A few weeks ago, we carried on a conversation in which I said: The Asus P5N-E
is the best value board I've seen for Core2. Turns out someone else has done
the reviews and concurs:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2894&p=5
CW
Avoid Vonage like the plague!
The service is good as long as you don't need them to
do anything for
you from a customer support standpoint.
Took over 3 months for them to port my number. Mind
you not because it
took that long, but because they dropped the ball
doing the port. To
cover their as
So are you using Vonage from your PC or did you get one of those
handsets that plugs into a router/network connection?
I have also heard that some people are using VOIP over their cell
phone and that you can get some phones now that can connect to either
Wi-Fi or cell networks. That would be coo
I switched to Vonage about a year ago. We have family everywhere, my wife still
has lots of family in Jamaica, and my sister lives in Japan. Vonage's coverage
and quality of service is pretty good. So far I'm happy with it
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
-Original Message-
About a year ago my wife and I ditched the landline and use only cell
phones. Everything is working great, except for international calls.
Her family is in Canada. Cingular charges $0.20/min to Canada and if
you pay them the $3.00/mo for their special international rates
service it goes down to
I've got a guy who spends his time bitching to me that his e6700 overclocked to
3.4g with sli 8800gtx doesn't score as high as he thinks it should on 3dMark06.
Some people can never be pleased
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
-Original Message-
From: "Raul Limos" <[EMAIL PR
On 12/28/06, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd just be leery of a claim that where stability wasn't being considered.
Yeah, me too :).
Good choices, but not upgrading to new WMP is also
part of the package
if you want to avoid and nasty MS DRM surprises &
processes cropping up
on your system.
Brian Weeden wrote:
> Forgot to mention that was a suggestion for audio.
For video, I also
> just use media player classic and/or ZoomP
At 02:14 PM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
In all seriousness. If I compared the number of people that we had
bring us borked machines with mcafee or norton to those with borked
machines and avast... No AV software is perfect but I would trust
Avast over Norton (non corp) any day. While Symantecs corp
At 11:37 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
At 08:44 PM 26/12/2006, - wrote:
ClamAV, freeware:
I've read some bad stuff about ClamAV as well.
I tried it on one of my setups it is only a scanner, and worse,
it's a very slow scanner. On a system with 550GB it took Clam about
16 hours to complet
In all seriousness. If I compared the number of people that we had bring us
borked machines with mcafee or norton to those with borked machines and
avast... No AV software is perfect but I would trust Avast over Norton (non
corp) any day. While Symantecs corporate product is good, their desktop
Have you tried the home/noncommerial version of avast? That logic might need
some updating.
Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=
At 08:44 PM 26/12/2006, - wrote:
>ClamAV, freeware:
I've read some bad stuff about ClamAV as well. Perhaps it has gotten
better, but I
At 08:44 PM 26/12/2006, - wrote:
ClamAV, freeware:
I've read some bad stuff about ClamAV as well. Perhaps it has gotten
better, but I look at it this way:
Anti-virus - $49 per year, $4.08 per month, 0.14 per day. If your
data is worth less than $0.14 per day than just go with no AV at al
At 12:57 PM 27/12/2006, Raul Limos wrote:
He was fooling around with the proc and how far it could go. He did
mention, "If I wanted stability, I would have used a better RAM that
runs at stock of DDR2-800 and aftermarket cooler."
The overclocking possibilities are there for this proc at a chea
- Original Message -
From: "Thane Sherrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [hardware] [H] Article on Vista Premium Content Protection
Not sure if this guy is out to lunch or not, but it's an interesting read.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
T
I'm not qual
Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=
At 02:04 PM 12/27/2006, Anthony Q. Martin typed:
>What's confusing is that upon the initial build of this computer I
>didn't have that SR2 version of WinXP. Yet, both drives formatted
>out at full capacity.
>
>Who knows?
:Didn't you
Got back in town last night
As near as I can tell, this WinXP vs WinXPSR2 LBA thingie was the problem. I
started the build using plain WinXP and decided to use another copy I had
bought that had SP2 built in (how one can forget). So, apparently SP2 say that
initial partition and just went
The avast home edition is free to home users for non commerical use. If you
ask me, this is a very, very good deal as the AV program benefits from the
other commerical development efforts (pro, etc.).
- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=
> Thane Sherrington
> At 03:44 PM 23/12/20
Classic is 6.4 as far as I'm concerned
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
-Original Message-
From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:20:15
To:The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Media Player 11
At 07:33 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
>Forgot to mention that
At 07:33 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
Forgot to mention that was a suggestion for audio. For video, I also
just use media player classic and/or ZoomPlayer.
by classic do you mean version 9 or 10?
I actually use QT Alternative as well, and another great freebie is VLC from
Videolan, works on the Linux and Windows side.
I have used it to get video working in Windows XP, SuSE 10.2, and Ubuntu. SuSE
won't include codecs and such due to the licensing
issues, so installing Videolan solves t
On 12/26/06, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"I am not after stability, just clockage." In my book, it isn't an
overclock unless it's stable.
He was fooling around with the proc and how far it could go. He did
mention, "If I wanted stability, I would have used a better RAM that
Forgot to mention that was a suggestion for audio. For video, I also
just use media player classic and/or ZoomPlayer.
On 12/27/06, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would stay far, far away from WMP11 unless you have one of those MP3
players that requires it. As an alternative I would
I would stay far, far away from WMP11 unless you have one of those MP3
players that requires it. As an alternative I would suggest
MediaMonkey:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
On 12/27/06, JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Had an interesting WMP 11 incident the other day.
Left it running minimized,
Had an interesting WMP 11 incident the other day.
Left it running minimized, and woke up the next day to an error message
that "XP had increased my swap space since I was out of memory".
Checked task manager and found that WMP11 was taking up some 789 megs of
Memory, or 3/4 of a gig...
Ta
> In the last Autoupdate I installed IE7 but declined Media
> Player 11, because of all the DRM issues. Am I right? Should
> I stay with 10 or is this a worthwhile update?
What DRM issues? If you just mean that it can handle DRM, which no-one in
their right mind would go near, then there shou
Not sure if this guy is out to lunch or not, but it's an interesting read.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
T
27 matches
Mail list logo
