Re: [H] APC Question?

Hello Christopher, Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 3:21:38 PM, you wrote: > I see so many places that have APC 750's protecting all their PC's but > then their DSL modem is plugged directly into their switch in the closet, > effectively nullifying their protection. > Isolate your network as well a

Re: [H] Videoteleconference hardware

Hello Brian, Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 9:37:48 AM, you wrote: > The foundation I work for often does small workshops and meetings > involving people from around the world. I'm looking into buying a > webcam and mic that we can use to have a few people vtc in instead. > The setup needs t

Re: [H] SSD Time.............

Hello John, Saturday, December 12, 2009, 11:43:58 PM, you wrote: > So OK... > The Intel 160 gig SSD finally arrived Friday Next system I build will have at least two of these. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data

Re: [H] XPH - Activate Windows logon/logoff loop

Hello Tmservo, Sunday, December 13, 2009, 12:14:01 PM, you wrote: > There is a surefire solution for this. But its not really list safe. Yeah, I found some of that also, I didn't want to take *any* chances with a clients system... so I just blew them off. However, it seemed like just any crack.

Re: [H] XPH - Activate Windows logon/logoff loop

Hello FORC5, Sunday, December 13, 2009, 7:17:47 AM, you wrote: > there is a safe mode with networking option on boot but every time > I have seen this *loop* safe mode was not even a option for some > reason. Your bug was a little different. > Have seen * u have to activate* for NO apparent reaso

Re: [H] XPH - Activate Windows logon/logoff loop

Ok, I solved this particular case. Between google and what I was seeing it seemed like it wanted to activate but couldn't. I could see McAfee starting up in the background, I could get some handicap access things to work but all I could see was wallpaper otherwise. I redid the sock and it seemed t

Re: [H] XPH - Activate Windows logon/logoff loop

I googled up for the last hour and have found plenty of info on this subject. However, nothing yet, on my particular issue. It's almost like it would activate if it had a Net connection -which it should but it is possible the networking stack is buggered up from the clean up... going to try to red

[H] XPH - Activate Windows logon/logoff loop

Hello Hardware, XPH SP3. Had serious infections. Cleaned up. BSOD on boot. Did XP repair over it self (Act like going to load windows and choose repair opt). BSOD gone. Dell system with XP sticker on box. Used that number with *my* OEM XPH SP3 disk when it asked for the sticker code. I am sure thi

Re: [H] Router recommendations?

Hello Bobby, Thursday, December 10, 2009, 8:53:27 PM, you wrote: > I have a friend at work that needs to buy a router and doesn't want to spend > too much on it. He wants something decent, but doesn't need anything great. > I know that he will not load anything else on the router. http://en.wik

Re: [H] Test

Hello Stan, Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:42:51 PM, you wrote: > I'm sorry this is the Hardware Group's Library bot. Please be wawy wawy > quiet we're reading up on the best way to hunt Zombie Wabbits.. Great, now we have to make up traffic to make people feel safe and secure on THG list. It's

Re: [H] Checking to see when a program was uninstalled

Hello Thane, Thursday, December 10, 2009, 9:10:46 AM, you wrote: > Hmmm...Looks like Windows only tracks stuff uninstalled or installed > using Windows installer. So it doesn't work for FireFox. Probably for the best, like we need anything with Microsoft messing with a more secure browser lik

Re: [H] Checking to see when a program was uninstalled

Hello Thane, Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7:29:09 AM, you wrote: > I have a client who apparently installed Firefox and later > un-installed it. There is an argument about who un-installed it, and > I was thinking that if I could find the uninstall in the event log, > then I could probably fi

Re: [H] Laptop brand advice?

Hello, Sunday, November 8, 2009, 8:54:44 AM, I wrote: > +1 for Lenovo & Acer. And +1 for: What do you expect for 400.00 USD - seriously. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Laptop brand advice?

Hello Winterlight, Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1:27:40 AM, you wrote: > Lenovo Thinkpads are really nice because they are durable, well > engineered, and have a great keyboard.. and, of course, Thinkpads > have a great rep. I have owned two and love them. But for value > check out ACER. Lots an

Re: [H] Seeking SW

Hello DSinc, Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:59:07 PM, you wrote: > Christopher, > I do appreciate your suggestion. But, I read that Server 2008 is "Vista" > at its' base. I would like to keep anything "Vista" off my LAN until I > can afford to move everyone to Win7. 2008 and Win7 go hand in hand

Re: [H] test

Hello Jim, Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 5:40:35 AM, you wrote: > Good morning folks. Welcome to Wednesday. To early to tell. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Win7 and Hard Drives

Hello Brian, Sunday, October 25, 2009, 9:01:53 AM, you wrote: > I played, maxed levels and crafting and quit WoW before Onyxia was beaten. > So yeah, I'm old school :) For those that don't know, it's gone SUPER casual. Any idiot can get decent gear and be viable if they can press a few buttons.

Re: [H] Win7 and Hard Drives

Hello Brian, Saturday, October 24, 2009, 3:16:35 PM, you wrote: > Taking our time to work through the entire Temple of Atal'hakkar in WoW with > some close friends in one sitting and appreciating the little details the > designers put in. Wow, that's old school. That's still one of my favorite

Re: [H] Win7 and Hard Drives

Hello Brian, Saturday, October 24, 2009, 1:36:50 PM, you wrote: > I'm sure it's great but I went cold turkey on MMOs. With a toddler in the > house and another on the way I am strictly a single player, pause any time > sort of gamer now (not that I didn't enjoy my time with MUDs, DAOC, and > WoW

Re: [H] More free software

Hello Naushad, Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:11:46 PM, you wrote: > Don't ask me how I'm finding these deals. > 3 days and 3 free softwares. > WinX DVD Ripper Platinum > http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/oct09.htm All these sites have bad english, thats one thing in common so far. -- Reg

Re: [H] Free License for IOBit Software

Hello Naushad, Monday, October 19, 2009, 2:26:42 PM, you wrote: > http://db.iobit.com/license-free/win7-special-offer.php > IObit Security 360 PRO is an advanced malware & spyware removal utility that > detects, removes the deepest infections, and protects your PC from various > of potential spy

Re: [H] [Bulk] Free Partition Manager

Hello swzaske, Sunday, October 18, 2009, 5:59:20 AM, you wrote: > Wow that was close the free download ends today. > Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: >>> Grab it while its hot! >>> >>> http://www.paragon-software.com/free/giveaway.html >>> You may have to do more then download, you may have to regis

Re: [H] Google Wave

Hello Zulfiqar, Sunday, October 18, 2009, 6:57:25 AM, you wrote: > I've got invites I can send out. > > Who wants them? I can give away 10. > > Thanks! I'll take one, please. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] XP problem.

Hello Bobby, Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 9:42:26 PM, you wrote: > I am looking at a frined's pc that has XP (home I think). When it boots up > to the screen where you would normally see the users, there are no users on > the screen (there are at least two on this pc). I can do a double > CTRL-ALT

Re: [H] how do I ?

Hello Steve, Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:13:15 AM, you wrote: > Best to use the old trick from > dial-up days, put a dab of vasoline in the connector. It'll essentially > seal it and lock out oxidation. Nice... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these point

Re: [H] how do I ?

Hello FORC5, Sunday, October 4, 2009, 8:21:00 AM, you wrote: > Rewiring my new *cave* b4 sheet rock and decided to go ahead and > run cat5 to the corner of the cave closest to the house. Not going > to run to the house at this time. How do I splice cat5 ? You don't you can put an end on it (the

Re: [H] ESET Hang

Hello Steve, Sunday, September 13, 2009, 5:09:56 AM, you wrote: > WinXP fully patched. As mentioned before, been having strange little > problems, mostly fixed by creating new user, but still stuff there, so > I've replaced the kingston memory with OCZ. After replacement, on first > boot, every

Re: [H] firefox 3.5

Hello Winterlight, Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 11:14:06 AM, you wrote: > If there are any other Opera fans out there they just came out with > Opera 10 which is really nice. A lot of subtle changes and a few new > features that solve all my issues with the 9.7 version. > And it is really quick

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Norton Goback

Hello swzaske, Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 7:21:28 PM, you wrote: > Anything Symantec is crap, no wonder Peter Norton got out it while the > getting was good. ^This^ -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Norton Goback

Hello Thane, Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 1:24:07 PM, you wrote: > I've got a machine with Norton Goback on it. The drive is damaged, > so Goback won't load, and the Symantec remover won't remove it. So I > can't access the drive to get at the data. I've tried rebuilding the > MBR with no luc

Re: [H] Hello, echo, is anybody out there?

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Free tools to remove viruses...

Hello Christopher, Monday, July 20, 2009, 7:07:01 AM, you wrote: > Stop saying movies made during my childhood are classics! It makes me > old! > My Childhood is a classic =/ Pretty soon, we'll be considered classics and soon after they will talk about us - right in front of us. -- Regards,

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Free tools to remove viruses...

Hello swzaske, Sunday, July 19, 2009, 7:45:08 AM, you wrote: > I just watched Alien last night and now you guys are making me want to > see Aliens. LOL Classics never die. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Free tools to remove viruses...

Hello Brian, Saturday, July 18, 2009, 7:40:30 PM, you wrote: > Just nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Game over man, game over! What are we gonna do now? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Free tools to remove viruses...

Hello Bobby, Saturday, July 18, 2009, 12:19:58 PM, you wrote: > Yeah, if it had been my system, I'd have spent more time on it. Their > system was painfully slow and I knew it'd take forever to clean up. > Bobby Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him... -- Regards, joeuser - St

[H] Speaking of...

Hello Hardware, Vista & IE 7 or IE 8. Start page acts like it's going to load but it never renders. However, if I click on the home page button to load other tabbed start pages they render and then I can click back on the main original start and it's there. If you do nothing - the page never show

Re: [H] Looking for UPS Advice.....

Hello Steve, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 2:54:33 PM, you wrote: > Perfect answer 'Joe' ;-). I was looking for someone with real-life > experience and except for the number of computers, you are doing what > I'd thought I could do and now know that it works. (wait a minute, what > did he say?). >

Re: [H] Looking for UPS Advice.....

Hello Steve, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 10:56:28 AM, you wrote: > Today went down and looked at what Best Buy has for UPS's and a have a > couple of questions. > First, is it a good idea to buy a larger UPS and put two computers on > it? The rationale is that one computer is on 24/7, but the oth

Re: [H] A way to reduce warm air exhaust from my PC?

Hello Veech, Friday, June 26, 2009, 11:49:46 PM, you wrote: > My box throws off a lot of warm air from the exhaust fans. Is there a > program that helps control the heat generated by this thing? It isn't > running dangerously hot, but I would say the exhaust is about 90 degrees or > maybe a bit

Re: [H] HD going bad?

Hello Winterlight, Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:09:46 PM, you wrote: > Download the manufactures diagnostic, they all have one, and run their tests. > At 04:30 PM 6/25/2009, you wrote: >>What's the best way to determine of an HD is going bad? Use the SMART features also. -- Regards, joeuser -

Re: [H] Networking, distance, etc

The switches are needed anyway to provide AP's down the line. I hoped that it could also act as a 'repeater' in regards to the strength. I would have three total... mainline from Information Super Highway to about 230 ft - place 10/100 switch run another 200 or so and drop another switch and then a

[H] Networking, distance, etc

Hello Hardware List, I have to put a network in place. It's about 700 ft from the start to where I need to end it. It's got to be copper. I was going to run Cat6 (Cat6e?) even though its a 10/100 network and drop a 10/100 switch every 200 ft or so. The switch would serve 2 purposes: 1

Re: [H] General XP question...

Hello DSinc, Monday, June 22, 2009, 4:50:35 PM, you wrote: > I have been using XP-pro for some time. Probably, for way too long, I > lived happily w/Windows 2000 pro. OK. I have upgraded now to XP. > I accept that most on this List now lives with Vista; and, most of the > early adopters have mov

Re: [H] Bing

Hello Z00100, Friday, June 19, 2009, 3:34:46 PM, you wrote: > Anyone using bing? I have been using it for a week now and I like > the search results better than google. > What do you guys think? Haven't tried it. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these poi

Re: [H] Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 computer speaker thoughts?

Hello Bino, Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 1:42:13 PM, you wrote: > Hey guys, thoughts on this computer speaker set? I.e. are they good, what > (if anything) is better-seems weird to ask, but I don't know that computer > speaker tech has advanced that much in the 5 or so years I've had them. Over rat

Re: [H] wireless problems

Hello Winterlight, Saturday, June 13, 2009, 1:49:21 AM, you wrote: > I am working with a Dell 700M that has onboard Intel 2915abg wireless > adaptor. I am having a problem getting a connection to my > router. There is nothing wrong with my wireless router, I have one > laptop continuously con

Re: [H] Vista SP's redist's?

Hello Greg, Monday, June 8, 2009, 3:03:18 PM, you wrote: > I'm assuming that you mean standalone, not redist... Ohhh maybe my terminology was in error, no wonder I couldn't find them. Thank you very much for your time and effort. I just wanted to store them on my file server so I don't have to

Re: [H] XP Annoyances

Hello Steve, Monday, June 8, 2009, 3:50:23 PM, you wrote: > I've got three minor problems with XP that aren't show stoppers but > annoying. > This is plain vanilla XP, fully patched, no tweaks of services or > anything else. I don't patch. Then again, I don't put systems straight to the Net. P

[H] Vista SP's redist's?

Hello, Anyone know where the Vista 'redist' SP's are? Nothing came up when I searched Microsoft. I want 1 and 2. (I am a collector) -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] ram limit for thinkpad

Hello Winterlight, Saturday, June 6, 2009, 7:32:54 PM, you wrote: > I have a Thinkpad X41 Tablet. It came with half a GB soldered on the > board and a half a GB of upgradable SODIMM PC2-5300 • CL=5 • > Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR2-667. Manufacturer specifications call for > up to 1GB SODMIM or

Re: [H] LINUX?

Hello maccrawj, Friday, June 5, 2009, 1:17:02 PM, you wrote: > OSX is not unix based, it's partially derived from it and several other > things like > nextstep. > JRS wrote: >> I also use Unix-based OS X every day as well. :) Both right - both wrong: FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [H] LINUX?

Hello Sam, Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:04:08 AM, you wrote: > A follow up. > I went back and rebooted again to Ubuntu. > It CAME up and loaded. > Next problem. > It is asking for a user and password. > I did not enter anything. > But all it keeps saying "Wrong user or password" > I hate this stuff.

Re: [H] I missed something along the way?

Hello DHSinclair, Thursday, June 4, 2009, 5:51:03 PM, you wrote: > Brian, > I may happily/grudgingly do this:) > Help to "how to start" would be a very big help. > Sorry to be so pedestrian. > Should I go GMail, then I have to tell Jim/Brian about the switch, and > all the "email" related acc

Re: [H] Dell XPS 435MT

Hello nobozoz, Thursday, June 4, 2009, 8:17:49 PM, you wrote: > A question for the HWG - > Costco has the Dell XPS 435T with i7-920 2.66 GHz CPU, 6 GB of RAM for > $1000 ~ $1200 US depending on bundled options/video card etc. > Are they reliable? > Are they more or less 'generic' as far as power

Re: [H] LINUX?

Hello Sam, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 12:57:27 PM, you wrote: > I want to be prepared to get rid of M$. > I think it is at the end of it's rope. > They just keep making it more complicated. > instead of making it easier for the enduser. > And M$ is just interested in the bottom line. > MONEY! > I h

Re: [H] LINUX?

Hello JRS, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 12:08:42 PM, you wrote: > I also use Unix-based OS X every day as well. :) Oh yeah OS X here also 8) -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] LINUX?

Hello Sam, Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 11:30:26 AM, you wrote: > What flavors of Linux are any of you using? > Sam Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] What MUST run at XP start-up?

Hello Veech, Sunday, May 24, 2009, 4:06:19 PM, you wrote: > Are all of these necessary or can I disable any of them from running on > startup? NONE of those are required for XP to boot however. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beaut

Re: [H] What MUST run at XP start-up?

Hello Veech, Sunday, May 24, 2009, 4:06:19 PM, you wrote: > ctfmon.exe > NvCplDaemon > KernelFaultCheck > TrueImageMonitor.exe > AcronisTimouterMonitor > Acronis Scheduler2 Service ctfmon = office - i kill mine w/o issue nvcpldaemon = nvidia fluff - i kill mine w/o issue KernelFaultCheck = i'd g

Re: [H] AMD / Intel

Hello Z00100, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 4:37:20 PM, you wrote: > Subject line fixed :-) This argument is older then Wayne Johnson... (poke) next... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] Printing A0 size onto A4

Hello Z00100, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 8:42:03 AM, you wrote: > I will look into print artist. But do you have any recommendations for free > software? Open Office might do this also? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..

Re: [H] Printing A0 size onto A4

Hello Z00100, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 8:14:21 AM, you wrote: > Assuming I have a poster size image. Is there a way to print it > into multiple A4 or letter size paper and then taping them together > to get the desired effect? I would like to proof a large printout > before I print it on the plott

Re: [H] Envelope program ?

Hello FORC5, Monday, May 18, 2009, 6:54:16 PM, you wrote: > Been using Winvelope for a very long time, was not even supposed to > work with XP but I made it go. Was having some small problems with > little square boxes at the end of text so I figured I would get a > new printer. Replaced and HP O

Re: [H] testing overlclock

Hello Winterlight, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 6:07:54 PM, you wrote: > What is the best freeware app to test an overclocked CPU? Sometimes these apps require multiple copies to be run for each core and so you may want to read the readme... If you just want to see what speed you are really at and stu

Re: [H] Video Player for Slow Computer

Hello Steve, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 10:48:45 AM, you wrote: > I've got a 1.2GHz Duron and a K7S5A Pro MB laying around and I'd like to > set up a computer to show videos while I'm on the treadmill. > I'm not trying to do HD and I'd guess that XP would be a little too > slow? What about some ver

Re: [H] No keyboard in DOS Full Screen on WINXP SP3

Hello nobozoz, Friday, May 15, 2009, 12:25:55 AM, you wrote: > After much searching, it was Speedfan, ver 4.37 that was hijacking the > keyboard. I also tried Speedfan v 4.38 and it also hijacked the keyboard > from my DOS apps. Speedfan uses the GIVIO service and I'm thinking that > GIVIO is the

Re: [H] Win 2k password recovery

Hello Christopher, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7:26:02 PM, you wrote: > Anyone use any free tools to recover the local admin password from > a win2k advanced server box? Can't connect the box to the network, > and no one remembers the local admin password. Another thing to try: http://www.nirsof

Re: [H] Windows 7 RC Torrent == Bad

Hello Brian, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 4:14:47 PM, you wrote: > Be careful - that compatability mode requires a specific > virtualization technology that isn't found in all CPUs. I think the biggest problem will be supporting (effectively) two OS's on the system. I can see the support headaches n

Re: [H] weird mouse bug

Hello FORC5, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 11:37:28 AM, you wrote: > removed setpoint sw, still does this. I suspect some MS search > update. Possible IE8, next thing to remove, wife complains about > anything that comes up different. Even when software is removed? Weird, curious what do you think of

Re: [H] weird mouse bug

Hello FORC5, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 11:08:19 AM, you wrote: > have one of the side buttons that I have always had set for double > click keeps reverting back to default setting ( search) even though > the sw says it is set for double click. On reboot double click works > for a short time and some

Re: [H] Disk Clone Software

Hello Christopher, Monday, May 11, 2009, 1:59:50 PM, you wrote: > Following the link I found on the list a few weeks ago I can get Acronis > True Image for $30. > What do you think? Seems like Acronis is on top of the game, right now. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key.

Re: [H] Promise won't install

Hello Winterlight, Sunday, May 10, 2009, 1:19:59 PM, you wrote: > no, and I know it works because I tried it in another computer. Yes > there is another onboard PROMISE368 RAID controller but that > shouldn't matter. I tried to flash the TX2's BIOS and flash didn't > recognize the card. All th

Re: [H] Promise won't install

Hello Winterlight, Saturday, May 9, 2009, 8:51:43 PM, you wrote: > I have a PCI Promise SATA150 TX2plus controller that I am trying to > install into a new XPPRO SP3 install. The BIOS sees the controller > and it's drive. XP sees that there is a controller there but will not > install it, just

Re: [H] Mobile phones - Moto v. Samsung

Hello maccrawj, Friday, May 1, 2009, 1:40:38 AM, you wrote: > Uh, neither? ;) > Last Moto's worth looking at were the Razr2's: V8, V9, Z9. The Z9 is no longer > available on AT&T and I don't think Alltel/Verizon ever got one. > Cell phones are shite market right now IMHO, subsidized models suck

Re: [H] System no boot

Issue resolved. Chkdsk found some indexes out of whack. It repaired them and it's booting fine now. I guess I should not press reset when it's booting? ;) -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

Re: [H] System no boot

Hello Lubomír, Thursday, April 30, 2009, 8:27:15 AM, you wrote: > Hello, > try go to BIOS SETUP (mostly key DEL or F2 or F10), save on exit and try > again to boot. Thanks, I have done that a few times. In fact, I loaded the bios setup defaults and no go. Took the drive and placed into another

[H] System no boot

Hello, System booted up fine, then I pressed reset to stop it from booting. My intention was to get it into safe mode, thats why I reset it. Tried to get it to boot again and mashing F8 and now it just hangs after the BIOS/POST. The screen is on so it's getting a signal from video, but nothing el

Re: [H] Windows 7 ?

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] Mobile phones - Moto v. Samsung

Sorry for the double post - one of these was sent at around 8 AM my time this morning and didn't appear to go through. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

[H] Mobile phones - Moto v. Samsung

Hello, We got an offer from Alltel to upgrade our phones. We've had our current phones for quite a few years now. Kyocera SOHO's - they serve us well. Anyway, they offer Motorazr V3a for 29.99 and Samsung Hue II for 39.99. I like both companies and I know it seems like everyone has the Motorazr's.

[H] Mobile phones - Moto v. Samsung

Hello, We got an offer from Alltel to upgrade our phones. We've had our current phones for quite a few years now. Kyocera SOHO's - they serve us well. Anyway, they offer Motorazr V3a for 29.99 and Samsung Hue II for 39.99. I like both companies and I know it seems like everyone has the Motorazr's.

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Gary, Sunday, April 26, 2009, 6:50:01 AM, you wrote: > I play WoW a lot, and with the exception of the video card, I have a > 8800GTS, my PC is very similar to yours. I play on Alexstrasza for what's > it worth. I onlly mention the realm because I wouldn't be surprised if > there

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Gary, Saturday, April 25, 2009, 5:21:12 AM, you wrote: > Just as an experiment, try disabling all your addons and see what your > frame rate is. That will give you a baseline that you can go forward > from. Where do you feel your pc is lacking ? > Regards.Gary Yeah I tried th

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Here's something to think about. I can turn everything up and leave shadows off and view distance the same and see little performance impact. Maybe 10 FPS max. I just don't understand. Now, I wish I had an i7 to test with. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Jason, Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:00:18 AM, you wrote: > From the reports I have seen, yes a nVidia card may well give better > results (perhaps even substantially better). > In fact I only got my 4870x2 back from RMA about 2 weeks ago, I had to > use my old 8800GTX for a few weeks while I

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Jason, Friday, April 24, 2009, 4:23:53 AM, you wrote: > Check the WoW forums, there are a number of people with ADM 48xx cards > that experience bad performance. > I have a 4870x2 and an i...@4ghz and the performance isn't as good as it > probably should be, although I play at 2560x1600 wi

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Christopher, Thursday, April 23, 2009, 3:56:19 PM, you wrote: > Reinstalling wow won't matter. You're more interested in the stuff in the > WUA folders. That's where the data is stored. Well, I did some checking. I guess I had thought of that myself, I went into my WTF folder and backed

Re: [H] CPU vs CPU

Hello Christopher, Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:45:03 PM, you wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, James Boswell wrote: >> What? World Of Warcraft should ABSOLUTELY FLY on a machine of that spec. > Agreed. I've seen this with other's in my guild on wow. You need to > prune some of your data files fo

[H] CPU vs CPU

Hello guys, I have on my current gaming rig an E6850 with 4 GB RAM. I also have a ATI 4870. I mainly play World of Warcraft and it's in a high end guild environment. So performance is key. I bought this 4870 hoping to get mass performance gains but that just didn't h

Re: [H] Looking for a voodoo3

Hello Al, Monday, April 6, 2009, 9:01:07 AM, you wrote: > Hey All, > Looking for a voodoo 3 to put in an Amiga4000. Someone in this group > might just have one. Any help? > TIA, > Al I have a couple voodoo and a voodoo2 - no voodoo3 -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key..

[H] APC BackUps Pro 650

This is a reposting from 24 JAN Hello HWG, I searched the APC FAQ and knowledge base to no avail, so I am hoping to find the answer here. The unit has been in service a long time, I love it and have many of them in use. Never seen this before until now, basically the UPS just shuts down on it's o

Re: [H] vista to xp

Hello yoga, Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 10:30:37 PM, you wrote: > good morning sir, > i have installed network printer in xp machine, > My laptop windows vista home edition installed. > i tryed to connect the printer but one error msg appear. > The printer spooler was not running, restart the

Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once?

Hello FORC5, Monday, February 23, 2009, 7:31:45 PM, you wrote: > I find turning off daily scans perks AVG up, seems to scan on boot > and really bogs things down. Or schedule it middle of the night. > I only use AVG free on my Vista play box. > fp I don't use AV anymore. -- Regards, joeuser -

Re: [H] Funny (l)user story

Hello Thane, Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:33:11 PM, you wrote: > My wife just had a doozy come into the store. To begin with, we sell > Acer laptops - don't sell Lenovo, never sold Lenovo. > A woman came in with a laptop in a case and said "my father bought > this here in June. I lost my pow

Re: [H] Question on laptop adapters

Hello Thane, Friday, February 13, 2009, 2:22:14 PM, you wrote: >>Define 'safely' > :) Will the life expectancy of the laptop or the adapter be > shortened, or will the computer crash more? The laptop would be subject to those problems, yes. More would be worse the difference isn't huge but it'

Re: [H] Question on laptop adapters

Hello Thane, Friday, February 13, 2009, 1:09:28 PM, you wrote: > If I have an adapter that outputs 19V, 4.54 amps, and a laptop who's > old (and now dead) adapter outputted 18V 3.5A, can I safely use it? > T Define 'safely' -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now

Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642

Hello Tmservo, Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:55:32 AM, you wrote: > Your fine but you might consider a ps3. Bluray, full divx and network support. > Sent via BlackBerry Thanks, I considered a PS3 sometime ago. I would have got one if I could have get one like the CECHBxx or CECHAxx series. These

Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642

Hello, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:12:12 AM, I wrote: > Hello HWG, > So, I went to watch 'Ghostbusters' this morning as nothing was on > any of the 500 channels I get on DirecTV. The little red light > just blinked away and the tray wouldn't open nor would the > displa

[H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642

Hello HWG, So, I went to watch 'Ghostbusters' this morning as nothing was on any of the 500 channels I get on DirecTV. The little red light just blinked away and the tray wouldn't open nor would the display come on. I unplugged it - waited - and plugged it back in. No

Re: [H] Why I use Firefox instead of IE

Hello Brian, Friday, January 30, 2009, 9:18:19 AM, you wrote: > Reason #1 is right here in this interview with a former malware developer: > http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/interview_with_10.html Nice. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these po

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