Posts by Systematic

Id have to agree.. i pondered over the xps and 9100 and ultimately went with the 9100. I chose it for the same reasons stated above. its basically the same system with a few minor upgrades (that are in no way worth the extra $$$). I...

its not difficult at all to swap the drives.. i do it often, although it is a pain in the rear to do... yes there is a screw holding the bay closed, and the drive is fitted in a small tray that you will need to remove and put the other...

i dont have internal wireless so in goes my netgear 511 card. although i like the fan idea MrMsyvc posted..

I am assuming you are using the GRUB boot loader Log in as root Edit this file: /boot/grub/grub.conf It will look something this: default=0 ... title Mandrake ... title Windows xp ... To set the default system change the...

LOL.. i agree there delta.. just wait till M$ decides to market a *nix version and screws that all up to!!! M$ decisions are either purely bad practice mistakes or sheer genius to eliminate competition!.

glad everything worked out in the end... i thought java was meant to be compatible on all systems, if thats true why are there 2 different coding structures for it? Of course, that could be the reason that msvm was phased out.. good...

i had a few different alphas of Longhorn and i wasnt that impressed.. yeah M$ added some nice eyecandy features but it just bloated the hell out of explorer.exe... average mem usage of explorer was in the 180k range.. i hope they fix...

you dont have to reinstall windows.. just partition your drive and give your self a couple of gigs to run linux in.. format it in ext3, and install linux into that new partition.. good n direct tut on dual booting nix with xp.....

check your power settings.. its probably setup to go into standby or hibernate when you hit the power button..

Spiike.. what OS are you using? im assuming XP pro.. if so are you using the service pack with the MSVM removed.. you may need to reinstall the virtual machine separate from IE.