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To: wily who wrote (7411)	5/7/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: mowa	Respond to of 14778

wily, I picket up my Matrox 4-port from a friend who resells, for $600. One thing about Appian that I found curious was that for a company that does ONLY multi-mon cards and has enough of a rep. that they are the first one I heard of, on their site I found no hard data, just alot of marketing fluff. I couldn't find any spec-sheets, prices, or any links to a reseller that featured the 4-port, a very shallow site. And as you said, what they did go to pains to describe (the software), I kept getting an impression was standard, almost as if to cover for a card that was behind the curve (and no bargain). I am still interested to hear stories from an actual Appian user. By the way, a correction, the Matrox software does have hot-key switching. I just hadn't found it yet. mowa

To: wily who wrote (7411)	5/7/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

>>The features you mention are all in the Matrox software as well (except hot-key switching) and I get the impression pretty standard on the Big Four (Appian, STB, Matrox, Colorgraphics).<< mowa, Thanks for all that info. I didn't realize the other cards came with similar desktop control in their software -- the sales rep at the reseller made it sound like they (Matrox, STB, etc.) were still in the stone ages in that respect -- and looking at their web-sites you wouldn't know any different: Appian is the only one that takes the trouble to describe what kind of desktop control features you will have. And that's where my decision STARTS, because I'm not likely to even notice the differences in image quality. Very good points. I don't think the built in multi-mon is 98 gives you this flexibilty. These features have always seen to vary from card to card... Anyone, what do kind of controls do the matrox multi-mon cards or multipe Matrox Milleniums, G200's, etc give you under NT. Sean Sean

To: wily who wrote (7411)	5/9/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Service Pack 5 for Windows NT officially released This time it's official: Microsoft has released a fifth Service Pack for WinNT 4.0, making your install CD even more outta date. (I saw the news at the 'shack, who gleaned it from Redw00d, by the way.) This is a cumulative patch; SP5 is all you'll need to update after a fresh install. Here are the most requested updates and fix included in SP5: - DHCP Server of SP4 Ignores Reservations - SP4 forces cluster servers to be taken off and online - Windows NT 4.0 SP4 Does Not Update MTS Files - Duplicate SCSI Logical Unit (LUN) 0 When LargeLUNs Registry Key Enabled - Under stress, a computer running Windows NT Server or Workstation may display a STOP 0x0000001E error message on a blue screen. - Cannot configure ODBC logging when using Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.0 SP1, SP4, and Proxy Server 2.0. - Secondary WINS query delayed by 1500ms even when primary WINS returns 'na - Using SP4, RCP "host:foo ." fails whereas RCP "host:foo foo" - SP4 systems access the hard disks every five minutes, which interferes with Power Management. I like that fifth item. They fixed the BSOD! They fixed the BSOD! (From now it, it's the Green Screen of Death, dag nabbit.) And, to Panders's surprise, the 40 and 128-bit versions are both available (it always seems like the 128-bit version of anything comes out days later). For those of you not yet ready to take the plunge all at once, get info on individual hotfixes from Panders' excellent article on Life After SP4. -Damage & Panders ars-technica.com Epox Dual Celeron Adapter Out: epox.com MSI also has released their new version: cpu-central.com Radio Shack sells these blowers for $10: nidec.com