Re: [H] Compaq Evo CD Drive

2007-06-04 Thread j maccraw
Ah, I thought he was replacing an internal Compaq drive with another internal. Ben Ruset wrote: > Yeah, but this is including the enclosure. > > j maccraw wrote: >> Slim DVD burners like used in laptops & slim bay >> desktops are < $70. This for NEC or Sony of the top of my head. >> >> >> Ben Ru

Re: [H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Hayes Elkins
Check again, all youtube videos are stored as .flv in your browser cache. In the case of IE, it's in Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ The .flv will be named some nonsense like 262ihu2iyug235uh2hi235.flv - a good test for you would be to clear your cache and

Re: [H] Compaq Evo CD Drive

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
Yeah, but this is including the enclosure. j maccraw wrote: Slim DVD burners like used in laptops & slim bay desktops are < $70. This for NEC or Sony of the top of my head. Ben Ruset wrote: Plextor makea a slim bus powered DVD burner. Newegg is out of stock but has them for $140. Honestly

Re: [H] Compaq Evo CD Drive

2007-06-04 Thread j maccraw
Slim DVD burners like used in laptops & slim bay desktops are < $70. This for NEC or Sony of the top of my head. Ben Ruset wrote: > Plextor makea a slim bus powered DVD burner. Newegg is out of stock but > has them for $140. Honestly, I think you're probably SOL on the Compaq > burner. Fortuna

Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition

2007-06-04 Thread j maccraw
My typo, it's XP Pro gold that can't be slipstreamed. Know bug posted all over. FORC5 wrote: > last one I got did slip stream just fine, had to do a restore and the original was sp1 so I figured WTF, nLite worked fine on it and it installed swell. > Only xp home though > fp > > At 03:24 AM 6/4/

Re: [H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Thanks. I could not find any .flv files on my machine. I'll try this one out tomorrow (I use firefox at work). Ben Ruset wrote: Firefox plus the "Download Embedded" plugin will work great for this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1993 Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Is there a way to

Re: [H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Brian Weeden
The firefox plugin above works well with Youtube and a few others but not with sites like Maxim. -- Brian On 6/4/07, Hayes Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Youtube files are saved as .flv files I believe, you can use an .flv player to play downloaded copies in your browser cache. >From: "An

Re: [H] Thunderbird crawls.

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
I have never seen slowness like you have. In the latest versions of TB there is an option to have it auto compact folders and -not- prompt you to do it (older versions prompted you all the time and it was a pain.) I have had great luck using TB as my primary email client. Sam Franc wrote: No

Re: [H] Thunderbird crawls.

2007-06-04 Thread Sam Franc
No plugins running. I campacted the folders and that helped I have not been doing that as It seems to put all the downloads in my Inbox along with the correct folders they are filtered to. It just did that again when I compacted. Is that a built in fault? Sam Ben Ruset wrote: Do you have any p

RE: [H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Hayes Elkins
Youtube files are saved as .flv files I believe, you can use an .flv player to play downloaded copies in your browser cache. From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Saving YouTube Videos Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:28:01 -040

Re: [H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
Firefox plus the "Download Embedded" plugin will work great for this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1993 Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Is there a way to save to hard drive a YouTube video that plays inside a browser on some webpage? I'm building up a powerpoint presentation and I'

[H] Saving YouTube Videos

2007-06-04 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Is there a way to save to hard drive a YouTube video that plays inside a browser on some webpage? I'm building up a powerpoint presentation and I'm not sure I can count on internet access at the location where I will present the presentation...hence, I'd live to have it play from my HD. I ca

Re: [H] Thunderbird crawls.

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
Do you have any plugins running? Have you compacted all of your folders? Sam Franc wrote: My Thunderbird has just slowed down in it's operations very badly. Even in typing, the words do not sometimes show up on the screen for a few seconds after typing them. When I delete a message it takes 2

[H] Thunderbird crawls.

2007-06-04 Thread Sam Franc
My Thunderbird has just slowed down in it's operations very badly. Even in typing, the words do not sometimes show up on the screen for a few seconds after typing them. When I delete a message it takes 2 seconds to work and then another 2 seconds for the next message to appear. I use Avast on a

[H] Looks like the Radeon 2900XT sucks in DX10 games too.

2007-06-04 Thread Hayes Elkins
Behold, the first commercially available DirectX 10 game available. http://www.legitreviews.com/article/507/3/ (LR also have previous DX10 benchmarks for unreleased games on their site, where ATI sucks just as bad) _ PC Magazine’

Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition

2007-06-04 Thread FORC5
last one I got did slip stream just fine, had to do a restore and the original was sp1 so I figured WTF, nLite worked fine on it and it installed swell. Only xp home though fp At 03:24 AM 6/4/2007, j maccraw Poked the stick with: >There are also at least 2 kinds of Dell XP OEM CD's, >normal one

Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
Every single Dell system I have worked on from the Win2k days on up (NT4 based machines shipped with a Microsoft branded NT4 OEM CD) have come with a VLK cd. Also, depending on when you bought the machine, it will have SP2 or not. I'm staring at a Dell OEM recovery disc with SP2 right now. j m

Re: [H] Compaq Evo CD Drive

2007-06-04 Thread Ben Ruset
Plextor makea a slim bus powered DVD burner. Newegg is out of stock but has them for $140. Honestly, I think you're probably SOL on the Compaq burner. Fortunately the Plextor replacement should be cheaper than the Compaq replacement. Winterlight wrote: I am working on a Compaq Evo 510 Ultra Sl

Re: [H] Compaq hidden partition

2007-06-04 Thread j maccraw
The CD's we get with systems, maybe I've not looked to see what OEM crap is chained into the Dell XP CD's I have. I also assumed Dell send techs out with a customized Windows install or SysPrep'd image. There are also at least 2 kinds of Dell XP OEM CD's, normal ones that need keys and VLK ones