RE: [H] Time taken to convert an Avi?

2005-03-24 Thread Mark Dodge
I use VSO xvid2DVD it generally takes about an hour to do a 90 min. avi and then auto burns it to a DVD. The only time now I use SVCD2DVD is to extract SVCD's from .bin's and then combine them if there are two disks and then burn a DVD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: A friend of mine is having a problem sending mail with both OE and Eudora. Mail comes in ok, but the system times out during sends. I can telnet to the smtp server he is using, and login, so there is connectivity, and his other computer (he has

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:48 AM 24/03/2005, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: A friend of mine is having a problem sending mail with both OE and Eudora. Mail comes in ok, but the system times out during sends. I can telnet to the smtp server he is using, and login, so there is

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:04 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. I've also seen where the TCP/IP was screwed up in the network adaptor settings as compared

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:09 AM 24/03/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 09:04 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. I've also seen where the TCP/IP was screwed up

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:29 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: What did you do to fix this? Renew the IP address? I've found that works if the all the settings for that NIC are on automatic but in this case they appeared to have been placed manually incorrectly when compared to the router which was acting as

[H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom

2005-03-24 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 09:29 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: What did you do to fix this? Renew the IP address? I've found that works if the all the settings for that NIC are on automatic but in this case they appeared to have been placed manually incorrectly when

[H] Firefox 1.0.2 security update

2005-03-24 Thread Francisco Tapia
http://getfirefox.com -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...

Re: [H] More defrag benches

2005-03-24 Thread joeuser
Agreed. Thane Sherrington wrote: Two more machines: 6/14% fragmention - 12% speed increase 27%/54% fragmentation - 15% speed increase. On the first machine, Windows defrag said it didn't need defragging, on the second it did. Given the similarity of speed increases, I think Windows defrag

RE: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom

2005-03-24 Thread Mark Dodge
I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it

Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom

2005-03-24 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
This is also a bus-car on the main road. The picture is a composite, took them a while to 'click' it all. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is

Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom

2005-03-24 Thread Francisco Tapia
thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge

Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom

2005-03-24 Thread Al
Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... The

Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Gary VanderMolen
Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - One thing is for sure ... there is no way in hell this would happen here in Australia because we make a legal point of it that all telephone systems

Re: [H] DVD File Formats

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I finally did it with Nero. My mistake was going in through Nero Smartstart. If you go into Nero Burning ROM, you can select the format, it presents you with two directories (audio_ts, video_ts) to stuff your files into and then just burn away. Worked first time Steve Choose open files

Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Al
Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. USA; the home of corporate greed for the last 150 years or so... I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East.

Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. True. But Islamic free trade disallows interest... makes for a completely different system. Can you imagine Enron without all the convoluted banking tricks? On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:53:46 -0700,

RE: [H] Best bang for buck - budget system

2005-03-24 Thread Chris Reeves
If you're going to re-use case, PATA HD (hopefully a CDROM, floppy in there) and you need a good bang-buck $400, here you go: 3000+ AMD ($149); 512MB ($54); NF3/250 basic board ($89); 5700 vid ($90) Less then $400. Hell, if you want less with at least upgrade options, change the 3000+ to a

[H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call

2005-03-24 Thread Francisco Tapia
mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...

Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Al
G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True. But Islamic free trade disallows interest... makes for a completely different system. Can you imagine Enron without all the convoluted banking tricks? Not surprised. After all it was Western Man who figured out how to make a weapon from

Re: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call

2005-03-24 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
Now ya see? With GPS and a small warhead this could have been permanently solved. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:18 -0800, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon!

Re: [H] Problems sending mail

2005-03-24 Thread Catalin Caranfil
Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. Also it might be possible that his ISP is blocking outgoing SMTP ... not so stupid as it might first look ... Catalin

Re: [H] More defrag benches

2005-03-24 Thread warpmedia
Considering that windows defrag is either Norton Speed Disk (win98) or Diskeeper (2K above), I'd imagine that has more to do with settings (or lack of) then the defragger being flawed. There's more to these numbers than simple %'s show and there's no defrag setting that fits all sizes. The

Re: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call

2005-03-24 Thread warpmedia
As would better imigration law enforcement. G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: Now ya see? With GPS and a small warhead this could have been permanently solved. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:18 -0800, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco

RE: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
It's not so much a consumer thing but rather an essential services thing. The Telecommunications Act here clearly states that all homes must have a phone line in the premises and all lines must have at least access to emergency services even if the line is otherwise disabled to the consumer. I

RE: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
This is a real phone call? She's a f__king dope! I would've sent down a deputy to slap her out! Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: