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Thanks My really old tv just had the portable Colby DVD player pretty much die on it, and, I bought a newegg.com Liteon combo. Didn't work with the old TV. Problem with the old style video out, from the Liteon unit. S video out worked fine, but, only my Panasonic in the living room has that...

David: Have you tried the other recent Razor offerings??? G

Anyone tried the this? Panasonic player upconverter to 1080? http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/82-103-286-08.jpg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882103286

Actually, it's Windows 2008 enterprise, that I don't trust on anything but a laptop, but, I agree with you. 2003 seems to work fairly well, except for games. s

Have enterprise up on my laptop. Fairly snappy. A bunch of basic software, like dictionaries, won't install. Driver problems for scanner, screen, and no dual monitor support. Password security is a real problem. Requires a serious amount of typing for a password, but, on the otherhand don't...

Just a quick note on the subject. I just got done pulling a Radeon X700 out of the machine David built, and I sold. CPU AMD 3000+, with Swifttech's massive cooler,and a Stealth Vantec fan on top of it. As the computer boots, the fan turns on, then the auto sensor shuts it off, and, it stays...

Edit: Are you a scitzo version of Splash??? WOW, what happened? I thought life as a dolphin was a really good thing???

Hi I'm wondering if you have fins, and, in another life, respected life, unlike your AVATAR??? I wonder, how did Splash turn into Jack?????

Drive was half of a raid 0, so the data recovery is not part of the picture. I was actually wondering if it would be worth it for anyone to have it fixed by seagate, i.e. reconditioned, or, I should just give it away as a 500 dollar paper weight at Christmas;-)? If the repair price was...

Hi I'm wondering what Seagate charges to fix such a drive? Guess you have to be registered with them to find out. Anyone registered, and know what they charge for a drive repair? Thanks GS esq.

Thinking of school. Currently subbing long term in a math class. Anyone have a projector they would donate? I use it for most of my math stuff. Scan in, and project. We have 5 for the school, and the school is about 3500 students.

Thanks! I couldn't remember hypermicro.com, but, I had very good service, products, and prices from them. I'll be looking them up. As for solid state, it's WAY off, as far as my price range right now. The 300 gig 10K's 10.7 are nearly as fast as 15k's, these days. Also, if I can find one...

Hi A refurbished Cheetah finally died, after about 5-6 years. Wondering if anyone has any great places to get scsi drives? How about these guys? http://www.unityelectronics.com/category-category_id/55/ct/SCSI_Hard_Drives Pricing looks too good to be true... GS

That's generally the alcoholics in the group... s

Excellent door stops...

I'm real happy with the 7200 rpm 80 gig in my Panasonic. Imagine they make bigger, but, the under 100 dollars seemed like the value spot, and, the bigger drives the usual ripoff, due to 'what the market will bare, lack of competition' pricing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZfUI3tHII About 1200 pounds, handles like an F1, and about 3.5 seconds to 60. By the way, Spectre racing used to be in Belmont. I spent about 50k on a Mustang funny car they built. I've been thinking about a similar project with a 928, or 924, or 914...

HMMMM. So far the combination of RipIt4me DVD Decrypter, and DVD Shrink has worked on pretty much anything I've tried it on. That said, if you like AnyDVD that much, it's nice to know about it, and, I'll check it out in the future. G

David: Don't know if it would help, but I use Onmiform 5.1, from formly Scansoft, now Nuance for documents I want to fill in areas on a computer repeatedly. As it starts, it has a wizard that might allow you to scan the forms the way you would like. It does scan forms, sense areas that are to...

Hi I was wondering if UbunutI ripping software was better then say, Exact Audio Copy, or RipitforMe, etc. ? If so, which packages do you use? Thanks G

I LOVED THAT, after I stopped crying. :cry: Very sad...

David: What programs are you running? Seems to me I remember the Video program I used with the Plextor converter ate tons of processor cycles. How do you do batch photo processing? Photoshop? Haven't been able to get VM up and running on my machine, but, I'll take your word for it. I've used...

Well, I've been sending stuff like the article "What slows Windows down" to his work place. Tomorrow I'll leave on the desk, notes that pretty much just show he's an incompetent idiot. I did spend about an hour, something not easy to find in my current 7 day a week schedule, to go over how to...

Hi I wonder if the programs we currently have can even use the existing processor power? Except for DVD Shrink, most of the programs I have can't even use the measly two physical 2.8ghz Xeon's I currently have. It takes multitasking to really get near 100% cpu usage, and, it usually looks...

Having fun with laptops. REcently upgraded to a Seagate 7200 rpm drive, and, it makes it real snappy: http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2005/09/22/Panasonic-ToughBook-CF-51-Semi-Rugged-Notebook/p1 Had to format with the Seagate tools, even though I had partitioned and formatted on...

A finish to this is the ungrateful prick went back, and, they gave him a normal deal, for 800 or so bucks, on a decent setup laptop. After that, he's been blaming me for MSFT's having to use IE 7 to do downloads, his inability to buy tickets from Ticketmaster due to using IE 6, and feels ripped...

Hi I think the patch I put on 2003 Server to make it seem like XP to programs has done just that. I think somehow VMware sees XP, and won't install on it, despite appearing to go on and do so. I've tried again, and I get a message that VMWare only runs on server software. So, I could...

Thanks for the link, Timwhit. Downloading now. Funny part is it appears VMware had an installation already present of Ubuntu, but, I couldn't get it to load and open from VMWARE, nor could I get the disk to load, either on boot, or from VMWARE. Some missing file message... G J.D.

Yes, it's 'Juris doctor' or doctrate, and it's a doctorate degree, and, it's more intense then most. Meanwhile, I got the Iso up, but, it doesn't want to run, missing something, to just boot off that. Then, I can't get the Virtual machine to see the ISO, and, even though I point it to the...

The 500 gig 7.10 does 32-1028k files in the 68-70 range for writes according to ATTO, and, slower reads??? Dr G

Well, it appears I burned the ISO as data, and not a disk image. We'll see how it goes as soon Nero finishes this time... DR G J.D.

I'm making a bit of fun of academia. I get REALLY sick of some principal taking a correspondence school in some absurd form of educational discipline, like psychology, Philosophy(my major), and using the term 'Dr.' before their name. Also, having the student loans to prove it, I find it...

Installed VMware, but, I can' figure out what to do with the Ubuntu iso-386. Copied it to a CD, but, I can't get the VM to see it on boot... Plus, it keeps defaulting to DVD Decrypter to open it. Really weird. Dr G J.D.

Hi Anyone used MSFT's version of a virtual disk, or, am I the lil pig? Dr Greg J.D. PS thanks. I'll try Ubuntu.

Anyone have a quick, latest update link they use for Fedora, or a version of RedHat, or suggestions for other versions of Linux?

Hi Something wrong with MSFT's version? Already installed, but it seems I trashed my last Redhat CD's.... Thanks Greg

How would you set up a virtual OS, like Redhat, on a 2003 Server machine? Seems like for virus protection that would be the best of both worlds... Thanks Dr G J.D.

This kind of stuff is pretty common in dealing with Eastern cultures, read Japan, Korea, and China. When we think the deal is over, the contract is written out, and signed, they think that's the time negotiation starts... Cultural difference. Dr G

Ok. Taking baby steps, using the Sandbox... It's kind of erie, not hearing any writing doing email, or browsing. I get the feeling I'm actually using RAM, and processors, finally, on this machine. So far, it seems far faster. The email spamware program that used to bog deleting items that were...

Now I know why my 3550 sold for so much on ebay... Greg

Does anyone know if NEC has been bought by Sony? Thanks Dr G

For free, AVG looks pretty good. I'm using NOD 32 on three machines, and, it's keeping me out of trouble, and, has stopped a number of websites from nasty stuff. Also, AdAware has found 451 'infections' mainly cookies installed by news websites, on my SO's computer. I've set both to notify on...

I think Wesley Snipes is trying to make this an issue. Didn't the IRS arrest him for tax evasion, based on not paying taxes on earnings made in another country??? If, unlike Dubai, you are being taxed once by the country, like Britian where you pay 80%, I could understand why he wouldn't be too...

I don't see why Roxio CD creator doesn't work. I had, and used it for awhile. Wasn't nearly as easy, fast, or good as Nero, but it did work.. DR Greg.

I just was looking at this on newegg. The newer, perpendicular drive seems to be both expensive, and unreliable, not a great combination. I went with this drive, for 119 dollars: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM 5 year warranty, and reliable...

One more question: How would one go about really taking computer knowledge from novice to system admin level? What courses, books, etc. are effective teaching tools, for the least amount of money possible? What courses, or certificates, are considered worth something in the computer industry...

OK: observation time. I've noticed that although the performance settings were set for programs, the programs just don't use the cpu, or the memory I've got in the system. So, I set them to favor the operating system, 'background services' and 'system cache' in the advanced performance options...

Another question: I've been transfering some multi-gigabyte size files between drives on my system. It's been slow. I went into the settings window, and, checked optimize for 'background services' vs programs. I'm wondering if setting the Memory usage to 'system cache' would help as well...

Some of us are aware of the fantastic work, and situation in Dubai. I've been lucky enough to converse with Saeed, at accuratereloading.com, and, his character, and the progressive nature of Dubai is quite clear: http://www.accuratereloading.com/z182000.jpg However, I'm just a novice with...