Take the biggest caliber you've got. A fifty cal roundball entrance and exit wound on a PC are quite gratifying indeed!!! :insane:
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When white man found this land, Indians were running it.
No Taxes...
No Debt...
Plenty Buffalo...
Plenty beaver!
Women did most of the work.
Medicine Man free!
Indian men hunted and fished all the time!
White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
Now, BD, before you kill it, ya oughta get a real expert to see what they can do with it...IE me. How old is it? And as to the new one, watch out as a lot of the Mom and pop stores will stick it to you. Not like an M&P gun shop that'll do right by you.
Texas1st, no sweat - I'm dealing with a major store, not a fly-by-night. The machine is an old (2001 or so) E-Tower - too small to do what I want to do, and I have it maxed out now! I'll keep the upgrades I put in, as I have a better CD-ROM in it than the new one will have, and the new 80 Gig hard drive will become the slave drive on the new one.
Now for some really weird stuff . . .
Well, I managed to sneak under the IE6 wire - I got it to go into the MicroSuck download site before throwing me out, and from there I went into my Favorites file, and got onto here!
This is weird . . .
I'm beginning to think it's a glitch with my hookup to my ISP home page - but I can bypass them, apparently.
Bad thing is, I can't get to my E-mail - but at least I can get onto the forums - not a total loss. It'll get me by til I get my new machine Wednesday.
I checked with my team leader - she ran the "On Demand Payroll" today - the special payroll run that sets up our bonuses. It's all set.
Hmmm . . . wonder if I can download Firefox now . . . ?
My buddy hasn't shot his full auto MAC11 in awhile . . . . that could be fun too.
This little machine is pretty hopeless. It originally had ME as it's Operating System, and a 10 Gig hard drive. A whopping 32M of memory!
I upgraded it to it's max of 256M memory, and it speeded up nicely. But then the problems started. Hard drive crashed - lost beacoup stuff! I'm backing up regular now.
We dumped the ME, and tried to load XP - no dice. Had to load 98 onto it. Got the 80 Gig hard drive, but 98 can only use 32G. No probs, still three times what I had. For some odd reason, it would only configure the HD to 12G! Still having problems downloading software too - some works, some don't. Can't get my HP photo software to download properly, so I can't download and save pics. Bummer.
This cranky machine has about PO'd me to the max. Time to upgrade.
An '01 E-Machine, though it is complete junk (I used to work for the company who supported them) shouldn't be having problems loading XP, especially with 256 megs of RAM, and an 80 gig playground. Good choice to dump ME. It was the worst thing they've ever put out. But going 98 on that machine is like putting a slant 6 in a Hemi Cuda. It's a good stout engine, but it ain't the same. Do you have XP home or XP pro?
My computer-savvy buddy here at work was trying to load XP Pro on it. He still has the disk. I never had any problem with the ME, til the 10G drive went south. Don't know why it won't accept the XP though.
I may just keep this machine as a back-up, in case the new one ever crashes. But, I'll change it to a 40G HD if I do keep it, and retain the 98 system on it - probably reload it, and see if we can use the 32M of the 40G HD. Not so much a waste then.
Hmmm . . . then I could play with networking, and broaden my PC knowledge. That may be an idea!
I never throw anything away - still got my Commodore 64 hooked up in a second bedroom. (Hey, it's got some good games, they still are great fun to play!)
Give a hoot, don't pollute.
Seriously, computers are made up of all kinds of toxic stuff,
so if you do start blowing holes in it, be sure to dispose of it properly afterwards.
The best idea would be for you to donate the machine
to your local school or library or something
(a 2001 computer is like a ten year old car, its still good)
its still good for plenty of stuff
TRS-80
Affectionately known as the "Trash-80," this PC was introduced by Radio Shack in 1977. The TRS-80 had only four kilobytes of memory, however, and could not handle lowercase letters. What's more, it had just three error messages: "HOW?" whenever the user tried to perform an illegal function; "WHAT" when a syntax error occurred; and "SORRY" when the available memory ran out. Still, its price--$400--and its availability made it one of the most popular of the early personal computers. Some 55,000 machines were sold in its first year.
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__________________ U.S. Army
1976-1979
237th Combat Engineers
Heilbronn, Germany
Having to login from work . . . 
Just a little friendly advise.... 
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