Did I ever tell you...

[adosorken]

GRR! I HATE ANTS!

Our poor doggy no wonder she hadn't been eating for the past couple of weeks...didn't notice it till now but every time we give her some food, the bastard fire ants rush in to infest it. We were wondering why she wasn't eating well. Needless to say...the little bastards got bombed. HARD. They won't be coming back to bug our lil puppy again.

In other screwed up things...we got a Celeron 1.7GHz computer to format and reinstall Windows XP on. OK...1.7GHz computer...Windows XP. Should take 30 minutes. Wrong. It's taken three hours so far and it's still installing. AMD was so correct with their "More Than Megahertz" campaign.

And this reinstall job in and of itself was caused by multiple system fux0rings by its own users, who installed such garbage as MyWebSearch, HotBar, and other such trash. The computer was also infected with msblast (which Rhiannon was able to kill off when she went over to fix the computer initially). When we took a good close look at the system (she had to rush it the other night), we discovered that not only was the system fscked beyond immediate repair (after spending 3 hours attempting said immediate repairs), but the person who originally installed Windows XP on it was obviously on crack. So came this wonderful reinstall.

The entire system is integrated. EVERYTHING. Here's a few words of experience to all of you who don't already know this...just coz a computer is cheap, doesn't mean it's good. This computer we're working on, for example, probably cost a few hundred. What you don't pay in money, you pay in other ways. I have never seen a more laggy POS...even Rhiannon's little Compaq laptop, with its 56MB of main RAM (8MB stolen as VRAM) and its pokey little AMD K6-2/475 running Windows XP, outperforms this 1.7GHz Intel value computer. My little P233MMX blows them both away but that's another story.

Integrated = crap. Period. End of story. Never buy an integrated computer.

And always look out for ants.

THE END

[TheBigBasicQ]

Hehe, I too hate ants. In general BUGS(both in my progs as well as real life).

BTW since people(non technical) started to understand that speed is proportional to megahertz that they have, Intel has made it a point to rev up their processors with more MHz. But unfortunately the performance is terrible. My old PIII 450Mhz with 192Mb RAM running WinXP outperforms my friend's P4 2.4GHz with 384Mb RAM again on WinXP.

M$ and Intel suck :evil: .

[Agamemnus]

just coz a computer is cheap, doesn't mean it's good.

Something that the majority of Americans don't know or care about. Until they get problems with their computers. Then they just buy a new one.

[SJ Zero]

Integrated isn't always bad though. Think NForce. You get this SBLive! quality sound card and a very decent Nvidia network card, which isn't bad at all. Sure, the video card is no hell, but what did you expect for a motherboard that costs less than a low-end video card?

[TheBigBasicQ]

hehe =). agreed

[na_th_an]

Well, integrated = crap most times. I have a gigabyte motherboard with LAN and sound integrated, and they work neat. It was not a chip board, though. RAID, dual BIOS, ATA 133, 400 Mhz front bus ... those cost money at least when I bought it.

[adosorken]

When I say integrated, I mean everything integrated...sound, video, network, everything. Some combo boards are pretty good, but when you go mixing video into it...ugh...even the so-called "great AGP" integrated boards don't hold a candle to a normal motherboard with a real AGP card inserted into it.

[SJ Zero]

When I say integrated, I mean everything integrated...sound, video, network, everything. Some combo boards are pretty good, but when you go mixing video into it...ugh...even the so-called "great AGP" integrated boards don't hold a candle to a normal motherboard with a real AGP card inserted into it.

Sure, but say what you will, I will never disparage the nforce. Even the integrated video isn't horrible -- it's a geforce 2 MX, which is about 20 orders of magnitude better than most crap integrated 3d cards.

[adosorken]

There always exists an exception to the rule.