Re: [H] Video card question

[Stan Zaske]

Duncan just wanted to have a video card that was competent for web based 
video and this card is obviously overkill for that but the price is very 
reasonable. It should even be powerful enough for some casual gaming at 
low resolutions.



maccrawj wrote:
Gotta love how Newegg's specs are always flat out wrong or have the 
wrong definition.


The GPU is HD4350 but that's the card model, not the actual GPU's 
model, LOL!


For accelerated video, you're probably write but I'd be suspect just 
based on how low the price is.




Stan Zaske wrote:
Excellent card with great value for those that game seldom yet it 
will also accelerate HD video if you watch Blue Ray movies.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127391


DHSinclair wrote:
Let's say I have an old PCI video card.  Let's say that I 'think' 
that it might be bad.

(it seems to be weak lighting up the display at post!)
But, I have this brandy, spanking, new set of toys that need a video 
card just to see if it even works.. :)


What are the chances that a suspicious, old, video card might do any 
damage to the

new collection of toys?

Yes, I am trying hard, not to drop coin on a really "new" PCIx model 
video card; yet!


Or, can you suggest a mid-grade current video card?  The new toy is 
NOT an EXTREME GAMER, but I would like to view some simple web-based 
video; like UToob and/or dot-wmv like files.

Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] VOIP

[Robert Martin Jr.]

You don't need a VOIP router, although you will want something with decent QOS 
(most routers that run DD-WRT will work fine. What you do need is an   (ATA) 
Analog Telephone Adapter like the PAP2T on the cheap end or on the higher end a 
PCI card from sangoma or rhino with hardware echo cancellation if you plan to 
tie your existing PSTN line into the VOIP stuff. If you go with the second 
option you need to build your own asterisk box running  PBX-in-a-flash or 
something comparable.

lopaka

--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [H] VOIP
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 3:42 PM

My home, like most, has a phone network wired in that connects in a 
closed circuit.  That circuit then is connected to the land line 
provider, in my case Quest.  If you disconnect the four wires 
connecting the house's phone network to Quest, then you have a closed 
network or circuit for your phone system.

I have been told that to use VOIP, one needs a special VOIP router 
that connects to my Cableone co-axial cable and it then must be 
connected to the base station of my phone system.  Basically, this is 
an RJ11 cable from the VOIP router to the phone base station.  Why is 
it not possible to connect the RJ11 phone connector directly to an 
open  RJ11 jack in my home phone network and have the existing phone 
system connected into this RJ11 closed home phone network?

Re: [H] Video card question

[maccrawj]

Gotta love how Newegg's specs are always flat out wrong or have the wrong 
definition.

The GPU is HD4350 but that's the card model, not the actual GPU's model, LOL!

For accelerated video, you're probably write but I'd be suspect just based on how low 
the price is.




Stan Zaske wrote:
Excellent card with great value for those that game seldom yet it will 
also accelerate HD video if you watch Blue Ray movies.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127391


DHSinclair wrote:
Let's say I have an old PCI video card.  Let's say that I 'think' that 
it might be bad.

(it seems to be weak lighting up the display at post!)
But, I have this brandy, spanking, new set of toys that need a video 
card just to see if it even works.. :)


What are the chances that a suspicious, old, video card might do any 
damage to the

new collection of toys?

Yes, I am trying hard, not to drop coin on a really "new" PCIx model 
video card; yet!


Or, can you suggest a mid-grade current video card?  The new toy is 
NOT an EXTREME GAMER, but I would like to view some simple web-based 
video; like UToob and/or dot-wmv like files.

Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] VOIP

[maccrawj]

Also yes you can simply plug the RJ11 output of a VOIP router into a wall jack to 
feed the light up the house phones.



Brian Weeden wrote:

That's only true if you want to use a certain implementation of VOIP.
Implementations that ride over an internet connection using a PC (like
Skype, Google Talk, and many others) don't need such a thing (or use
something like a USB dongle).

I assume in this case you asked the question about replacing your standard
phone line with a VOIP service?  If you are getting your Internet service
over cable, then you need some way of taking the phone traffic, digitzing it
and converting it to TCP/IP packets and then doing the sending/receiving
over the cable.  The VOIP router would do that.

[H] Most recent Vista annoyance - power settings won't stay put

[Brian Weeden]

I use Vista Ultimate on my HTPC and the damn thing keeps changing the
settings to have the display turn off after 20 minutes of no input.  Very
annoying when you are watching a movie or even a TV show to have the display
suddenly turn off.

So I go into display properties and change it to "never".  Then all of a
sudden the next day it happens again and I change it again.  But it keeps
going back to the setting I don't want.

Anyone else experienced this?

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation 
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] VOIP

[Brian Weeden]

That's only true if you want to use a certain implementation of VOIP.
Implementations that ride over an internet connection using a PC (like
Skype, Google Talk, and many others) don't need such a thing (or use
something like a USB dongle).

I assume in this case you asked the question about replacing your standard
phone line with a VOIP service?  If you are getting your Internet service
over cable, then you need some way of taking the phone traffic, digitzing it
and converting it to TCP/IP packets and then doing the sending/receiving
over the cable.  The VOIP router would do that.

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation 
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> My home, like most, has a phone network wired in that connects in a closed
> circuit.  That circuit then is connected to the land line provider, in my
> case Quest.  If you disconnect the four wires connecting the house's phone
> network to Quest, then you have a closed network or circuit for your phone
> system.
>
> I have been told that to use VOIP, one needs a special VOIP router that
> connects to my Cableone co-axial cable and it then must be connected to the
> base station of my phone system.  Basically, this is an RJ11 cable from the
> VOIP router to the phone base station.  Why is it not possible to connect
> the RJ11 phone connector directly to an open  RJ11 jack in my home phone
> network and have the existing phone system connected into this RJ11 closed
> home phone network?
>
>

[H] VOIP

[Winterlight]

My home, like most, has a phone network wired in that connects in a 
closed circuit.  That circuit then is connected to the land line 
provider, in my case Quest.  If you disconnect the four wires 
connecting the house's phone network to Quest, then you have a closed 
network or circuit for your phone system.


I have been told that to use VOIP, one needs a special VOIP router 
that connects to my Cableone co-axial cable and it then must be 
connected to the base station of my phone system.  Basically, this is 
an RJ11 cable from the VOIP router to the phone base station.  Why is 
it not possible to connect the RJ11 phone connector directly to an 
open  RJ11 jack in my home phone network and have the existing phone 
system connected into this RJ11 closed home phone network?

Re: [H] Video card question

[DHSinclair]

Thanks Stan,
I'll give it a look.
Duncan
At 16:37 11/17/2008 -0600, you wrote:
Excellent card with great value for those that game seldom yet it will 
also accelerate HD video if you watch Blue Ray movies.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127391


DHSinclair wrote:
Let's say I have an old PCI video card.  Let's say that I 'think' that it 
might be bad.

(it seems to be weak lighting up the display at post!)
But, I have this brandy, spanking, new set of toys that need a video card 
just to see if it even works.. :)


What are the chances that a suspicious, old, video card might do any 
damage to the

new collection of toys?

Yes, I am trying hard, not to drop coin on a really "new" PCIx model 
video card; yet!


Or, can you suggest a mid-grade current video card?  The new toy is NOT 
an EXTREME GAMER, but I would like to view some simple web-based video; 
like UToob and/or dot-wmv like files.

Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] Video card question

[Stan Zaske]

Excellent card with great value for those that game seldom yet it will 
also accelerate HD video if you watch Blue Ray movies.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127391


DHSinclair wrote:
Let's say I have an old PCI video card.  Let's say that I 'think' that 
it might be bad.

(it seems to be weak lighting up the display at post!)
But, I have this brandy, spanking, new set of toys that need a video 
card just to see if it even works.. :)


What are the chances that a suspicious, old, video card might do any 
damage to the

new collection of toys?

Yes, I am trying hard, not to drop coin on a really "new" PCIx model 
video card; yet!


Or, can you suggest a mid-grade current video card?  The new toy is 
NOT an EXTREME GAMER, but I would like to view some simple web-based 
video; like UToob and/or dot-wmv like files.

Best,
Duncan

[H] Video card question

[DHSinclair]

Let's say I have an old PCI video card.  Let's say that I 'think' that it 
might be bad.

(it seems to be weak lighting up the display at post!)
But, I have this brandy, spanking, new set of toys that need a video card 
just to see if it even works.. :)


What are the chances that a suspicious, old, video card might do any damage 
to the

new collection of toys?

Yes, I am trying hard, not to drop coin on a really "new" PCIx model video 
card; yet!


Or, can you suggest a mid-grade current video card?  The new toy is NOT an 
EXTREME GAMER, but I would like to view some simple web-based video; like 
UToob and/or dot-wmv like files.

Best,
Duncan

Re: [H] Good headset/mic?

[FORC5]

My Sony wireless TV headset has a adapter with headphone jack on one end an RCA 
jacks on the other and can plug in either way. Headphone jacks in the Sony and 
RCA to the TV. Hooked up like this gives me separate volume control from the 
TV. With the phone jack in the TV and RCA in the Sony the TV sound is OFF. Good 
for late night :{)

B4 I went wireless I used to just use a wired headset FWIW

fp

At 05:53 PM 11/16/2008, Sam Franc Poked the stick with:

>My son in law wants to use headphones with his TV.
>There is no headphone outlet only 2 speaker jacks.
>Can he get a spitter like device to plug un the speaker jacks to plug his 
>earphones in to?
>Sam

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