RE: [H] Weird one for you...

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -

RE: [H] Best DVD disc with Drive

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Antoniou
Always suspect discs before burners. Use a decent brand like Verbatim or TDK. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mesdaq, Ali Sent: Friday, 26 August 2005 9:16 T

RE: [H] Re: Best DVD disc with Drive

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Antoniou
ubject: [H] Re: Best DVD disc with Drive On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:23:18 GMT "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

RE: [H] Best DVD disc with Drive

2005-08-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
Title: Message 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

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 ---  TAMA -

RE: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Gas prices

2005-08-18 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] New PC locks up and blue screens all the time

2005-08-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
What's the BSOD message? Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Udstrand Sent: Saturday, 6 August 2005 4:59 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] New PC locks up

RE: [H] Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" Cracked Already

2005-08-03 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" Cracked Already

2005-08-03 Thread Tony Antoniou
Funny ... still seems to be working with the add-on disabled. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:24 To: 'The Hardwa

RE: [H] Clone DVD

2005-08-01 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] MS gets nosy

2005-07-27 Thread Tony Antoniou
No biggie for the pirates, I'm sure. They'll simply find the updates on a torrent or eMule. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-26 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-26 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums ---

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in

RE: [H] GTA San Andreas Pulled from Shelves

2005-07-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

RE: [H] Fibre optic audio cable

2005-07-22 Thread Tony Antoniou
TOSlink for sure dude. And yes, they are very cheap. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Friday, 22 July 2005 5:39 To: hardware@hardwareg

RE: [H] Cool Idea

2005-07-16 Thread Tony Antoniou
Amazing what people will charge for what seems to me a crappy Kinesis keyboard. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of warpmedia Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2005 3:55 To:

RE: [H] Cool Idea

2005-07-15 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strong

RE: [H] My latest mod

2005-07-08 Thread Tony Antoniou
Which begs the question ... why? What do people use Commodores for these days? Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2005 1:13 To: The Ha

RE: [H] UPS for home theatre

2005-06-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:

RE: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-23 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Antoniou
Nah, they're just better communicators because they have two sets of lips. Did I just say that??? 3#-) Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: We

RE: [H] UPS for home theatre

2005-06-19 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] UPS for home theatre

2005-06-18 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] audio/speakers questions..

2005-06-10 Thread Tony Antoniou
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!

RE: [H] It's official - OSX to be running on Pentiums

2005-06-10 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Apple to drop PowerPC CPU, Go Intel/AMD

2005-06-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

RE: [H] Apple to drop PowerPC CPU, Go Intel/AMD

2005-06-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Best case mod ever

2005-06-03 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: [H] Blown Caps

2005-05-28 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Backup a DVD--possible?

2005-05-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
CloneDVD alongside the AnyDVD prog keeps it simple and yet powerful. The best combo in my opinion.   Adios, Tony ---  TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums  --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Se

RE: [H] Replacing MB caps

2005-04-19 Thread Tony Antoniou
Nah. Just the duds is fine. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:49 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H

RE: [H] Antec TruePower is OUT

2005-04-19 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 -

RE: [H] Speaking of cable issues...

2005-04-08 Thread Tony Antoniou
Surely a simple change in ports will fix that, no? Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2005 3:13 To: 'The Hardware List' Sub

RE: [H] Best bang for buck - budget system

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 ---

RE: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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 --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Friday,

RE: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911

2005-03-24 Thread Tony Antoniou
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

RE: [H] diskeeper 9 ?

2005-03-21 Thread Tony Antoniou
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