Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread Greg Sevart
Because the GF4 is a DirectX 8 part, and I guess MCE requires the fully programmable pixel pipelines DX9 provides. Greg - Original Message - From: "Brian Weeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
On 3/25/06, Jin-Wei Tioh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wait a minute... you're running MCE 2005 withe GF4 Ti4400? > Thought that wasn't possible (seeing as MCE 2005 uses VMR 9). > > Wouldn't the minimum be a GeForce FX or 9x00 (x=5,6,7,8)? > It's a perfectly fine video card with onboard MPEG-2 proc

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Jeff Lane
Comcast here in Spokane is $42.95(if you subscribe to cable..~$55 if you don't) for 4MB down and 384 up(and that just went up a couple of months ago). DSL is limited here...not many COsso the bandits have no competition. Phone company Quest is making some noise but I wonder if they are very

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Stan Zaske
If you know the name of the file your looking for just shop around until you find the fastest speed and shut the others down. Works for me. Bill wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of CW Sent: Saturday, March 2

Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 08:06 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: Sometimes when I go to load a video file in MCE it will freeze. When I remote log in to see what's going on using VNC is when its gets really intersting. ---SNIP--- I am using an nVidia GeForce ti4400 video card with nVidia 81.98 Forceware drivers. I have MCE

Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread CW
Geforce 4400 is not a supported device. Supported devices must be DX9 HW Compatible, otherwise you run into this kind of issue. If you had a 5200, this would not happen :) -Original message- From: "Brian Weeden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:07:43 -0600 To: hwg hardware@h

Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
It's your video / capture drivers and probably has something to do with video overlay. This sort of thing happens all the time with ATI AIW etc. It is a bitch to solve with ATI. I make my builds with sequential images, and then backup the OS every two weeks, just so I can go back to a working v

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
It's $20 off for six months for me, plus $5 off for using their phone product. The 2Mb cap is non-existant, real world upload is just under 5Mb. Funny thing is that the "normal" package subscribers report DL as good as premier accounts. Tons of bandwith here in the Washington DC area for the ta

[H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Sometimes when I go to load a video file in MCE it will freeze. When I remote log in to see what's going on using VNC is when its gets really intersting. I can CTL-ALT-DEL and kill the MCE shell giving the remote desktop the standard windows desktop. But onscreen the TV is still showing the froz

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Greg Sevart
Yeah. According to this page: http://www.cox.com/Fairfax/HighSpeedInternet/premier.asp it is 15/2 in Fairfax, for $55/mo. You on the $20 off for 3 months promo? NOVA and DC are the two places I knew for certain Cox was offering 15/2. They're pushing 9/1 in other competitive areas around the coun

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:19 PM 3/25/2006, Winterlight typed: Not COX where I am ... still paying 39.95 for 4Mb/s down and 512Kb upand I am standing 20 feet away from a fiber optic line. where was this? No FIOS here as of yet but I'm getting 5m/.5m D/U for $39.95 here & I've routinely downloaded 15g whil

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
Fairfax county (Virginia) From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:18:53 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday,

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
Haven't tried this one yet - what was the advantage for you? From: CW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: "The Hardware List" Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:12:34 -0600 I used to use Azareus, but I found and switched to uTorrent, and am ve

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
At 04:12 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: I used to use Azareus, but I found and switched to uTorrent, and am very, very happy. Yes! I have always used uTorrent ,and have never understood why all the excitement for Azareus. I run uTorrent from within a VM. I love the way the entire program is a sing

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
At 03:29 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: I average about 1.2-1.6MB (that's bytes, not bits) on a well seeded torrent. Hopefully as Verizon rolls out FIOS in your areas The day that happens it will be hasta la vista COX!

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Greg Sevart
- Original Message - From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 2003 called Cable and phone companies are giving bandwidth away these days. Thank goodness for FIOS (not that I wo

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread CW
I used to use Azareus, but I found and switched to uTorrent, and am very, very happy. -Original message- From: "Hayes Elkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:05:47 -0600 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem > And forgot to mention Azureus i

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread CW
That's a good point. All of the 'legit" stuff is super, super fast. Hell, AutoPatcher, Linux Distros, etc. available via bittorrent fly downstream. -Original message- From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:04:32 -0600 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
I average about 1.2-1.6MB (that's bytes, not bits) on a well seeded torrent. Hopefully as Verizon rolls out FIOS in your areas the competition will bring prices down. From: warpmedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent prob

RE: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Neil Davidson
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > 2003 called > > Cable and phone companies are giving bandwidth away these > days. Thank goodness for FIOS (not that I would ever touch > anything from Verizon) - their precense made Cox drop my > broadband bill to 29.99 and upped my download to 15Mb/s and > uploads t

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread warpmedia
They supposedly are throttling which is why people change their ports to from what I read. Been using 52525 as per some writeup about Azuerus but have not confirmed it's better or maybe too commonly used so throttled also. Never see a d/l over 200KB/sec here. Bill wrote: -Original Me

RE: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Bill
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:20 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem But that's > > At 12:03 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: > >HAHAHAHAHAHAHA >

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
At 12:03 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 2003 called Cable and phone companies are giving bandwidth away these days. Thank goodness for FIOS (not that I would ever touch anything from Verizon) - their precense made Cox drop my broadband bill to 29.99 and upped my download to 15Mb

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
And forgot to mention Azureus is perhaps the best program of any P2P in how it handles massive >4GB files. I would never use .torrents if it were not for this program. From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitT

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Hayes Elkins
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 2003 called Cable and phone companies are giving bandwidth away these days. Thank goodness for FIOS (not that I would ever touch anything from Verizon) - their precense made Cox drop my broadband bill to 29.99 and upped my download to 15Mb/s and uploads to 5Mb/s. 5GB of d

RE: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
> why? doesn't KnoppMyth R5A30 support NTFS? > Read only though isn't it? Good that I found that out. I am going to put together a KnoppMyth R5A30 setup with parts out of my boneyard using a >>> Tyan Tiger dual PIII board, dual PIII 1Ghz CPUs, 750megs of Crucial PCI33 CAS2 ECC RAM Couple o

RE: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Bill
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CW > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 7:34 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem > > Christ, I don't know about that. I get ISOs (DVD ISOs) via Torrent > (Man

RE: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Neil Davidson
> At 06:57 AM 3/25/2006, you wrote: > >You know, sometimes it is the simplest of problems. > > > >I forgot I had kept all my partitions in FAT32 in case I > ever decided > >to use MythTV > > why? doesn't KnoppMyth R5A30 support NTFS? > Read only though isn't it?

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Winterlight
At 06:57 AM 3/25/2006, you wrote: You know, sometimes it is the simplest of problems. I forgot I had kept all my partitions in FAT32 in case I ever decided to use MythTV why? doesn't KnoppMyth R5A30 support NTFS?

Re: [H] DVD Copy 4 => iPod

2006-03-25 Thread warpmedia
Cool thanks for the heads up! Hadn't realized these were starting to come from big vendors like APC. Bryan Seitz wrote: I can't recall the ranges but the 60 is 3-6 HR I think? and the 80 is 4-8? The 60 can be had for about $120. On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:06:09PM -0500, warpmedia wrote: Is t

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread warpmedia
Same is true of other legit stuff like podcasts also. CW wrote: Christ, I don't know about that. I get ISOs (DVD ISOs) via Torrent (Mandrake is a great example) which are 6.77G or whatever, and generally I get around 400k/s. So, just start in the evening, done by the morning. -Original

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread warpmedia
Also depends on the volume of peers to the ratio of leecher shit heads. I have less of an issue with speed and more of one with getting multi-hundred MB files that are NULL data when looking for my fav TV shows. Must be an active campaign to thwart P2P sharing of TV shows putting up these file

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread CW
Christ, I don't know about that. I get ISOs (DVD ISOs) via Torrent (Mandrake is a great example) which are 6.77G or whatever, and generally I get around 400k/s. So, just start in the evening, done by the morning. -Original message- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
Not really. BT breaks up all files no matter how big into small pieces and is uploading/downloading them all at the same time. But it's not uncommon to wait a couple of days for a download that big. I'm in no hurry :) On 3/25/06, Anthony Q. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my question is thi

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
my question is this: how do you get a 5GB file via a torrent..it's so friggin slow to get files that way. Brian Weeden wrote: You know, sometimes it is the simplest of problems. I forgot I had kept all my partitions in FAT32 in case I ever decided to use MythTV instead of MCE. Hmmm...now a di

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
You know, sometimes it is the simplest of problems. I forgot I had kept all my partitions in FAT32 in case I ever decided to use MythTV instead of MCE. Hmmm...now a dilemma. On 3/25/06, Thane Sherrington (S) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:18 AM 25/03/2006, Brian Weeden wrote: > >I have notic

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 12:18 AM 25/03/2006, Brian Weeden wrote: I have noticed recently with a few torrents that when I load them in the program (right now I am using uTorrent but this affects Azureus as well) it gives me a "Not eough free space on the drive" error. Even when I am downloading a 5GB file onto a driv