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  1. Santilli

    Buying a projector

    Every once in awhile I saw a great price on clearance or sale here: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/HomeEntProjectors/Home.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&iref=estorehome_shopby_projectors_home#tabs=2
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    iPhone syndrome

    Maxburn: Thanks. I didn't realize it was capped. Kind of kills the entire idea. I was thinking of using Skype on the ipad, or trying it. Also thought the ipads did streaming video, using Flash? Anyway to hook a phone up to an ipad? Is that a good idea with the data cap? I was also wondering...
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    Best movie you've seen

    Whatever. It's a movie. I enjoyed it. I could care less if you know FBI agents, or if they would walk out. It brought up some issues that I find timely. Out of control Federal agencies, or politicians come to mind...or Caltrans.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Any suggestions for a new program based on the UT 2004 series? Any of the sequels any good?
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    iPhone syndrome

    DD: What's the plan cost with the overdrive Pro? Found the device, but, Sprint seems to be hiding the cost per month, contract, etc. link?
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    iPhone syndrome

    I've been considering a barebones phone setup, and an ipad. Isn't it just 15 bucks a month for service from AT&T once you buy the ipad? I'm after a phone that does streaming video, Adobe Flash, and is a phone. Seems to me those cost about 600 dollars, don't usually do all the things I want...
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    Best movie you've seen

    Just got done watching Colombiana(take off on Polyanna?) Zoe Saldana reminds me of an old girlfriend I took to Jamaica. Sand to the beach. That said, I enjoyed the movie. Not high budget, but, I'm running out of movies to rent from Blockbuster. Great footage of Colombia on the flyby. Zoe...
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    Jobs is dead

    The introduction was worth watching. I liked his 'dropping in' idea. Reed College. Caligraphy. "That windows just copied the mac..." Connect the dots looking backwards... Trust in something. Heart leads off well worn path. How can you get fired from a company you started? Next...
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    Jobs is dead

    Handurin: I'm reading the article you posted. It explains a LOT of what I've been seeing lately. I'm doing High School Volleyball for girls right now, all over NorCal. EVERYWHERE I go, I see ipads, iphones, etc. By limiting porn on the idevices, Jobs created the PERFECT tool for educators...
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    Evil Empire

    "Mac OS X has since become the single most popular desktop Unix-like operating system in the world, although Mac OS X is no longer an OpenStep compliant operating system." Quote from WP: Accurate?
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    Evil Empire

    It's like a bad dream, jilted love affair. My mind shuts down on the details of the lost love, diminishing the hate and anger, more or less. Maybe less.
  12. Santilli

    Evil Empire

    I think it's nature right now with so many companies screwing consumers to try and find someone that you believe in. Apple sells stuff that if you aren't tech savy, works, is expensive, and you think you are using top quality stuff, if your a moron. My girlfriend is going through this with her...
  13. Santilli

    Evil Empire

    Why? I can't help but think a lot of his stuff was smoke and mirrors. Much as Apple would cajole, persuade, daunt, buy and take credit for others work, perhaps Jobs did the same? Too many times the top guys take credit for stuff they stole from the developers...
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    Evil Empire

    Apple has long stifled development and inovation, at least in my memory, on their computers. It was SOP for them to either write code to stifle a developer, threaten with legal action, steal and integrate, or buy the program. Likewise hardware was equally or more so restricted. They remind me...
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    Jobs is dead

    Can't believe that guy is worth 8.3 Billion.
  16. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Just watched half of Casablanca, remastered in Bluray. Only makes Bergman look more beautiful, if that's possible.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    Guys at the local Fry's recommend the games highly. Sounds like YMMV. EA sports and I don't get on much, after Tiger Woods 2004-6.
  18. Santilli

    SSDs - State of the Product?

    Remember, I had the OCZ Vertex Turbo fail. It was replaced with a drive that would not hold a SATA cable. That was replaced with a drive that is in the HTPC, and, as little as it's used, is working fine.
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Update: The X2 3800 plus memory controller allows the 2 gigs to be recognized. All is up and running, except, it's currently headless. Thinking cheap craigslist monitor, rather then Costco... Either that, or a 50" Panasonic 1080P Plasma...
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    Thanks, that was a great post. Right now, I'm having a hard time imagining anything that an i7 940 can't do. I have barely got anywhere near the potential of this processor. I can't imagine a dual Xeon setup, with 4-5 times the processor speed, and absurd ram speed, and, add revo drives...
  21. Santilli

    Non-widescreen LCD

    I saw one today on Craigslist, in the bay area: 20 bucks.
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    Took the Westinghouse back. 50" Panasonic Plasma is probably next. It's 599, and, I can see keeping a 50" TV for 3 years. I was into that pos for 563.00. WAY to much to be reiminded you were tricked by false advertizing into buying a medium to low quality panel, with a 60 hz screen, and some...
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    At 1200 bucks for 16 GB of ram, you BETTER be able to overclock it;-) I can see it now: everytime I come up with another 1200 dollars, another 16 GB of ram. Sort of like the 64.5 IMSA Mustang funny car I built to be street legal... A SERIOUS MONEY PIT. At least I'd get a tax break on this one...
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    What are these accessories, and how do they affect performance:? http://www.gigabyte.sg/support-downloads/accessory.aspx?cg=11
  25. Santilli

    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    I was going to say nasty things about this board, but, it's growing on me. Your first cpu would have 6 processors, a Passmark score pretty much as fast as anything on the planet, for a discounted 1600-1700 dollars. For 300 dollars one might decide the -i7 2600 with a PM score at 85% of that...
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    New motherboard supports 288GB of RAM

    I bought dual Xeons because at the time, they, and the scsi enabled motherboard seemed like a good value. In retrospect, thanks to Adaptec's pathetic zero raid card, I ended up not even using the onboard scsi. Still, the duals were fast, and reasonably priced at the time, compared to other...
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    I can't see having this Westinghouse for 3-5 years. Screen is obviously second rate, and, the darn thing is expensive, for what you are getting.
  28. Santilli

    Video editing software

    I have PowerDirector 9, and it feels much like having a testicle run through a garlic press, and just as intuitive....
  29. Santilli

    No video but not dead...

    HMMM. Mine was bad ram, and bad memory controller on the cpu. Or might be something on the motherboard that made a prior ram configuration not work?
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    Televisions as monitors: What are you using, and why?

    Anyone tried Panasonic's Plasma 1080p 42" Plasmas? Or their 50" Plasmas? Feedback on the new generation of plasmas, and Panasonics' in particular? GS
  31. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Watched the first part of Star Wars Phantom Menace Part I. Got through the pod racing, and, as one would expect of George Lucas, his work is simply incredible. I'm getting them slowly but surely, and viewing them. "Thor" 2D, Bluray. So far, with my monitor set on games, the visuals are...
  32. Santilli

    Keyboards

    NOT a keyboard. Start your own thread. I don't want to look at that POS when I'm considering a new keyboard.
  33. Santilli

    Greg Santilli Memorial Babe Thread

    Another singer: Connie Crammer, married a preacher from Hawaii, and went around the world singing for the church. I missed on her, since I'd just been divorced, and, even though I saw the must marry soon signs with Connie's clock, I was too stupid to jump...
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    Greg Santilli Memorial Babe Thread

    http://www.ginai.com/ This lady sang at Nick's Fishmarket, when I worked there. INCREDIBLE WOMAN. Married a shaper. I was only a polisher/restaurant worker at the time...
  35. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Sheryl Crow video smokes!!! Crow's video is smoking. She's beautiful, and it's about music, in HD, that looks REALLY incredible... Sheryl Crow, Live! Yes, and she's beautiful and her voice is incredible.
  36. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Nasty Boy is HOT. I'd like to be Steven...
  37. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    I'm watching Christina Aguilera live, down under. Incredible concert, incredible voice. GREAT Stuff. Effortless voice, great range. A lot of people seem to think she's the best singer of this generation... This DVD makes a real good case for that.
  38. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    Burlesque was simply incredible. I have a weakness for female singers, and Cher and Christina Aguliera are fantastic. The first singing scene with Christina is so stunning, I could watch it over and over. Cher sings one number, and, it reminds me why she's always been one of my all time...
  39. Santilli

    Getting PowerDVD to play Bluray on XP Pro, or, I got it to work, but don't know why?

    Today I spent most of the day working on getting Bluray to play on the HTPC. Athlon X2 3800+ 2 gigs ram, Vertex Turbo boot, SATA drive for Bluray images, Sparkle 9600 video card, 2 gigs VRAM, Plextor External Bluray player. Power DVD 10, 8, Any DVD HD, VLC, Explosion 7.1 sound card, etc. I...
  40. Santilli

    Evil Empire

    Our local Apple shop has been packed every time I walk by. People playing with over-priced, under functional computers. It always seems like there is something that Apple won't let you do with your ipad, etc. that you would be able to do with a normal product. Print without using airport and...
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    Evil Empire

    I've been burned by apple so bad, I still have scars. That was over 12 years ago. Apple has long been the MSFT wannabe, except worse, since they limit software production by limiting hardware. In other words, OS X didn't have drivers for some very expensive, prior compatible scsi cards, and...
  42. Santilli

    ASP pros surfing in New York, on a Hurricane swelll

    Katia was wonderful http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/steady-as-she-goes_59483/
  43. Santilli

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Seems either the Xerox Xd130 drivers, or the picturemate drivers work fine, until SP3 is installed, then it starts blue screening. Remove them, and it works fine. After going through all this, it took lots of time, invested lots of money, most of which I did get back. That said, it could...
  44. Santilli

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Just wondering: Does anyone else think that updates from MSFT for XP might be designed to fail, forcing users to upgrade to 7?
  45. Santilli

    Best movie you've seen

    THANK YOU FOR THE CLUE.! Excellent movie. Slater is Slater, and, it looked REALLY good in 2D, thanks to Imax filming0-[=\ I don't know what happened, but, my cat did 8 situps, right before biting me, and, typing the above;-)
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Party isn't over on this one. As I said, we'll see how it plays out. BBB may well be right, and, the motherboard may well be flaky. It is nice having everything work, at least for a little while.
  47. Santilli

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    REALLY strange that the two other cpu's I have, the 3200 and the 3800, both won't see the memory, dual sticks, as well. I had both of them in the Asus board, for the time it was working, and neither saw all the memory. Likewise in the Gigabyte board. So, I have two other chips that won't see...
  48. Santilli

    Viore HD 1080p 60HZ lc40vf80 for 389 at costco?

    I've got a 1984 Porsche 928. Same deal as above. 2000 bucks? Buy it?
  49. Santilli

    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Sam: I put out over 600 bucks, to buy different products to test this thing. When I got done, I'm in it for 100 bucks or so, and, 90 of that is due to a scumbag roommate throwing out stuff for the shipped power supply, that I would have had near 90 for credit from newegg. That said, it's kind...
  50. Santilli

    Supermicro deal on Ebay

    Does the power supply work? Details?
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