Re: [H] New comp

2006-08-30 Thread Stan Zaske
Nice upgrade! Scott Sipe wrote: Well, thanks to some very gladly received advice from the list, I've ordered a new computer. Gigabyte 965 chipset motherboard, Intel core 2 duo, E6400 (plan to overclock, upgrade to one with bigger cache in a year or so), 2gb of DDR800, ATI x1900 XT and Dell 2

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread joeuser
I am using abc but looks like I'll have to give utorrent a try. Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:16 PM 30/08/2006, Winterlight wrote: UTorrent is auto update, it asks you, of course, but it is almost instant after you give approval. Plus there is nothing to install with Utorrent. It is all in

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:16 PM 30/08/2006, Winterlight wrote: UTorrent is auto update, it asks you, of course, but it is almost instant after you give approval. Plus there is nothing to install with Utorrent. It is all in it's own directory which allows you to move it around at will. I run it from a VM. I didn

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Weeden
I love uTorrent as well :) -- Brian

[H] boot order ?

2006-08-30 Thread FORC5
asus a7n8x deluxe. even with bios set to boot sata/scsi it wants to boot to the other drives on the standard controller. Once I wipe the os from the other drives no problem just bugging me. anyway ??? fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Living on earth is better than loafing around Hades

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Winterlight
I used Azureous for awhile, and I like the autoupdate, but man. Java is insane. UTorrent is auto update, it asks you, of course, but it is almost instant after you give approval. Plus there is nothing to install with Utorrent. It is all in it's own directory which allows you to move it arou

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:48 PM 30/08/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you see a single app take up 200+ mb of ram utorrent is 1/20th of that Sun needs to either fix Java bloat or start handing out 256MB DIMMs with the download. :) T

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread tmservo
When you see a single app take up 200+ mb of ram utorrent is 1/20th of that Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:32:25 To:The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Torrent Client At 03:58 PM 30/0

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:58 PM 30/08/2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: Really makes Azureus and java evangelists look silly... I used Azureous for awhile, and I like the autoupdate, but man. Java is insane. T

Re: [H] IE annoyance

2006-08-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, joeuser wrote: At least he was more forgiving with the firefox answer. Right after I sent the message I had said to my boss "I wonder how many people are gonna say "stop using IE", so it was kinda expected. Sorry for being rude! (Plus, Thane's had the answer =) Chri

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread tmservo
Yep. Uses a ton less memory and its dht function actuall works correctly Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:58:23 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Torrent Client Really makes A

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Sipe
I've been away in mac land for so long I haven't tried uTorrent much (though it was one of the first programs I downloaded on my new comp). Does it support the distributed tracker system (DHT) that Azureus does? I've often had problems getting in contact with a particular tracker (down, wha

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Hayes Elkins
Really makes Azureus and java evangelists look silly... From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Torrent Client Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:56:09 -0300 At 03:49 PM 30/08/2006, Winterlight wrote: I have been UTorrent all year

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:49 PM 30/08/2006, Winterlight wrote: I have been UTorrent all year.. it's great, never gives me a problem, and it has a easy to use interface that provides lots of information. That's great confirmation to hear. I guess I should have asked sooner. :) I really liked BitLord, but it's ni

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread tmservo
I switched to utorrent way back. Fantastic client Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:44:19 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Torrent Client I'm trying out uTorrent today. It use

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Winterlight
I have been UTorrent all year.. it's great, never gives me a problem, and it has a easy to use interface that provides lots of information. At 11:44 AM 8/30/2006, you wrote: I'm trying out uTorrent today. It uses about 1/3 the RAM of BitLord, which I had been using (and really like) and appear

[H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
I'm trying out uTorrent today. It uses about 1/3 the RAM of BitLord, which I had been using (and really like) and appears to be slightly faster on the downloads and is easy to use. T

Re: [H] New comp

2006-08-30 Thread tmservo
I know what you mean. In the middle of a 6k pc for someone right now... Water cooled x6800, all the works. How some people spend their money (though I must admit the tai chi case is slick) Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: "RLS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Da

RE: [H] New comp

2006-08-30 Thread RLS
Well, good luck, always fun to build/setup a new system, especially when one expects lightning on a stick, lol. It's also great when you see the new technologies manifest themselves. Double the cost projection, lol, always fun looking at a card/chip and seeing the next model up is '''only''' $80 m

Re: [H] IE annoyance

2006-08-30 Thread joeuser
At least he was more forgiving with the firefox answer. Christopher Fisk wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:46 PM 29/08/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: Occasionally, when I start internet explorer I am directed to windows update instead of my home page. How do I prev

Re: [H] IE annoyance

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:22 AM 30/08/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: If you look at my mail client you'll see I run in linux, so Firefox actually is my browser of choice, but I do occasionally need to check websites using internet explorer in a VM, or from a spare windows machine. That's why I used the smiley.

Re: [H] Windows networking problem

2006-08-30 Thread FORC5
is it set for a fixed ip perhaps ? instead of automatically assign. also sw firewalls is a good idea to check fp At 06:32 PM 8/29/2006, Christopher Klein Poked the stick with: >I need some help here. I got asked to take a look at a laptop today at work. >It's a Dell Latitude 610 with XP Pro S

Re: [H] IE annoyance

2006-08-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:46 PM 29/08/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: Occasionally, when I start internet explorer I am directed to windows update instead of my home page. How do I prevent this behaviour? Switch to Firefox? :) Have you tried turning off Automatical

Re: [H] IE annoyance

2006-08-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, joeuser wrote: Use Mozilla. 8) Not a helpful answer. Installing and using mozilla does not prevent Internet Explorer from doing this occasionally when you run internet explorer. Christopher Fisk -- Officers' club: We don't know but we've been told, our beer on tap is

Re: [H] Monitor Driver

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Advance Replacement! Great!  I'll look into that.Thanks!   Steve  On 8/29/06, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a friend's samsung 191 had the same bug ( no dvi out ) and samsung did do a advance replacement for him and he even got a newer model :") fpAt 09:35 AM 8/29/2006, Steve Tomporowski Pok

Re: [H] Windows networking problem

2006-08-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:32 PM 29/08/2006, Christopher Klein wrote: Since then I have removed/reinstalled the NIC, I unbinded TCP/IP from the NIC, rebooted, then binded TCP/IP tot he NIC. At this point IPconfig now works. It comes back with the proper response. However, still no IP address. I can't repair the