You can buy a flashing LED which requires nothing more than just power being
applied to it. Check out your local Radio Shack for one. The circuit is
actually inside the LED lens itself making it the best solution.
Adios,
Tony
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Always suspect discs before burners. Use a decent brand like Verbatim or
TDK.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Friday, 26 August 2005 9:16
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ubject: [H] Re: Best DVD disc with Drive
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"Tony Antoniou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would have to agee here about Sony. I had 2 that didn't hold up. I tried
to get the first replaced from Sony. What info they wanted me to provide in
order to
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I would avoid Sony. Especially since they’re
rebadged Lite-On’s, the build quality hasn’t proven itself to be
even half decent in my experience. I’ve already had 2 units which are
selective about working on an Asus board as opposed to a Gigabyte board.
Oddball stuff.
A
Bush made the BS oil inflation happen with
his “War on Terror”. Sorry to all you militant Bush supporters out
there but Bush and his family of oil-riggers are laughing all the way to the
bank, along with the people above them pulling the strings.
Adios,
Tony
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Only one problem with ethanol ... crap energy density compared to petroleum.
I'm sticking to Shell Optimax premium fuel thanks to its turbo friendly
additives.
Besides which, our cars here in Australia at least can't handle anything
more than 10% ethanol in our petrol as it results in engine and f
There is a small degree of increased performance in modern standard
manufacturer's vehicles when it comes to using premium fuel. Not to the
extent that I would say it is significant but enough to notice a little more
pep. Reason being, the higher octane means more resistance to detonation as
you sa
What's the BSOD message?
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Saturday, 6 August 2005 4:59
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Subject: [H] New PC locks up
Seriously Ben, have you noticed that people here hardly see eye to eye with
you? Is it because you aim to piss people off?
Let's take a look at this from Thane's perspective. Software has always been
available to the option of lower prices. However, the software companies
allege that the piracy is
Funny ... still seems to be working with the add-on disabled.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:24
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Very easy actually.
The company that picked it up offshore developed a companion program called
AnyDVD which needs to be used in conjunction to remove all protections
involved with DVD's. Go to http://www.slysoft.com for more info. Needless to
say, it works brilliantly!
Adios,
Tony
No biggie for the pirates, I'm sure. They'll simply find the updates on a
torrent or eMule.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Wednesday
Quite ironic really because despite the interactive nature of the game, the
content is still effectively the same as any similarly natured movie in my
eyes.
I find it amusing and yet frustrating that while there's no problem with
someone showing tits in a 15+ rated movie, morons are crying foul at
Don't know about the US but in Australia, that would get an MA rating which
is for 15 years and over. Hell, we show bare tits (yes, nipples and all) on
TV at 9pm and that's in the stupid Big Brother "Uncut" garbage.
Adios,
Tony
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Does this sad-case Thompson look for nudity for a living? Did his mother
refuse to breast feed him as a child or did he refuse her breasts because
they were not for minors to see?
Adios,
Tony
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That's very funny Vince. So if I take my car and modify it to break the
speed limit quicker than anyone else, it's the manufacturer's fault for
supplying me with the necessary tools to do that?
Spare me dude. It was a hidden feature which a group of hackers released,
not the manufacturer.
Time to
More to the point, there's plenty other areas where minors can observe this
stuff ... even when they sneak down to the TV late at night to watch a dirty
cable channel or download a porn AVI. One game cannot and will not make a
difference.
Adios,
Tony
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She's a bitch who didn't bang her way to the top. Her husband did the
banging for her 3#-)
That makes her a real bitch to me. Heh.
Adios,
Tony
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TOSlink for sure dude. And yes, they are very cheap.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Friday, 22 July 2005 5:39
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Amazing what people will charge for what seems to me a crappy Kinesis
keyboard.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2005 3:55
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Dammit and I just bought a Gyration pro mouse and keyboard!! The range is
great, but the keyboard is nothing compared to my old Honeywell that it
replaced. RIP Honeywell ... the best keyboard I had for 13 years before the
spacebar was pissing me off.
Adios,
Tony
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Which begs the question ... why? What do people use Commodores for these
days?
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2005 1:13
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The UPS will always be able to correct one thing that surge protectors alone
can't ... voltage sags/brownouts. That can also be damaging to equipment.
Adios,
Tony
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Do you have another CPU to test on his mobo? Process of elimination will get
you there but it sounds like a fried CPU to me if it's overheating like
that.
Adios,
Tony
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I'm not quite sure what Wayne means by "phase change material". I'm guessing
he means heatsink tape as opposed to heatsink paste. Either way, both work
brilliantly if used correctly. Heatsink tape/pad has the advantage of being
clean to handle and remove as opposed to the paste. But as long as you
I can comment on the Bostons. I have a set of Boston Acoustic ProSeries 6.5"
splits (2 way) in the rear and MAN they are the SWEETEST sounding speaker to
my ears.
Note, I place particular emphasis on those last 3 words "to my ears".
I have used JBL (GTO963 - 6x9's) once upon a time, well balanced
Nah, they're just better communicators because they have two sets of lips.
Did I just say that??? 3#-)
Adios,
Tony
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Definitely not. You are 100% correct. It's only a problem when the power
goes down as that's when the non-sine wave (typically a stepped sine wave)
becomes an issue. And no, it's not harmful to the equipment - it just looks
and sounds like dog doo-doo compared to a pure sine wave feed.
Obviously i
I would certainly recommend true-sine wave because you need as your AC-DC
conversion to be clean and linear and since the power supplies in them are
designed with that in mind, it's good practice and ensures a clean sound.
This is the reason why you still see more phat transformers as opposed to
sw
I can't see why a P4 couldn't get you to that as you don't need that much
processing power for the task unless you do a lot of other stuff in the
background.
Still, if you want to upgrade then AMD is the way to go. I just upgraded my
crappy P3-667 to a dual Opteron 246 beast and we're flying now!
Wouldn't be surprising. Keep in mind as well guys that Apple did announce
that OS X and all its future incarnations will only run on Mac's but they
will be able to use Windows (unsupported of course) on Mac's.
WTF? That's a bit of a crappy one way street! I would've thought this would
open up the
Considering how much x86 hardware is out there, maybe the purpose of the
exercise is to drive hardware costs down?
But you're right. It could spell doom for them instead.
Adios,
Tony
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Imagine … Windows users could
upgrade to OS X (provided there is driver support).
If it does work well for them, MS could
have a serious threat on their hands in the long term. Short term effects will
be probably next to nothing considering nothing really kicks off strong in its
infancy
I am most certainly impressed! Geeky, but it's still impressive! Especially
the level of detail he's put into it. Kudos to the nerd 3#-)
Adios,
Tony
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Long and short of it is that IEC have two capacitor classes, hence the X and
Y classes you guys have come across. That's not to suggest that one class is
better over the other - just that one suits a particular application better
than the other.
Class X is used in applications where damage to the
CloneDVD alongside the AnyDVD prog keeps
it simple and yet powerful. The best combo in my opinion.
Adios,
Tony
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Nah. Just the duds is fine.
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:49
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H
I hope that's not a widespread problem given that I'm looking at using a
550EPS model for a dual Opteron system. I might have to look at an
alternative power supply to suit.
Otherwise, of all the other Truepower units I've used in customers' setups,
no problems at all.
Adios,
Tony
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Surely a simple change in ports will fix that, no?
Adios,
Tony
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Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2005 3:13
To: 'The Hardware List'
Sub
Go for an AMD system based on a cheapie ATI chipset like the R9200, Athlon64
3000+, 1GB of RAM and all slapped into an Asus A8V board. That would be
cheap by Aussie standards here, but I don't know how they're priced up there
... I dare say it would be cheaper there.
Adios,
Tony
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This is a real phone call? She's a f__king dope! I would've sent down a
deputy to slap her out!
Adios,
Tony
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia
Sent: Friday,
It's not so much a consumer thing but rather an essential services thing.
The Telecommunications Act here clearly states that all homes must have a
phone line in the premises and all lines must have at least access to
emergency services even if the line is otherwise disabled to the consumer.
I don
Apples to oranges dude.
At least Ford supplied the vehicle with a seatbelt leaving the option of
using it to you. You didn't have to tell Ford you would be needing a
seatbelt installed ... it's already there.
At the end of the day, if 911 can be accessed by an ordinary PSTN or ISDN
handset, with
One thing is for sure ... there is no way in hell this would happen here in
Australia because we make a legal point of it that all telephone systems are
required by law to access the emergency services number (000 in our case)
irrespective of the equipment and/or outstanding charges on any customer
Thanks for the tip. I'm actually quite impressed with Perfect Disk but I
still don't trust defraggers on my system drive considering the occasional
freezes I tend to experience during defrag sessions. Last time I trusted a
defragger, it was Diskeeper and it killed my system drive but that was about
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