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Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 28, 2006, 20:10

Repartitioned 250GB SATA hard drive 3.0GHz Dual Core Processor and 4 x 512MB DDR2 RAM.

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi14.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa327%2FXPOS%2FMD8800.jpg&hash=30fa111ba8fadfead17f20b738c0053e571399d6) (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi14.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa327%2FXPOS%2FMED-250-MD90080-01.jpg&hash=ba647660180b96ac1af749b8ca87047af38ef233) (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi14.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa327%2FXPOS%2FSAMSUNGSM204B20-1.jpg&hash=ca3fa1b442208a3e99a112eb9a1eae1792d217c2)

With an additional 250GB external drive.

Samsung SM204B 20.1" monitor which can rotate to full A4 portrait view.

Don't have to do so much scrolling anymore.

(https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi14.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa327%2FXPOS%2FDriveManMed07.jpg&hash=32c56add26b33c27b418c89829b74390d610dd13)

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 28, 2006, 23:33

Yup, that looks cool!  

By the way,  :welcome:

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 28, 2006, 23:40

Thank you Simon.

Well that's the desktop. Needs three A4 screens really to give an in-box/read-screen, an out-box/write screen, and an applications/help screen.

I just need someone to make me a 'Briefcase' computer with carrying handle, where the lid opens along its short side to that I can have the identical size A4 screen and a bay into which the same 'external' hard drive fits instead of having a drive of its own.

Or it could form the main computer with two additional screens when used in a Study at home or at the office.

It would need to have a decent (non-laptop) keyboard with a NUM pad and, possibly, a built in modular printer to give full capability on the move.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Sandra on March 29, 2006, 00:03

Hi "Mac",

Are those problems on the really old posts ?
I know the coding on some of the old posts didnt convert properly when we changed the forum software.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 29, 2006, 00:07

PM and Profile buttons seem fine to me.   :?

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 29, 2006, 00:10

Quote from: "Sandra"

Hi "Mac",

Are those problems on the really old posts ?
I know the coding on some of the old posts didnt convert properly when we changed the forum software.

It's on posts that go back to 2004 & 2005

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Sandra on March 29, 2006, 00:14

Yes that will be when we were using the old YaBB software.

It didnt seem worth spending ages sorting them all out as not many people would look back that far  :)

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Rodders on March 29, 2006, 00:19

It's because the site is running like cold treacle tonight.  Blame Poopex.  Some of the buttons just aren't loading at all for me.

Nice box by the way.  And yours isn't bad either, Mac.  :grin:

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 29, 2006, 00:22

Well all the buttons on this post work OK.

Maybe you should ditch the older posts and keep the info as up to date as the computers.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 29, 2006, 00:25

Quote from: "Rodders"

It's because the site is running like cold treacle tonight.  Blame Poopex.  Some of the buttons just aren't loading at all for me.

Nice box by the way.  And yours isn't bad either, Mac.  :grin:

Must be your connection. The site is as fast as any other.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Sandra on March 29, 2006, 00:27

The old stuff comes in handy at times Mac.
We do have a pruning session every now and again of things that arent technical problems but we decided that some of the older technical posts could still be useful, if we could find them  :)

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 29, 2006, 08:14

I've not noticed any reduction in speed at the moment either, Rod.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: davy51 on March 29, 2006, 14:20

the speed and the buttons seem to be working fine on my dialup account

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 29, 2006, 18:20

Quote from: "Sandra"

...some of the older technical posts could still be useful, if we could find them.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 29, 2006, 18:31

Sandra may be referring to the forum search engine, which often seems to be hit and miss, and more miss than hit!

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 29, 2006, 18:39

Too much to look through probably.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 29, 2006, 18:40

Indeed!

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on March 31, 2006, 02:56

Quote from: "Sandra"

The old stuff comes in handy at times Mac.
We do have a pruning session every now and again of things that arent technical problems but we decided that some of the older technical posts could still be useful, if we could find them.

I spent this evening clearing out everything prior to 1st January 2006

Title: Logon
Post by: Mac on March 31, 2006, 20:54

Recent HTML works OK when I am logged on but not otherwise.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on March 31, 2006, 22:31

If you go into your profile, there are yes / no radio buttons to 'Always allow HTML'.  Is yours selected 'Yes'?

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on April 01, 2006, 11:32

Good Morning Simon, Yes it is.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on April 01, 2006, 13:21

Yes, I think you have to be logged on to view the HTML sigs.

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on April 01, 2006, 17:34

It is on older posts going back to 2002

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Simon on April 01, 2006, 19:57

Yeah, those are the ones that didn't migrate properly, when we switched from YaBB to PhpBB forum software.  We could go through and correct them all, but quite frankly, we can't be arsed.  :)

Title: Update
Post by: Mac on April 02, 2006, 13:32

I know the feeling. I just ditched all my data prior to the 1st January 2006 as there was little point in sorting it.

Update http://pc-pals.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125326#125323

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Clive on April 05, 2006, 14:13

A big  :welcome: Mac!

Title: This is my favourite piece of hardware. Good looking too!
Post by: Mac on April 13, 2006, 19:44

Thank you Clive.

:thanks:

Do I get french fries and a coke with the big Mac?