[ale] old newbie

[Ron Frazier]

Here's a great podcast to keep up with all the hardware in's and out's.
They frequently field questions such as this.

http://www.twit.tv/twich

This Week In Computer Hardware
Building a new computer? This Week in Computer Hardware is the show
where you'll find out the latest in motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, and RAM
you'll want to use when designing your machine. TWiCH gives you the
latest in hardware benchmarks and what not-yet-released products might
be on the horizon. Hosted by Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective and Patrick
Norton of the TWiT netcast network. Recorded live every Thursdat at 6pm
Pacific/2200 UTC at http://live.twit.tv.

These magazines are also great resources, with online archives:

http://www.computerpoweruser.com/DigitalEditions/Archive.aspx

http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/pdf_archives - postings delayed by a
couple of months

Sincerely,

Ron

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 18:20 -0500, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> Hello alers,
> 
> I used to subscribe to this list a few years ago while running SuSE,
> Redhat and Fedora.  I have been busy with other things since then. I
> recently decided to upgrade my systems and I was appalled at the
> changes in the technology. For instance, one can hardly get a
> motherboard that has IDE ports on it. Some may have only one. What to
> do with my IDE harddrives. and dvd burners, let alone my SCSI
> equipment? I have to get all SATA or USB? Even my 2006 Scott Mueller
> book  (Upgrading and Repairing PC's) is out of date. Are there
> adapters for IDE to SATA  for example. Is there anyone with similar
> problems or is there a good site for old newbie's like me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cor
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