Re: [H] Video card fan problems

2009-04-29 Thread DHSinclair
t where would I find something like that? They must be highly engineered. I feel like I am screwed here, and am going to go another two plus weeks with out my other monitors just because some guy didn't replace the fan the first time. __ NOD32 4043 (20090429) Information _

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread DHSinclair
uilt, I was able to have the house wired for Internet use in each room. For me at least, and possibly I am showing my age, I am not a big fan of wireless. Yes, I know that it is the way things are moving, but for me anyway...I prefer a wired lan and probably will stay that way as much and for

[H] Video card fan problems

2009-04-29 Thread Winterlight
I have two ASUS EAH4870 video cards installed. One I bought last December, and one in September. The December one's fan went out at the beginning of this month. One day I sat down to my computer, and it had turned it self off overnight. Every time I turned it on it would work for a while and th

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Jackson
Hi Duncan, We might be the last hold outs on wireless :-)Anyway, the last network class I took at the University I was attending ( about 2 years ago now ) one of the things talked about by the prof was that basically the point wasn't that wireless networking didn't always work well, but

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread Bobby Heid
A while back, I switched to Acronis (version 7, I think) from Ghost. AT that time, I liked Acrosis better than Ghost. But then Ghost came out with some better features and I switched back. Acronis finally caught up (around version 9 or so), but I have stuck with Ghost. I think they are relative

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-04-29 Thread Bobby Heid
I like Vista also. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:39 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 ? - Original Message - From: "Sam

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Greg Sevart
You might search around for the TLER utility. TLER ("Time Limited Error Recovery") is the feature on their RAID Edition (RE) drives that limits the time that they will spend attempting to read/write a bad sector to 7 seconds. The idea is to tell the controller that the sector is bad and let it reco

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread DHSinclair
Gary, Like you, I share both your age and home design choices. No harm! No Foul !!! I remain totally "wired" until someone can convince me otherwise. You have me 1-up! My LAN is CAT6 IS running down the hall between my GBit switches and router. One day, I may hire the contractor to "put it in t

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Brian Weeden
I'm very happy with the 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1s I have in my RAID. Currently using 5 of them. On 4/29/09, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, JRS wrote: > >> protection, real-time embedded error detection and repair. Its > > > The real-time embedded error detection and repair is the

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread tmservo
Generally, most people who like something say nothing. Those who hate it say a lot. I haven't used ti home, but ti echo workstation dices up everything else I've seen. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Veech" Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:46:08 To: Subject: Re: [H] Acroni

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread Veech
wow, the folks on Amazon have no love for this program: http://www.amazon.com/Acronis-True-Image-Backup-Recovery/product-reviews/B001DSGXFY/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar - Original Message - From: "Veech" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:37 S

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, JRS wrote: protection, real-time embedded error detection and repair. Its The real-time embedded error detection and repair is the deep recovery cycle thing I was talking about. Essentially it puts the drive into error mode for upto 30 seconds, which if the raid contro

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread JRS
Hmm. I guess I am unaware of this "Deep Recovery Cycle". I bought them since they seemed to be dependable drive from what I read... Mine have been flawless so far. This description makes them sound pretty good... The Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive is top-of-the-line 7200 RP

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, JRS wrote: I wanted a good warranty for the drives in my RAID setup, so I have a pair of WD Black 1Tb drives in one NAS and a pair of Seagate 1 Tb drives in the other. Both are 5 yr warranty drives... The WD's are only 104 bucks right now at NewEgg. The Netgear came wit

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread Veech
Maximum PC loves Acronis True Image and I was considering getting this as well. Where did you see this good price? - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:14 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I'm not as hot on disk director, its handy but you nee

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread JRS
I wanted a good warranty for the drives in my RAID setup, so I have a pair of WD Black 1Tb drives in one NAS and a pair of Seagate 1 Tb drives in the other. Both are 5 yr warranty drives... The WD's are only 104 bucks right now at NewEgg. The Netgear came with one Seagate, so I bought the mat

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread tmservo
I'm not as hot on disk director, its handy but you need it once a blue moon. But true image is 100% worth $29. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Gary Udstrand Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:59:21 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I can get Acronis T

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread Rick Glazier
That is a decent price. (I've done better, but you have to "strike while the iron is hot"...) Acronis will not honor any GREAT deals that are basically hacks or mutiple sales of the SAME install key, so be careful where you buy. (I only read their announcements, no experience in getting robbed.)

[H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Fisk
I'm looking for something relatively inexpensive, quiet and cool to put into my system to take over for a 250GB and 350GB drive I have that aren't in raid. I'm thinking 2x 1TB drives and setting them up as RAID-1. It's going into my system which has 4 drives relatively close together. The WD

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-04-29 Thread Rick Glazier
- Original Message - From: "Sam Franc" Read this**\ April 27, 2009 (Computerworld) /*Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols* has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was cutting-edge and 300bit/sec. was a fast Internet connection -- and we li

[H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Udstrand
I can get Acronis True Image Home 2009 for $29.65. Is this a good price? It seems the consensus here was that his was a pretty good package (best?) for backup and imaging. I thought it may be nice to get Disk Director 10 too but adding that would bring the total to $79.64. Is DD worth the e

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-04-29 Thread Sam Franc
Read this**\ April 27, 2009 (Computerworld) Ever since Bill Gates stepped down and Steve Ballmer took over his role, Microsoft has been getting one thing after another wrong. Vista continues to be a disaster both for users and for the company's bottom line. And Microsoft's ad c

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread DHSinclair
r of these two appliances would need to speak with anything beyond the router/gateway. The mystery (minor!) continues. Best, Duncan __ NOD32 4042 (20090429) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread JRS
How is the NAS set to update it's time? I believe the default is for it to sync with a time server at Netgear, which would cause the WWW access. :) -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. From: DHSinclai

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread DHSinclair
Bino, Please excuse me. Apologies. I have searched and found a newer version of the UM for my router. Correct. It appears that my router DOES allow me to use MAF for my wired clients. I re-confirmed this in the router's MAF set-up page this morning. I also notice that since I dis-abled my Pri

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-04-29 Thread FORC5
I'll play with that later, I imagine on booting to the disk I hit install instead of repair and then I would get that option. But I agree with Robert on the apts but think in my main machine I am limited to XP x86 for now because of some of the older 16bit ( and maybe even 8bit) programs I use.

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

2009-04-29 Thread Joe User
Hello Robert, Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:17:48 AM, you wrote: > It's already in the wild :) > I was however using a legit beta before I wiped it. > lopaka I am looking forward to getting a copy of Windows 7. Not sure how I will, but I am. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any'

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Jackson
When I had my house built, I was able to have the house wired for Internet use in each room. For me at least, and possibly I am showing my age, I am not a big fan of wireless. Yes, I know that it is the way things are moving, but for me anyway...I prefer a wired lan and probably will stay

Re: [H] MAC Address Filter

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Jackson
Interesting, thanks for the link. It is good to learn new things, even if I am very late in learning them :-) RegardsGary At 11:10 AM 4/28/2009, It was written by Greg Sevart that this shall come to pass: Ding ding. Disabling the SSID beacon and MAC filtering are utterly pointle