[H] OT - Thank god for Direct TV

2006-09-24 Thread Brian Weeden
Nothing like waking up and sitting down to 7 games in beautiful HD. -- Brian

Re: [H] Acrobat install woes...

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Weeden
No problems at all yet either with viewing normal PDFs, viewing inside web pages, or printing. And they are free so why not give them a try :) On 9/20/06, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:14 PM 19/09/2006, Brian Weeden wrote: I've been using Foxit as a free pdf reader

Re: [H] iMac time...

2006-09-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Remember, you can always dual boot windows on it or run it in Parallels to play your games. That is what I am looking to do - use the Mac for multimedia and internet, use Windows for games. Ben Ruset wrote: Are there any (Mac) games that can take advantage of that video card? joeuser

Re: [H] Acrobat install woes...

2006-09-19 Thread Brian Weeden
I've been using Foxit as a free pdf reader and it rocks. Small download, easy install, and minimal resources. I also use CutePDF so I can print docs to a pdf file. Very handy. -- Brian

[H] OT - Best Wii gameplay video yet

2006-09-04 Thread Brian Weeden
http://media.games.ign.com/articles/693/693580/vid_1657122.html That Mario soccer game looks like a ton of fun in multiplayer. For under $200 US I will definately be buying a Wii instead of a PS3. -- Brian

[H] OT - Demo of GM concept hydrogen car

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Weeden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry6w3mRm-FM Very, very cool -- Brian

Re: [H] Torrent Client

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Weeden
I love uTorrent as well :) -- Brian

Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order

2006-08-28 Thread Brian Weeden
BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:07:04 To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order I think we have everyone but Jim and Mark - anyone else not in the draft shout out

[H] HWG FFL Draft Order

2006-08-27 Thread Brian Weeden
connection. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any problems getting into the room. On 8/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok we will just stay at eight. Has the draft order been set yet? Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden

Re: [H] raid 1 question

2006-08-27 Thread Brian Weeden
Depends. I have had sucess in the past doing this, however I made sure that I accessed it using something with the same RAID chipset at the original mobo. Trying to access your RAID with another company's chipset is probably asking for trouble. On 8/27/06, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if a

Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order

2006-08-27 Thread Brian Weeden
the window and restart the session. From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:49:26 -0600 I'm using Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_07-b03) under

Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order

2006-08-27 Thread Brian Weeden
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:57:36 -0400 What a piece of crap, uninstalled the latest v8, put on the older v7 that you have and I get in only to say it's been disconnected and to close the window and restart the session. From: Brian Weeden

[H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules

2006-08-24 Thread Brian Weeden
If you guys could please go to the website and look over the rules for me and give me a thumbs up/thumbs down I would appreciate it. http://fbc.fanball.com/commissioner.fbc?prg=lselectlid=23904page=lhome73190 Lineups Everyone will start 2QB 2RB 2WR TE K D and 1 Flex (RB or WR). This is to

Re: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules

2006-08-24 Thread Brian Weeden
] wrote: Sounds fine for 8 teams. If we grow to 10 or 12 we should shrink the starting roster. From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:52:18 -0600

[H] Video RSS downloader

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
I currently use Doppler to download podcasts from RSS feeds and uTorrent to download torrents from RSS feeds. What I am looking for is an app to grab full video files from RSS feeds. The big one here is dl.tv - they don't seem to publish any torrents, only live video and RSS feeds of the full

[H] Core 2 and PCI-X

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
I have a PCI-X RAID card that is currently running in a standard PCI slot on a normal consumer mobo. I know that I am not taking advantage of its full capabilities but I didn't want to blow a lot of money on the older chipsets knowing that I would want Core2 Duo when it came out. Now that is

Re: [H] Core 2 and PCI-X

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:26:30 To:hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Core 2 and PCI-X I have a PCI-X RAID card that is currently running in a standard PCI slot on a normal consumer mobo. I know that I am not taking

Re: [H] Core 2 and PCI-X

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
is more upsetting is that the ICH8R has -no- PATA controller. Want a DVD drive? Better be SATA... Greg - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [H] Core 2

Re: [H] Core 2 and PCI-X

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
Well it was just a thought. My HTPC is currently running: nForce2 mobo Athlon 2500+ 1GB DDR GeForce 6600GT LSI MegaRAID 6 250GB Barracuda SATA drives in a RAID 5 It works pretty good, except that I am starting to run out of space just from the TV shows I have saved. I only have about 20 of my

Re: [H] Core 2 and PCI-X

2006-08-13 Thread Brian Weeden
card. The old box gets decommissioned or retasked. What is more upsetting is that the ICH8R has -no- PATA controller. Want a DVD drive? Better be SATA... Greg - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List hardware

Re: [H] Problem after partition merge

2006-08-11 Thread Brian Weeden
folders show up in File Explorer, however I cannot open them, change properties, or delete them. Is there a program I can use to force delete them so they don't show up? On 8/4/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to wrap this whole story up and let you all know how it went. I

Re: [H] HD recovery

2006-08-10 Thread Brian Weeden
Depends on what happened to the drive. If it won't spin up or get recognized by the BIOS then your only shot is probably a data recovery company like Tim's. But if you can access the drive and are just trying to recover data you might try SpinRite or File Scavenger first. Both are fairly cheap

Re: [H] Du U have/use Media Player/Receiver?

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
Actually, I am looking for the same thing. I have a HTPC sitting downstairs but need some sort of stand-alone box upstairs that I can stream the xvids to. That would allow my wife to view her shows (mostly reality crap) upstairs and free up the big screen downstairs for more football :) On

[H] OT - Cool web server mapping FF extension

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2993/ Very, very cool. Puts a small icon in the status bar that when clicked shows a google map of where the server of the current website is located. -- Brian

Re: [H] Du U have/use Media Player/Receiver?

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Weeden
I also need something that can support VBR mp3's and read from NTFS partitions. On 8/7/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I am looking for the same thing. I have a HTPC sitting downstairs but need some sort of stand-alone box upstairs that I can stream the xvids

Re: [H] Problem after partition merge

2006-08-04 Thread Brian Weeden
I just wanted to wrap this whole story up and let you all know how it went. I did end up recovering all the data from the partition that got messed up. I used a nifty little program called File Scavenger. It cost me $50 to register, small price IMHO for saving all my data. I am also now using

[H] Problem after partition merge

2006-07-31 Thread Brian Weeden
I had my 1 TB RAID array divided up into multiple partitions because I needed to be using FAT32. Now I am converting it to NTFS so I wanted to merge them all together. They are mostly filled with data so I needed to do it on the fly. I used Partition Magic to first convert the partitions from

Re: [H] Problem after partition merge

2006-07-31 Thread Brian Weeden
That data was 30+ GB of all my ripped music, iTunes tracks, podcasts, and audiobooks :( The NTFS conversion worked just fine - I checked the data afterwards. It was the merge that screwed it up. I'm going to run it through Spinrite to see if it can work any miracles for me. On 7/31/06,

Re: [H] Problem after partition merge

2006-07-31 Thread Brian Weeden
! Sorry! and that would be the end of it ;( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 6:32 PM To: hwg Subject: [H] Problem after partition merge I had my 1 TB RAID array divided up into multiple partitions because

[H] Subtitle issue

2006-07-30 Thread Brian Weeden
I am using Zoomplayer to play an avi movie along with a separate subtitle file. The movie is in two parts. The first one is fine but the second the subtitles are off by a second or so. Is there a program that I can use to shift all of the subtitles in the 2nd file by a certain amount? I

Re: [H] Monitoring what program is accessing the internet

2006-07-30 Thread Brian Weeden
The netstat command is what you want. You can download a podcast that explains how to use it here: http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#49 Also, any good firewall program (like Kerio) will show you the same thing. The advantage is that Netstat is free with every copy of Windows. You can also

Re: [H] Monitoring what program is accessing the internet

2006-07-30 Thread Brian Weeden
/06, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:34 PM 30/07/2006, Brian Weeden wrote: The netstat command is what you want. You can download a podcast that explains how to use it here: http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#49 Also, any good firewall program (like Kerio) will show you the same

Re: [H] OT - Al Jazeera

2006-07-29 Thread Brian Weeden
Link no worky? On 7/29/06, Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is quite a remarkable segment from Al Jazeera television: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214ar=1050wmvak=nullhttp://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214ar=1050wmvak=null Wafa Sultan is a psychologist from

Re: [H] Auto CDplayer

2006-07-27 Thread Brian Weeden
lt also helps not to have huge logos and stickers plastered all over your ride, not to mention not having massive chrome speaker grilles showing. I have always gone with a stealth install and have never had a problem with theft. I remember my '94 Camaro that I had in 2000. There was a plastic

[H] OT - Family Tree web progamming

2006-07-25 Thread Brian Weeden
I have a pretty extensive family tree that I want to put online. Of course I could just slap some html and links up there but I gotta show off my html skills to the family :) Are there any open source templates or css code snippets out there that anyone knows of? Basically I am thinking of

Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?

2006-07-16 Thread Brian Weeden
BTW, for those of you concerned about Big Brother watching your internet activities, the new versions of Azureus and uTorrent support encryption which means only those connected to the tracker can see what you are doing - your ISP can't. For even better protection, take a look at iPhantom proxy

Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?

2006-07-16 Thread Brian Weeden
There are a few people I know that use the service and have had zero problems. The company's policy as linked on their website is pretty clear: you don't hack, spam, or do anything illegal and they will protect your privacy. On 7/16/06, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might get a few

Re: [H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?

2006-07-16 Thread Brian Weeden
You do need a subscription. It is $10 a month if I remember right. It is basically just a proxy service - all your traffic is encrypted to them, then anonymized and released onto the net. On 7/16/06, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long have they been around? I don't see how they can

[H] Cease and Desist letters for downloading TV shows?

2006-07-14 Thread Brian Weeden
My wife was telling me today that one of her co-workers got a cease and desist letter from our cable provider (Adelphia) for Bit Torrenting TV shows. This was the first I had heard of this and was wondering if you guys had seen this before? I could understand it if he was downloading pirated

Re: [H] Cantenna Wireless Antenna

2006-07-10 Thread Brian Weeden
I have heard they are good but you may want to limit your use in public. Many people are reporting that cops are confiscating cantennas and are getting more concerned about wardriving and the like than in the past. Also realize that the FCC has specified legal limits for boosting antennas and

[H] Site with free serialized audio books

2006-07-09 Thread Brian Weeden
http://www.podiobooks.com Excellent site with tons of great books. You can specify how you want them to be downloaded - all chapters at once, one episode a day, etc. Everything is free. Even better, if you really like it you can donate money right to the author. Just subscribe to a feed then

[H] Recommended game pad?

2006-07-09 Thread Brian Weeden
I just got Tomb Raider Legend and am looking for a good game pad to use with it - any suggestions that people are happy with? -- Brian

Re: [H] Testing for an internet connection..

2006-07-05 Thread Brian Weeden
Are you looking for apartments that have a working connection thru an ISP or ones that are wired but not active account? If it is the former, I think that would be a very difficult thing to put on the landlord - you are basically having them be responsible for the Internet connection and

[H] Sound level problem

2006-07-04 Thread Brian Weeden
I have a very unusual problem with my HTPC. Playback of xvid files with mp3 encoded audio and mp3 audio files produces a very normal volume level. However, playback of xvids encoded with AC3 the sound is greatly diminished. As an example, normally playback at a volume level of -28 on my Onkyo

Re: [H] Sound level problem

2006-07-04 Thread Brian Weeden
AC3Filter seems to do the trick :) On 7/4/06, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use AC3Filter to decode your AC3 stream, and configure the filter to add whatever gain you need prior to final output. Greg - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hwg hardware

Re: [H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos

2006-07-03 Thread Brian Weeden
modulating the signal. Brian Weeden wrote: Very cool - just what I was looking for. I think the real question is going to be how it will work in a car audio environment. I wonder what running such a signal through the standard hi power car audio amp and filters would produce and what happens

[H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos

2006-06-28 Thread Brian Weeden
I noticed that on a few of the new Hondas the are offering noise cancelling technology. Essentially, 2 small mics (one in the front and one in the back) take in the ambient noise in the vehicle. This is fed into the stereo system and a 180 degree out of phase signal passed out of the speakers.

Re: [H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos

2006-06-28 Thread Brian Weeden
this. Greg - Original Message - From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:59 PM Subject: [H] Project idea - noise canceling in autos I noticed that on a few of the new Hondas the are offering noise cancelling technology

Re: [H] Cox and Bit Torrent

2006-06-25 Thread Brian Weeden
triggered it in your case, or maybe it saw incoming traffic and warned you. On 6/24/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:06 PM 6/24/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Windows SP2 firewall won't cut it because it only blocks incoming and freely passes any outgoing traffic. I'm afraid that's

Re: [H] Cox and Bit Torrent

2006-06-24 Thread Brian Weeden
I would open a range of ports and have it cycle through that instead of using uPnP - that is one of the most dangerous things to leave turned on. On 6/24/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, then again I use ports other than the standard 8XXX range. Cox here in NoVA is giving away

Re: [H] Cox and Bit Torrent

2006-06-24 Thread Brian Weeden
It works but it pretty much eliminates any security advantage provided by your router. ANY application on a PC connected to the router can request for a port to be forwarded and YOU are not informed. What's worse, on most models even if you go into the port forwarding table it doesn't show the

Re: [H] Password strength

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Weeden
was nOt so long becausE it tAKEs a long TIME to TYpe! I use the GRC generated one for my wireless network and hamachi passwords. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:00 PM To: The Hardware List Subject

Re: [H] Password strength

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Weeden
long becausE it tAKEs a long TIME to TYpe! I use the GRC generated one for my wireless network and hamachi passwords. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:00 PM To: The Hardware List

Re: [H] Password strength

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Weeden
Truecrypt is open source and really a great product. I didn't see any key length limitations, it supports files, folders, partitions, disks, removables, everything. And it is completely configurable for how much paranoia you have. It uses AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple

Re: [H] Re: Password strength

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Weeden
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm On 6/13/06, Chris Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:07:21 GMT warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GRC PW thing is good, there is also a Firefox extension I've been testing to generate passwords for sites but I am not liking it's

Re: [H] Password strength

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Weeden
I know that years ago they used to have 2 different web browsers, one with 128-bit SSL for US and one with a lower value (I think 64-bit) for overseas. But nowadays that has been removed. I think that it stems from ITAR, which is the US Arms Control legislation. I am fairly familiar with it in

Re: [H] Windows Validation tool

2006-06-11 Thread Brian Weeden
Me too. I hate phoning home. On 6/11/06, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will send to all who ask. And give this advice: RegCrawler comes in handy :) CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:55:42

[H] Home Theater Reviews/Shopping

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Weeden
I may be in the market for a new HT reciever and was wondering what everyone's favorite search/shopping/review sites were. I am looking for some specific features and would love to find some sort of database I could search through. Specifically, it needs to have at least 2 HDMI inputs plus a

Fwd: [H] Home Theater Reviews/Shopping

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Weeden
Forgot about that one :) On 6/8/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:38 PM 6/8/2006, Brian Weeden typed: I may be in the market for a new HT reciever and was wondering what everyone's favorite search/shopping/review sites were. I am looking for some specific features and would love

Re: [H] Podcasting download software

2006-06-05 Thread Brian Weeden
Ability to force id3 tags on the file as it downloads is the big reason. I use iTunes for everything BUT podcast downloads. On 6/5/06, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it any better than itunes? Is it touting something that itunes doesn't have? Other than memory footprint :) On 6/1/06,

Re: [H] Podcasting download software

2006-06-01 Thread Brian Weeden
Really - sweet. I'm the one that originally asked. The big feature I have been searching for is the abiltiy to force tags as the files are downloaded. I have found that many podcasts either have messed up tags or they aren't they way I like :) I have been using Juice but will have to give

Re: [H] Strange problem

2006-05-29 Thread Brian Weeden
I have seen it lots, in various forms. Sometimes it is a power cord with either a loose connection or a loose wire. Bumping the desk or the case will cause it to short. More likely in your situation it is the power supply - your system maybe be drawing more power than it can provide and I have

[H] Default country in google maps

2006-05-28 Thread Brian Weeden
I am trying to do some Google map searches for New Zealand and it keeps telling me it can't find the addresses because it is trying to look in the US. Is there some syntax to force it to change the country to something other than USA? Or is it based on IP? -- Brian

[H] Re: Default country in google maps

2006-05-28 Thread Brian Weeden
Nevermind - I just found out that they haven't released the address and directions part yet. Oh well. On 5/28/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to do some Google map searches for New Zealand and it keeps telling me it can't find the addresses because it is trying to look

Re: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-18 Thread Brian Weeden
If I could go cold turkey on WoW after playing for the first year, I think I can kick just about anything including cocaine. On 5/18/06, Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure you want to unless you have a year or two of lots of free time. At 5/17/2006 08:09 AM, Brian Weeden wrote: Eve

Re: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-17 Thread Brian Weeden
Eve is on my list of next games to play, along with the new Tomb Raider. On 5/17/06, Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two weeks out of the release date I got board with waiting. I started playing Eve Online. Been playing Eve since. Oblivion is installed, did the intro and wandered around a

Re: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-15 Thread Brian Weeden
much you can squeeze considering their graphics take up 1000x more than Daggerfall's. How well does it run on enty level DX9 cards? From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] OT - Oblivion Date: Sun

[H] OT - Movies

2006-05-14 Thread Brian Weeden
Saw both United 93 and Thank You for Smoking recently they were both excellent, for different reasons. United 93, no matter what your thoughts are on 9/11 and Bush and everything is a must see. It is simply presented as a documentary retelling of the events of that days from the perspective of

Re: [H] OT - Movies

2006-05-14 Thread Brian Weeden
True statement. They took what they knew from the voice recorder, phone calls made from the plane to family, and the FAA traffic and presented it as best as possible. There is simply no way to know for sure. And as far as I could see, there was very little embellishment or Hollywood fluff that

Re: [H] EPOX 9npa Ultra and SATA

2006-05-14 Thread Brian Weeden
I'm thinking the same. If the BIOS doesn't see it then there is something seriously wrong with the mobo. I have seen it before where the SATA connectors pull off the mobo. I think it's time for a funeral :) On 5/14/06, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viking Funeral :-} sorry, could not

[H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-14 Thread Brian Weeden
After a buttload of playing time I finally finished Oblivion today. Awesome game. Of course, there really is no way to finish it since it is so open ended and all the 200+ dungeons respawn. But I am now leader of the Thief Guild, Mage Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Fighter Guild, all the Daedric

Re: [H] Cell phone docking stations

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Weeden
headset with on both cell land line. Brian Weeden wrote: Anyone out there used a cell phone docking station before? I have seen them around but haven't really found a lot of reviews or details on what is good and what to look for. I have a pair of Motorola v635 phones that I want to use. I

[H] Is View page in IE Tab dangerous?

2006-05-12 Thread Brian Weeden
One of the main reasons I use Firefox is because I don't have to worry about a lot of the IE-only exploits running around, including Active-X. And I always run with NoScript on. But every once in a while I come across a page that doesn't render properly in FF. I have been using the nifty

[H] Cell phone docking stations

2006-05-11 Thread Brian Weeden
Anyone out there used a cell phone docking station before? I have seen them around but haven't really found a lot of reviews or details on what is good and what to look for. I have a pair of Motorola v635 phones that I want to use. I was thinking of getting this:

Re: [H] PC security class...

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Weeden
Guys this whole discussion was covered including every point and idea mentioend here in a lot more detail in these podcasts: http://grc.com/securitynow.htm Try Episodes 10, 11, and 13. And a good VPN solution for security concerns in hotels and public access points is discussed in Episodes 14,

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

Re: [H] Multiple desktops via VNC?

2006-03-28 Thread Brian Weeden
? On 3/28/06, Bryan Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:36:10PM -0700, Brian Weeden wrote: I use VNC to access my HTPC mainly because it is also my ripping and encoding machine. Is there a way to have the main desktop showing MCE with a movie or something, and be able

[H] Multiple desktops via VNC?

2006-03-27 Thread Brian Weeden
I use VNC to access my HTPC mainly because it is also my ripping and encoding machine. Is there a way to have the main desktop showing MCE with a movie or something, and be able to remotely log in via VNC to get another desktop without disturbing the movie? -- Brian

Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug

2006-03-26 Thread Brian Weeden
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:42 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug 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

[H] DVI to HDMI problems

2006-03-26 Thread Brian Weeden
We have a Mitsubishi WD52725 RP DLP TV. It has connectors for both VGA and HDMI on the back. I originally had my HTPC hooked up via the VGA connector, and using Powerstrip was outputting a perfect 720p signal with very little overscan. I figured I would try and use the HDMI input. So I got a

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 noticed

Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Weeden
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 dilemma. On 3

[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

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

[H] Weird BitTorrent problem

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Weeden
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 drive with 100GB of free space, it happens. Is

Re: [H] MCE Problem

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
) PowerDVD 6.0 (or Higher) ATI DVD Decoder The XP CODEC Pack doesn't have the full PDVD6.0 Decoder, it will fail every time because it fails the MCE Certification check. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Sunday, March

Re: [H] MCE Problem

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
to use FFDShow / ZoomPlayer is pretty crappy (IMHO). In other words: possible, but a TON of hassle. -Original message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:51:35 -0600 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] MCE Problem Ok, so

Re: [H] iPod Help

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
Short answer, no with a but :) The DRM'd music from iTunes is authorized for up to 5 computers. Once she reformats, from what I have experienced iTunes will treat it as a new machine. So she will be able to play them, although the best solution is to go into iTunes and Deauthorize Machine

Re: [H] MCE Problem

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
I installed the NVDVD software and it is both a decoder and a DVD player. Works really, really well. The only advantage to using Zoom Player would be ffdshow and skins but NVDVD + MCE is pretty darn slick. On 3/19/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:10 PM 19/03/2006, CW

Re: [H] iPod Help

2006-03-19 Thread Brian Weeden
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:22 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] iPod Help Thank you. Brian Weeden wrote: Complete FUD. There are no extra steps to play regular mp3s on your

[H] I think my monitor died :(

2006-03-14 Thread Brian Weeden
Came home from work today and woke up my monitor to see that the colors were completely jacked up. Played around in the settings a bit and I think I lose one of the guns. After playing around with several settings I realized that I was completely missing the color green. I went to the color

Re: [H] I think my monitor died :(

2006-03-14 Thread Brian Weeden
Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:18:28PM -0700, Brian Weeden wrote: Came home from work today and woke up my monitor to see that the colors were completely jacked up. Played around in the settings a bit and I think I lose one of the guns. After playing around

Re: [H] I think my monitor died :(

2006-03-14 Thread Brian Weeden
through here any time soon you're welcome to it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:47 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] I think my monitor died :( LOL. Actually, I'm still kind

[H] OT - BSG Season Finale

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Weeden
Holy frack. Now THAT is how you end a season. Too bad we have to wait all the way until October. -- Brian

Re: [H] XP Media Edition for gaming?

2006-03-09 Thread Brian Weeden
Nope. Just the same old XP with some extra stuff. And it looks like all versions of Vista will have it included, at least as far as I can remember. On 3/9/06, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's basically XP Pro without the ability to join a domain after an install. So, no

[H] Can I connect my phone to any wifi network?

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Weeden
Might be a dumb question but can I configure my phone to connect to any wifi connection instead of the provider one (in my case Cingular)? Or is there a difference in the regular tcp/ip packets and whatver proprietary data standard the wireless providers use? -- Brian

Re: [H] how to get web page to stop skimming my text

2006-02-16 Thread Brian Weeden
Or disable Javascript for that site. NoScript is the best extension ever. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne- Switch to Firefox, Ctrl-K is your friend! Jim- Focus is being shifted to the Comcast search field by javascript just before you start to type, thus you end up

Re: [H] Satellite to wireless Internet

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Weeden
They are probably true from a pure speed perspective. But once you add in latency the user experience from what I have read is very similar to dialup. On 2/15/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:28 PM 15/02/2006, joeuser wrote: Actually with the latency involved with

Re: [H] Satellite to wireless Internet

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Weeden
The latency is primarily due to the speed of light. The geosyncronous satllites hosting the service are 35,000 km away (roughly). So to send a packet one way from your house to the ISP's routers on the ground is a distance of around 70,000 km. At 3.0x10^6 m/s that takes the packet 0.25 seconds,

Re: [H] Hard drives, who says size doesn't matter?

2006-02-11 Thread Brian Weeden
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 11 February 2006 03:49 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Hard drives, who says size doesn't matter? Or you NEED several hundred gigs of space? 5 years ago that was insane for a home user. Now, my 1.5 TB

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