Re: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back
Very cool ! Congratulations. Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:22 PM To: Hwg Subject: [H] Lopaka's Desk project from a few months back Here's a short write up and parts list for a desk I built a few weeks back. Enjoy http://97.84.98.104:81/projects/desk.html lopaka
Re: [H] Duncan
Great news Duncan...Welcome Back ! Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 11:26 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Duncan To the List, I am now happily at home and completed the 2d phase of life; Iam now 67yrs old. I am trying to relern EMail! I am so happy the List is UP and Opsnorml. Thankyou for your thoughts and prayers. They worked. I am still kickingeven though the new guy is strange. regards, Duhcan On 01/24/2015 15:25, Chris Reeves wrote: Agreed. Some of the best news of the weekend -Original Message- From: Gary Jackson gjack...@visi.com Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 11:48 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Duncan It will be nice to get you back on the list Duncan ! Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of dsinc...@epbfi.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 6:46 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Duncan I'm doing okay. Feelin' good. I am in an assisted living facility called Rosewood, in Fort Oglethorpe (where my sister lives). Have my own apartment. And it sucks to have to stay here, til June, my calendar says. The food's lousy, but it's regular. I'm supporting my local pharmacy--in Atlanta. I haven't figured out email yet. Sis comes by every couple of days and helps me out. Learning my way around the place. Thanks for asking after me. Onward and Upward, Duncan - Original Message -From: Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.comTo: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comSent: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:55:30 -0500 (EST)Subject: Re: [H] Duncan Bump. Anyone heard anything? Scott On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Christopher Fisk christopher.f...@thefisks.org wrote: Any updates on Duncan? It's been a few weeks and was hoping to hear good news! On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Strength to Duncan family. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 5:51 AM, James Edwards jedwa...@hardwaregroup.com wrote: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after suffering multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3 and is now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, vision, and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's optimistic, accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in conversation, just trapped in a not too responsive body. Bonny Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will forward it to the list.Jim Edwards
Re: [H] dumb question
Is your setting to extend the display ? -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 3:14 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] dumb question Windows 7 ultimate here, may be the difference when I turn off 1 the whole desktop moves to 2. I can turn off 2 with nothing jumping. As of yet I assume will jump back on re boot but have not done that yet. thanks fp At 11:55 AM 2/3/2015, Gary Jackson Poked the stick with: I just tried a test with sticky notes. I both tried turning Monitor 1 off and sleeping the PC but the note stay where I left it on number two. So I am not sure why yours is different. I am on Windows 8.1 Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:01 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] dumb question recently upgraded to a dual monitor setup :-) I LIKE ! moved sticky notes to monitor number two, they move back when I turn off number one OR I let it go to sleep. does not do this with just screen saver not a major deal ATM just wondering if there is a work around for this. fp Date: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 ***Caution Tagline Below*** **Tallyho** *** Build a system even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it. ***
Re: [H] dumb question
I just tried a test with sticky notes. I both tried turning Monitor 1 off and sleeping the PC but the note stay where I left it on number two. So I am not sure why yours is different. I am on Windows 8.1 Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:01 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] dumb question recently upgraded to a dual monitor setup :-) I LIKE ! moved sticky notes to monitor number two, they move back when I turn off number one OR I let it go to sleep. does not do this with just screen saver not a major deal ATM just wondering if there is a work around for this. fp Date: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 ***Caution Tagline Below*** **Tallyho** *** Useless Invention: Camcorder with braile-encoded buttons. ***
Re: [H] dumb question
Perplexing. -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 5:21 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] dumb question correct a while back for grins rebooted, initially started on monitor 2 and when it got to log in it switched to 1. Sticky notes stayed on 2. I am so confused. Thanks fp At 03:03 PM 2/3/2015, Gary Jackson Poked the stick with: Is your setting to extend the display ? -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 3:14 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] dumb question Windows 7 ultimate here, may be the difference when I turn off 1 the whole desktop moves to 2. I can turn off 2 with nothing jumping. As of yet I assume will jump back on re boot but have not done that yet. thanks fp At 11:55 AM 2/3/2015, Gary Jackson Poked the stick with: I just tried a test with sticky notes. I both tried turning Monitor 1 off and sleeping the PC but the note stay where I left it on number two. So I am not sure why yours is different. I am on Windows 8.1 Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:01 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] dumb question Date: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015 ***Caution Tagline Below*** **Tallyho** *** There's more to life than sitting around in the sun in your underwear playing the clarinet. --Woody Allen ***
Re: [H] Duncan
It will be nice to get you back on the list Duncan ! Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of dsinc...@epbfi.com Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 6:46 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Duncan I'm doing okay. Feelin' good. I am in an assisted living facility called Rosewood, in Fort Oglethorpe (where my sister lives). Have my own apartment. And it sucks to have to stay here, til June, my calendar says. The food's lousy, but it's regular. I'm supporting my local pharmacy--in Atlanta. I haven't figured out email yet. Sis comes by every couple of days and helps me out. Learning my way around the place. Thanks for asking after me. Onward and Upward, Duncan - Original Message -From: Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.comTo: hardware@lists.hardwaregroup.comSent: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:55:30 -0500 (EST)Subject: Re: [H] Duncan Bump. Anyone heard anything? Scott On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Christopher Fisk christopher.f...@thefisks.org wrote: Any updates on Duncan? It's been a few weeks and was hoping to hear good news! On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Joshua MacCraw maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Strength to Duncan family. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 5:51 AM, James Edwards jedwa...@hardwaregroup.com wrote: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after suffering multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3 and is now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, vision, and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's optimistic, accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in conversation, just trapped in a not too responsive body. Bonny Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will forward it to the list. Jim Edwards
Re: [H] Linux Unbuntu support
do you type Lspci or Ispci ? I think it should be a lower case L Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 3:12 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Linux Unbuntu support I type Ispci and I get back No command 'Ispci' found, did you mean: Command 'Ispci' from package 'pciutils' (main) Ispci command not found At 07:55 PM 11/29/2014, you wrote: Hi, Can you give us the output of the following commands (in a terminal window). I have two options, one will go to your screen (console), the other to a text file that you could move with a USB Stick and copy/paste from. Console output: lspci lspci -vv lsusb dmesg cat /proc/cpuinfo free -m uname -a lsmod iwconfig Redirected output (will be in your home directory and called hwglinux.txt) lspci ~/hwglinux.txt lspci -vv ~/hwglinux.txt lsusb ~/hwglinux.txt dmesg ~/hwglinux.txt cat /proc/cpuinfo ~/hwglinux.txt free -m ~/hwglinux.txt uname -a ~/hwglinux.txt lsmod ~/hwglinux.txt iwconfig ~/hwglinux.txt -Harry On 11/29/2014 08:00 PM, Winterlight wrote: I don't think so... the laptop supports IEEE 802.11 G. I have two routers here and it can't connect to either one of them. If I boot into Win7 then it works fine. Security is WPA2... it is all common protocols and encryption that I would be surprised if it was that. I don't know enough about Linux to troubleshoot it. Maybe the driver but I wouldn't know where to go for other drivers. At 06:49 PM 11/29/2014, you wrote: Are the router and your laptop using the same wireless protocol ? Could there be a mismatch there ? Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 7:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Linux Unbuntu support I am running Elementary 0 on my old IBM X41 tablet. I can't get the Wifi to work... it sees my router but won't connect. All settings appear right... I am no Linux expert.. but just keeps trying to connect without resolving the connect or giving an error message. The only kind of support I can find for Elementary 0 consists of chat group on the web site that where there are lots of questions and no answers for anybody. Elementary 0 is Ubuntu based so I figure if I can find a good Ubuntu email group, or forum maybe I can get some help any body know of a good Utuntu user group / forum / email list? Thanks w
Re: [H] Linux Unbuntu support
This might help http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/wlan0-n o-wireless-extension-907830/ gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 5:46 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Linux Unbuntu support Can you give us the output of the following commands (in a terminal window). I appended the text to a reply but it looks like the Listserv isn't letting it though... probably too long. Here it is www.winterlight.org/hwglinux.txt but first your last command = iwconfig ~/hwglinux.txt returned lo no wireless extensions irda0 no wireless extensions. etho0 no wireless extensions thanks for the help Harry. w
Re: [H] Linux Unbuntu support
Are the router and your laptop using the same wireless protocol ? Could there be a mismatch there ? Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 7:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Linux Unbuntu support I am running Elementary 0 on my old IBM X41 tablet. I can't get the Wifi to work... it sees my router but won't connect. All settings appear right... I am no Linux expert.. but just keeps trying to connect without resolving the connect or giving an error message. The only kind of support I can find for Elementary 0 consists of chat group on the web site that where there are lots of questions and no answers for anybody. Elementary 0 is Ubuntu based so I figure if I can find a good Ubuntu email group, or forum maybe I can get some help any body know of a good Utuntu user group / forum / email list? Thanks w
Re: [H] Duncan
My best wishes for a speedy recovery Duncan ! Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of James Edwards Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 7:52 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Cc: addy4st...@yahoo.com Subject: [H] Duncan Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after suffering multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3 and is now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, vision, and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's optimistic, accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in conversation, just trapped in a not too responsive body. Bonny Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will forward it to the list. Jim Edwards
Re: [H] Odd thing with a rental computer
Have you talked to the rent to own place ? From what I can see, they probably were the ones that put Trilock Plus on the PC. RegardsGary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 1:40 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Odd thing with a rental computer I have a computer that was a rent to buy machine. It's paid for, but is suddenly booting up (as soon as I press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login) with a Trilock Plus screen (red screen) telling me the computer has been locked because a virus has been detected. I don't think that's the case, but I can't figure out what file is running to bring up the screen. Winlogon looks normal, as does Explorer.exe. What runs that early in the boot process? The run entries in the registry appear clean as well. I'm assuming it's a service, but so far I'm not sure which one. T
Re: [H] New M$ speculation?
It would seem that it will be called Windows 10...the buzz is that MS is distancing itself from Windows 8 by skipping the number 9. I am running 8.1 It is ok, but on my PC I would say that I think I liked Windows 7 Ultimate a bit better. I seem to have to reboot more often with 8.1 than with 7. But other than that, it runs ok. Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 1:56 PM To: HWG Subject: [H] New M$ speculation? My OB called driving home from his Village's Comuter meeting. A member of the group put forth a presentation that indicates Microsoft's new OS will be 'Windows 10,' not Windows 9.0. The release date is still Spring 2015. I can look forward to this information, if true. I am still updating my machines to Win7.0pro based on List comments! Comments, opinions? Best, Duncan
Re: [H] -OT- If you don't mind helping me out
Done !:-) Gary -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] -OT- If you don't mind helping me out I apologize in advance for this OT post, but it's sort of an experiment, so here goes. Our 19 year old cat passed away in the Spring, and my wife is trying to get her picture on the Jones Cola bottle. My brother, who considers himself a bit of a Facebook guru with a massive following offered to get votes for her. I figured I'd see hundreds of votes pour in, but I think she got about ten votes that way (she has 33 in total, and my wife already got between 15 and 25 just from friends she emailed directly). I'm wondering if a mailing list like this would have a bigger impact than Facebook, so if you have time, please drop a vote here: http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/view.php?ID=1376609offset=1 If you are offended by this, please feel free to mock/flame me. :) T
Re: [H] -OT- If you don't mind helping me out
Voted On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Michael Resnick mike...@gmail.com wrote: Thane, Voted and gave Dempsey a +10. Regards, Mike At 06:43 PM 9/18/2014, Thane Sherrington wrote: I apologize in advance for this OT post, but it's sort of an experiment, so here goes. Our 19 year old cat passed away in the Spring, and my wife is trying to get her picture on the Jones Cola bottle. My brother, who considers himself a bit of a Facebook guru with a massive following offered to get votes for her. I figured I'd see hundreds of votes pour in, but I think she got about ten votes that way (she has 33 in total, and my wife already got between 15 and 25 just from friends she emailed directly). I'm wondering if a mailing list like this would have a bigger impact than Facebook, so if you have time, please drop a vote here: http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/view.php?ID=1376609offset=1 If you are offended by this, please feel free to mock/flame me. :) T __ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin, 1755) - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5315 / Virus Database: 4158/8237 - Release Date: 09/18/14
Re: [H] edit boot loader Windows 7
Is this what you need ? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/modifying-the-windows-7-boot-lo ader-with-the-boot-configuration-data-editor-tool/ Regards...Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 1:50 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] edit boot loader Windows 7 I have a machine that dual boots Win7 and Vista. I moved and added some hard drives and I need to change the path to Vista in the boot loader... how do I do this?
Re: [H] Every house needs one of these
I was able to upgrade to 6mb/50k recently...the joys of semi-rural living lol -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 4:50 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Cc: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Every house needs one of these I've got 500/100 from FIOS, not quite google fiber but good enough :) *AND* I don't have to live in dueling banjo land to get it. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:52:57AM -0400, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: http://i.imgur.com/vdaegW8.jpg Gigabit Internet service.Thanks Google ;) -- Bryan G. Seitz
[H] Hardware Firewall
I was wondering if you guys can recommend a hardware based firewall. I have been using an old gateway PC running ClearOS and it works ok, but I am seeing signs the PC is on its last legs. Since I am out of work, money is a concern, but I like having a firewall between me and the DSL connection. Even if the security might be more fiction than fact lol ThanksGary
Re: [H] MS and WinXP?
My understanding from a Microsoft website is that support ends on Apr 8, 2014http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx If you do not want to run an unsupported OS, and do not want to upgrade to something newer...what is there left for you to do ? Just curious. RegardsGary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:27 PM To: HWG Subject: [H] MS and WinXP? Has MS pushed up their schedule about WinXP? I am working to an 02-2014 'plug-pull' datethat I believe I got from the wise MS mavens here on our List. No. I do not wish to upgrade to W8.1 right now. I do not own it yet. No. I do not wish to upgrade to W8 right now. I do not own it yet. No. I do not wish to upgrade to W7 right now, even though I own it. I am still working a HALissue of a C2D cpu that may have a dead core. This is an old issue and I truly appreciate all the help I have received. Sorry, nothing worked. So,. I bought a supposedly old, clean, copy of WinXP. After 3wks of dicking with it, I finally got it to erase the root partition and install itself. Funny, the install never asked for the 'product key. Odd? I just trucked on. It lives today. But, I am now stuck with no answer from MS Windows Update. Most depressing. Opinions, suggestions welcome. Duncan
Re: [H] UTM opinions sought?
http://www.zyxel.com/us/en/products_services/zywall_usg_200_100_plus_100_50_ 20w_20.shtml?t=p -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:24 AM To: HWG Subject: [H] UTM opinions sought? I am thinking of adding to my home LAN security. I recently saw some info about the Netgear UTM (universal Threat Management) appliance(s). http://www.prosecure.netgear.com/ Seeking List opinions of same before I jump in. Thanks, Duncan
[H] Drives for a Workstation
I also posted this on Anandtech so if you browse the forums you may have seen this already. But for those who don't... I have built (mostly) a PC that I am using for photo, video and audio. The mobo that I have is the Asus Sabertooth X79 which has some SATA ports configured for SSD caching. My question is this; what would be the optimal config for the drives in this PC? I do have a Samsung 840 Pro as the boot/application drive (which I just discovered may have reliability issues...). Additional drives would be used for storing lots of photos, audio and video. I had initially planned on getting two 2-3TB drives but after discovering the SSD caching I wonder if I should get another SSD drive and use the caching. I do need both read and write performance if possible. Would two drives in a RAID configuration be as fast, or at least close, to an SSD cached solution?
Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc
Good Morning, At this point, I would say about 6 weeks ago. I used an Asus Rampage II Extreme MB that a friend bought and decided not to use. So he gave me a very good deal on it. I initially planned to OC the system, and my understanding was that it was a good MB for that. I decided against the OC at the last minute as at 3.06 Ghz, I felt the cpu was fast enough for my needs and I always seem to have heat issues with my builds. So far that hasn't been the case with this one...thankfully. I had asked about the SSDs as I thought possibly you were going for a RAID 1 with them, which as I understand it isn't a good idea, even with TRIM. But I have no experience as of yet with them so I am not 100% positive either. Regards...Gary At 12:27 AM 10/8/2010, It was written by Joe User that this shall come to pass: Hello Gary, Thanks for your reply, how long ago did you build this? What motherboard did you use and why? I want to use 2 SSD's and use one for the OS and the page/swap file and the other for the apps/games. Thursday, October 7, 2010, 1:21:02 PM, you wrote: A couple of suggestions to look at...most of which I am using right now for what it is worth. I7 950 for the CPU, I decided not to overclock nVidia 460 I am using a single 480, but I have read good things on the 460s 6 gb DDr3 I am currently using a HAF 932 for my case, good airflow, a bit noisier then I would like though. I am using a Noctua Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler it works well, but is HUGE. Out of curiosity, why 2 SSDs ? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc
If you are considering dual GPUs for WOW, I would check the tech support forums on Blizz first. I have seen some people have problems with that setup, but since I am not using that I never really looked very hard. As I understand it, WoW is more CPU intensive then GPU. RegardsGray At 12:30 AM 10/8/2010, It was written by Joe User that this shall come to pass: Hello Scoobydo, Thanks... It is. Not a fan of water cooling and not going to OC other suggestions then? Would dual ATI be better for performance? Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4:48:03 PM, you wrote: You never said what resolution your monitor is but I assume 1920X1200 probably.. ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD Phenom II X4 970 (3.5 GHz) Corsair H50 Water Cooler G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600 (4x4) Nvidia GTX460 1 Gig Video Card or AMD HD 5770 Crossfire setup OCZ Agility 2 SSD (Sandforce 1200 controller) Seasonic 500-600 Modular PSU Any questions? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] WoW Cataclysm my new game pc
A couple of suggestions to look at...most of which I am using right now for what it is worth. I7 950 for the CPU, I decided not to overclock nVidia 460 I am using a single 480, but I have read good things on the 460s 6 gb DDr3 I am currently using a HAF 932 for my case, good airflow, a bit noisier then I would like though. I am using a Noctua Dual 120mm Fans High Performance Cooler it works well, but is HUGE. Out of curiosity, why 2 SSDs ? Regardsgary At 11:26 AM 10/7/2010, It was written by Joe User that this shall come to pass: Hello THG, The time has come. On December 7, 2010 WoW Cataclysm will be gloriously released to the masses. Now, I must construct a new game system. The last few times I have built systems for myself, I have found great advice here on the list and so I am here again. While the requirements and suggestions have not been released to the actual system specs, I already know what I need to do... - One step down from the best CPU possible (AMD or Intel). - Minimum 4GB RAM. - One step down from best video card available (ATI or nVidia). - SSD x 2 (Intel was best last I knew?). - Motherboard to handle all this. - Power supply that is appropriate. I don't care about noise. I want the best bang for my buck. I can handle the rest. Suggestions please? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] MS supplied BACKUP logic in XP?
Good Morning Duncan, Yes, I do believe that Vertas did own Backup Exec for a while, and it is now a Symantec product. I think what Microsoft did was to license the basic code from Veritas at the time and provided the function with XP. Ironically I still get support updates from Symantec that I subscribed to from my last job, in fact I got one this morning...very timely . :-) I used to joke with my former boss, backups are very easy, it is the restores that are hard. If you don't feel that you would need to do a full system restore, ie recover from a total failure, then I would think backing up data only should be fine. I could recommend restoring random single files from time to time to make sure you can. It is a very bad feeling to think you are covered and then find your backups don't work when it comes time to restore something important. Been there, done that to be sure. Good luckGary At 12:02 PM 9/21/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, Thanks for the vote of confidence. So far, I have used it only for backups. I have never had to do a restore. Would your reference to Backup Exec connect to Veritas Corporation? I can accept that perhaps Veritas may have been absorbed by MS way back when. My XP version indicates MS and Veritas Corp. copyright 2001. My W2K version indicates Veritas Corporation, v5.0, copyright 1999. I will accept a version mis-match ATM. Basically, I am doing my research of these routines that I have used for several years now. I will use the W2K version to backup the DATA only of my server before I upgraded the server to either MS Server 2K3, or, just plain Win XP. I am still trying to get wise with the Restore side of the program ATM. Yes, I know that there are several other backup programs available. Just now I am studying the right settings/selections during backup to just save the data (user, loaded programs, etc.). I plan to de-select the W2K State Data. I don't believe I need to backup any W2K OS files. But, I can still be wrong here! LOL! Best, Duncan On 09/20/2010 21:46, Gary Jackson wrote: Ahhh...there is nothing wrong with the backup utility included with Windows. I thought I had read somewhere it is basically a stripped down version of Backup Exec. Not sure I would be much help on anything specific as I have not used that one exactly, but I used to do server backups when I was working so I might be able to help with a general backup question...possibly ? Best regardsGary At 07:47 PM 9/20/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, I use the Backup utility included in WinXPro. I assume that nobody on this list does due to it being MS. Was hoping somebody had some experience with this canned program. Nothing more. Was willing to go off-list for further traffic. Suppose I need some help via obvious. Sorry. Best, Duncan On 09/20/2010 20:30, Gary Jackson wrote: Hi Duncan ! Please pardon my denseness, but what are you asking ? Best regardsGary At 06:16 PM 9/20/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Would like to trade emails about the SUBJ. I do not wish to load some other code/logic, ATM. I am open to other code/logic, but ATM I only need to speak about my default XP BACKUP logic. It does seem to work. I use it each month. Yes, manually. (I need chores!!) Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Mixing MS Office 2007 and 2010
Should not be a problem -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:10 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Mixing MS Office 2007 and 2010 Does anyone know if I can install MS Publisher 2010 without impacting an install of MS Office 2007 (that doesn't have Publisher?) T
Re: [H] MS supplied BACKUP logic in XP?
Hi Duncan ! Please pardon my denseness, but what are you asking ? Best regardsGary At 06:16 PM 9/20/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Would like to trade emails about the SUBJ. I do not wish to load some other code/logic, ATM. I am open to other code/logic, but ATM I only need to speak about my default XP BACKUP logic. It does seem to work. I use it each month. Yes, manually. (I need chores!!) Best, Duncan
Re: [H] MS supplied BACKUP logic in XP?
Ahhh...there is nothing wrong with the backup utility included with Windows. I thought I had read somewhere it is basically a stripped down version of Backup Exec. Not sure I would be much help on anything specific as I have not used that one exactly, but I used to do server backups when I was working so I might be able to help with a general backup question...possibly ? Best regardsGary At 07:47 PM 9/20/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, I use the Backup utility included in WinXPro. I assume that nobody on this list does due to it being MS. Was hoping somebody had some experience with this canned program. Nothing more. Was willing to go off-list for further traffic. Suppose I need some help via obvious. Sorry. Best, Duncan On 09/20/2010 20:30, Gary Jackson wrote: Hi Duncan ! Please pardon my denseness, but what are you asking ? Best regardsGary At 06:16 PM 9/20/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Would like to trade emails about the SUBJ. I do not wish to load some other code/logic, ATM. I am open to other code/logic, but ATM I only need to speak about my default XP BACKUP logic. It does seem to work. I use it each month. Yes, manually. (I need chores!!) Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Outlook 2007 export
That easy -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 10:19 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Outlook 2007 export Is it really that easy? Doesn't it have to be imported, and syncd in the registry or some other encrypted file? At 07:27 PM 9/16/2010, you wrote: Just replace the new .pst file with the old .pst file. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:18 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Outlook 2007 export I know there are serious Outlook users on the list. I have a friends PC with a lot of data in their Outlook 2007 program. They have a new PC with Office 2007 so they want to export from the old, and import to the new. A data check shows they have have a business contact folder, two personal folders, and a email folder. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there any freeware that will make this easy? Also once I do this can I import all the Outlook email to their GMAIL account? Thanks
Re: [H] Outlook 2007 export
Just replace the new .pst file with the old .pst file. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:18 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Outlook 2007 export I know there are serious Outlook users on the list. I have a friends PC with a lot of data in their Outlook 2007 program. They have a new PC with Office 2007 so they want to export from the old, and import to the new. A data check shows they have have a business contact folder, two personal folders, and a email folder. What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there any freeware that will make this easy? Also once I do this can I import all the Outlook email to their GMAIL account? Thanks
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes
Given that you can buy a 1tb drive for $75.00, I guess I am not too concerned at how large the OS is. That is the downside for more features I guess. At 05:14 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by Soren that this shall come to pass: OK, so far my impressions are that the Win7 installation footprint should be in the area of only around 14 GB. I need to do some partition resizing and so, including deletion of several propreritary HP progs, and cleaning up the registry. Hopefully, this will end satisfactory. In a few days I'll know. Yes, I know I'm acting paranoid :), but I usually deal with XP installations (dumped Vista completely at first sight) where a fresh install can fit on a single CD, using highest compression in Ghost. With drivers and different progs installed, only 2 CDs, or at worst, a single DVD. Come on... 14 GBs for an O/S alone - M$ has some serious issues here. I used to think that e.g. Ubuntu is a piece of bloatware, but this one for sure gets the prize. What happened to OS/2, BTW? I've always wondered why any O/S needs to be more than 64MB's which is more than sufficient with proper coding, even seen with todays' standards. /s
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes
Hi Duncan, Accepting, I guess yeah to a point. Not sure exactly where that point is to be sure. But I do understand that code efficiency is not valued by large corps for one thing. Another is that the OS of today does a lot more then what say OS/2 or Win 3.1 could do. That has to make a difference too. This is not to say that things couldn't be a lot tighter, just that I am not real worried about the OS taking 14 GB or even 30 GB. Doesn't the nVidia gtx 480 come with something like 1.5 GB DDR5 ram ? And systems with 4 GB+ ram are pretty much the norm on a 64 bit OS...right ? My current PC has a Raid 1 setup. That was fairly exotic at one time, not so anymore.I guess what I am saying is that old guys like us tend to view things with the lens of what they were when we first startedforgetting that things change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not. That's all RegardsGary At 06:09 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, So you are accepting OS Bloat? Like because you can now buy a 1TB hard drive? Sorry. I'm still in Soren's camp ATM. I don't expect M$ to be perfect and/or crisp with their OS. I have watched M$ OS since WFWG3.1 (actually MS-DOS v3.1). :) M$ has done a poor job of bloat redux to my view. It seems that each time technology gives us a bigger storage medium, M$ bloats to use as much as it can; under the guise that, Well, our users have moved to this new/larger footprint. Sadly, NOT all of us. Happy that you have really big HD's. I do not. Interesting perspective BTW. Plan to sleep on this one! Best, Duncan On 09/06/2010 18:36, Gary Jackson wrote: Given that you can buy a 1tb drive for $75.00, I guess I am not too concerned at how large the OS is. That is the downside for more features I guess. At 05:14 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by Soren that this shall come to pass: OK, so far my impressions are that the Win7 installation footprint should be in the area of only around 14 GB. I need to do some partition resizing and so, including deletion of several propreritary HP progs, and cleaning up the registry. Hopefully, this will end satisfactory. In a few days I'll know. Yes, I know I'm acting paranoid :), but I usually deal with XP installations (dumped Vista completely at first sight) where a fresh install can fit on a single CD, using highest compression in Ghost. With drivers and different progs installed, only 2 CDs, or at worst, a single DVD. Come on... 14 GBs for an O/S alone - M$ has some serious issues here. I used to think that e.g. Ubuntu is a piece of bloatware, but this one for sure gets the prize. What happened to OS/2, BTW? I've always wondered why any O/S needs to be more than 64MB's which is more than sufficient with proper coding, even seen with todays' standards. /s
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes
Hi Duncan ! My initial comment on the 1 TB HD was meant to be sardonic (?) I think that is the right word. It does boggle my mind how much storage you can cheaply put on a desktop PC for very little money. I remember paying $1000 in 1985 or 86 for a 80 MB external HD for the Mac I had. lol I agree that gaming is driving the desktop market. Boutique companies like Digital Storm seem to be selling a lot of gaming rigs these days. Like you said...no harm, no foul:-) Gary At 07:41 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, Fair enough about the OS business. Trying not to sling and start a war. Poking a bit. Sadly, I quite agree with you mostly! About the Video Card business: I have zero clue. I sorta gave up around GF4-tech. Seems the envelope will be driven by gamers that keep demanding, Real-Life! I believe that gaming will probably generate most/all hdw upgrades. Looks like the OS folk are just leeching quite a bit for free ATM. :) No harm, no foul! Duncan On 09/06/2010 19:28, Gary Jackson wrote: Hi Duncan, Accepting, I guess yeah to a point. Not sure exactly where that point is to be sure. But I do understand that code efficiency is not valued by large corps for one thing. Another is that the OS of today does a lot more then what say OS/2 or Win 3.1 could do. That has to make a difference too. This is not to say that things couldn't be a lot tighter, just that I am not real worried about the OS taking 14 GB or even 30 GB. Doesn't the nVidia gtx 480 come with something like 1.5 GB DDR5 ram ? And systems with 4 GB+ ram are pretty much the norm on a 64 bit OS...right ? My current PC has a Raid 1 setup. That was fairly exotic at one time, not so anymore. I guess what I am saying is that old guys like us tend to view things with the lens of what they were when we first startedforgetting that things change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not. That's all RegardsGary At 06:09 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Gary, So you are accepting OS Bloat? Like because you can now buy a 1TB hard drive? Sorry. I'm still in Soren's camp ATM. I don't expect M$ to be perfect and/or crisp with their OS. I have watched M$ OS since WFWG3.1 (actually MS-DOS v3.1). :) M$ has done a poor job of bloat redux to my view. It seems that each time technology gives us a bigger storage medium, M$ bloats to use as much as it can; under the guise that, Well, our users have moved to this new/larger footprint. Sadly, NOT all of us. Happy that you have really big HD's. I do not. Interesting perspective BTW. Plan to sleep on this one! Best, Duncan On 09/06/2010 18:36, Gary Jackson wrote: Given that you can buy a 1tb drive for $75.00, I guess I am not too concerned at how large the OS is. That is the downside for more features I guess. At 05:14 PM 9/6/2010, It was written by Soren that this shall come to pass: OK, so far my impressions are that the Win7 installation footprint should be in the area of only around 14 GB. I need to do some partition resizing and so, including deletion of several propreritary HP progs, and cleaning up the registry. Hopefully, this will end satisfactory. In a few days I'll know. Yes, I know I'm acting paranoid :), but I usually deal with XP installations (dumped Vista completely at first sight) where a fresh install can fit on a single CD, using highest compression in Ghost. With drivers and different progs installed, only 2 CDs, or at worst, a single DVD. Come on... 14 GBs for an O/S alone - M$ has some serious issues here. I used to think that e.g. Ubuntu is a piece of bloatware, but this one for sure gets the prize. What happened to OS/2, BTW? I've always wondered why any O/S needs to be more than 64MB's which is more than sufficient with proper coding, even seen with todays' standards. /s
Re: [H] Vaporware or..
It hasn't been released yetnext year is a long ways away. :-) At 01:58 PM 9/3/2010, It was written by CW that this shall come to pass: Gearbox says they will release Duke Nukem Forever next year. Does anyone care? Kind of sad the greatest vaporware story of all time may end.. http://kotaku.com/5629655/your-first-look-at-duke-nukem-forever-in-action
Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes
I just installed Win7 64-bit Ultimate on one of my partitions. It's taking up about 20 GB, which includes a 3 GB hibernation file and a 4 GB pagefile. No OEM apps or utilities. Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -- -Original Message- From: Soren Not so fine is that the C: partition seems to occupy +34 gigabytes.
Re: [H] come on guys
My 5770 sucks.constantly display driver has stop working (10.7)..will not run SC2. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:39 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] come on guys Core i7-875k is best bang for the buck. Its half the cost of the 870, just as fast and unlocked. Win-win-win Nvidia to me has really f'd up the last two generations in the value department. An ati 5770 or better will handle anything you throw at it Ssd's are now cheap enough that you can get an intel 80gb for a boot drive and then grab a 2tb or so data drive. I just grabbed a 2tb over the weekend for $99. That's the solution. If your going the otherway, or you want a cheap mediacenter, i3 is good, amd makes a solid board/chip combo for a basic mce. It all boils down to what kind of budget you have Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Anthony A Riederer ariede...@new.rr.com Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 08:49:16 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] come on guys Where are all the opinions. I posted a message last week looking for some recommendations on an upgrade path. So far I have gotten 1 response. I value your suggestions. I need ideas. Tony
Re: [H] come on guys
I am using HDMI. Never heard of black crush...driver works until I try games...freezes and recovers...over and over. Did same with all driver versions. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 11:08 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] come on guys Really? Even with their recent 'your card destroyed driver recall'. Or if your going out to hdmi the crazy black crush issue? Or failure at 24p? Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:55:03 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] come on guys Although ATI wins the speed game, nvidia still wins the driver game IMO :) On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:51:53AM -0500, Gary wrote: My 5770 sucks.constantly display driver has stop working (10.7)..will not run SC2. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:39 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] come on guys Core i7-875k is best bang for the buck. Its half the cost of the 870, just as fast and unlocked. Win-win-win Nvidia to me has really f'd up the last two generations in the value department. An ati 5770 or better will handle anything you throw at it Ssd's are now cheap enough that you can get an intel 80gb for a boot drive and then grab a 2tb or so data drive. I just grabbed a 2tb over the weekend for $99. That's the solution. If your going the otherway, or you want a cheap mediacenter, i3 is good, amd makes a solid board/chip combo for a basic mce. It all boils down to what kind of budget you have Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Anthony A Riederer ariede...@new.rr.com Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 08:49:16 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] come on guys Where are all the opinions. I posted a message last week looking for some recommendations on an upgrade path. So far I have gotten 1 response. I value your suggestions. I need ideas. Tony -- Bryan G. Seitz
Re: [H] Disk Imaging with Acronis
First you don't have to image from bootable DVD (unless you want too), you can do it in windows. When installed Win7 it made two partitions if you did a format. It put system files in a separate partition. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:44 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Disk Imaging with Acronis Has anyone ever used Acronis disk imaging? I have the home 2010 version, and have never really done any imaging. I have some spare hard drives and have been meaning to try and test this out. I have a fresh install of Win7 with a few programs. Everything is on C: there is no other partition. I want that image saved in case I need to redo the machine quickly. I boot into the bootable DVD of acronis loader I created. I go to partitions to back up. I see DISK1 which is my external USB HD. Below that I see DISK2 which is the 500GB HD on the PC with the O/S and programs. NTFS (System Reserved) (C:) Pri,Act 100 and NTFS (Unlabeled) (C:) Pri 465GB What I don't understand is why is there a C and D listed, when I only have a C: drive with everything loaded on it with this particular PC? What happens if I restore this to a fresh HD on the same PC? Will I have a C drive of 100MB and a D drive with the O/S and Programs?!
[H] Program install help
Trying to re-install acrobat but keep getting message that a better functioning app already installed. Problem is that's not true as I have deleted the files so there must be a registry that is stopping the install. Any idea what/where key that should be deleted to allow installation? There are way too many keys to delete all. ~Gary
Re: [H] Really simple email questions?
Then I must be old school too as I am still using Eudora. :-) Regards..Gary At 01:48 PM 7/12/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: OK. I've followed this LIST for years. I am still confused about EMAIL. I know who my current ISP is. I know that they pass EMAIL off to; Yahoo.com. I know that Yahoo.com has their 'own' restrictions. ISP: Bellsouth.net Upstream: ATT.net (???) Mail provider: Yahoo.com I only do EMAIL via [what I believe is] a local EMAIL client, Thunderbird. I think this is now Eudora of my past. Eudora does NOT work locally any longer anyway. I do not like to do EMAIL via WEB PORTAL's. This LIST has convinced me of a variety of security-related reasons to believe what I now believe. Am I still very Old-School? Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS?
Don't need anything..direct to Ethernet/router...Fios rocks -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:17 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? My electric service provider http://www.epbfi.com has notified me that they can now offer me a FIOS connection for internet and tv. What they call FI-Phone comes later this year. I have waited 3yrs for this! No, I do NOT know how much yet. Still digging. I do know that the basic offering is 15M/15M (~$45-$55/mo). I'd like to think about this. How do I start to figure out what my-side boxes I need to start shopping? I have never seen a FIOS connection! I understand CABLE. I have/use ADSL. I would so love to completely fire my current ISP (ATT) and their dial-tone phone line. So, seeking experience, suggestions, etc. ATM. TNX, Duncan
Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS?
Well you need cat5/6 inside wiring ..My home already had but if you don't they will install. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? OMG! Gary! It can NOT be that simple? Provider says direct to internal phone wiring. You say direct to Ethernet/router... Confused. But excited! Best, Duncan On 06/21/2010 17:56, Gary wrote: Don't need anything..direct to Ethernet/router...Fios rocks -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:17 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? My electric service provider http://www.epbfi.com has notified me that they can now offer me a FIOS connection for internet and tv. What they call FI-Phone comes later this year. I have waited 3yrs for this! No, I do NOT know how much yet. Still digging. I do know that the basic offering is 15M/15M (~$45-$55/mo). I'd like to think about this. How do I start to figure out what my-side boxes I need to start shopping? I have never seen a FIOS connection! I understand CABLE. I have/use ADSL. I would so love to completely fire my current ISP (ATT) and their dial-tone phone line. So, seeking experience, suggestions, etc. ATM. TNX, Duncan
Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS?
I may have spoken too soon on the cat5. If you are getting Fios internet and their TV (and/or phone), you need cat 5 inside wiring. If just internet then probably not..they will find a telephone pair that you are not using and piggy back on that. In either case there is no modem. They will install a Ethernet socket which will connect directly to router. If you are in an area that has Verizon telephone service (sounds like you do not) then their package deal is very good. I have their 25/20 service for 9 years and it has never gone down. Only once and a while their mail server will not accept my accounts when they do updates..usually not for more than hour. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? OMG! Gary! It can NOT be that simple? Provider says direct to internal phone wiring. You say direct to Ethernet/router... Confused. But excited! Best, Duncan On 06/21/2010 17:56, Gary wrote: Don't need anything..direct to Ethernet/router...Fios rocks -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:17 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? My electric service provider http://www.epbfi.com has notified me that they can now offer me a FIOS connection for internet and tv. What they call FI-Phone comes later this year. I have waited 3yrs for this! No, I do NOT know how much yet. Still digging. I do know that the basic offering is 15M/15M (~$45-$55/mo). I'd like to think about this. How do I start to figure out what my-side boxes I need to start shopping? I have never seen a FIOS connection! I understand CABLE. I have/use ADSL. I would so love to completely fire my current ISP (ATT) and their dial-tone phone line. So, seeking experience, suggestions, etc. ATM. TNX, Duncan
Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS?
Verizon will install whatever you need (usually free) as part of the service. I'm pretty sure even if it's a sub-contractor. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:53 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? Gary, Thanks, Understand. My home has 1960's era phone wiring. I need to update. Plan is CAT5E Solid. Still grumbling about contractors. First technical phone call went well! Learned ONT. The output of the ONT is an RG45 Ethernet line. Nice. Seems the ONT should plug directly into my Router's WAN port.(?) So, perhaps I may only need ONE new FIOS jack in my server room? Yes, I'm thinking. Best, Duncan On 06/21/2010 18:23, Gary wrote: Well you need cat5/6 inside wiring ..My home already had but if you don't they will install. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? OMG! Gary! It can NOT be that simple? Provider says direct to internal phone wiring. You say direct to Ethernet/router... Confused. But excited! Best, Duncan On 06/21/2010 17:56, Gary wrote: Don't need anything..direct to Ethernet/router...Fios rocks -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:17 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Possible switch to FIOS? My electric service provider http://www.epbfi.com has notified me that they can now offer me a FIOS connection for internet and tv. What they call FI-Phone comes later this year. I have waited 3yrs for this! No, I do NOT know how much yet. Still digging. I do know that the basic offering is 15M/15M (~$45-$55/mo). I'd like to think about this. How do I start to figure out what my-side boxes I need to start shopping? I have never seen a FIOS connection! I understand CABLE. I have/use ADSL. I would so love to completely fire my current ISP (ATT) and their dial-tone phone line. So, seeking experience, suggestions, etc. ATM. TNX, Duncan
Re: [H] Open question?
Being home bound with vision problems, wifi really doesn't offer me anything that wired doesn't do better. If I was more mobile, I would probably use both. RegardsGary At 06:24 PM 5/12/2010, It was written by DSinc that this shall come to pass: Is it fair for me to NOW believe that the majority of this LIST is now actively using WIFI for their internal home LANs? No. I do not wish to start a firestorm with those that use both! The basic question is about the use of WIFI... :) (Are there many of us old fools still using only wired CAT5/6 LANs?) Just wondering? Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Open question?
I switched to Wi-Fi only when I got rid of the last desktop machine. Who wants his laptop to be tethered to a bulky ethernet cable? Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -Original Message- From: DSinc Is it fair for me to NOW believe that the majority of this LIST is now actively using WIFI for their internal home LANs?
Re: [H] mount BRD
Ultra ISO -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] mount BRD What do you use to mount a BRD iso file? thanks!
Re: [H] Win7 Ent 32-bit vs 64-bit?
Go for 64bit and use all memory.no reason not to. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:25 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Win7 Ent 32-bit vs 64-bit? Hey guys, we have a site volume license for Windows-I might not be being precise about this as I'm not sure, but I work at Citrix Systems, Inc. and we're a pretty close Microsoft partner and so get licenses for a lot of MS software so I think that's what it is (in case it matters). For example, I have to authenticate to the KMS server using slmgr.vbs from my laptop, and have been having issues reaching it and just got it figured out recently! Anyway, I want to install Win7 Enterprise (that's what we get; basically Ultimate minus the games right?) on my somewhat new laptop and was wondering whether I wanted the 32bit or 64-bit version... I know you get the full support of the 4GB of RAM on the 64-bit version (well, that you can actually address/use over 3GB) and btw I only have 4GB on this laptop... But are there any other reasons to go 64-bit? Or are there reasons not to go 64-bit still, like app/program compatability/issues? I'm not going to be playing many games on it (though I might install one or two simpler ones for travel), but that's not a main concern for me... Thanks for any input! BINO
Re: [H] Win7 Ent 32-bit vs 64-bit?
Since the OP only has 4.0GB, how will that help him? Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -Original Message- Go for 64bit and use all memory.no reason not to.
Re: [H] Win7 Ent 32-bit vs 64-bit?
So what will they map into instead? As far as I know, the video has to map into RAM, regardless if the OS is 32-bit or 64-bit. Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -Original Message- From: Bobby Heid IIRC, the BIOS and video RAM will not have to map into the 4GB address space (in 64-bit). He will have the whole address space for RAM.
Re: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN
I had the same issue it was down to all 10. Addresses being routed down the VPN. I changed my home network to 192.168.. and now everything works fine, Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 10:45 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] VPN connection seals computer off from LAN This is very weird. I have a VPN setup and it's been acting weird - when I connect to it using one of the machines on my LAN, that machines effectively drops off the network. It can browse the internet just fine, but none of the other machines on the LAN can connect to it. Interestingly, although it says its LAN IP is still 10.0.1.2, I can't ping it with that IP. I have been using this VPN on this particular machine for months with no problems until recently. However, using the same VPN setup on another machine on the same LAN, it will connect to the VPN and still be visible on the LAN and can still connect to other clients on the LAN. I've double checked the VPN settings are they are exactly the same on both machines. Any ideas? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] iPad
What did I start with this thread LOL Some nice points as always. I understand why people don't see the point of this device. But I have to say after using it for a couple of days, I am pleased I bought it. I bought it mainly for travelling as an entertainment device but now I am taking it to meetings to make notes. It saves me taking my laptop and paper notebook to the meetings I can draw on the screen and type notes, then email them out. Yes I could do that on a tablet PC but they still are not affordable or mainstream and my company does not provide a tablet option (mind you I am very happy with my Lenovo X200 I wouldn't change it for anything). So now when I travel I can watch movies on the plane. Play the odd silly game and not get bored. Also it boots quickly so in the morning before running to meetings it's great to check the news (as long as I have the wifi access), I don't have to wait for my PC to boot it's all immediate. So as an on the go device it's great. Yes I can do this all on my phone but the big screen is just so nice and considering I don't have to take my notepad around anymore it just replaces that so is not another piece of junk in my bag. I hate using my laptop on the plane especially in economy (and that's all I get for internal flights) because there just isn't the space to have the screen up. As soon as the person in front reclines their seat I have to put the laptop on my lap at an angle because the angle of the seat in front won't allow me to put it on seatback tray. By the way I never work on the plane so having word, excel and power point is something I don't need, I am a nervous traveler and need to take my mind off the fact that I am not on the ground I can't concentrate on work up there :) I just need mindless entertainment. As more and more innovative apps come out I can see this thing morphing into a more and more essential device. As for reading books. I never get to see daylight so the iPad is great for reading books in my hotel room. But I can see how the iPad's screen is not great for outdoor reading. I guess if I ever get time to sit by a pool I'll have to buy a paper back :) By the way I am not an apple fan boy there are things I hate. Like yesterday iTunes decided to uninstall all my apps when I was synching so I had to restore from a backup to get all my settings back. Also backup takes forever. The fact that some apps are so much more expensive is also crappy. I am not buying many now as I hope they will come down in price and level out over time. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:50 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] iPad Exactly. Sometimes we get over focused on hype (see today's article on slate.com). Apple just sold 320,000 ipads. A good number. They hope to sell 500k this month to 750k. Great numbers. Nintendo sold 500k Wiis last month, 3+ years after introduction. Selling volumes in the computerworld is good, but turning around and making it consistent matters. For the ipad, far more then the iphone, a lot of this depends on apps. This is where I do have some concern with how that goes. Appke has repeatedly 'spiked' and removed apps based on content concerns, including major name apps (hunt for the Nine Inch Nails fiasco and Trent Reznor's take). Apples policy with regards to how they handle all this is does create a false economy (ecosystem) but it isn't a monopoly. I used Nintendo as an example above because that's exactly what they did. They control everything about their product, software available for it, etc. And its been shockingly successful. Apple has the same success and the same outlook. I have and continue to use all. I find snow leopard is effective and nice, but win7 is finally really an intuitive os that thinks closer to the way I do. Make no mistake, vista was too bulky with too many hangups to slow the user. Windows7 is slick and managable, its taskbar is more useful and intuitive then apple's dock, and its snap to and mouse focusing features work with no after thought. But it took ms a lot of mistakes to get there. How well the ipad succeeds will be interesting. To me, I can't figure out the point. I will never want to and type on a touch screen. Because of the screen, its worthless outside.. So while you can sit with a kindle at the pool (I've done it) and read with zero eye strain, the ipad will appear like a brick to read in bright light. There just isn't that stand out function that makes me say 'holy shit' I have to have it. Let's face it, apples ipod really isn't better then any other mp3 player. My creative still plays all my audiobooks just great. But it was the ecosystem and ability to buy and download for it that sold it to the masses. Ease of use. Everyone used mp3s. I'm struggling to think what the breakthrough user
Re: [H] iPad
Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:03 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] iPad So does it charge on a PC if the USB can handle it? Scott If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] iPad
I haven't seen any reports on a working PC charge yet. Another annoyance is the docking base. If it needs so much USB power why don't they give that a separate PSU and just use the USB as a data link. I am feeling I wasted $30 on the dock. I know I have complained a lot but on the whole the iPad is a good experience. Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:03 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] iPad So does it charge on a PC if the USB can handle it? Scott If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] iPad
I got the 64GB wifi version the 3G version is not out yet. It feels very tactile, It's a great multimedia device. The games are good as well. Need For Speed was very impressive. The big downside is it won't charge on a PC USB socket. It needs a Mac or use the wall charger !!! That has pissed me off more than anything. Everything else is great. My wife who is not normally a gadget person can't put it down :) I can see a need for a 4G version with a camera. Hopefully that will be out before chrstimas. Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 6:32 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] iPad How does it feel in your hand? Also, which version did you get? On 4/3/2010 9:28 PM, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, So who else got their iPad today? What are the must have apps and the ones to avoid? I am impressed so far. The battery life is very good. I am still not below 70% left with 4 hours solid use. Yes it might just be a big iPod touch but I travel a lot and using this as an entertainment system on the plane will be nice. At the moment I have been using my Motorola Milestone and the bigger screen will be great. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] iPad
You are correct, but they could of added a cable that plugs into two USB ports to pull more power! Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:33 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Cc: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] iPad The problem is that the iPad battery is so powerful that it needs more current to charge than most other devices. Not all USB ports are designed to provide that much power. So AFAIK it's not some dastardly plot by apple. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
[H] iPad
Hi, So who else got their iPad today? What are the must have apps and the ones to avoid? I am impressed so far. The battery life is very good. I am still not below 70% left with 4 hours solid use. Yes it might just be a big iPod touch but I travel a lot and using this as an entertainment system on the plane will be nice. At the moment I have been using my Motorola Milestone and the bigger screen will be great. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
[H] Micro SD
Hi, Is anyone in the know on when 32GB micro SD cards will be available. I just bought a Motorola Milestone and this thing rocks (it does all the iPhone does and more) the only thing is currently I only have an 8GB micro SD card in it and I really need 32GB to transfer everything from my iPod touch. I don't want to buy a 16GB if 32GB is just around the corner. Googling it there have been rumors of an imminent release way back to Jan 2009 but they still don't seem to be available :( Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] UPS Deals?
I haven't found any spectacular deals yet. Who knows I may well end up waiting that long :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:58 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] UPS Deals? I look around on Black Friday sales, or right after Christmas. I try to get at least 4 at those times. Sorry, I buy seasonally like that. Note: They are sometimes up to a year old, (shelf life), so I'm not sure I'm saving as much as I think*... Rick Glazier From: Hunter, Gary Does anyone know of any good deals on UPS's? I haven't bought one for many, many years and looking at the three I have they are all underpowered. I don't need top of the range just a good deal :) If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] UPS Deals?
Thanks for the advice Duncan. Got my new surge protectors delivered today and guess what. When the Laser printer kicks in the PC no longer turns off :) So I guess the surge protection on the old UPS is not up to scratch :-) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:45 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] UPS Deals? Gary, I know money is tight. Ups's are costly. But, look at the APC Back-Ups brand. Someone on our list uses the Smart-UPS level boxes. I could never justify the expense (~$100). I use APC's 1500KVA LCD toys now. Replacements for 1100KVA units (1998). I think APC may offer 1000VA and 750VA choices. Sales come and go. Understand. What is your data/LAN worth? For sure, I think you need at least 1000KVA for what you have in your study; as you have it wired ATM. JMHO. Best, Duncan On 02/18/2010 17:15, Hunter, Gary wrote: I haven't found any spectacular deals yet. Who knows I may well end up waiting that long :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:58 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] UPS Deals? I look around on Black Friday sales, or right after Christmas. I try to get at least 4 at those times. Sorry, I buy seasonally like that. Note: They are sometimes up to a year old, (shelf life), so I'm not sure I'm saving as much as I think*... Rick Glazier From: Hunter, Gary Does anyone know of any good deals on UPS's? I haven't bought one for many, many years and looking at the three I have they are all underpowered. I don't need top of the range just a good deal :) If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
[H] Power Issues
Hi, I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350 plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important). So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top socket and the bottom doesn't get any. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gary Hunter Enterpise Architect Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Power Issues
Sorry I don't think I explained this well. The printer is plugged directly into the wall not the UPS. The UPS certainly couldn't handle the printer. But the UPS and the printer use the same socket which has two outlets. X - Printer X - UPS with everything else (forgot to mention also have a 22inch Acer LCD monitor in the UPS) I will get an extension cord and plug the printer in elsewhere for a test and see what that does. I'll keep you posted. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:07 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Gary, Interesting problem. a) I think that your UPS is too small (in capacity and available wattage) for everything you have plugged into it. I'll assume your ups is the ES350G. It is only capable of 200W (?sustained?). Certainly your PC does not idle at 200W; still, when the printer comes on, the ups may not be able to react to the large load spike of the printer and still supply enough oomph for its' attached devices (PC, speakers, switches). I have noticed that my two oldest PCs that use last generation PSU's still record 120W-133W on their Back-Ups 1500LCD on startup. Both PCs typically idle at the 100W-115W level. By contrast, my three C2D machines w/new 600W psus rarely exceed 70W on startup, and, frequently idle in the 30W-40W range. These new +80 psus are much more efficient to my view. b) Your printer specs at 20W (sleep), 85W (awake), and, 510W (printing). That 510W is ~1/3 of the total available wattage of the duplex outlet (1800W). I'd put the printer on another power outlet (fused line) than the ups for startersas a test. JMHO. YMMV. Best, Duncan On 02/14/2010 11:07, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350 plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important). So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top socket and the bottom doesn't get any. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gary Hunter Enterpise Architect Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Power Issues
Why didn't I think of number 1 LOL I unplug it and the computer switches off. The UPS then beeps to indicate no power. So I guess the battery in the UPS is enough to keep it's monitoring up but not the PC. I am still wondering if the socket is bad though. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Richard Quilhot Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:01 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues 1. Test the ups by unpluging it. If the computer shuts down, the ups is bad. 2. If ups had USB cable running to the PC, you might have auto shut down enabled. On 2/14/10, Hunter, Gary gary.hun...@travelport.com wrote: Hi, I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350 plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important). So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top socket and the bottom doesn't get any. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gary Hunter Enterpise Architect Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. -- Sent from my mobile device Richard E. Quilhot C.N.A. quilh...@gmail.com If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Power Issues
IH Duncan, You may have read my response To Richard, I have confirmed the UPS battery is bad. But how can I test the socket without just switching it out? Thanks to both of you for your help. Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:07 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Gary, Interesting problem. a) I think that your UPS is too small (in capacity and available wattage) for everything you have plugged into it. I'll assume your ups is the ES350G. It is only capable of 200W (?sustained?). Certainly your PC does not idle at 200W; still, when the printer comes on, the ups may not be able to react to the large load spike of the printer and still supply enough oomph for its' attached devices (PC, speakers, switches). I have noticed that my two oldest PCs that use last generation PSU's still record 120W-133W on their Back-Ups 1500LCD on startup. Both PCs typically idle at the 100W-115W level. By contrast, my three C2D machines w/new 600W psus rarely exceed 70W on startup, and, frequently idle in the 30W-40W range. These new +80 psus are much more efficient to my view. b) Your printer specs at 20W (sleep), 85W (awake), and, 510W (printing). That 510W is ~1/3 of the total available wattage of the duplex outlet (1800W). I'd put the printer on another power outlet (fused line) than the ups for startersas a test. JMHO. YMMV. Best, Duncan On 02/14/2010 11:07, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350 plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important). So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top socket and the bottom doesn't get any. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gary Hunter Enterpise Architect Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
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OK thanks, I bought the UPS very cheaply many years back so I agree I probably am overloading it. I should probably move the monitor off to a surge protector as it doesn't need to be on the UPS, and just hang the PC off the UPS. A new battery is on order it was only $17 :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:47 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues I'm pretty sure the receptacle is fine. I suspect that the instant-on fuser of the laser is dropping the voltage momentarily, causing your UPS to transfer to battery, at which time it fails because your battery is shot. You could check the UPS to see if it has adjustments for transfer voltage to make it stay on-line during that momentary drop caused by the fuser, but the ES series units look fairly spartan in terms of adjustments. It's also possible that you're overloading the UPS. The Back-UPS ES 350 is only good for 200 watts. While your typical basic PC probably doesn't exceed this at idle, it's possible that with a monitor and some other items that it could be. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:21 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Why didn't I think of number 1 LOL I unplug it and the computer switches off. The UPS then beeps to indicate no power. So I guess the battery in the UPS is enough to keep it's monitoring up but not the PC. I am still wondering if the socket is bad though. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
[H] UPS Deals?
Hi, Does anyone know of any good deals on UPS's? I haven't bought one for many, many years and looking at the three I have they are all underpowered. I don't need top of the range just a good deal :) Thanks, Gary Hunter Consulting Engineer Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Power Issues
Hi Duncan, OK Now I really have to admit how dumb I am. Good call the PC was on the surge protector only side :( Problem now is when I put the PC on the UPS side it draws too much current and trips. It is certainly time to buy some bigger UPS's In my other email I was talking about the wall socket. I still don't understand how one socket can starve the other one of power even during a surge. I would more expect the fuse box to trip. This is on a 15amp circuit. Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Gary, I did understand your plug arrangement. Did not read the printer plugged into the ups. Most ups docs say not to do this. You may have your PC plugged into a surge-only outlet on the ups. I did this twice!! Think you may have surge-only outlets and BBU outlets. Sorry, did not look at the outputs of the 350G. Best, Duncan On 02/14/2010 12:21, Hunter, Gary wrote: Why didn't I think of number 1 LOL I unplug it and the computer switches off. The UPS then beeps to indicate no power. So I guess the battery in the UPS is enough to keep it's monitoring up but not the PC. I am still wondering if the socket is bad though. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Richard Quilhot Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:01 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues 1. Test the ups by unpluging it. If the computer shuts down, the ups is bad. 2. If ups had USB cable running to the PC, you might have auto shut down enabled. On 2/14/10, Hunter, Garygary.hun...@travelport.com wrote: Hi, I have a color laser printer (Brother HL-4040CDN) and an APC BACK_UPS ES 350 plugged into the same power outlet. A PC is hung off of the UPS along with some speakers, a harddrive and two switches. The PC is nothing special and has 450w PSU in it (can't remember the make but can look it up if it's important). So the problem is when the printer comes out of sleep mode it temporarily draws a lot more current and this causes the PC to shut down. I am assuming I have a problem with the UPS maybe a bad battery, but the UPS is not beeping or indicating it is bad in anyway. Am I correct in thinking the UPS is bad, or could it be a combination of a bad power outlet and a bad UPS? I am thinking when there is the increased current draw it delivers all the power to the top socket and the bottom doesn't get any. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Gary Hunter Enterpise Architect Travelport GDS T: (+1) 303 - 397 - 5035 M:(+1) 720 - 231 - 0965 E: gary.hun...@travelport.com SITA: HDQOK1G Travelport Product Development Center 6901 S Havana St Centennial, CO 80112 If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
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Many thanks Duncan, this certainly helps. You have certainly made me think today :) I have a new battery on its way for this UPS, and I'll keep an eye out for some good deals on more powerful ones. I guess it's time to buy one of the meters that reads power usage so I can gauge accurately how much power each PC is using. I bet my study must be getting close to 1800w when everything is running. It might be time to upgrade to a 20amp circuit in this room or install a second 15amp circuit to run half the room. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:34 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Gary, Please step back and have a good laugh at yourself. I have done this surge-only mistake many times!! LOL! And, even after doing the 1st time, I repeated that same mistake 2 more times.. :) You are NOT dumb! Yes, I would suspect that the PC along with everything else might cause the ups to trip off. Guess what, I have done this also! LOL! (And, then spent 2 days trying to comprehend why this stupid ups did not work properly!!) . :) OK, about the wall socket, I suppose I will defer to the pro electricians of this list. But. All I know is that any given (from the fuse box) 15A circuit allow only 1800W max to be drawn; regardless of what may be on that circuit. The socket is probably not the error. (Well, unless it is being fed from two different circuit branches; and if so this socket has the tabs cut and there are 2 feed lines in the wall box.).For now, never-mind!! OK? Again, I'll defer to the pros here; I'm still learning by doing/repairing! In any case, all the stuff plugged in on any given line all draw power from the same CB/Fuse. I'm told this is 1800W on a 15A circuit. I limit my home 15A circuits to ~1200W max. Just me. Don't think it is a starve like condition. But, when you start to get near the max that your 15A circuit can sustain, weird stuff starts to happen. Any sudden spikes (demands) ripple up and down the whole chain. Like the next outlet in the same wall plug. Greg is correct! Laser printer fuser's still have really ugly power demands when they fire up! It is the nature of the beast sadly. And, why I run my simple b/w laser printer direct to the wall! I let it argue for 'trons' with the coffee machine and a pair of RS1500LCD APCs. This branch never draws 9A; even on a bad day. A dead battery in the ups causes the ups to expend lots of energy trying to charge up a battery that, in this case, will never charge. In this scene, the poor ups just does not have any reserve to help feed the PC and the other stuff plugged into it. At least, that is what I have seen through 2 failed battery sessions! Again, I will leave this science to the experts. Just sharing what I've seen here and what I know about home AC business. I do so hope this helps. If not, I have a simple visual of a glass and water to help explain my focus. It is JMHO. Best, Duncan On 02/14/2010 16:04, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi Duncan, OK Now I really have to admit how dumb I am. Good call the PC was on the surge protector only side :( Problem now is when I put the PC on the UPS side it draws too much current and trips. It is certainly time to buy some bigger UPS's In my other email I was talking about the wall socket. I still don't understand how one socket can starve the other one of power even during a surge. I would more expect the fuse box to trip. This is on a 15amp circuit. Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues Gary, I did understand your plug arrangement. Did not read the printer plugged into the ups. Most ups docs say not to do this. You may have your PC plugged into a surge-only outlet on the ups. I did this twice!! Think you may have surge-only outlets and BBU outlets. Sorry, did not look at the outputs of the 350G. Best, Duncan On 02/14/2010 12:21, Hunter, Gary wrote: Why didn't I think of number 1 LOL I unplug it and the computer switches off. The UPS then beeps to indicate no power. So I guess the battery in the UPS is enough to keep it's monitoring up but not the PC. I am still wondering if the socket is bad though. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Richard Quilhot Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:01 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Power Issues 1. Test the ups by unpluging it. If the computer shuts down, the ups is bad. 2. If ups had USB cable running to the PC, you might have auto shut down enabled. On 2/14/10, Hunter, Garygary.hun...@travelport.com
Re: [H] Power Issues
A new batt will make the UPS happy. It will not solve the load problem! Yep, I understand that. I will just move it to something less power hungry. Mind you I'm surprised trips it. There is not much in it. Is your whole study on ONE 15A branch line? If so, your future thought/plan is a very good one. Pooter stuff is power hungry still. Yep, and it will only get worse :) Thanks again for your help. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] SSD question
Rick is 100% correct. You need to read up on it a little more. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:25 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] SSD question That doesn't make sense. First these are hard drives... not flash drives. Limit writes??... what kind of hard drive is that. People typically put their OS on these and pagefile.sys defaults to the C drive. At 02:28 PM 1/13/2010, you wrote: Bad idea, you want to LIMIT writes to those, but if you could afford to wear it out, go for it. It would be faster than a SwapFile on an HD. Intel has a white paper on this IIRC. (I don't have any but might have stored the whitepaper.) Rick Glazier - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:32 PM Subject: [H] SSD question I don't want to pop for a larger SSD right now, but I am thinking of getting a 30GB OCZ just to try out, maybe use it for video editing, game install. I am wondering how well this might work out for a pagefile.sys file? How close is it to RAM speeds? If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Windows XP Mode
VMware will import XP mode from MS but in order to get XP you have to first install MS VM and XP. VMware will create a link clone but you can make a full clone after and it will no longer be a link clone. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:47 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Windows XP Mode I run Windows 7 PRO 64bit which means I am entitled to download a free Windows XP to use with Virtual PC. I have never tried MS Virtual PC. I have loved and use VMware for many years... version 7 now. However, it is a free XP license which I would like to have for a virtual machine. Is there any reason I wouldn't want to do this? I wonder if I can use the license on a VMware virtual pc.
Re: [H] Windows 7 Firewall
I definitely 2nd that opinion. I hate all the 'false positive' warning pop-ups you get from the third party security programs. Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail) -- From: Brian Weeden brian.wee...@gmail.com MSE has two big features that are important to me: free and lightweight/unobtrusive.
Re: [H] Win2K/XP to Vista/Win7
Look under Users\username\AppData\Temp -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Joe User Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 3:24 PM To: Winterlight Subject: Re: [H] Win2K/XP to Vista/Win7 Hello Winterlight, Saturday, December 19, 2009, 2:55:20 PM, you wrote: yeah, just bring up a command window. It will tell you that it has completed successfully. then go into users and the administrator account will be there... give it a password. when you reboot you will have a choice of administrator or user. Well that's good info to know but not exactly my issue. Let me explain in more detail. I take a vista/win7 drive out of another machine and put it into my 2K/XP system and use that 2K/XP system to backup the drive. I like to clean out the rubbish first so while I have the Vista/Win7 drive in my 2K/XP system I like to access the Vista/Win7 disk and clean it up. I can't seem to access some of the files like I could in any other OS before Vista. Some examples are users\cookies or users\local settings. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] Guitar Hero or Rock Band?
Call of Duty, World of Warfare II. :-) -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.netwrote: None of the above,.. Halo or Forza 3 :) Cheers. On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, I won an XBox 360 Elite tonight at a Microsoft event. I was going to buy one for my daughter (14 years old) for Christmas, so timing could not have been better. I was thinking about getting her either Rock Band or Guitar Hero to go with it. I would like to get some feedback from you all as to which one you like best. And, if you've played both, why you liked one over the other. Thanks, Bobby -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Re: [H] Laptop processor
VMware will work with XP mode (I have done it on several desktops) as long as I can get it from MS. It imports and clones XP VM. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:07 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Laptop processor You need ABOVE Win7 Home Premium to apply... But even then, I think you are locked out. XP-Mode is embedded. I doubt MS lets it be used in the way you want. Rick Glazier From: Gary Interesting...does that mean that if I wanted to download the free XP with the P7450, I could not? And use VMware? -Original Message- From: hardware-bounces So the P8400 has 130MHz and Intel VT over the P7450.
[H] Cyber Monday deals
I am in need of a new digital imaging workstation. I want to avoid AMD (last several machines have been AMD and each has had their own quirks which I would like to avoid) and am looking for the best/latest Intel chip. Hoping to find a good deal on Cyber Monday but I am not familar enough with Intel's offerings to know a good deal if I see it. If anyone has any recommendations or can steer me towards a good deal I would really appreciate it. I am looking at building/buying the whole PC so I would be interested in complete PC's or parts. Primarliy I am looking for some help with the Motherboard/CPU. :-) Thanks! -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints
Re: [H] XP VM (was Re: Laptop processor)
The reason I need it is because my wife telecommutes from home and the VPN client she is required to use will not run on Win 7 but only XP. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Scott Sipe Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 12:51 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] XP VM (was Re: Laptop processor) I have no experience with the XP VM in Windows7 and have tried only a small number of programs on Win7 (and all have worked fine). Is the XP VM needed for much--are there many programs that don't work? Scott On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Gary wrote: VMware will work with XP mode (I have done it on several desktops) as long as I can get it from MS. It imports and clones XP VM. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:07 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Laptop processor You need ABOVE Win7 Home Premium to apply... But even then, I think you are locked out. XP-Mode is embedded. I doubt MS lets it be used in the way you want. Rick Glazier From: Gary Interesting...does that mean that if I wanted to download the free XP with the P7450, I could not? And use VMware? -Original Message- From: hardware-bounces So the P8400 has 130MHz and Intel VT over the P7450.
[H] Laptop processor
Is there much of a difference between a P7450 and P8400?
Re: [H] Laptop processor
Interesting...does that mean that if I wanted to download the free XP with the P7450, I could not? And use VMware? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:17 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Laptop processor P7450 - 2.13GHz 3MB 1066MHz FSB 45nm 25-watt withOUT Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) - needed for W7's XP Mode, or Windows Virtual PC in W7 at all. P8400 - 2.26GHz 3MB 1066MHz FSB 45nm 25-watt with Intel VT. So the P8400 has 130MHz and Intel VT over the P7450. I hate that Intel uses VT as a product differentiation point. With W7's XPM, they've been forced to go back and re-add it to a number of their more popular mainstream business offerings as a new stepping, further confusing the issue. (No steppings of the P7450 have VT though.) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:55 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Laptop processor Is there much of a difference between a P7450 and P8400?
Re: [H] Phone confusion
I was just surprised on how loud the ring is at full volume. I could sleep thru my old phones but not this one. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:47 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Phone confusion Gary, Can you explain ring volume? Handset batt-life is a plus. I've been doing some swap-batts with this 5.8 system. Best, Duncan Gary wrote: I recently replaced my Panasonic 2-line 5.8 with new Panasonic Dect 6 2-line and have no complaints. Ring volume goes extremely high and battery life on the handsets are way better. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:17 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Phone confusion Greg, Ah! So the lower freq of DECT 6.0 sorta supports the range and clarity hype of these phones over my current 5.8GHz phone? So, you would be pro-DECT 6.0? Even though I suppose you have normal or high-tech cell technology :) Best, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: At 1.9GHz, you're 500MHz away from the closest wifi bands. There shouldn't be a problem there. All else being equal, lower frequencies have better object penetrating capability--meaning the signal travels through walls and such better. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:53 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Phone confusion Thinking about another new phone. Have a Panasonic kx-tg6071s, 5.8GHz, base +2 remotes. I like the speakerphone. I find the answer machine volume weak! I now notice DECT 6.0 phones. Odd too that I see these phones use 1.9GHz bands (?). I chose 5.8GHz to get as far away as possible from all the WIFI bands. I wonder how DECT 6.0 phones work so close to WIFI bands? Advice welcome.. :) Best, Duncan
Re: [H] Phone confusion
I recently replaced my Panasonic 2-line 5.8 with new Panasonic Dect 6 2-line and have no complaints. Ring volume goes extremely high and battery life on the handsets are way better. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:17 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Phone confusion Greg, Ah! So the lower freq of DECT 6.0 sorta supports the range and clarity hype of these phones over my current 5.8GHz phone? So, you would be pro-DECT 6.0? Even though I suppose you have normal or high-tech cell technology :) Best, Duncan Greg Sevart wrote: At 1.9GHz, you're 500MHz away from the closest wifi bands. There shouldn't be a problem there. All else being equal, lower frequencies have better object penetrating capability--meaning the signal travels through walls and such better. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:53 PM To: Hardware Group Subject: [H] Phone confusion Thinking about another new phone. Have a Panasonic kx-tg6071s, 5.8GHz, base +2 remotes. I like the speakerphone. I find the answer machine volume weak! I now notice DECT 6.0 phones. Odd too that I see these phones use 1.9GHz bands (?). I chose 5.8GHz to get as far away as possible from all the WIFI bands. I wonder how DECT 6.0 phones work so close to WIFI bands? Advice welcome.. :) Best, Duncan
[H] 16 Port GB Switch
I'm in market for a 16 port GB Switch. Recommendations?
Re: [H] PW protect a folder ?
I use TrueCrypt to protect any and all sensitive data. You could create an encrypted volume and copy the folder to it. When it is unmounted it is encrypted and unreadable, to use you simple mount it and assign a drive letter. It can be driven via the command line and/or using Launchy (open source keystroke launcher). Works great and I would highly recommend it. -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM, FORC5 fuf...@cox.net wrote: Any suggestion on PW protecting a local folder ? google found a few suggestions that did not work. thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Better to understand little than misunderstand a lot.
Re: [H] Laptop brand advice?
I have had great luck with Acer, we currently have 4 in the family and all are doing great. I had an overheating issue on one but it was fixed quickly under warrenty. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Naushad, Zulfiqar Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:07 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Laptop brand advice? The reason I'm leary towards acer is because I had one and in exactly 1 year the power circuitry on the mobo got fried. :( Just out of warranty too. Over 1000 dollars down the drain! -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Laptop brand advice? At 12:57 AM 11/8/2009, you wrote: Anything other than acer? not in that price range.. unless you find a really good sale On Nov 8, 2009 10:30 AM, Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote: At 11:14 PM 11/7/2009, you wrote: I'm looking to get my 4 year old daughter a laptop also. A... You can get a lot for 400 with an ACER. You will be really surprised just how feature rich you can buy for around 400. Lots of sales. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Win7 and Hard Drives
Yes, that is exactly right. I still play World of Warcraft, and pay my $15 dutifully every month . lol Regards, Gary At 05:30 AM 10/26/2009, Stan Zaske wrote: Just means you pay a monthly fee to play on official servers. That's why Bilzzard makes so much money. Not only do they sell the game but you pay your monthly fee as well to take part in playing it. MMO: Massive Multiplayer Online. Pretty sure that's right anyway. DSinc wrote: I suppose that I am w-a-y out of the norm here. Can someone please 'splain me this concept of subscription for a video game for a PC? Do not believe I am a complete dweeb. I so have a subscription for my weekend newspaper. OR? Might this be close? I an really curious Best, Duncan Gmail wrote: I do not understand that argument. $15 for on average 60+ hours of fun a month is pretty darn cheap compared to many other firms of entertainment. I would much rather pay that subscription than $50 for a game with 15 hours of game play and no replay value. Or a trip to the movies. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2009-10-25, at 5:22 PM, maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com wrote: Only one I'd consider playing is floundering in the beta stage: Stargate Worlds. Guess MGM should of not frakked PTY Lmtd. and backed release of the originally promised stand-alone SG-1 game from 2005! Quake stated MO (not massive) play for free phenomenon the money grubbers have polluted. I have trouble seeing the supposed value added paying for benefits of massive w/ persistent save data @ $15/month subscription + $50/year software. Stan Zaske wrote: It's my first MMO. After all these years of playing games it took the words Dungeons and Dragons and free to get me to try it. I still play it in single player mode however. Someday I'll take the plunge and join a social group. Probably get eaten alive by the kids in there. LOL Brian Weeden wrote: I'm sure it's great but I went cold turkey on MMOs. With a toddler in the house and another on the way I am strictly a single player, pause any time sort of gamer now (not that I didn't enjoy my time with MUDs, DAOC, and WoW). Oblivion, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Civ 4 (still going strong), Dead Space, the Witcher - those are my type of games now. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org Montreal Office +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com wrote: I have something you might be interested in Brian: Dungeons and Dragons Online: behold the power of free http://bit.ly/8dUTM Brian Weeden wrote: I bought a Q6600 for $250 in March 2008. I consider that to be a dirt cheap price to get a processor that will meet my foreseeable needs for 3-4 years. I bought a Radeon 4850 for $180 in Oct 2008 and it has suited me just fine. The last game I played - Batman Arkham Asylum - ran very smooth. And yes, I am running a 24 LCD. I've considered getting another 4850 and doing SLI, but I don't really see a need at this point and I'm not sure Im going to get much value as opposed to waiting another 6 months and getting a whole new card. The next major game I will be playing a lot - Dragon Age:Origins - will probably run just fine on my current setup. However, I am still running a pair of Seagate SATA drives that I've had for years (250 GB boot, 80 GB data). So my upgrade this winter will be Windows 7 64-bit, another 4 GB of RAM (because I multitask a lot and run VMs), and a SSD boot drive. But I have no incentive to change my CPU. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org Montreal Office +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com wrote: With gaming it depends on the resolution you play at. With a 30 monitor you're going to need some decent horsepower and even with my 24 there are times I wish for something better than my 4850 (5850 coming up as soon as price takes the 1st drop). I'm confused, you speak of an Intel quad core processor you bought 2 years ago being dirt cheap? Did you get it used because new and cheap don't equate to Intel processors. LOL Brian Weeden wrote: Hard drives have been the major system bottleneck for most computer users for years now. I'm surprised that it's taken this long for that fact to settle in AND for companies to realize that's the future growth area. Video cards? Eh...unless you are a freak you can get by. I play most new games and get by just fine spending $200 every couple of years. Processor? The quad core intel I bought 2 years ago was dirt cheap and I have yet to saturate all 4 processors. --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org Montreal Office +1 (514) 466-2756
Re: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
Last time I took a laptop to bits (back in 2002), it was an old Dell Inspiron 5000, Dell had all the instructions for assembly/disassembly on their web site. It was very easy with the instructions. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:16 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly I've done the research and discovered the Control Power Button Cover Assembly is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together? I've worked on many a PC tower but nothing really on laptops. Its broken on the left hinge where there are two screws now exposed and broken plastic. All still works but the LCD is not very stable and looks lousy. Am I supposed to completely open the laptop to get at this area or is there an easier path to replacing this cover assembly? Pictures available upon request. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] firefox 3.5
I am using NoScript, seems to works the same as always. :-) Regards, Gary At 06:00 AM 9/9/2009, It was written by maccrawj that this shall come to pass: Unless it has a NoScript type functionality I don't think I'll be using it. Bryan Seitz wrote: No native adblock or other plugins no opera for me. It is quite fast though. On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:39:37PM +0100, Neil Davidson wrote: I'm a big Opera fan and have been recommending it to people whenever I can. Opera 10 is really slick, much more polished than 9.64. 100% on Acid3 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: 08 September 2009 17:14 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] firefox 3.5 If there are any other Opera fans out there they just came out with Opera 10 which is really nice. A lot of subtle changes and a few new features that solve all my issues with the 9.7 version. And it is really quick. At 04:54 AM 9/8/2009, you wrote: Any of you using this yet? What's the word? Good, bad?
Re: [H] [C4S] Email returned
I'm used to the more complete error message you get from Outlook Express. This error message doesn't identify the sending (SMTP) server. Looks like the recipient's mail server has identified your Internet connection as one used by spammers. Were you sending from home? Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) -- From: Sam Franc fr...@oregonfast.net Here is the complete message: boit...@centurytel.net: 209.235.147.38 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 boit...@centurytel.net... H:XBL [38.111.133.17] Connections originating from a compromised SPAM source. Please use your ISP's relay servers. Giving up on 209.235.147.38.
Re: [H] [C4S] Email returned
Hard to tell from just that fragment. Why not post the complete error message? Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) -- From: Sam Franc fr...@oregonfast.net 209.235.147.38 does not like recipient What does the above message mean? Is the mail box full? Is the recipient rejecting it as spam etc?
Re: [H] Suggestions for sharing a large video file?
Can't you set up a web based FTP server on your box for her to download directly? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:21 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] Suggestions for sharing a large video file? I've got a video currently on a DVD that I need to get to a colleague of mine in Europe. It's a preview of a documentary that we are doing for work and she needs to review it (so no, I'm not pirating anything). I can mail it, but that's going to take quite a bit of time. I've already ripped it and recompressed it down to about a GB, so now the question is how best to get her the file. She's not very computer savvy so something like a multi-part rar isn't going to work. I have used Google video for this in the past but they have shut down. Youtube is no good because of the limit on length. Maybe something like rapidshare? Suggestions? --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US
Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem
I thought as much, but I didn't know if anyone had cobbled up a software raid controller for WD testing (couldn't find one but you guys seem to have all the answers). I'll connect them to my desktop tonight and see if one of the drives is indeed bad. I hadn't even considered that I just assumed a controller problem. Thanks -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of maccrawj Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem I imagine the RAID-0 is being done by the MyBook enclosure, thus making ruling out attaching the drives to another controller. This is the main caveat of RAID-0 since recovery is (near?) impossible given data is stripped across both drives. *IF* the problem is not the drives, the assumption would be that dropping them into another mybook enclosure might allow recovery. Same goes if the RAID is being done by the host PC vs. enclosure. You could attach them to a desktop PC's SATA controller to be able to run WD diagnostics in non-destructive mode to verify one drive is bad. Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB version. Is it a bad idea to assume I could put the drives into the 2TB chasis and expect them to work? Or (I know this is a long shot) does anyone have one of these drives that they are willing to take apart and put my drives in to recover the data? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem
Thanks Tim, I don't think there is any important data on the drive. It's mainly TV progs from the UK so I don't want to spend a great deal to get the data back (I'll keep you in mind though). I'll do the WD diagnostics this evening and see how it goes. I'll post an update later. The WD indeed stripes across the 2 disks not sure on the data chunk size though. I'll have to dig a little deeper. From your note am I to believe that striping across the disks is generic and there probably isn't a manufacturer specific algorithm? This is interesting as I just assumed it would be proprietary. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:17 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hello Gary, This might work. Although, I would pull t hem out and see if each drive works correctly. Do not expect to get the data off that way. Most 2 disk RAID 0 systems use 128kB stripe, you can use a recovery software like r-tools to recover the data if the drives work. If one of the drives do not work, you're basically screwed. Well not really, there is always me trolling the list :) Regards and good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:38 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB version. Is it a bad idea to assume I could put the drives into the 2TB chasis and expect them to work? Or (I know this is a long shot) does anyone have one of these drives that they are willing to take apart and put my drives in to recover the data? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem
Hi Tim, Does R-Studio do the RAID0 or would I need R-Studio Technician? I couldn't find a side by side comparison of the features. I don't mind getting the $79.99 version but this date is not worth $899 :) I am going to download the demo and test it but just wondered if you knew? Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:27 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Thanks Tim, I don't think there is any important data on the drive. It's mainly TV progs from the UK so I don't want to spend a great deal to get the data back (I'll keep you in mind though). I'll do the WD diagnostics this evening and see how it goes. I'll post an update later. The WD indeed stripes across the 2 disks not sure on the data chunk size though. I'll have to dig a little deeper. From your note am I to believe that striping across the disks is generic and there probably isn't a manufacturer specific algorithm? This is interesting as I just assumed it would be proprietary. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:17 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hello Gary, This might work. Although, I would pull t hem out and see if each drive works correctly. Do not expect to get the data off that way. Most 2 disk RAID 0 systems use 128kB stripe, you can use a recovery software like r-tools to recover the data if the drives work. If one of the drives do not work, you're basically screwed. Well not really, there is always me trolling the list :) Regards and good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:38 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB version. Is it a bad idea to assume I could put the drives into the 2TB chasis and expect them to work? Or (I know this is a long shot) does anyone have one of these drives that they are willing to take apart and put my drives in to recover the data? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility
Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem
OK I managed to get 15 mins free and took a further look. I am not sure if this is a RAID issue or whether my disk is toast. So the WD labels the disk A and B. When I add disk A to the desktop the PC boots fine, when I add disk B Io get a generic hard disk error thrown from the BIOS check. Is this because of something in the MBR for disk B, I had always assumed each disk would be initialized as a normal disk but now I am thinking that maybe the RAID only initializes disk A but writes something special to disk B. I did swap the controller boards in case something was bad there but there was no change. The drive does seem to spin up and there are no nasty noises. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:57 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi Tim, Does R-Studio do the RAID0 or would I need R-Studio Technician? I couldn't find a side by side comparison of the features. I don't mind getting the $79.99 version but this date is not worth $899 :) I am going to download the demo and test it but just wondered if you knew? Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:27 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Thanks Tim, I don't think there is any important data on the drive. It's mainly TV progs from the UK so I don't want to spend a great deal to get the data back (I'll keep you in mind though). I'll do the WD diagnostics this evening and see how it goes. I'll post an update later. The WD indeed stripes across the 2 disks not sure on the data chunk size though. I'll have to dig a little deeper. From your note am I to believe that striping across the disks is generic and there probably isn't a manufacturer specific algorithm? This is interesting as I just assumed it would be proprietary. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:17 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hello Gary, This might work. Although, I would pull t hem out and see if each drive works correctly. Do not expect to get the data off that way. Most 2 disk RAID 0 systems use 128kB stripe, you can use a recovery software like r-tools to recover the data if the drives work. If one of the drives do not work, you're basically screwed. Well not really, there is always me trolling the list :) Regards and good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:38 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB version. Is it a bad idea to assume I could put the drives into the 2TB chasis and expect them to work? Or (I know this is a long shot) does anyone have one of these drives that they are willing to take apart and put my drives in to recover the data? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm
Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem
Thanks again Tim, I did this and downloaded the demo version of RStudio. It seems a cool app unfortunately neither the OS or BIOS saw the second drive so I think it is a physical issue with the drive :( I'll RMA it and forget about the data :( -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:17 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hello Gary, Does the computer see both drives in the CMOS Boot up part? If so, then they work hardware wise. Now. Just put both together on a working computer and raid them together with RStudio and go for it. Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:22 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem OK I managed to get 15 mins free and took a further look. I am not sure if this is a RAID issue or whether my disk is toast. So the WD labels the disk A and B. When I add disk A to the desktop the PC boots fine, when I add disk B Io get a generic hard disk error thrown from the BIOS check. Is this because of something in the MBR for disk B, I had always assumed each disk would be initialized as a normal disk but now I am thinking that maybe the RAID only initializes disk A but writes something special to disk B. I did swap the controller boards in case something was bad there but there was no change. The drive does seem to spin up and there are no nasty noises. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:57 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi Tim, Does R-Studio do the RAID0 or would I need R-Studio Technician? I couldn't find a side by side comparison of the features. I don't mind getting the $79.99 version but this date is not worth $899 :) I am going to download the demo and test it but just wondered if you knew? Thanks, Gary -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:27 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Thanks Tim, I don't think there is any important data on the drive. It's mainly TV progs from the UK so I don't want to spend a great deal to get the data back (I'll keep you in mind though). I'll do the WD diagnostics this evening and see how it goes. I'll post an update later. The WD indeed stripes across the 2 disks not sure on the data chunk size though. I'll have to dig a little deeper. From your note am I to believe that striping across the disks is generic and there probably isn't a manufacturer specific algorithm? This is interesting as I just assumed it would be proprietary. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Tim Lider Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:17 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hello Gary, This might work. Although, I would pull t hem out and see if each drive works correctly. Do not expect to get the data off that way. Most 2 disk RAID 0 systems use 128kB stripe, you can use a recovery software like r-tools to recover the data if the drives work. If one of the drives do not work, you're basically screwed. Well not really, there is always me trolling the list :) Regards and good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:38 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Western Digital My Book problem Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB
[H] Western Digital My Book problem
Hi, I have a Western digital 1TB My Book Pro II which all of a sudden won't power on. When I insert the power cable in the back the light flashes on but that is it. When I hit the reset button the light also comes on but then nothing. This unit has 2x500GB drives. I have them configured in raid 0 to utilize the whole disk. I want to recover the data before RMAing it to WD. Is there some software raid I can use and directly plug them into my desktop's SATA connection? I am assuming if I bought another drive of the same model off ebay I could just switch the drives and recover the data. If I had to buy another drive I would rather get a newer 2TB version. Is it a bad idea to assume I could put the drives into the 2TB chasis and expect them to work? Or (I know this is a long shot) does anyone have one of these drives that they are willing to take apart and put my drives in to recover the data? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Gary If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Cable Modems Splitters
I don't understand why you would need more than one modem. The normal practice is to have one modem, which feeds a router, which is connected to the individual PCs either via Ethernet cable or a Wi-Fi wireless connection. Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) -- From: Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com For four people, we have a ton of TVs and modems.
Re: [H] PDF converter ?
If you are using office 2007, MS has its own PDF converter: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f1fc413c-6d89-4f15- 991b-63b07ba5f2e5displaylang=en -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:37 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] PDF converter ? On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, FORC5 wrote: Suggestions on a pdf converter and editor. Adobe AFAIK would be too expensive. Need convert MS Publisher Doc's to PDF for a neighborhood newsletter to send to printer. Pub docs gave them grief. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ GPL http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator Dev Page Christopher Fisk -- Gypsy robot: You want to die? Bender: No, I wanna live! There's still too many things I don't own. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] Windows 7 RC is out for download
I doubt it will be on Connect. MS has told us beta testers that there will be no mass giveaway of RTM copies to the testers. We were also told there could be up to a 2-3 week delay before it's available on MSDN and TechNet. Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) -- From: Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:22 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 RC is out for download Current rumor is that build 6.1.7600.16385 (not 6.1.7600.16384) has successfully been voted the RTM build just as of yesterday, and will be available on Connect (and potentially MSDN and TechNet) on July 24. I'd be wary of anything you might find available for download, since supposedly all 16385 ISO builds out there are 3rd party re-packs from the only leaked copy--a VHD. We'll see. :)
Re: [H] So, who all is prepped for Monday?
Do those apps run in win 7? Do apps installed in win 7 show up in xp or is it like any virtual? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:49 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] So, who all is prepped for Monday? Instead of dual booting, have you tried the Virtual XP option that comes with Win7? It's a custom virtual PC add-on that works very well. What's so cool is that when you install apps in the virtual XP for all users, they show up in your Win7 start menu. It's very slick. http://lifehacker.com/5245396/set-up-and-use-xp-mode-in-windows-7 --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.netwrote: Yeah me too. I took Vista off my main machine and have been using the Win 7 RC as well. I dual boot to XP and Win 7 now, no more Vista in the house at all. :) On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Bryan Seitz wrote: I'll go ahead and admit it, I've been running win7 on my gaming rig for months now... and it rocks. I'm stoked! -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Re: [H] So, who all is prepped for Monday?
Is the virtual as good as vmware? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:05 PM To: hwg Cc: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] So, who all is prepped for Monday? Yes, it is like any other virtual appliance. In that regard. Apps installed in win7 do not show up in virtual xp unless you reinstall them again. But system devices and drives do. - Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation On 11-Jul-09, at 3:48 PM, Gary gm...@verizon.net wrote: Do those apps run in win 7? Do apps installed in win 7 show up in xp or is it like any virtual? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:49 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] So, who all is prepped for Monday? Instead of dual booting, have you tried the Virtual XP option that comes with Win7? It's a custom virtual PC add-on that works very well. What's so cool is that when you install apps in the virtual XP for all users, they show up in your Win7 start menu. It's very slick. http://lifehacker.com/5245396/set-up-and-use-xp-mode-in-windows-7 --- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation http://www.secureworldfoundation.org +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:43 PM, John R Steinbruner stei...@pacbell.netwrote: Yeah me too. I took Vista off my main machine and have been using the Win 7 RC as well. I dual boot to XP and Win 7 now, no more Vista in the house at all. :) On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Bryan Seitz wrote: I'll go ahead and admit it, I've been running win7 on my gaming rig for months now... and it rocks. I'm stoked! -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
