RE: [H] SAVCE 10
At 11:27 AM 7/21/2006, Thane Sherrington typed: NOOO! Don't give out The List. :)Too late as I've already have it on my XpPe website but because of the recent attention I've deleted dead links updated a few. This is by all means is NOT all inclusive. If you want more links there is a URL in most every inf file contained within xppe.zip http://www.xppe.com/files/xppe.zip Fwiw many of the sites that I have links to have their own links to other sites if one can't find enough links to keep them happy at the CD Forums http://www.911cd.net/forums/ then they have another problem.
Re: [H] Registry Mechanic
At 07:14 AM 4/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Is any Doc in a box worth paying for since Windows XP has been around? I, my wife and many of my customers have went over 3 years with XP and without a format and reinstall job. We sure could not do this with Windows 9x. And why not? My wife is going on 8 yrs on her 98 machine without a format reinstall. Heck not even a dirty install either. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Benefits of Defragging
At 11:01 AM 4/26/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Maybe so, but as people will remember from my tests on real world machines - reading all files on the hard drive - the speed improvements I saw were more in the 5-7% range. I usually tell my clients 10% that if they just remember to defrag once in a while that should be good enough that it doesn't have to be scheduled. If they claim that their memory is bad then I tell them one can't do any harm by defragging whenever they can't remember when they did it last so don't lose any sleep over it. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] OT: Installing and running XP from USB thumbdrive
At 11:42 PM 4/22/2006, warpmedia typed: V. Cool, think I'll Digg it. Be sure to let us know what you find out but until the bios of the machines are standardized to boot USB external devices the same way I don't see a solution in sight. For me, carrying around a 3½ BartPe CD in my shirt pocket is more than enough to make me look like the king of all repair techs at parties such when we get the while you're here could you look at my computer as if it wasn't a planned question as I don't want to look too prepared. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Foreign disks in diskpart
At 07:01 PM 4/23/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Is there anyway to definitely know if someone had hard drives setup in a RAID? In my Disk Mgmt snapin Windows doesn't even know that my drives are in a raid array as it just shows one primary active partition. As far as I can tell in the Adaptec setup, there is no RAIDing being done. The only thing that would tell me if my raid is broken other than Windows not booting is the SIL Raid bios so I would think that situation would also apply to you. It's just too fishy that you have 5 disks that are suppose to be in some sort of array the 5 partitions are exactly the same size as the HDs. That has to be more than a coincidence if Adaptec is telling you there is no array then I would take that as fact. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Free Anti Virus
At 04:43 PM 4/23/2006, James Boswell typed: I set domestic clients up with AVAST! Home edition, which I find works pretty well. Ditto --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] OT: Installing and running XP from USB thumbdrive
At 01:48 PM 4/22/2006, JRS typed: MS says it can't be done, anyone try this yet? http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 There are some that have done it with BartPE from a thumbdrive but I've yet to get it to run at all on any of my machines. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Foreign disks in diskpart
At 10:58 AM 4/21/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've got a machine with 3 SCSI drives (not RAIDed) which all display in the Adaptec diags (and pass the HD test there) but in Windows (both the 2000 on the machine and in BartPE) they should up as Foreign in diskpart, and when I do a detail on them, it tells me there are no volumes. Am I right in thinking this means the partitions have been trashed? Do you know for a fact that you have the correct Adaptec drivers loaded when you run BartPe ? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] dead A8N-Sli Deluxe... :(
At 12:22 PM 4/20/2006, warpmedia typed: Well go figure, rev 0 AND Via, you'd expect problems. Hardly a basis to scratch Asus off the list. Since I had never had a problem with VIA prior to that, actually still don't have any problems with that part of the board that ASUS promised us that rev 0 was going to be upgradeable via bios upgrades as far as the memory bus speed [266 vs 333] is concerned that never came then I feel I can still easily scratch ASUS off my list but otherwise I would agree with you. FWIW the board is still in service as a test machine since I figured that if it'll work there it'll work anywhere. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
At 12:43 AM 4/21/2006, Jeff Lane typed: I can see it now..Christmas 2010 at CompUSA: 5.3 Terabyte Seagate Killer Whale drive.$99.00 after $50.00 rebate.possible, eh?? of course there will be those of us that will want the fast version that we can stripe. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Ghosting a striped RAID setup
At 09:35 AM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've got a machine with a screwed up Windows install on a striped RAID setup (four disks, ranging from 4.3GB to 80GB.) What's the best way to back this up to another drive so I can recover data after I reinstall Windows? Ghost shows it as four separate disks, but in a striped RAID isn't the data spread over all the disks? What version of Ghost? Are you booting to a floppy? Apparently the raid drivers aren't being loaded otherwise ghost should see one big disk so you probably aren't loading ghost via Windows. Have you tried running Ghost from a BartPe or XpPe disk to see if that ghost can see only one big disk? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Ghosting a striped RAID setup
At 01:23 PM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Follow up question. Windows shows the RAIDed drives as four separate drives, each the size of the physical drive. Acronis shows them as five separate Promise 1+0 Stripe/RAID 0 - I've never used RAID 0 - is it reasonable to assume that the drives are striped, but that there is a C: drive that has the Windows and programs on it, and then a D, E, and F that have data? If this is the case, and all I want to do is reformat the drive holding Windows and reinstall Windows, then I assume I just have to figure out which of the drives holds Windows and make a backup of that drive (in case there is data on it.) Am I right? You should find out all you need to know by going to the Promise Properties in the DM. My Windows Explorer shows striped drives as one drive I have to look at the SIL properties to tell that they are 2 separate drives. If is not the case for you then I'd say the Promise Raid Arrays were never setup especially since you state the 4 separate drives that shows up in Windows [Explorer or DM] is the same physical size as the drives. I also have a NVraid that I've never setup an array on yet have individual SATA drives off of it which sounds to me like what you have except maybe your drives are PATA which shouldn't make any difference. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] dead A8N-Sli Deluxe... :(
At 03:21 PM 4/19/2006, James Boswell typed: it got to scan on the last day of the warranty, and it's being replaced (aka I'll probably get a new boxed one) You lucky stiff. If it were me I would've missed it by an hour or something else silly. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] dead A8N-Sli Deluxe... :(
At 03:54 PM 4/19/2006, joeuser typed: Not sure how lucky he is, he's getting the same board back again. True enough as I've stated previously, I've never had any good luck with mombos that are state of the art if it's from AS(hit)us. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] dead A8N-Sli Deluxe... :(
At 04:03 PM 4/19/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Heh heh. Good point. I'm rid of all my Abits, thank god, and I hope never to have another. To each their own as I've never had a problem with an Abit mombo my wife is still using a KT7a without any problems but I listened to the nay sayers bought an AS(hit)us A7V333 rev 0 that has been nothing but trouble. Hmmm, if these are my only 2 choices I wonder which I'd choose. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 02:39 PM 4/18/2006, Ben Ruset typed: I think you can create a logoff script in your local Group Policy. I'd create the script so it does all the backup stuff that you want then run GRC's wizmo shutdown as the last command line in the script. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 10:38 PM 4/18/2006, warpmedia typed: What is the advantage of wizmo over the stock shutdown.exe? One is written by MSFT the other can use the ! as an argument that forces the command such as wizmo shutdown! aka as wizmo shutdown damnit. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Running a task at shutdown in XP
At 10:38 PM 4/18/2006, warpmedia typed: As to my earlier question about the logoff script happening before or after user processes are terminated I guess no one knows, so I will have to try it find out. Excerpts from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shutdown/base/about_system_shutdown.asp All file-system buffers are flushed to the disk Logging off stops all processes associated with the security context of the process that called the exit function, logs the current user off the system http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shutdown/base/shutting_down.asp Most scripts are associated with users logging off which happens before Winders shutting down to a certain extent you can tell a script when to run with RSOP_ScriptPolicySetting http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/policy/policy/rsop_scriptpolicysetting.asp. This is not to say I wouldn't be interested in seeing what your test results yield. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Annoying Asus A7V8X-X on boot up?
At 12:09 AM 4/18/2006, W. D. typed: Can't get it to boot automatically. Looked at all the BIOS settings. Has anyone seen this before? Only when there wasn't a bootable device in any of the drives /or the cmos battery had died. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free
At 08:52 AM 4/13/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: We all know that from time to time somebody will toss a monkey wrench into some very important and valuable machinery. Like the fact that this will not run on a Intel Itanium machine. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Regurgitation on the list?
Nope. At 12:24 AM 4/13/2006, Stan Zaske typed: Nope! Chris Reeves wrote: Anyone else seemingly getting repeats of days old emails from HWL? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] SoundBlaster PCI 128 CT4730 Auto Play Issues
At 09:21 AM 4/11/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Is digital audio output enabled? If it is, you'll get no analog output really common on HPs/Compaq/Gateway that shipped originally with Boston Accoustic digital speakers. I had a small mom/pop shop install a SB128 in a ladies IBM machine saying that her Realtek didn't work. I pulled the SB changed the Control Panel/Sounds and Sudio Devices/Audio tab so that the Realtek was the Default then I held the SB in my left hand some 3 feet away while playing Tada with my right hand to show her there was no magic trick that the mom/pop place had screwed her. The speakers that came with the IBM weren't amplified the volume had to be turned up quite a bit but they played just fine. CW could you back channel me please? Thanks --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 07:45 AM 4/6/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Albany, Georgia is an area where people do not haggle over the price of a new forty grand vehicle but want to haggle for 3 days over a thousand dollar computer and then either go buy a five hundred dollar Wal*Mart special or a three grand dell, no haggle, of course! You just described most of America. If more people thought computers were worth 3 grand then more people would buy them. How many 3k systems do you see advertised on TV ? Almost none but how many 40k+ vehicles do you see advertised on TV? Only 2 or 3 per hour of prime time TV broadcast. How many cheap computers do you see advertised? Almost as many as the car commercials. Gee, if I knew nothing about computers I would buy a cheap one I'm sure that your first vehicle wasn't 40k+ either. When are you going to learn to give the American public a break? People understand transportation but have failed to fully understand what computers can do therefore they don't value computers as much especially their 1st one. How many things have you learned the hard way? I have learned many things via the school of hard knocks the rest of the American public will too but not as fast as you like. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 09:46 AM 4/6/2006, Chris Reeves typed: There are, however, numerous add-ons that do copy plenty to RAMDISK before working. Sure there are. Everyone that creates a plugin thinks their apps must install to the RAMDISK. Heck I even copy my Favorites to the RAMDISK on bootup but is it req'd? I don't think so. What slows it down isn't a slow optical drive, necessarily, it's the amount of drivers and items that build in. For those of us that just use universal type BART discs, with all drivers we might potentially need, the load time can be sucky, no matter what you do. That's the catch22 all drivers we might potentially need. Once we do that it's more like we're installing Windows versus just booting an existing OS but that's also a caveat of the beast. We never know what drivers are needed for the system we've not yet seen are asked to fix so we're damned if we do have almost all the drivers that we can think of or we're damned if we don't. Maybe we need 2 BartPE disks with one with just the basic driver set that comes with PE Builder another with a much wider assortment of driver just in case? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 03:31 PM 4/5/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I'm still not convinced that the only response to any infection is a total reinstall. But I haven't read the article completely yet, so perhaps I'll come around. But if MS is right, then it's time for everyone, and I mean everyone, to abandon ship and switch to Apple or *nix now because if the maker of the product says it's unsafe and unfixable, then we are nuts to be using it. Sounds to me like MSFT is trying to scare people into Windows Defender or Windows One Care subscriptions to me but either way until MSFT provides a decent imaging app such as Ghost I'm not buying it. Social engineering is a very, very effective technique. We have statistics that show significant infection rates for the social engineering malware. Phishing is a major problem because there really is no patch for human stupidity, he said. Just because large corporations may have a problem with hiring idiots does that mean the bright people here have anything to worry about. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 02:04 PM 4/5/2006, Mesdaq, Ali typed: Exactly what we were debating a few weeks ago. Where are those I can clean any infection guys at now? We're still here. Isn't it funny how MSFT does NOT address booting another OS even XP cleaning these affected HDs? I've already successfully cleaned bugs with my XpPe disk that I could NOT have cleaned without booting another OS such as the Bagle Netsky variants that shuts down anything with the AV name in it within 15 seconds such as the AV website so one can not do an online scan or allowing one to update their AV defs. Also we can clean any infection guys have never said that a wipe was never needed just that it's rarely needed. I've always been perturbed that MSFT has never provided a decent backup with ASR [automatic system recover] for Xp Home users. I also find it interesting that I as a beta tester just rec'd email from MSFT asking me if I want to purchase a one year subscription to their Live OneCare for $20 that covers 3 computers. BTW I'm not violating any NDA as There's still time to share the OneCare beta with friends and family. If they sign up for the beta, they'll also be eligible for the special $19.95 service subscription in April. There's more info on the http://www.windowsliveonecare.comOneCare website http://www.windowsliveonecare.com. For those who need no more convincing and are ready to sign up, you can direct them to the http://www.windowsonecare.com/purchase/default.aspxOneCare beta sign-up http://www.windowsonecare.com/purchase/default.aspx but you only have til April 30th to sign up. Danseglio said the success of social engineering attacks is a sign that the weakest link in malware defense is human stupidity. According to Danseglio, . The easy way to deal with this is to think about prevention. Preventing an infection is far easier than cleaning up, ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
Re: [H] Is activating XP necessary?
At 12:25 AM 4/6/2006, FORC5 typed: what does VLK stand for ? 1st time hearing that term. MSFT had a give away of a USB ThumbDrive to OEMs that could answer 4 or 5 licensing questions correctly one of them is about VLK. VLK is volume licensing but volume licensing is suppose to be used as upgrades to existing licenses only. I had previously submitted that link but I don't believe it's valid any longer I've not gotten the USB ThumbDrive yet either but it's one of those things that they'll ship out 8 or 10 weeks after you take the quiz so maybe it'll be here next week. I have a couple of other things I'm still waiting for as well but nothing I can't live without. I also rec'd notice that the April MAPS updates are about to be shipped out. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 09:45 PM 4/5/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: If I were going to try to clean up a hard drive, my preference would be to remove it and attach it to another computer and run it passively. That's what you're doing when you boot a BartPE or XpPe or Knoppix CD. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
At 10:24 PM 4/5/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Totally disagree. By the time you configure BART or whatever to have all the right drivers (network drivers for say, Nvidia chipset, or new Intel network drivers) SATA drivers (new Intel, ATI, Nvidia, etc.) and it loads up all of those things, you can wait a while. On a decent fast machine, it's not bad, but on a slower machine it's a virtual eternity. Try booting one on a machine that doesn't have enough memory you can wait forever. ;-) Still I would much rather boot a BartPe or XpPe disk CD that remove the HD put it into another machine. I tried booting the new Knoppix 5 DVD on a 2700+ machine I thought that would never boot up but it did eventually. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Mountain Dew PC
At 11:32 AM 4/2/2006, Al typed: Mountain Dew PC http://www.dewmod.com/index.php I would say that he did the dew alright. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] ATM Theft
At 07:51 AM 3/27/2006, Mark Dodge typed: Why isn't this modification caught by the ATM's own camera's Well if I were the bad guy I'd stand in front of the camera or somehow block it from seeing what I was up to while I made the installation. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] CloneDVDMobile
At 01:05 PM 3/26/2006, Anthony Q. Martin typed: It's rather old tech, though, so maybe that has something to do with it. Like sneaker net old ? ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] DVI to HDMI problems
At 10:50 AM 3/26/2006, Brian Weeden typed: The only thing I can guess is that the TV is looking for only signals that are Macrovisiion/CSS protected over the HDMI and thus will only display those. You hit the nail on the head can find out more at http://www.avsforum.com/ Even MyHD 120 card says to hook up the DVI only to another DVI this was discussed in one of their subtopics @ avsforum. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem
At 03:19 PM 3/25/2006, Winterlight typed: Not COX where I am ... still paying 39.95 for 4Mb/s down and 512Kb upand I am standing 20 feet away from a fiber optic line. where was this? No FIOS here as of yet but I'm getting 5m/.5m D/U for $39.95 here I've routinely downloaded 15g while sleeping the wee hours of the morning without any effort at all from Usenet. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Praise for x64/Nero Recode
At 02:44 PM 3/18/2006, CW typed: Ok, finally setup a partition to run X64. Running a 4200+ X2. Nero Recode to manage a full DVD: 3000+ Venice (same board configuration) in XP64, Nero 7.0.8: 14:15 3000+ Venice (same board configuration) in XP, Nero 7.0.8: 16:13 4200+ X2 (same board configuration) in XP64: 5 mins, 32 Seconds 4200+ X2 (same board configuration) in XP: 9 mins, 39 Seconds Damn! Good work on behest of the Nero folks ;) I wonder if the 4400+ X2 [Toledeo core] with the 1meg L2 would break the 5min barrier. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Winbatch
At 11:56 PM 3/11/2006, W. D. typed: Works great. If you are not going to use a full-fledged programming language, it's a good choice for scripting. FWIW, I like it. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Blocking AOL IM....
At 10:45 PM 3/11/2006, Bobby Heid typed: I need to block AOL IM on my machine at home. I have a Linksys WRT54GS v4 and Sygate personal firewall pro. What is the best way to implement this? If AIM can't connect on port 5190, it tries a bunch of other ports to try to get through such as the ports for ftp, http, nntp, etc. so good luck. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] google search for failure
At 09:02 AM 3/3/2006, warpmedia typed: Better we work on filtering technology then creating more nuclear waste that can't be gotten rid of, only stored. Then there's the issue that a nuke plant is essentially a dirty bomb ripe to be detonated. Not really even if it were true do you know how many components of bombs are found in everyday life? Just ask the victim's families of the Oklahoma City bombing. Point is just because the components are there doesn't mean they make a good bomb. The components are there in your car but that doesn't mean we should stop driving. Heck one could get sun burned if precautions aren't taken. India Japan all use nukes successfully we're losing ground economically to them every day. I know for a fact they weren't designed to the constraints that the plants in the US were. Heck in the US plants we designed for non radiated water pipes to whiplash the main turbine to be hit by a telephone pole during a tornado the odds were still very very low of radiation leaks. The odds were higher if you step off a curb in bo-dunk. Fuel-cell + Battery + Ethanol sound like they could be good tech if that's what the market was buying as a whole for cars. Add to that, Solar could be viable to power homes. One needs sunlight for that we certainly don't get enough of that in the northern half of the US otherwise people wouldn't suffer from blues in the winter. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: Cooking was Re: cars was [H] google search
At 12:58 AM 3/4/2006, Stan Zaske typed: Mmmm Auto Fuel! Does this mean I can drive my car *and* cook supper at the same time? Would that be hood up for fried down for baked ? One might want to be toasted before they start flipping burgers at 60mph tho. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Antivirus
At 01:12 PM 3/1/2006, Veech typed: Anyway, their computer is now so borked that I can't even d/l any programs such as AdAware (which I wanted to reinstall) or anything else because the browser keeps getting hijacked. I tried to download Hijack This, but ended up with a program called AdwareAlert which wants to charge $30... does Hijack This still exist as a freeware program? There are viruses out there that close the web browser as soon as you attempt to access certain websites such as McAfee or Symantec the only way to clean these out is either to use a cd with a bootable OS AV app such as BartPE or XpPe. The biggest problem is a toss up between surfing questionable sites game hacking sites are notoriously terrible as well as so called adult sites combined with the definitions not being updated frequently enough. If these 2 issues are not addressed I don't care what AV app you use you will get infected. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Hi All / System stutter problems
At 11:46 AM 3/1/2006, warpmedia typed: Dell did fuck up IMO by putting the internal optical drive on same chain as HDD in the laptop, why is a mystery. One less IDE cable they have to use. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] USB - PS2 convertor and Microsoft Ergo 4000
At 07:01 PM 2/25/2006, Hunter, Gary typed: How did I know Chris would have the answer, even if it was one I didn't want to hear :-( Is there something close to it that is PS2 compatable. If there is I will take my 4000 to work and buy the alternative for home. I especially love the padded wrist wrest on the 4000. How about a different KVM instead ? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Hardrive failure..
At 02:01 PM 2/22/2006, Stan Zaske typed: Wouldn't they still know the drive had been exposed to high kinetic impact when they took it apart an found the crashed heads and pits in the platters? I assume they take them apart to see what failed for quality purposes. I would imagine they spot check but at the cost of drives these days I seriously doubt they check every one. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H]-upgrade advice
At 09:04 AM 2/19/2006, Zulfiqar Naushad typed: The problem was not from the ASUS Board, but rather from the VIA KT333 chipset. While I'm sure that VIA has something to do with the problem board it wasn't VIA that promised me that the memory would run at 333mhz on the original board yet that wasn't fixed until rev1 it was Asus that left us out in the cold. It wasn't VIA that kept my board from bios rev 3 to rev 15 before returning it. I don't know how it was VIA's fault that the Promise raid controller never worked but maybe it was their fault that firewire port never worked. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Multuple currencies in finance program
At 10:11 PM 2/18/2006, Brian Weeden typed: She started with Quicken 2006 because it said it handled multiple currencies but then found out it can only download info from American banks. So she grabbed the Canadian version of Quicken and found out it can only handle Canadian banks. It doesn't sound like it's a question of multiple currencies but multi-national banking standards but yes it would be nice if there was an app that could download from both American Canadian banks. I suppose she could try using just one bank after all they're suppose to be able to handle the exchange rate. Good Luck. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [hardware] [H] Installer on startup
At 02:42 PM 2/16/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Hasn't in my experience. Why a printer requires programs in startup is beyond me. One can always install the HP drivers without installing the apps but it has to be done manually as there is no install for this. I did it with my HP720 years ago again with the G55 that I have now so there is no bloat. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] how to get web page to stop skimming my text
At 07:28 AM 2/16/2006, Jim Edwards typed: So I start ie with a page like comcast.net But I immediately want to put powerball in the address bar to go to powerball.com but midway through the entry the comcast.net hijacks the text to their 'search' space on the page. how can this be stopped? Hmmm, no problems here but I just copied pasted the url. I do searches from the address bar all the time so I wouldn't want that disabled. Once you have powerball.com bookmarked can you turn the searches back on then still get to the url ??? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation
At 09:09 AM 2/15/2006, Christopher Fisk typed: Yes, we try to clean the machines as much as possible, but the insane assumption that cleaning the machine is always better than starting fresh with the OS, is just that, insane. Unfortunately there are too many shops out there that start with the restore disk for the simplest little problem. FWIW I understand there are nasties out there than can go undetected but nothing can change the fact that I've only had to do a complete re-install on 2 machines in the last 10yrs. Sure there may have been some machines that I spent too much time on but I would rather error on the side of caution. When you do a backup do you do a complete backup if not what about all the various configuration files then there is the time to get everything restored? Sure there are times when doing a reinstall is the best thing for the shop but IMO there is less than 5% of the time it's the best thing for the client. This is one of those topics where many of us will have to agree to disagree, eg: I like Fords you like Chevys. Can the customer go out and buy a better machine than this one for the same price it is going to cost for me to do the repair? That is why I never charge more than $200 for my time on a single machine because the client can buy Chuck's favorite eMachine. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] AntiSpyware becomes Defender...
At 06:37 AM 2/15/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Doesn't security products from MS sound like a protection racket? :) If one wants real protection would you rely on Ford putting the alarm system on a Ford or would you go out buy a 3rd party system? The whole concept doesn't make any sense. Doesn't MSFT know that they are the biggest target on the planet? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H
At 10:36 AM 2/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a Samsung SV8004H hard drive on Hewlett Packard that I want to do a clean install on. In times past, Seagate came to my rescue, but not this time. I tried FDISK and the XP Installation process, to no avail. Samsung says it discontinued its hard drive preparation software since Windows XP CD will do the same thing. Don't know what you're talking about because the Low Level Format util is at http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/sutil.htm and Diagnostic is at http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm FWIW I have downloaded all of them without any problems. OBTW Google is your friend. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation
At 10:09 PM 2/14/2006, Hayes Elkins typed: Neither is there an antivirus tool that detects 100% of viruses. So next time you suspect a variant of STONED, better be safe than sorry and format. I haven't been stoned in forever neither has any computer that I've worked on altho I vaguely remember seeing one back in the stone ages when off white text became amber. ;-) Now that you brought this up I sure hope I don't have any flash backs about it. rotfl --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with bad virusinfestation
At 06:56 AM 2/13/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: So when you reinstall Windows, do you reinstall all their apps and transfer data as part of the regular job? Most mom/pop shops do NOT putting the onus on the owner to have sufficient backups when everyone knows that home lusers don't backup nearly enough. Heck even MSFT doesn't install a shortcut to ntbackup on the start menu XP Home does NOT have ASR [automatic system recovery] feature anyway so what good is it? If so, what sort of cost would I be looking at to bring in a computer and have Windows XP with three users and six apps and data restored? I'm just wondering if I'm charging way too little. You probably are. There is a shop here in this little town that sells systems without AV software knowing that the client is going on the internet as a nOOb so they know that they'll get the machine back. They'll do a re-install for $50 but the client loses everything from Internet setup, email, pics of the grandkids etc. but what do they care? Another shop charged a chiropractor $250 to cleanup Happy99 by doing a wipe re-install without telling him that he was going to lose all his data then sent the laptop back at 640x480 when the native res was 800x600 so it looked like crap. He took the laptop back they soaked him for another $200 still gave the machine at 640x480. While bidding on a small 5 workstation network for him he asked me if I could fix his laptop display while he ran out to get the snail mail coffee. He thought he was testing me. I had it fixed before he was out of the driveway but he didn't believe me until he saw it for himself and when he did he asked me how much I wanted for the network job [I should've upped my price right there] then he wrote me a check on the spot. I told him I could've fixed Happy99 for $50 he wouldn't have lost all his data nor would the screen have gotten messed up. In this little college town with 4 or 5 mom/pop shops you'd think that I wouldn't have anything to do yet I get calls everyday if the people that call can't give a reference from a previous client then I refuse to do business with them. FWIW I don't advertise in the Yellow Pages I don't even list Svenska Computing in the white pages but the calls still keep coming in. Darned word of mouth anyway. ;-) So while in a few rare cases a wipe re-install is necessary it certainly is NOT req'd in all cases. I never charge more than $200 USD to cleanup a system even if that means doing a wipe re-install but I also re-install as many of the apps as I can salvaging as much of their data as I can but only after I try to clean the sucker as thoroughly as I can. This is what I would do for my own machine(s) [even tho I don't surf the shady sites have more than 1 backup] therefore I believe the clients deserve the same treatment. Heck the reason I developed XpPe was so I could clean up NTFS systems but why would I bother do that if I was going to take the wipe re-install route every time? There are bugs that shut down AV apps websites that I can cleanup in 5 min with my XpPe disk that I could never clean on the system otherwise without having to pull the HD put it in another system on the bench. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
Re: [H] Hard drives, who says size doesn't matter?
At 10:51 AM 2/11/2006, Brian Weeden typed: But if you want it to be useable for a Linux box you need to use FAT32 which is limited to around 180GB per partition. Why is that as I had my WD 250g drive with 1 partition that was formatted in Fat32 before I converted it to NTFS ? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Hard drives, who says size doesn't matter?
At 02:42 PM 2/11/2006, CW typed: You're both close. FAT32 still has a cluster issue as the drive size goes up, so the ammount you'd be losing due to FAT32 overhead on a 250G drive would be a fair chunk, and pretty unacceptable. At least it's not a 500g drive. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Halo2 for PC (with a catch)
At 07:52 PM 2/11/2006, Veech typed: Probably won't be too long before there's an XP hack.. run it in a VM ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with bad virus infestation
At 03:49 PM 2/10/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I am doing the job right. I'm glad that you find reinstallation the best route, but it's not the only route, and I find it isn't the best. If the machine is clean at the end, and the customer has a functional Windows and programs and all their data, it doesn't matter which route you take. I just hate the idea of reinstalling all those apps, creating all the users, and making sure the data is in the right place. In the past 10yrs I've had only 2 machines that I couldn't clean well enough those were machines that lived in the prOn zone. I did re-installs on them at no charge. When I know that they are prOn machines I don't mind socking it to them in the wallet for the cleanup because usually it means that it's going to take a while. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] VMware Server...
At 09:57 AM 2/8/2006, Rob Finger typed: So let me get this straight. VMWare is offering Server for free for the Beta test or will it be free after that also? Meaning you would have to pay for GSX and ESX products. We are looking into getting GSX for testing and some small production machines at work but Server might be fine for us also. The way I understand it is Server takes the place of the GSX version that it is now freeware whether it's beta or not. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] VMware Server...
At 03:54 PM 2/6/2006, Ben Ruset typed: Right off the top of my head, you can't auto start VM's with Workstation. Yes you can VM Settings Options Power --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] VMware Server...
At 03:54 PM 2/6/2006, Ben Ruset typed: Right off the top of my head, you can't auto start VM's with Workstation. To start a virtual machine from the command line it's vmrun start c:\[path]\virtual_machine_name.vmx but you must either change your working directory to the VMware Workstation directory or add the VMware Workstation directory to the system path first. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Question: Virus Test Lab
At 09:46 PM 2/4/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Ok, thanks to the recent PC Mag and other articles, I've actually had a client ask me a question today regarding testing AV software. Their Norton Corporate Contract expires soon, and they have been somewhat unhappy with portions of it. He wants to setup a box, and pull a PC Mag and just infect it to all get out, make a ghost image, then see which AV software does better. He's considering TrendMicro OfficeScan, Norton Again, or CA. It's an interesting idea, but honestly; I don't much care for the concept of going out and hunting for virus files to test with. The idea stinks because the bugs that are available today have little to do with whatever bugs that will be developed tomorrow also getting the virus definitions in a timely manner is as important as detecting the bugs. IMNSHO this is would be a complete waste of time. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] RE: rubber bands safe for attaching heatsinks?
Recommended or not I wouldn't do this unless these HSs attach thru the mombo I don't see the need for a temp attachment anyway as most of the other attachment types come off easily enough. At 10:58 PM 2/4/2006, Chris Reeves typed: I don't think it's recommended. -Original Message- From: Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 07, 1998 11:36 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: rubber bands safe for attaching heatsinks? I don't want to use glue at the moment, so I have two cards with heat sinks attached via rubber bands and heatsink grease ( a Voodoo1 and a V2200). Any body else try this? Should I expect fumes from burning rubber? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] RE: rubber bands safe for attaching heatsinks?
At 11:17 PM 2/4/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Whoops! I am spending the evening converting and archiving some old email, and apparently I still had stuff in the outboxes *whoops!* Being corrected now. Could you back channel me? Thanks --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Removing unwanted services
At 10:51 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, the services it installed are still there. I can disable them, but I'd like to remove them. Is there anyway to do this in XP? In Xp Pro go to AdminTools Services you can turn off any service that you want. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
At 10:50 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Anyone ever see this? An XP Home system, works fine most of the time, but once in a while the mouse pointer disappears (doesn't matter what mouse I use, USB or PS2.) The mouse continues to work, as I can click on things and figure out where the pointer is supposed to be. Sounds to me like a video driver issue I would update that to see if that helps. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
At 12:09 PM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I'm running the latest NVidia drivers. Can I go back to an earlier version of NVidia drivers just by installing the older version, or do I have to somehow remove the drivers (other than add/remove) first? I believe you're suppose to uninstall first but it's been so long that I may be in error, error, error... --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [hardware] [H] Removing McAfee
At 03:47 PM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: That's my problem. The other programs aren't listed. To my mind, any suite that has a container that can't uninstall all or some of the sub programs is poorly written. MSOffice doesn't ask me to uninstall Word before I uninstall Office. It's ridiculous. Another reason not to use McAfee. That's why I'm still using 4.51 before they went hog wild with the GUI it uses the same dats engine as their latest AV app does I get the updates for free. Kind of the best of both worlds, simple GUI free updates obtw it works fine here. IMHO most of these internet security suites are just a pita. McAfee's firewall use to be no different than Zone Alarm, probably just rebranded and there are better spyware apps out there. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Cell phones
At 01:03 AM 2/4/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Okay, I that's what I needed to know. Just trying to make sure I'm not going to get a bunch of useless paperweights doing this :) One more question - will I be able to transfer my existing cell number to the new phone and provider? VZW offered to transfer a number for me but I didn't have one to transfer so it was a non issue for me. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Magnets and Wireless
At 10:32 AM 2/2/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Does anyone know if the magnets in speakers can cause interference with wirless networks? I have a customer who has his router on top of a speaker and is concerned that it is conflicting with his wireless and causing lower than 54MBit connections. I have a client that is a complainer they have their wireless WRT54g on top of a speaker but they've yet to complain about the wireless being affect by anything other than cordless phone. I don't believe the wireless would be effected unless an antenna was right on the magnet. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] eudora 7 ?
At 08:46 PM 2/1/2006, FORC5 typed: they maybe moved the ini file or put the info in the registry, either way doesn't bother me. One thing they added the cute little icons substitution thing for emoticons such as ;-). If you have Eudora 7 that will have turned into a happy face winky automagically. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Is this thing on?
At 11:07 AM 1/31/2006, Jin-Wei Tioh typed: It's interview week for me. Will be busy selling myself. Wait, that doesn't sound quite right... :P Whether it sounds right or not that's what you're doing. Go for it break a leg. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Booth babes banned from E3 2006
At 11:00 AM 1/27/2006, Anthony Q. Martin typed: Sausage fest? Who's degrading who. How can you know who feels degraded by booth babes? I don't see a problem with booth babes myself, though I've never been to a show (I did do a Comdex a long time ago). Years ago I would go to all the Detroit Auto Shows at Cobo Hall to take pics of all the booth babes the cars. I was able to get a bunch of models for nada that way. Most of them sure took to the camera when I explained that I was an aspiring photographer trying to put a portfolio together many of them would model for me on the side free of charge since many of them were aspiring models so I'd give them my shots as a gratuity or was that something else that was a gratuity? ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Booth babes banned from E3 2006
At 02:26 PM 1/27/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Based on your highly scientific study, of course. I'll suggest a solution. On alternating years, switch back and forth between booth babes and jocks. I'll bet there will be a lot fewer pictures of Lopaka snuggling up to the jocks. (Actually, thinking about it, he could be one of the jocks.) I thought Lopaka being a jock was how he got the booth babes to snuggle up to him in the first place. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 11:58 PM 1/21/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Now, exact digital copies can be made over and over equal to the source. What gets me is if I obtain the original video legally then why do they care what I do with it in my own home? /rhetorical Just because I have rape tools doesn't make me a rapist no more than woman has to be a prostitute. These guys are treating all of us like we're criminals when we haven't even been accused never mind charged with anything. This whole deal with the RIAA the MPAA ticks me off it's because of their attitudes that many do all that they can to turn the tables on them. /rant --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 10:55 PM 1/21/2006, Chris Reeves typed: *laugh* yeah, I think that too.. but realize, even in the open releases, Vista and other things coming down the pipe require an HDMI interface on the monitor to put out recorded HDTV conent.. *shrug* so, it's almost a no win Makes me glad that I have the MyHD MDP-120 card the broadcast flag was rejected [at least for now]. I know several peeps that bought extra MyHD cards when they feared the broadcast flag was going into effect. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 05:56 PM 1/21/2006, warpmedia typed: TW was just an easy example that it's being done and the hoops they might may you go through to get it. Notice it says you have to specifically ask for that box and they like stonewall without that info. Not to mention they don't do this in (any?) other TW markets. When I searched a few months ago for info on the Minnesota TW site there was no mention of 1394, period. The site I quoted was for their corporate headquarters region, no surprise they get it 1st. Let us know what happens! I called the gal didn't even know what a firewire or 1394 port was for which doesn't surprise me because the installation technician didn't even know what size HD the thing had freely admitted that no one had asked before. The gal that I spoke to wanted to know what that thingy was used for I told her to add an external HD for playback later just as it has an internal HD. She sounded amazed that one could do such a thing stated that she would pass it on up to her supervisor that I could expect a call next week. Sure I can I'm holding my breathe as I wait too. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 08:21 PM 1/21/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Yeah, Time Warner here has told me that have suspended all distribution of 1394 devices and carry none. The tech I spoke to said copyright issues prevent them from allowing units with turned on 1394 ports; therefore, I have a Scientific Atlanta unit which has firewire ports.. that are dead as a doornail. This is what I don't comprehend. Why is ok for me to save to an internal HD for playback later not to an external HD for playback later? Wouldn't both situations be a copyright issue ? Heck I can take the external coax out plug that into a stand alone dvd recorder just as easily as I can a TV. I wonder if we'll still be able to that with the new stand alone bluray or hd dvd recorders tho. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] HDTV antennas
At 10:40 AM 1/20/2006, Hayes Elkins typed: Terk is overpriced shit. Rat shack will have what you are looking for. Your best bet is a multi-element outdoor UHF antenna. Better yet go to http://www.antennaweb.org/ for a discussion of HDTV antennae links of where to get them cheaper than RS. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] HDTV antennas
At 11:03 AM 1/20/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Yep, just went there. Totally forgo about that site since I was there the first time 2 years ago :) Currently looking at this http://www.antennasdirect.com/SR15_hdtv_antenna.html I live in Colorado Springs so snow and high winds are an issue. AntennaWeb says I need a red antenna - medium gain directional. All my channels are coming from the same exact location - its just behind a big hill :( The only hitch is that I have 3 HD OTA UHF channels but one (CBS) that broadcasts in the high VHF. Supposedly a good UHF antenna will be able to pick it up but we will see. I'm looking at http://www.antennasdirect.com/91XG_HDTV_Antenna.html as I have RS's best VHS antenna now it doesn't pull in CBS from Cleveland as well as it does the Fox station which is right around the corner so they just aren't putting out the power I'm hoping a better antenna will do the trick. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 01:09 PM 1/20/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: He backpeddled on this wildly this week, of course. That wouldn't be because of legal pressure from MSFT's atty now would it? ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 02:00 PM 1/20/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: What? Pressure from MS? That's nuts! You don't think Steve might have heard from some MSFT atty's after that scathing article? If one makes false claims without documentation or without stating that this is my opinion then he certainly might have heard from their atty's. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 03:17 PM 1/20/2006, Brian Weeden typed: If anyone bothered to actually listen to the original podcast or read the transcript, he did say this was his opinion and he did say that he had no proof and no way to verify it. Sorry I did not read the transcript as long as he was just stating his opinion then he can say anything he wants. It's up to us to determine if we need Joe User's tin hat or not. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 11:11 AM 1/19/2006, Ben Ruset typed: Well, from what I understand CableCard does not yet allow for OnDemand, which I make use of a lot. As for archiving -- well as long as there is High Def over component cable, I don't know how they can stop you from archiving. It's an analog signal after all... I have an HDTV PVR supplied by my local cable company as well I have taken the coax out which is suppose to go to a tv put that as an input for my Samsung stand alone DVD recorder. This works ok but it certainly is NOT HD. I don't know of any capture card that accepts component cable as an input, do you ? --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Any MythTV users out there?
At 12:53 PM 1/19/2006, Stan Zaske typed: Does your cable box have Firewire output? @:D Mine has several but the cable company has disabled them. How considerate of them. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Microsoft VM
At 12:18 PM 1/19/2006, dhs typed: I do realize that many feel the MS VM and Sun Java can be a security hole, but at this point, I'm just trying to either get the MS VM back, or, try the Sun JRE. Things like banking and info retrieval are a major part of life for me online. Did you know that VMware now has a freeware VM player that plays both MSFT VMware VMs? http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ Also they have prebuilt VM machines in various distros that are also freeware such as Browser Appliance Virtual Machine http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html for better security while browsing. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Using routers to segment network
At 07:13 AM 1/18/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Wouldn't the wired router protect me from sniffing and ARP poisoning in the wired LAN? I don't believe you're seeing the whole picture. I believe this is what he's trying to say. Open Wireless Router. /\ | ModemWired Router--Open Wireless Router | V Wired LAN I want to protect --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Using routers to segment network
At 11:25 AM 1/18/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: You've added another Open Wireless router, but I don't need that. My bad as one of them is suppose to have WEP or WPA enabled but the idea is the same. One wireless router for quests another that you want to keep secure with the 3rd leg being to your wired LAN. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Using routers to segment network
At 08:19 PM 1/18/2006, Winterlight typed: I just bought a new Belkin router with some very nice features, one of which is the ability to define IP addresses that will be outside the DMZ. This is specifically incorporated into the router to handle games. This removes the need for multiple routers. Huh? I can put any machine [defined by it's ip address] on my LAN in the DMZ but how does that help one not have multiple wireless routers? What GRC is trying to say is that one has a choice with a single wireless router of making it easy for everyone to attach to or keeping your LAN secure but not both. The only way to have both is some combination of multiple wireless routers, access points or switches. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] HTPC remote?
At 10:15 PM 1/16/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Anyone out there found a good remote for your HTPC? I need something that can do the basic functions, works with both the HTPC software and can be programmed for standard home theater devices, which I think means it needs to be IR not RF. My HTPC does NOT run MCE but I don't care about that and there was a remote that came with the MyHD MDP-120 HDTV capture card. Like most peeps I don't care to have a ton of remotes around so I have a programmable One 4 All URC 8910 with a JP1 cable. I was able to find the codes for the MyHD remote then plugged them into my 8910 so now my 8910 controls a Samsung DVD recorder w/ firewire, Samsung 30 HDTV, Philips DVP 642, Sony AV Receiver, Sony 200 CD changer, Magnavox DVR, JVC VHS the HTPC. It may not be the best home theater setup but it's the best that I could do on a tight budget it's more than acceptable. It's a good thing we have the Audio Authority HD auto switcher as I have 5 inputs going into a HDTV that only has 2 Y,Pb,Pr connections. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] would this be a good idea for THG
At 06:24 AM 1/13/2006, Jim Edwards typed: Uh, admin fees And all this time I thought you did this for the love of THG not for profit. Silly me. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] would this be a good idea for THG
At 06:24 AM 1/13/2006, Jim Edwards typed: Gee, maybe I should contact Mel Gibson. Don't hold your breath while waiting for the reply. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] would this be a good idea for THG
At 05:34 PM 1/13/2006, Jim Edwards typed: I love you Wayne. Never doubt that! ;) Did your girlfriend drag you to the Broke Back Mtn movie or what? lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] would this be a good idea for THG
At 08:04 PM 1/12/2006, Jim Edwards typed: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/12/million_pixels/ So it wouldn't be the first one but it could help to ensure THG and the list stays around for a very long time. I donno... Just a thought. At the price of machines today a million would be a little excessive don't you think? You could try to sell your soul on eBay. Oh wait a minute someone has already done that too. What you need is a novel idea that people will buy. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] CPU Upgrade
At 07:03 PM 1/11/2006, AMDSpeed typed: Does Windows XP Pro SP2 need to be reinstalled when going from a single core Athlon 64 to an X2 processor? The only time you would need to do that is if you went with a 64bit version of Windows Xp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx or 2k3 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/64bit/default.mspx --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Graphics in emails
At 05:23 PM 1/10/2006, Mesdaq, Ali typed: Or you could create it in whatever program that outputs to html and paste that in the email program. I think that should work as well. Sure one could create an html in Frontpage then preview it from there copy-n-paste into OE but I don't believe that he'll get the background. One can open any html as stationery in OE therefore one could create in Frontpage an html then save it open it as Message, New Using, Select Stationery then browse to the html then he'll get everything including the background. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Recommendation on computer build
At 12:55 AM 1/8/2006, AMDSpeed typed: Correct. I don't need film quality material. Likely going to input video using a firewire link from a MiniDV videocam. I guess I'll lean toward the P4 solution. I think I can pick up a P4 chip on ebay for around $100. I can actually use the Celeron in another board that has been collecting dust and sell it off. Will I still be encoding if I were just importing video from a MiniDV camera? I thought the video was already recorded in MPEG format... I know importing from an analog video source would mean very intensive CPU usage. I know DIVX encoding and the like still utilizes quite a bit of cycles from my Athlon 2.2Ghz 64 processor. I was hoping to bypass most of this tediousness by using a MiniDV cam as the source. I've been doing this stuff for years with a Digital8 input to the computer via firewire is digital not analog it's usually in raw format. Now you can have it converted to mpeg2 via software or you could get a Canopus card it'll convert to mpeg2 on the fly. Some of the earlier apps leaned toward using Intel but some of the later ones have started leaning more to the center supporting both Intel AMD processors. In any case I can bet you dollars to donuts that there shall at least be some editing as soon as you touch one frame you're going to have to re-code the video. If it's in the correct format already then this won't take too long but if the video isn't because it's was left in the original format then you'll still have to encode it into mpeg2 not to mention convert that to a DVD's VOB format. Believe me I thought I was just going to do this that but when I got into it there was a whole lot more this that to do. If she's just doing some training videos she may want to consider using an app like p2e [picturestoexe]. This app will convert many different still video formats allowing you to combine them into one video that you can burn on a dvd. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Remote desktop apps
At 10:28 AM 1/8/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Currently I use TIghtVNC to control my HTPC over the LAN. Works great, except that it seems to have a pretty high CPU usage, like 30-40%. This is fairly detrimental to a machine playing back Hi-Def xvid or DVDs. Is this a common problem with VNC? Is there some setting that I am missing? I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] to do the same thing yes the cpu usage is high. I use mine to start the various videos then I shut [EMAIL PROTECTED] down so it's not really an issue plus the MyHD card that I use handles all the video to the wide screen tv so the computer isn't doing all that much. Has anyone tried the Remote Desktop built into Windows XP? Does it have the same CPU issues? I'm not much help here. I had security issues with Remote Desktop early on haven't used it since. I have heard that the particular issue I was having has been fixed but I'm happy with [EMAIL PROTECTED] --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Verizon DSL
At 07:15 PM 1/8/2006, AMDSpeed typed: I've had nothing but great service with Verizon DSL at my place in Queens NYC. VZ DSL in the NYC area is very different than the rest of the country. I had it for a year while it was ok overall their supt sucks like most places these days. I had a Westell modem/router all in one unit that was a POS but I was able to disable everything but the modem part use my modified Linksys WRT54g instead for the router part. Anyhow VZ wanted me to continue to pay $29.95 for 1.5m/.5 service when for $39.95 from the cable co. I get 5m/.5 service so I went back to cable. What blows is that my cable co no longer has usenet service included that winds up being an extra cost where as VZ usenet access was the best that had ever seen by an ISP. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Win XP Media Center
At 07:09 PM 1/8/2006, Hunter, Gary typed: Does anyone know of a list of supported TV tuner cards for media center. http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/Results.aspx?collID=98 the problem is that the only supported HDTV card is the ATI card as Chris has mentioned it has all sorts of issues with MCE. I'd rather use the MyHD MDP-120 card with it's own menuing system on a plain jane Xp system until MSFT can get more hardware supt for MCE. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Win XP Media Center
At 11:18 PM 1/8/2006, Chris Reeves typed: That's not true. Several HDTV cards work under MCE - including the MDP-120 :) Several report good success with that. I don't believe that I stated that the MDP-120 would NOT work just that it's not officially supported as it does NOT have the MSFT blessing as of yet. I believe one of the Fusion cards do now tho. The link I provided was to the official MSFT list of approved hardware but as with all things concerning MSFT hardware the list is hardly complete is updated all the time even tho that web page may not be. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Recommendation on computer build
At 06:40 PM 1/7/2006, AMDSpeed typed: I'm in the process of building my girlfriend a computer on a budget. She plans on recording interviews with patients using a miniDV camcorder and using the footage to make instructional DVDs and powerpoint presentations. Video processing doing it on a budget is counter intuitive like military intelligence. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
