Re: [H] DVD File Formats

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:02 PM To: 'Steve Tomporowski'; 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] DVD File Formats DVD Shrink and Nero will do this easily. DVD Shrink will automatically run Nero for the actual burn. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[H] Cable TV Problems

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I'll be pretty amazed if this message shows up on the list, the last two I send never made it. This 'handyman' friend of my wife's (a really long story) rerouted the cable to the Living Room. In the process, he replaced the 2 way splitter outside with a 3 way splitter. One line goes to the

[H] T-bird Annoyance (Software, not the car....)

2005-04-09 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Admittedly I've not dug into Thunderbird all that much. It downloads mail for me which is 99% spam which I delete. When mail comes down, a icon is put in the sys tray. If I restore the Tbird window, delete the spam and then minimize it, the icon stays. It seems that I have to change mail

[H] Flat Panel Displays for Gaming

2005-05-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
My main machines are still 19 CRT, but with the drop in prices and some notice that flat panels are getting faster, I'm getting interested. What's everyone's take on the best 19 flat panel for fps gaming? A lot of what is written is individual perception and the articles often contradict

Re: [H] Flat Panel Displays for Gaming

2005-05-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
entering that arena as well... what are the opinions on these.. I've heard Samsung has the best specs so far, any feedback on them? Steve Tomporowski wrote: My main machines are still 19 CRT, but with the drop in prices and some notice that flat panels are getting faster, I'm getting

Re: [H] Flat Panel Displays for Gaming

2005-05-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
tough on yellows, which fade to almost invisibilty. ThanksSteve On 5/20/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: samsung 191 T+ really have seen no problems in MOHAA or D3, and there are faster ones available now. fp At 05:25 AM 5/20/2005, Steve Tomporowski Poked the stick with: From what

Re: [H] E3 2005

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I've been getting them. This is the third time I've gotten the email with the 1st two batches of pictures. Steve On 5/23/05, lopaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Review is almost done. None of my initial e-mails seem to be getting through to the list. http://63.193.210.31/e305/index.htm

[H] MP3 ID Tag Program

2005-05-31 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I would like to modify MP3 ID tags outside of my MP3 database program. Does anyone know of a Tag modifier that will work as a right click from Explorer? ThanksSteve

Re: [H] MP3 ID Tag Program

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I use MP3 collector for the database and it works great on renaming, I can have it bulk rename files using the ID tags. It's just that sometimes it's easier to have a right-click from Explorer with the file name in front of me to modify ID tags rather than to open Collector, search for the file,

[H] [OT] Bigfoot?

2005-06-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
And now for something completely different;-) Does anyone know where I can find a digital copy of the Patterson Bigfoot film? I've been searching the web and there are tons and tons of opinions and tons of contradictory 'scientific' evidence, but I've only seen stills. If I find a copy and

Re: [H] [OT] Bigfoot?

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks, that looks like it. Bill, if you can't get it from the same link, let me know, I've got it now. Looks like there are a couple of other bigfoot videos out there Steve On 6/25/05, W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:10 6/25/2005, Steve Tomporowski, wrote: And now for something

[H] NForce Boards for A65

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Back in the dim reaches of the past ;-), I built my A64 system (3400+) with an NForce 3 board. Now I haven't played with this system a lot, but it really doesn't seem so fast and Doom 3 (which I built the system for), despite having a 6800 128 Meg (I think, may be 256M), calls for 640 x 480 (I

Re: [H] Music mixing app

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I second the recommedation of Audacity. It's pretty much Cool Edit without the cost. Steve On 7/19/05, Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it will do everything you want, but take a look at Audacity, audacity.sf.net Harry On Mon, 2005-07-18 at

Re: [H] Re: Music mixing app

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
IIRC Goldwave is shareware. Audacity is Freeware. Might be the only difference. I've never used Goldwave. Steve On 7/19/05, Chris Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Goldwave? http://www.goldwave.com/ On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:00:03 GMT joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered

Re: [H] norton corporate AV ?

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
With false positives, how could you tell??? j/kSteve On 7/20/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:35 PM 19/07/2005, Ben Ruset wrote: Ugh. I've switched all of our corporate PC's to ClamWin anti-virus. Seems to do a good job, auto-updates, and best of all - is free.

[H] UT2004

2005-07-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Is anyone still playing Unreal Tournament 2004? I just started. I've got the game up to the most recent patch (which is unsupported by Atari - surprise) and I'm noticing one thing is that the weapon sounds are very. I'm used to the loudness of the guns in Quake. Is this normal? It was the

[H] UT2004

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Is anyone playing Unreal Tournament 2004? Just started, got it up and running but there's a sound glitch that's bugging me. Weapons sounds are way too quiet. I diddled with the volume controls and the announcer is fine, even louder than needed, but the weapons are a lot quieter. And it's the

Re: [H] UT2004

2005-08-02 Thread Steve Tomporowski
the thread alive for you) -Original message- From: Steve Tomporowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:54:19 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] UT2004 Is anyone playing Unreal Tournament 2004? Just started, got it up and running

Re: [H] P2P suggestions

2005-10-11 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Teach them about bittorrent?? On 10/11/05, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd also stick with not using a P2P.There is also Itunes out there.CW --FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM!Download Spam Inspector, the Award

Re: [H] P2P suggestions

2005-10-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I mentioned BitTorrent mainly because virtually all P2P are being aggressively pushed to shut down. Winmx shut down due to pressure from (guess who). Some are resisting, but it just seems a matter of time. Steve On 10/11/05, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And News Servers!Chris Reeves wrote:

[H] K8N Neo Platinum Problems

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
This is a system I built last year: K8N Neo Platium MB, BFG 128M 6800 Video, A64 3400+, Two SATA Drives, Two PATA Drives, CD Burner, DVD Burner, 430 Watt (Old) Antec Power Supply. It has a couple of problems: 1) Initially this system was set up with 2 SATA drives and a DVD drive. Consolidating

Re: [H] K8N Neo Platinum Problems

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Nevermind, found it. There's a basic incompatibility between Nvidia 6 series cards and NF3. You have to disable AGP fast writes and things are much better now, at least in UT2004. I'll see if that might have been affecting the drives. SteveOn 10/23/05, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [H] K8N Neo Platinum Problems

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
demo lately and it runs good on it. @:)Steve Tomporowski wrote: Nevermind, found it.There's a basic incompatibility between Nvidia 6 series cards and NF3.You have to disable AGP fast writes and things are much better now, at least in UT2004.I'll see if that might have been affecting the drives

Re: [H] -LO- CNet does a test workout: Dual Core AMD vs. Dual Core Intel

2005-11-28 Thread Steve Tomporowski
One of the comments mentioned that NForce SLI consistently under-performed with Intel chips. Of course, as with people that usually make those statements, he left no link for verification. Is this true or is the comparison as shown, correct? My tendency would be to go with NForce over Intel (that

[H] Again - Best Motherboard - Looking for Recs

2005-12-02 Thread Steve Tomporowski
It's time for an upgrade and I'm looking into AMD motherboards. I want to do SLI, but I probably won't do any overclocking. What's a good motherboard? My last motherboard was the MSI Neo3 Platinum and that's worked reasonably well. I intent to get a dual core, so that comes into the mix. Any

Re: [H] Again - Best Motherboard - Looking for Recs

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
for Recs At 12/2/2005 08:56 AM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: It's time for an upgrade and I'm looking into AMD motherboards.I want to do SLI, but I probably won't do any overclocking.What's a good motherboard?My last motherboard was the MSI Neo3 Platinum and that's worked reasonably well.I intent

[H] Trouble Installing Media Center Edition

2005-12-16 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I can't get to this system until tonightI started on the system last night. AMD 3800+ Dual Core in an MSI Neo4 SLI MB, 1GB memory. It is replacing an NF2 system. The system posts fine and even boots up on the original Win2k installation. The original installation was on a PATA drive, I want to

[H]Nforce 3 Board

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I have a drive acting funny onmy Nforce 3 (MSI Neo3 Platinum) and I'm wondering if this is a board that I should dump entirely. I have 6800 video card in it which is the combination that causes problems, but I was wondering if the Nforce3 chipset has enough problems that I should replace it with

Re: [H]Nforce 3 Board

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I just ran Maxtor's Powermax software and came up with a dying harddrive. I'll RMA it and see what happens. The symptoms seemed similar to another Maxtor the died on me. The beginning symptom is that getting a list of folders/files takes a few extra seconds. Not enough to really tip you off. Then

Re: [H]Nforce 3 Board

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Tomporowski
. SteveOn 12/21/05, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:40 AM 20/12/2005, Steve Tomporowski wrote:On my small setup, I've had four HD die on me--one WD and 3 Maxtors.I'mbeginning to wonder about Maxtor.Don't wonder about Maxtor.Believe it.I've seen at least 30 Maxtors fail since

[H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I don't want to do everything from scratch again;-)Old system (NF2) was upgraded to NF4 system (3800+ Dual core). I added a SATA drive to the existing 2 PATA drive system. Installed WMC to the SATA drive so that I could consult the primary PATA drive on what I had configured and installed. Old

[H] Winamp 2 Gone???

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Maybe I missed this, but I went to www.classic.winamp.com to see if there was a new version and couldn't find any reference to Winamp 2! Nor do I get the impression that the plugins are for version 2 either. Was this announced? Steve

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
So, Boot.ini is the only thing I need to retain, the rest of the drive can go?On 12/29/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 12:46 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:Now I want to get rid of Win2k.Actually I'd like to reformat the C drive.However, there seems to be stuff in the C root

Re: [H] Tvshows.org

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
There's a pretty good, elementary BT Faq here:http://dessent.net/btfaq/On 12/28/05, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 04:23 PM 28/12/2005, Winterlight wrote: That means that the seeding never finished (which is why one should allowyour files to complete seeding 100%I see the

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
know which of the files in the C: root belong to which operating system. I was surprised to find boot.ini on C:SteveOn 12/29/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:27 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:So, Boot.ini is the only thing I need to retain, the rest of the drive can go

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
SteveOn 12/29/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:45 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed:Should have been more explicit.WMC was meant to be Windows Media Center Edition, my bad.Nope, no third party boot managers used.Iexpected the Win2k install to fail on the new MB

[H] Winamp Replacement

2005-12-31 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Okay, Winamp 2 is dead--version 2.91 keeps asking me to upgrade to 5. Tried 5 and it sucks. What is everyone using as a replacement?ThanksSteve

[H] How to Write Unmaintainable Code

2006-01-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
This is worth a reprise, especially since the location changed: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html Steve

[H] Socket A Motherboard (no, this is not another CR archive message)

2006-02-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
My son is trying to slightly update his computer on a very limited budget. Currently he has a 1.47Ghz Athlon in an Aopen AK75 MB. Since it was 6 months old the board has refused to warm boot, you always need to turn off the power supply and wait, so it's time for a change. He's got a new power

Re: [H] Socket A Motherboard (no, this is not another CR archive message)

2006-02-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks for the info on the Foxconn board. The ECS board has been good to me, had four and only one died of cap failure. I tend to like the NF2 boards, but I'd have to look around to possibly find a major name board. If it weren't for the warm boot problem, we could probably keep the MB and just

[H] Nero 6 and CD text

2006-02-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
How do I get Nero to write CD text to an audio CD? I am trying to put together a compilation and I'd like my player to pick up artist/title. What do I need to do in Nero Buring ROM version 6? Is there a list where I can find out if my CD/DVD burner supports CD text? You'd think I'd be able to

Re: [H] DVD Formats

2006-03-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
using packet writing (unlikely), or the disc isn't closed.- Original Message - From: Steve Tomporowski To: The Hardware ListSent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:53 PMSubject: [H] DVD FormatsI'm just starting to look into this, but maybe someone here knows the answer already.I have a set-top DVD

Re: [H] bazooka

2006-04-16 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I've used Bazooka before, it's not spyware and has no spyware install. The difference is that Bazooka only tells you what the problem is, does not fix it. It gives you links to the fix for each problem.Steve On 4/14/06, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agreeI finally got rid of the bug, well sort

[H] Well, it sort of is hardware...

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The water pressure at my house isn't the greatest and the 'new' shower head that the contractor put in, frankly, sucks. We've had a 'soaking' shower head but that particular beast had a huge head and pretty much drizzled rather than sprayed. Does anyone know of a good shower head that gives you

Re: [H] Well, it sort of is hardware...

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Oh, I'm sure it's a flow restrictor, but it's a cheap shower head with a bad spray pattern. I'm looking for something that doesn't just give you a circle. Gmail actually threw up this website: http://www.highpressureshowerheads.com/ Which looks interesting. And now that Rick has mentioned

[H]Digital Input Bad on Samsung 204B?

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Bought a Samsung 204B about a week ago, used the digital cable/input. Video card is a Asus 7800GT. After working fine for a week, turned on the computer the other day and the monitor kept searching on video between digital/analog. Bought new digital cable, still no video. Stuck an analog cable

[H] Dell 2100

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I'm trying to help someone (remotely) who has a Dell 2100 computer and experiencing no video. Anyone have any information on a Dell 2100? The net does not have much and I don't know Dell that well. Does Dell do beep codes? So far all I know is this guy replaced the MB and still have no video.

Re: [H] Dell 2100

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Thanks, Thane. Doing this remotely is a pain but even worse because the guy answers in monosylabbles. On 8/26/06, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:59 PM 26/08/2006, Steve Tomporowski wrote:All reseating was done when he apparently changed the MB.He's pretty spare in what he's

[H] Monitor Driver

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
After the digital input died, I began running my Samsung 204B off the Analog input (like it too much, but I still have 2+ years of warranty left ;-), now I'm havinga funny problem with the driver--or so it seems. It began whenever I'd come out of UT2004, I'd get a message that I wasn't in the

Re: [H] Monitor Driver

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Advance Replacement! Great! I'll look into that.Thanks! Steve On 8/29/06, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a friend's samsung 191 had the same bug ( no dvi out ) and samsung did do a advance replacement for him and he even got a newer model :) fpAt 09:35 AM 8/29/2006, Steve Tomporowski Poked

[H] Weirdness with Refresh Rates.

2006-10-07 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Since switching from a tube monitor to a Samsung 204B Flat Panel, every once in a while, sometimes each time you power up, I get the warning from the Flat panel that the settings are not optimum. When I check the refresh rate in MCE, it has 75 instead of 60 as last set. The check box for hiding

[H] Test

2006-10-09 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Just testing.did this hit the list? I had sent a question in a couple of days ago which I didn't see come back on the list. Steve

Re: [H] Test

2006-10-09 Thread Steve Tomporowski
the right packets -- Original Message -- From: Steve Tomporowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:53:57 -0400 Just testing.did this hit the list? I had sent a question in a couple of days

[H] Nero 7.5.7.0 and MCE

2006-11-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Just a heads up on problems I'm having, will let you know when it's resolved. Running Nero Ultra 7.5.7.0 on a fully updated MCE. Initially all runs well. I associate video files with Nero Showtime (I like the spacebar pause). Do a few burns. Now I try to run a video file. Nero Showtime

[H] TV Card Software

2006-11-06 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I have an ATI TV Wonder 200. Got it just to watch football while on the computer, so it's very frustrating that the ATI software has this huge window, large menu and itty-bitty TV screen. If I'm going to have it on the desktop I'd like to have just the TV itself, not a lot of 'dead' area.

Re: [H] TV Card Software

2006-11-08 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I've tried two versions of SageTV, 4 and 5 and neither gets past initializing the user interface. I'm assuming that it doesn't support the ATI TV Wonder 200, which is why it hangs. Steve On 11/7/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:46 AM 11/7/2006, Greg Sevart typed: I still

[H] Nero Ultra 7, MCE and Weirdness

2006-11-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I had posted problems I was having with Nero Showtime and MCE, I don't know if it made it to the list, however the strange just got weird. Working with Nero Support, I uninstalled, ran CleanTool and reinstalled. I played several videos via Media Player and Nero Showtime with no problems. Then

[H] Hard Drive Inspector

2006-11-30 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Is anyone familiar with the program Hard Drive Inspector? The experience here has not been good. First off, it increased my MCE boot-up time from 30 seconds to 2 minutes (which did not go back after uninstall), predicted my newest drive, a WD 500 gig was about to die (2 weeks old) and actually

Re: [H] Hard Drive Inspector

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
with a WDC utility at least for now. Steve On 11/30/06, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:49 AM 30/11/2006, Steve Tomporowski wrote: boot-up time from 30 seconds to 2 minutes (which did not go back after uninstall), predicted my newest drive, a WD 500 gig was about to die (2 weeks

[H] Green Screen on Videos - Solved!

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Ever since the Nvidia version 9.x.x.x drivers have come out, I have been unable to upgrade. Everything would work fine EXCEPT playing videos (in Nero Showtime, Media Player, Media Player Classic, anything) would have audio but video out be a blank green screen. It took a lot of digging but the

Re: [H] Hard Drive Inspector

2006-12-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I ran a version of HDTune and the parameter in question was Hardware ECC Recovered which was listed as currently 1, worst 1. Know anything about this one? Steve On 12/1/06, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 01/12/2006, Steve Tomporowski wrote: My thoughts exactly, but I'd

Re: [H] virus bug, help

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Search for Trojans. I got hit with some scumware once where the infection was based on a trojan that keeps downloading the scumware when it detects that it's been removed. Steve On 1/2/07, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a customer box with adware.purityscan. It basically is shut down and

[H] Vista Really has been Cracked

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
http://apcmag.com/5512/pirate_crack_vista_oem_activation No matter how small the hole.some hacker will crawl through it Steve

[H] Rescuing someone from AOHell

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Let's see if this message makes the list. Last one I sent didn't... I'm not sure of the details, but here someone is finally ripping their spouse away from AOHell, but she needs to bring her address book with her. Is there some way to import/export an AOHell address book to Outlook, Outlook

Re: [H] Rescuing someone from AOHell

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Excellent idea! Thanks muchSteve On 3/21/07, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard of aftermarket stuff to do this but have never had any luck. Easiest way is when you send the email to everyone about the address change send one to yourself and then reply to all. adds them to the

[H]Video Converter

2007-06-17 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Here's the story: I've got a 30gig Creative Zen and the video converter they provide can't handle a lot of formats. So I installed the update, which then broke the converter entirely. Creative, as you would expect, is giving me a hassle about helping me fix it, claiming they can't help me

Re: [H]Video Converter

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
anything else. What did you try that gave you that rubbish result? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: 17 June 2007 21:26 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H]Video Converter Here's the story: I've got a 30gig Creative Zen

[H] Data Aquisition

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Okay a different kind of PC hardware question. My company just got screwed over pretty good by National Instruments. Basically we bought a package and surprise! The software is incompatible with the hardware. The incompatibility does not appear on the webpage nor did the sales 'engineer'

Re: [H]Video Converter

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Tomporowski
'One click' converters are usually rubbish. Amen! Have a look on http://www.doom9.org/ He mainly does guides for DVD quality rips etc, but the forums are full of useful info. Unfortunately he doesn't deal with converting one kind of AVI to another, or decreasing resolution. I'll have to

Re: [H] Data Acquisition

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
should be able to figure out how to communicate with your NI-5911 - it is listed as being supported currently. hth, _jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 7:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H

Re: [H]Video Converter

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Tomporowski
but don't, you either have size or quality problems. I have seen the whole color spectrum screwed up by using a 1 clicker. Haven't found one yet that does not have a problem with either size, speed or quality. Steve On 6/18/07, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:43 06-18-2007, Steve

[H]Scanning Photos

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
This is slightly off-topic I've got a Canon 4200F scanner and it's doing a great job, it's just that I have some 'problem' photos. To be specific I've got some pictures from the 70's that were the textured borderless kind. When I try to scan them, for some reason, probably reflection, some

[H] Autopatcher

2007-07-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
This is the first time I've tried Autopatcher and I love having all the options on what to install. I've just come up with one glitch: At the beginning of the installation process, it tries to install Windows Installer (I couldn't find an option not to install it) and it halts saying that

Re: [H]Scanning Photos

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
... Rick Glazier From: Steve Tomporowski I've got a Canon 4200F scanner and it's doing a great job, it's just that I have some 'problem' photos. To be specific I've got some pictures from the 70's that were the textured borderless kind. When I try to scan them

Re: [H] Flaky PS?

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Depending on the age of the system, don't forget to examine the MB for bulging caps Steve On 9/12/07, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:45 PM 12/09/2007, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Yeah, I was thinking that. I guess as a test, perhaps, I could

Re: [H] Blown capacitors

2007-10-19 Thread Steve Tomporowski
From what I heard, the reason these caps are bulging failing is that their construction didn't really meet the temp spec. The caps can be heating up from two sources: Ambient temps near them or having to filter out large amounts of noise (60hz) off the power lines. Since you had to replace a

[H] Nero Showtime Problem

2007-11-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I've been playing around with tubehunter ultra and run into a strange problem with Nero Showtime 4. Tubehunter downloads video from places like Youtube and converts them to avi. When I play the resulting AVI in Showtime, it runs much too fast, like double speed, when I play it back in Media

Re: [H] Nero Showtime Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Okay, well it looks like I'm gonna hafta talk to Ahead. Steve On 11/5/07, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Showtime comes with it's own codec that MP won't use... Steve Tomporowski wrote: I've been playing around with tubehunter ultra and run into a strange problem

[H]Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Does anyone have any experience with the Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard? Apparently Anand is pretty high on this board. It seems that Abit took complaints about the IP35 seriously and came out with a board with a nice layout features. ThanksSteve

[H] Vista or XP?

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I'm about to install software on a new system: Abit IP35 MB, 2 gig, 6850 Processor, 8800GTS video card. I have the option to install XP or Vista. Is there any reason to do Vista rather than XP? Is Vista really slower? ThanksSteve

[H] Netgear going down the tubes???

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
A few months ago, my wife's business discard the Netgear router I had given them and replaced it with a Linksys. I had been having trouble with my DSL connection. Every once in a while I'd get no internet reaction, rebooting the modem/router would bring it back, sometimes it would take two

[H] Abit IP35 MB 'Deep CMOS Clear'

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Abit IP35 MB right out of the box refuses to post. There's a display on the board with post codes and this board would get up to 83, spin fans up, then spin down fans going to 99, then recycle. 99 is power off, 83 is Power Supply. The Vcc lamp is also flashing on and off. I try the usual

Re: [H] Vista or XP?

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Gamer, definitely. No DirectX10 for XP? I vaguely remember reading that somewhere. Now if you turn off the eye-candy, is it just as fast as XP? And...oh, yeahcan you install Office 2003 on it? On Nov 25, 2007 6:06 PM, Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to install software

Re: [H] Vista or XP?

2007-11-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
the ME version of 98SE. You didn't buy ME did you? g Good hunting! Steve Tomporowski wrote: I'm about to install software on a new system: Abit IP35 MB, 2 gig, 6850 Processor, 8800GTS video card. I have the option to install XP or Vista. Is there any reason to do Vista

Re: [H] Vista or XP?

2007-11-26 Thread Steve Tomporowski
] wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 10:22 AM, Steve Tomporowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then the final question: Is 64bit WinXP worth it? Faster? I'd assume it would be the same on 32 bit applications. Although I have heard that the driver situation is sorting itself out. I dual boot with 32

Re: [H] Vista or XP?

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The encoding was mentioned on one of the links that was posted here. Some encoding is marginally better, some much better. Do you have any comparison timings? Of course I will have the option of setting up dual boot. That's too bad as I find that Xp Pro x64 to be much faster when extracting

Re: [H] Netgear going down the tubes???

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Tomporowski
(050) 587-0964 Fax: +966 (3) 887 0165 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:18 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Netgear going down the tubes??? I'm not around the router

Re: [H] How do you turn off connection actions in XP?

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Good link, Thane, Thanks! On 11/26/07, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:42 PM 26/11/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: So you know how with XP when you connect a device like a thumb drive it pops up a dialog asking you what you want to do with that device? Usually things like browse

[H] Upgrading the Video Card

2007-12-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
First of all I want to wish everyone on the list a joyous and wonderful Christmas! After I built the IP35/6850/8800GTS system (which is running well fast), I've loaded Unreal Tournament III on both it and my 'old' computer (Athlon64 X2 3400+, 7800GT, MSI Nvidia 4 MB). I've always been a fan of

Re: [H] Upgrading the Video Card

2007-12-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
settings at both resolutions? Steve Tomporowski wrote: First of all I want to wish everyone on the list a joyous and wonderful Christmas! After I built the IP35/6850/8800GTS system (which is running well fast), I've loaded Unreal Tournament III on both it and my 'old' computer

Re: [H] Upgrading the Video Card

2008-01-01 Thread Steve Tomporowski
always have the game and desktop resolution matched? Does this rule still apply? On 12/24/07, Steve Tomporowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I changed was the resolution. Everything else was at the defaults. Game defaulted to 800x600 on installation. I used the same battlefield, Torlan

Re: [H] Verizon FIOS

2008-01-02 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Which brings up one of my pet peeves.ATT has had fiber in my neighborhood for the past 6 months. There is only one problem, to get the fiber internet I have to get a package that includes their TV offering also. Can't get the internet separately. Steve On 1/1/08, GMrtn [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [H] Newegg like

2008-01-06 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The state of Connecticut, I think, was the first state to begin the 'use tax'. Sales tax in CT was higher on large ticket items in the surrounding states (which, at the time, had income tax, but CT didn't). The state of CT was incensed at 'losing' all that revenue so they tried to collect sales

Re: [H] DROBO

2008-01-09 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The one big negative I see here is that since it's a proprietary solution, what happens if DROBO goes down? You have a bunch of drives that cannot be read except by DROBO, all your data is pretty much toast until you fork out another $499.00.and then will it be able to access all your

Re: [H] Nero Showtime Problem

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Tomporowski
that might be able to play files without redoing them? ThanksSteve On 11/5/07, Steve Tomporowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, well it looks like I'm gonna hafta talk to Ahead. Steve On 11/5/07, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Showtime comes with it's own codec

Re: [H] Nero Showtime Problem

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Last time I tried it, it did not have the features I liked like the resize spacebar pause. I don't remember the version I last tried Steve On 2/6/08, j maccraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Media Player Classic? http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Steve Tomporowski wrote: snip

Re: [H] Nero Showtime MK

2008-05-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Finally contacted Nero support on this and got a response that absolutely 'thrilled' me. Nero Showtime does not support mkv at this time.' That's all folks! Steve On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed the same issue. Actually it wasn't with just

[H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-25 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Nero has gotten to be too much of a hassle and expense to use. Does anyone have any experience with anything else to burn CD, DVD, etc? Thanks...Steve

Re: [H] Prog for CD Burning

2008-05-26 Thread Steve Tomporowski
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 to burn CD, DVD, etc? Deepburner? http://www.deepburner.com/ (there is a free, for pay, and portable version.) And CDBurnerXP

[H] Zune Software

2008-06-07 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Does anyone have any association with the steaming pile called Zune software? I picked up the Zune because it had a larger screen than my Zen and it's cheaper than Ipod. I use it mainly to watch videos on the airplane. First off, unlike most mp3 players, you apparently can't access the Zune as

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