Re: [H] Should I?
Well, At 17:24 06/23/2008 -0700, you wrote: As long as the boot.ini is configured right any drive clone/image software should result in a bootable & functional windows. Just did it recently switching from PATA to SATA-RAID w/o a hiccup. thought so...(maybe dot-iso related!)But, I am still a long way from proving this one. Yes, I am a Seagate "fan-boy." Perhaps this is unfortunate. I can live with this, however. The bad news is that most or your 1st para went right over my head! Not your problem. It is mine :) Seagate & Maxtor have a free version of Acronis TrueImage that work well while lacking compression & some other premium TI features. All you need is a detectable Seagate or Maxtor drive in the system for the software's check i.e. you hang any old drive off the system just to satisfy the check, does not have to be the drives you're imaging. This may be a way to go; for the "data" drive. I am still focused on the main machine rebuild. Since I do not have the experience yet to do binary-magic yet, I will do this the way we did things back in 1998. Worked then; should work nowMaybe. If not, it is all backed up anyway. There are times when I feel so lame. Now is one of those times... :) Best, Duncan DHSinclair wrote: Afraid I just do not know how to "clone" yet. Mostly lack of experience with the hdw and sw. As this is an OS drive, I do have a detailed list of all sw installed. Plan is to just 1)xfr the whole scsi system (card and drives) to another (temp) pc frame, 2)install the pata drive and configure (format, partition, upgrade, etc.), 3) copy/move the data files back from the temp PC over my LAN after some period of stabilization. Old way I know, but it has worked well in the past. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Should I?
As long as the boot.ini is configured right any drive clone/image software should result in a bootable & functional windows. Just did it recently switching from PATA to SATA-RAID w/o a hiccup. Seagate & Maxtor have a free version of Acronis TrueImage that work well while lacking compression & some other premium TI features. All you need is a detectable Seagate or Maxtor drive in the system for the software's check i.e. you hang any old drive off the system just to satisfy the check, does not have to be the drives you're imaging. DHSinclair wrote: Afraid I just do not know how to "clone" yet. Mostly lack of experience with the hdw and sw. As this is an OS drive, I do have a detailed list of all sw installed. Plan is to just 1)xfr the whole scsi system (card and drives) to another (temp) pc frame, 2)install the pata drive and configure (format, partition, upgrade, etc.), 3) copy/move the data files back from the temp PC over my LAN after some period of stabilization. Old way I know, but it has worked well in the past. Best, Duncan
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Agreed! The woman who did the GLaDOS voice is an opera singer. Playing through with commentary audio turned on was interesting background including insights from her. Veech wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_IBrHsuzA best. game song. ever.
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Less if you forgo fat Gabe's should-be-cheaper Steam download & buy the physical product in a store: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8521192&type=product&cp=1&id=1186007266755 LOL, I get "Steamed" when I see that Steam download costs more than retail! Trick is to buy it in store, then do the download with it's key so you don't need the DVD to play. There's some good add-on levels for portal but I've still not beaten all the advanced. Did manage to blow through the game a second time in about 5 hours one day while testing my new video card! ;) Brian Weeden wrote: Second on the Orange Box. One of the best gaming values ever - 3 legitimate 10/10 games in 3 different genres for $50.
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Hello Veech, Monday, June 23, 2008, 5:51:52 PM, you wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_IBrHsuzA > best. > game song. > ever. INDEED! -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_IBrHsuzA best. game song. ever. - Original Message - From: "Joe User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Veech" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Hello Veech, Monday, June 23, 2008, 10:33:01 AM, you wrote: "Portal" was probably one of the best games I have ever played, certainly one of the top 5. I loved the puzzles and challenges, a very unique concept to FPS gaming. Not a shooter per se, but you have to shoot to find solutions. The last chapter was a blast and the end song was hilarious! A brilliant game, yes all 3 games in the Orange Box are 10/10. I wonder when Portal 2 is coming out? the cake is a lie -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Hello Veech, Monday, June 23, 2008, 10:33:01 AM, you wrote: > "Portal" was probably one of the best games I have ever played, certainly > one of the top 5. I loved the puzzles and challenges, a very unique concept > to FPS gaming. Not a shooter per se, but you have to shoot to find > solutions. The last chapter was a blast and the end song was hilarious! A > brilliant game, yes all 3 games in the Orange Box are 10/10. I wonder when > Portal 2 is coming out? the cake is a lie -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
"Portal" was probably one of the best games I have ever played, certainly one of the top 5. I loved the puzzles and challenges, a very unique concept to FPS gaming. Not a shooter per se, but you have to shoot to find solutions. The last chapter was a blast and the end song was hilarious! A brilliant game, yes all 3 games in the Orange Box are 10/10. I wonder when Portal 2 is coming out? - Original Message - From: "Brian Weeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:29 AM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Second on the Orange Box. One of the best gaming values ever - 3 legitimate 10/10 games in 3 different genres for $50. Brian On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For-Pay Online play is mostly the hallmark of MMO's not FPS unless you're talking consoles which rape you anyway they can for revenue streams. TF2 is very addictive & fun, also free to play. Yes you need 2 copies, 1 for each users Valve account. Best deal is to pickup OrangeBox for $35-40/ea in a store rather than paying Valve's highway robbery prices to direct-purchase via Steam, added benefit is Portal, HL2, HL2 EP1+2 all come with it. You just jump on a server & join a team! James Maki wrote: Thanks for the info on Team Fortress. I will check it out and also see what my daughter thinks of the idea. I take it we would have to purchase 2 copies and install on 2 systems to play simultaneously. Also, can you just join a random team?
Re: [H] Should I?
Rick, Thanks for the info. It turned out that microsoft has gotten better about removing all the added patches of late when major products are removed. When I checked the system the following morning, all of the past winupdate patches (26) associated with O2K3 were also gone from the Add/Remove Prgms window of the control panel. And, all the various 'temp' directories remained clear also. I now have 1.53GB of free space on the OS hard drive after a few defrags. Afraid I just do not know how to "clone" yet. Mostly lack of experience with the hdw and sw. As this is an OS drive, I do have a detailed list of all sw installed. Plan is to just 1)xfr the whole scsi system (card and drives) to another (temp) pc frame, 2)install the pata drive and configure (format, partition, upgrade, etc.), 3) copy/move the data files back from the temp PC over my LAN after some period of stabilization. Old way I know, but it has worked well in the past. Best, Duncan At 20:45 06/20/2008 -0400, Rick Glazier wrote: IMHO: I clone first and work on the clone. If I don't like the results, I format and re-clone, repeat, etc. I take certain precautions at the same time -- like keeping backups of certain new things multiple places and storing ALL new mail on the servers. Anything so I can "re-sync" either drive back to "real time" at will, and at any time. (But not continuously.) Some planning is required to not loose anything, and changing to different hardware is a complication, but it should be able to be worked around. Be careful of any "got-chas" that have not appeared on the list. Rick Glazier From: "DHSinclair" Ultimately, I plan to replace this scsi install with a partitioned 80GB pata drive. Not sure whether to try and iso the current drive, or, just rebuild from scratch again on the new hard drive.
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
The only thing I can play on the console are racing games. I cannot do FPS after all these years of aiming and shooting with a mouse. -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:18:31 AM Subject: Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions Yes, a cancer on the face of quality gaming, consoles get more attention! Supposed (bullshit) claim is piracy on the PC is eating their profits but fact is costs of rising hardware specs for latest games means fewer sales. Nevermind that almost no one directly publishes anymore. Westwood, Sierra, etc... gone swallowed up leaving PC gamers at the mercy of non-developer publishers like EA, Vivendi, THQ, etc... who's predatory practices drop support and inject themselves between users & outside developer studios. IMHO Halo (or Gaylo as I've like to poke at the kids when the play it) is a weak console FPS title generally speaking content & game play wise. Even weaker still when compared to PC games/engines like Crysis, Quakes, HL2:source, Stalker, COD, BF, etc... but then I am admittedly pro-PC/anti-console & really hate Bungie/Halo products.
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Second on the Orange Box. One of the best gaming values ever - 3 legitimate 10/10 games in 3 different genres for $50. Brian On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:25 AM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For-Pay Online play is mostly the hallmark of MMO's not FPS unless you're > talking consoles which rape you anyway they can for revenue streams. > > TF2 is very addictive & fun, also free to play. Yes you need 2 copies, 1 > for each users Valve account. Best deal is to pickup OrangeBox for $35-40/ea > in a store rather than paying Valve's highway robbery prices to > direct-purchase via Steam, added benefit is Portal, HL2, HL2 EP1+2 all come > with it. > > You just jump on a server & join a team! > > > James Maki wrote: > > > > Thanks for the info on Team Fortress. I will check it out and also see >> what >> my daughter thinks of the idea. I take it we would have to purchase 2 >> copies >> and install on 2 systems to play simultaneously. Also, can you just join a >> random team? >> > >
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
For-Pay Online play is mostly the hallmark of MMO's not FPS unless you're talking consoles which rape you anyway they can for revenue streams. TF2 is very addictive & fun, also free to play. Yes you need 2 copies, 1 for each users Valve account. Best deal is to pickup OrangeBox for $35-40/ea in a store rather than paying Valve's highway robbery prices to direct-purchase via Steam, added benefit is Portal, HL2, HL2 EP1+2 all come with it. You just jump on a server & join a team! James Maki wrote: Thanks for the info on Team Fortress. I will check it out and also see what my daughter thinks of the idea. I take it we would have to purchase 2 copies and install on 2 systems to play simultaneously. Also, can you just join a random team?
Re: [H] WWII First Person Shooter Suggestions
Yes, a cancer on the face of quality gaming, consoles get more attention! Supposed (bullshit) claim is piracy on the PC is eating their profits but fact is costs of rising hardware specs for latest games means fewer sales. Nevermind that almost no one directly publishes anymore. Westwood, Sierra, etc... gone swallowed up leaving PC gamers at the mercy of non-developer publishers like EA, Vivendi, THQ, etc... who's predatory practices drop support and inject themselves between users & outside developer studios. IMHO Halo (or Gaylo as I've like to poke at the kids when the play it) is a weak console FPS title generally speaking content & game play wise. Even weaker still when compared to PC games/engines like Crysis, Quakes, HL2:source, Stalker, COD, BF, etc... but then I am admittedly pro-PC/anti-console & really hate Bungie/Halo products. James Maki wrote: Also, seems the game console versions are more prevalent (i.e., many games are only available for the console and only a version on 2 available for the PC -- is this a wide spread "problem" for PC owners?)
Re: [H] HD PC recording
Tivo allows you to transfer a HD recording to your computer? Even scrambled cable channel No, you have to get one of those cable cards from your cable provider, in place of a cable box. You still have to rent it and have an account. You put that in and then use TIVO as your cable box. The difference is that TIVO HD has a CAT5 plug. I haven't actually done this, but this is how it was explained to me by the TIVO rep. And that was last year so this stuff isn't new. The Hauppauge one uses your computer to process and store the recordings. It works between the cable box and the PC.
