Re: [H] Where's My Spam???

2006-05-02 Thread Brian Weeden
*knock on wood* I have been getting less spam with Gmail than anything else. I average about 1 per day, and they always get tagged as spam. On 5/2/06, Stan Zaske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn, I got home tonight only to be greeted with 231 SPAM emails. Thanks Blue Frog! Rob Finger wrote: I

[H] PC security class...

2006-05-02 Thread Bobby Heid
Hi all, I am going to give a little class on pc security for people at my church. I am by no means an expert on this, but I see so many things that need changing whenever I do something for so many people. I would like to get some ideas from you all on what I should cover. Off the top of my

Re: [H] Nero 7.2 Update

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Seitz
Nero6 is still the most reliable, I found 7 to be a steaming pile of buggy poo :) On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:28:24PM -0400, Bobby Heid wrote: Man, that thing takes forever to install. Thanks for the heads-up. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [H] PC security class...

2006-05-02 Thread warpmedia
Good list, a few suggestions: Unless #1 already incorporates it, the importance of running as a limited users except when loading new software, esp. for children. Also the importance of having an limited account for *each* family member to segregate damage file access. Maybe a bit of how

Re: [H] PC security class...

2006-05-02 Thread joeuser
Adding my 2 cents... Bobby Heid wrote: Hi all, I am going to give a little class on pc security for people at my church. I am by no means an expert on this, but I see so many things that need changing whenever I do something for so many people. I would like to get some ideas from you all on

[H] burned out mobo

2006-05-02 Thread Francisco Tapia
So last friday I powered off my pc (for the last time) :(. it was an Epox 8K7a+ that I've had since '92. when I went to power it back up on Monday morning, it stopped at the bios splash screen where the instructions for DEL for the setup and ESC to skip the memory test appears, except that not

Re: [H] burned out mobo

2006-05-02 Thread Raul Limos
On 5/2/06, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simply ESC. :( so now I need to look to replace the damn thing. I've looked at some mobos lightly through the months, and am intrested in a mobo that will support the opteron dual/quad cores. -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news

[H] AGP card upgrade for Quake 4

2006-05-02 Thread Veech
I'm looking to upgrade my AGP card. My current system: Asus P4C800-E board P4 3.0 2 x 1G PC3200 RAM ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB Dell 2005FPW I plan eventually to upgrade the whole system but for now I want to just upgrade the video card in order to play Quake 4 on higher settings since now the

Re: [H] AGP card upgrade for Quake 4

2006-05-02 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 12:18 PM 5/2/2006, you wrote: I'm looking to upgrade my AGP card. My current system: I plan eventually to upgrade the whole system but for now I want to just upgrade the video card in order to play Quake 4 on higher settings since now the default settings are the lowest quality with

[H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Winterlight
Is there a way to check a laptop (IBM T23) battery = time remaining, from the command line ?

Re: [H] AGP card upgrade for Quake 4

2006-05-02 Thread Veech
nVidia then is preferred over ATI? - Original Message - From: Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [H] AGP card upgrade for Quake 4 At 12:18 PM 5/2/2006, you wrote: I'm looking to upgrade

Re: [H] burned out mobo

2006-05-02 Thread Francisco Tapia
Raul, Thanks for the links, The last link looks cool, I will do some research on it, since It's the cheapest way to upgrade. I may bite the bullet and pick up something with only PCIe video :| I'm looking forward to dual core since I do more video editing these days... that would help a lot

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread warpmedia
You could roll your own with VBScript WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/power/base/getsystempowerstatus.asp Winterlight wrote: Is there a way to check a laptop (IBM T23) battery = time remaining, from the command line ?

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Seitz
If it were *nix sure :) Otherwise use that ghetto solution with VBGay and WMGay! On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:00:37PM -0400, warpmedia wrote: You could roll your own with VBScript WMI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/power/base/getsystempowerstatus.asp

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread warpmedia
Oh man, are we that limited Brian? Me thinks you dislike for the sake of disliking rather than a valid list of issues. Truth be told you could likely do it other ways by interfacing with ACPI directly but why reinvent the wheel? Bryan Seitz wrote: If it were *nix sure :) Otherwise use

Re: [H] AGP card upgrade for Quake 4

2006-05-02 Thread joeuser
For Quake 4 yes. nVidia = openglATI = direct-whatever... Veech wrote: nVidia then is preferred over ATI? - Original Message - From: Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [H] AGP card

RE: [H] Nero 7.2 Update

2006-05-02 Thread Hayes Elkins
Will they ever fix the Nerovision.exe footprint bug? Open up nerovision, burn a project, close it. Nerovision.exe still sucking away 44MB in task manager. Incompetence or ulterior motives? Who knows... From: CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To:

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Julian Zottl
Bryan a Zellot?!?!?! NEVER! ;) _ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets -- Original Message -- From: Bryan

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Seitz
Nod, unless you're playing games on it, I still *HATE* windows :) I've become a Mac OSX fan lately. Really dislike *nix on the desktop now that I have tasted the power of teh m4c 0sX :) On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:17:57PM -0400, Julian Zottl wrote: Bryan a Zellot?!?!?! NEVER! ;)

[H] Links please

2006-05-02 Thread dhs
Bro graced me with his old power station. It is a Micronics m/b that is a dual Pentium Pro board. PC is a Micron Millenia2 Pro full tower. 2940UW and zip100 drive. Nic and sound card have been tossed and replaced. Processor is a single Pentium Pro 200 VRE (3.5v). I'm still digging and

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Bryan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Command line Battery check Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:14:11 -0400 Really dislike *nix on the desktop now that I have

[H] bye bye bitboys

2006-05-02 Thread Jim Edwards
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/02/ati_buys_bitboys/

Re: [H] Command line Battery check

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Seitz
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:06:36PM -0400, Hayes Elkins wrote: From: Bryan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Command line Battery check Date: Tue, 2 May 2006

RE: [H] bye bye bitboys

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Reeves
So, what the heck did ATI acquire really? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Edwards Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] bye bye bitboys

RE: [H] bye bye bitboys

2006-05-02 Thread Hayes Elkins
For 44 **MILLION** dollars. That's a lot phone 3d accelerators in SLI. Unless BitBoys had an incredible breakthrough involving cell phone porn, this purchase by ATI is already nothing but a tax write-off for them next April. From: Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List