Re: [H] Possible?

2008-05-25 Thread mark.dodge
Sound Blaster Live comes to mind as an alternative to the AWE64, and has XP support. Should be had for cheap-cheap. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:51 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re:

[H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Nero has gotten to be too much of a hassle and expense to use. Does anyone have any experience with anything else to burn CD, DVD, etc? Thanks...Steve

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:40 AM 25/05/2008, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Nero has gotten to be too much of a hassle and expense to use. Does anyone have any experience with anything else to burn CD, DVD, etc? Deepburner? http://www.deepburner.com/ (there is a free, for pay, and portable version.) T

Re: [H] Possible?

2008-05-25 Thread FORC5
I have a couple of those in the pile fp At 05:35 AM 5/25/2008, mark.dodge Poked the stick with: Sound Blaster Live comes to mind as an alternative to the AWE64, and has XP support. Should be had for cheap-cheap. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread FORC5
Mostly I just use what is built into windows along with Alcohol 120%, CloneDVD2 Use Nero very little but I do no manipulating of videos hardly anymore. :-( fp At 06:40 AM 5/25/2008, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with: Nero has gotten to be too much of a hassle and expense to use. Does

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread xtempore
Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:40 AM 25/05/2008, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Does anyone have any experience with anything else to burn CD, DVD, etc? Deepburner? http://www.deepburner.com/ (there is a free, for pay, and portable version.) And CDBurnerXP has a following:

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Weeden
I use either CDburnerXP or StarBurn, both free and pretty good feature set. Brian On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:40 AM 25/05/2008, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Does anyone have any experience with anything else

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread John Steinbruner
Thanx for the tips on what to use I too have given up on Nero, have not updated since Version 6.6 due to all the bloat and crapola they keep adding in.. On May 25, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Brian Weeden wrote: I use either CDburnerXP or StarBurn, both free and pretty good feature set.

Re: [H] Intel Eaglelake Pre-Launch Details

2008-05-25 Thread xtempore
On Fri, 23 May 2008 19:27:04 -0400 Scott Sipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the HWG is probably not the best place to be arguing against toys! Indeed, I am for toys also. I invite the gentle readers to view this four part BBC documentary:

Re: [H] BBC, you got to be kidding

2008-05-25 Thread CW
The century of self is an older documentary - I've seen it, so let me say something, though.. the problem with a documentary in which the documentarian is iased is that it stops being a documentary and becomes, largely, propaganda. Now, this is an interesting documentary, and it's aired on

[H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Joe User
Hello, What are peoples thoughts on SP3? SP3 on a clean install / SP3 on an existing install? Any and all feedback appreciated. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Got it on an exiting install and everything works just fine. No issues here. It's just a rollup of all the 100-odd security patches and updates since SP2, nothing really new. There are a couple minor tweaks here and there, like the ability to edit credentials for a RDP session but nothing huge

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 07:42 PM 25/05/2008, Joe User wrote: Hello, What are peoples thoughts on SP3? SP3 on a clean install / SP3 on an existing install? Any and all feedback appreciated. No problems here. I've done about 10 machines so far. I've heard no complaints for customers either. T

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Scott Sipe
On every normal computer that I've updated, it's been completely invisible--no problems. I don't know if this affects anybody here, but if you are using Bootcamp AND VMware/Parallels on a Mac, be sure to install the bootcamp 2.1 update BEFORE you install SP3. I installed SP3 under

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread John Steinbruner
Got it on 5 PC's so far, no issues.. Did 2 of them as clean slipstreamed installs since I was upgrading my laptops from 4200 to 5400rpm drives anyhow.. On May 25, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Joe User wrote: Hello, What are peoples thoughts on SP3? SP3 on a clean install / SP3 on an existing

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread John Steinbruner
Yeah, I have SP3 on my iMac 3.06 gigger, but I did install BootCamp 2.1 first and have had no issues dual-booting into XP so far... On May 25, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Scott Sipe wrote: On every normal computer that I've updated, it's been completely invisible--no problems. I don't know if

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Greg Sevart
After first rolling to 10 machines as a test deployment, we rolled it to the remaining ~100 at work without a single incident. Not much of a mix of hardware (probably 15 unique hardware configurations total), but definitely a good mix of installed software and age of original Windows

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread tmservo
Only true on hp desktops; they used the same acpi driver on both intel and amd, and it screws up the install No problems here on any box. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:02:53 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject:

Re: [H] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

2008-05-25 Thread Jason Carson
Hello, What are peoples thoughts on SP3? SP3 on a clean install / SP3 on an existing install? Any and all feedback appreciated. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... I've done 2 clean installs with no problems.

Re: [H] Intel Eaglelake Pre-Launch Details

2008-05-25 Thread Scott Sipe
On May 25, 2008, at 2:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the documentaries of Adam Curtis; how American society is manipulated to adopt a extreme form of Capitalism by the the captains of industry because they ware scared shirtless they would loose their chance to control