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Comment Re:I can't even imagine... (Score 1) 197

Yep, I drive past one every day that's being expanded on. The original building with offices at least looked nice with windows and such but the addition (which is way bigger than the original building) is just one massive ugly grey concrete box with no windows or any decoration whatsoever. A total eyesore.

Eola Rd?

Comment Re:5 days no government, is that so bad? (Score 2) 85

They have the power, they just can't get it where they need it without equipment overheating. Since it is a busbar overheating you can't just switch over to emergency power to fix it, you have to route power around the issue which is not economically feasible in this case except for the emergency services systems which can use their redundant power supplies.

Run down to Autozone and grab a couple dozen jumper cables.

Comment Just retired my 486/66 (Score 1) 1705

Just a few weeks ago I retired my 486/DX2-66 that I bought in June of 1992. Paid more then $3600 for it with a 4MB Cardinal video card with the Weitek P9000 chipset 8MB of RAM and an incredible 120MB hard drive. The harddrive controller, video board and I/O controller board are all full-length ISA daughterboards. There are no integrated devices on this MoBo at all! The system ran as my home firewall/router for the last 6 years running first RedHat 5.1 and now Debian 2.0. After replacing the bios battery with an external pack of AA batteries a few years ago, it ran fine until recently I tried to figure out why my connection stayed so slow.....the 486 couldn't handle the compression/decompression of the PPP modem connection fast enough. I popped out the hard drive and put it into a Pentium 200 MMX that I had, rebooted and continued on working as usual.

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