Last I had looked at it the answer was no if we are talking about encrypted
channels (nearly all of them are).
The only way you can tune encrypted digital cable is through the use of a
Cablecard. Something you would have to obtain from your cable provider. This is
why some of the new
If you had an existing EXT 3 partition you should have
chosen the manual partitioning option during the
installation process. You would have been able to
select your existing partitions and set their mount
points as well as format the partition or leave the
existing data intact (with the exception
Wow this sounds really awesome. When I first setup an
AppleTV for a client, it made me reconsider how I
might approach an HTPC in the future. Unfortunately
the processing capabilities weren't very good with
some of the various STB's at that time and the
firmware and GUI interfaces seemed kind of
No doubt a real HTPC built by anyone here would be
much better but there are some definite Pros when
using a STB (turnkey, compact, low power, quiet, no
movable parts, etc). At the moment I wouldn't dream of
replacing my HTPC with something like this, but I
don't want 3-4 HTPCs in my home.
, plus mcl applications.
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-Original Message-
From: Tharin Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:14:38
To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] HTPC Replacement - Popcorn Hour
No doubt a real HTPC built by anyone here would be
much better
http://www.bgmicro.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=12673
just snip off the barrel connector and use your own?
--- Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a Linksys switch that is missing it's AC to
DC 5V 3A
transformer. I am having a hard time finding one
that handles 3A.
Someone mentioned HTTrack. I second that motion.
I've used it many times to backup websites for
customers who couldn't get a hold of their webmaster
and needed to transfer their site to another webhost
-Tharin O.
--- Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know of a tool (free is
As always there are little niggling differences that
can be a pro or con for either. But spindle speed is
definitely the biggest deciding factor.
SATA2 can achieve higher burst speeds due to the
higher bandwidth of the interface + caching. There is
an edge in performance when transferring small
I've used the Marvell Yukon gigabit controllers
before. I had them on some boards from Gigabyte a
couple of years ago. I'd just whichever one Asus has
on their site. I have not heard of Alaska.
Once I had one onboard a motherboard was whose Device
ID did not match the device ids in the drivers
on here done something like this? Or should I tell them to
suck it up and learn how choose a printer from the six that are available? :)
-Tharin Olsen
of minutes for it to flush out of their system.)
Did the equipment get baked by stacking them w/o proper ventilation?
-Tharin Olsen
- Original Message
From: Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:03:03 PM
Subject: [H
over the internet.
-Tharin Olsen
If you are paying the use tax as you should for your out-of-state purchases
does it make much difference? ;)
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqusetax.htm
Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Newegg, I get a lot of stuff at
Newegg, but they are in CA and
so am I. I end up paying 7.75
Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:15 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
If you are paying the use tax as you should for your out-of-state
purchases does it make much difference? ;)
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqusetax.htm
What are you kidding me... for a consumer retail purchase. You would
or Vista. 7.5gb of a
20gb drive though seems a bit wasteful.
-Tharin Olsen
Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was/is a recovery partition?
Weird, got a Sony notebook in for service, full drive.
I free'ed up 1gb on the boot partition but further investigation shows TWO
partitions on what looks
I don't think I have ever seen a system that was Win2K or XP come with a FAT32
partition instead of NTFS.
Perhaps the owner or someone else worked on it before and managed to do blow
out the recovery partition and did a new install onto the smaller FAT32
partition.
-Tharin O.
FORC5 [EMAIL
assignments and if anything I'd disable the onboard 1.1
USB as well as any legacy ports not being utilized such as the serial and
parallel ports.
I can't remember the last time I had to pay attention to IRQ values unless I
was dealing with a SCSI card or some early soundcards.
-Tharin Olsen
that way.
-Tharin Olsen
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct:
Old EIDE: Black connector (m/b) - Black connector (master) - Black
connector (slave)
Pata EIDE: Blue connector (m/b) - Gray connector (master) - Black connector
(slave)
Still wondering about the plugged pin in the m/b
during late grade school and jr. high. Not quite sure if that
makes me feel young or old. ;)
-Tharin Olsen
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MS-DOS does not seen the hd any differently. Still 504MB. Have not tested
the CDROM on the same cable yet. Still Playing..
I just think
Actually they have flash drives that are 8gb-16gb in capacity and still have
the small form factor you'd expect a thumb drive to be. I think Kanguru has a
32gb model but physically it is a bit larger than a normal thumb drive.
-Tharin O.
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! We are up to
The Corsair Voyager flash drives are very quick and have a rubber sleeve that
makes them fairly ruggedized. I was quite sad when I lost my 1gb flash drive. I
don't know how they compare in price now but the Corsair units were on the high
side of the scale.
-Tharin O.
Al [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uhm, shouldnt matter. I just used an ATI 9600 agp video card. The idea was no
virtual environment, just a dual screen desktop. One DVI output for the desktop
monitor and the other output for the HDTV.
Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which card did you use?
On 12/21/07, Tharin Olsen
Unfortunately a Virtualized environment isn't going to be of much use for
multimedia/gaming purposes. Most of the hardware is emulated in the guest os.
I have a consolidated HTPC and Desktop that I built for use at my girlfriends
place and it works fine. My secret was to use a dual-head video
Yes, Ben understood what I meant. It would make more sense and wouldn't seem
innovative in any fashion if you had dealt with multi-displays before.
I have two soundcards, onboard audio + pci soundcard w/ optical out. My htpc
apps are assigned to direct audio output to the addon card.
This
DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no. Not in the version of Nero that
I am using.
At 22:26 12/19/2007 -0800, you wrote:
In Nero there will be an option to create a cd from an Image
Nope, have not seen this. I have /make data cd/ or /make bootable cd/.
as opposed to making a plain old
Strange it would do that ONLY when sending mail to customer service addresses.
I honestly can't imagine this could be the whole story on your problem. It
would imply that Cox is blocking outgoing mail to particular userids.
Are you actually connected to a Cox internet connection and trying to
For an ISP to block a particular userid is a strange idea to me.
Do a test by using an email account that is configured with all your valid Cox
credentials first. Setup eudora, outlook, or whatever with an account that has
your Cox address as the from and reply-to address. Looks like your smtp
The fact that the hard drive was formatted with Win2K/XP is why you see the
NTLDR message, this is nothing to worry about. The more pressing issue is why
your CD-ROM did not boot. If the cd was burned properly it should have booted.
An ISO is a disc image and would already contain the necessary
Wow! He gave me a lot of.. dry erase boards ?? =D
Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a voice recording that got picked
up after I hung up. I
can't make it out. Maybe it's generational, current vernacular...
does this make sense to anybody ??
I hear Wow, he gave me a .
and
Generally you are going to be wiring front panel usb connectors and internal
usb devices directly to header pins on your motherboard.
The Koutech IO-PU222 is is the only card I've found that has two internal
header pins like the type normally found on a motherboard. It is a 4-port USB
2.0 PCI
The Netopia units are meant to be a gateway/router so it will likely have its
own Firewall, DHCP server, and NAT features enabled. You need to disable these
things if you want to use this gateway as just a simple bridged modem.
What you mentioned about the router halfway working when you switch
Eh.. no not really or at least not all of it. A 'public ip' is supposed to be
the internet routable ip assigned by your provider. This is the address you
would see when you go to something like http://www.whatismyip.com
I think this doc is for people who still require PPPoE but are somehow are
The Sharp unit seems to have the better contrast ratio and a higher pixel
count. It's a 16:10 display which should make it slightly more squarish than
the LG. However, television programming and movies don't come in a 16:10
format; so, you will likely see vertical bars on the top and bottom or
the
receiver do the recording. There are devices called IR blasters that can be
used by your PC to control the satellite receiver.
-Tharin O.
K Humrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all, thank you very much for your replies, Tharin Olsen and Brian
Weeden.
snip
BUT, I really
Do you like a certain genre of games? How old are the kids?? I would assume
they have an inclination about what console they would want, given what they've
likely seen at the store or Johnny's house down the street. If you haven't yet;
go into a place like Gamestop, Game Crazy, Electronics
Well playback, ripping, and recording of dvds can be done easily on a PC as
long as you have a DVD-ReWritable drive and the necessary software. Now days
these drives start at $30.
Music can be handled by software like Itunes, Windows Media Player, Media
Monkey, Winamp, etc. If you are going to
Most folks do not have any reason that they would need to know their internet
address at any given time of the day. But when you need access to resources on
your home pc or home network from somewhere other than home like work, a
friends house, some random hotspot, whatever. You need to know
Only just recently have I gotten into virtualization and golly gee, I think
it's swell!
I rebuilt my personal computer as a low power / quiet system in a slim case. I
don't do any gaming so I just needed something that could play high quality
H.264 videos without a hitch.
I also consolidated
Check these reg keys..
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winsat\WindowsExperienceIndexOemInfo
FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Customer wants me to remove the OEM logos from
Vista
XP was not a problem, the start menu
Most of the modems provided by the two telcos in my area, ATT and Verizon, seem
to come in one of two designs. A single ethernet and/or usb port DSL modem
intended for use with one PC or a router. The other a combination of a dsl
modem, router, switch, and wireless ap.
An http interface is
I'm pleased to have gotten down to one laptop, two low power dual core
workstations (150w according to my kill-a-watt), an htpc and the vm server.
In total I think spent about $1400 building the server but it was totally worth
it because of all the different roles it serves.
I have also begun
Yah, you're right about the necessary drivers already being installed in XP.
The flash drives normally detetect as a USB Mass storage device or something to
that effect.
I had a system that would do that in normal mode, but in safe mode it would
detect and install properly. Ended up being some
If you arent doing any heavy audio/video encoding or have a desire to run a
virtualized operating system I'd get a better dual-core instead of a quad.
-Tharin O.
Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've finally decided to upgrade my main
system from the Althon 64
3000+ and nForce4 mobo that
correction, usbstor.inf should be in %systemroot%\inf
so the file path is %SYSTEMROOT%\INF\USBSTOR.INF
Tharin Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need to have these files...
%SYSTEMROOT%\USBSTOR.INF
%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\usbstor.sys
You can use 10.0.0.1, 10.10.10.1, 10.30.20.1 or any other ip series you want. I
just think that you have to use one of the subnet masks mentioned in my
previous post that per subnet limits you to 254 or less hosts.
Technically a Class A network would have a default subnet mask of 255.0.0.0.
This is interesting what you say about the Windows file sharing and what not. I
always blew off any slowness/stalling when browsing the workgroup to just
another crappy bonus of Microsoft Windows. Whenever I would observe this sort
of behavior it would happen on one or two workstations but not
resending this because it got bounced last night
Ahaha.. ermm yes.. well, its not terribly difficult. Since I don't see a
mention of a particular make and model of printer I'll just summarize how most
network printers are configured and installed. Hopefully you are already using
a
resending another email that bounced.. did hardwaregroup.com go down yesterday?
I'm not certain because I've never tested it, but I think on the LAN side you
must use a subnet that would be confined to a single Class C network when using
a consumer router. Using 255.255.0.0 as a
Simple answer is that a Private Class C network with a 255.255.255.0 subnet
mask is fine for you. This would create a local network allowing up to 254
hosts (machines, computers, whatever). If my math is right, 254 is way bigger
than than 7 :)
When using this subnet you must make sure the
There is something like 64 thousand ip addresses in the private 192.168.x.x
range. (192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255)
The subnet mask will determine the range of IP addresses that will be in your
local network. Your local network being the computers/devices you have direct
access to send data
with multicore processors and the continual advancements in graphics cards the
PhysX cards will lose or have already lost their appeal. I've seen a few video
captures of various games showing some of the differences that occur with the
cards installed vs. a system without. They were mostly
Do it :) It will take a whole 30 min. of your life to make one if you've got a
broadband connection. You'll wonder how you ever got along without one.
So far I haven't had any success in creating a BartPE flash drive. I'm tired of
burning new cd-rs every few weeks and to create a bootable
Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:27 10-03-2007, Tharin Olsen
typed:
I'm tired of burning new cd-rs every few weeks and to create a
bootable flash drive with BartPE would be most excellent.
With the latest version of UltraIso you can edit the BartPE.iso file
directly instead
Download any of the tools below. I think the first two, SDFix and ComboFix, are
the most recent. Essentially they are self-extracting archives with batch
scripts that will reset the changed policy settings, scan for various trojans
and malware, then give you a final report when its over. If you
is still defunc
but no biggy.
thanks
fred
- Original Message -
From:Tharin Olsen
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:57PM
Subject: Re: [H] restoring policy's?
Download any of the tools below. I think the first two, SDFix
Akamai is a dot com business that has thousands of caching servers that act as
a media delivery system whether its a file mirroring, videos, banner ads, etc.
You will stumble across them mainly on advertising type content. Companies pay
Akamai to host certain content instead of their own
If a mainboard isn't a native SATA controller (Intel, nVidia, SIS, etc.) most
boards seem to utilize jmicron or silicon image chipsets. So, far I haven't had
any problem using Ghost 7.5 on any SATA drives but I may have just been lucky.
Be sure to go in the BIOS/CMOS Setup menu and see if you
I would suggest resetting the cmos/bios to defaults as a start.
I've only seen the error on systems from HP that didn't have the tattoo applied
to the bios. My business often does sub-contract work for extended warranty
companies and when replacing motherboards in HP/Compaq systems we have to
I've read online articles that pretty much all say the same thing about OEM
versions of Windows Vista. You are allowed to change any component but the
motherboard. Microsoft has made the motherboard the core component of the PC
and if you change it with a different one it counts as a new
Software raid has it's advantages because it is cheap and the raid array is no
longer controller dependent. As long as you can reinstall the operating system
that made it, you should be able to access the raid array. The main con is
lower performance than hardware raid and you probably won't be
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
-Tharin O.
Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have version 1.42 installed now but I
am trying to get GCALDaemon to
work so I can sync with Google Calendar and it says I need Java
version 1.5 or later. Through all the
As you already guessed, you should be safe with a 120gb drive. Chances are, you
would be fine with a 160gb as well.
A system bios that does not support 48-bit LBA has a capacity barrier at 137gb.
However, as long as the hard drive is recognized in some way by the laptop you
should be able to
the password part out since
windows should
use the logged in user
password anyway to authenticate. In fact if username
is not domain based or an
account other than current login, then there is no
reason to add it since the
current un/pw is sent automatically.
At 03:21 PM 7/27/2007, Tharin Olsen
then a popup from the tray ) W2K did this and WIn98.
thanks
fp
At 08:22 PM 7/26/2007, Tharin Olsen Poked the stick with:
I think the mapping method from My Computer that allows you to save the
name/password is present in XP Home as well as XP Professional.
One problem with the reconnect at logon
Many ways to go about doing this, generally this a permissions issue on the
machine hosting the shared directory.
Try mapping the drive from My Computer using Tools Map Network Drive. Fill
in the appropriate share path then click the text link that reads Connect
using a different name you
I think the mapping method from My Computer that allows you to save the
name/password is present in XP Home as well as XP Professional.
One problem with the reconnect at logon (persistent drive maps) option is if
the host system with the shared folders is offline Windows will show an error
box
Was the account created from scratch or did you rename an existing account?
I've found that if you rename an existing account under XP in the User Accounts
control panel it is still uses the original username it only changes the
display name. This has been a source of frustration for me on more
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