Re: [H] Electronic Gunk ???

2005-10-16 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [H] Electronic Gunk ??? This shows up in nics and modems too, PC's need power off-on now and then. You pros may

[H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would expect NFL pages and such to be a bit slow but they are all really bad and most other pages I've gone to have been slow as well. -- Brian

RE: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Dodge
Yes I have noticed a slow down in the net and also most of the guys that post to the list the most are in the fantasy games and they are not posting as much to the list grin because they are concentrating hard on winning their games. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original

Re: [hardware] [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Steve
aahh..so it's not just meand I'm on the other side of the world... - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden To: hwg Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 6:46 AM Subject: [hardware] [H] Net slow today? Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread FORC5
must be that electronic gunk ;-) At 01:46 PM 10/16/2005, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: Is it just me or is the whole net slow today? I would expect NFL pages and such to be a bit slow but they are all really bad and most other pages I've gone to have been slow as well. -- Brian -- Tallyho

Re: [H] Firefox 1.0.7 update, FIPS on, extensions won't check for updates

2005-10-16 Thread warpmedia
Further update on my FIPS/Update issues... Well it seems there are some real issues with how they activate/initialize FIPS database because I again have found a brick wall. Seems they don't access whatever database as part of the program launch, i.e. you don't get a prompt to login until

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? must be that electronic gunk Other than pure spam, I can name one cause of wasted bandwidth on email. Clog

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Weeden
It's not email really but the non-text emails. All those fancy inline images and rich text and audio and crap. Ban all that and require all email to be plain old text and you can send as much email as you want. -- Brian

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread warpmedia
It is illegal, the law is called CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/can-spam.shtml This shutdown/controls legit paths of US sourced spam but has no effect on rogue server, off-shore servers, or millions of lUSERs that are infected/zombied with SMTP relays. One could argue

Re: [H] case

2005-10-16 Thread warpmedia
The modular PSU cable plugs are also v.cool. FORC5 wrote: aluminum case and has my attention fp

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-16 Thread FORC5
get rid of AOL, will stop 99% ;-) At 04:49 PM 10/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with: - Original Message - From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [H] Net slow today? must be that

[H] F.E.A.R. -- slowdowns

2005-10-16 Thread Veech
Got FEAR today at Circuit City... odd because it isn't supposed to be out until Tuesday. I'm having the same problems as I did with the demo. I want to play this game smoothly, but it stutters at times, especially when entering a new area, as if it's bogging down while drawing the next

Re: [H] F.E.A.R. -- slowdowns

2005-10-16 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
Hello Veech, Upgrade the RAM first. Even older titles like Far Cry, UT2004, Doom 3 and HL2 would only run smoothly for me once I had 1GB (and IIRC even 768MB). You probably know this, but keep in mind that more of slower RAM (ie. not the fancy Redline / Ballistix / ??? stuff) is always better

RE: [H] F.E.A.R. -- slowdowns

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Reeves
Both the video card and the processor will make a huge difference. You may find yourself better off, though with a 3800+ X2. Incredibly, Incredibly overclockable. I haven't overclocked spit since the Celeron 300A, but the 3800X2 overclocks as a virtual guarantee in every configuration I've ever

RE: [H] F.E.A.R. -- slowdowns

2005-10-16 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 12:10 AM 10/17/2005, you wrote: Both the video card and the processor will make a huge difference. You may find yourself better off, though with a 3800+ X2. Incredibly, Incredibly overclockable. I haven't overclocked spit since the Celeron 300A, but the 3800X2 overclocks as a virtual