well,
right now, I am operating on an older k6 AMD based system and only have a 
single 128 meg dimm to work with. damned thing is being slow (mostly owing to 
swapping out to the swap partition a lot).
as for the problem, I suspect that lightning damage from the storm of 2 weeks 
ago did things in.

what I am doing for the most part is running an in-home lan and cluster using 
a bunch of old 486 class machines. the room-mates have their own boxen also 
connected (one is a 950 AMD athalon and the other is a 700 duron and both are 
not accessible by me as they are behind closed/locked doors).

its tough living on a stipend from the government (disability) and my hopes 
for ever getting a job (and soon) are evaporating like a fog in a furnace.

I haven't been able to get any of the other boards to work that I recently 
picked up (jumper/setting issues probably). until I do, I am stuck using this 
<350 Mhz machine with performance issues.

Technomage

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote:
> Didn't you also post a message recently about smoking your motherboard and
> CPU?  What the heck are you doing to these poor computers anyway?  ;-)
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, technomage wrote:
> > ok,
> > I'm in a bit of a pickle here.
> > I recently had a 256 meg dimm smoke on me (it litterally let the smoke
> > out) and the machine I needed it for is now stuck with only 64 megs
> > (makes it rather difficult to use).
> > if anyone happens to have a spare 128 pc133 laying around, please call me
> > (or e-mail me back) at 623-849-9515 and we can setup something for pickup
> > or mail.
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > Eric (technomage).
> >
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