to brag about

ok, hear goes,
meastro 2 based soundcard, total peice of shit


40x cd drive, no too bad, can't play or rip dvds though

4x4x24 burner, well, its toasted so i can't use it anymore

some odd ass motherboard, with dead fdc, and only supports 256 megs of sdram


400mhz k6-3, kicked lots of ass in its time

256megs of ram

dieing magview 19" running 1600x1200@65hertz

6 harddrives totaling about 32 or so gigs of space

a ata66 controllercard,

a gefore2 with 64megs of non-ddr ram

a 3com 10mgbit ethernet card

2 fans

a floppy drive doing nothing cuase the fdc is screwwed

a microsoft intillemouse, with 5 buttons

a dead canon bjc-240

a lexmark z13 that i still havn't got working yet, any hints guys, like the foomatic kit, i know its a proprietary peice of shit, but somehow is gotta work

and thats about it

wanna hera about some of my other ass-end computers

yeah, though, on the hardware side, i can't wait until x86-64 comes out. like, supposedly they were demonstrating 32bit windows, and 64bit linux on it. so it should be pretty sweet for an x86 proc.
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Post by: Ice-9 on 1 September 2002, 11:51
Would be nice to see the specs of everyone around here, here are mine:

Main puter is a black Dell Dimension 4400 in which I swapped everything except the Intel 845G chipset motherboard, the P4 1.8 GHz and the 384MB DDR Sdram @ 400MHz.
The rest :
Geforce 3 Ti200 64MB
Terratec Xfire 1024 soundcard (not good in Linux)
Harman Kardon speakers + subwoofer
2 x 100Mbit Intel Pila 8460C3 Nic
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM HDD
IBM Deskstar 40GB 7200 RPM HDD
Iomega Peerless 20GB external HDD
Sony Floppy drive
Lite On 16X DVD drive
Plexter 40X CD-RW
Logitech Gaming mouse
Dell 17" monitor
Epson Stylus color C70 printer
And on top of this a pretty good cable connection (even if the upsload is capped @ 128K)

[Edit]; it came with a 20GB Maxtor with XP pre-installed, first thing I did was take the HDD out, put it as slave in another pc and fdisk the whole thing  ;)

[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: sporkme on 1 September 2002, 12:53
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1: (mine)

amd 800 overclocked to nearly 1.2, but i usually run at 1g for stability

soldered up gigabyte 7ixe

generic eisa nic and a  proprietary nic

geforce3-pci and nvidia diamond 2-agp, dual heads in both os

3x256x133 ram

2 generic sound cards

generic 56k, proprietary

somewhere around 75 gigs of hdd space.  running raid on a bad disk.  sold the scsi bank and adapter  :(

dvd-cd rom

4x burner

some damned canon color ink printer

some damned generic scanner with awesome resolution and color

some damned generic mouse

logitech digital 3d wingman extreme ffb, supported out-of-box by redhat 7.3 and mandrake 8.2 (not by windows)

A BIG ASS, POWERFUL ROOM FAN MOUNTED ON THE SIDE OF THE FUCKER WITH PLASTIC ZIP TIES, FOR COOLING   :D          some ducted outward bound fans for ram and hd

ugly, dirty generic case

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2: (thiers)

amd 400

gateway - nuff said

geforce 3-agp

proprietary nic

proprietary 56k

cdrom, some cd burner

--crap--

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both run mandrake and winders

siemens router, linksys router, old generic hub (?)

rca cable modem

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3: a burnt up laptop.. serves as a coaster
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: smokey on 1 September 2002, 13:19
cant resist  (http://smile.gif)

Duron 800 not overclocked :/
640mb SD DRAM
SB Live Value
JBL ESC200 Surround Processor/Amplifier with 4 JBL speakers and a sub.
Hitatchi CM715 19" monitor
16x Pioneer DVD-ROM
Some shitty 4x burner  :(  CDr only  :(  (scsi)
80gig Seagate Baracuda IV 7200rpm (ata100)
3D Power (Absolute multimedia) Geforce 3 Ti200
Quantum fireball 20gig 7200rpm (ata100)
10/100 megabit ethernet card
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: KernelPanic on 1 September 2002, 13:34
This is my PC, can't be bothered going through all the others at home  (http://smile.gif)

AMD Athlon (TB) 1Ghz
Gigabyte Mobo
256Mb Kingston PC133
Hauppague WinTV Go (Cheap works in linux)
Soundblaster Live! 256/512?
Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 spks
Lucent 56k winmodem (disabled)
Netgear 10/100 Ethernet
GeForce 2MX 400 (AGP)
Promise UDMA100 controller card
Seagate 40Gb 7200rpm UDMA100
Maxtor 20Gb 5200rpm UDMA100
DVD-ROM Drive
4x2x24 CD-RW (old)
Plantronics Headset
Old 17" Gateway Vivitron monitor (it's a fighter)
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: badkarma on 1 September 2002, 16:48
My main pc:

ASUS a7m266 mainboard (with onboard c-media sound)
AMD Athlon xp 2000+
1Gb DDR ram
Asus v8200 geforce 3
Maxtor 60Gb 7200rpm
Acer 20x10x40 cd-rw
Samsung DVD-rom
Samsung SyncMaster 151s 15" LCD monitor
2x 3com 10/100 NICs
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: RudeCat7 on 1 September 2002, 21:22
Actually it would be nice if you could have a hardware profile in your member profile, huh?
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: choasforages on 1 September 2002, 21:50
not to mention the stereo that is bi-amped, meaning high freqs goto the main speaker, and the low freqs goto the subwoofers, i was thinking about picking up a cheap set of 12" subs, you know, the ones that yo-boys drive around with, and sticking them in my room, and maybe putting 100watts through them
ok enough of my stereo

i want an athlonxp2600 or so, but its not going to hapen, so ill have to be happy with a 17/1800 that i might get
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: lazygamer on 2 September 2002, 03:07
Everyone LOVES to brag. Ok...

433 celeron
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI
ASUS BX6 motherboard
Soundblaster PCI 128
384mb ram

See how much my comp sucks.  :D
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 2 September 2002, 05:34
Muahaha...let me top you all!

Primary System:
PowerBook G3 "Wallstreet"/"Sex Machine"
233 MHz G3 w/ 512k Backside Cache
14'' Screen
160 MB RAM
2 GB Hard Drive (A 20 is on the way finally)
4 MB ATI RageLTPro Video
Built-in Modem, Ethernet, All that crap etc.
20x CD-ROM
3hr Battery
Crappy built-in speakers, Thank God for headphones
Jag & YDL

Secondary System:
AMD Athlon 1700+ O/C to 1900+
iWill XP333 Mobo
384 PC 2700 DDR
Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Dual 40 GB's RAID Mirrored
8x DVD Drive
24x10x40x CD Burner
Dual Ethernet Cards
Floppy!
Big-Ass 19'' Monitor (Supposedly short length - BS)
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Creative/Cambridge Soundworks (All-Digital = No static no matter how high you crank 'em) 2 sats and a sub. Does anyone know where the fuck headphone jacks in the speakers went? I really miss that.
HP Deskjet 932C
Cable Internet Access
!_!b3rl33t Trackball/Thumball mouse
The Following OS'es with their HDD allocation in GB in parenthesis
Linucies:
Red Hat(5)/Mandrake(5)/Slackware(2)/Lindows(5)/Corel(2)
Windozes:
3.11(.5)/95(1)/98(2)/2000(4)/I didn't pay for one of them!
13.5 MB Of Random-ass storage space

Tertiary System:
Mac LC
16 MHz '020
6 MB RAM
System 7.5.3 (As much as I prefer 7.0...I need 7.5)
500 MB HDD
1.44 MB Floppy
12'' RGB Screen
ADB Mouse/Keyboard
And amazingly I have ALL of the original crap except the box (I even have the receipt!)

[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: The_Muffin_Man/ Dustin /B0b ]

Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: RudeCat7 on 2 September 2002, 05:52
I want that big ass 19 inch monitor!

Anyway, why do you mirror your drives?

And why do you have dual ethernet cards? IP masquerading?
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: choasforages on 2 September 2002, 06:17
umm, i have a big ass 19" inch monitor, and im going to get a 21" sometime, i mean, 1600x1200@65 hertz is cool, but 1920x1024, or something like that at 70 hertz that would be cool
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 2 September 2002, 06:42
quote:
Originally posted by RudeCat7:
Anyway, why do you mirror your drives?

And why do you have dual ethernet cards? IP masquerading?



I mirror my drives because I am a programmer, and when I test software in it's early stages it has a tendancy to f#ck things up, and usually crashes before the f#ck up is mirrored, so I have a perfect working copy (usually) whenever I do something.

I have dual ethernet for 3 reasons:
1) I am too cheap to buy a router.

2) I am too cheap to buy a 10/100 hub, but I need the speed.

3) I use the computer as a honeypot sometimes. I use the internet to one of them and the other goes to the monitoring computer.
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: RudeCat7 on 2 September 2002, 07:36
Fair enough.
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 2 September 2002, 08:09
I forgot the 7 case fans! The thing sounds like a Boeing at takeoff. If the computer is on and the room is quiet - I know I have a problem.
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: trc3 on 2 September 2002, 10:00
quote:
Originally posted by The_Muffin_Man/ Dustin /B0b:
Muahaha...let me top you all!


Well then looks like I have to top you.  :D  

Primary system:
OS 10.2
PowerMac g4 Dual 1ghz
GeForce 4 MX
768 MB memory
80 gig IBM HD
SuperDrive, of course
80 gig firewire Wester Digital HD
Logitech speakers with a subwoofer; dont know the model or anything.
Logitech optical mouse
Apple pro keyboard
Shitty canon printer
19 inch envision moitor

Laptop:
OS winderzME, mandrake 9 beta2 and lycoris
1.6 ghz  pentium 4
15 inch lcd
40 gig HD
dvd/cdrw
256 MB; soon to be 512
802.11b built in
floppy drive
shitty 16MB video card
and then my D-Link wireless router.
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 2 September 2002, 10:54
Bitch   :D
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: xyle_one on 2 September 2002, 11:33
okay, here goes.
dual athlon 1.2ghz w/ 1gig micron registered ddr
2 40gig ibm drives @7200 rpm
2 ibm deskstar 18gig scsi drives(not really in use, so if any one likes scsi....)
GEForce 64
12x cdrw
dvdr
standard floppy,
Koolance watercooled antec case
the dopest logitec mouse i have ever used.
main board is the tyan tiger mp (p.o.s.)
19" monitor
running win2k
 then, there is the slave machine, it helps ease the load of render times for 3d studio max and viz, its running a 1ghz pentium3 with a 40gig western digital harddrive, geforce2mx 32bit, running win2k, 512ram, sharing the monitor/keyboard and mouse with the dual athlon machine. This machine was intended to be for suse linux, but i had a job that needed the machine for rendering.
my everyday computer is an 800 mhz G4 running jaguar.
50gig local drive,
60 gig firewire drive for media files.
i have a 19" viewsonic on this one. (what i would give for a 23"cinema display!!)
I love this computer the most. as soon as i am proficient enough with maya/formZ, the other two windows machines are gone. linux all the way.  (http://smile.gif)

anyways, i couldnt resist.
ecsyle_one...
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: sporkme on 3 September 2002, 07:12
these some nice systems
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: Stryker on 3 September 2002, 07:45
server:
RH 7.3 (the most important part)
AMD Duron 800
256mb
60gb (another hard drive for 6gb spare swap space)
8x4x32 cdrw drive (iomega)
15" princeton 1280x1024x24 monitor
floppy (duh)
an unknown phoenix tape drive (very old)

laptop:
1Ghz Celeron
dual boot winxp/rh73
32x cd 8x dvd
floppy
15" 1024x768x24 (very nice) monitor (only 16bit in rh though  :(    )
256mb ram
2 pc card slots (not really needed though)
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: RudeCat7 on 4 September 2002, 06:02
Odd... No word from WWW.UNIXSUCKS.COM (http://WWW.UNIXSUCKS.COM) or XP User
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: voidmain on 4 September 2002, 08:22
RedHat 6.1 Firewall/Router/Fileserver/VPN box:
Code: [Select]

Yep, crappiest/oldest homebuilt PC in my house doing the most work for the longest amount of time...
Title: HEY! www.unixsucks.com
Post by: hm_murdock on 7 October 2002, 08:56
Indigo iMac 500
Mac OS X 10.2.1
Mac OS 9.2.2
384MB
20GB HD
Lackluster built-in ATI Rage 128 video
blah 15" CRT
Benwin 3-piece flat speaker system
CD-R/RW

Indigo (they match!) iBook Second Edition 366
Mac OS 10.2.1
192MB
10GB HD
Still lackluster ATI Rage 128
12" 800x600 TFT
CDROM

Others
PowerBook 3400/180
48MB
1.3GB
OS 9.1

Power Mac 7200/120 (tripped out)
OS 9.1
120MHz PPC 601
132MB
2x 4GB HD
PCI Voodoo3 2000 with cheapo 15" LCD
AppleVision 1710av on built-in video

I'd like to try Linux on the 7200, as it's reaching the end of it's useful life for most other things.
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Post by: psyjax on 7 October 2002, 10:04
hmm...

ok:

Primary:

dual G4 800Mhz
2 80GB Hardrives
1.12GB RAM
GeForce 3 64MB VRAM

(shitty but functional) Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 73 monitor.

Old Altec Lansing iMac speakers. They still freakin rock! Best speakers I ever owned  :D

DVD-ROM CDR-W
Running Jag, OS9, YDL(rearly, oh so rearly).

This is the second best computer I have ever owned. I don't see myself using something else for a VERY long time.

Other Comps:

Centris 650
25Mhz
CD-ROM
500MB HD
16MB RAM
OS 7.5
Floppy Drive

This is the best damn comp I have ever owned. It's the one that made me like Mac's and computers in general. It is probably one of the best built computers I have ever seen, opening up the case reveals some masterfull design and engeneering, kinda like opening up an old car. Comp's just aren't made this way anymore.

This computer rearly crashed and has never broken down. Yes, it was STABLE! Not OSX but darn close, rearly did I ever crash it. I love that old comp  :D

Yet other comps:

Old ass 486

don't even know the specs.
I used it to play DW4 on Nesticle. That was about it. It ran Win 3.1 and last I heard it was serving a friend of mine as a Linux box. He has a nice window manager installed and everything, says it's a great general purpose comp.

Yet even more comps:

PPC 7500

Video Powerhouse.

Yes this 100Mhz wonder can edit video with the best of them. It was built for the task, can't run OSX but can run OS9. It's slow for just about anything except video, the card in it is still top notch. You can even put in super high speed SCSI HD's in the sucker. Good box.

Now used as a video storage and CD burning station.

Finaly:

iMac 233
190MB RAM
4BG HD

Worst comp. I ever owned!!!

Screen fucked up early in it's life (the day the warantie expired!!!!), worst Mac ever!!! I seriously considerd getting a WinTell box. It now actullay is doing time as a Web server. It's not a bad one either, i guess the little guy finaly found it's calling  (http://smile.gif)  Like I said, not much of a desktop, great low-end workhorse.

Apple IIe:

I still have it, the same one that my litte hands touched when I was 6. I have boxes uppon boxes of software for it.

I still love booting it up and looking at that Green Screen. I love the look of it. Something about that Retro, Matrix, Green. Ahhh...

PC's weren't ever that cool  (http://tongue.gif)  Most had piss yellow text, not GREEN mmmmmm

That's about it.