Re: [H] eide/pata

Thanks DH, My reply was slightly misunderstood. I see it below, I left out some commas. Any old PCI MB will take an UltraATA controller card and run that drive. BUT --- WITH the right OS AND card drivers. The problems with the OS I referred to was finding a card chipset driver for the OS

Re: [H] Thunderbird Problems (the Email not the car!)

I admit I have not followed this thread, but unless I'm missing something, it seems to boil down to port 25 blocking. (IMHO) I never have THAT problem and most of my e-mail is sent to all different hosting services and THEIR personal servers on higher port numbers. I send NO e-mail through my ISP

Re: [H] Thunderbird Problems (the Email not the car!)

Hi Rick, I think you're right--I at least don't disagree with anything you said :) I'm glad my current ISP does not block port 25 anymore. My last two--Cox and SBC--did. Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but I was just saying that if you're connected to the internet via Cox, you can

Re: [H] eide/pata

I see where you were coming from with that now Rick. Personally the Maxtor branded Promise ATA133 controller+driver under Win2K or XP gave me no lasting issues but that's about 5 years ago... Onto Linux: Given CodeWeavers little publicity stunt, I'm again seriously looking at booting my linux

[H] need iPod help ?

Bought my son a iPod to find out does not play with windows media player, unless I use itunes sw or buy a plug in. Any other options ? Thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM and competing monopolies. You only solution is to live in Apple's world (ie use iTunes) or go with another program (like Poddox http://www.poddox.com/). But either way I'm pretty sure you can't use windows media player, and positive that if you buy anything

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

I don't get why people hate on iTunes so much. The interface is dead easy to use and the software works great. If you don't want to buy media with Apple DRM then either buy DRM free stuff from iTunes or buy from Amazon. When you buy from Amazon it automatically ends up in your iTunes library.

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

I use iTunes with my iPhone and don't consider it that bad, as long as you play in Apple's universe. And microsoft is just as bad with the Zune and the whole PlaysForSure crap. iTunes has gotten worse and more bloated over the years. And Apple is adopting some microsoft tactics like

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

thanks, should of done homework first. did find some sw that claim to allow sync with ipod but itunes is a free dl ( I think ) ? Will itunes allow me to use my existing library of mp3's ? thanks again. DRM bummer. Never expected this. Have a customer box with itunes installed, may hook up to

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

Yep. iTunes is good with mp3s and most other non-DRM music formats (not sure about FLAC). But it won't work with DRM'd wma files. My collection is almost 100% mp3s and I use iTunes, works pretty well for me. --- Brian Weeden Technical Consultant Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

downloaded a 30 day trial plug in http://www.mgtek.com/dopisp/ works perfectly worth $20 I think time will tell, right now everything in the puter has been in sync , thanks fp At 07:06 PM 10/29/2008, FORC5 Poked the stick with: thanks, should of done homework first. did find some sw that

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

I mean, why would I not care to play in Apple's universe? I have an iPhone, the iTunes software plays nice with it. It's easy to use. Does a damn good job of organizing my media, makes tagging very easy, makes ripping a CD very easy, and generally is so simple even my wife and her parents can

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

Is the problem that you already had your library in Windows Media player? Because Media Monkey would have worked fine for syncing your ipod and is free. FORC5 wrote: downloaded a 30 day trial plug in http://www.mgtek.com/dopisp/ works perfectly worth $20 I think time will tell, right now

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

I just got a Zen X-Fi 16gb, works well, plug n play, drag n drop device recognition, don't need to install and use any software or evn choose to use Windows Media Player. better than the ipods I've used lately, I just hate what itunes has turned into. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [H] need iPod help ?

still running on 30 day trial, will look into media monkey yes all we have is in media player some really old, de je vue 60's for me 8-) fp thanks At 08:21 PM 10/29/2008, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: Is the problem that you already had your library in Windows Media player? Because Media