Re: [H] Fastest Nvidia Card???
Interesting, sigh. Seems to be the typical arguments for ATI: It's faster when it decides to work. Once I bought an ATI TV card because it was cheap. The software caused all sorts of problems, did not work like anybody would want it to, and, to top it off, 99% of all 3rd party TV software did not support it. Needless to say it's sitting in a bag in the drawer. And, no, they never updated the software. I really don't have a prejudice when buying hardware, however, when it don't work, I don't feel the need to put any 'spin' on it. My time is valuable and a bargain is not a bargain (similarly 'best bang for the buck' is not) when you have to put gobs of time into it and still not have a lot of confidence it'll work. Back to the original question (slightly modified): Which is really faster the GTX280 or the 9800GX2? Depending on the benchmark, they seem to be all over the place. Of course, each site that does benchmarking uses different hardware, settings, software, etc. On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:26 PM, maccrawj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I am over posting but IT'S NOT JUST THE HD4XXX BUT ALSO THE HD2XXX HD3XXX THAT HAVE THIS *BIOS* ISSUE. Brian Weeden wrote: SNIP I have heard that ATI's drivers are still spotty. There actually is as problem with the HD 4870/4850 where the driver won't properly spin up the fan and the card gets really hot. SNIP
[H] OT Inclined planes
As a distraction form my network backup problems, a friend called me and asked this question. I am using google now to see if I can find the formula. Here is his question:This is about Inclined Planes. How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... Also would like the length to a hight of 3 feet, at the same degree of incline, if you can do it... Any help with formula and answer greatly appreciated. Why do I get myself in these situations. lol _ Need to know now? Get instant answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_072008
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:35 -0400 Harvey Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... 8 degree = 1.67551608 inches per foot http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialq=8+degree+%3D+%3F+inches+per+footbtnG=Search HTH Al
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:14:47 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:35 -0400 Harvey Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... 8 degree = 1.67551608 inches per foot So to answer your question; 12 / 1.68 = 7.14285714 TotalRise / RisePerFoot = Total Feet 36 / 1.68 = 21.4285714 feet for 3 foot rise. Best, Al
Re: [H] password protected
Years ago I used a little java script (or something) that used the page name as the password. With an odd enough page name, and if you can keep people out of that directory on the server... Rick Glazier From: Winterlight I have a Windows web site so I can not use HT Access. I want to be able to protect a few documents / pages with a password. This is just to stop the casual passerby, not protect against a sophisticated attack. I assume there is a simple way to do this. Can somebody point me in the right direction.
Re: [H] 2 hard drives into one.
You should be able to Ghost the current C: drive to the new 500 gigger, but don't tell it to use the whole drive, only use 200 or 250 or whatever you wish for the C: boot drive to have... Then the new 500 gig drive would be your C: drive and would have whatever number of gigs left unformatted for a second partition. Format and use the unused space as a second partition for the second drive to be copied to... Then you would have C: and D: as different partitions on the same bootable 500 gig drive... On Jul 12, 2008, at 5:18 PM, mark.dodge wrote: I have two 80 gig drives that are quite old and are starting to click and every once in awhile they computer will restart right after one of these clicks. I want to get a SATA 500 and make the two drives with their partitions all to the one drive. Is this possible and will I be able to save the order of the partitions and the ability to boot from the C: boot partition? Mark MD Computers, Houston, TX -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
Thanks! I had been searching for a formula when I should have run a search like you did. Wind Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:14:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Inclined planes On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:35 -0400 Harvey Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... 8 degree = 1.67551608 inches per foot http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialq=8+degree+%3D+%3F+inches+per+footbtnG=Search HTH Al _ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace
Re: [H] Fastest Nvidia Card???
At 07:45 AM 13/07/2008, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Interesting, sigh. Seems to be the typical arguments for ATI: It's faster when it decides to work. I've been dealing with ATI for about two years now with no driver problems. Very happy with them (and I was a big anti-ATI guy just a few years back.) T
[H] odd notice
I have another old machine (w2ksp4) that is my gaming device. It now boots up and gives me a very black screen indicating it no longer likes its' boot.ini file. It moves/defaults to its' win.ini file. Yet it boots completely up to the login screen and beyond. Curious. Am I looking at a potential hd failure? (It is one of my pending conversions from scsi to pata/sata.) If necessary, I can work on sending current text of the boot.ini. I only see one odd parameter. I do not know how to parse this file. I really let w2k do its' business and go on with life. Opinions? Thank you. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
It is a formula from trig, Sine of an angle equals the opposite side over the hypotenuse. So set your calculator in degree mode (vs radian) and then do rise/(sin 8) which gives the length. (where length and rise are both in the same units) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harvey Best Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:42 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Inclined planes Thanks! I had been searching for a formula when I should have run a search like you did. Wind Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:14:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Inclined planes On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:35 -0400 Harvey Best [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... 8 degree = 1.67551608 inches per foot http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US% 3Aofficialq=8+degree+%3D+%3F+inches+per+footbtnG=Search HTH Al _ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
At 20:42 07/13/08, Harvey Best wrote: Thanks! I had been searching for a formula when I should have run a search like you did. How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... One shouldn't have to find a formula to solve this. It's simple trigonometry (the definition of the sine of an angle in a right triangle) from high school math. If X is the hypotenuse of a right triangle (call it X because this is what we're looking for), A is an angle, and L is the length of the side opposite from A, then sine of A is defined as opposite over hypotenuse. Sin A = L / X Use A = 8 degrees and L = 1 foot. We get Sin 8 = 1 / X or X = 1 / sin8 Get sin 8 = .13917 (using the calculator applet in Windows). Note: be sure your calculator is set for degrees and not radians. X = 1 foot / .13917 = 7.1853 feet The whole point is not to look for (and memorize) some formula but to use a concept learned (hopefully) long ago. Regards, Bill
