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OK - 'fess up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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c'mon, you know you want them...
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Shog9
The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers
The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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Shog9 wrote:
c'mon, you know you want them...
lol
Regards,
Brian Dela 
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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You ask about that but not:
"Big Breasted Blonde Bimbos Begging for Boffing By Bodacious Boners" ?
Sheesh Chris, I expected more...
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire!
Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
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I don't want to encourage some of the inmates 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Oh come ON! Tell me that deep down you are just dying for (and we ALL know it was John) this to be elaborated on, perhaps even with a shot or two of Bob participating...hell maybe David could even wear that PVC minskirt I was hinting he had stashed away in his closet...
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire!
Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
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I have a PIII 664 MHz, 256 RAM, 20gig HD and a 19" monitor. For my line of work (Web dev (ASP.NET), web design and word processing (specs)) it is quite ample. It runs Windows XP and any .NET stuff perfectly fine.
Another monitor would be useful and some more RAM for when I get mammoth Photoshop designs, but otherwise for code editing and compiling in VS.NET it all chugs along smoothly.
Half Life during lunch-time LAN games also works very well.
And yes I have tried XP on some P4s and yes it is faster but only marginally so, nothing fantastic.
Frankly the only new gadgets and hardware I want are for my camera 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
My photoSIG portfolio[^]
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Hey.. I'm still running with a PII 333Mhx with 256 MB ram.. poor me... at home.
In college we have some kickass machines... and 50 new dells just came in the door.
2.8Ghz, 1Gig ram, 19inch falt screens [decent ones], DVD+CD-RW, 80 gig [very fast] HDD's.
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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lol.. Come to Ireland
The Computer facilities is this college are class. Almost all the machines are less then a year old and 90% are P4's about 2.5 Gig with 512MB min.
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
I'm still running with a PII 333Mhx with 256 MB ram..
ROTFL how does it feel?
May the Source be with you
Sonork ID 100.9997 sijinjoseph
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Sijin wrote:
ROTFL how does it feel?
Pure sh*tty.
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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How can you say that ? Even the guy down the road has 1 gHz. I want to be the alpha Geek, and for that, 2 gHz is the bare minimum.
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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I think I'm pretty spoiled with nice hardware...
At work I have: dual P4 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, dual 21inch monitors, nVidia Quadro4.
+ P3 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, GeForce2GTS, 19inch monitor
At home: P4 2.53GHz, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, 19inch monitor, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
+ P2 450Mhz, 512 MB RAM, 40 + 13 GB HDD, GeForce2, 17inch montor
All these machines are really nice to have when you're developing, debugging, testing, etc.
But one has to be very careful not to let the minimum system specs for the enduser of your apps, rush
to extreme heights!
But then again... nothing beats having the best tools available for your job
/Peen
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Read the question -> What would you buy?
Your absolut correct that your machine is enough but what if you go shopping for a brand new computer for the next years?;)
Try this @ home. (B&B)
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KarstenK wrote:
Read the question -> What would you buy?
I know, I made a mistake, misread the question.
KarstenK wrote:
Your absolut correct that your machine is enough but what if you go shopping for a brand new computer for the next years?
Then I will get the best price, basically any computer on sale now (you cannot get anything below a PIII 1.4 gig nowdays) will be capable for a good few years. So it is pointless buying a P4 2.8 gig monster with a huge markup because it is brand new.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
My photoSIG portfolio[^]
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Paul Watson wrote: < 1ghz works for me
Really? Sorry, I'm a little late to respond.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
.·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·.
Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP
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Yes, at the time.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I voted for 4 GHz, as in 2x2 GHz. As someone mentioned below, if you're writing multithreaded software (like I do), IMO you absolutely must have a dual CPU machine for the testing purposes alone.
Dual monitors also make it so much easier to debug UI stuff, as you can have VC on one monitor and your app on the other.
--Mike--
I'm bored... Episode I bored.
1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click!
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I agree, but dual monitors are an ergonomic nightmare. I'm back to one, a 19".
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
I agree, but dual monitors are an ergonomic nightmare. I'm back to one, a 19".
I do not need two cpu's but I always want 2 seperate PC's.
I am using 2 computers for all testing purpose and remote debugging. I do not feel that this is an ergonomic nitghtmare. My desk is formed like an L and the both monitors are near to the edge.
Nothing can crash and influence my test szenario. Also I am able to test every OS, by switching it via Norton Ghost.
Martin
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Martin Richter wrote:
My desk is formed like an L and the both monitors are near to the edge.
How high they are is more important. If you physically more from one monitor/keyboard to the other, that is different to sharing two monitors at the same time. There is no ergonomic way to set up two monitors for dual use, it simply is not possible.
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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Agreed - whilst I've not tried it for long since I simply don't have space for two monitors, I found it difficult to work with having used a single monitor for so long. I'm happy enough with my laptop, and if I get down to some serious work, I plug in an external 17" flat panel, keyboard and mouse and away we go .
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Andrew.
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Michael, I Agree with you, I need the same, but in my country the Pc are very Expensive.....  For example, In this country, the machines wiht 1 Ghz are a news. When I need to buy Hardware, I buy it in The States, from my country, is the only way to buy new hard...
Best Regards
Carlos Antollini.
Pi Five[^]Creator
Sonork ID 100.10529 cantollini
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