Re: [H] OT - Anime
maccrawj wrote: Craigslist? Maybe just list all the titles & ask for someone to take them off your hands in bulk? I can try Craigslist and see what happens. What I was really seeking is some board or forum dedicated to anime. I'm sure I have something that is rare, but I don't really want to learn anime;-) I'd ask what you have, but VHS is more of a PITA than it's worth in the Netflix age. This is exactly what I'm finding out Steve __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] Apple IMac Accessibility
Thanks, j, this looks like something that will give us a little more functionality. Steve maccrawj wrote: Well I see no StarDock products for OSX but did find something called "SuperDocker" that claims some similar abilities as ObjectDock on the PC. http://www.ed-shiro.com/soft/mac-os/superdocker/ Steve Tomporowski wrote: I've just have my first experience with an Apple machine, a brand new Imac. My sister is seriously vision impaired, legally blind but able to do things visually if the situation is right. This means that everything has to be big and black on while. She had a very workable PC system that was seriously aged, so she decided that she'd try an Apple because their so good with accessibility. In her caseWRONG! Although with the PC, you have to add a zoom function program, the versatility of being able to change operating systems fonts, colors and contrast blows the Apple away. Mind you, all I know of the Imac right now is what the 'intelligence-impaired' support person said, but here's a blow by blow account. In both cases, the operating system has to be modified by a sighted person before the handicapped person uses it. White on Black: This is also a wash since both can change the desktop color scheme to this. Cursor size: Windows can adjust the size of the cursor, even if it means adding your own. But in general, there is, in the normal build, some big cursors. Apple: "You cannot change the size of the cursor." Cursor color: With windows you can do this, not with Apple. Cursor color changing comes in handy because with a black & white scheme, the cursor can get lost. Fonts: Windows can change system fonts and font sizes. Apple,as we were told, you can't. With Apple, if the smallest resolution doesn't work for you, well. Zoom: This was a must for my sister and it was nice that Apple had it included without having to add a program. What is missing is the ability to have it enter zoom on boot-up. Cntrl-cursor ball is a little awkward. The tiny cursor ball on the mouse does work, but is not always responsive. Plus, if you push too hard, since the whole mouse is the left-click, you run the risk of activating something while you're zooming. One interesting item we ran into was an interaction between scroll speed and the cursor ball response. When you Zoom, the scroll speed can begin to get too fast. If you slow down scrool speed to min, the zoom via the cursor ball does not work. Now the mouse itself is very primitive-style, you have basically a bar of soap with a raised dot on it. There are two side buttons of unknown utility. When you 'click', the whole front of the mouse does down, instead of there being an actual button. Screen-Reader/Voice: Without adding another application, there is a Voice screen-reader. Unlike Zoom, when you activate Voice, it behind immediately, without have to hold a key. Now it may be because I didn't know how to work with it, but the Voice seemed to read when it felt like it and ignore other stuff. I finally had to turn it off as it would start speaking randomly, even without cursor movement or windows opening. And, when it would read, it seemed to have no discrimination as to what was important and what wasn't. The Dock Menu: At the bottom of the screen, you have a line of application icons. This compliments a menu bar at the top of the screen. Again, either the balloon text or bar text cannot be changed. Neither can the icons. Even when you go to White on Black, the icons remain colored. When zooming, the icons just get more blurry. Given the problem with contrast that a lot of visually impaired users have, the inability to do anything with the icons is a hinderance. If they were just left alone, then the user can judge by counting over how many. However, Apple also uses this bar for various announcements, so the placement and number of icons change with certain situations. One last bit. When we decided to call Apple support, I wanted to make sure I had the serial number in front of me. When I clicked on the Apple -> About this Mac, one of the boxes threw a line right through the serial number, so that it could not be read. So we had to 'reset' the system. This involved holding the Cntrl - Command - P - R keys as you powered up and holding them for 4 resets. It took two people to do that. Finally, the support person was not a genius, sorry, she had to keep asking the 'applications person' on how to do things and had trouble understanding how 640x480 gave a narrower font than 640x480(stretch). Everything Mac looked pretty, but if you're visually impaired, the PC gives you more options. Steve __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4419 (20090912) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security,
Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?
We've just discovered the new generation of idiots. CW wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsgqG5OOlM&feature=channel and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnPbSKUMEs&feature=channel Imagine a hard drive is a chicken? Imagine your identity is a catepillar? Protect your Catepillar from Kimbo Slice? Who the hell is running marketing at Symantec? __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
[H] ESET Hang
Maybe I shouldn't really think about this, since it is Windows... WinXP fully patched. As mentioned before, been having strange little problems, mostly fixed by creating new user, but still stuff there, so I've replaced the kingston memory with OCZ. After replacement, on first boot, everything looked fine until ESET came up and then it hung. Cursor movement, nothing else, not even Task Manager came up. Powered down and rebooted and now everything is fine. Transient thing? Lurking problem? I have no idea. Since it ain't broken now, how can I fix it? Steve __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
[H] i5
Anyone taking the plunge? I will most probably be taking the plunge at the end of this month and will be going with the MSI P55-GD65.
Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?
Their products suck why shouldn't their advertising... From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com on behalf of CW Sent: Sun 9/13/2009 1:59 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsgqG5OOlM&feature=channel and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnPbSKUMEs&feature=channel Imagine a hard drive is a chicken? Imagine your identity is a catepillar? Protect your Catepillar from Kimbo Slice? Who the hell is running marketing at Symantec?
Re: [H] ESET Hang
Hello Steve, Sunday, September 13, 2009, 5:09:56 AM, you wrote: > WinXP fully patched. As mentioned before, been having strange little > problems, mostly fixed by creating new user, but still stuff there, so > I've replaced the kingston memory with OCZ. After replacement, on first > boot, everything looked fine until ESET came up and then it hung. > Cursor movement, nothing else, not even Task Manager came up. Powered > down and rebooted and now everything is fine. > Transient thing? Lurking problem? I have no idea. Since it ain't > broken now, how can I fix it? No issues with ESET here, running multiple copies on all different platforms and including all different versions. You can remove or reinstall to help Dx the issue. I doubt Eset is the problem, but... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?
Cute commercials; but, now that I have/use ESET, Norton has no chance here!! LOL! Best, Duncan CW wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsgqG5OOlM&feature=channel and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnPbSKUMEs&feature=channel Imagine a hard drive is a chicken? Imagine your identity is a catepillar? Protect your Catepillar from Kimbo Slice? Who the hell is running marketing at Symantec?
Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?
Maybe we need laser-beam vision to keep Norton out, too. :) CW wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsgqG5OOlM&feature=channel and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnPbSKUMEs&feature=channel Imagine a hard drive is a chicken? Imagine your identity is a catepillar? Protect your Catepillar from Kimbo Slice? Who the hell is running marketing at Symantec?
Re: [H] OT - Anime
Yeech, yes there is! DBZ is kiddie crap, the the more adult edgy stuff like Cowboy Beebop, Ghost in the Shell, or the hentai like Bible Black. Steve Tomporowski wrote: There is something like 100+ VHS tapes, the whole thing takes at least two copy-paper boxes. And Rick is correct, Media rate is a lot cheaper than priority, although it takes a couple extra days. Just calculated it out, a med flat rate box is 10.35 or 9.80 online and can fit 13 VHS tapes (about 6 lbs), the media rate is $4.33. After doing so much ebay, I know took much about shipping Would you want a list? There's apparently much more to anime than just Dragonball Z. Steve
Re: [H] i5
Never going the Intel route myself but the reviews on that board are very good. Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Anyone taking the plunge? I will most probably be taking the plunge at the end of this month and will be going with the MSI P55-GD65.
Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?
LOL Don Couture wrote: Their products suck why shouldn't their advertising... From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com on behalf of CW Sent: Sun 9/13/2009 1:59 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsgqG5OOlM&feature=channel and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRnPbSKUMEs&feature=channel Imagine a hard drive is a chicken? Imagine your identity is a catepillar? Protect your Catepillar from Kimbo Slice? Who the hell is running marketing at Symantec?
Re: [H] OT - Anime
I really enjoy Adult Swim anime but Bible Black? You naughty naughty man. LOL maccrawj wrote: Yeech, yes there is! DBZ is kiddie crap, the the more adult edgy stuff like Cowboy Beebop, Ghost in the Shell, or the hentai like Bible Black. Steve Tomporowski wrote: There is something like 100+ VHS tapes, the whole thing takes at least two copy-paper boxes. And Rick is correct, Media rate is a lot cheaper than priority, although it takes a couple extra days. Just calculated it out, a med flat rate box is 10.35 or 9.80 online and can fit 13 VHS tapes (about 6 lbs), the media rate is $4.33. After doing so much ebay, I know took much about shipping Would you want a list? There's apparently much more to anime than just Dragonball Z. Steve
Re: [H] ESET Hang
Well, today the problem again failed to appear Joe User wrote: Hello Steve, Sunday, September 13, 2009, 5:09:56 AM, you wrote: WinXP fully patched. As mentioned before, been having strange little problems, mostly fixed by creating new user, but still stuff there, so I've replaced the kingston memory with OCZ. After replacement, on first boot, everything looked fine until ESET came up and then it hung. Cursor movement, nothing else, not even Task Manager came up. Powered down and rebooted and now everything is fine. Transient thing? Lurking problem? I have no idea. Since it ain't broken now, how can I fix it? No issues with ESET here, running multiple copies on all different platforms and including all different versions. You can remove or reinstall to help Dx the issue. I doubt Eset is the problem, but... __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4422 (20090913) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
[H] Hitachi hard drives.
What is wrong with Hitachi? Can't they make a decent hard drive? I am completely open to manufacturers and have toshiba, seagate, wd, hitachi and samsung hard drives. It seems that the hitachis are the ones with the greatest failure rate. Lately I noticed my laptop slowing down tremendously. I thought it was because it was due to it not being formatted for a long time. But I just found out that the 7200 rpm hdd in it (which is 6 months old) started vibrating a lot and making gentle click sounds. Right now I am imaging it to a wd drive. :-(
Re: [H] i5
Just waiting for a bit more reviews of different boards but already know that I will get the i5 and 8Gb RAM. --Original Message-- From: swzaske Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] i5 Sent: Sep 13, 2009 10:10 PM Never going the Intel route myself but the reviews on that board are very good. Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: > Anyone taking the plunge? I will most probably be taking the plunge at the > end of this month and will be going with the MSI P55-GD65. > >
Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives.
I have a few 500GB hitachi's running 24/7 (5 of them) and haven't had a single one die. I have 2 1TB hitachi's under 6 mos but running great. I had a seagate 1.5 TB die after 3 weeks recently and am still waiting for the replacement. I have a 1TB WD running 24/7 about 1 yr now. I think it may be luck of the draw. I like seagate, don't care for WD. I only like hitachi because I haven't had any die myself, hehe ;) lopaka --- On Sun, 9/13/09, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: From: Zulfiqar Naushad Subject: [H] Hitachi hard drives. To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:34 PM What is wrong with Hitachi? Can't they make a decent hard drive? I am completely open to manufacturers and have toshiba, seagate, wd, hitachi and samsung hard drives. It seems that the hitachis are the ones with the greatest failure rate. Lately I noticed my laptop slowing down tremendously. I thought it was because it was due to it not being formatted for a long time. But I just found out that the 7200 rpm hdd in it (which is 6 months old) started vibrating a lot and making gentle click sounds. Right now I am imaging it to a wd drive. :-(
Re: [H] i5
Should be a super rig. Now about that courtneylover79 thing. Do you really think she's that hot? I feel bad about Kurt but she's just so wicked. Yes? Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Just waiting for a bit more reviews of different boards but already know that I will get the i5 and 8Gb RAM. --Original Message-- From: swzaske Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] i5 Sent: Sep 13, 2009 10:10 PM Never going the Intel route myself but the reviews on that board are very good. Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Anyone taking the plunge? I will most probably be taking the plunge at the end of this month and will be going with the MSI P55-GD65.
Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives.
Hitachi? Bless you! Good idea to get the H1N1 flu shot. LOL Robert Martin Jr. wrote: I have a few 500GB hitachi's running 24/7 (5 of them) and haven't had a single one die. I have 2 1TB hitachi's under 6 mos but running great. I had a seagate 1.5 TB die after 3 weeks recently and am still waiting for the replacement. I have a 1TB WD running 24/7 about 1 yr now. I think it may be luck of the draw. I like seagate, don't care for WD. I only like hitachi because I haven't had any die myself, hehe ;) lopaka --- On Sun, 9/13/09, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: From: Zulfiqar Naushad Subject: [H] Hitachi hard drives. To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:34 PM What is wrong with Hitachi? Can't they make a decent hard drive? I am completely open to manufacturers and have toshiba, seagate, wd, hitachi and samsung hard drives. It seems that the hitachis are the ones with the greatest failure rate. Lately I noticed my laptop slowing down tremendously. I thought it was because it was due to it not being formatted for a long time. But I just found out that the 7200 rpm hdd in it (which is 6 months old) started vibrating a lot and making gentle click sounds. Right now I am imaging it to a wd drive. :-(
Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives.
At 04:44 PM 9/13/2009, you wrote: I had a seagate 1.5 TB die after 3 weeks recently and am still waiting for the replacement. I really... I just ordered that drive on Friday. I can't loose for 108 dollars, but I don't want to risk that much data to a flaky drive...is yours a new one? They get great reviews other then the firmware problem that existed a year ago. what was it plugged into it? Can you account for the problem?
Re: [H] OT - Anime
Ha, Bible Black is tame compared to some of what out there! swzaske wrote: I really enjoy Adult Swim anime but Bible Black? You naughty naughty man. LOL maccrawj wrote: Yeech, yes there is! DBZ is kiddie crap, the the more adult edgy stuff like Cowboy Beebop, Ghost in the Shell, or the hentai like Bible Black. Steve Tomporowski wrote: There is something like 100+ VHS tapes, the whole thing takes at least two copy-paper boxes. And Rick is correct, Media rate is a lot cheaper than priority, although it takes a couple extra days. Just calculated it out, a med flat rate box is 10.35 or 9.80 online and can fit 13 VHS tapes (about 6 lbs), the media rate is $4.33. After doing so much ebay, I know took much about shipping Would you want a list? There's apparently much more to anime than just Dragonball Z. Steve
Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives.
Brand new from newegg. It ran great for 3 weeks after copying backup files to it (about 1TB of stuff), then the server went down. When I tried to reboot the drive was completely dead. No spin up, nuthin. Tried it in a couple other boxes with now luck. I put the 1TB WD it replaced back in the box and am back up and running. No problems I can tell except for the dead HDD. lopaka --- On Sun, 9/13/09, Winterlight wrote: From: Winterlight Subject: Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives. To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 7:10 PM At 04:44 PM 9/13/2009, you wrote: > I had a seagate 1.5 TB die after 3 weeks recently and am still waiting for >the replacement. I really... I just ordered that drive on Friday. I can't loose for 108 dollars, but I don't want to risk that much data to a flaky drive...is yours a new one? They get great reviews other then the firmware problem that existed a year ago. what was it plugged into it? Can you account for the problem?
