[H] AntiSpyware becomes Defender...

2006-02-14 Thread Stan Zaske
Microsoft AntiSpyware has gone to Beta 2 status and is now called, "Window's Defender". Check it out if you want one more tool for your XP box. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4515857

Re: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Greg Sevart
Okay, that's cool, I'll buy that...but just in a more general sense, it amazes me how popular BT remains despite the fact that it is the most heavily monitored of any P2P technology. I don't touch any of it. Seems stupid to me--but again, that's just me. Greg - Original Message - Fro

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Reeves
Moreover, any show that has as it's tag line "Fair Use has a Posse" ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:59 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd" Channel 4 is

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Reeves
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/ (ie, see the "Watch Online Now!") Yes, you can only download in the UK, but that is primarily a bandwidth issue. CW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Tuesday

Re: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Bryan Seitz
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:35:34PM -0600, Greg Sevart wrote: > It never ceases to amaze me how many people still blindly download things > using bittorrent. > > Personally, I wouldn't go near it with a 10ft pole, ESPECIALLY if using a > cable provider (comcast?), but that's me I guess. Uh... wh

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Reeves
Channel 4 is a public owned network in the UK. They put out the files themselves on the internet each week for free download for anyone in the UK. It then spreads, of course, but uh, sharing "The IT Crowd" is not the same as most content - the network itself packages a nice version for the web. C

Re: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Greg Sevart
It never ceases to amaze me how many people still blindly download things using bittorrent. Personally, I wouldn't go near it with a 10ft pole, ESPECIALLY if using a cable provider (comcast?), but that's me I guess. Greg - Original Message - From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Alex
I just grabbed all 4 episodes of IT Crowd in approx 10 mins via bittorrent. That usually means it's extremely popular. Good sign :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:16 PM > To: The Ha

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Hunter, Gary
It's silly, its juvenile, but it's a bit of mindless fun in a world that needs to lighten up a little. You mentioned the office earlier, which do you prefer the UK version or the US version. I am very impressed with the US version much better than any of the other comedies they have tried to copy

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Reeves
The moment in the first episode where they answered the phone: "have you tried turning it off then on again" .. yeah, it could be better, and it's growing into it, but it has that cagey british comedy feel to it that gets me :) CW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd"

2006-02-14 Thread Hunter, Gary
But they came :-) I loved his answer machine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:24 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] British TV: "The IT Crowd" It's just British comedy, but the bit

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:09 PM 2/14/2006, Hayes Elkins typed: Neither is there an antivirus tool that detects 100% of viruses. So next time you suspect a variant of STONED, better be safe than sorry and format. I haven't been stoned in forever & neither has any computer that I've worked on altho I vaguely remem

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Christopher Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:53:05 -0500 (EST) On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: What about the ones no

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Hayes Elkins
Just like viri - wait a day. Christ, you act like rootkits are unbreakable. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html "RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender" What about the one

[H] Nero 6.6 questions

2006-02-14 Thread Winterlight
How in the hell do I get the help files to work in Nero 6.6. I download the chm files and run them but nothing. it keeps asking me to find nero.hlp but it doesn't exist. How do I get Nero 6.6 to include the txt information... track and artist when I burn a CD so that it appears on program

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 11:31 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote: For me a keyboard is a keyboard, is there any significant difference between the ones that cost $20 and $120? I'll probably just nab one off of NewEgg. I do some moderate gaming, but I rarely program a bunch of hot-keys. Any recs would be appreciated.. I'm pa

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread JRS
LOL. I still use a couple orginal IBM clickey keyboards with the buckling spring switches from the 80's. They work as well now as they did then and I love that clicky feel. :) >>My feelings after many keyboards has come down to this: Get one that >>uses switches not membrane. >> >>That

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread jeff.lane
I still have an old Keytronic KB101-1 capacitance keyboard. It is the finest keyboard I have ever usedbar none. None of the others are even close. These new membrane boards are strictly throwaways and certainly not worth wasting any repair time on. Are the two boards you have physically dama

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread warpmedia
My feelings after many keyboards has come down to this: Get one that uses switches not membrane. That's after 1. Owning 2 Keytronics, who voided my lifetime warranty for "spillage" caused by spaying cleaner on the keyboard (i.e. bullshit excuse). 2. MS Natural, Rev 1 or so. Printing wore off

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread Gary VanderMolen
It's mostly a personal preference. I've had $10 keyboards that I liked, and $50 keyboards that I didn't like. For me its the tactile feedback that counts. I don't like keys that feel spongy or springy. Also, a slightly audible key click is good, but some make way too much 'clackity' noise. Gary V

Re: [H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread FORC5
personally like Keytronic with the large enter key. fp At 10:31 AM 2/14/2006, Veech Poked the stick with: >For me a keyboard is a keyboard, is there any significant difference between >the ones that cost $20 and $120? I'll probably just nab one off of NewEgg. >I do some moderate gaming, but I rar

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: What about the ones not published? Well, according to Systernals, it would take technology not yet seen in a rootkit to get around Rootkit Revealer. It would have to be specifically written to intercept RR calls to directly look at the regis

Re: [H] External USB 2.0 enclosure recommendations.

2006-02-14 Thread warpmedia
It's Oxford 922, I'd be interested if it had the same Delayed Write Failure issues of other chipsets (including the 911) when used via firewire & Windows XP. Bobby Heid wrote: I decided to go quality on this and ended up going with the Rosewill RX30-U2FAB enclosure found here: http://www.new

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 01:56 PM 14/02/2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: Christ, you act like rootkits are unbreakable. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html "RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, incl

RE: [H] External USB 2.0 enclosure recommendations.

2006-02-14 Thread Bobby Heid
I decided to go quality on this and ended up going with the Rosewill RX30-U2FAB enclosure found here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817173014. Thanks for the pointer on the chipsets. In case anyone is interested, I came across this fairly informative write-up on fatwallet.c

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with badvirus infestation

2006-02-14 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: Christ, you act like rootkits are unbreakable. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html "RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender" What ab

Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread Sam Franc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a Samsung SV8004H hard drive on Hewlett Packard that I want to do a clean install on. In times past, Seagate came to my rescue, but not this time. I tried FDISK and the XP Installation process, to no av

RE: [H] Suggested tools for helping a friend with bad virusinfestation

2006-02-14 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: You are aware of the exploit on the GDI libraries right? Data files and what seems like datafiles are extremely common vectors of attack now. And please tell me your joking about virus scanning software actually being your testcase for success. Yes, I'm

[H] Are all keyboards basically the same?

2006-02-14 Thread Veech
For me a keyboard is a keyboard, is there any significant difference between the ones that cost $20 and $120? I'll probably just nab one off of NewEgg. I do some moderate gaming, but I rarely program a bunch of hot-keys. Any recs would be appreciated..

RE: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread Hayes Elkins
When formatting a new disk with XP on >40GB disks, you will typically have an 8MB leftover partition assuming you use NTFS. From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H Date: Tue, 14

Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a Samsung Thanks for the help. I went to Google afte

Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread Jamie Furtner
Why not look at the DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) disk - it should help to blow the partition table and everything away. Jamie On Tue, February 14, 2006 9:04 am, Wayne Johnson wrote: > At 10:36 AM 2/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > >> I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB parti

Re: [H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:36 AM 2/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a Samsung SV8004H hard drive on Hewlett Packard that I want to do a clean install on. In times past, Seagate came to my rescue, but not this time. I tried FDISK and the XP Install

[H] Low Level Format of Samsung SV8004H

2006-02-14 Thread chuck
I have tried all I have to get rid of the little 8 MB partition on a Samsung SV8004H hard drive on Hewlett Packard that I want to do a clean install on. In times past, Seagate came to my rescue, but not this time. I tried FDISK and the XP Installation process, to no avail. Samsung says it disc

Re: [H] ok, how about this...

2006-02-14 Thread Jim Edwards
Ok, y'all sucked me in. When I can't get there on my Harley, my Toyota Tacoma can get me anywhere. Both are great on gas. 6 cylinders total here. The 13" we just got this weekend, child's play. The Toy has the 2.7 Ltr 4 and it is a mule. Hell, according to the manual, I can use the starter (in