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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: clips on April 22, 2005, 11:54:30 AM
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i just ordered this from dell...now i understand that this is not a supercomputer, but i needed one badly...so what do you cats think? Is this good for a starter?
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/RBIredirect.aspx?rbi=GKiitGAbBa2SB+6V9bxpRyvwm4g6Tn36wTwLVrus+1Yk1iSYlI8tpShc0L6a76U+TIzMv9bvnid/acyVxTQtgV/N/gSE6tFZZYZYyzdh8nE2JwshlYVuDIOiRaSK+70AFeFXGPwnMDU/5sTlnJd0AhyzGOzzHCyhQ91WpQ97lbA=
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I guess it depends on how bad your current computer is. For the price, what you are getting isn\'t bad... only thing I don\'t like is the celeron & 256MB of RAM. And you can always upgrade the RAM down the road if you find it a little sluggish.
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^^^i had a pc, but that thing was soooo slow had viruses all over the place..i couldn\'t even log on to it...it was in pretty bad shape...i just want something that i can get into the inetrnet with...nothing too fancy..
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for an internet machine it\'s perfect
you know about virus protection and spyware sweepers don\'t you? 90% of the computers I work on are because people tell me they are running slow, and it\'s because they have years of spyware and viruses on it and have no idea how to fix it.
Not saying that\'s your deal, an old computer will get really slow trying to run the newest software and whatnot, but a little prevenitive maintence every few weeks keeps problems from getting too severe.
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Yeah for bare bones its ok.
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Dare I say : Mac Mini ?
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yea i made sure i ordered virus protection with this package...i understand you can also upload virus protection programs on the net correct? don\'t laugh i don\'t know s**t about any of this stuff...i mean i have an idea, but that\'s about it...
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don\'t expect to run any games on it, but good for a web surfing/email box
get AVG for antivirus
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Originally posted by mm
don\'t expect to run any games on it, but good for a web surfing/email box
get AVG for antivirus
will do :)
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I hate to agree with MM, but use AVG.
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What\'s AVG?
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teh click (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=AVG+antivirus&btnG=Search)
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AHHHHH celeron processor.... RUNNNNNNNNNN
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i didn\'t even notice its Intel Celeron until you mention it.
That may explains why its not that expensive...
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AVG = Free antivirus that rocks.
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Originally posted by square_marker
AHHHHH celeron processor.... RUNNNNNNNNNN
Seriously.
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nothing wrong with a celeron in an email/internet browsing box
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Originally posted by mm
nothing wrong with a celeron in an email/internet browsing box
Hate to agree, but if all this PC will be is a \'net PC, then a celeron is just fine.
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Hate to agree, but if all this PC will be is a \'net PC, then a celeron is just fine.
i\'m actually speaking to you cats now from the new pc :thumb:..but s**t don\'t scare me... what\'s wrong with this celeron? :confused: and yea this pc is strickly used for the net...no games etc...
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the celeron gets a bad rap for it\'s mediocre performance compared to a full fledged pentium. It\'s basically neutered.
Which for an internet and email machine is more than enough. It\'s when you try to play games or anything that needs a lot of processor that you really notice the difference.
Congrats on your new PC :)
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your celeron is perfectly fine for what you need it for. It is if you wanted to do gaming or other extensive media work where you would run into problems.
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Not a single thing wrong with the celeron. It\'s just not a gaming CPU.
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LIC, mm...thanks for the info on the AVG..i have norton installed currently and i went to a couple of sites that mm posted, but i have one problem...in those sites right before i was about to download it stated something along the lines of "even tho some programs are helpful for your computer, some files can damage your pc. if you trust the site proceed" i was gonna download until i saw that.
when those sites state that, is it safe to still download the AVG antivirus program? i don\'t want to download it then at the same time download a virus with it...
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If you already have norton then you might as well use that. As long as your subscription is active and you can download new virus definitions. Then go with AVG when your sub is up.
AVG is safe to download and install. The box you are seeing is part of service pack 2 with windows xp. And make sure you download the free version, not the trial version.
Click on "Get AVG Free", then on the next page scroll down and click avg70free_308a468.exe @ the bottom.
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Not a single thing wrong with the celeron. It\'s just not a gaming CPU.
Or a music production CPU etc.
Definately for the basic user, which isnt a terrible thing to be.
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question...i have a bunch pics on my pc at work y\'know avy\'s, car pics etc...and i have a disk at home with some pdf files on it. is it possible to transfer that data that\'s on my harddrive at work to the disk, or do i have to use the floppy disk...or is it even possible at all...i say this only because alot of my avatars are on this HD at work, and i\'m only going to be here a couple month\'s longer, so i don\'t want to lose this data on my pc at work...
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Send all your crap to your Gmail account. It has over 2 gigs of space and you can send or upload [by sending it to yourself] up to 10 MB of crap at a time. If you don\'t have a Gmail account...PM me your e-mail address and I\'ll send you an invite to join. :)
EDIT: You can also zip all the files that you want to keep and send it to your e-mail via http://www.yousendit.com <---- you can send up to 1 gig this way, and it will only send you a text link to your e-mail to their server hosting the zip file...er whatever. It will store your junk for a week and then it will be erased. So you can just go back home and download all the crappola.
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Originally posted by EviscerationX
Send all your crap to your Gmail account. It has over 2 gigs of space and you can send or upload [by sending it to yourself] up to 10 MB of crap at a time. If you don\'t have a Gmail account...PM me your e-mail address and I\'ll send you an invite to join. :)
EDIT: You can also zip all the files that you want to keep and send it to your e-mail via http://www.yousendit.com <---- you can send up to 1 gig this way, and it will only send you a text link to your e-mail to their server hosting the zip file...er whatever. It will store your junk for a week and then it will be erased. So you can just go back home and download all the crappola.
thanks bro..appreciate it :)...:thumb:
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clips,
so you are saying the computer you are using at work have some pics and other data that are important to you, and you want to know if you can transfer those data to your computer at home. Yeah, the methods you said work such as burned it to a cd if the computer at work have a cd burner. Or to a floppy. Please, by all chances, don\'t bother with a floppy disc. the #1 reason is the maximum storage is only 1.44 MByte. Or a little over 1 MB. That is not a lot of storage there, compare to CD which can store up to 700 MBytes and higher if you want to overburn... 2nd is speed, floppy disc will take a while to open file if the size is big, like a picture with lots of data...
or just uses EviscerationX method, send all your importants to an email such as Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo. Both hotmail and Yahoo have a storage of 250 Mbytes, so not sure if that\'s not enough. If is not, try GMail. Then get home, open your email that you send to, and download them all back. Then, if you want, you can delete those files in your email...
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Originally posted by Paul2
clips,
so you are saying the computer you are using at work have some pics and other data that are important to you, and you want to know if you can transfer those data to your computer at home. Yeah, the methods you said work such as burned it to a cd if the computer at work have a cd burner. Or to a floppy. Please, by all chances, don\'t bother with a floppy disc. the #1 reason is the maximum storage is only 1.44 MByte. Or a little over 1 MB. That is not a lot of storage there, compare to CD which can store up to 700 MBytes and higher if you want to overburn... 2nd is speed, floppy disc will take a while to open file if the size is big, like a picture with lots of data...
or just uses EviscerationX method, send all your importants to an email such as Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo. Both hotmail and Yahoo have a storage of 250 Mbytes, so not sure if that\'s not enough. If is not, try GMail. Then get home, open your email that you send to, and download them all back. Then, if you want, you can delete those files in your email...
yea i have a bunch of stuff on my pc at work that i want to transfer to my pc at home...i pm\'d evi about the gmail account, so hopefully my problem will be solved....thanks for the advice bro..:)
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This will make transferring crap to your Gmail much easier:
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Have fun! :D
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oh, i forgot another method which i never used since i haven\'t own one yet.
USB jump drive. those matchbox lighter would do the trick too. I am very certain the majority of computers have USB 1.1 by now unless their computer is really, really old. Most newer computers built in 2001 or 2002 or later have USB 2 support.
Just stick that on the computer USB slot and transfer all the data you want into the jump drive. Then transfer them into your computer at home.
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^^^^^^
But that costs more than free.
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yep, but i am just giving out several methods that can be used. Doesn\'t mean you have to use it.
So are burning it into a CD or copying it to a floppy disc which both does cost money too. But of of course, they cost no more than like 25 cents per disc or per floppy. But if one want to use the floppy disc method, imagine how many floppy discs will be stack up because of storage problem. and some data is too large to fit in a floppy disc.
I guess external hard disk drive is the most expensive method of the bunch for backing up data...
so, yeah, if you think about free, i guess your email method is definately 100% free.
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Floppy discs are so outdated. The only thing they\'re good for is turning in a report for class or something (if it\'s a text only report).
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So, yeah, if you think about it, the first solution was the most simple and free one, so yeah, I guess if you think about it, all the other idea\'s was a waste of time and bandwidth.
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lol, so yeah, you are right, lic...and yeah...oh so yeah...
:D
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question...i transfered some files(mostly avatars) from my job pc to my home pc *thanks evi*, now when i try to upload some of the avy\'s here, it states that the avy is not jpeg or gif, when clearly it is, well at least it was when i uploaded it from my job pc...
when i went into my gmail file the said avy was only being filed as art or bitmeg? but even when i viewed the avy, it came up as being jpeg file...thoughts? why is my jpeg avy being converted to bitmeg in the gmail acct?..only thing i did was email that avy to myself...
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Maybe your computer is on crack. You should zip all of your files into one file and send it via http://yousendit.com to your e-mail account ... this way the files won\'t get the chance to do something funky. With yousendit, you can send up to a gigabyte, so if you just zip all your crap together, you won\'t have any issues. You can still send the zip file to yourself as well, but you can only send up to 10MB. I still have no clue why it would change the filetype to a bitmeg. I don\'t even know wtf that is.
Gmail has never changed the filetype when I\'ve sent things to myself, so something funky is going on.
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i am assuming its bitmap you guys are talking about. Like the above poster, I have no clue why that would send as bitmap instead of jpeg if that is the original format.
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yo, i just tested a few of the avy\'s that did work...there\'s still a couple that\'s comin up as bitmap? :confused: f**k it..i\'m tired now it\'s like 3:20 am and i\'ve been f**kin\' with this s**t since 9 pm...i\'ll try and figure this out t\'morrow...
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if they are bitmaps now you can just open paint or some other picture program and convert to a jpeg or gif or whatever. I use photshop for that sort of thing usually, but you may not have that.
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jpeg is a lossy compression.
jpeg to bitmap will not degrade it anymore as it\'s already is since bitmap is uncompressed.
convert it back from bitmap to jpeg again will degrade it more.
Even if its the original is already in jpeg and you want to save it again in jpeg format in either paintbrush or photoshop. It will degrade the quality somewhat. Hence the meaning of lossy compression.
I played with both photoshop and paintbrush and I found that photoshop compress better than paintbrush at about the same amount of compression and same picture information size. Photoshop obviously is a better encoder than paintbrush.
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^^^^^^
He doesn\'t really have a choice, so if he wants to convert them back, it\'s fine. They weren\'t bitmaps to begin with, so converting them back to the filetype they were before won\'t really affect the quality that much.
Just make sure that when you convert the files, that you save them at 100% quality.
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y\'know i had cyrus convert some pdf files for me to jpeg. now i don\'t have a clue as to how to convert those avy\'s from bitmap to jpeg..:confused:...if it\'s too involved don\'t bother to explain, i\'ll just roll with the avy\'s i have now....but if it\'s simple then i\'m all ears....
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Go here: http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=convert+bitmap+to+jpeg&tg=dl-2001&search.x=5&search.y=5&search=+Go%21+
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it\'s simple man... if you\'re using paint just open the image. Then go to file, then save as, then chose what format you want to save to at the bottom.
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What if he has 12,000 images?
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Originally posted by JBean
it\'s simple man... if you\'re using paint just open the image. Then go to file, then save as, then chose what format you want to save to at the bottom.
yo, that worked! thanks bro! :fro: and don\'t worry i don\'t have alot of images, and it was only a few avy\'s that uploaded with that problem..but i did notice something..when i save any pic off the net with my home pc, it doesn\'t save it as jpeg or gif file..it saves it as something else in gmail..this kinda pissin me off because my pc at work would just save the images as jpeg or whatever it was required to upload the pics here on this site..:mad:
but my pc shouldn\'t be doin that right? i mean i should just be able to save any pic off the net as jpeg or gif just like my pc at work right?....if that\'s the case at least as far as my home pc is concerned then i\'m gonna have to change the file format everytime i save a pic :mad:
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jpeg is an old hat
PNG / JPEG2000 is the futura
if you want to export a PSD consider those formats
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Originally posted by clips
but my pc shouldn\'t be doin that right? i mean i should just be able to save any pic off the net as jpeg or gif just like my pc at work right?....if that\'s the case at least as far as my home pc is concerned then i\'m gonna have to change the file format everytime i save a pic :mad:
yeah, if you right click on the pictures, and go to save as...it should save as the picture of the original format that you click on.
Like if you right click on the jpeg images, it should save as jpeg instead of bitmap...I don\'t know why your home computer isn\'t doing that though. Or it\'s only the gmail that causes the problem?:confused:
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it\'s weird i, just now i did a save as on your aeris avy, and the file type came up as bitmap or art?..i don\'t know what the problem is,... s**t is pissin\' me off
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Maybe some of your settings are set to save them like that. Who knows?
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What windows are you using btw?
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that\'s a common problem in IE:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810978
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips584.html
Google for even more info.
Oh, and use FIREFOX (http://www.mozilla.org/firefox)
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paul, i\'m using windows xp,...thx i appreciate that site bro...but i think i\'ve figured out the problem....i went into internet explorer, and saved an image,..it saved it in jpeg like it\'s supposed to, but i\'m currently using aol 6 month trial thingy, and when i save a image in aol, that\'s when i get the save as art or bitmap...is internet explorer doin something that aol isn\'t?
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Advice, don\'t ever use AOL. AOL is f^cking stupid and it should be criminal for them to even have their service available to human beings.
I think art is an AOL exclusive filetype, I\'m not sure. Stupid AOL...
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man,
for like the first time i ever agree with Evis about the AOL comments.
and looks like thx has figure out the problems once again.
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Don\'t. Use. AOL
I cannot state this enough.
Get a cheap dial up service. Anything. Don\'t use AOL.
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well aol was only temporary until i want to figure out what to use...i was thinking about goin with the cable connection in the future...what do you guys use? or moreso what do you recommend?
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Get cable.
Cost abit more, but worth it.
Mine is 20 a month for the first six months, then 40 a month.
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Originally posted by clips
well aol was only temporary until i want to figure out what to use...i was thinking about goin with the cable connection in the future...what do you guys use? or moreso what do you recommend?
if you are planning on going broadband, the two popular choices are:
DSL
or
Cable
the biggest difference between the two are Cable run at a faster speed than DSL, but cost a little more. But either type of connection is much faster than dial-up. Depending on where you live, either cable or dsl may or may not support the area where you live. So, check if either the cable or dsl provider support the area that you live in. If in luck and both cable and dsl support the place you live in. You have the option of choosing between the two. DSL is a bit cheaper than Cable. So, unless you want blasing fast speed, DSL will do. Rememeber, either is way faster than dial up.
In my State, SBC Yahoo charge $20 per month for 1 full year for their DSL service While Cable charge $30 per month for 6 months. Since my area only support Cable, I have no choice and go with Cable, but I couldn\'t be any happier. I actually loves it.
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just ordered the cable hookup today...:fro: ..:thepimp:...appreciate the help from all...you cats really know your s**t...if i have any more issues, i\'ll be sure to tap your mental again..:)
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Broadbandreports.com
Go there - Speed Test
Let us know your DOWN / UP speed.
Don\'t use I.E - use Firefox. It\'ll help you out in the long run. I.E, is prone to most spyware / adware problems and is out dated in browser terms. Tabbed browsing is the future.
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yeah, not to beat a dead horse or anything, but AOL is the worst isp to go with. They are way to expensive and all their software does is suck hard.
And i can\'t believe the people who get that AOL for broadband crap.
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ok another question i have some images saved to disk that i\'m tryin to resize. i\'ve finally managed to resize one of them but now the image is blurry..how can i fix this?..if you just happened to pop over in here and don\'t know ehat i\'m talkin about, just go look in the my artwork thread...
*meh disregard this..i ended up figuring it out*