Posts by TrickM

Add me to the list of people who were looking up Alienware info. That led me here, where I quickly learned I'd be nuts to pay that much for an Alienware, when I could get a faster, better machine much cheaper if I went with Sager. ...

Well, like I was saying, all that stuff before was based on just my experience... whether or nor any of it it representative of what goes on in the real world, or in your situation, is debatable. I guess another way to put it would...

If I were in your position, I'd be calling up resellers instead of end users, assuming you can crank these things out in volume. End users aren't generally going to have the skill or the guts to replace their case, but a reseller who...

Some FedEx guys should *not* be allowed to wear the shorts.

Red Hat is by far the most popular with PHBs, though techies tend to prefer Debian. Mandrake and Gentoo are pretty much non-existant as far as business use goes. As far as certs, I've founf them to be mostly, if not completely,...

Pretty much anything you can add to a PC, you can get on a PC card... Hard drives, serial ports, network adapters, sound cards, modems. It'd be next to impossible to come up with a complete list.

Sounds like someone installed Windows, but didn't install drivers for any of the devices. Did the machine come with a driver CD? You'll probably want to start there.

Cool... Now I feel like a total dumb-ass for not seeing it in one of the stickies. This stuff makes a LOT more sense to me now. Before when someone said they were in, oh, "phase 10," I had no clue if that was good or bad.

You're going to need to be a little more specific.

Depends on the drives. Some 4200s run hot, and the same with some 5400s.