Posts by PAPPP

Id has GPLed everything up through Quake 3 now, one generation behind current. Also as much as I love HOTU , thats abandonware, not open sourced, its in a legal grey area. There is no one or no will to enforce ownership, but its not...

*sighs* I really shouldnt fan the flames, but "OpenDocument" (note capitals) is a specific format, defined by OASIS its a XML format similar to Microsoft's, but free and open. Its obviously pretty good since it (as mentioned...

I dual boot archlinux and WinXP on my 4080 with moderate sucess. My outstanding issues are: * SmartLink modem doesn't work (There are linux drivers, but only work with some chipsets/audio codecs. I suspect I could coax the newest...

Most firewire controllers allow for ethernet over firewire, so you can plug a firewire cable between systems that support it for a 400Mbps ethernet connection. Very handy for transfering large volumes of data between machines.

when the system first comes up with black screen/white text the version number should be about 3 lines down. If you cant read it that quickly, check the bottom left corner for the BIOS key on the system (usually F1 or Del or somesuch,...

I ended up ordering direct from sager. worked out fine.

The origional trip has it bouncing between 50 and 60 C every three minutes, which to my knowledge isnt really very healthy for the processor. Since you can set trip points i'm feeling out a new set of values to try to cut down on noise...

Just for kicks i decided to run this on my 4080 since ive been wanting a utiliy that lets me force constant low fans in windows for a while, and it seemed like it might be worth a shot... it actually works. can control both the CPU and...

I can say from personal experence with my 4080 that jchanc04 is correct on all counts, the updated 4xxx series BIOS adds an option to disable the boot beep, and Mobilemeter can read the temperatures (CPU and HDD), but unfortunately...

I have updated 4080 BIOS that I recieved several months ago via email from Sager (which makes it so that infernal boot-beep can be disabled, amoung other things). The files on the ISO they sent me are dated 2004-07-08. I think the...