Girls and computers do not mix

[HenryT]

Originally posted by Hex Spurt
she wants to talk about the problem with someone. I'm afraid there's more bad news ahead for you too...

If she picked you out specifically then there's a good chance that she views you as more "femine" and non-threatening than the other blokes around. On this basis, your relationship with her is unlikely to ever progress further than friendship.

Dom - did you read this..?

 

[Hex Spurt]

Originally posted by domfjbrown
3 months is nothing dude. You should be enjoying it anyway - the old ball and chain thing sucks if you ask me...

If she sucks then why give her the boot? Ha ha ha

 

[TonyL]

Well this girl has all them TSR's and all sorts of crap and claims she needs them which is why 128MB isn't enough. I think after 256MB though you don't notice much improvement at all.

XP gulps about 160Mb when its just sitting there doing nothing other than scratching it's arse (which it does a lot). 256Mb and it only hits the swap file when you want it to do something, 512Mb and it starts running properly. RAM is currently really cheap, so buy loads - I've got 512Mb in my laptop running XP Pro and it runs really smoothly, certainly way better than it did with 256Mb. You really notice the difference as soon as you try doing anything with a digicam or music apps.

Tony.

 

[PBirkett]

Get 1 Gb of RAM or more, and you can disable the swap file

(unless you have some crappy program that fails if you dont have one).

 

[amazingtrade]

I can only dream of having 1GB RAM, I don't really need it though as I don't play any games, Flash MX and Photoshop 6.0 is about the toughest things my PC has to do. Its actually been deglected because of my HIFI as I have no DVD-ROM anymore (I sold it), it has an old 8 cd writer, a 15GB hard drive, a 32MB TNT2 video card and a newish 1.6Ghz Althon 2000+ CPU.

Oh I have a 250MB ZIP disk too, remember them?

 

[PBirkett]

Actually if you use graphically intensive apps then you probably would benefit from 1Gb, most games dont need more than about 256Mb....

Dont even get me started on godawful zip drives :JOEL:

 

[amazingtrade]

Photoshop has been very busy tonight I as I am designing a new site making use of my news skills in photoshop, the hard drive has been taking away like mad, time for more RAM I think.

 

[nsherin]

Zip drives - a great concept when they first came out, but the crazy cost of media and the bloody 'Click Of Death Syndrome' didn't make things easy for them - especially when cheap CD-RWs populated the market.

XP runs very nicely on a Celeron 2.0G with 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9200 with 128MB RAM. I'll probably move to P4 once they come down to sensible prices.

In comparison, the P3/933 I have at work with 256MB RAM (32MB shared by video card - yuk) and a 5400RPM hard drive, runs Windows 2000 like a complete dog.

It should run pretty decently when I go up to my parents this weekend and install it on their Duron 1.3G with 512MB RAM.

 

[amazingtrade]

The reason I got zip drive is one of regrett, a floppy is useless, I need somthing which can save decent amounts of data and use as a hard drive, last year the PCs at uni didn't have proper USB support (we have Pentium 4 2Ghz's now) so a USB hard drive was out of the question. Pen drives cost £100 for 32mb at the time and every pc at uni has a zip drive so that seemed like the only solution. If it was now I would have bought a pen drive instead as they are now cheap but the zip despite is problems does the job for me (I just make sure I backup its contents!).

 

[nsherin]

Yep, Zip drives were usful for carrying files to and from uni. I now use a Compact Flash reader plus a couple of 128MB cards to move files to/from work. They also double up as the memory cards for my digital camera.

Note to self - remember to actually EMPTY the memory card of files from work before going away for the weekend and then wondering why you can only store about 10 to 15 photos. Yep, I did this once

 

[Bill Phabb]

Originally posted by PBirkett
First point here. If her mother was any kind of good IT Support officer, then although you say you have are studying it at university, what makes you think you would have more experience? OK, so she doesnt sound too hot after you stating she needs to get PCW to upgrade memory in her own PC.... however, I also work in IT support, and I believe I am miles more experienced than any student who studies IT at uni. Experience counts for a lot, and university doesnt really give you that, but its amazing the amount of arrogance that comes from students because they "have a degree" or are working towards one. If I was hiring IT Support technicians, I'd be taking the most experienced, not the jumped students who have a bit of paper, but no experience.

i hate all these uni bods who think they know it all. Uni courses teach you **** all. its all out of date and pointless shite.

amazingtrade (good name by the way) you prove this by thinkin games require 1Gb of RAM and Photoshop doesnt

 

[michaelab]

Bill - why do you insist on coming here every so often and just firing off foul language and insults? If you've got nothing better to do then kindly bugger off.

Michael.

 

[Bill Phabb]

Originally posted by michaelab
Bill - why do you insist on coming here every so often and just firing off foul language and insults? If you've got nothing better to do then kindly bugger off.

Michael.

I usually work the grill myself

 

[domfjbrown]

Originally posted by Hex Spurt

she wants to talk about the problem with someone. I'm afraid there's more bad news ahead for you too...

If she picked you out specifically then there's a good chance that she views you as more "femine" and non-threatening than the other blokes around. On this basis, your relationship with her is unlikely to ever progress further than friendship.
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Originally posted by HenryT
Dom - did you read this..?

Urr - what's that got to do with me??? That said, a LOT of women see me as non-threatening. Ah well rather have lots of mates than one SO who'll make me resent her by NOT letting me see my lots of mates...

Amazingtrade - it runs! I put a new CDRW in (I ripped the drawer out of my other one while trying to back up my data as it was really playing up and was only 4x anyway). It runs OK on 256 mb RAM but then I've got virtually NOTHING on there at the mo. I'll get a mobo/ram/cpu upgrade in the new year I reckon.

One question though - why won't my modem dial properly with its specific drivers - managed to dial in to register fine, and get onto BT Internet briefly, at 33.6 (yuk!). I then installed my own drivers and now it won't dial in - you hear it dial, start the handshake, and then give up and retry over and over - is this 'cos it's running at V92 rather than V90???

Bill - what is your problem? SO most uni students ARE wet behind the ears when they go to work, but then they're going in at a higher level than someone who goes to Burger King out of school, and is wet behind the ears. Which one's thicker - the one who can't flip burgers without being told, or the one who can't work out some overpaid dunce manager's bullshit database filing scheme that only makes sense to him (or some spaghetti C code or whatever - take your pick)?

 

[HenryT]

Originally posted by domfjbrown
Urr - what's that got to do with me??? That said, a LOT of women see me as non-threatening.

Erm, there you go, you sorted started to answer your own question there... I mean the women in the past who you'd liked to have gone further with, but couldn't get the past the "just being mates" stage.

 

[Bill Phabb]

Originally posted by domfjbrown

Bill - what is your problem? SO most uni students ARE wet behind the ears when they go to work, but then they're going in at a higher level than someone who goes to Burger King out of school, and is wet behind the ears. Which one's thicker - the one who can't flip burgers without being told, or the one who can't work out some overpaid dunce manager's bullshit database filing scheme that only makes sense to him (or some spaghetti C code or whatever - take your pick)? [/B][/QUOTE]

if you read what i said it was a comment about uni people, like amazingtrade, who think they know it all cos they have a piece a of paper from a university.

dont reply to someone until you have properly read what they said. this will stop you from looking like an idiot

 

[Bill Phabb]

Dom

if you read what i said it was a comment about uni people, like amazingtrade, who think they know it all cos they have a piece a of paper from a university.

dont reply to someone until you have properly read what they said. this will stop you from looking like an idiot

 

[mr cat]

Originally posted by Bill Phabb
Dom

if you read what i said it was a comment about uni people, like amazingtrade, who think they know it all cos they have a piece a of paper from a university.

dont reply to someone until you have properly read what they said. this will stop you from looking like an idiot

[/B][/QUOTE]

Bill, at least they know how you reply to a forum properly...

 

[amazingtrade]

People seem to forget that to get that peice of paper it involves a lot of extneral research and you have to learn things for yourself.

Some students are lazy and do no work they are ones that get a bad grade and say how easy uni was. The ones that worked hard say uni has hard but also get the most out of it and usualy get good jobs.

I've learn't more in the past year at uni than I ever did at school there is so many things I can do now that I never did before and also as I said before it forces out a lot of bad habbits. I am talking about computing courses here has other types of degree's such as BA's in Geography for example teach you things that are not vocational but try to expand your mind more.

Even if people who leave uni do end up getting crappy jobs at first after 5 years they usauly end up in a good one and they still have the uni expereince which is somthing not everybody gets.

I'm not from a traditional univerisity background in fact my parents tried to talk me out of going to uni but I am enjoying it so much its the best thing I ever did.

This is just my opinion however.

 

[MO!]

Good for you AT! Stick at it and be all you can be, etc....

Try and experience a bit of *life* at the same time too! Yes work hard, and it will (hopfully) pay off jobwise, but you could very well end up leaving uni, going straight into full time employment, soon all your income is spent before you even earn it (MOrtgage, car, bills.....) and all them things you were "going to do" are no longer possible.

Each to their own, but try and live it a little rather than just seeing it as a route to *the ladder* of employment!

MO



like......... wow man!!! :MILD: