Archive through June 25, 2001

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Nancy

Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 04:50 pm Click here to edit this post
lol zeb==

Wcv63

Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 05:07 pm Click here to edit this post
And here I was thinking it was the guy that stood by the big helium tank filling up round colorful latex spheres for children.

Zeb

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 09:07 am Click here to edit this post
What is the difference between DDR memory and regular SDRAM?

Labmouse

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 09:51 am Click here to edit this post
DDR memory is a fairly new memory technology stemming from SDRAM. It is almost identical in physical characteristics, but with twice the data transfer rate (or bandwidth). DDR memory moves data at a peak 2.1GB/sec., moving data at twice the speed of SDRAM. Amazingly it sells at a cost that is comparable to that of SDRAM. Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) which is found in newer Pentium 4 systems, can only reach speeds up to 1.6GB/sec, half that of PC-2100 DDR memory. Plus, Rambus memory still is extremely costly.

Wcv63

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 03:10 pm Click here to edit this post
Once again I must agree with Labmouse....

Zeb

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Yes, Labmouse is pretty coo

Zeb

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:53 pm Click here to edit this post
The new motherboards coming out have what's called RAID support for hard drives. Exactly what is RAID and how does it work?

Wcv63

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 10:08 pm Click here to edit this post
RAID is a bug spray that kills BUGS DEAD. Sorry but it had to be said.

Misslibra

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:45 pm Click here to edit this post
It means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, it allows you to spread info over several dics using stripping of disk and disk mirroring. It gives you higher bandwidth, and better recovery from crashes. There are six different types of RAID.

Zeb

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 04:59 am Click here to edit this post
Oh, I just thought of a joke. It was funny.

Congrats ML! Your turn...

Misslibra

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:23 am Click here to edit this post
What was the joke Zeb, or dare I even ask?


OK what is a VERONICA?

Grooch

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:29 am Click here to edit this post
I am completely lost with these questions. I seriously think that any of you guys answering these questions should start a Computer Basics thread for us clueless people.

Ryn

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:49 am Click here to edit this post
Veronica... a good Elvis Costello song...

Dilligaf

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:15 am Click here to edit this post
Wasn't she Jugheads' girlfriend in the Archie comics??

Misslibra

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:20 am Click here to edit this post
Ummmm nope, not even close Ryn, but you knew that right? LOL

Misslibra

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:22 am Click here to edit this post
She sure was Dilli, but we ain't talking girlfriends here. LOL

Dilligaf

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:25 am Click here to edit this post
Ok, ok......isn't it some sort of search engine??

Misslibra

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:27 am Click here to edit this post
Nope!LOL

Wcv63

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 02:13 pm Click here to edit this post
OK what is a VERONICA

That is my daughter, although I occassionally call her Roni which she hates. My son has gotten in the habit of calling her Ronica which she tolerates. She will correct strangers who attempt to use either of these diminutives though.

As far as what VERONICA means to a computer. I have absolutely no idea. I've never heard of that ever.

Misslibra

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 06:19 pm Click here to edit this post
I'll try to give a hint archives. I know not much of a help.

Hey Where is Labmouse or Zeb? Don't tell me you two don't know what it is?!?!

Zeb

Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:34 pm Click here to edit this post
Veronica is a service that maintains an index of titles of gopher items and provides keyword searches of those items. You request a search via a gopher client. The result of a veronica search is a set of gopher-type data items which is returned to the gopher client via a menu. You can access any of the data items by selecting from the returned menu.

Veronica stands for Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives.


(In other words, it's a very archaic search engine these days...just like "gopher".)

Misslibra

Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 01:15 am Click here to edit this post
Zeb, you got it. I wanted to give it to Dilli, but I couldn't just let her say Search Engine. I had to hear Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives.
I think we should give it to her, because basically she was right. Dilli it's your turn.

Dilligaf

Sunday, June 24, 2001 - 07:11 am Click here to edit this post
Awww shucks!

OK, I'm asking this question because I truly need to know the answer. So when someone gets it right, let me know!! LOL

What is the difference between an AMD Athlon processor and a Pentium 4 processor? And which one is better?? :)

Misslibra

Monday, June 25, 2001 - 02:04 pm Click here to edit this post
Dilli, the AMD Athlon processor is faster then the Pentium 4 processor, I do know that much, but that is all I know. Maybe Labmouse or Zeb can help you on this one.

Faerygdds

Monday, June 25, 2001 - 06:01 pm Click here to edit this post
I need to know this answer too... it's time to upgrade and don't know what I want/need