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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2677)	9/26/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Old Subject: I would be willing to volunteer to help with the indexing of posts to the Dream Machine thread. New Subject: Has anybody else ever heard of a prepaid Internet Calling card? The card gives you 800 access to the Internet from any place in the lower 48 states. The rates are 10 cents a minute and the minimum time increment you can buy is 200 minutes( $20.00 ). It sounds like a pretty good deal if you plan on using the Internet when traveling. I have heard of other Internet service providers, ISP, that charge as low as $5.00 per hour for 800 access to the Internet. However, none of them has a local number in my home town. Do you know of any hidden gotchas I should look out for. Note, as far as I know all ISP make you pay the regular monthly local access fee in addition to the 800 access fee when using an 800 number to access the Internet..

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2677)	9/26/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Report on PowerLeap PL586-133 upgrade for my 486-66 computer. After installing the new chip I booted up and the computer identified the new chip as a AM486DXL4 @ 120 MHz. I then timed the boot-up again to see how much faster the process was with the new chip. I was astounded to learn it was not any faster at all!! I boot to a DOS shell then I have the option to go to Win 95 or something else. The boot to the DOS shell is 41 seconds with either chip and to load Win 95 is 80 seconds either chip (the upgrade was even a few seconds slower the second time). The next time the computer hung when loading Win 95 with the new chip. I never have problems like that. Well back to DOS and QTPro diagnostic software. I did a processor core analysis and shock me again, the chip is a 80486 operating at 94-97 MHz. !!!!!! Shame on PowerLeap for trying to pass off a piece of junk like this as a 586-133. I am sending it back. It is not what they advertised at all and this is dishonest of them IMO. This is their ad about the chip: <<PL/586-133 Qty $89.99 133 MHz 5x86 upgrade for 486 computers. Includes AMD X5-133 CPU, heatsink/fan cooling unit, tool for removing old CPU, Installation Guide. 3-year warranty. SKU #749920586330.>> Any comments from anyone?? Bob

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2677)	9/26/1998 8:10:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP Not all posts would be incorporated in a list. Exactly...... I would think the primary use for the index is retrival of previously discussed info on specific topics. Trying to index all posts is not needed. Posts with multi-faceted information should be deal with as you have been doing (placed in all pertinent folders.) Toms Hardware Message boards are based on a folder within folder idea which could be used for example. Clarence

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2677)	9/26/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>the best of List<< I'm just jumping in here... At SI, there is the personal profilie that others can read the messages from that poster. Some messages, however, are a waste of time reading. Maybe the SI staff can allow each poster to decide if it is one of their best messages and ear mark that to "The Best of Frank" new category. This is for SI general posts to all thread, not necessarily the way to index the dream thread. S.W.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2677)	9/26/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>>Various responses on "Give it up ZP" Yes, sorry if I misunderstood. The (usually thankless) task of indexing is labor intensive for the indexer and highly beneficial to those who use the index. Hangers-on, we are. If you have the fortitude for this, my hat's off to you, and you're doing yeoman service for which we all owe you a great debt, and even more owed by readers in the future (some of them us, some of them new). Regards, Spots (PS, I'm off tomorrow for two weeks. Going to hit Opryland in Nashville and Dollyland on the way. Georges willing and the creek don't rise. I'm sure the thread will survive, though <G>. Uh, thrive is probably the better word <GGG>.)