[H] help

2021-12-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
That works for me. It's time to move on from Win7. My only question is can this be applied to more than one system by one user? On 1/25/2015 9:52 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: Interesting, MS is trying to push everyone to 10 in a big way.

Re: [H] HP Elitebook

2014-12-24 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
The Samsung software has worked across several systems for me. Sent from my mobile device. On Dec 24, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: I picked up a used HP Elitebook and I'm looking to replace the drive with an SSD. I have two options as to the operating

Re: [H] Iphone 4 power

2014-12-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
The 4s charger will provide 1A @ 5v. Just go on Amazon, look up the charger, and make sure it matches. Should work as most usb chargers work at 5V The current output can be more, the same, or less than 1A. Typically, it is the iDevice that refuses to charge if it doesn't see an apple

Re: [H] Chew on This: Chin Strap Harvests Energy

2014-11-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Or those who eat too much! Sent from my mobile device. On Nov 26, 2014, at 6:09 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking that, with that chin strap, they could harvest energy from talking. Imagine how much energy we could get if every politician was

Re: [H] Duncan

2014-11-22 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
You are in my prayers, Duncan. Get well and back here soon. On 11/22/2014 8:51 AM, James Edwards wrote: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the owner of this site) was

Re: [H] What is 'HomeGroup' in w7 and w8.1?

2014-08-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I love homegroup! On 8/15/2014 6:55 PM, FORC5 wrote: I do not enable the homegroup either. fp old dogs 8-) At 03:50 PM 8/15/2014, DSinc Poked the stick with: Thanks Winterlight, From your share, I don't need any of it. I'll continue with 'Workgroup.' Duncan On 08/15/2014 17:55, Winterlight

Re: [H] Windows 9 Activation System Details Leaked

2014-07-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Eris the Mac OS free now? Even if you want to build a Hackintosh you can usually get the OS free. MS must see their end of the road just down the way... On 7/13/2014 7:20 AM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-9-Activation-System-Details-Leaked-450005.shtml

Re: [H] GPT_disk_moving?!

2014-07-08 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thanks for this. I have a box full of GPT drivesI was wondering what I'd do if I needed to upgrade the host mobo...as it is starting to get old. As all I have are mkv rips from my blu-ray collection, this would be a LOT of work to do over. So one day I just want to move the drives over to

Re: [H] Think I am getting into trouble?

2014-06-21 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with: I have a similar problem with my brother. I'm the oldest, though. Sent from my mobile device. On Jun 20, 2014, at 11:12 AM, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: don't get along, deeper then that. complicated. we do communicate only when necessary ( Mom in group home

Re: [H] Think I am getting into trouble?

2014-06-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Why are you glad you don't talk to your brother? On 6/20/2014 11:00 AM, FORC5 wrote: I'm glad my brother thinks he is smarter then me and we never talk. He a teacher, did not have a full time job till his 50's. :-| At 02:08 PM 6/19/2014, DSinc Poked the stick with: Bryan, LOL! I understand

Re: [H] Think I am getting into trouble?

2014-06-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
guardian) 11 years difference in our ages may have something to do with it. I'm willing, he is a PITA. Or maybe I'm the PITA :-| fp At 08:03 AM 6/20/2014, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with: Why are you glad you don't talk to your brother? On 6/20/2014 11:00 AM, FORC5 wrote: I'm glad my

Re: [H] Wondering?

2014-06-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I think Win7 does as I have installed it on an old laptop that was pre-sata. His mobo may have old-gen sata, which will be very slow for an SSD, but might still work. Easier to just try it and see. On 6/18/2014 3:54 PM, DSinc wrote: Does Win7 and/or Win8.1 still see/acknowledge the old 36-pin

Re: [H] Think I am getting into trouble?

2014-06-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Man, I feel you. I suggest you urge him to thrown down for a more modern mobo, so people don't have to support the old stuff. It's hard! Why not get him an Intel NUC or a mac mini (for Windows)? On 6/17/2014 11:51 AM, DSinc wrote: Am I biting off more than I can chew??? So my older

Re: [H] SSD Clone or Reinstall question [Reinstall completed]

2014-06-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Cant you trim down the bios part of that? It had been almost a minute wehn you said 9 seconds! that can get below 30 seconds easy. On Jun 14, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Tim Lider 619be...@gmail.com wrote: Fresh install was completed and the computer takes 9 seconds to boot, once Windows starts

Re: [H] Win 8.1pro (working)??

2014-05-24 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It does piss me off that MS seems to be trying to force anyone using windows 8 to create an MS account. This needs to change. On 5/24/2014 8:06 AM, DSinc wrote: Jamie, Thanks for the link! Nice to see I was not the only frustrated installer. Just another example of M$ perverse logic. In the

Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??

2014-05-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:15 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro?? Tim, I get a 404 error from your link. Hmmm. Duncan On 05/18/2014 10:10, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/clfz8qsfwb1vzyf/Screenshot%202014-05

Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??

2014-05-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
On May 18, 2014, at 12:25 AM, Tim Lider 619be...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/clfz8qsfwb1vzyf/Screenshot%202014-05-17%2021.23.13 .png Tim Lider -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On

Re: [H] DVD sequence question?

2014-05-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I agree, though I don't think there is really anything to do with the SSD driver-wise. On 5/14/2014 10:20 AM, DSinc wrote: 1. Samsung 840Pro SSD ?stuff? 2. Asus Z77pro m/b drivers and other utilities. 3. Asus GT630 drivers and other nVidia utilities. 4. Windows 8.1pro 64-bit Operating system.

Re: [H] DVD sequence question?

2014-05-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
cool: It is still scary :) I end at a black screen asking me for where I choose 'boot' from (but no choices displayed). Fine, I'll figure it out.. Duncan On 05/14/2014 11:00, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I agree, though I don't think there is really anything to do

Re: [H] Query?

2014-05-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
TD must have some kind of distribution center in ATL. I pass it all the time on i85. I use Amazon all the time. They are usually competitive with the Egg for me...sometimes even better. Just depends. On 5/2/2014 5:19 PM, DSinc wrote: I have fired NewEgg.com. My Newegg account has been

Re: [H] Hotmail?

2014-04-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I use hotmail. Nothing has changed for me, Duncan. On Apr 26, 2014, at 1:26 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Brian, Great question. I will dig around and correct any bad links. I have been using the same 'Hotmail' link for the past 15 years! http://www.hotmail.com. Hmm. Thanks,

[H] 2nd Asus Monitor and dual 2440 x 1440 displays

2014-04-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I'm thinking of adding a second 27-inch panel to my main home rig, in particular, this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009C3M7H0/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8psc=1smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Any thoughts on this? Seems like a good price. Also, I'm currently using a Radeon 6850. It drives a

Re: [H] What are we up to (Was-Are we alive?)

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
You guys are so sophisticated! I'm just stringing all my drives off a PC with external enclosures (10 drives inside the box, 8 more in two four-bay enclosures). Using 3 and 4 TB drives (greens, mostly, from WD and seagate). Mine or just NTFS mount volumes all shared over my GB network.

Re: [H] What are we up to (Was-Are we alive?)

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin You guys are so sophisticated! I'm just stringing all my drives off a PC with external enclosures (10 drives inside the box, 8 more in two four-bay enclosures). Using 3

[H] Mac RAM in Sony Vaio

2014-02-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I ordered a 16 GB RAM kit for a Sony Vaio, but I just noticed the product info says for MAC. Is there anything particular about MAC ram? Here is the kit: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-SODIMM-204-Pin-CT2C8G3S160BM/dp/B008LTBJFW/ref=cm_cd_ql_qh_dp_t I bought it because the price

[H] Mac RAM in Sony Vaio

2014-02-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I ordered a 16 GB RAM kit for a Sony Vaio, but I just noticed the product info says for MAC. Is there anything particular about MAC ram? Here is the kit: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-SODIMM-204-Pin-CT2C8G3S160BM/dp/B008LTBJFW/ref=cm_cd_ql_qh_dp_t I bought it because the price

[H] MS Surface

2014-01-31 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I went on eBay the other day and saw they were pimping a MS Surface w/ 32GB for like $179 (IIRC). That plus a keyboard was out the door for like $215 w/ FS. It's a refurb, but besides a sticker saying that, this is a nice little deal and looks brand new. Comes with RT versions of office. If

Re: [H] laptop hard drive

2014-01-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I think that no drive can ever be described as bullet proof. If data safety is of utmost importance, then preach and develop a sound backup strategy. Based on reviews these seem fine but I would not trust it as bullet proof. On 1/17/2014 12:35 AM, Winterlight wrote: I am helping a good

Re: [H] SSD Diagnostic ?

2013-12-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Samsung has diagnostic sw for their SSDs. On 12/18/2013 10:07 PM, FORC5 wrote: Any decent SSD diagnostic SW available ? Thanks fp Date: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 ***Caution, Tagline Below *** **Tallyho** ** New federal

[H] Printer recommendation

2013-12-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
My Epson Workforce printer is giving up the ghost. I'm pissed about the fact that if one single ink cartridge (it has four, one black and 3 color) runs empty, then this printer won't print at all. Also, if you clean the heads, it somehow uses ink. I ran though nearly an entire set of

Re: [H] Why this guy loves his Surface 2....

2013-12-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
a long way, I wonder how Word would work with dictation On 12/13/2013 2:06 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1b0yBJHLMlist=WLB511C6E6D525ABF8

[H] Why this guy loves his Surface 2....

2013-12-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG1b0yBJHLMlist=WLB511C6E6D525ABF8

Re: [H] Badassery!!!

2013-11-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
No kidding. Thanks for posting. On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10 Epic!! -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad

Re: [H] samsung pro v evo ?

2013-11-03 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
The samsung comes with software that does this for their SSDs... On 11/3/2013 10:08 AM, FORC5 wrote: anyone know the difference between the Samsung EVO and pro ? I see Samsung has a 1 tb competing with the Crucial M500 ( I have 3 of those ) Specs show the Samsung faster but I do not think a

Re: [H] hey is this thing on?

2013-10-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Ha! It's on. Sent from my mobile device. On Oct 16, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Jim Edwards jedwa...@hardwaregroup.com wrote: Guess I need to remember to pay the damn bill! Jim

Re: [H] AC1900: Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) vs Asus RT-AC68U

2013-10-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Hey, Does anyone on the list have one of these routers? If so, how is it working out? Bugs? Thanks. Anthony On 10/2/2013 2:27 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Yep, the both have both features (as I understand). Duncan...I found the app useful because it let me print to my printer from my

Re: [H] AC1900: Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) vs Asus RT-AC68U

2013-10-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
are fantastic. I would go the Asus Router myself. Hit has a USN 3.0 port :) Regards, On October 2, 2013 at 10:08 AM Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Which is the overall best? My mine says the ASUS before for some reason I want to go Nighthawk. I guess I just like some

Re: [H] Dropbox deletes local files?

2013-10-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
No. The upload to dropbox would not delete the local files. She must have deleted them thinking they would remain on the dropbox machine. It seems lots of people think that files put into the dropbox sync folder are stored on the cloud so it is ok to delete them from the sync folder on the

Re: [H] AC1900: Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) vs Asus RT-AC68U

2013-10-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Router myself. Hit has a USN 3.0 port :) Regards, On October 2, 2013 at 10:08 AM Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Which is the overall best? My mine says the ASUS before for some reason I want to go Nighthawk. I guess I just like some of the features in Netgear Genie. Tim Lider Sr. Data

Re: [H] AC1900: Netgear R7000 (Nighthawk) vs Asus RT-AC68U

2013-10-02 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Which is the overall best? My mine says the ASUS before for some reason I want to go Nighthawk. I guess I just like some of the features in Netgear Genie. Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com timli

Re: [H] Just a question?

2013-09-23 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
no plans to ever leave. Duncan On 09/23/2013 09:51, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I think a lot of markets controllers won't have to provide affordable gigabit...they want to have customers pay through the nose for it. You seem to be in a part of the country where the thinkers are more progressive

Re: [H] Just a question?

2013-09-22 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
DAMN! Wish I had speeds like that. You are in internet heaven for sure. I use Teamviewer to access my office PC from my tablets and home PC. No problems. On 9/21/2013 6:38 PM, DSinc wrote: Sotoday I did my normal clean-up of my PC. For sg's I ran my epbfi (ISP) speed test. I got numbers

Re: [H] iOS 7

2013-09-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
20, 2013, at 4:10 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Why is it a problem to give them credit for making it all work? Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: So, I updated my phone to iOS 7 and it looks pretty decent

Re: [H] 3TB

2013-09-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
, but the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty. lopaka ____ From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comhardware@lists.** hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardware

Re: [H] iOS 7

2013-09-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick. On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them will be counter productive. Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but to the unwashed masses

Re: [H] 3TB

2013-09-20 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Good point. On 9/20/2013 6:32 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Why does anyone need movies on a raid? That seems like overkill to me. If one of my drives crashes, it won't be the end of the world as I have all of the backups on optical

Re: [H] iOS 7

2013-09-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Why is it a problem to give them credit for making it all work? Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad z00...@gmail.com wrote: So, I updated my phone to iOS 7 and it looks pretty decent so far. The new layout is a bit jarring but I'm sure I will get used

Re: [H] 3TB

2013-09-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I have at least 10 of them running in my movie box. They work fine for this application. Sent from my mobile device. On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote: I want to get one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos oneither a Seagate or WD ...

Re: [H] 3TB

2013-09-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
well about 5 mos now. I have 4 WD 3TB reds in a ReadyNAS NV+ v2. I had 1 die within days, but the replacement is fine. The reds have a better-longer warranty. lopaka From: Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw

Re: [H] Powerline NW

2013-08-29 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Can't offer any help here as I never thought to take mine into the garage (attached). Mine works throughout my two-story house, though. You can always try running a long extension cord from house to garage to see if that helps. After all, the single runs over power connections On

Re: [H] ESATA cables

2013-08-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I have estata cables on my tivo extender that have been working fine for years. I have estate cables on one of my PCs that hold extra drives, like some 8 extra drives. They seem to be working fine too. On 8/26/2013 1:38 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote: I have recently seen failures on SATA

Re: [H] powerline networking?

2013-08-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
If you live in a multiple-family dwelling of something type, and you use an open network, then anyone on your power circuit can get on your internet. this prevents that...and even if a single family dwelling, someone could conceivably get on your network (I personally don't worry about that in

Re: [H] powerline networking ?

2013-08-21 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I've used both the Netgear and the WD powerline gear. The work great. I plug mine into my switch. I also use both the Netgear and WD parts together on the same powerline network. In my house, I plug into a switch that is upstairs and put the unit in any socket either upstairs or down, and

Re: [H] Defrag?

2013-08-08 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Are people still defragging? Sent from my mobile device. On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:43 AM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 06:35 AM 08/08/2013, Joshua MacCraw wrote: No need to counter with stats, you partially debunked yourself! A linear copy test has no bearing on

Re: [H] Question/Confusion

2013-08-03 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Apparently, this GEForce Experience is useful with the new nVidia Shield device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Mlbop8tTs Lisa walks through using the device to play PC games. On 7/23/2013 3:34 PM, DSinc wrote: Can anyone please explain just what the 'NVIDIA GEFORCE Experience' is??? I

Re: [H] Change of status

2013-07-29 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Everyone is a lurker on this list. I'm not sure why you feel the need for a change in status. I think the old Win95 list is still around in some form or fashion. You may find more folks there using XP than here. On 7/29/2013 4:59 PM, DSinc wrote: As a founding member of our List, I have

Re: [H] Not hardware but a question

2013-07-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
You mean besides you, right? :) Sent from my mobile device. On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar z00...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone here into vaping? -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad

Re: [H] Windows 8 Copy function

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Is the problem in Windows the number of files or the size of the copy? I regularly move: 30+ GB files with no problem. I also move 10s of files each in the 2GB range, too. On..this is Win8. Sorry, silly me. :) On 7/6/2013 12:09 PM, Tim Lider wrote: Also, when copying a large amount of data

Re: [H] EGO! Smartmouse

2013-05-28 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
(except on laptop). Best, Anthony On 5/27/2013 3:16 PM, DSinc wrote: Anthony, Why? U buy one for each machine U own! And you shoot any visitor that pinches your kit! Werkz4Me. Duncan On 05/27/2013 14:46, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Too easy to lose that thing. On May 27, 2013, at 12:39 PM, DSinc dsinc

Re: [H] EGO! Smartmouse

2013-05-27 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Too easy to lose that thing. On May 27, 2013, at 12:39 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: Steve, OK. I am not up-2-snuff about 'crowdsourcing' yet. But it seems to me like, Send us money, and, we will try to get you some toys you can buy L8R! I can wait to see if this tech comes to pass;

Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents

2013-05-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Dependsif it is going in a laptopmost folks just put everything on the SSD. I have a 256 GB SSD in my thinkpad, so everything goes on the SSD. On my desktop, I used to have a 160GB SSD...so only Windows and programs went on the SSD...all documents and stuff went on the d drive, which

Re: [H] FS2004?

2013-04-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Make an iso store on hard drive. Mount iso to play it. On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:49 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: It seems that M$ FS2004 will not play/run w/o CD#4 in the CD player. Fine. I remember this behavior from years past. Is there any 'gentle' way to coerce FS2004 to just

Re: [H] FS2004?

2013-04-11 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Assuming you can defeat copying protection. On Apr 11, 2013, at 2:16 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.net wrote: Make an iso store on hard drive. Mount iso to play it. On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:49 PM, DSinc dsinc...@epbfi.com wrote: It seems that M$ FS2004 will not play/run w/o CD#4

Re: [H] Outlook 2007 dog slow

2013-04-03 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Just curioushow big is the main PST file? Before I quit using OUTLOOK for email I had these really fat PST files...as they were full of emails what had lots of file attachments. It was a pig and compacting didn't help. I know you said you tried different/new pst files...but On

Re: [H] Outlook 2007 dog slow

2013-04-03 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:38 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Outlook 2007 dog slow Just curioushow big

[H] How to turn off 10-minute sleep on Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH166 ?

2013-03-29 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
After rebuilding my system with a new ASUS board, I wanted to upgrade my data drive to one with more capacity. Since I have a zillion drives around here, I threw in a Seagate 3TB drive which is the ST3000DM001 model. I've been using these in my media server as they are inexpensive though I'm

Re: [H] List info / Jim Edwards

2013-03-21 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I'm 54 going on 55. Have no plans to grow up. Flame war, anyone? :) Sent from my mobile device. On Mar 21, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: On 3/21/13 1:24 PM, Al Anger wrote: Alex Lee wrote: jim graciously picked up the slack and has been maintaining the list

[H] Best system stress tester?

2013-03-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I've been trying to force this box to crash by driving it, but so far it doesn't want to do that. It prefers to crash when I'm doing some real work. I don't think prime95 is much of a stressor. I ran it for days while working in the foreground. It was like it wasn't even there. Only the

[H] Windows 8 | Software Hardware

2013-03-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Since I'm going to build a new box (processor and mobo), meaning I have to reinstall, I'm thinking of going to Win8. Mainly because I *hear* here, and other places on the web, that it is faster than Win7 on the same hardware. Question 1: Am I going to see problems bringing over programs (not

Re: [H] Best system stress tester?

2013-03-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
That's right. I used it last time. Got it now. Thanks. On 3/17/2013 8:21 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: OCCT will destroy your system. Best stress tool for me. Tests GPU also very nicely. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: I've been trying to force

Re: [H] Windows 8 | Software Hardware

2013-03-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Oh man! I don't need more headaches. On 3/17/2013 8:37 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 09:24 AM 17/03/2013, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Since I'm going to build a new box (processor and mobo), meaning I have to reinstall, I'm thinking of going to Win8. Mainly because I *hear* here, and other

Re: [H] Windows 8 | Software Hardware

2013-03-17 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I will be installing windows 7. Thanks. Sent from my mobile device. On Mar 17, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 05:32 PM 17/03/2013, Steve Tomporowski wrote: Well, Microsoft is still on trend: Use XP Skip Vista Use 7 Skip 8 Looks like

[H] Core 2nd vs 3nd Gen

2013-03-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It seems as if the only real benefit, of dubious value it seems, is PCI 3.0. If my applications are start number crunching (like in Matlab), video editing and encoding, what is the payoff of a 3rd gen over a 2nd gen Core processor, assuming one is using a discrete GPU and not the internal

Re: [H] weird monitor bug

2013-03-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Are you saying the monitor goes blank (off) even if the computer is not sleep? If that is not a feature of the monitor, I'd view it as a defect of the monitor. On 3/16/2013 1:24 AM, FORC5 wrote: Recently bought a Samsung 3D monitor, not using 3D so I have no idea why I did that but the bug

Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
up a bargain basement LGA1155 board in the interim? From there, I'd wait for Haswell. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:29 AM To: hardw

Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
still DDR3 though, so you could re-use your memory. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:55 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ASUS

Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
). -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:46 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what? Is there an asus board you like best

Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:46 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what? Is there an asus board you like best? I had intended to keep this setup

Re: [H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
are backed up to my NAS post MS updates. All three machines run 24/7 ATM. HTH, Duncan On 03/15/2013 17:05, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Duncan, Have you built these yet? I thought you had them running. Didn't know you had that mobo, though. 3 of them? Just curious as to what you do with them. Do

[H] ASUS P8p67 Pro to what?

2013-03-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Well, I wanted to upgrade my boot drive from a 160GB Intel to a 512 GB M4 Bios would not see it. I was running 1305, which has been stable for me since i built this box in early 2011. So, I got the last one, 3602did the flash. I also swapped out my 1TB WD data drive for a 3TB

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-03-08 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
-sub) for special situations--and you don't normally find anything but a single digital input on screens that lack a scaler. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Tuesday

Re: [H] Need advice on Windows server OS flavor for NFS

2013-03-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Why do you need NFS? I'm just curious. From what I have read. if you are running Win7 Ultimate, there is a client for NFS that you have to install, because it does not come pre-installed.

Re: [H] Need advice on Windows server OS flavor for NFS

2013-03-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
. There are a couple of NFS server apps for Windows out there (FreeNFS and Hanewin) but people have had mixed results using them for my application. - Brian On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: Why do you need NFS? I'm just curious. From

Re: [H] Need advice on Windows server OS flavor for NFS

2013-03-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Anthony Q. Martin amar...@charter.netwrote: So that does it buy you...faster speeds to access files? I'm using Win7 home staring on mine...and have 40TB of shares. On 3/5/2013 7:29 AM, Brian Weeden wrote: NFS is a much more efficient protocol for serving network

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-27 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
normally find anything but a single digital input on screens that lack a scaler. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:08 AM To: hardw

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-26 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:55 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] IPS high res monitor You run your Asus monitors at home rather than work because you are at home more? I take it you find the extra features of the asus

[H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Still thinking of getting something more than a cheapo monitor. Are the Dell Ultrasharp's the ones to go for or is there an alternative? One that is less expensive? I recall someone mentioned one from ebay that comes from overseas? With a dead-pixel guarantee for an extra $20 (can't have

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 5:57 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] IPS high res monitor Still thinking of getting something more than a cheapo monitor. Are the Dell Ultrasharp's the ones to go for or is there an alternative? One

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
/product/384780/EQ276W_27_IPS_LED_Monitor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236294 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 5:57 AM

Re: [H] IPS high res monitor

2013-02-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:19 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] IPS high res monitor How are these on backlight bleed? I saw

Re: [H] Powerline questions

2013-02-19 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
. Brian Sent from my iPhone On Feb 19, 2013, at 6:38, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 04:19 PM 18/02/2013, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: They are all overrated in terms of those numbers. There is some site on the web that has measured throughput

[H] e-Sata card, multiple multi-drive enclosures

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Does anyone know of a low-cost e-sata card that has the port multiplier feature enabled for multiple multi-drive enclosures? The card I have now has two e-sata ports and supports the port multiplier feature, but only for one multi-drive enclosure. The other port can only be used for a

Re: [H] Powerline questions

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
The answer to the first questions is yes. I'm not 100% on the second question as I have not done it before, but I do believe the answer is yes. I have also mixed devices between brands and they work. I think this was actually doing the thing above, but memory fades over time and I have

Re: [H] Powerline questions

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Amazon.com review on adding units to the WD (this means the answer to your second question is yes, if you get the WD): This is a terrific product. It does what it says that it will do. You will get much faster speeds than wireless without all the dropouts. Each box comes with two units. These

Re: [H] Powerline questions

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
, the best should work. That report should have the numbers. On 2/18/2013 2:54 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 03:42 PM 18/02/2013, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Amazon.com review on adding units to the WD (this means the answer to your second question is yes, if you get the WD): Awesome, Anthony

Re: [H] IMAP and iPad

2013-02-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
What I find to be a pain with imap is I have to copy my emails to another local folder to save them, because if you delete them off the server they are gone from your local machine. I like to save emails on my main home and work PCs. On Feb 16, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Vincent Winterling

Re: [H] IMAP and iPad

2013-02-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
if you're running Gmail. Those things I want to more or less permanently save I save to the local *.pst file in Outlook. Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q

Re: [H] IMAP and iPad

2013-02-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
What really sucks is when you don't realize how it works and you delete a bunch of stuff you needthat's how I learned of this feature. I don't think I see the advantage of IMAP. On 2/16/2013 10:46 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 09:31 AM 16/02/2013, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: What I find

Re: [H] IMAP and iPad

2013-02-16 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
you know what you sent to someone from any location. On Feb 16, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 12:29 PM 16/02/2013, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: What really sucks is when you don't realize how it works and you delete a bunch of stuff you need

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