Nancy | Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 04:50 pm  lol zeb== |
Wcv63 | Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - 05:07 pm  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  What is the difference between DDR memory and regular SDRAM? |
Labmouse | Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 09:51 am  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  Once again I must agree with Labmouse.... |
Zeb | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:52 pm  Yes, Labmouse is pretty coo |
Zeb | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 08:53 pm  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  RAID is a bug spray that kills BUGS DEAD. Sorry but it had to be said. |
Misslibra | Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:45 pm  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  Oh, I just thought of a joke. It was funny. Congrats ML! Your turn... |
Misslibra | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:23 am  What was the joke Zeb, or dare I even ask? OK what is a VERONICA? |
Grooch | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 09:29 am  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  Veronica... a good Elvis Costello song... |
Dilligaf | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:15 am  Wasn't she Jugheads' girlfriend in the Archie comics?? |
Misslibra | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:20 am  Ummmm nope, not even close Ryn, but you knew that right? LOL  |
Misslibra | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:22 am  She sure was Dilli, but we ain't talking girlfriends here. LOL  |
Dilligaf | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:25 am  Ok, ok......isn't it some sort of search engine?? |
Misslibra | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 10:27 am  Nope!LOL  |
Wcv63 | Saturday, June 23, 2001 - 02:13 pm  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  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  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  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  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  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  I need to know this answer too... it's time to upgrade and don't know what I want/need  |