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On a sunny day (Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:49:47 -0600) it happened "Dr.Death"
wrote in :

Cool. I collect the CPU fans. I have one bolted to the back of my 148 to
keep the output transistors cool. I'm trying to think of a good spot to
mount a pair to my 2 pill without the blades interfering.

Yep, I have a copper silent socket A cooler on my Ranger 2970.

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Scott in Baltimore wrote:

What's with Windows 98SE?

Either he likes unstable operating systems, needs to able to
directly access the hardware with old programs or he doesn't
have a copy of Windows 2000. A lot of old games didn't run
under 2000 either. All hardware and memory calls need permission
from the OS under NT/2000/XP.

So why not Linux instead? It's not like you can't emulate Windows for the
few things that don't have Linux equivalents.

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Dr.Death wrote:

My heat sink fins are three inches deep. I'm thinking that I can take my
dremel and cut into the fins so the fan or fans will be inset and out of
harms way while still protecting the unit.

Bad plan. Heat sinks depend on surface area to dissipate heat. They put
fins on them to increase the amount of surface area. Cutting up your heat
sink, thus reducing the surface area, will make your heat problem much
worse instead of better.

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Diamond Dave wrote:

On some machines it did, if it worked well on the machines you have it was
very stable but still a PITA to network.

It's not a machine-dependent problem. Windows 9x did not have any memory
protection whatsoever, so any program could accidently overwrite any other
program, including the OS, in memory. Combine this with the lack of
testing endemic in Windows software, and the DLL hell from lack of decent
shared object management, and you get the infamously unstable Windows.

At least shared object management has gotten *slightly* better in Windows
over time, and WinNT/00/XP has (incompetent) memory protection, so it's not
as bad as it used to be. However, it still can't hold a flame to the
various unix variants (MacOS X, Linux, etc) for reliability and ease of
maintainability over time...

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Steveo wrote:

Who's got the bootleg?

Why, when you can go legal for free?
http://debian.org/

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Steveo wrote:

Scott in Baltimore wrote:
Wassup with that new one they're about to spring on us is the real
question?

I need a new install on this machine anyway.

Who's got the bootleg?

Of what? 98 W2K or XP. Pro is the better version.

NO! Windoze has a brand spankin' new OS that's about to be introduced and
I can't remember the name of it.

It's not about to be introduced. It's called Vista, and if it's coming out
this decade, it's looking like late 2007. The reason I say "If" is because
out here in the pacific northwest, there are rumors that the Xbox, Windows
and Office teams are considering going on strike.

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"Paul Johnson" wrote in message
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Dr.Death wrote:

My heat sink fins are three inches deep. I'm thinking that I can take my
dremel and cut into the fins so the fan or fans will be inset and out of
harms way while still protecting the unit.

Bad plan. Heat sinks depend on surface area to dissipate heat. They put
fins on them to increase the amount of surface area. Cutting up your heat
sink, thus reducing the surface area, will make your heat problem much
worse instead of better.

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Good point. Maybe put it in one side of the case and drill holes on the
other and have a cross wind over the pills.

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"Paul Johnson" wrote in message
...
Steveo wrote:

Who's got the bootleg?

Why, when you can go legal for free?
http://debian.org/


Riiiiight! And spend all your time chasing drivers or equipment that WILL
work with Linux.

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Dr.Death wrote:

"Paul Johnson" wrote in message
...
Dr.Death wrote:

My heat sink fins are three inches deep. I'm thinking that I can take my
dremel and cut into the fins so the fan or fans will be inset and out of
harms way while still protecting the unit.

Bad plan. Heat sinks depend on surface area to dissipate heat. They put
fins on them to increase the amount of surface area. Cutting up your
heat sink, thus reducing the surface area, will make your heat problem
much worse instead of better.
Good point. Maybe put it in one side of the case and drill holes on the
other and have a cross wind over the pills.

You might try doing what computer manufacturers do and look for heat sinks
to put directly on the ceramic IC package. An easier idea would be to go
hit a PC component place for an appropriate sized cooling fan to install
with screws straight into the top of the heatsink fins (a-la CPU heatsink)
to force air into it.

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You might try doing what computer manufacturers do and look for heat sinks
to put directly on the ceramic IC package. An easier idea would be to go
hit a PC component place for an appropriate sized cooling fan to install
with screws straight into the top of the heatsink fins (a-la CPU heatsink)
to force air into it.

Like in my picture, http://www.geocities.com/scott_unit_69/fans.JPG
where the air is being blown into the fins to draw heat out quickly.