Recent content by Croaker24

I think I hit some sort of bug. I cannot seem to get the program to recognize the completion of the first shooting range objective during the initial training mission, where you must fire a M1 Carbine and hit the target 12 times. I completely obliterate the target, even using up all my...

Another new owner of the 940b. No dead pixels, no issues. This is my first LCD and it's a shock to see how much lighter this thing is compared to my 1,000 lb trinitron. Because my old CRT was basically a dying, washed-out relict, the 940b right out of the box looks so much better...

Received the machine yesterday. My experiences thus far are very similar as to that in the review -- needing to install the Creative software, the nDVD program, etc. Booted up Half-Life 2, Lost Coast, and it was an amazing difference, the improvement in performance, in video, and...

I realize that this is an old thread, but there is a subtitle mod for Doom3 available. If anyone is interested I'll post the link. Unfortunately, Quake 4 is not subtitled. I would like to know if speech is a big part of this game, and the inability to understand it would compromise...

db2? Ah, I liken that to SQL Server -- where the archictecture has locks as a resource, instead of as an attribute of the record as the case with Oracle. Course, I haven't touched it ages, so maybe that's changed.

Peoplesoft is an enterprise application anyway, hardly relevant.. I work with both Oracle and to an lesser extent, SQL Server. I got to think they both would be overkill for a forum database app, but there multiple flavors of each, such as Enterprise, Standard, Express, etc. MySQL...

Appreciate if you could try as my machine won't be here until late Monday after. Thanks.

Basically a general-purpose box, some self-training on VIsual Studio/.NET/C# plus probably throw Oracle on there for quick R&D, but I've got some older titles gathering dust, such as Warcraft 3 and Gothic 2 that have been sitting here for a while that I'd like to play.

Well this review comes at perhaps an inopportune time. I have a system that I ordered from Puget that just was shipped, with a config very similar to the specs of the system that was reviewed. I knew from my research that there were some issues with games on the dual-core, and I asked...

Bucken, Keep in mind that when you configure a system at Puget, you start with a baseline price of $0 so the labor is built into the components cost, while at other sites, the labor is built into the system baseline, so you start with some initial cost of $1500 or more. I priced Puget...

Arrggh. I've already ordered the system, so now I'm anticipating your Puget systems article with a little bit of dread. It's nice to know their RMA process is great --- I think! As for tech support, I actually think I would be perusing or posting on these forums looking for it more...

Just ordered from Puget Systems: Asus A8N-SLI Premium AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ Thermaltake TK-A1838 (Silent Boost) Corsair PC3200 1GB Value Series CAS (2) Lian-Li PC7H+ w/ Window (black) Samsung HD160JJ 160GB SpinPoint SATA II BFG nVidia GeForce 7800 GT 256MB...

FWIW, I decided to go with Puget, after also considering ABS and Velocity Micro. Price-wise, they were all fairly close, but Puget's tech support was by far the most responsive, and their answers were much much informative. Furthermore, as I'm a deaf individual, it was important that...

I'm having 2nd thoughts on getting the AMD dual-core, and may go for a powerful single-core. Perusing the AMD site, and some threads on HardOCP, I see that there seems to be some sporadic performance issues related to timing for the dual-core chips. From the gist of the conversations, it...

Thanks Doc. I had taken a brief glimpse at ABS early in the process, and for some reason, I seemed to have overlooked them. A 2nd look is warranted.