Spitfire = Duron

Ops... my last post was for #168

Not bad... I waited 4 months for ATT@Home... and I don't mention the problems and time spend that come with it.

Gareth:

Would it be possible for you to actually say something intelligence for once? I'm wondering, because you haven't done that yet.

Hitler did his best to avoid conflict with the western powers. In fact, his general staff thought that any assault on France would be suicidal. At the beginning of the war, French division easily outnumbered German divisions.

Hitlers only plan was for gaining back the losses Germany had as a result of WWI, and for gaining more space at the expense of Russia. No true military plans existed for this. In fact, German preperations didn't begin for the invasion of Poland until summer of 1939.

At that point in time, Hitler was banking on a political solution to the reaquisition of the Danzig corridor, which was one of the pieces of territory Germany lost. He thought that England and France would stand by as he took what he wanted, and believed that Poland would rollover without a fight as Austria and Czechloslovakia had. After all, he thought, all he was demanding from the Poles was what was previously German territory. He wasn't planning on a full scale war until 1942 at the earliest, and wanted to avoid conflict until 1944 if possible.

You seem to think that Hitler had some great master plan. He didn't. He had a goal, but his planning consited mostly of telling his general staff to prepare for this or that at the very last moment.

Gareth, if you actually took some time to learn something instead of preferring to show your ignorance at every opportunity, your statements might actually be worth something. I swear that you must intentionally try and sound like a dumbshit, because your statements show an amazing consistency about them. That kind of stupidity is hard to attain by accident.

Hmm last time I went to compusa they just hade 3dfx and diamond cards. Well I hope you didnt pay too much.

My next processor is going to be an Intel chip. Why? How many of you have actually tried to put an Athlon system together from scratch? It's a nightmare...the chip is too jumpy. Take that and my 2 month wait for an agp 4x board, and I'm feeling kind of cautious about Amd chips. Intel chips just don't give me as many problems...well maybe financial ones.

What's with all the complaints about the fuckin' name. Think about it, most of the chip names out there suck. Pentium, Athlon, Duron, GeForce, Radeon, Itanium. The Duron is going to own performance wise, who gives a flying fuck about the name?

Pimpstick:

Sheese Pimplystick, I feel so bad now that you called me a bitch. Three words: pot...kettle...black. Yeah, yeah, I know it isn't original but it's the truth.

Anyways...I wasn't trolling Gareth. Calling a dumbass a dumbass isn't trolling.

Compusa? HA! They don't carry abit last time I checked. They do have soyo mobo's which are supposed to be nice. Oh and compusa has the most ridiculous memory prices in the world. I bet it's still about 100 for 64mb over there. I'm not sure about the athlons. Overall they have bad selection, just really widely available stuff. At least thats the way it is at the compusa in my area. Don't even try to buy a graphics or sound card there. There really aren't any computer superstores with good selection imho. Fry's is ok but such shitty service.

man the shck is dead right now. We need a new graphics card article or somethin. I was thinkin it would be cool to get a Warcraft3 vs Sacrifice arguement going. I could say I think Sacrifice will kick ass because of its amazing graphics, furious action , and wacky art direction and Freshview or someone could say, no man W3 will rule because of its roleplaying elements and more traditional fantasy theme.

Or you can order em online. Cheaper but you'd have to wait.

*wonders why selection sucks at a superstore*

My Celly is rock stable @ 850 (voltage 1.65)
After ten minutes of Q3 demo runs, the temp never goes above 96 degrees! That is ICE cold :)

Cant wait for the GF2 w/64 megs DDR.

61 aka 63:

Something the Register (that wonderful paradigm of accurate reporting) fails to make clear is the fact that Americans did indeed capture a U-boat with its assorted Enigma machines. This U-boat (whose number is oddly enough in the 500's like the one in the movie) is now residing in a museum (I think it may be in the Smithsonian, but I'm definetely not sure about that one. I do know that you can see it in a museum though).

Unlike the British mission, the Americans actually captured an entire sub. The Brits were forced to abandon the submarine and just get the code machines and books.

The other thing the Register fails to mention is that the British mission was pretty much useless. At that time, the German Navy was using the same Enigma machines as the German Army. Since the British (actually, it was the Poles) had broken the secrecy surrounding the Enigma machine used by the German Army, they already knew how to read the German Navy's mail.

But soon after the British captured this machine, the German Navy went to a new version of the Enigma machine. The British were then unable to break any of the German Navy's codes, and merchant shipping losses immeadiately went up. In fact, in 1942, Britain came very close to loosing the Battle of the Atlantic. Churchill himself privately thought that another month of losses like that sustained in early 1942 would have forced England out of the war. This situation remained until the Americans captured the new Enigma machine. When this happenned, the Alies could then once again break German Naval codes, and were able to turn the tide in the Atlantic.

The Register is a frikkin' troll rag.

All my knowledge of WWII came from Castle Wolfenstien and M*A*S*H.

:)

I know this is out of topic, but I am extremely pissed off at ATT entire service, ranging from TV to cable modem. Does anyone know a site where I could check for DSL in Milpitas(next to San Jose), CA?

CAUTION: cont. And set the voltage with the old processor first, make sure it actually is saved in the bios, THEN insert the Celeron2.

www.FiringSquad.com has a very nice write-up on the whole process, but didnt mention setting the voltage BEFORE insertion.

Its a Celeron2 566 on a BH6 board. The 'golden orb' I had wouldnt fit in my case, so all I got cooling it right now is a cheapy heatsink/fan the size of 2 matchboxes w/thermal grease applied.

CAUTION: If you try this, be absolutely sure you reset your voltage to 1.5 AND that the bios accepts the setting. I had to 'set' it 3 times before the voltage actually was saved to the Soft Menu settings. I had to up the voltate to 1.65 to keep it stable @ 850.

uh oh

slow news day alert!

152 - I thought it was about the Gulf war?

Thanks!

-Lex

147, Oh yeah.. forgot they used le3t spelling for Clowns. I liked the part where the c.. err, Klowns made shadow puppets which came to life!

I still remember the music in it.. if nothing else(havein't seen it for probably 6 years.. but saw it like 5 times then). Kind of haunting in a weird clowny way.

Thanks!

-Lex

And now a review of U-571:

Timmy like Das Love Boot movie! Capn Schtuping kiss Hitler! Torpedos away Timmy! Big boom boom! *smiles, sticks hand in mouth and drools*

mmmPHMmmtmmAH!

Gareth, that Cel2 still running stable at 852?

136:

Yeah, its amazing how badly Hitler blew some major opportunities. If he hadn't been such a dumbass, he coulda accomplished his goals.

Oddly enough, he really didn't want to fight the British. He considered them cousins (kinda like honorary Aryans). All he really wanted was Russia up to the Urals (and to wipe out inferior races...but that's another story). He basically forced himself into making war with France and England.

139: You should be flogged for that joke.

Speaking of Clowns.. Has anyone here seen "Killer Clowns from Outer Space"?

Thanks!

-Lex

145 - It's a Horse from those old Cowboyz & Injuns Movies.

Thanks!

-Lex

AMD should stay with WWII warbirds as names for thier processors.

WTF is a Duron?

141 - Yeah, that's too bad he didn't huh?

Thanks!

-Lex

Hey, Ive got a question for you guys. Yesterday all the text on web pages, such as this, have turned from their normal size to a bigger, wider size for some reason. It looks like the font changed for the web, but I didnt touch anything. Any ideas?

-Ze BFF d00d

Crap... I refuse to be trolled.


Spitfire bettah name din Duron!

123:

Missed that show. I got most of this crap from an author I was introduced to in a history class in college.

I saw that last night they had something on the History channel about the movie U-571 and how historically accurate it was. I didn't watch it though, because it seemed like it was going to be an hour long advertisiment for the movie.

I hate crap like that. Friggen channels (or news shows) that are supposed to educate, but instead are shills for some new product. And WTF is up with all the damn murder shows, true FBI stories, home improvement, and medical crap on Discovery and The Learning Channel?

If I want to see a story about crime, I'll watch Homocide.

Goofy Boy: Well, I all of the WW2 stuff directly impacts our relations with almost every country in the world. The problem with me is, I just remember alot of useless facts along with the big stuff. That's good when programming or playing trivial pursuit, but it isn't bound to impress anyone when I'm out on a date.

Re: 128. And speaking of retards, there is Freshview...

(heh..too easy)

Thanks!

-Lex

And did they pick these names from the 80's, when rayon and neon were in full rage?

Yeah 113.

I learned something today. I learned that we shouldn't hide retards under the carpet. It's good to let them out in the sun for awhile, so we can be with them, and they can be with us.

After all, isn't the Shack mostly made up of a bunch of teenage retards that post thinking they know something?