RE: [H] USB Flash Drive

2005-04-12 Thread nobozoz
Rob, Your Cruzer Mini may not be mounting because another device is using the same drive letter as the Cruzer has used in the past - this has happened to me on more than one occasion on WINXP. The tell-tail sign from my experience is that the Cruzer device will be visible in Unplug or Eject

[H] network card question

2005-04-12 Thread M Danijarsa
Anybody knows if 3COM or intel network adapter is any better than the onboard nvidia network adapter on nforce4? The reason why I am asking is because I am helping my friend to setup some computers for his hotel, and we built AMD64 with MSI NEO4 motherboard. We need to install a hotel management

Re: [H] network card question

2005-04-12 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: M Danijarsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: [H] network card question Anybody knows if 3COM or intel network adapter is any better than the onboard nvidia network adapter on

Re: [H] MP3 Players

2005-04-12 Thread warpmedia
Well, until she comes home with a girlfriend! =) Neil Davidson wrote: I would assume that as a dad that would be a good thing :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski snip Interesting note, the daughter in question said that

Re: [H] Consumer HD 1080p TV's

2005-04-12 Thread Brian Weeden
The biggest issue I have with LCDs is that just about every one I see has noticeable smearing and motion blurs. I find it very distracting. Maybe it's because I have been using CRTs solely for my PC and TV monitors. Dunno. -- Brian

Re: [H] Consumer HD 1080p TV's

2005-04-12 Thread Al
Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest issue I have with LCDs is that just about every one I see has noticeable smearing and motion blurs. I find it very distracting. Maybe it's because I have been using CRTs solely for my PC and TV monitors. Dunno. I have a Sharp Aquos that's

Re: [H] Quality of Video Formats

2005-04-12 Thread Brian Weeden
It is actually a function of the compressing codec and the original source material. The quality is better because the quality of the source was better (HDTV vs analog cable) and the file size is smaller because the codec used is better (divx/mpeg-4 vs mpeg-2). -- Brian

RE: [H] Quality of Video Formats

2005-04-12 Thread James Maki
So, a black hole for equipment AND a black hole for time. Why do I let myself get sucked into these things? :( Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:16 PM To: The