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wepwawet
Joined: 18 Mar 2004
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Location: Seligenstadt - Germany
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I came to "wepwawet" when I started learning hieroglyphs (what I stopped in a beginners status:-(
Wepwawet or Upuaut, both are legal transcriptions of the same egypt god
I just found that sign very nice and when I got deeper in this stuff, I found his by-name: The opener of the ways
Very cool
ok, he opens the ways in his funeral job - upps - but this is or better was not a bad thing in historic egypt.
As my actual job is very much "opening ways" for people in IT projects I kept this name and use it almost everywhere as nickname.
That's my story, what's yours? |
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JAC
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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debs3759
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Northampton, Divided Kingdom
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Debs = my name
3759 = a number that is memorable to me
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Cpuswe
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: Karlskrona, Sweden
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cpuswe = I collect cpus and im from Sweden. (Originally i tried to register cpusweden but it was taken. Cant find it now though.)
/T
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mvortikar
Joined: 12 Oct 2003
Posts: 131
Location: NJ, USA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| Mvortikar = old D&D character name. |
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soeren
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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my real name
Søren |
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i440bx
Joined: 30 May 2004
Posts: 1349
Location: Germany
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i440BX = The greatest Chipset ever. Now unfortunately in the museum...
My third, fourth and fifth Computer (that i "wore ") was on the i440BX. I was so inspired from this Chipset, that i made it to my I-Net Name!
Greetings, Robert
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FDIV
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 740
Location: Ohio, USA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| I collect mostly FDIV penitums. I find them fascinating historically. Intels big screw up PR wise. Also they have about the right amount of rarity. I don't see them every day but their not near impossible to find like a c4004. |
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JAC
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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| Intel have a lifetime exchange on FDIV pentiums. Have you tried returning one? The info is on their website. I'll see if I can find the link later if you need it. It caused a great deal of embarrassment. I remember it well!!!! |
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debs3759
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Location: Northampton, Divided Kingdom
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Do you know what they will give in exchange for an FDIV now? Would it be another socket 4, or something else?
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morkork
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Posts: 447
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
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In the late 1970s and early 80s there was a TV show I really liked called "Mork and Mindy" (or "Mork vom Ork" in Germany) and since I heavily used the curse word "shazbot" for many years even after that (I sometimes still do) "morkork" and "shazbot" became my first online nicknames in the late 1980s and are still in use.
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CPUShack
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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FDIV
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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Location: Ohio, USA
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| I have thought about turning in one of the less valuable FDIV's I have (I have several that look like they went through world war III.) I would be quite interested to know if anyone else has done this and what they recieved. I had the thought that if they no longer have any socket 4 chips in stock they would have to give me a new chip. With that in mind I would love to wait a little longer to get a conroe core chip when they are released. P4's suck but I have great hope for these conroe core chips. They just might give AMD a run for their money. So has any one turned one in? What did you get? |
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slava
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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Location: Dnipro, Ukraine
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My name 
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sammyc
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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Location: Scottish Borders
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When I was about 14 I was BANG into Happy Hardcore, and I aspired to being a world famous DJ. And My friends came up with the name SammyC, and it is still used today 
Big difference is I do DJ now !!!
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