Posts by TrickM

As someone said earlier today: "If it ain't broke, don't F with it." If everything's set up in a way that works for you already, reformatting won't do anything for you other than kill a few hours.

The big difference between a Dell and Sager: Both probably have the same number of hard drives go bad, but with a Sager you can get a replacement shipped without waiting on hold somewhere in India for a few hours, and it'll get to you...

Pack rats? I dunno about everyone else, but I actually *use* all 7 of my desktops: Tanzanite: Dell P4/Windows XP General-Use Workstation Quartz: Home-Built PPro/FreeBSD VPN Gateway Sapphire: Ultra 2/Solaris 9 Firewall Emerald:...

If you're getting it from Tiger Direct, I wouldn't sweat it. If it was just some random listing on eBay I'd worry about getting a vendor-specific version, but I'm sure the one from Tiger Direct would work for you.

I just tried running that through my Eurocom-to-English translator: Eurocom: Our A64 notebook will be available in MAY. Translation: We MAY have an A64 notebook available some day.

Does sorta smell like a virus to me, too. The error means a procedure that *used* to be in kernel32.dll isn't there any more. While it could be the result of a corrupted DLL file, it's more likely caused by that file (or the...

Disclaimer: I have a 4780, not an 8790, but your questions pretty much apply to both: Quote: 1. Is the 17" going to be so heavy that I won't want to lug it all over campus? See above. It's definitely not a...

CA to CA shipping from PC Torque takes a bit longer than to other states. Add about 5 days (in my experience) to whatever shipping option you choose. For example, if you select 5-day shipping, expect it to take 10 _working_ days to get...

I'm a major geek. I've got four laptops (the old reliable IBM Thinkpad, the lead weight of a Hitachi, the flimsy li'l Dell, and my Sager 4780), and -- excuse me while I count 'em -- seven desktop machines (4 PCs and 3 Sun...

The OEM version is the version PC resellers ship preinstalled on PCs. It's the same as the full retail version. However, it's sometimes tailored to be very specific to the brand of PC it's shipped with, and won't work on others. It's...