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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (13318)	5/26/2002 10:10:05 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I am ordering a new Dell. It's interesting that the prices differ depending on whether or not you click on the main web site that you are a home or business user. Essentially I can get a machine with Rambus memory from the "business" site for the same price (and free shipping) that I can get a machine with non-Rambus memory on the "home" site (w/o free shipping). Rambus memory is faster and thus "more desirable," correct?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (13318)	5/28/2002 4:45:00 PM
From: Robert Graham	Respond to of 14778

I worked for a medical imaging company, one of the largest in the world. And they found through tests that the 2D image quality of the Matrox G-series of card to be of medical imaging quality, comparable to scientific cards at five or more times the price. This is the card that you can purchase right off-the-shelf at a retail store. They ended up using the Matrox card for an Endoscope system that they sell to hospitals. My only complaint with Matrox is they do not update their BIOS and drivers as frequently as they should. So for my recent PC upgrade to a very new operating system, WinXP, I decided to purchase the GeForce4 440 MX. NVidia is known for their BIOS and driver upgrades. Bob Graham

To: TraderAlan who wrote (13318)	6/14/2002 10:29:07 PM
From: TraderAlan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

I'm relocating my home-office and will be spending 2 weeks in a hotel that features high speed internet through wayport.com. I have 3 networked PCs, and techs at Wayport got nasty when I asked how to share the connection among PCs. To use their system, you connect direct through the NIC and it uses NAT to give you access. They record the machine ID on the NIC for billing. Is there a way to route their connect through a gateway/switch/router that will make them think only one machine is accessing it? I'm using a simple D-Link 5 port switch right now. My net access (right now) is still dial up on one machine with Wingate doing the ICS. If a gateway wont fool the system, can my PC handle two NICs at once?? I'd use one to get the incoming Net and the second to connect to the other PCs through Wingate. Wayport would only see one machine?? BTW I checked the Acceptable Use and this is all legal. Their techies just wont support my efforts. Alan