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Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa

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  1. Let me just the reality. All computers can support X operating systems. If the computer in question should support a variant of that operating system, then it is just a matter of programming the ( drivers ) for that operating system. People are still using Win 3 today, as well, based on that idea.
  2. I was told that there is no such thing as a SSD. Instead of accessing the drive like a regular Hard Drive, it still has to go threw the entire drive like a CD or USB.
  3. The Stand, I rmemeber that series
  4. Well the problem was never the logic board. It was the password issue. It is a 10.3 model, therefore no Java 1.5 ( at the moment ). The only other problems is random. The computer turning off by itself, and blasting it's fans at high speed ( sounds like a plane on the runway ). Then is the random "No smoking sign boot screen". It is like watching windows, loading but without the repeating fractorial colors.
  5. I browsed, and was unable to find any topics on this. I am getting a G5 and it has problems. The current owner said, When I try to use the internet it freezes up" " It keeps asking me for a key something" "I searched and somebody said to push a reset button on the G5 machine, it sloved the problem temporarly" " It even freezes on booting sometimes ". The owner also brought a 4gig memory stick for the machine. The store people said it is for the G5 series. They tried the stick and it still had the same problem? The stick also worked for the Windows series. The machine is most likley a home edition of the G5??. It looks like a heater/toaster, I see them all the time, in the glass center at my college. I was told that it is so powerfull, that it uses a cooler to keep the insides from over heating. Even if the room they keep them in, is already ice pick cold. I believe there is a virus in the computer, that is preventing the computer from going on the internet, and booting. Since I have exprienced simular problems with Windows. The person beleives all they have to do is upgrade the OS to slove the problem. The person also beleives it might be a over-heating issue, and cooler is damaged. So what could be the problem. Since there is so many pages, describing the same thing. I beleive it freezes when something is not wrong as a failsafe. Since I see Apple machines freeze all the time. 1. Is it a virus? 2. Is the memory? 3. Is is the cooler? 4. Is the age of the computer? 5. will upgrading the OS ( which I really, really hate doing ) slove the problem? 6. If it is a hardware problem, how much would it cost to replace? From my exprience with Apples, it is common to see them, crash at some point during the day. Thank you for responding.
  6. I have been using a 566mhz, 128mbram, computer for the last ten years or so. Watch movies, play 3d games, browse without any trouble. for a long time I even watched DVD via the built in player, I ride in the subways, and once in a blue moon I find an executive type ( office employee ) using a labtop to chat on the internet. It is just pure chat, with no GUI on it at all. With the standard keyboard layout ( not the flat ones ). Sometimes a white background, and sometimes DOS black. The laptop sometimes looks like it is from 1995. So etc microcomputers on the internet is not a big deal. People has various uses. It is just about how far of a strain you are willing to go, avoiding upgrading. Like I am unable to run high end programs on my 566mhz celeron ( win98 ) without it running out of memory, or crashing. In the computer lab, at my college. Peoples computer crashes when people try programming a simple "Hello World" and these are 4000mhz machines. In the Graphics design department ( mac ). The computer crashes non-stop for just opening a file ( G4, G5II ). I am sure people using a vectoring program on an Amiga2000, would also crash from time to time. Personally I could careless about what google releases at all. If it was a rise of the Amigas, or some other computer type maybe I would care. There is so many differnt operating systems. All that is needed is the support for them. Did you know you could watch high qaulity movies on pre-Windows/Mac machines???
  7. I don't know if this is sloved but I am inputting my input. My USB-pen/stick/flash would do the exact same thing. It would not read on Windows XP, but instead give me a document folder instead. A folder that proclaimed "THE DRIVE IS UNREADABLE". However on my Win98 machine, it would read the drive. When I used it on a Imac machine (white) I was able to read the drive with no problems. Back on my 98 machine after running Scandisk ( when the drive appeared to have nothing ) it was able to recover disk data. I forget if I did or did not format the disk. Sometimes when I hook a hardrive to my PC. Especially one that I have not used for ages. It reports a misfire ( whatever) of space. I ran scandisk, and it recovered all my files but left the names with there shorten DOS counterparts. I could only assume it has something to do with the last computer you used the machine on. The end result is me getting/finding another USB drive lying around in the street. Since this would occur over and over again when I had to use the USB drive multiuple times, moving from machine to machine.
  8. years ago, when I first started to use the internet, I remember being able to download support files. Since then I am unable to download. I need Japanese langauge support "Japsupp.exe" files in order to run the programs. The programs install, loads, and run. However when entering the program, it quickly exit out, like if it never ran at all. I was also reading that I might need to change the keyboard langauge as well.
  9. Which GIF standard is the original, that was used before 1990?
  10. Well I have decided to go stick with the AMD. I just popped in my Win98 HD and the thing installed all the devices. However. The BIOS seems to very strick, and even considers the USB port a drive bay. Since the previous OS ( XP ) had some kind of pasword, that uses the USB in conjunction with a passkey. I was trying to put three HD's in and I have and had to mess with the settings in order for them to appear right. The last thing I need is a malfunctioning HD. However I am tempted to get a TB drive and divide it. I also scored me a Navida 4800 ( I forget the name at the moment ), that I used to run some 3d games and a Sound Blaster Live 5.0. However I need to mess with the Dma settings of programs, since some DOS programs can't read it. Been browsing the forums to slove that problem. Right now I am installing as many last generation programs, to play around with my Win98 high on 2Ghz. This thing is hypo-er fast. I mean, on my 699mhz machine it was great but man oh man, it is like another level. I have not yet checked out the Board, however it is probably Via since it looks the same as the rest.
  11. Another thing you could do is partitian the drive to below the amount you are limited to. That is what I going to do from now, since programs like scan disk will not work for huge partitians. Also like another person said, it could be the limitation of the computer BIOS itself rather then windows. That could probably be like four partitians of 100GB or so.
  12. Okay so I was browsing the last versions of what to install in win98. I decided to install office 2002 somebody gave me. The problem is that my computer is in Spanish. Everything is spanish, like for example Nuevo = New Carpeta = NEw Folder Enviar a = Send to ( floppy A etc etc ) It is driving me nuts. I know I could install win98 again but that is stupid since the Word installation changed everything on it's own. I have a win98 disc, and I don't mind going into the regsiteries. I have tried Regional Settings but all it does, is just display the langauge "Ingles" . I have tried going into Word itself, and it does nothing to change anything. I do not want to install any global thingy from Microsoft official site. I just want to change my computer language back to English.
  13. I cleaned out my fan and forgot which way it was facing. It now makes a noise from time to time. Before it was dusty, it was quite. I have the Power Supply fan pointing down while the CPU fan is blowing counter clockwise. Meaning the air that blows from the PSU fan is getting caught with the current of the CPU fan. I was told counter clockwise was the correct way, however. The PSU fan is blowing directly above the CPU fan. This is how the majority of my computers is setup, out the box. The reason was the air that blows on to the CPU is cooling the heatsink. However I was thinking the air from the PSU is going to heat up the CPU. The computer is currently caseless. The original case has no where for the air to flow, asides the back.
  14. So I am not going to brag about how I got them. Which do you think I should make my main computer. Which one is better in terms of proccessor??? AMD 2Ghz XP proccessor with a board. Inside a case. The board has 1. one i/o for a game controller. The 2. on oldschool i/o plug for a mouse or anything that used them. Like a controller from 1990. 3. four USB and two in the front ( however the one in front might be able to go into the other board. 4. built in Etheral card 5. Two seperate i/o for keyboardsmouse. 6. Three slots for memory 7. One AGP slot ( don't know the generation ) 8. Two PCI slots 9. Printer slot 10. has that one little slot ( don't know that is for ) 11. Built in Video slot ( for monitor ) 12. Built in sound card. Celeron 2Ghz proccessor, big fan on the chip. The board has 1. one i/o for a game controller. The 2. two oldschool i/o plugs for a mouse or anything that used them. Like a controller from 1990. 3. two USB 4. built in Etheral card 5. Two seperate i/o for keyboardsmouse. 6. Three slots for memory 7. One AGP slot ( don't know the generation ) 8. Three PCI slots 9. Printer slot 10. has that one little slot ( don't know that is for ) 12. Built in sound card. Currently I am using a 700Mhz Celeron computer. 1. Three slots 2. Two USB in back 3. One usb in front, 4. One game port in front blah blah blah I going to give the case to the Celeron version. However I am reading the Celeron is less juice then the AMD?
  15. So I need to downgrade, to another image viewer. I was reading, dew to the legal of GIF, many companies released alternative versions of GIF. The original GIF was lost, to public use. I want to know if that is true, since I need to make real files and not GIF that is unreadable by X_machine ( late eighties, earlier ninties, Apple, etc ). I see there is also variations of the TIFF format that is ( was ) sappose to be close to raw. For which there is like many RAW formats now. Like needle in a hay stack, by reading the discriptions in the file names.
  16. What occured was that I discovered that my 98 machine will not install more then 1000 fonts ( as the internet said ) but to make matters worst it will even count the fonts that is not installed ( meaning on the hard disc itself). I was reading there is a 64 word size cache or something like that. So the number of FONTS is reflected on that number. Meaning I could hold more fonts by reducing the names of installed FONTS to let say one letter. However I need to know the name of the font. Is there is fix or unofficial upgrade for that? What regestry do I need to edit? My font progam "Bitstream Font navigator" tells me there is curently 836 installed fonts with over 1100 fonts availible.
  17. Shouldn't we also mention that we can edit files or pointers that is within programs so they can work with 9x, Windows 3.1, 2.1, 1.0? Some programs work the exact same way but you have to tell them to use another System file or Dll. Some programs also just need the DLL from that other operating system. Then there is the programs that "reinvents the wheel" and can run on all systems.
  18. Why would we need to use such an option to begin with? What is the original uses of making a reseerved partition? Extra Memory Mounting disc ( CD-images etc, dmg files ) backup files incase old files get curropted? There is no way possible for the partition of any system to be same. Since the idea of a partition is to literally create a second piece of disc space. Take defeating the limitations of FAT32 by parting of areas of the drives so that they appear as differnt drives. The only thing I could think of is VIrtual drive. The term used in Alcohol Soft where it creates a virtual DVD drive with an ulimitive number of options to mount images. If I was you I would just make a regular partition for multiple purpose usage. Then nicknaming it MEMORY Blank_CD Backup I nver heard of a partitian that is one in the same of the same partitian other then a virtual drive like when I load a emulator that creates a file that shows up as a partition but only in the program itself.
  19. I have been looking for the official 98, 95, etc langauge packs. You know the ones on the Microsoft website that would download but now is no longer supported. Right now I can view many other languages in my web browsers, but for programs that is dependent on the installed languages they just show garbage. The Microsoft site only has the global ME, which does not installs the langauge but a transitional input. I do not want that. I just want programs from etc to show in there original langauge. P.S. I also have a 98 installation disc, a Me Disc, a backup 98 on a HD somewhere, and a couple of harddrives with older installations of 98. So where would etc installation files would be located on the following I listed. In which CAB file? Which area of the HD. Thank you for responding
  20. Well lets look at reality. We live in a capitalist society. A society that is dependent on products being sold and replace by uneeded newer products. Without this continues chain of buying and selling we cannot have the toys we like to play with. Thanks to this capitalism, we have to buy these new products to suite the needs of our work lives. Buyers, sellers, fixers, users, presentors, of the sorts needs to upgrade to suite the needs of there dou-do brained employers or employees who no matter what will ask for the newer version. However knowledge is universal. Meaning if somebody is taught something THEY MUST BE GIVEN A MEANS TO MAKE A LIVING OF IT. However since they live in capitalist society they are given the choice of Retirement Going to free classes not to get fired Going to classes not to get fired THAT THEY HAVE TO PAY OUT OF THERE OWN POCKETS. So not to go off the bat and how culture is destroyed by this so called lust for technolgy ( lust for means of living, MONEY ) I will explain why I still use 9X. My Windows 98 can do all the editing work I need it to do. It runs most of the programs that is on 20XP and it is more then powerfull enough to Download files use High-end paint programs view high-end images ( like TIF, RAW, AI ) Play 3d games ( GTA via accelerator ) internet ( via K-melon ) In the future I hope to use it for building flashes and power point files ( not playing flashes ) use matrix programs ( not the movie ) running Amiga animation files About FLV. Since adobe flash 8 they changed it up completely. It is not the same. This is why Youtube at some point the flashes would not go threw. Youtube upgraded to this 8 type. You see folks people ( USERS, real users who have no necks, slumped back in there lazy chairs, who maybe have a gut ) don't care. Not the fact they might be daddies on the third leg but the fact they are "Old" and don't care and THEY ARE NOT THAT DESPERATE TO KEEP DOWNGRADING" to avoid upgrading. If they did then we all would still be using DOS to watch DVD and playing high-tech ( AKA high end ) games on the Amiga or Win1.0. If you wanted to see Windows 3.1 being advertised on television ( along with the NES ) you will need to convince the real people ( business that is not about computers ) that uses computers everyday that your software plan is universal faster better longer lasting When I worked in a officie they replaced the computers that was being used for three years with brand new ones that has not yet been released to the public price ( cheap 1000 price ). replaced the programs with newer versions and told people to take an ( non-college, non-grade school ) adult course at a nearby highschool. The problem with this is that people want things newer, better, faster, and the only reason for this is to. Feel younger, feel like if they are worth something, for the sake of imbarresment, avoid taxes??, and to keep the economy going. That is why I don't upgrade and why I am not going to. Cause I am a commie , and I am running a not even close 600Mhz Celeron with 256RAM. Down with Captialism and up with Road Warrior, the end days of Oil is near.
  21. I am trying to find the dpi limit of my at home printer. It is a Bubblejet/inkjet printer that can print using various photo paper. A Photosmart P1100 model. I know the dpi limit is probably 96 being that it is a home printer but I would still like to know if it can go higher? Is there some kind of program that can test the dpi on a printer or is it listed on the printer itself?
  22. So I have my wonderful Windows 98 machine. However during the years it has taken a couple of beatings. 1. when the drive got bad sectors/errors it plowed over many installed programs and system files. Two programs I care about in particular was affected. A. A disc recording program. B. A file transfer program. A. The disc writing program Alcohol Soft 120% will not install. So I have to turn to something like Cheetah Burner. Everytime it gives me some kind of error that I know has to do with the regestry. I checked the official website for a patch ( which I no longer have ) and it still did not install. They have no newer versions of the program. I have tried install alternatives but it does the same thing. B. The file transfer program has a list that tells when and where I am hooked up. The list keeps eating itself and zooming downwards. It should just list the next action taken. I have tried installing other versions. I know for a fact the file system was damaged, however I have many programs, codecs, patches, unofficial patches, and things installed overtime I do not wish to reinstall and then go back over the things I need to install.
  23. Well, when my printer wented I just brought the same model since the ink is still in use today, and is cheaper then other models. I turned to ebay for this. The newer printers have nice features but I feel safer with the printer I have only sporting a flash input and usb connection. I feel like I can take the new printers and break them over my leg. Then maybe you do need a wireless printer for some reason.
  24. Well people want there games to be played by everybody. So they must include previous support. However people know they do not need to upgrade to vista to do the most for there games.
  25. I use Irfanview. The only problem with it, is converting between newer and older versions of file types. Take TIFF, RAW, GIF, and JPG that has many mutated versions of itself. However I have found the built in viewer that is in most windows seems to do the job of simple tasks better.
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