Joerg snipped-for-privacy@removethispacbell.net posted to sci.electronics.design:
To each their own. The build it yourself is a lot better general desktop box. For your purposes the video card seems to be overkill. The extra memory really improves performance. And XP home is unacceptable for anything that might be used as a server of any kind.
Nice to know they're good for *something* ;-)
-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)
Mine's pretty good, he is also a tax attorney and they do the taxes for us every year. But that's not the guy who gave the advice about my magnesium deficiency. This one can't suffer back pains because he rides his Harley a lot.
It's not going to be a server, there is a little Linux-based drive box that does that. XP home is fine for CAD and all that, two other PCs have that here, no complaints other than I'd rather have Win2K.
Video is always overkill for me, I rarely go over 600*800. Eyes don't become younger. I'll see if it already has two VGA outputs. If not I may put another cheap graphics card in there and rig up a 2nd monitor to write the module specs on while drawing schematics. Right now that's done on a 2nd PC.
Actually, where it came from was I put my photos from a South Lake Tahoe hiking trip onto DVD-RW, and then kept the DVD-RW in my backpack. When I went to a meeting in Ontario, one of my co-workers wanted to see the pictures. Some of the pictures refused to load - some had white noise on the bottom half. That seriously killed my confidence in DVD-RWs as backups.
Daily 7za / tar / sha1sum backups to a network drive it is.
And, for what it's worth, I'm a chemical engineer working for the State.
MJoerg snipped-for-privacy@removethispacbell.net posted to sci.electronics.design:
I usually have medium to good video. My eyes are getting older as well, but it is expressed in loss of close focus, not resolution loss. Thus, i really love my 22 inch widescreen 1680 by 1050 LCD.
Around age 40, you start to notice that your arms are getting shorter ;-)
-- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it." (Stephen Leacock)
Mine don't have resolution loss either but I get tired faster when fonts are small.
Nope. It's just that the matter moves to other regions, usually lays itself around the belly as a ring. IOW we grow sideways instead of longer.
Fred Abse snipped-for-privacy@cerebrumconfus.it posted to sci.electronics.design:
My experience has been different than yours, i seem to be buying even longer sleeves than in my youth.
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