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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Have you found conflicts between Korean hardware with Korean drivers and English operating systems? Today, a "computer expert" told me that Korean systems (for example, Hyunju, Samsung or TG) will not work at their best (optimally) with English software (for example, English version of Windows XP). He said the system will be slower. He noted that some of the benefits gained by newer Korean hardware and updating Korean drivers will be negated by the English operating system.

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

He's full of crap. That sounds like the one I heard where Korean products cost less overseas because the companies keep the best stuff in Korea.

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

He was very serious. He also has been working on computers for several years. He seems to know a lot about computers. He uses computer jargon effectively in English, too.

jaebea · Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Location: SYD

I've never heard of such bullsh*t in my life. And I hear a lot of it from my idiot acquaintences.

Tell him to shove his Korean OS up his Korean arse where the Korean sun doesn't shine. And go back to using an OS you like.

It doesn't matter if the hardware was assembled in Korea, the USA, or friggin Madagascar. Odds on that the computer you're on is using a CPU that's been fabricated in Malaysia or Costa Rica, the mobo has been put together in Taiwan with semiconductors from all over Asia, your hard-drive is from somewhere in Eastern Europe, and the only Korean that's part of it is the garishly plastic case, the dodgy powersupply and the bits of kimchi left in it by the bloke who assembled it.

It frustrates me so that a place like Korea that is supposed to be so technically advanced propagates such drivel.

jae.

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

He lies. You just have to set your XP to run under all languages and not just English. I forget the exact steps to do it, but it was pretty simple. Then instead of Korean programs having all their windows pop up displaying garbage text, it properly displays everything in Korean (or Chinese or Japanese or whatever).

The O/S itself doesn't care what language is displayed in the interface and message windows.

mishlert · Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun

Gord, that's easy:

Open the control panel in your start menu.
Click on the Date,Time, Language, and Regional Option category.
Click on the Add other Languages task
Go to the Languages tab and check the box Install files for East Asian Languages.

Be warned, it's a big file but will allow you to read, and write all East Asian Languages.

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

But there are some glaring software incompatibilities. For instance, I bought "Alay Hangeul" by Hansoft(?) and tried to install it. No go.

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

how did you get 460 into 1 machine? if you have a cd you can put 3 more hdds inside if you don't have a cd it still seems like an odd number for 460gb. if you are using the RAID array what combination of drives are you using? i know not much in this area, i'm at 280 now with 3 drives and i need the raid card to include more. i should know better than to question god oops sorry gord but i am confused.. if you could spare a moment please.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

SCSI or Sata will both allow you to hook up more HDs to your board without resorting to a RAID array.

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

160 + 120 + 120 + 60. It's buried in the counter, and on the counter sits an external CDRW on USB2.0 next to the scanner. I can still add two more drives if I pick up two SATA drives.

I thought about setting up a RAID array, but I don't need that sort of throughput for a Raid-0. And the 160 is already used for a backup drive anyway so I don't need a Raid-1 or 3.