Post your machine: Summer 2002

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:01 am

You can also make oversized bead curtains out of them to hang in open doorways...they hurt a bit if you run through them, though

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:08 am

Adding to the list, I recommend using AOL CDs as:

-the scarecrow. Hang them around/over the field and they'll be quite effective to scare birds with shiny CDs.

-futuristic screen for your padded room. Joint CDs with wire like chains, then hang them in a frame (watched too much interior design TV

). You need to be patient to correct enough CDs, but it's not difficult considering AOL...

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:10 am

by HLD
Sharpen the edge and turn them into CD-shurikens

You don't even have to sharpen them. I am self proclaimed ninja when armed with useless computer cd's. We've got big goggles and helmets at work and have occasional wars provided certain people are missing from the work environment.

We've got a box with several thousand cd's and there are as many as eight of us who will participate in the antics. Nobody gets hurt too badly although it is a tad scary to take one in the neck/throat region. Everything sort of stops when someone gets nailed like that and we all look on waiting for their head to fall over backwards off their body. It's our own version of the quickening.

"There can be only one!"

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 7:14 am

They are also fantastic for playing a game (which Ode may be interested in

) known as 'Boogly Shoes'.

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:27 am

My soal

Celeron 600 Mhz (upgrading as soon as my wallet starts growing)
161 MB SDRAM
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (128 Mb)
19" VDU
Wireless intelli mouse explorer
QWERTY key board (nothing spacial)
an integrated sound card (forgot what kind)
52x cd rom
Realteak network card (connected to my famelies computer)
some speakers and other general equip

BTW what CPu do you recomend for the upgrade? Pentium or Athlon?

smass · Post by **smass** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 8:49 am

My main system (at least for the next few weeks - things change fast)

Athlon XP 1700
ECS KT266a Motherboard
GeForce Ti 4200 64mb video
512 DDR Ram
80 Gig IBM 7200rpm HD
40 Gig Seagate (for my mp3s)
Toshiba 6x DVD Rom
Plextor 8x4x32 CDRW
Soundblaster Live
19" Mistubishi Monitor

My backup/kids computer:

Athlon 850
Tyan KT133 mb
GeForce 2 64MB
256 PC133 ram
30 Gig Seagate 7200 rpm
32x cd
Internal Zip Drive
Ensoniq PCI Sound
19" Mag Monitor

My basement systems:

Gateway Destination XTV
500 Pentium 3
128 mb PC133 ram
10 gig Maxtor
8x Toshiba DVD
32MB ATI All in Wonder Radeon
Soundblaster Live
36" Destination (Hitachi) Monitor
Boston Acoustics Dolby Surround 4:1 speaker system

Celeron 366
128 mb PC66 ram
6.4 gig maxtor
Cdrom
Voodoo 2 graphics
15" Packard Hell Monitor

Emachines 366
128 mb PC 100 ram
8.4 gig maxtor
CDdrom
Voodoo 2 graphics
17" Mag monitor

My Laptop:

Gateway 3100
333 Pentium 2
12.1" Active Matrix display
96 meg ram
4.3 gig hard drive
DVD - for movies on the go - booyah!

All of these systems are hard networked to my Linksys router/switch. Lan parties are limited to Unreal Tournament and Red Alert because of the older basement systems - but my brother and I play NWN with my two primary systems.

How many geek points does this earn me?

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 2:53 pm

System 1:

Dual AMD Athlon MP2000+ 1.67ghz
2048MB RAM, PC1200 DDR
Nvidia Quadro4 750XGL 128MB DDR SDRAM
2 HD @ 40G ea.
Sony DVD R/W
Cable Modem
Dual 19" Monitors, 21mm dot pitch

System 2:
Dual P2 450 Xeons
500MB RAM
Oxygen GMX 96MB RAM
9G HP HD
18G HP HD
CD-ROM
2G Jaz
Cable Modem
Single 21" Viewsonic Professional Monitor

Both linked with my wife's P3 833 Machine via Linksys cable router.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 2:59 pm

I think my geek standing is quickly dwindling

Hiya Saigo

Cool avatar BTW, i heard you drew it yourself, very good

Saigo · Post by **Saigo** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 3:52 pm

Originally posted by Mr. Sleep
I think my geek standing is quickly dwindling

Hiya Saigo Cool avatar BTW, i heard you drew it yourself, very good

Hey, Sleepy!

About the avatar, thanks. Yes, I drew it myself, part of a full figure.

And don't fear competition from me -- I was never "techy" enough to qualify for geekdom and too geeky to be cool. I don't know a dang thing about what's happening under the hood of those killer machines. Somebody else built them for me so I could work in 3D animation and video editing software. They work great for games, too!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 4:02 pm

Originally posted by Saigo

Hey, Sleepy!

About the avatar, thanks. Yes, I drew it myself, part of a full figure.

And don't fear competition from me -- I was never "techy" enough to qualify for geekdom and too geeky to be cool. I don't know a dang thing about what's happening under the hood of those killer machines. Somebody else built them for me so I could work in 3D animation and video editing software. They work great for games, too!

Are you using it in NwN?

I think smass and Flibble are duking it out, they are unparralelled, even by Flanders and his knowledge of RAID.

That sounds a lot like me and cars, i know they can go forward and backwards with the occasional prompting from me, but generally i have no idea what is going on.

See, i can't have great excuses like that, i write HTML and you can basically do that on a 486, so i don't really have an excuse for a P4 2.53 with a GeFroce ti 4600...maybe i could move over to graphic design instead...then i would have an excuse for my Geekdom

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 4:58 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
That sounds a lot like me and cars, i know they can go forward and backwards with the occasional prompting from me, but generally i have no idea what is going on.

Now Mr Sleep is sandbagging.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:35 am

Originally posted by HighLordDave

Now Mr Sleep is sandbagging.

Well, give him the chance. He's usually sandbagged...