The MSI is going to be at a premium but it is the best board out there right
now.
Mark Dodge
MD Computers
602-421-0329
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:07 PM
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At 07:40 PM 13/04/2005, rls wrote:
I have only heard good things about DFI. When I was looking for my dual Xeon
board surfed a bunch of locations and the consensus 6 months ago from the
locations I visited was that they were more stable than Asus and ran faster
at standard clock speeds.
Thanks.
I have a lot of people come in that need Windows reinstalled. Sometimes
they have the Windows CD, sometimes the COA, rarely both. If they have the
CD, I call MS and get a number generated for them. If they have the COA, I
use my CD and their COA. I was talking to MS anti-piracy yesterday,
At 08:52 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed:
Greeeaaat. How long ago did you use DFI boards?
It's been over 2 yrs now so as you know they could be decent now.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
http://www.wavijo.com
At 09:51 AM 14/04/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 08:52 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed:
Greeeaaat. How long ago did you use DFI boards?
It's been over 2 yrs now so as you know they could be decent now.
True, but history is often a good indicator.
T
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At 09:03 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed:
True, but history is often a good indicator.
Agreed. I first tried DFI boards when a local BM store started carrying
them. They use to build custom systems to my specs for my clients whenever
I needed them to then one day I needed a system the
That has to be the stupidest reasoning I heard. Never mind that drivers
change constantly, or that you could use another CD from the same model
(or image of to make a new disc). It just flat out violates the
principal of a free or low cost replacement media that I thought the
copyright law was
I caught that at my last live meeting, it also is not legal
to move a COA and OS from a OEM box to a white box even if the OEM box is
destroyed.
I think MS is trying it's best to make us all criminals IMO. I have done
what you did on occasion, ask customer for the cd and get a blank stair.
go
Hmm. That's what I was wondering. We picked up4 IBM Thinkpad Micros (the
little 3lb suckers) recently, and they came with no media, just a restore
partition. Hell yes, I'd use other media in that case.. or, if you need to
just do a repair install, E-Machines, Dell, HP's System Restore discs
Will the Dell let you do dual display through a docking station? I've
not tried with my i8200 but I know I can have the LCD an external
monitor up in clone mode.
Hunter, Gary wrote:
Hi,
Are there any USB display boxes out there that will do a resolution of
1280x1024 and work in desktop
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Chris Reeves wrote:
Hmm. That's what I was wondering. We picked up4 IBM Thinkpad Micros (the
little 3lb suckers) recently, and they came with no media, just a restore
partition. Hell yes, I'd use other media in that case.. or, if you need to
just do a repair install,
I'm by no means well versed in copyright law hence the term mostly
because I do not know if there are clauses protecting media that does
not protect itself with anti-copy technology. Which would be yet another
artificial barrier to title 17 rights.
FORC5 wrote:
DMCA does not apply to a OS
Yeah, it will create restore CDs. Restore CDs are often not what you want,
however :)
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Chris Reeves wrote:
Yeah, it will create restore CDs. Restore CDs are often not what you want,
however :)
Very true, however microsoft is changing the OEM rules to make it so OEM's
can't give out non-restore type disks, to lessen the possiblity that the
disks will be used
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From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [H] New approach to video archiving
I've already sunk enough money into this HTPC and really don't want to
shell out the cash to buy a whole
Good question I never thought of that.
The new machine the want to give me is a Thinkpad T42 the docking station is
a Mini-Dock - Part Number: 287810U.
Does anyone have any experience trying this, I googled and found a few
things that seem promising.
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Hmm. That's what I was wondering. We picked up4 IBM Thinkpad Micros (the
little 3lb
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That's why I call Gates the world's richest software pirate. ;^)
How about the approach some wealthy
He's not alone, just the most visable. The other players have done their
share of ripping off the public in the name of copyright/profit protections.
Valve releases HL2 with one of the most draconian protection schemes,
still charges $50 AND still requires the CD to be in the drive. Alcohol
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [H] Here's a weird ruling from MS
Very true, however microsoft is changing the OEM rules to make it so OEM's
can't give
But in clone mode or extend desktop/dual display is the question. Mine
seems to have 3 displays (lcd, monitor, tv) will only do clone mode.
Neil Davidson wrote:
Just had a look at the IBM site, the T42 does support a simultaneous
external display so you should be able to have the laptop itself
I was playing with my firewall all day Wed. had no issues that I
hadn't cause myself (for a change).
jeff.lane wrote:
Anybody notice that Comcast is down again? (Internet, mail still
working, right now) This is the second time in the space of a week and,
additionally, they have been slow
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:40 AM
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I caught that at my last live meeting, it also is not legal to move a COA
and OS from a OEM box to a
Never trust anyone other than people dealing with the boards in volume
stable faster than Asus would make me question the methods of
testing and does not speak to the repeat quality of a brand.
My vote is for Asus as a brand, than maybe of the other common brands
you guys post here like MSI
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [H] DFI vs Asus
My vote is for Asus as a brand, than maybe of the other common brands
Disclaimer: at some point 8-10 years ago got
I think it should extend. I found a good site this morning will lots of
info. But I always like to trust the opinons of people here over forums:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/
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Sent: Thursday,
At 10:57 AM 14/04/2005 +, you wrote:
The new machine they want to give me is a Thinkpad T42 the docking station is
a Mini-Dock - Part Number: 287810U.
You should be able to find lots of views here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/search.php?sid=c534fefc98460a893054126437473616
Best wishes
Robert
Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want
them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy
scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it.
- Dr. Floyd Ferris, character in Atlas Shrugged
On 4/14/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So how did your firewall know Jeff out?
On 4/14/05, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing with my firewall all day Wed. had no issues that I
hadn't cause myself (for a change).
jeff.lane wrote:
Anybody notice that Comcast is down again? (Internet, mail still
working, right
Mine rides on Asus, also. I stay in lots of controversy with my
recommendations etc. but I rely on over 7 years of experience. Instead of
saying others are bad, let me just say that Enlight, Asus, Intel, Crucial,
ATI, U.S. Robotics, Western Digital and Seagate and Mitsumi have worked
very
Remember that while you will be able to spread the CPU load, no single
process will go faster then your CPU speed = 800. I have done video with
these kinds of speeds, and lower, but you really need a PIII or Cel 1GB
or above for acceptable recording, basic editing and simple encoding,
which will
FWIW my asus mb's are fussy with corsair memory ( bought on
recommendation it was the best ) bah. YMMV of course.
fp
At 10:50 AM 4/14/2005, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:
The only lasting allegiance I
have in this industry, where things change too rapidly to have mass brand
loyalty, is to
Oh it will authenticate, but the new rules specifically say
NO. double edged sword I think. Heck we used to able to buy just the COA
and key. not any more. :-}
FWIW I refuse to put those ugly stickers on pretty cases unless inside
the side panel.
new law was sighed by Bush
fp
At 08:28 AM
I had gone through lots of t/s before I posted that. It came back here about
10:30PM PDT and is running fine now.
Jeff
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From: G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [H]
WOW :-*
fp
At 12:39 PM 4/14/2005, Tim \The Beave\ Lider Poked the stick
with:
I am currently using:
Asus A8N-SLI
AMD FX55
4x512MB of Corsair XMS Low Latency DDR
Asus N6800GT
etc...
It seems to be running fairly well at this time. In fact in gaming it
appears to be running faster than my 3.2GHz E
Could be used as a linux server or a win2k domain controler.
Used my old Digital DPW 2x333 / 1024MB as a DC web app server,
until summer heat got it. Of course I only serve my 2 pc's but GPO's
roaming profiles made it worth setting up!
Now I waste P4 2Ghz Dell on the same task. =)
rls wrote:
That was me Chris, I think you're blaming the Wong person or maybe I
'm the you he's the Chuck. Confusing either way. =P
Part Dujour is bad (not to be confused with ala cart), it means you're
not testing your builds over time thus may build a crap box. Point was
it's not hard to make custom
Wow, do you do those bang up translations of computer manuals into
English or am I not getting this?
/ducks unplugs
G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
So how did your firewall know Jeff out?
On 4/14/05, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was playing with my firewall all day Wed. had no issues that I
I recently got Zoomplayer running with ffdshow on my HTPC for DVD
playback, according to this article
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1 The main reason is to be
able to do upscaling, but I can also use Zoomplayer to play avi files
and a bunch of other things.
The issue is that even
Yeah, the video card could be holding you back. I would try using PowerDVD,
and disable ALL enhancements.
BTW, you'll never get DVD playback with ffdshow working smoothly on that
slow of a processor.
Greg
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From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hwg
Ugh. Might as well shell out $500 for a Mac Mini then.
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Brian
Go for it :) But the upscaling on the Mac Mini is not nearly as attractive
on a true HD screen of any size.
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:45 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] PC DVD
Honestly I am really using the machine mainly as a video archive and
encoder. #1 priority is being able to play back video files well,
getting good DVD playback and maybe some upscaling is just icing.
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Brian
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