@uxwbill I thought the m0n0wall machine was a 233. maybe I'm wrong, its not my machine after all. you could re-use the old switch, just press it on and off quickly to turn it on with the soft power on header on the board, it avoids making a new switch work. or hook it up to the reset button!
what speed internet do you have? must be pretty bad if uploading saturates your download aswell. Here in AU where i live i got 24mbit down and 1mbit up.
But i also have a mobile internet connection using the cell network which can give me 40mbit down and 10mbit up.
I like your vid uploads Bill,Especially bringing back and giving life to those old pcs,Such a waste when people just throw them out because they are outdated.
I have an old Sempron 2800+ 2ghz,1.25Gb of ram and a 9600 pro system in the attic,Not sure what i could do with it though bill,Any suggestions?
@uxwbill Yeah, I remember it well, I was able to sleep no problem with it doing it's thing in the background. Made a great file server as there was only the occasional ticking noise from the hard drive at night and I couldn't even hear the fan.
We getting fiber around here soon . Used to Own on them . got From a School in 2005 it work then it just stop . i think MOBO went out . One i had with Windows 95 on it .
Hey uxwbill, for your m0n0wall machine, I have a spare, unused Corsair HX520W PSU. However, in order to power on the firewall machine, you can either buy a Power switch to hook up to the panel connection or use the reset switch as the power button. I looked up the manual for the motherboard and the power switch connection is right next to the reset switch, across from the BIOS PC speaker connection. I'll send you the link for the manual.
Nice, we have one similar computer at work, running windows 98. The only thing it does is display a java window in Internet Explorer, sorta like a remote graphical terminal interface. I have never seen this computer swiched off, and work is 24/5...
In my experience HP makes reliable desktops, but laptops that fall apart when looked at the wrong way (or do their best to melt themselves, like my old Tx2). Of course, the Jornada/lx palmtops have proven themselves the exception, if my 320lx has anything to say about that.
Have you thought about running FreeNAS on this machine? I'm asking this because I figured out that these old machines use less than 30 watts while newer ones like your DELL video NAS server requires at least 100 watts only to run in idle most of the time.
nice old machine!, I have seen a lot of them around here, dismantled a lot too.
sadly most are out of circulation and scrapped
my first PC I built (using junk parts) was a multi-voltage mainboard too, 75mhz up to 233. I had a P75 running at 100mhz at one stage, with a bigger heatsink, it never complained!
@Aussie50 Many of them have gone to the scrappers here as well. Yet I still find them, in forgotten corners where they gather dust or were hidden behind other stuff. I found another one a few months ago at a data processing company. It was probably en route to the recyclers, but I saved it. Given their decreasing availabilty, I keep the ones I find in good working order and do my best to keep them operational. (I have lots of spare parts.)
You forgot to mention the 2 missing video ram chips I have worked on those before and had to replace the on board ram chips . If you do not know which chip it is or what it does let me know I will be glad to tell you.
@ncrdisabled Those are just sockets for video RAM expansion. I have populated them on the systems with S3 video hardware. There is little point to doing so if you run Windows NT/2000/XP with Cirrus Logic video hardware, as the Cirrus display driver miniport was hardcoded to assume a maximum of 1MB video memory.
I suspect most people won't use them. I usually harvested the needed chips from other dead video cards if they had what I needed.
hmm i did a machine like that a fair few years ago, it was running w95b and it needed to run w98se to run the writing package the new owner needed.
It worked fine for the owner for 3 years untill a family member got the owner a new laptop.
Many years ago i was given a mchine with the upright memory strips but some plonker had broken all the lock tabs so i got a plastic dolly peg and hacksawwed slots into it to make an upsidedown toast rack to keep the strips upright :-) so evil but it worked.
Ahh, these look very similar to what I used in middle school, except the ones I used only had a floppy drive. It just had a cover where the CD drive would have been (because we know what school kids do to CD drives!) Yep, my school used 133Mhz Pentium's, 32MB of RAM, and 500MB hard disks.
@mylazyfatcat Some rest for a while before I find the perfect project. Some are spares, parts donors, loaners, boat anchors, while others that I don't use might end up recycled if they don't have any real value.
This takes me down memory lane. The third computer I ever owned, I got for $20 at a TV repair shop, was an HP Vectra. I don't remember specifics and I no longer have that machine but I know it was a 486 @ 66 mhz. And like is said in the video, they used the same chassis layout and style. The one in the video looks almost exactly like my 486 did. Mine had an issue with the power button. I think the spring was missing or something, but it wouldn't stay on without something to hold it on.
@pcgod8 I have a 486 based Vectra XA desktop picked up from the curb. It's a different color, though it uses the same chassis as this machine. It also has more buttons on the front panel. It has been sitting for a while, though perhaps I will haul it out and do a video.
@uxwbill Oh thats right, I completly forgot about that video. I remember watching it about a year ago, when it showed up on my subscriptions page. I should've searched your channel for it. Thanks!
I had a vectra VE once, but It was hit by a surge through my dial-up modem in 1998. It was not worth fixing as the whole this was fried. even the floppy drive. Older HPs are actually reliable, unlike most newer PC's.
I purchased that machine at a community College auction, I can't remember what I paid for it, but I think I got it pretty cheap, probably under $10. It was already loaded up on RAM when I got it, and it already had the 133 chip installed and overclocked. Make no mistake, those Vectra Desktops are great little units.
Upon watching this video and thinking about it, I think I recall replacing the battery in a machine, and I think it was in one of the Vectras, may that unit is the one that got the new battery, I recall Radio Shack wanted the exact battery number to make sure they sold me the correct replacement and I had to make a second trip.
Ah! An HP Vectra! I have two of those! Both are having a little bit of a trouble. One is having a trouble recognizing the hard drive and the other blew out my surge protector. I know it worked on the same surge protector before ,but for some reason it blew it out this time. I'm probably going to try and boot it up using a different power strip and in my garage. To see if it was the computer or just the surge protector.
Interesting machine. I've got a similar one (probably the series 3 ; S3 video + 200MHz label)
That's the one i mentioned on one of your videos (Pentium Pro NAS box ?) which went totally berserk (random lockups, freezes, BSOD's etc.) till i "replaced" the caps on the mainboard. well.. i didn't actually replace them..just soldered new ones in parallel. The originals are all SMD.. painus in the anus to properly change them >:(
originals smelled like rotten fish while soldering. definitely all bad..
I have somewhere about a rather old 200 Mhz Pentium Pro and for their time, I reckon they were the best things, my old 200 could out perform pentium 2 computers up to 300 Mhz. I don't even know if the computer still turns on.
@uxwbill You should see my setup, 2 network cards, 1 for Internet (Verizon FiOS, 31/26), 1 for LAN. The server physically runs VMware ESXi, which is a VM operating system that you control remotely. Anyways, I have a VM setup to run pfSense that is bonded to both network cards as well as the other server VM's (Ubuntu & Win2k8) bonded just to the LAN. Old machines are perfect for this kind of thing. With my new server, my old computers sit out to pasture. Do you have an idea to do with them?
I had a Vectra VL2 4/50 (486 SX2/50!) in the same case, still use the HP keyboard it came with, did you get that in the deal? I know he had it.
Yes, fiber is good, have a 35Mbit/35Mbit Fios connection here. YouTube is still slow at loading videos for playback and the upload is dog slow too. BlogTV streams work well though, could even do HD if I wanted to.
@NJRoadfan SX2/50...think I've got one of those CPUs, pulled from a Packard Bell (what else?) around here someplace. Never had much reason to use it. I did not get the keyboard, but that's OK. I have lots of good keyboards to use, including a really neat looking HP one that is like no other HP 'board I've ever seen.
With weasel's connectivity, video uploads were just lightning fast. He also noted getting more speed than what his chosen class of service was "supposed" to have.
@uxwbill Interestingly enough, there is optical fiber running right in front of the Roach Palace. It was marked off when I had the electricity installed. What it's doing (if anything) I could not say. Even so, it's kind of cool to know it is there.
@NJRoadfan My main problem with FiOS is that you only get an 8 hour battery backup, and as I learned twice over the past few months, 8 hours just doesn't cut it when your power is out for 6 days!
Installed key is not for safening your hardware or case,in position "unlocked" computer will boot in position "locked" computer will not boot at all!Of course,this option work if key is conected to the apropriate conector on the board!Key is usually cut of from the board,or cables are removed!I used to have Siemens Scenic on 133MHz,also with Intel processor,and key was on it!
@zrenex1 A lot depends upon what the computer maker decided to do when they put the key lock into place. I didn't make my comments with no basis in fact. There is no wiring or switch going to the switch on *any* similar model HP Vectra PC in either the desktop or tower case that I have seen. I've had a lot of them and each one is the same way. The key lock only moves a "tongue" into place that prevents opening the case, at least in theory.
@zrenex1 On those desktop vectras, the lock is only for securing the (otherwise screwless IIRC) top cover. It's just a metal tab that moves up to prevent the cover from being pulled off. No electrical connections whatsoever.
@91jchevy87ec1 SmoothWall is connection firewalling, content filtering, intrusion detection/monitoring and many other things all rolled into one software package based on the GNU/Linux operating system.
we have fiber where I live (north chi burbs), but that shit is way too expensive! I also have it at work and it is quite nice, but you won't really notice it unless you do a LOT of uploading and downloading of large files.
(Speed at work is like 120Mbps down and 100 or so up)
btw, why do you sound as if you were chewing on something the whole time? Sick?
@andruha11234 I would gladly give up a few meals, it's not like doing so could hurt! (See, fiber IS good for you!)
Uploading videos would be greatly benefited by additional upload bandwidth, as would certain BlogTV shows. ;-)
I was chewing on some hard candy that was left over from Halloween. I have inherited my father's bad habit of chewing on stuff like hard candy and ice. I suspect that in time I will pay for doing so.
did you get your m0n0wall machine rebuilt? It's certainly more powerful than the Vectra (the Vectra is a whole lot more interesting, though)
IamFat32 1 week ago
@IamFat32 Not yet. It needs a power supply. I finally have one to use with it, though the case and power switch will require reworking.
The two are pretty much equally matched. I think they're both Pentium 150 machines.
uxwbill 1 week ago
@uxwbill I thought the m0n0wall machine was a 233. maybe I'm wrong, its not my machine after all. you could re-use the old switch, just press it on and off quickly to turn it on with the soft power on header on the board, it avoids making a new switch work. or hook it up to the reset button!
IamFat32 1 week ago
Watching this on Windows 98. Total offtopic....
spongebobrules99 1 week ago
@spongebobrules99 It seems like everyone is watching on Windows 98 as late.
uxwbill 1 week ago
This feature will let a computer processor 150 MGH ?
Petya642 2 weeks ago
HP
Back when they were respectable machines,and morally sound people not doing each other night and day.(Or at least it was well kept secret.)
They make JUNK for consumers now.Plastic throwaway landfill toxins.
My wife's 486/20 was upgraded to a 486dx/133 and ran all the way until Pentium II machines were cheap.MAYBE 16m memory and 800mb HDD on Win95
dddevildogg1 1 month ago
what speed internet do you have? must be pretty bad if uploading saturates your download aswell. Here in AU where i live i got 24mbit down and 1mbit up.
But i also have a mobile internet connection using the cell network which can give me 40mbit down and 10mbit up.
what speed is the fibre around there?
TheColinputer 2 months ago
THat was one of my First Computers, Well, Untill Windows 98 (I think) Failed, and it sat in my Aunts Shead for about 3-4 years.
AaronNancey 2 months ago
what exactly is that os never heard of it
Matthew55904 2 months ago
i had one of those, years ago i bought a second hand optiplex (pentium 2 i think) and the place threw in a hp vectra pentium 1 for free
gmcnewlook 2 months ago
how much does that harddrive hold
grahamrees87 2 months ago
@grahamrees87 It is a 1GB Quantum hard drive.
uxwbill 2 months ago
@uxwbill No Quantum 2gb
Petya642 2 months ago
I like your vid uploads Bill,Especially bringing back and giving life to those old pcs,Such a waste when people just throw them out because they are outdated.
I have an old Sempron 2800+ 2ghz,1.25Gb of ram and a 9600 pro system in the attic,Not sure what i could do with it though bill,Any suggestions?
MrNevakonaza 2 months ago
I'm pretty sure I've used one of these before. aren't they completely passively cooled?
cozmoz365 2 months ago
@cozmoz365 Oh, my bad.
cozmoz365 2 months ago
@cozmoz365 Close but not quite. The CPU does not get a huge breeze from that slow turning PSU fan. It seems to work, though.
uxwbill 2 months ago
@uxwbill Yeah, I remember it well, I was able to sleep no problem with it doing it's thing in the background. Made a great file server as there was only the occasional ticking noise from the hard drive at night and I couldn't even hear the fan.
cozmoz365 2 months ago
id have that computer just for all the old games like doom2, ROTT, blake stone and all that :D.
V8Jagnut 2 months ago
@V8Jagnut Ah yes ROTT, oh I used to love that game, it was damn awesome, oh yes the old MS-DOS games, those were indeed the days.
Lachlant1984 2 months ago
if only i could get T1 or T3
naterade21 2 months ago
@naterade21 T1 and T3 are so slow tho my home internet is 10mbps faster than T3
LaithBSoul 2 months ago
@LaithBSoul t1 used to be like uber fast
naterade21 2 months ago
We getting fiber around here soon . Used to Own on them . got From a School in 2005 it work then it just stop . i think MOBO went out . One i had with Windows 95 on it .
FrozenParanormalwolf 2 months ago
And by the way, at my Mom's, we have fiber optic internet.....very fast for uploading videos.
Dell0304 3 months ago
I finally can watch this video....I tried before, but I was at my dad's house.
Cool. I used to have a Vectra VL6 Series 6 but I threw it out....it had a few problems.
Dell0304 3 months ago
Hey uxwbill, for your m0n0wall machine, I have a spare, unused Corsair HX520W PSU. However, in order to power on the firewall machine, you can either buy a Power switch to hook up to the panel connection or use the reset switch as the power button. I looked up the manual for the motherboard and the power switch connection is right next to the reset switch, across from the BIOS PC speaker connection. I'll send you the link for the manual.
WinVistaUser2 3 months ago
At the beginning I thought if you were talking about fiber in your diet. xD
HayLotion 3 months ago
Hey Bill !,
How fast is fiber in misouri ??
jasmenter 3 months ago
@jasmenter Very fast...videos uploaded in MINUTES as opposed to hours.
uxwbill 2 months ago
@jasmenter When they were there, 1GB video Less than 20 minutes to upload to Youtube.
weasel2htm 2 months ago
Nice, we have one similar computer at work, running windows 98. The only thing it does is display a java window in Internet Explorer, sorta like a remote graphical terminal interface. I have never seen this computer swiched off, and work is 24/5...
Da9eI 3 months ago
In my experience HP makes reliable desktops, but laptops that fall apart when looked at the wrong way (or do their best to melt themselves, like my old Tx2). Of course, the Jornada/lx palmtops have proven themselves the exception, if my 320lx has anything to say about that.
poopskinTheLiar 3 months ago
Have you thought about running FreeNAS on this machine? I'm asking this because I figured out that these old machines use less than 30 watts while newer ones like your DELL video NAS server requires at least 100 watts only to run in idle most of the time.
Bandicoot803 3 months ago
The Machines from HP, Dell back then were awesome cause you could overclock them with the dip switches.
mastermind48451 3 months ago
Were you eating a turkey while recording this? :)
f16madlion 3 months ago 4
@f16madlion No. The rule is to never eat anything bigger than your head. I was having some candy.
uxwbill 3 months ago 5
nice old machine!, I have seen a lot of them around here, dismantled a lot too.
sadly most are out of circulation and scrapped
my first PC I built (using junk parts) was a multi-voltage mainboard too, 75mhz up to 233. I had a P75 running at 100mhz at one stage, with a bigger heatsink, it never complained!
Aussie50 3 months ago
@Aussie50 Many of them have gone to the scrappers here as well. Yet I still find them, in forgotten corners where they gather dust or were hidden behind other stuff. I found another one a few months ago at a data processing company. It was probably en route to the recyclers, but I saved it. Given their decreasing availabilty, I keep the ones I find in good working order and do my best to keep them operational. (I have lots of spare parts.)
uxwbill 2 months ago
nice little machine there. i haven't seen too many of those around here for some reason.
lmull3 3 months ago
You forgot to mention the 2 missing video ram chips I have worked on those before and had to replace the on board ram chips . If you do not know which chip it is or what it does let me know I will be glad to tell you.
ncrdisabled 3 months ago
@ncrdisabled Those are just sockets for video RAM expansion. I have populated them on the systems with S3 video hardware. There is little point to doing so if you run Windows NT/2000/XP with Cirrus Logic video hardware, as the Cirrus display driver miniport was hardcoded to assume a maximum of 1MB video memory.
I suspect most people won't use them. I usually harvested the needed chips from other dead video cards if they had what I needed.
uxwbill 3 months ago
Thats a pretty nice machine you got there! I really really like that you are really using some of these old machines for something useful! :)
sk7ca 3 months ago
happy birthday uxwbill
Corvette1658 3 months ago
hmm i did a machine like that a fair few years ago, it was running w95b and it needed to run w98se to run the writing package the new owner needed.
It worked fine for the owner for 3 years untill a family member got the owner a new laptop.
Many years ago i was given a mchine with the upright memory strips but some plonker had broken all the lock tabs so i got a plastic dolly peg and hacksawwed slots into it to make an upsidedown toast rack to keep the strips upright :-) so evil but it worked.
zx8401ztv 3 months ago
Ahh, these look very similar to what I used in middle school, except the ones I used only had a floppy drive. It just had a cover where the CD drive would have been (because we know what school kids do to CD drives!) Yep, my school used 133Mhz Pentium's, 32MB of RAM, and 500MB hard disks.
talldude123 3 months ago
@mylazyfatcat Some rest for a while before I find the perfect project. Some are spares, parts donors, loaners, boat anchors, while others that I don't use might end up recycled if they don't have any real value.
uxwbill 3 months ago
Weasel has Justin Bieber hair!
vwestlife 3 months ago
This takes me down memory lane. The third computer I ever owned, I got for $20 at a TV repair shop, was an HP Vectra. I don't remember specifics and I no longer have that machine but I know it was a 486 @ 66 mhz. And like is said in the video, they used the same chassis layout and style. The one in the video looks almost exactly like my 486 did. Mine had an issue with the power button. I think the spring was missing or something, but it wouldn't stay on without something to hold it on.
pcgod8 3 months ago
@pcgod8 I have a 486 based Vectra XA desktop picked up from the curb. It's a different color, though it uses the same chassis as this machine. It also has more buttons on the front panel. It has been sitting for a while, though perhaps I will haul it out and do a video.
uxwbill 2 months ago
wow, 2 dead PC's both with bad PSUs. hmm... Could you make a video of the old AT PC you showed near the end?
IamFat32 3 months ago
@IamFat32 Would this video do? watch?v=Shltqlvf_Aw
uxwbill 3 months ago
@uxwbill Oh thats right, I completly forgot about that video. I remember watching it about a year ago, when it showed up on my subscriptions page. I should've searched your channel for it. Thanks!
IamFat32 3 months ago
I had a vectra VE once, but It was hit by a surge through my dial-up modem in 1998. It was not worth fixing as the whole this was fried. even the floppy drive. Older HPs are actually reliable, unlike most newer PC's.
IamFat32 3 months ago
Love the old machines! Great vid!
dosman01302 3 months ago
I purchased that machine at a community College auction, I can't remember what I paid for it, but I think I got it pretty cheap, probably under $10. It was already loaded up on RAM when I got it, and it already had the 133 chip installed and overclocked. Make no mistake, those Vectra Desktops are great little units.
weasel2htm 3 months ago
Upon watching this video and thinking about it, I think I recall replacing the battery in a machine, and I think it was in one of the Vectras, may that unit is the one that got the new battery, I recall Radio Shack wanted the exact battery number to make sure they sold me the correct replacement and I had to make a second trip.
weasel2htm 3 months ago
Ah! An HP Vectra! I have two of those! Both are having a little bit of a trouble. One is having a trouble recognizing the hard drive and the other blew out my surge protector. I know it worked on the same surge protector before ,but for some reason it blew it out this time. I'm probably going to try and boot it up using a different power strip and in my garage. To see if it was the computer or just the surge protector.
Unicornguy 3 months ago
im in missouri we got fiber
tss212 3 months ago
nevermind.. i just went lurking under my bed with a flashlight, and it's a Vectra VL Series 4 5/133
Has a Pentium MMX 166 @ 200, 128MB EDO RAM, 512KB COAST and the onboard graphics has the 2 extra VRAM chips from a dead PCI video card i had.
Those things are amazingly quiet. The only fan is an 80mm in the powersupply (temperature regulated). The HDD is actually the loudest part
PS: the original CPU heatsinks are junk. All of them i've seen were concave. No contact in the center of the CPU :(
Knaeckebrotsaege 3 months ago
Interesting machine. I've got a similar one (probably the series 3 ; S3 video + 200MHz label)
That's the one i mentioned on one of your videos (Pentium Pro NAS box ?) which went totally berserk (random lockups, freezes, BSOD's etc.) till i "replaced" the caps on the mainboard. well.. i didn't actually replace them..just soldered new ones in parallel. The originals are all SMD.. painus in the anus to properly change them >:(
originals smelled like rotten fish while soldering. definitely all bad..
Knaeckebrotsaege 3 months ago
That's a neat little desktop machine :)
P55CxE9 3 months ago
Definitly great machines. My High school had them all the way into 2004 still running Windows 95 on them until they went to new machines.
nlaumeyer 3 months ago
I have somewhere about a rather old 200 Mhz Pentium Pro and for their time, I reckon they were the best things, my old 200 could out perform pentium 2 computers up to 300 Mhz. I don't even know if the computer still turns on.
TheMrbum 3 months ago
funny how it runs fine without decent thermal grease and fans. Gotta love the TDP of the old processors.
nelizmastr 3 months ago
so it can run windows vista at full power. or me
joshhsega 3 months ago
@joshhsega I going to be making a video soon of a Vectra VL Series 4 that is running Windows XP
weasel2htm 2 months ago
@weasel2htm funny thing is i just got mac osx running on a toshiba laptop.
joshhsega 2 months ago
noooo not DIP switches.. i absolutely HATED those things. i was so happy when BIOS became wide-spread. :)
bamdadkhan 3 months ago
Wow. BIOS UIs never change. That interface looks strikingly similar to the BIOS on my Pentium M, Core 2 Duo, and Opteron machines!
CavemanPerson 3 months ago
I have a 1994 HP Vectra in the basement it has Windows 3.11 and 33 MHZ and 4 MB Ram,
it starts up with a error menu.
maybe you want this PC uxwbill?
DoReMiForever 3 months ago
Having had FiOS for over 5 years not only is it amazingly fast it's also very reliable!!
matthewh16 3 months ago
Having had FiOS for almost 6
matthewh16 3 months ago
@uxwbill You should see my setup, 2 network cards, 1 for Internet (Verizon FiOS, 31/26), 1 for LAN. The server physically runs VMware ESXi, which is a VM operating system that you control remotely. Anyways, I have a VM setup to run pfSense that is bonded to both network cards as well as the other server VM's (Ubuntu & Win2k8) bonded just to the LAN. Old machines are perfect for this kind of thing. With my new server, my old computers sit out to pasture. Do you have an idea to do with them?
techhelper1 3 months ago
I had a Vectra VL2 4/50 (486 SX2/50!) in the same case, still use the HP keyboard it came with, did you get that in the deal? I know he had it.
Yes, fiber is good, have a 35Mbit/35Mbit Fios connection here. YouTube is still slow at loading videos for playback and the upload is dog slow too. BlogTV streams work well though, could even do HD if I wanted to.
NJRoadfan 3 months ago
@NJRoadfan SX2/50...think I've got one of those CPUs, pulled from a Packard Bell (what else?) around here someplace. Never had much reason to use it. I did not get the keyboard, but that's OK. I have lots of good keyboards to use, including a really neat looking HP one that is like no other HP 'board I've ever seen.
With weasel's connectivity, video uploads were just lightning fast. He also noted getting more speed than what his chosen class of service was "supposed" to have.
uxwbill 3 months ago
@uxwbill Interestingly enough, there is optical fiber running right in front of the Roach Palace. It was marked off when I had the electricity installed. What it's doing (if anything) I could not say. Even so, it's kind of cool to know it is there.
uxwbill 3 months ago
@NJRoadfan My main problem with FiOS is that you only get an 8 hour battery backup, and as I learned twice over the past few months, 8 hours just doesn't cut it when your power is out for 6 days!
vwestlife 3 months ago
Installed key is not for safening your hardware or case,in position "unlocked" computer will boot in position "locked" computer will not boot at all!Of course,this option work if key is conected to the apropriate conector on the board!Key is usually cut of from the board,or cables are removed!I used to have Siemens Scenic on 133MHz,also with Intel processor,and key was on it!
zrenex1 3 months ago
@zrenex1 A lot depends upon what the computer maker decided to do when they put the key lock into place. I didn't make my comments with no basis in fact. There is no wiring or switch going to the switch on *any* similar model HP Vectra PC in either the desktop or tower case that I have seen. I've had a lot of them and each one is the same way. The key lock only moves a "tongue" into place that prevents opening the case, at least in theory.
uxwbill 3 months ago
@zrenex1 On those desktop vectras, the lock is only for securing the (otherwise screwless IIRC) top cover. It's just a metal tab that moves up to prevent the cover from being pulled off. No electrical connections whatsoever.
Knaeckebrotsaege 3 months ago
I have a fiber line and love it. Also i go a kick out of tho old Can it run Crysis joke.
BlueFoxTV 3 months ago
What's SmoothWall exactly?
91jchevy87ec1 3 months ago
@91jchevy87ec1 SmoothWall is connection firewalling, content filtering, intrusion detection/monitoring and many other things all rolled into one software package based on the GNU/Linux operating system.
uxwbill 3 months ago
@91jchevy87ec1 A Linux firewall operating system, basically a router in a computer.
techhelper1 3 months ago
we have fiber where I live (north chi burbs), but that shit is way too expensive! I also have it at work and it is quite nice, but you won't really notice it unless you do a LOT of uploading and downloading of large files.
(Speed at work is like 120Mbps down and 100 or so up)
btw, why do you sound as if you were chewing on something the whole time? Sick?
andruha11234 3 months ago
@andruha11234 I would gladly give up a few meals, it's not like doing so could hurt! (See, fiber IS good for you!)
Uploading videos would be greatly benefited by additional upload bandwidth, as would certain BlogTV shows. ;-)
I was chewing on some hard candy that was left over from Halloween. I have inherited my father's bad habit of chewing on stuff like hard candy and ice. I suspect that in time I will pay for doing so.
uxwbill 3 months ago
@uxwbill Fiber is pretty damn awesome! I mean, it can prevent or relieve constipation and deliver your internet at very high speeds!
About the candy, I would imagine that chewing on hard candy would be horrible for your teeth on multiple levels...so, DON'T do it.. or else!
andruha11234 3 months ago