hardware upgrades

Xocyll

2004-10-13 12:09:14 UTC

***@f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Hart) looked up from
reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good,

Post by Stephen Hart
Hi,
X> reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good,

Or, to avoid confusion, should I be including all the "quote lines"
attributing text, at the beginning of my messages?

X> Unless you're snipping out all of a level of attribution, yes.
'Tis a question of what you're used to, I guess. In FidoNet, many
message editors would "attribute quotes" by including the writer's
initials at the left margin. Of course, that can get iffy when
"Stephen" is replying to "Snowzone" who is commenting on something
that "Spamthis.etc" wrote to "Stephen" and so on...
Meanwhile, on the UseNet side, I've been using newsreaders like SLRN,
which distinguish each level of quoting by highlighting them with
different colors. Of course, not everyone uses that type of program.
(If I remember rightly, Tony has to read this newsgroup on web sites,
because his Kingston area ISP does not carry it. I'm going to guess
that web site newsreaders may sometimes lack features we're used to
taking for granted.)

Personally I use Agent, which only does two colors, 1 for new text on
for quoted, so the experience is much as it was when I used bluewave.

Post by Stephen Hart
X> Any board that came out since ATX should be able to turn the power off
X> completely in the event of overheating, should it be necessary.
I've a suspicion that such features only became common with the new
ATX power supplies that came out with the four-wire 12 volt plug. My
guess rides mainly on old-style ATX power being commonly used before
motherboards started incorporating temperature sensors.
...For example, my old "Slot 1" motherboard for either
Pentium II or Pentium III CPUs used an ATX power supply but had no
temperature sensors. (You could pay extra and buy a CPU sensor, tho.)

Odd, but not surprising since manufacturers never did agree on anything
and won't make anything standard until they've been bludgeoned with the
necessity of it.

My old computer had a temperature sensor and it was AT not ATX.
Pentium 1/K6, socket 7 motherboard.

Being AT it couldn't shut things off, it just drastically dropped the
clock speed to reduce temperature (not unlike an engine rev limiter), so
it was useful when temperature spiked, but not for something like a
complete fan failure. Although since CPUs of that era could function
with no fan and just a really good heat sink, the declocking was
probably enough.

Post by Stephen Hart
X> You'll still have to check what any particular board/BIOS/monitoring
X> software is able to do.
Yes, RTFM is good. One thing I really appreciated, was being able to
look over Users manuals and technical specifications at the asus.com
site.

The manufacturers are getting better at making manuals downloadable.
Probably because they're not making paper manuals much anymore and
giving the "user manual" on a cd.
Since they've already made the .pdf file they might as well make it
downloadable too.

Post by Stephen Hart
X> Xocyll
BTW, it's nice to see you "here" again. Been a while, eh?

As long as it exists, i'll have this group tagged.
If for no other reason than to remember the heyday of FidoNet.

Certainly was a politer forum than usenet is for the most part.

Xocyll

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