I'll second that one, CDex is what I use!
Jamie Furtner wrote:
> Joe User wrote:
>> What are you guys using to rip cd's to mp3 -
preferably that's free?
>>
>>
> CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
>
> Uses LAME to encode to MP3 out of the box.
>
> Jamie
>
>
_
When did they add this? I have no problems running
scheduled chkdsk at
boot time with either one installed.
Is it just a upper or lower filter edit to remove it
from the driver chain?
Will check you links when I get net access at home...
Hayes Elkins wrote:
> I wont even touch the subject of Da
I'd assume not in this day & age.
Surprised you're going the 750 route given the cost
per GB is higher
than the 500 & 400's.
Last I checked a few days ago 500 is $149, 750 is
$250+. Keeping my eye
out for sales on the 500 @ $125ish or 750 @ $200.
Hopefully the eventual
release the 1TB will cau
LOL, most of the WAP makers talk with emphasis on not
doing firmware
updates wirelessly. Does that same wireless only
software also do the
firmware upgrades? ;-)
Seems a stupid move to limit the interface you can
make changes from,
esp. making it wireless only.
Brian Weeden wrote:
> I wanted t
Right, locking yourself into what Job's considers
worth hardware. No
thanks, I only want the OS.
Joe User wrote:
> Hello FORC5,
>
> Friday, March 30, 2007, 8:55:39 AM, you wrote:
>
>> I say the 70's and 80's was good for business and
current scheme is not. ( greed )
>> fp
>
> I say, doing busi
So true! Piracy was rampant in the 80's among those
"in the know" and it
didn't kill anyone's profits!
I had a RAM slot die in my Dell C840 going cross
country last summer,
halving my total RAM from 1GB to 512MB. Had to stop in
Montana & cell
phone in for re-activation or I could not log in to
LOL, DRM = Does it Really Matter?
Piracy- what software companies racking in dough use
to illustrate they
are really broke and need to charge more for less.
Want to stop commercial pirates from making money
while increasing your
legit sales? Remove DRM, EULA restrictions, and have
the discs pre
LOL, the "good" overhead track wiring pic is
impressive. The rest down
right disturbing!
G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
> I think I worked a couple of these places
>
> -- Forwarded message --
>
>
>
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html
>
>
>
>
Great, as long as the long term solution is neither
plastic nor paper.
Only thing stupider than paper grocery bags is all the
paper wasted
generating monthly bills & junk mail, flyers, and
ATM/cash register
receipts.
_
Yet you site Corsair XMS as a choice a few posts back?
TwinX is MATCHED PAIRS of XMS. Same item, just tested
as pairs.
GPL wrote:
> I'll be the square one and say it, that memory is
not on the
> Qualified Vendors List/
> lol
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/26/07, Bobby Heid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
I was tinkering with some part ideas for a buddy:
Asus M2M WS Pro $258.00
AMD AM2 Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5200+ Socket $200
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB DDR2-800 $214
Coolermaster STC-T01-UBK$129
Seasonic S12 600W $150
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1950 XT 512MB $299
Seagate 7200.10 Barracuda 5
Data is not truly unlimited anyway so PC card might
not be worth the $$$
anyway.
Personally I won't use Verizon if the phone has their
customized (read
bastardized) firmware like the Razr does. The
Smartphones running
windows mobile might not have that issue though.
Analog service is a non-iss
eat enough to have the strength to click on
the link. ;)
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:29:42
> To:The Hardware List
> Subject: Re: [H] Eudora ?
>
> Is this free?
>
&g
Or upgrade to Process Explorer and have even more info
including CPU
usage history.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx
Wayne Johnson wrote:
> At 05:41 03-07-2007, Thane Sherrington typed:
>> Yes. I like to add CPU Time and Peak RAM usage to
t
Yikes, $2000 or $3000!
It would have to last at least 5 years of game play
and support 2-4 high
rez displays in something like Crysis to command that
price!
Steve wrote:
> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6336
>
> - Original Message - From: "j maccraw"
A lowly old Nforce2 XP2800 system I built back in
2004.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> j maccraw wrote:
> :: Well all I can say after switching from a fried
9800
> :: (that ATI wouldn't
> :: warranty) to a X850XT is "WOW!". Older R481 but
still
> :: 256-bit memory
> :
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> What's really sad is that my ATI 9800 Pro doesn't
even show up on that
> long, long list!
>
> j maccraw wrote:
>> Performance wise it's x850XT, X1800, X1900, then
X1950
>> Pro which AFAIK is the highest model for AGP. The
x1650
Performance wise it's x850XT, X1800, X1900, then X1950
Pro which AFAIK
is the highest model for AGP. The x1650 is a waste
lagging behind even
the X800.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
Greg Sevart wrote:
> The X1650Pro would be sufficient. All you need is
one dual-link TMDS
> trans
Well on DVD-V's I can Disc Dr. works great though I
can see where it
would make it harder to recover from if it did not
work. It leaves a
uniform texture pattern, certainly not smooth &
glassy.
I've had several DVD-V's with radial scratches that
simply would not
play, could not be cleaned/polis
LOL, you're on crack!
Apple? OMG, can you say overpriced? At what benefit
over something from
another NAS vendor? Why stop at 750's?
Nevermind the hardware specs, for home use you'd be
better "served"
@$6000 (or less) building your own solution with 5TB+
SATA using
off-the-shelf components & F
I love this case mod:
http://digg.com/mods/Amazing_Stained_Glass_PC_Case_Photos
Must not do much in terms of RF shielding but sure
looks great!
The fish are biting.
Get more visitors on your site using
I love this case mod:
http://digg.com/mods/Amazing_Stained_Glass_PC_Case_Photos
Must not do much in terms of RF shielding but sure
looks great!
Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know.
A
Secure & Internet attached ARE oxymorons, add
Microsoft and you have an
Uber-Oxymoron.
Joe User wrote:
> Hello Thane,
>
> Monday, February 5, 2007, 2:40:46 PM, you wrote:
>
>> This article suggests that MS is far more secure
than we think
>
> I think, to use the words Microsoft and secure in
That would make sense. Everytime I've had issues with
Comcast not
sending it has been DNS related as they try to contact
the DNS & mail
servers of the target domain BEFORE they allow the
email client to send
the message.
Could be it's taking longer than 60sec for the mail
server's protection
t
Incoming traveler, it's Jim's IDC.
Open the iris!
;-)
Bryan Seitz wrote:
> TESTIES!
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:08:03AM -0500, Jim
Edwards wrote:
>> At 1/28/2007 09:26 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:
>>> Hi peeps.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>>> Checked by AVG Free
Why bother trying, switch the case out for new when
you replace the
mobo/cpu/etc. Reuse everything that is viable and
standard.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> Al can't send this to the list, so I'm sending it
for him:
>
> Has anyone replaced the motherboard in an
emachines,
> namely a etower 500
Specs are real use Neil?
Razr specs *say* up to 7 hrs/12 days, but only
delivers about 5/10 if
you have Bluetooth off.
No biggie, rev 1 product, I can wait a year for the
next version!
Neil Davidson wrote:
>> 5 hours is fantastic.
>>
>> My Razr only has like 120 minutes of talk time.
>> My
We're using these for the kid's PC & are happy,
they're widely available:
http://search.ebay.com/wusb54gs
Bobby Heid wrote:
>
>
> Hey,
>
> Someone gave me an older PC that I'm going to set up
for my 11 year
> old. I currently have a network consisting of a
WRT54GS (speed booster)
> router
Just a follow up, this link talks about this kind of
setup with the
exception that they suggest slave router use DHCP to
get address from
master. This IMHO, lacking a DHCP address reservation
for slave router,
would make it hard to know what address to connect
to slave router on
from subnet 1
.168.2.1?
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of j maccraw
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:57 PM
> To: The Hardware List
> Subject: Re: [H] trying to setup a second WAP
>
> Likely then what you
Likely then what you need is 255.255.252.0 mask if the
slave is
192.168.2.1 & master 192.168.1.1.
If their same subnet, then you have a kludge by
ignoring some of the
network bits.
Gary VanderMolen wrote:
> In order to see both routers (and modem) config
screens,
> I had to set the subnet mas
Ha! End-losers never backup anyway, so no real
increased-risk there!
Hopefully as the content market evolves it will not be
such a hassle to
get copies of what you pay for, and those copies will
hopefully by then
not be so laden with DRM as to force you to download
them illicitly thus
making th
sier and save some time---a
definitive "nice-to-have."
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:hardware-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
>> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 2:50 PM
>> To: The Har
Downloaded content like music & video comes to mind.
Backup will be #2
use for Blue-ray or HDDVD burners when the become
cheap enough.
Certainly not often or even in frequent 1 shot full
backup situation,
but needs some degree of backup none the less. If my
100GB+ of Mp3's
died I'd loose both t
t;
> Greg
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:hardware-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:50 AM
>> To: The Hardware List
>> Subject: Re: [H] Consumer reports smokes crack
>&g
I would assume the firewall on the slaved router would
filter the IANA
subnet, but if it's getting IANA IP via DHCP though
it's WAN port from
LAN port of master router then you'd think it would
just work.
Say that 3 time fast!
Also, I'd put the GS on the border with DD-WRT before
I'd put the ol
More like "super-lame". They got $40 from me, not a
dime more, too many
problems with Talisman.
I've switched to DD-WRT and have had no headaches
since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT
http://www.dd-wrt.com/
JOEUSER wrote:
> Hello Chris,
>
> Sunday, January 7, 2007, 12:16:45 AM, you wrote:
ou travel and
use a laptop
> exclusively...they might be essential.
>
> Thane Sherrington wrote:
>> At 07:58 AM 03/01/2007, j maccraw wrote:
>>> Certainly they are essential!
>>
>> Dictionary.com disagrees:
>> es·sen·tial
>> adjective
>> 1. absolu
Non-XT, 256MB and not from many vendors. Do the
searches, you not find
many places with stock. Those that do are > $300.
Raul Limos wrote:
> On 1/3/07, j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well the x1650 is crippled, the x1300 a rebadged
x1600
>> joke, and the
&g
, but not my
preference.
Wayne Johnson wrote:
> At 08:12 AM 1/2/2007, j maccraw typed:
>> I'll "limp" along happily with the x850 @ ~$200
given
>> that upgrading to
>> new mobo would mean dumping the card anyway.
>
> Not that I'm taking sides or an
WinAMP's Library function or Advanced MP3 Catalog &
any player.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> What do y'all use to play mp3s on your PCs? I have
all of my CD
> collection ripped to Mp3 but I don't have a good
player outside of
> iTunes and MusicMatch. MM is buggie and iTunes wants
to install
> qu
In the case of condoms or AV, PERFORMANCE! ;-)
dhs wrote:
> How about PAY for the $5 condom, put it on, AND put
the FREE one
> over it?
> If the result is protection, what's the harm?
> Now, if you wish to move back to the "lack of
feeling(freedom)" discussion,
> then I'm just gonna say Y(person
Certainly they are essential!
Second battery? If used in tandem prolongs run-time or
at least protects
your battery investment since neither batt has to be
deep cycled thus
causing less wear. 3rd or 4th make no sense as they
have no shelf life.
Case? Of course you need a case unless your not mo
Well good luck finding one for < $300-400 (assuming
you can find one)
which is almost double the cost of the AGP x850 or the
PCI-E x1950.
I'll "limp" along happily with the x850 @ ~$200 given
that upgrading to
new mobo would mean dumping the card anyway.
JOEUSER wrote:
> Hello j,
>
> Monda
No, the x850 is a better deal for AGP.
Raul Limos wrote:
> On 12/31/06, Anthony Q. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> As much as I'd like to be sometimes, I'm no gamer.
I'm still running a
>> P4 3.06 GHz AGP with a Radeon 9800 Pro. Is there
any reason to upgrade
>> this card? Better text? I
But I 'll bet several thousand small files which
always takes long than
a few huge files totaling the same size.
My guess is xcopy is better since it's not using
clipboard to do cut &
paste.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> ok..92 GBbut surely others here have even bigger
loads...
>
> "Anth
"Just controls the access list" that is what
Clinton calls IS is :-)
ACL's are what control access to the file system based
on your user &
group membership. PERIOD.
I don't see how CACLS (or XCACLS) would not work for
what it's for, and
is verifiable, which is setting & reading ACL's.
Havi
Avoid Vonage like the plague!
The service is good as long as you don't need them to
do anything for
you from a customer support standpoint.
Took over 3 months for them to port my number. Mind
you not because it
took that long, but because they dropped the ball
doing the port. To
cover their as
Good choices, but not upgrading to new WMP is also
part of the package
if you want to avoid and nasty MS DRM surprises &
processes cropping up
on your system.
Brian Weeden wrote:
> Forgot to mention that was a suggestion for audio.
For video, I also
> just use media player classic and/or ZoomP
Lol Brian!
Let me add a belated Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to
the mix...
Brian Weeden wrote:
> I got the green one of these:
>
>
http://www.motherboardgifts.net/product_info.php?products_id=5&osCsid=4dc0c6d6ee96162dbed4442bb7eb0109
>
>
> And a Creme Brulee set with blowtorch :)
>
>
The Asus M2M WS Pro is on my "wish list" to replace my
aging NF2 system.
Just can't believe it comes down to like $1200 to
replace mobo, cpu,
ram, video & PSU with no way to do it "a piece at a
time". :-(
Paul Stuber wrote:
> Uh, on the other side of this equation any comments
on Asus am2
> Cr
Makes sense, what can they do if they decide you've
"mistakenly"
declared it dead when it's only dying? After all what
are you, a Dell
technician or a consumer? ;-)
SMART failure is a chance to wipe ("testing") the
drive before you
return which could not be done if drive physically
died. Hell you
Password protecting your laptop HDD is sufficient to
keep someone from
booting/mounting it. To crack that requires a ~$2000
hardware solution.
AIN/Autorun should always be disabled.
Using Syskey via floppy or boot time password in
combination with 15+
character user passwords will keep someone fr
Let me ask this one last time since email client seems
to have sending
issues!
Trying to track down a vendor who carries the Radeon
X1650 XT in AGP. Any of you guys have a source in the
US?
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Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the
Crazy freaky Chris, glad to here no one at you office
got hurt!
Can only hope the idiot pulls a gun on a cop and is
executed before he
hurts anyone else.
CW wrote:
> Yes.
>
> Our office is at: 5101 Merriam Dr.
>
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Still sound cheaper than replacing the drives and
would allow the use of
a SATA RAID controller which makes way more sense then
installing a PATA
controller just to accommodate old drives.
Winterlight wrote:
> At 09:44 PM 12/14/2006, you wrote:
>> What about PATA->SATA converters?
>
>
> Those
What about PATA->SATA converters?
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 10:16 AM 14/12/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Thane Sherrington wrote:
>>
>>> I have a customer who wants to RAID 1 setup on two
PATA disks. The
>>> only controller I have found that will do this
anymore is th
I too went through this with my Grandmother in her
last months. It was
near impossible to get her to understand to hit a
button much less carry
a device. Of course this was true all of her life,
just worse in the
end. Unlike my grandfather years earlier who would hit
the intercom page
button on
I am assuming a few things here.
1. that you truly mean the My Documents sub-folder and
not the
"Documents and Settings" sub-tree for all the users.
2. That you updated the various registry entries that
point to the folders.
3. Depending on HOW you moved the folder the ACL's
could be wrong.
4.
Acronis TrueImage & DiskTools on one bootable CD,
nothing else needed
and neither has screwed up a drive on me yet after 2
years unlike recent
PQMagic's.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> Thanks. That's the kind of info I was hunting for.
I don't want to buy
> any Symantic stuff if I can avoid it.
>
Sure it makes sense to backup 6GB just to archive the
300MB of
Thunderbird data, NOT!
WinRAR does the job nicely and even serializes the
archives that I can
then periodically burn to DVD or CD.
Eudora or Thunderbird are the only choices for email
unless you're
fracked and have to deal with MS
Could it be you have NoScript installed & the .js
you're installing from
is local so therefore you need to enable scripts for
"file://"
(hopefully only temporally)?
Brian Weeden wrote:
> For those of you using Firefox, have you tried the
Greasemonkey
> extension? Everyone raves about it but I a
Well if you have a resident trojan bigger problems
then hidden registry
keys I'd guess.
Only other option is to mount the drive in another XP
system & open the
hives that way and while your at it clean the drive.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 03:00 AM 01/11/2006, j maccraw wrot
Hidden even from regedt32? As in you have a program
running intercepting
API calls?
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> Anyone use this? I have a machine that has hidden
registry keys
> according to SAR, but not BlackIce. The log is
below. The problem is
> that SAR says the items are "non-removable."
My guess is no based on this:
We have a Dell D8400 that came with RAID and it needs
a dell driver
floppy & the "F6" press if we do a re-install. Baffled
the crap outta me
until I looked over what discs we had with it & tried
the F6 method.
My guess is any driver needed pre-GUI mode (i.e.
storag
As would pure-IR floodlights. You don't see 'em on
come on but bright as
day on a camera. Could even leave them on all night &
rely on cam
software's motion detection to start recoding.
I had a few IP/Ethernet DLinks that were OK. A CMOS
based DCS900 which
need a host PC to doing motion sensing
Good god people, SECURITY TABS. XP home does not allow
you to lock down
folders beyond user or admin because simple file
sharing and the like
are permanently enabled.
Why should that matter for joe blow? Must you ask with
multi-user house
holds and the need for custom mom, dad, sis but not
bro
Solution: Windows upgrade at same (laughingly called
a) discount & use
an old copy of Win2K, 9X to validate. Not tied to
hardware like OEM,
just as cheap.
Ben Ruset wrote:
> Take it up with Microsoft's lawyers.
>
> They say it's tied to the hardware. You either deal
with the license or
> you u
at I could find but I took no
chances,
than odd you have
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 11:55 PM 04/10/2006, j maccraw wrote:
>> If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can
>> track down the
>> thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the
>> process &
Oh, so most manufactures don't make cards for a common
bus, interface
standard & supply windows drivers? Odd, I thought that
was the case.
Choice, as in what to choose is complicated.
Ben Ruset wrote:
> I would hardly call the PC hardware landscape
"simple."
>
>
&
it's not anti-apple, it's pro-consumer, pro-choice,
and promotes price
competition on hardware not too mention giving MS a
run for their money.
Dump on MS all you want, they deserve it, but they did
unify & simplify
the PC market w/o imposing "use our hardware or
nothing' on the market.
Anthony
Here here!
Not too mention then I could role-my-own instead of
paying top $$$ for
their cookie cutter hardware.
Chris Reeves wrote:
> I'll tell you this, the more time I spend with
Vista, the more convinced I
> am that Apple is wrong. Not because Vista is great,
but because if Apple
> would get
If you have questionable, submit them to
VirusTotal.com for scanning
against 20 or so engines! ;-)
Problem to note with VT is 2 scanners almost always
mark some files as
suspicious depending on how they are packed without
giving any specific
or concrete virus warning.
dhs wrote:
> Thane,
> Not c
If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can
track down the
thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the
process & try to
diagnose from there.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 05:52 PM 02/10/2006, Veech wrote:
>> I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to
be eating up CPU
>> cy
Here here!
Not too mention then I could role-my-own instead of
paying top $$$ for
their cookie cutter hardware.
Chris Reeves wrote:
> I'll tell you this, the more time I spend with
Vista, the more convinced I
> am that Apple is wrong. Not because Vista is great,
but because if Apple
> would get
If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can
track down the
thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the
process & try to
diagnose from there.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 05:52 PM 02/10/2006, Veech wrote:
>> I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to
be eating up CPU
>> cy
hand my ADSTech 5.24" case w/ fan has
kept that drive happy
via USB though the fan has started to randomly buzz
last few months.
Easy enough to swap fan in the end.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 02:11 PM 11/09/2006, j maccraw wrote:
>> No fan is bad idea in the long run.
>
&g
entire life of the drive instead of a
major cooling issue
> after 6 months or so.
>
> Harry
>
> Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>
>> Yeah, if you intend to leave them on 24/7. If you
only have it on
>> during use, no fan can work.
>>
I'll second that in addition to Telnet and/or SSH
access on the
WRT54G/GS's if enabled.
Chris Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:00:16 GMT
> Ben Ruset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Linksys routers do not work on port 8080. They're
either 443 or 80 ie:
>
> I beg to differ, Ben. I have several
No fan is bad idea in the long run.
W. D. wrote:
> I've got 2 of these:
>
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=312100
>
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Nor would I given it has or can be added a few bells &
whistles like
Gigabit LAN, SD reader, Bluetooth and 64MB video RAM.
'tis odd that laptop video is still not getting proper
upgradabilty
since ATI has incorporated common pin "Flexfit" into
every chip since
the M9/Radeon 9000 up to current o
Why bother when you have a search built-in to FF for
google? Not too
mention the 20 or so others I've added w/o bloat for
everything from
Ebay to reverse 411 listings. ;)
Ben Ruset wrote:
> But at least they're web apps.
>
> And the Google toolbar is less crapware than
Yahoo's.
>
___
LOL, *smacks head* duh! ;)
Hunter, Gary wrote:
> Yea I really like it but I want something that I can
easily take into
> work as well, this wouldn't fit in my laptop case
;-)
>
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OK, understood though you could add a removable tray
to it and still
have 3 slots for extra online storage. This is where I
am heading ASAP
but looking for an 8 bay version if possible.
Hunter, Gary wrote:
> That cetainly looks nice, but I'm really after a
single HD unit to use
> for backups.
>
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