Got Computer Questions?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by jjonas

Okay you Geeks... go get a (chat)room or something... ha ha ha !!!

Soooo funny!

Great idea, Lee, meet me on irc.freenode.net

[Bob Elliott]

Ah.. one of my keys has DEL on it.
Anyone know what it is for?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

You hit that key when you want to make an order at del taco.

[Charley L. Bottger]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Soooo funny!

Great idea, Lee, meet me on irc.freenode.net

I will pass the message and let you network guys have at it if it does not have Freon in it I am lost.

[Charley L. Bottger]

Originally Posted by relliott

Ah.. one of my keys has DEL on it.
Anyone know what it is for?

Hold down that key as the last one on each of your post

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Hahahahaa.

[phinsperger]

I need a quantity of old mother boards. They do not need to be working or have CPU's or memory or anything, just not visually dammaged. I am strapping the ceiling of my young son's bedroom ceiling and screwing the mother boards to the strapping. This gives the ceiling a very high-tech look. May sound bizzare but sometimes bizzare can look cool to some people.

Currently I have enough mother boards from local computer repair shops to do about 1/3 of the ceiling but its taken almost a year to get that many. If anyone has some they don't want and would like to ship them to me that would be great.

Originally Posted by cwhite2

I do the same except I have 3 directories C = my operating system (Windows) only, D = just my programs & Z = a 2nd separate hard drive just for mass storage. This way, after a while when Windows gets buggy & sluggish - I can do a clean install of the operating system only & not have to re-install EVERYTHING else too.

After the reinstalltion of the operating system do you not also need to reinstall a backed-up copy of the registry in order for most of those programs on your D drive to work? And if so, isn't that registy one of the main causes for slow down in the first place?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Paul, I WISH you had posted this 2 weeks ago. I just had ewaste pick up 150 old computers and hundreds of motherboards. I'll look around and see what I still have, I'm sure I can scrounge some up.

Yes, if you keep your programs on a separate drive you will still need to reinstall them because of the registry issues. Vista was supposed to eliminate the registry but it was yet another thing they failed to do.

Cool thing about Home Inspector Pro We don't write to the registry at all, so in this case you wouldn't need it. More programs will hopefully write like that soon.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

How many boards do you want btw?

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

How many boards do you want btw?

about enough to do 900 square Feet.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Hey Roy, do you need them too, or do you just know how much he needs?

Dominic

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Thats a HUGE ceiling!

[phinsperger]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Paul, I WISH you had posted this 2 weeks ago. I just had ewaste pick up 150 old computers and hundreds of motherboards.

Originally Posted by dmaricic

How many boards do you want btw?

Roy's finger must have got stuck on the zero About 90 more should do it.

Originally Posted by dmaricic

I'll look around and see what I still have, I'm sure I can scrounge some up.

I would really appreciate that.

I have also thought about installing LED lights controled by a separate switch with the lights mounted either through some of the unused mounting holes on the boards or leave a couple of inches gap around the perimeter of the ceiling with coloured lighting just behind to reflect of the corner of the of the wall/ceiling. I'm kind of leaning toward the later.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

LED's through the mounting holes shouldn't be too hard, especially if you get out your soldering gun.

[Roy D. Cooke, Sr]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Hey Roy, do you need them too, or do you just know how much he needs?

Dominic

No I just used logic and figured he needed about 90 sq ft I had ONE too may oughts sorry
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