RE: [H] Recommendation on computer build

2006-01-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:30 PM 1/7/2006, Winterlight typed: But in my mind there is still a long way to go with these cards and high end video capture products in general. I guess you haven't looked at high end cards lately as my high def capture card [MyHD MDP-120] requires very little cpu usage since it does

Re: [H] Microsoft patch

2006-01-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:53 PM 1/6/2006, Julian Zottl typed: Isn't that the article that says that any e-mail is considered dangerous and searchable if it contains the key word the? :) Only if it appears in the subject line but if it appears in the body we yanks just say, thank you. ;-) --+--

Re: [H] A PC is not an appliance

2006-01-06 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:50 PM 1/6/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Everyone thinking about buying a PC, or whining about how hard they are to use, should be forced to read it. Gee, I hope they don't. I want them buying toasters thinking they can produce the next great movie on it because that's when they

RE: [H] Nero 7/6 ?

2006-01-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:59 PM 1/1/2006, Chris Reeves typed: Will do 5.1, and will upcode stereo to 5.1 (not total comment on that, though the separation to sub is handy) I believe it will capture 16:9. If one has the correct adapters drivers then Nero 6 will also do 16:9. --+-- Wayne D.

Re: [H] Winamp Replacement

2005-12-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:35 AM 12/31/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed: Okay, Winamp 2 is dead--version 2.91 keeps asking me to upgrade to 5. Tried 5 and it sucks. What is everyone using as a replacement? I'm still using 2.75 am not worried about a replacement. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland,

Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who

2005-12-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:36 PM 12/31/2005, Greg Sevart typed: Newshosting $15/mo, unlimited, 4 (going to 8) connects, ~45 days binary retention Two connects maxes my 6mbit line. Giganews has better retention (~60 days), but costs $10/mo more for the unlimited account. I use the AstraWeb

Re: [H] OT: Great TV show - Dr Who

2005-12-30 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:05 PM 12/30/2005, Brian Weeden typed: Speaking of newsgroups, what are you guys using for your new server? Paying for a service I am assuming? AstraWeb --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:46 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed: Now I want to get rid of Win2k. Actually I'd like to reformat the C drive. However, there seems to be stuff in the C root like boot.ini that includes reference to both installs. I fear that the C: is really the boot drive. Can I just

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:27 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed: So, Boot.ini is the only thing I need to retain, the rest of the drive can go? In your OP you say both installs the subject says extra OS but you never do say what the extra OS is. I ass-u-me that it is XP in which case XP had to be

Re: [H] Getting Rid of the extra Operating System

2005-12-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:45 PM 12/29/2005, Steve Tomporowski typed: Should have been more explicit. WMC was meant to be Windows Media Center Edition, my bad. Nope, no third party boot managers used. I expected the Win2k install to fail on the new MB, but was surprised when it worked. Not totally, it refused

Re: [H] -OT- Ebay/Paypal ?

2005-12-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:03 PM 12/25/2005, FORC5 typed: This is only cause I had to link a account to PP and the fees are deductible to me. Would rather just do checks but most ppl seem to like PP even though they get 2.9% + .30 and take 4 days to transfer the money to my bank account. Is their debit card a rip

Re: [H] -OT- Ebay/Paypal ?

2005-12-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:42 PM 12/25/2005, FORC5 typed: is there a yearly charge ? negative --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas

2005-12-24 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:52 AM 12/24/2005, Jim Edwards typed: Be kind to a stranger today. It's free and makes a difference. Merry Christmas to you yours as well. Please have a safe trip as well as others that may be traveling this weekend --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Re: [H] OT - Intelligent Design dealt harsh blow by NJ Judge

2005-12-23 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:13 AM 12/23/2005, Pat Robertson typed: Because abortion has absolutely nothing to do with fairy tales? Since when do you need to worship cloud men in order to determine if you personally find aborting fetuses to be immoral? I really have disgust for those who assume that only by

RE: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:45 AM 12/22/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I meant that properly written forms, with server-side scripting, are they way to go. With automatic copies sent to the filler-outer. That's what I was complaining about is that too many of them do not send a copy to the filler-outer.

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:45 AM 12/21/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: This is the best solution, I believe. No email address of any kind to be harvested. I for one hate forms primarily because the visitor that is filling it out rarely gets a copy for themselves which is not true if they can click on a link

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:58 AM 21/12/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: I for one hate forms primarily because the visitor that is filling it out rarely gets a copy for themselves which is not true if they can click on a link use their own email app. At 08:16 AM 12/21/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Easy

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:31 AM 12/21/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Which means that most of them would not care if they did not get a copy for themselves. What? You mean the end user has some control over web authors. I think not. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:46 AM 12/21/2005, Ben Ruset typed: No. What I am saying is that the vast majority of people likely don't care that they would not get a copy of an email that was sent via a form. I know I wouldn't. With more support sites not posting an email addy for people to write to I think people

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:28 AM 12/21/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: That's true, but how likely is that? And since by putting the email link in the html, they guarantee that email address will be flooded with spam, the chance of your message getting deleted or blocked goes up. The best system would be a

RE: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
Are you telling me that the spam bots aren't smart enough to detect the supposedly hidden email address in the form but they are smart enough to decode hex? If that's the case then the bots are reading the rendered html not the real source so if one uses an image to click on to start a

Re: [H] Motherboard that won't power on

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:11 AM 12/21/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've got a motherboard that was in originally for a bad video fan. I replaced the fan, put the video card back in, and now I get now power (not even a fan twitch) when I turn it on. The motherboard LEDs come on. I've pulled all devices

RE: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:45 PM 12/21/2005, Neil Atwood typed: There is no 'hidden' email address in the form (as such). The simplest forms use something like this FORM action=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] method=post instead of scripting and these are equally harvestable It's encoded by server-side scripting, so

Re: [H] Web authoring question - protecting email addresses

2005-12-19 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:02 PM 12/19/2005, Rob Finger typed: What about saving the addresses and such as a .jpg ??? I know that would probably not be the best practice but there would be no text for the search engines to pick up. Just taking a wild guess at this as I know nothing about search engines. Better

RE: [H] Good camera for video conferencing.

2005-12-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:44 AM 12/18/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Oh whoops.. saw Video conferencing. Look at the Logitech ones. Actually you can use OrangeMicro's driver with the Sony Camcorders when they're connected via firewire. I've used mine this way several times but for those that don't want to spend

Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade

2005-12-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:25 PM 12/15/2005, Bill Cohane typed: Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware) if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel chipsets) but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard? Have done it several times with Win2k, Xp once

Re: [H] cell to land line

2005-12-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:33 AM 12/12/2005, Jim Edwards typed: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here

Re: [H] cell to land line

2005-12-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:57 PM 12/12/2005, Harry McGregor typed: forward the calls to your cell phone Before I went all cellular I forwarded all my calls to my cell when I was out of town. In the land line phone system that I had I programmed a macro so all I had to do was click one button to have the calls

Re: [H] cell to land line

2005-12-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:40 PM 12/12/2005, jeff.lane typed: As I recall from the old days you should be able to forward any of your landline calls to cell if you have a call conferencing feature on your landline, and you can, optionally, answer them if you wish. IIRC 3 way calling was in the same pkg as call

Re: [H] cell to land line

2005-12-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:03 PM 12/12/2005, jeff.lane typed: Here, again back then, it was separate. Back then we used 2 cans on a string but I imagine that kids these days don't have to rough it either. I use to go out into the woods cut down saplings to make spears we'd throw them into a old bicycle tire

RE: [H] Nero 7

2005-12-11 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:06 PM 12/11/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Strange. In six installs, I've had zero troubles. No problems here on 2 installs. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] -OT- Paypal ?

2005-12-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:00 PM 12/9/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I just cancelled both my merchant credit card services and my check clearing services which was tied to my merchant credit card services. I was paying a minimum of $40.00 per month, even for months I used neither service. I have a regular Pay

Re: [H] bad burner ?

2005-12-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:20 PM 12/9/2005, Stan Zaske typed: Just bought the 3550 myself and it will burn @ 12x on 8x media. Haven't tried 16x media yet to see how fast it really is. @:D My Pioneer 108 burns at 16x on Ritek Princo 8x media with 3rd party firmware. SuperMediaStore claims that Ritek will burn at

Re: [H] Connecting a PC to a TV using DVI

2005-12-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:07 PM 12/9/2005, Winterlight typed: I just got a new ATI All in Wonder 800XT. It came with a coupon for a free HDTV breakout box, that plugs into the 800XT and then into a HDTV so something must be different then the regular TV OUT breakout box. I have an X800 that came with an HDTV

Re: [H] VirtualPC??

2005-12-08 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:38 PM 12/8/2005, Winterlight typed: Or does it run completely separate, in a window, from a image file, the way VM is? I create a ISO of my XpPe Compilation then start a VM window at the bottom of the window is an ico of a cdrom so I drag the ISO to the cdrom press enter then VM

Re: [H] IE Bug Lets Hackers Phish With Google Desktop

2005-12-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:40 PM 12/5/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Yeah, I'm not sure why this is news. At the very least, the headline should be People Who Don't Care About Security and are Still Using IE, at Risk When Using Google Desktop. Everyone Else Fine. How about those that use IE do NOT use any

RE: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue

2005-12-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:03 PM 12/3/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Well, that's the link as to what it -looks- like. But the a href is not always the same as the linked text.. A common phish. You're using Gmail therefore the email message is in html which makes it easy to hide the real link in the a href=.. You

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:40 PM 12/1/2005, warpmedia typed: Hence the easily, you are in a better position with terms stated in writing vs. verbal. It's about establishing trust with the client. If the client doesn't trust me then take it elsewhere if I don't trust the client by their attitude then I'll tell

Re: [H] Laptop auto stand

2005-12-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:32 PM 12/2/2005, Winterlight typed: I want to get a laptop auto stand to put in my Toyota Tachoma. I see them for a cheap as 20 bucks on Ebay which looks like it is made out of painted steel 1/2 inch steal pipe and as expensive as two hundred bucks for something you might see in a

Re: [H] Laptop auto stand

2005-12-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:10 PM 12/2/2005, Winterlight typed: This is what I would like... I just haven't decided if I want to spend 2-300 for something I am not going to use that often. I certainly can understand that. I could slide my seat back use it on my lap for the amount of time I use mine in my car or

Re: [H] Re: -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:16 PM 12/2/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: ROTFL! It's funny how everyone wants protection from spam, but nobody complains about the wild lying that goes on in TV commercials. AOL has this new security center thing going on so what does MSFT do? They develop their own security

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:37 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: How do you know if they fooled with it? Generally it's usually rather obvious when a kid installs a P2P shares a folder and they don't change any of the defaults I've seen Windows screw up it's networking without (as far as I could

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:35 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: This is more an issue with systems I repair than systems I sell. For example, I had a guy in two months ago with 175 virus and 683 spyware. He couldn't get on the net. I removed all the crap, fixed his TCP/IP stack, and away he goes,

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:42 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Ok, it sounds like you take the same approach as I do - but I've had cases where the printer works for a month perfectly, then stops printing. This is either: Malware, user changing/deleting something, bug in the driver, installation of

RE: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:56 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Ok, that's an interesting idea. I like that - perhaps I switch to that sort of warranty when people agree to buy a real AV. I wouldn't do that because you're not guaranteed they'll update their definitions you have no idea of where they'll

RE: [H] Backing up 300GB of data

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:54 AM 12/1/2005, FORC5 typed: still using ghost 8 here would be interested in your opinion on these With Ghost 9 one must install MSFT's .Net framework therefore I'll be sticking with Ghost 8 Corp for as long as I can. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:42 AM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Since he didn't get an AV from me, I don't feel it's my problem if he has viruses, but of course, I can't be sure he has viruses since he won't bring the machine in unless I agree not to charge him, which I'm not going to do. I guess I'm

RE: [H] early xmas present

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:53 PM 11/30/2005, Chris Reeves typed: For Humor of the day.. Go to Amazon.Com And search for Laserdisc in the opening search box :) How in the world did you stumble on this? I about fell out of my chair. Help I've fallen I can't get up. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson

Re: [H] Backing up 300GB of data

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:00 AM 12/1/2005, Ben Ruset typed: Alrighty, what's so bad about the .net framework? Nothing other than it takes up quite a bit of space. I can use Ghost 8 on my XpPe builds but not Ghost 9 above. I assume that most people know that .net framework has just come out in version 2.0

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:46 AM 12/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: you simply have it in writing and have them sign the statement that no software or operating system work is under warranty. I thought we were only talking about warranty on repairs specifically the software work that I perform not the OS or

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:10 PM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: If a piece of hardware fails and screws up the software (say the HD dies and Windows is gone) then I include reinstallation of Windows as part of the warranty. No other place around here (including the big boys like Staples and Dell) do

Re: [H] Microsoft update woes

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:41 PM 12/1/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I have a system here that keeps downloading and installing the Genuine [Dis]Advantage tool over and over and won't go any further. Any ideas how to get it to realize it's already installed it and let me continue on? Are you sure it's a

RE: [H] early xmas present

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:41 PM 12/1/2005, Chris Reeves typed: They've fixed it. It was turning up a book on Vaginal Fisting when you typed in Laserdisc ;) Yes but can we still buy the books videos? rotflmao --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-12-01 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:49 PM 12/1/2005, warpmedia typed: If you don't make don't sign a release with terms, you easily can be sued loose. Hey, even if I put things down on paper I still can be sued lose. You should at least put down on paper what you do say have them sign that they have been advised of

Re: [H] What wireless keyboard NOT to get

2005-11-30 Thread Wayne Johnson
Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for me, I still use a wired optical mouse. Cords don't bother me. :) They do bother me as I want my mouse to float like a butterfly. At 12:52 PM 11/30/2005, Gary VanderMolen typed: Yep, same here. Besides, I hate the bother and expense of replacing

Re: [H] -SOT- Warranty on repairs

2005-11-30 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 06:10 PM 11/30/2005, Anthony Q. Martin typed: What does that mean? I mean, do you give them a list of things there aren't suppose to fool with? In the PC world, personal means you get to fool with stuff. Given that, it seems that it makes no sense to give any kind of warranty on a

Re: [H] memory

2005-11-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:43 AM 11/29/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Even worse: A computer store. The cobbler's children always have old shoes. :) with newspaper in them to cover the holes ? ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] Logging CPU utilization

2005-11-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:24 PM 11/29/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Performance monitor. Start Run Perfmon I also created an Internet Monitor from the Performance Monitor by clicking the + symbol specifying Network Interface, Bytes Rec'd per Sec and the NIC then saving only that out as a separate MSC

RE: [H] Logging CPU utilization

2005-11-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:14 PM 11/29/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Any idea if this'll work with WinPE? WinPE or BartPE ? Neither has the perfmon.exe or msc file in them by default. I don't even include them in my XpPe compilations. If it will run at all it would be more likely to run in my XpPe

Re: [H] Frappr!

2005-11-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:39 PM 11/28/2005, jeff.lane typed: I'm too uglycan't keep a camera in repair. So use some one else's. lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] Bart XP CD

2005-11-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:05 PM 11/25/2005, Robert Turnbull typed: I want to burn another Bart CD with utilities on it. What are the most useful utilities to include on this CD? First of all you're some what limited as not all apps make good plugins for Bart's CD. If an app writes all over the OS when

Re: [H] Looking for a tech site?

2005-11-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:09 PM 11/18/2005, Chris Reeves typed: I'll throw one out there I stay tuned with: http://www.msfn.org/ Ditto that --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] SATA II

2005-11-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:10 PM 11/18/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Yeah, another perk of black.. The stuff doesn't discolor after basic use.. Something that is definitely a problem with the lighter beige cases. Once you go black you never go back. lol I've gone with black cases for the past 2+ yrs now because of

Re: [H] OT-Circ Saw Blade

2005-11-18 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:06 PM 11/18/2005, dsinc typed: I have been told that a 40T blade is a very good compromise for my DIY projects. True. FWIW the only thing BD that I have is from there Pro line that they had out years ago it's a ½ drill that I love but other than that I wouldn't touch BD with my hard

Re: FW: [H] SATA II

2005-11-17 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:33 PM 11/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: This reminds me of the medical billing at home and other home employment schemes. The average start up cost is around $3000.00 and the $300.00 computer is tossed in, free, of course. No guarantees of minimum offers of employment. But I thought

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:59 AM 11/16/2005, Stan Zaske typed: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144424 Thank You as I must have been more tired than I thought last night not to be able to find that. Thanks again. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:59 AM 11/16/2005, Stan Zaske typed: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144424 I can't use this as it comes with a free NEC floppy drive I only use Mitsumi drives. lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:41 PM 11/16/2005, Stan Zaske typed: Xmas is coming and maybe you could wrap it up and give it to one of the in-laws. lol ROTFLMAO That would be a trick us old foggies are lucky to be around never mind our 'rents. Maybe I'll give it to the UPS guy instead. ;-) Have a great day.

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-16 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:59 PM 11/16/2005, Julian Hale typed: At 09:37 AM 11/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: If out of ignorance I err on the side of caution, it may cost a little more, but I can sleep at night knowing it will work. How is that a moral statement??? I too will spend more money to get a more

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:37 AM 11/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: If out of ignorance I err on the side of caution, it may cost a little more, but I can sleep at night knowing it will work. But if it costs you more then it costs your customers more. You're not out anything. --+-- Wayne D.

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:21 PM 11/15/2005, Julian Hale typed: Hey, come on. Quit picking on Chuck just because you don't agree with his decisions. It's his business, he can run it the way he wants. I didn't write anything about subject other than what was posted but why make these moral statements that just

Re: [H] SATA II

2005-11-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:52 PM 11/15/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: And you who say the SATA connectors fall off? I have not had that problem. My SATA compliant power supplies are Enlight in Enlight cases and my motherboards are Asus. I have not had that problem. My SATA compliant power supplies are Antec in

RE: [H] SATA II

2005-11-15 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:39 PM 11/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed: I just had a WD74G Raptor die on me :( Actually, to be honest, I wasn't as super impressed with them as I thought I would be. Ok guys, I was just kidding with my post about having to use Raptors in all my systems. I switched over and finally

Re: [H] OT - Digital Cable question

2005-11-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:15 PM 11/14/2005, Brian Weeden typed: Try DirectTV. I;ve been a happy customer for 7 years and love their HD packages (epsecially NFL). But plan on paying paying paying. Last year if you had the HD service NFL Sunday Ticket you could watch the games in HD but not so this year. They

Re: [H] modem IP ?

2005-11-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:32 PM 11/14/2005, jeff.lane typed: Should be 192.168.1.1 and, maybe Admin, or a like that, and probably no password with new install. That ip is usually used by routers not modems. My Motorola SB4200 cable modem is at 192.168.100.1 --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland,

RE: [H] OT - Digital Cable question

2005-11-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:37 PM 11/14/2005, Veech typed: I had also considered Direct TV since they can provide local channels in HD as well, as opposed to Dish who can't. I'm in LA so hopefully I'm in one of those top 20 markets. As for NFL, I watch one game a year (Super Bowl) and it's for the commercials. My

Re: [H] Computer info for batch file

2005-11-10 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:57 PM 11/10/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I'm writing some batch files and I need a utility that will that will allow me to do the following: 1)Check to see if there is more than X MB of RAM in a computer. 2)Get the number of local hard drives in a system. Run 4dos 7.5 as an add on

RE: [H] Netflix Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

2005-11-03 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:51 AM 11/3/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Their settlement is genious. They upgrade your service 1 level for 1 month (free). But you must remember to discontinue the extended service the next month, or you will be charged the higher rate and keep the new plan ;) I cancelled with them just a

Re: [H] Put down you VCRs.. haven't we done this before?

2005-11-02 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:33 PM 11/2/2005, CW typed: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/01/hollywood_after_the_.html Hollywood goes after those who make analogue recordings off their television as pirates If just one of those devices gets access to the video, then poof, it's on the Internet. In other words,

Re: [H] Help identifiying a PCI card

2005-10-31 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:13 AM 10/31/2005, Ben Ruset typed: I have had to physically restrain myself from playing all weekend. I have to physically restrain myself from playing any action game. I too love FPS the NFS series but my adrenalin doesn't know when to stop until I have passed out cold on the floor.

Re: [H] DVD Dual Layer drops in price

2005-10-30 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 12:02 AM 10/30/2005, Greg Sevart typed: The general consensus is that Ritek G05 and later batch G04 media was of inconsistent quality. The overwhelming consensus is that Ritek RW and Ritek DL media are sub-par. The only people that write reviews are the ones that are unhappy the ones

RE: [H] DVD Dual Layer drops in price

2005-10-30 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:38 AM 10/30/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Do you have links to people who have conducted these tests, with results? I would be interested in seeing, rather then a back and forth of theorems :) You're no fun. lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

Fwd: Re: [H] bootable DVD with Nero 6.6

2005-10-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:09:46 Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed; It's getting late but I can't remember the name of that app so maybe Chris could chime it here. It just came to me EasyBoot http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/ for $29.95 gives one the ability to combine bootable CDs

Re: [H] DVD Dual Layer drops in price

2005-10-29 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:27 PM 10/29/2005, Greg Sevart typed: I'm just extremely picky on media. I want the best, and I'm willing to pay for it (within reason). When 4x -R media was first coming out, I bought a lot of the Ritek G04 and had good luck...but eventually there were so many complaints about

Re: [H] bootable DVD with Nero 6.6

2005-10-28 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:29 PM 10/28/2005, Winterlight typed: How do I make a bootable DVD with Nero 6.6? I can't find anything on the menus, and for some reason my nero.hlp file is missing. You can do Floppy Emulation, Harddisk Emulation and No Emulation or grab a bootimg.bin file from another bootable CD

RE: [H] Civilization IV arrives

2005-10-27 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:22 PM 10/27/2005, CW typed: BTW, as another note: The sound in this game is unbelievable. Make sure to set it to 6.1/7.1/8.1 if you've got it. The sound of attack helicopters going over head when you do an attack ;) I've heard too many of the real thing, thank you.

Re: [H] Video card opinions

2005-10-25 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:47 PM 10/25/2005, dsinc typed: Thanks Brian. The X800 is one of the ATI cards IIRC, and, I'd like to stay with nVidia if at all possible. OTOH, maybe it is time to try ATI ... :) In any case, I do not have PCI-E. Just PCI and AGP. I have an X800 that is AGP I love mine.

RE: [H] Fighting spyware

2005-10-21 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:00 AM 10/21/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Nope. I've had several cases where they don't. Sometimes they tell you they can't repair, and sometimes they tell they have repaired the problem, but subsequent scans finds it again. Removing the entry manually takes care of the problem.

Re: [H] motherboard suggestions

2005-10-13 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 10:13 AM 10/13/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: This is why (although I can not say other brands are not as good) I will stay with Intel (ZERO CPU failures in 8 years) and with Crucial, (only 1 failure in the over 5 years I have been exclusively with them.) I thought the subject line said

Re: [H] motherboard suggestions

2005-10-13 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:51 PM 10/13/2005, FORC5 typed: I have intel mb's with bad caps as well, cap are not prejudice at all. But what's that got to do with Intel CPUs being better than sliced bread? Oh wait a minute. It has nothing to do with that. Don't tell me we're still talking about mombos. Don't tell

Re: [H] motherboard suggestions

2005-10-13 Thread Wayne Johnson
On Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:00 PM, joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed; Not that CPU failures have anything to do with this thread Chuck. Tell us about power supplies would ya? At 03:51 PM 10/13/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: What is good enough for Enlight is good enough for me.

Re: [H] XP Repair install problem

2005-10-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:57 PM 10/12/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: When XP is getting ready to offer to do a repair install, it says Searching for Windows installs. What is it looking for? Installation CD so that it can replace any files that have been compromised. --+-- Wayne D.

Re: [H] News group reader

2005-10-12 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:51 PM 10/12/2005, joeuser typed: Wayne says Forte ;P Agent 3.2 not only support multiple nntp servers but also supports multiple pop. This is in beta now if you can't wait 3.1 supports multiple nntp servers but does NOT support multiple pop. --+-- Wayne D.

Re: [H] Put yourself on the map

2005-10-09 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:07 PM 10/8/2005, Steve typed: Cool idea.start a HWG map http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/ Done. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

Re: [H] fear demo ?

2005-10-08 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 04:32 PM 10/8/2005, FORC5 typed: anyway to turn the language off so my son can play ? guess I'm weird, shoot em up OK but say F or GD I'm a dinosaur I know From one dinosaur to another I have to agree. I for one don't mind the F word as much as I do the GD thing would NOT have any game

Re: [H] cross flash ?

2005-10-07 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:53 PM 10/7/2005, FORC5 typed: exactly what I am fixing to do, but Asus is soo slow. I have an Asus A7V333 mobo that when I bought it had a rev 3 bios that had all sorts of problems so after 3 phone calls to tech supt I got an authorization to send in to them. They took 3 months to

Re: [H] Eudora sponsored mode ads

2005-10-05 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:46 PM 10/5/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Never mind, I figured it out. They'd turned off Allow docking. That'll do it every time. lol --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] dvd burner ?

2005-10-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:00 PM 10/4/2005, FORC5 typed: shows my media id ( cmc mag e01 ) only good for 4 and 6 crap. media is rated at 8. Guess you guys were correct about the media, but why did my 108 and 109 do 16x reliably. The replacement I ordered will probably do the same. guess I need to just get

Re: [H] Blocking software installs

2005-10-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 07:10 PM 10/4/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: What's a good program (Win9X to XP) for blocking people from installing a program on a computer? I'd rather one solution than a one for each version of Windows. In Xp Pro as well as 98se you can institute a Group Policy. Tweakui for both

RE: [H] LAST QUESTION (for now) a Virtual PC Question

2005-10-04 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:05 PM 10/4/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Install Windows first. Then VPC. It will make Virtual hard drives as you need them. I use it to simulate booting from a CD to test my XpPe compilations as well. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805

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