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from Gordon <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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Well, I dropped a big enough hint!

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Just purchased a new PC from ALDI today.

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Pentium 4; 3.4Ghz; 250Ghz HD; 512Mb RAM; G-Force 6610XL Graphics; Built-
in Wireless adaptor; 6 USBs, 2 Firewire; 2005 Works S/W suite.
TV tuner.
3 years warranty.
£699.99

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I also got a 17" TFT monitor while I was waving my card about.

Lucky you. :-) I made the mistake of getting my new computer from Tiny
(spit). They did throw in a flat screen monitor and a free printer but
that hasn't made up for the hassle trying to ditch their tame ISP or the
lack of a printer lead. 2 attempts to buy one from them have ended in
failure. Seems I should have bought the expensive printer support
package to go with the free printer. Anyone know where I can get a USB
printer lead for a Lexmark printer. So I have been unable to find a
source among all those companies that want to sell me ink cartridges.

--
Roger
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In article <[email hidden]>, Roger
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from Gordon <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

Well, I dropped a big enough hint!

Quoted message said:

Just purchased a new PC from ALDI today.

Quoted message said:

Pentium 4; 3.4Ghz; 250Ghz HD; 512Mb RAM; G-Force 6610XL Graphics; Built-
in Wireless adaptor; 6 USBs, 2 Firewire; 2005 Works S/W suite.
TV tuner.
3 years warranty.
£699.99

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I also got a 17" TFT monitor while I was waving my card about.

I thought you were going for the underwhere?

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Lucky you. :-) I made the mistake of getting my new computer from Tiny
(spit). They did throw in a flat screen monitor and a free printer but
that hasn't made up for the hassle trying to ditch their tame ISP or the
lack of a printer lead. 2 attempts to buy one from them have ended in
failure. Seems I should have bought the expensive printer support
package to go with the free printer. Anyone know where I can get a USB
printer lead for a Lexmark printer. So I have been unable to find a
source among all those companies that want to sell me ink cartridges.

It is most probably a standard A-B USB cable (flat at the PC end and
almost square with two bevelled corners at the top for the printer end)
that can be had from PC wurld or office supply or computer shops for
under £10.

If you fancy an excursion to the land of ebay.co.uk you will be able to
pick one up for a lot less (just read the seller's feedback and check
the cost of postage before bidding).

--

Dominic Sexton
http://www.dscs.demon.co.uk/

Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Roger
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from Gordon <[email hidden]> contains these words:

Quoted message said:

Well, I dropped a big enough hint!

Quoted message said:

Just purchased a new PC from ALDI today.

Quoted message said:

Pentium 4; 3.4Ghz; 250Ghz HD; 512Mb RAM; G-Force 6610XL Graphics; Built-
in Wireless adaptor; 6 USBs, 2 Firewire; 2005 Works S/W suite.
TV tuner.
3 years warranty.
£699.99

Do you have a licence for that hard drive ? Overclock it a little and you
could cook your dinner with it ;-)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyone know where I can get a USB
printer lead for a Lexmark printer. So I have been unable to find a
source among all those companies that want to sell me ink cartridges.

It is most probably a standard A-B USB cable (flat at the PC end and
almost square with two bevelled corners at the top for the printer end)
that can be had from PC wurld or office supply or computer shops for
under £10.

If you fancy an excursion to the land of ebay.co.uk you will be able to
pick one up for a lot less (just read the seller's feedback and check
the cost of postage before bidding).

I could pick up a 2m A-B USB lead for the grand sum of 94p, from my local PC
suppliers. Delivery of course will be £2 ! PC World will relieve you of a
tenner for more or less the same item, so please don't encourage them and
search out a local shop instead. Somewhat of a surprise might be the local
B&Q - they sell some computer stuff, including network and printer cables.

Someone mention Tiny? Cough, spit.

--
Give me patience! RIGHT NOW!

Mail john rather than nospam...

John Laird <[email hidden]> wrote

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Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Roger
<[email hidden]> writes

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The message <[email hidden]>
from Gordon <[email hidden]> contains these words:

> Well, I dropped a big enough hint!

> Just purchased a new PC from ALDI today.

> Pentium 4; 3.4Ghz; 250Ghz HD; 512Mb RAM; G-Force 6610XL Graphics; Built-
> in Wireless adaptor; 6 USBs, 2 Firewire; 2005 Works S/W suite.
> TV tuner.
> 3 years warranty.
> £699.99

Do you have a licence for that hard drive ? Overclock it a little and you
could cook your dinner with it ;-)

When I use the walk-through feature of Tracklogs a great rushing sound
slowly builds up, like a jet engine starting up, I think there's a
thermostatic fan either on the processor or the graphics chip!
:-)
--
Gordon

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Dominic Sexton said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Roger
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from Gordon <[email hidden]> contains these words:

> Well, I dropped a big enough hint!

> Just purchased a new PC from ALDI today.

> Pentium 4; 3.4Ghz; 250Ghz HD; 512Mb RAM; G-Force 6610XL Graphics;

Built-

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

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> in Wireless adaptor; 6 USBs, 2 Firewire; 2005 Works S/W suite.
> TV tuner.
> 3 years warranty.
> £699.99

Do you have a licence for that hard drive ? Overclock it a little and you
could cook your dinner with it ;-)

That machine looks like a pretty good deal, however, be cautious when buying
such machines as they never mention what chipset they have. You could end up
with all those nice components running on, for example, an SIS chipset,
which will kill the performance of an otherwise fast machine. Similarly, it
may have a 250Gb Hard disk, but it might have the access time of a filing
cabinet. To the non tech savvy, it's easy to sell a [censored] computer that
appears to be really fast.
Which I'm not saying is the case here, I'm just offering a friendly warning
to anybody in he market for a new computer.

Computers are like cars; A Nissan Micra has a 1.3l engine and so does an
RX7, now to somebody who doesn't know better, they'd be forgiven for
presuming they're about as fast as each other. However, look closely and the
micra has 75bhp while the RX7 has a rather impressive 237bhp.

Treefrog <[email hidden]> wrote

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That machine looks like a pretty good deal, however, be cautious when buying
such machines as they never mention what chipset they have. You could end up
with all those nice components running on, for example, an SIS chipset,
which will kill the performance of an otherwise fast machine. Similarly, it
may have a 250Gb Hard disk, but it might have the access time of a filing
cabinet. To the non tech savvy, it's easy to sell a [censored] computer that
appears to be really fast.
Which I'm not saying is the case here, I'm just offering a friendly warning
to anybody in he market for a new computer.

It's fast! The first program Installed was Tracklogs, and the
difference was very noticeable. I used a flash drive to transfer the
routes I had on the old machine, and top get them into the P4 I just
double-clicked the route files in turn, after I had about five instances
of Tracklogs running(!) I noticed that then disc swap-file came into
use, and the thermostatic cooling fan started revving. :-)

It appears to come in and slowly speed up as the graphics card gets
warm, although the air blowing out is quite cool.

I made one slip when I tried to install Norton AV,or rather SystemWorks.

The installation ground to a halt, and I had to switch off.
After trying a few attempts to cure it I resorted to the help-line, and
after 30 minutes I was through to the techies.
He knew the problem straight away, if I want to install Norton AV, I
have to disable E-Trust, the supplied AV program first, otherwise it
kills the system. :-(

The fix was easy from the application support CD, but I only lost what I
installed, no problem really.

I have to decide whether to try the E-Trust, which looks like In-
Occulate, or stick to the devil I know NAV.
E-Trust is there for 90 days only...
--
Gordon