I can understand video editor limitations, but wouldn't the rendering
time be faster?
Richard P.
Okay, I can't let this pass. Our video editors don't edit one whit
faster on a multi core system, so what is it about this guy that makes
him think he can finish projects quicker? I mean, can he
Absolutely!!! I know and have seen it with my dual core. Cut it
from 12 hours to almost real time.
Stewart
At 07:35 AM 11/17/2008, Richard P. wrote:
I can understand video editor limitations, but wouldn't the rendering
time be faster?
Richard P.
Okay, I can't let this pass. Our video
i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered, with
most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an
acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed, but
at that price, it is difficult to buy much of anything for much
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:19 AM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i bought an ACER 5100 with an AMD quad-core. was under $600 delivered,
with most everything on it. came with good set of bells and whistles and an
acceptable video card.. have little use for the quad core, or the speed,
but
No. Assuming the editing app is written to take advantage of multiple
cores (most *current versions* do these days), then adding a core will
only halve rendering time. Real world tests show this drops off with 4
cores - going from dual to 4 cores will only improve the speed by
maybe 30%. I can
The Mozilla product that includes the email client is Seamonkey.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
But most Mozilla users use Firefox and Thunderbird.
RLeeSimon wrote:
Then wat?
I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow
upgrade to ie7 so wassabest?
People working with multi-hundred megabyte graphics files is a small
subset of graphics users.
Very true, but that was to rebut the point that there is no noticeable
difference between single and multi cores. Gamers also benefit from
multi-cores. Even if certain apps won't directly benefit
But she's already got it and otherwise is not interested in $$$ for
something else...the opera client is a little clunky but cud doo...eh?
So you are a Redmund dead-ender? Outlook costs $$$. The better
alternatives are free, either advertising supported or open source. Yet
you describe them as
You must have missed the part where I said this was true for *office*
apps. AFAIK, none of them are coded for multi cores. So until the OS
itself does multi core, I'm still confident that, all else being
equal, nobody working in Word will see any difference at all.
No, I didn't miss that, but
Not here. Oddly, gmail is flagged as a typo, and so is Gmail. Neither
recommend the other.
Perhaps I manually added Thunderbird to my dictionary.? I don't type it often.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting side-note: Gmail regards 'Thunderbird'
Grassroots organizing? Could we be seeing the start of a new political
megastar
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I just got comcast internet snail plan (768up) which is ok for me having had
dialup (56k but really around 23-28k at best) for years...comcast offers
MacAfee suite which installs easily ...but the cost in speed and footprint
on the resources is very high which makes my pIV2-1gb-winXPhomeSP3
Add up to what? An extra minute a day? Have a blast! :)
Anyway, nobody's arguing a faster system isn't nicer and that the more
cores you can bring to the party the better. I'm only pointing out
there are many, probably most, office tasks where CPU is totally
irrelevant. Consider that it takes 10
As someone else suggested, go to Dell's Small and Medium Business website.
Depending on your price range, there's a bunch of options. Since the laptop's
are for your teen and tween, you might want to consider getting a warranty.
Onsite is much better than having to mail the thing in -
Now i have Norton and it's about ready to expire. I don't think i need all what
they have bundled in their lowest update because it's just one computer not
heavily used. It seems like Norton is only trying to appeal to people hooked to
a network.
I'm looking into this cyberscrub antivirus
Got an A/V question. We're conducting focus groups, videotaping them with a
MiniDV camera. After taping, I download the footage into iMovie, burn A DVD.
I've never been in the habit of re-using the MiniDV cassettes, but we've got
about a dozen more tapings, I was trying to cut down on the
A friend is trying to setup a home network between 2 separate houses - the
older main house and a newly built home. There's about 500 feet separating
the 2 homes and a wireless-N signal is just strong enough to make it about ¾ of
the way between the houses. There is a garage with power
Or a cult of personality..
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Larry Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grassroots organizing? Could we be seeing the start of a new political
megastar
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Hi Tony,
Most colleges and universities are wired (wireless, actually) these days
and the expectation is that kids bring a laptop to campus. The
professors post assignments on class websites and the kids do their
homework papers ON THESE SITES and hit the submit button. (Actually,
my
It all depends on the value of the event. For our productions, we only
use new tapes. Once a year we sell them on ebay, where I'm sure
someone uses them 100 times over with no trouble.
Digital video won't degrade. It may get more dropouts, or more chance
of outright failure, but what picture *is*
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Larry Sacks wrote:
A friend is trying to setup a home network between 2 separate houses -
the older main house and a newly built home. There's about 500 feet
separating the 2 homes and a wireless-N signal is just strong enough to
make it about ¾ of the way between the
On Nov 17, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Larry Sacks wrote:
A friend is trying to setup a home network between 2 separate houses
- the older main house and a newly built home. There's about 500
feet separating the 2 homes and a wireless-N signal is just strong
enough to make it about ¾ of the way
That's another possibility. But which ones *really* work? There's lots and
lots of antennas out there and they're trying to avoid buying one of everything
on the market. Most of what we've seen in the various computer stores are the
smaller antennas to boost signal strength across the house
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/future-of-driving-part-3.ars/1
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A friend is trying to setup a home network between 2 separate houses -
the older main house and a newly built home. There's about 500 feet
separating the 2 homes and a wireless-N signal is just strong enough to
make it about ¾ of the way between the
Or a cult of personality..
Looks like sour grapes to me.
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Got an A/V question. We're conducting focus groups, videotaping them with
a MiniDV camera. After taping, I download the footage into iMovie, burn
A DVD. I've never been in the habit of re-using the MiniDV cassettes, but
we've got about a dozen more tapings, I was trying to cut down on
You obviously haven't used Outlook this century. Outlook 2007 is very
stable and non-buggy and my users are bugging me (no pun) to get it.
Everyone that has been upgraded from Office 2003 loves the new version
of Office. Unlike previous versions of Office, it actually is worth
buying.
I won't
.If you've got a system that you find yourself waiting on, I'd suggest
reinstalling the OS, as any modern computer should be able to run the
gui real snappy.
Yeah, I know that, but this is with systems that have a new or recent
install of the OS on them. The dual cores blow them away for
On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Larry Sacks wrote:
That's another possibility. But which ones *really* work? There's
lots and lots of antennas out there and they're trying to avoid
buying one of everything on the market. Most of what we've seen in
the various computer stores are the
This has not been my experience. Just last month I recycled one of our
old (2 yr) single core editing workstations for office use, having
replaced it with a dual core. There's simply no way anyone can discern
faster gui responses between these machines.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jeff
Our rule of thumb for Sony BetaCam cassettes was 100 passes before
automatic replacement. You can always check with the manufacturer for
the official specs. As long as error free record/playback is not your
goal, you can experiment with it. The dropouts will show up long
before the tape self
That's another possibility. But which ones *really* work? There's
lots and lots of antennas out there and they're trying to avoid
buying one of everything on the market. Most of what we've seen in
the various computer stores are the smaller antennas to boost signal
strength across
Besides Yagi, a few of the big companies (linksys, Dlink etc.) sell
outside mounted, antenna access points for situations such as yours.
There is also the possibility of using a couple of wireless repeaters
between the house and other building. One in the garage (which
simply must be plugged
As previously noted my Dell DuoCore has lost its latency snap... as is
the case with so many people's computers.
Haven't had the time to dig deep and find the cause(s). It's not that
much faster than my 6 yr old AMD Tbird chip
Reloading the computer is only a temporary fix. Creaping Sludge is
Now i have Norton and it's about ready to expire. I don't think i need all
what they have bundled in their lowest update because it's just one
computer not heavily used. It seems like Norton is only trying to appeal
to people hooked to a network.
BitDefender sells a 3 pack for $30/year (that
$500 a pair? I already know the next question that I'll get ... is there a
lower budget solution?
They just shelled out several thousand to get their driveway paved over
(apparently the gravel driveway was no longer acceptable) so their budget is
somewhat limited.
Larry
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NO! Every method we have mentioned is a three figure solution (Those
Yagi Antennas can be quite expensive.)
Check out the site Tom sent you. It allows you to do it over the
existing phone line that connects the two.
Networking is not cheap!!
Stewart
At 07:15 PM 11/17/2008, you
I can't give you exact details, I only have to go on what he tells me. He
typically works with multi-hundred MB graphic files that open and save much
more quickly, as well as conversion work, such as saving one of these files
to a different file format or a pdf, takes less time. He's shown me
I've got 2 lines phone wired throughout the house ...I am consisdering
closing out all the landlines ...to what use could those wires be or just
remain as mouse fodder? ...one thing I have considered (we are gonna remain
with 2 cell phones) is to add another cellular line and use the cordless
Probably.
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I just got comcast internet snail plan (768up) which is ok for me having
had
dialup (56k but really
How come my IBM ThinkpadX31 PM1.4 2gb ram (but the same was true before I
upgraded from 1gb ram) with exactly the same stuff running (except for lots
of ibm stuff extra) runs and performs sooo much better than my Dell
PIV2(w/intel speed boost) 1gb ram (max it will take) running the same but
none
So what's better that also will sync with pda and palm and fone?
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Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: ridda aol yeecch!
You obviously haven't used Outlook this century. Outlook 2007 is very
stable and
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Larry Sacks wrote:
$500 a pair? I already know the next question that I'll get ... is
there a lower budget solution?
They just shelled out several thousand to get their driveway paved over
(apparently the gravel driveway was no longer acceptable) so their
budget is
On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Besides Yagi, a few of the big companies (linksys, Dlink etc.) sell
outside mounted, antenna access points for situations such as yours.
Yagi is a type of antenna, not a company. A yagi is often called
beam antenna, though in
On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
NO! Every method we have mentioned is a three figure solution
(Those Yagi Antennas can be quite expensive.)
Not at all. One can obtain for less than $90 pretty good dish type
unidirectional antennas for 2.4 or 5 GHz wireless
I know there should have been a comma there. The big companies such
as Dlink and Linksys make outside mountable high dbi antennas for
transmitting wireless signals.
Comma belonged between Yagi (which is a beam antenna) and big.
An example of a Yagi antenna is the ones I used to mount on the
Plus you need to have router on one end, and a receiver on ten other end.
Many of the new routers (have you looked at them lately) are not
using external antennas.
Plus leads and a mount for your particular antennas etc. etc. It all
adds up to over $100.00 to set up.
(router $50-$70
$500 a pair? I already know the next question that I'll get ... is there
a lower budget solution?
String and 2 tin cans.
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One can obtain for less than $90 pretty good dish type
unidirectional antennas for 2.4 or 5 GHz wireless systems.
But how well will it work when it rains or snows? Check it out and see if
you can live with that.
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Yeah, I know that, but this is with systems that have a new or recent
install of the OS on them. The dual cores blow them away for system
responsiveness. Period. You work on enough systems and those
compounded seconds give me far more than a minute back. Add up the
total for the staff and
What Tom is trying to say in his usual fashion is you get what you
pay for in this case.
Cutting the corners on setting up a long distance networking
situation guarantees you connection problems. drop outs etc. etc.
The best routers out there are the gaming routers and they all run
above
I've got 2 lines phone wired throughout the house ...I am consisdering
closing out all the landlines ...to what use could those wires be or just
remain as mouse fodder?
Connect the wired lines to VOIP? Or did you get rid of DSL too?
Add to that the increasing magnitude of online mutli-media content and
the single-core argument falls flat on it's face. Try and view the
Met's new online HD broadcasts of its operas with a older or
single-core machine. It'll choke.
For that the vendors have a new trick to get you to part with
Well it would, just goes to the point.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or a cult of personality..
Looks like sour grapes to me.
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