Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500 Ethernet cable

Yep. From what I can gather it's just an ethernet cable used to connect various pieces of Denon gear together. You know, the same technology that we have been using to connect various computers together for quite a bit of time. Brian On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL

Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet cable

LOL. What's sad is I've actually heard that argument almost word for word before :) - Brian On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Don Couture [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys don't know what you're talking about. Have you even tried this cable or are you just believing what people tell you?

[H] Vista install lacking boot files

Just installed my first Vista system (Ultimate, using it for my HTPC) and have a weird problem. The install process never copied over the boot files - the system will not boot unless the install DVD is in the drive. Otherwise it just hangs at the DMI screen after the BIOS post. I nuked it and

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

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] Windows XP SP3 - Thoughts

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

[H] Adobe experts out there?

Every time I fire up Photoshop it gives me a warning that my monitor color settings are corrupted. I have been through the monitor calibration routine several times and as far as I can tell they are just fine. I was editing a photo I scanned in today and it shows up as black lines on a white

Re: [H] xp sp3 ?

http://www.nliteos.com/ wish there was a version for office. My copies of office will not let me stream sp's in for some reason. fp At 06:34 AM 5/3/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: For anyone interested in slipstreaming SP3 here's a pretty good article: http://lifehacker.com/386526

[H] No audio on Comedy Central on StarChoice

My wife and I get StarChoice (Canadian satellite) here in Montreal and we have a weird problem. There's no audio signal for Comedy East and West through our HD decoder box. The audio on all the other channels works just fine, only those channels. I'm running the signal through my Onkyo 777

Re: [H] No audio on Comedy Central on StarChoice

Never mind, just got my question answered on a forum somewhere. Turns out you need to disable the descriptive video feature in the settings menu. No friggin clue what it does or what caused the problem in the first place but it fixed it. - Brian On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Brian

[H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI

Been reading all the reviews drooling over the new 780P chipset for use as a HTPC and was wondering if we will ever see one with a 64-bit PCI-X slot? I just upgraded from an older mobo to a server one with a PCI-X for my 150-6 RAID card and it really makes a difference. But it would also be nice

Re: [H] xp sp3 ?

They are going to push it out as an update to everyone so I would just hold off until that happens. Will probably be the easiest way. Me, I'm holding off for a couple weeks. Let others be the guinea pigs. Brian On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looking for

Re: [H] xp sp3 ?

Yep just saw that. Sort of fishy tho - that can only affect like what, 10 users? We'll see how long this lasts, more than a few days and methinks there was a deeper reason. And here's a good link with more info on exactly what's in SP3:

[H] ?s showing up in web pages

I've had this problem before and it went away but I never figured out what caused it. Now it's back. When rendering certain web pages with Firefox (any version, using 3b5 now) certain characters are rendered as ? instead of what they should be, usually apostrophes. The same page renders fine in

Re: [H] DRM or DVD from Hell?

Actually there is another benefit to SP3. If you've ever had to to a clean SP3 install recently you'll find that you spend quite a bit of time downloading hotfixes and security updates and rebooting and downloading more updates. Over 100 I think at the last count. So SP3 rolls all those up into

Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

uTorrent rocks, especially with the RSS loader plugin. Brian On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Utorrent has those features and more. Very easy to use. http://www.utorrent.com Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:24 PM Subject: [H] Which Bit

Re: [H] Very nice Shuttle HTPC

Weren't you just evangelizing the merits of the AMD 780G chipset and its on-board graphics? I understand a lot of that has to do with the IGP and not the CPU but it's not like you were going to be able to get the 780 with an intel chip. And it's $1500, assuming one doesn't need the HD-DVD drive.

Re: [H] Very nice Shuttle HTPC

Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh _getintouch_042008= -- - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

[H] Adblock and youtube?

link it open the video in a new window and starts playing. It's pretty weird as the presence of the block tag (instead of the unblock tag) seems to indicate that I have not blocked that source. Youtube isn't listed anywhere in the filters. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World

[H] The 11 Step Program to Quit Assassin's Creed on the PC (quit as in exit the game that is)

Wow, talk about your crappy UI design: http://www.pcgamer.com/archives/2008/04/41008_-_assassi.html - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

[H] Very nice Shuttle HTPC

Great form factor, tons of good features including Blu-Ray HD-DVD combo player for about $1800 ($250 less for Blu-Ray only): http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/268357272/ Hook that puppy up to a SAN or NAS and I think we have a winner of a solution. Brian

Re: [H] Very nice Shuttle HTPC

Try this: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/shuttles-amd-powered-xpc-g5-6801m-loves-blu-ray-and-hd-dvd/ Might have been because I linked the RSS feed. Brian On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:17 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, can not get to your link. Is it protected? Best,

Re: [H] DTV-boxes-not

I would completely disagree with you. While 1080i seems to have more pixels and is brighter, I much prefer 720p for sports and anything involving lots of motion. I'm pretty sensitive to motion blur and I can certainly tell the difference. Always remember that one channels 720p (or 1080i) is

[H] HTPC Replacement - Popcorn Hour

This little wonder just arrived at my place: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ I am replacing my existing HTPC with the Popcorn Hour + a NAS. The main reason is that the HTPC was not fast enough to do HD decoding and it was much simpler to use this box to replace it. And since I was

Re: [H] HTPC Replacement - Popcorn Hour

. That basically means no playback of non-recompressed HD content over the network interface, which would be a deal breaker for me. Looks pretty solid otherwise, though. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden

Re: [H] HTPC Replacement - Popcorn Hour

PM, Bryan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Brian Weeden wrote: No Wi-fi either so it will only work in networked setups. But after struggling with streaming video over Wi-Fi for the last 6 months I can understand why they left that off. Duh

[H] Firefox 3 beta 4 download?

Anyone have a link? Everything I can find points to beta 5 which breaks a couple of greasemonkey scripts and extensions that I need to use. - Brian

Re: [H] Firefox 3 beta 4 download?

=firefox-3.0b4os=winlang=en-US -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:35 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Firefox 3 beta 4 download? Anyone have a link? Everything I can find points

Re: [H] Dead

Me neither, not since my last post on 4 April. I just figured everyone got fed up with my incessant questions :) - Brian On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Sam Franc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the list server dead? I have received no mail for 3 days. Sam

[H] Problem with nForce4 mobo and 1TB drive?

of older boards not supporting 1 TB drives? Could this be something like the old LBA32 problem? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

[H] MegaRAID 150-6 and 1 TB drives

over, and then adding the 4th drive to the array. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Truecrypt

it enabled and I believe you must have admin privileges to install the truecrypt driver. More details are in the excellent Truecrypt manual: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/ - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL

Re: [H] New Intel Chipsets?

really impressed by all little improvements that have come along in the last couple years - I haven't bought a new mobo since the nForce 4 that this one replaced. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Naushad, Zulfiqar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [H] LCD interfering with wireless keyboard?

about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126180 And if I went back to a wired keyboard it would be this: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16823175001 - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:58 AM

Re: [H] U3 launchpad

http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ I think we had a whole thread about this crap a couple weeks ago. First thing I always do is nuke that crap from all my new keys. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED

[H] LCD interfering with wireless keyboard?

but after some trial and error it seems to be definitely related to the monitor. I have never heard of this before - it is common or do I just have a crappy keyboard? Anyone know if this affects just RF keyboards or Bluetooth ones as well? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World

Re: [H] LCD interfering with wireless keyboard?

My inclination is to suspect the monitor. They keyboard was working flawlessly until 2 days ago when I got the next monitor. Could be coincidence, but probably not. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL

Re: [H] CPU monitoring tool for quad core?

Totally missed that little checkbox in Process Explorer :) Thanks. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:00 PM, j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Process Explorer has multi-core monitoring? At least it looks like it does based

Re: [H] Safari web browser from Apple

Were you just chanelling Apple PA? Because that washy a very well- thought out review. Safari is okay but I still love FF, mainly because of the customization thru extensions. Check out FF beta 4. Very, very fast and much improved memory management. --- Brian Weeden Technical

Re: [H] Dot-NET question

Its needed because a part (or all of) the program was written using the .net language. Sort of like why you need JVM to run java apps. Look up .net on wikipedia for more details on what makes .net an increasingly popular programming language. --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The monster fancy stuff that had filtering (the higher end had higher stages of filtering) drove me nuts because it definitely changed the sound, couldn't put my

Re: [H] FF3 5 times faster than IE7

I've been using Beta 3 for a while and now Beta 4. They fixed a lot of bugs and it hardly crashes anymore. Gmail and other google apps are wicked fast and it does a much better job at memory leaks. The only downside I have come across is that the vast majority of extensions don't work with FF3

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Blind test between Monster cable and a metal coat hanger: http://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables Now, if you are talking about having the proper gauge of wire for certain applications (ie high amperage) or having good, well-made connectors, then yeah there is

Re: [H] FF3 5 times faster than IE7

without it. :) The OSX UI has really come along though, it actually looks and behaves more or less like a Mac app now. :D On 11 Mar 2008, at 19:12, Brian Weeden wrote: I've been using Beta 3 for a while and now Beta 4. They fixed a lot of bugs and it hardly crashes anymore. Gmail

Re: [H] The best Socket 775 Heatsink/fan combo?

Some recommendations from the Arstechnica guys here: http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/guide-200801.ars/3 On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM, James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tending towards Scythe Mugen/Infinity's at the moment. Previously I've been a big fan of the Scythe Ninja,

[H] Surge suppressor / power filter

home theater and a HTPC and a phone cable jack would be nice. I was thinking a Monster Power HTS 950 would do me just fine but I don't have a lot of experience with their products. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

on the list has had experience with cheap surge protectors failing or in getting Monster to live up to the money and hype, or something along those lines. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Eli Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't

Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter

Thanks. I've used APC UPS' before and I've been happy with them. I like the C3 surge protector. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, Look at Best Power or APC. Most else is still trying

Re: [H] Freaky Friday WinXP install -- (a bit long)

for. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is. Too many problems that don't seem to point to a single solution. Jim -Original Message- From: DHSinclair Jim, It this system (winXP

Re: [H] Freaky Friday WinXP install -- (a bit long)

Having had flaky PSUs cause weird hard-to-diagnose problems before I would agree with Duncan. If drives are having problems spinning up all at the same time that could lead to problems with them being seen I would think. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun

Re: [H] RAM ceiling 3.25GB ...maybe not

than 4 GB. Some do, some don't. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. 32-bit OSes can only address 4GB RAM. The thing is that your video card RAM, BIOS, etc have to map

[H] OT - Excel filter

I've got a column of 1700 or so altitudes, ranging from 250 km to 2000km. I would like to go through and filter out those that are closer than a certain range, in this case those that are closer than 5 km. So starting from 250 km, I would skip the next few numbers until I got one that was at

Re: [H] CPUs

Sold! Now I just need to find a place that has them in stock. --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation Sent from my iPhone On 6-Mar-08, at 3:53 AM, James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 19:04, Winterlight wrote: I have been trying to decide

[H] OT - Broken midrange - Am I screwed?

I was setting up my speakers today and one of my Klipsch RF-15 front channels tipped over on the carpet. When I sent to upright it there was a knocking noise inside. When I opened it I found this: http://brianandcharitynet/images/IMG_0680.JPG The plastic mount holding the driver broke all the

[H] CPUs

Going to be buying the parts for a new PC next week and I'm pretty psyched as I'm replacing an Athlon system I built 3-4 years ago and have been upgrading piecemeal. So I've got a 3000+ Athlon 64 running on an nForce4 mobo. After 6 months of research I am still debating over dual core vs quad

Re: [H] CPUs

Of Brian Weeden Sent: 05 March 2008 16:23 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] CPUs I was looking for that quadcore and couldn't find it on Newegg, which is weird, because it comes up at a lot of smaller dealers under Froogle. And there is no mention of the Q9450 on Anand's

Re: [H] Brief comment: 780G

Bit-tech.net did a roundup of micro-ATX mobos for HTPC use with built-in video. While the boards were fine, unfortunately the results showed that none of the on-board solutions could handle Blu-Ray or HD-DVD decoding. So basically, either wait for the next gen, buy a video card, or just use a

Re: [H] CPUs

The difference between the QX9650 and Q6600 is the following: 3.0Ghz vs 2.4 Ghz 1333 vs 1066 FSB 65nm vs 45nm 12mb vs 2x4mb L2 The QX9650 is $1,100 while the two I were considering were around $250. I really don't think I'm going to get 4 times the value out of that CPU, especially when in a

Re: [H] Vista SP1 comments

Reason #`144 to stick with Windows XP if you can. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile SP3 actually *does* speed up XP a bit and the idle memory footprint is a little less. Go figure. Vista = Windows ME part II Pure garbage. Date: Wed, 5

Re: [H] Brief comment: 780G

. Thus, the game changes. -Original message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:30:01 -0800 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Brief comment: 780G Bit-tech.net did a roundup of micro-ATX mobos for HTPC use with built-in video. While

Re: [H] Flash drive(s)-r1

://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171248 A bit more expensive than the standard 4 GB drive but I loved mine. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took delivery of 2 Corsair 2GB flash drives

Re: [H] Laptop battery life

Try the Cnet laptop reviews. They do some pretty good tests on the real battery life of the notebooks they test: http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/ I also like the reviews on this site: http://www.notebookreview.com/ - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Tue, Mar

Re: [H] Flash drive(s)

that it was proprietary information. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:57 PM 3/3/2008, Thane Sherrington typed: Of course, no one could ever write down said personal information on a piece

Re: [H] Flash drive(s)

://truecrypt.org - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:04 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will soon receive several new USB 2GB flash drives (Crucial and Corsair). They are all newest(?) technology, I believe. I suspect they may arrive

Re: [H] Flash drive(s)

Or one would hope that was the situation. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Security. If you were using a workstation that had access to government secrets, health records, financial records, etc

Re: [H] Flash drive(s)

the software. Having to jump through so many hoops just to uninstall something is a warning sign to me that I probably don't want that stuff anywhere near me. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:45 PM, DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, I

Re: [H] Vista class action

The plot thickens. 158 pages of internal Microsoft emails on the matter have turned up as part of the court discovery process. This page has a good overview as well as links to the whole pdf: http://apcmag.com/8344/has_vista_lost_all_credibility Some gems: In the end, however, the need to

Re: [H] Vista class action

Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista class action The plot thickens. 158 pages of internal Microsoft emails on the matter have turned up as part of the court discovery process. This page has a good overview as well

Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200..

Actually, if that were 5 or 10 motherboards you could answer that question. I think the better question is, what are you going to do with 200 motherboards? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200..

Wasnt that a rebate deal? --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation Sent from my iPhone On 29-Feb-08, at 5:44 PM, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They've now changed the price on the ad. Instead of $8 a board, it's $59 a board ($109-50) who gives a crap, all

Re: [H] Vista class action

that got screwed. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:04 PM, j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idiot consumers are forever tying their PC purchases to price the promises of slick salesman. Sounds like people are pissed they were duped

Re: [H] Master browser issues and possible NAS solution?

. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Robert Martin Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thankfully I bought my ReadyNAS NV while Infrant was still in charge. Now that Netgear owns them they raised prices on everything without actually improving any

Re: [H] Vista class action

Unconfirmed - seems that the Intarweb has people claiming it both ways. It is confirmed that Basic does not support Aero. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Monday, February 25

Re: [H] Vista class action

and is very limited in how you can use it. And if your PC was labeled Vista Capable you can't run full Vista on it, only the Basic version. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is Vista Basic

Re: [H] Master browser issues and possible NAS solution?

of effect negative effect it has? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Robert Martin Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You used to be able to install Twonky to the ReadyNAS line of products although I never used it. It comes

Re: [H] Vista class action

of PCs even though Vista wasn't shipping until after the holidays. Like I said, when the judge said the lawsuit has to argue whether Vista Basic is still Vista, that's a win for Microsoft. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ben Ruset

Re: [H] Master browser issues and possible NAS solution?

That's no good. How did a power outage corrupt the data? Didn't the NAS shut down? I don't have backups of a lot of my data like TV shows and Photos - the RAID IS my backup. I know that's poor network design, but unless I can afford twice the NAS I need it's all I've got. - Brian Weeden

Re: [H] Vista class action

It is really two different issues - the Vista Ready issue and the Vista Basic issue. They were trying to wrap them all into one big lawsuit and that's what the judge said no-no to. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Ben Ruset [EMAIL

Re: [H] Vista class action

What were the features that Vista has over XP that made it worth the money for you to upgrade? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a lot more to Vista than the few items you

[H] Master browser issues and possible NAS solution?

)? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Master browser issues and possible NAS solution?

Discovery Responder Wait a minute, now that I think about it, I remember back in the day having the IPX/SPX/NetBIOS protocol - should I have that running or no? - Brian Weeden On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Mac is doing it because you have Windows

Re: [H] Vista class action

The fancy GUI for windows Vista, that makes it look all pretty and glassy and just like a Mac. 2008/2/24 Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is Aero?

[H] Notebook hard drives

just fine for what I need. Are there any incompatibility things that I should be on the look out for? Or are most notebook drives pretty much interchangeable? - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Notebook hard drives

keep the original fresh install once I have everything perfect and then do a differential each week. That way if I screw something up I can go back to a previous image. I usually keep about 2 months worth of images. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation On Thu, Feb 21

[H] Offline Windows Updater

Having going through the apain of multiple reboots and patching for a new windows install too many times myself, I wanted to pass along this little gem that I don't think has been mentioned here before: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Do-it-yourself-Service-Pack--/features/80682 It's an

[H] Truecrypt 5.0 now does system (boot) drive encryption and works with OSX

I've been using TrueCrypt for a while to do encrypted data partitions and this is very welcome news. Free, open source, very strong encryption for Windows, Linux, and OSX: http://www.truecrypt.org

Re: [H] Truecrypt 5.0 now does system (boot) drive encryption and works with OSX

. Ben Ruset wrote: I wonder how much overhead encrypting the system partition puts on the system. Brian Weeden wrote: I've been using TrueCrypt for a while to do encrypted data partitions and this is very welcome news. Free, open source, very strong encryption for Windows, Linux

Re: [H] Save XP!

acceptance in the business world. Brian Weeden On Jan 15, 2008 2:05 PM, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. There are a number of substantial improvements in Vista for group policy configuration that are great for IT administrators. But people tend to overlook those things

Re: [H] God is a football fan

That was a damn good game if you are a fan of good football and great defense. On Feb 3, 2008 10:13 PM, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heheheh Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:38

[H] HTPC Remote?

by just telling it what components I have. Also an action menu with macros to do different things is really desirable --- Brian Weeden

[H] Gcal feed question

. There is an app called SyncML2iPhone that will sync a single Google Calendar or iCal feed and I want to use that to get all of my calendars synced. - Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser

Ok, I'll bite. 7 times 4 is 28 times 2 legs per girl is 56. Add 2 more for the drive and I get 58. What did I miss? On Feb 1, 2008 8:55 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are seven girls on the bus. Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack there are seven big cats, for every big

Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser

Lol. Those damn prepositions. On Feb 1, 2008 9:07 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re-read it. -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 1, 2008 8:02 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser Ok, I'll bite. 7 times 4 is 28

[H] OT - Weird Word 2003 Problem

I've got a Word doc I'm working with in Office 2003. Two problems that I can't seem to fix. First, the header box is about 1.5 inches tall and I can't seem to resize it down. The header and footer are set to 0 from the edge under the Page Setup. I tried going under View - header/footer and

Re: [H] Word keeps crashing

though I tell them not to) are the cause. These are the Contribute and ScanSoft PDF toolbars. I found out how to disable the Contribute toolbar but it didn't help. As soon as Word wrote the new Normal.dot it started crashing again. -- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World

Re: [H] Save XP!

Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:19 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Save XP! Go to this page and sign the Save XP petition. Friends don't let friends get stuck with Vista. http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/ T -- -- Brian Weeden Technical

Re: [H] Save XP!

, the interface is among the least interesting things about Vista for me. snip -- -- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Auto call forwarding

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at Asterix before and never got around to setting it up. The problem is that I don't have a landline - just my cell phone. And the SIM card will not be in that cell phone as it will be traveling with me and have

Re: [H] quickbooks question ?

Wow. Must be mostly lurkers... On Jan 10, 2008 12:34 AM, Rick Glazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No problem. As far as other answers, there were none, so it does not happen much, or nobody tried it... We have 3078 members... (Not a typo, yes - it is up +8 since this morning, grin)

[H] Auto call forwarding

I'm going to be spending the better part of a month traveling in the US for 2 weeks and then Austia for a week. Right now I have a Canadian cell phone. So I plan on getting prepaid SIM cards for the US and Austria so I don't have to pay roaming charges. But this introduces the problem of

Re: [H] Auto call forwarding

nervittles, to provide a separate free number (VOIP) for my step daughter that goes to her room. All the phone calls every evening were bugging me and now they can talk all they want (incoming is free, outgoing is cheap via Callcentric Les.net) lopaka Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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