Re: [H] Nero Showtime Problem
Well I know for fact it does right now, maybe you show take another look at it. Steve Tomporowski wrote: > 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/ >> >> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Re: [H] Nero Showtime Problem
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: > > > > The two things I do like about Nero Showtime which > WMP doesn't do is > > the spacebar for pause & the ability to drag the > playback window to > > any size I'd like. > > > > Does anyone use something with those features that > might be able to > > play files without redoing them? > > > > > > > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > >
Re: [H] Video Card Problems: Just "Going Bad"?
Well, looks like you guys were right on the money. I dropped the vid card's memory slowly until the 2D artifacts began to disappear and wouldn't you know, at 66% of stock frequency, all 2D artifacts went away. And Oblivion plays like it used to. Looks like a new vid card is in order. Thanks to the collective! Hehe, gives me an excuse to upgrade... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:07 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Video Card Problems: Just "Going Bad"? Richard, About EVGA cards: I have some 10 months experience with them. My cards (4) are not the heavy metal cards you guys are discussing. I can not afford them. I have FX5500 cards now under power in both PCI and AGP. All of them seem to work well with either the EVGA driver set, or, the nVidia driver set. I have had to RMA one of the cards that arrived apparently DOA, but did not find it for 10 months (it was a shelf spare). EVGA did the RMA w/o trouble. Can not speak to EVGA's place in the stack of makers - maybe middle to lower. I am an old Gainward fan, and, am still pissed they moved to Europe! Best, Duncan At 17:36 02/06/2008 -0400, you wrote: >Thanks for all the replies. My 939 chip was also a dual core, so I had >all the patches and stuff applied prior to the upgrade. Everyone's >comments are leading to what I was thinking. I guess I will go look >for a new video card. Maybe a 8800GT? They are around $200 now. > >I will try and underclock it and see if some of the symptoms improve. >I've never overclocked this thing so it can't be that. Anyone have >experience with EVGA cards? First of their products I have owned... > >On 2/6/08, James Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Richard Kim > > > > > I think my video card might be going bad, but I don't know as > > > I've never > > > experienced this before. > > > > > Symptoms: I see little off-color pixels during 2D (desktop, > > > word processing, > > > web browsing). > > > > > Also, Oblivion used to run perfectly for hours > > > on end, but it > > > has progressively gotten worse where artifacts show up just > > > 2-3 minutes into > > > the game, then it crashes. > > > > > Does this sound like a video card just "going bad"? Anything > > > else I should > > > be looking for to pinpoint the problem better? Any suggested actions I > > > should try before dropping come $$$ on a new card? Please > > > help. Thanks. > > > > > > -Rich > > > > > > > Rich, > > > > I had almost exactly the same problem occur. It seemed to start when I > > upgraded from a single core to dual core 939 cpu. I had the "artifacts" you > > refer to and had problems with Civ IV crashing (about the only game I > play). > > I was able to make things somewhat better by underclocking the video card, > > but was not able to solve the problem except by replacing the video card. I > > also noticed that the problem got worse if I overclocked the video card. > > Once the card was replaced, the artifacts disappeared and Civ IV runs > > without crashing the system. My online research pointed to bad video > ram, as > > Thane Sherrington mentioned. No guarantee, but a new video card solved the > > problem for me. > > > > So, try underclocking and overclocking and see if that changes the problem > > at all. But I would be thinking about a new video card. > > > > Jim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
Re: [H] Word keeps crashing
Run a repair within Word, under Help I think its called Detect and Repair... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:40 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Word keeps crashing Just started a couple days ago. When I launch Word 2003 either from command line, shortcut, or by double-clicking a doc file it immediately presents a crash screen. If I tell it to load in safe mode it works fine. Otherwise it just keeps on crashing. I did some googling and it turns out this could have several problems. One is a corrupt Normal.dot, the default template file. So I deleted it and presto Word loaded fine. But when I closed Word it created a new Normal.dot and then went back to it's crashing behavior again. So the problem has to be deeper. Another article mentioned it might be caused by bad temp files so I nuked all of those. A third article mentioned disabling any global templates and com add-ins that are present in the C:\Documents and Settings\ username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup folder. I checked and nothing there. I can run Word with the wordwin.exe /a command just fine now but I'm still bugged by what might have been the root cause. Any suggestions? The only thing I can think is that the Adobe toolbars that keep popping up (even though I tell them not to) are the cause. These are the Contribute and ScanSoft PDF toolbars. I found out how to disable the Contribute toolbar but it didn't help. As soon as Word wrote the new Normal.dot it started crashing again. -- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation
Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser
This was the first correct answer. Sorry I got back so late my computer has been down. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Maki Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:29 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser 10990 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:55 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: [H] OT Brain Teaser > > There are seven girls on the bus. > Each girl has 7 backpacks. > In each backpack there are seven big cats, for every big cat > there are seven little cats. > How many legs are in the bus? > > I didn't get it right... > > Mark > > Mark Dodge >
Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser
That is what I thought at first but NOO. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lane Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:48 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT Brain Teaser I agree, there are none IN the bus, they are ON the bus Jeff Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 5:55 PM Subject: [H] OT Brain Teaser > There are seven girls on the bus. > Each girl has 7 backpacks. > In each backpack there are seven big cats, for every big cat there are > seven little cats. > How many legs are in the bus? > > I didn't get it right... > > Mark > > Mark Dodge > >
Re: [H] Truecrypt 5.0 now does system (boot) drive encryption and works with OSX
If you run TC's benchmark during the container creation process you can see what kind of hit you're going to take. Notice it or not, depending on what cipher & if you're chaining them together. there is a performance hit. My assumption is it's not drive speed but CPU so the faster the CPU(s), the less you'll notice. Combining TwoFish + AES (for example) WILL cause a performance hit. Winterlight wrote: > I run my data and my email off encrypted drives and I don't notice any > performance hit. > > At 02:52 PM 2/6/2008, you wrote: >> I wonder how much overhead encrypting the system partition puts on the >> system. >> >> Brian Weeden wrote: >>> I've been using TrueCrypt for a while to do encrypted data partitions >>> and >>> this is very welcome news. Free, open source, very strong encryption >>> for >>> Windows, Linux, and OSX: >>> http://www.truecrypt.org > > > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: [H] Truecrypt 5.0 now does system (boot) drive encryption and works with OSX
If you use keyfile(s) then passwords are not an issue. You just issue your users a small capacity thumbdrive encrypted by TC w/ password to protect the keyfile(s) on it. Or if you are serious pick up some IronKeys and use them to store keyfile(s). Don't know how this affects the new TC version if it's pre-boot security but works great post-boot to mount my secure documents partition. Yes you can/should backup but there some data that is too large for backup yet you want stored securely (temp files like downloads) or windows goes whacky between backups & you rather not loose the changed data. I have had this happen under DriveCrypt & previous versions of TC where your entire container/partition is useless due to corruption in the beginning of the container. On an unencrypted partition there is always the ability to do sector-by-sector. Even windows EFS worst you loose is 1 file, so TC & the like to be as recoverable IMHO. Harry McGregor wrote: > IMHO if you care enough about your data to use whole disk encryption, > you care enough about your data to setup an encrypted backup, such as > ssh secured dirvish, or Bacula over local network, or even over a vpn. > > Even a laptop can be backed up well while on net using Bacula. We have > several field laptops that go to tape nightly when on net, and the users > are instructed to leave the laptops on at night for that purpose. > > I am seriously considering setting up True Crypt for all of our laptop > users, as a government unit, we have significant data loss prevention > issues. > > For a long time I was concerned about data encryption due to the > inability to get at it if a user loses their password, but I think True > crypt has some master key options that we can deploy as well. I have > been looking over documentation on it quite a bit today. > > http://www.dirvish.org/ > http://www.bacula.org/en/ >Harry > > Brian Weeden wrote: >> Hard disk maintenance tools like Spin Rite will work just fine but >> you're right, data recovery would be a pain. >> >> Another reason to always backup your data. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
