Posts by Steelgrave

Hi guys, I've been using wintel since the mid 80's and have been considering a macbook as my next laptop. Here's a list of things I haven't found an answer too in searching the last day or so: 1) Does OSX run Apache/PHP/MySQL? I'd...

I installed vista a few weeks ago on my XPS and it works flawlessly. However I have a pcmcia wireless card and not the built in dell. This was a fresh install.

Try contacting Sony's tech support? (or lack thereof)

Do you think it's remotely possible you have something (or multiple things) running sucking up all the memory and/or cpu cycles? If you've run that laptop for 2 years now, I'd say it's time to reinstall everything fresh and try your...

Quote: Originally Posted by holr im having a hell of a time trying to get any distro of linux installed on my vaio s570p, has anyone been able to get any distro linux up and running on their system? I have tried...

Wow nice find...

Go to crucial.com, you can determine maximum memory for your system on there. (you can purchase it there too, sometimes they will beat newegg in pricing even)

Upgrading to 2GB ram would help BF2 (on any machine, it's a tremendous memory hog). I have a gen 1 XPS as well with the 9700, and yeah gaming more or less sucks on new games now, so it's getting used less and less. In fact I'll likely...

Cool background image too.

While I have no first hand experience with Toshiba's, a division of the company I work for is authorized sales & repair for Toshiba, and we're dropping them because of how bad they are (failure rate is about 50%). All of our...