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coming in late here. didn't notice the thread changed so quickly to from normal to classic SF. let me guess..... PHILIPPINES?

Hey! Sounds very familiar to me. Meanwhile, I have downloaded BitTornado this morning. And am using it now. Will try to find out if I can continue to browse. Click back in an hour or two.

am looking into those solutions. will post soon as I find out if anything works/tanks thanks again

not to sound ungrateful in the last post, mercutio. I really am a newbie when it comes to networking and the Web. Really appreciate your (and the whole lot of SF regulars) quick and knowledgeable responses to my queries.

ahhhh! ok, will try that. you know, this is somewhat your fault... In one other thread I read that you preferred BitComet. :) anyway, you're on a lot faster connection. I didn't think it would matter, being that I've not experienced anything more than 3.2kPbs until the 13th of this month.

I have checked for spyware and adware, comes up clean. Using adaware, spybot S&D and spyware blaster. I don't think I have a virus. AVG is updated almost every day.

I regularly download some files by Flashget (FireFox Flashgot plug-in). And I have some files queued on BitComet. I can usually surf while all that is going on at speeds roughly equal to or even faster than my old dial-up connection (~2.3 kBps) But after I stop surfing let's say for an hour or...

I would love to do that, really, really love to. But the electric bill is high enough as it is, the missus would bonk me on the head and throw the PC out on the street if it ever went over P2,000 (USD40) per month. Sometimes I can get away with keeping it on overnight when I am...

like a happy kid with a new toy I liked Opera and Firefox enough because of the tabs to leave IE. But I missed being able to read the pages I previously visited while offline. This was important to me because I was on dial-up and I would download pages off the online newspaper and read it...

I am using Opera8.5 as I type this. it feels speedy. I think I like it. I have use 7.1 and 7.21 before but I never really caught it. Used it only because it had a good download manager. And it is cleaner than before. I remember the Opera I used looked cramped. And yes, I remember having...

http://opera.com/free/ the guys in the tech forum here at home are all agog. They say it is less of a resource hog than the Fox. What do you people think?

"Maraming salamat" i.e. Many thanks. :D

Gilbo, yes they are great deals. We can buy the A64 Sempron 2500+ for less money than the old Socket A 2400+ Sempron. Of course the Socket 754 mobos cost more... My upgrade dilemma is whether to buy a P4 2.4 which I can still afford (the 2.8 is not) or to switch platforms again. Overclocking...

64-bit semprons here at home, many techies in our forum (tipidpc.com) are agog over the overclockability of these new 64-bit Semprons, specifically the 2500+, 2600+ and the 2800+. they get them running at 320 FSB x 7 or 8 using NF3 or NF4 chipset mobos. That is mind-boggling for me. Do...

oops. Now I know why there's a preview button. Sorry.

http://home.ripway.com/2005-5/300796/Folder%20Name/PhotographyGroup/servercasing.jpg Well, here is my personal "hernia buster". I suppose they are the same size as those in the picture. Had to take it down as I am donating the 32mb Trident to a friend who does not have a video card (meaning he...

Hey! sorry I had 2nd thoughts about mentioning the word "hernia" anyway, the server casing is really heavy, the old steel plate is not like the new ones coming out where you can use the edges of the case to shave your mustache. And I dread having to do work on the machine's innards. I have to...

hahaha, taz. Nothing of the kind. I saw it sitting around in my friend's office. I asked about it and he said, we're going to use it in training some street kids how to assemble/disassemble PCs. I said, you're going to give the boys hernias while you're at it. What if I swap a lighter (you bet)...

Here's what I have. It's only 1 machine. Its legacy goes back to 1995 when I first bought an AMD 386DX42 with a 100mb hard disk drive and a glorious 1mb 72-pin memory stick. Processor - Intel Celeron-D 2.53 (a shame, this, after all my years as an AMD person) 6 months old Motherboard - Epox...

this NEC 3540A is silent as well What do I know. Just comparing it to all the other CD drives I've had before, A few Lite-On readers (they whine when reading, can be disturbing). Lite-On 12X same as the readers) Cyberdrive 16X CD burner (pumps up and down - wheeze wheeze silence wheeze...

The CD/DVD burning sites have posted the BenQ DW1640 and the NEC 3540A as favorites as of late. I paid the equivalent of US$64 for my NEC. Doubtless my friend paid a whole lot less for it to cover his expenses and legwork. He said the BenQ was going for a few dollars less. Good value for...

I wanted to buy a BenQ 1640 for my first drive. BUT, the person who was buying it for me was too early at the shops and the places which had opened has only NEC 3540A's. So I got a NEC instead. Well, it's my first DVD burner and I think it is good enough. Burns 8X media at 8X. Once got 4X media...

Thank you, all. Great and speedy feedback.

Thanks Buck, does that mean they are old models? Hmmm. Not good, the person offering them made like they were new. Well, probably new, as in unused, but old stock. That is discouraging. Another question. Why is it that many of the people here "do not like" WD drives. Is this a recent thing...

There's a deal offered me for the above, 2 of them. should I bite? What's to not like. OTOH, what's to like? I'm thinking they would make video editing a bit more responsive, I mean 3 drives, 1 boot, 1 capture, 1 intermediate files, (I have an 80gb samsung) Thanks a lot.

tried out swapping a power connector. no change. might be really something wrong with the drive. Funny thing is, as time goes by the drive life prediction gets better and better. It's now predicting the drive to die in the year 2011

power connector? hmmm will try that later, will shut down first. thanks for the tip. already tried replacing the ide cable, no change.

:lol: heheh, yup, at first glance, it looks like it. but... it's actually the "attribute" which is low.

Hello, I use HDD Health. And my 80gb maxtor gets this comment. It has been like this for months now and the predictive life span has been getting better and better. It started out like 3 days from now. Lately the predicted life is in the year 2010. I've replace the IDE cable and still am...

Wow, has this thread been running! sorry for the late response, I was troubleshooting a client's rig and couldn't check back. I am on dial-up, a supposedly 52K connection. but observing the connection's status, the number of bytes received is tallied, the number stops for a while, say 10-15...

hmmm, I use Firefox, too. It seems many of you are saying, maybe the reason I'm not getting any infections is because I'm not infected. could it be my modem is choking up? it's 3 years old. could that be the reason my connection is so slow?

Hello. Since the start of the spyware/adware crisis, I have used 3 programs mostly because of feedback from this place: 1. Adaware 2. Spybot S&D 3. Spyware Blaster Got to thinking, maybe they don't cut it anymore, because my dial-up is crawling. Scans don't come up with anything. What's new in...

wrong model arrgghhh! the Acers they have on promo here are the 1714 and the 1751. No 1715. I am sorry for me.

can you give us the 17" Acer model you say you like? Hello Tannin, Acer is doing a promo here in the Philippines. Give them a working 17" CRT and they slash 4,000 pesos off the list price of some LCD models. Your post is one of the first things I've read saying something good about Acer LCD's...

new problem on same system aghhh! on two consecutive nights, my system started to recycle from boot on the Win2K partition. (the Win98 was ok). right after the Win2K splash screen, it would blue screen saying "the hive file (registry) is corrupted. blah-blah-blah" then it would restart. I had...

workaround successful So I installed the Promise ATA66 controller, connected the Hard Drive to it. And Partition Magic works flawlessly, allowing me to add a new partition, change it to Primary, make the old primary partition into a logical partition within the extended. Needless to say Win98...

thanks Jan. will try a different UDMA cable. And will also try connecting the Hard Drive using an old Promise ATA66 PCI controller I have lying around.

tried this, no go. Ouch! Does this really happen? I've worked this setup on NForce2 chipset mobo, KT400 mobo and newer SiS chipsets. Please don't tell me I will have to buy a newer capture card. I am ghosting this partition and will try dual booting to the same partition. Hope it works.

I used to be able to dual boot Win98 and 2K from different partitions on a single 80Gb hard drive. Needed the Win98 only because my old Matrox capture card has no drivers for the newer OS’s. When I changed my mobo to an MSI KT6V-LSR (Via KT600) I couldn’t get the Win98 partition to work (I...

been using EZ Trust AV, but I don't like it anymore Started out with it when it was free. Then 2 years ago, I bought it, renewed my license last year. Been getting emails from them saying version6 had problems, I needed to upgrade to version7. But I don't like the new interface. Anyways, some...

I like Maxtors. They have not failed me yet. But then again, I tend to dispose of my Hard Drives when they are 2 years old. But my customers (precious few) seem to have nursed their Maxtors well. So there. But maybe the above is because I was partial to Quantum, it being the brand of my 1st ever...

might as well weigh in. voted seagate down. Have RMA'd more of them than others. (not that I've built a lot but, in the little experience I've had...)

I am impressed by the speed of the responses. Thanks a lot. Will heed your suggestions and get back to you.

I am experiencing intermittent lag in the response of my computer. There are times when I've typed a few words in MS Word and nothing comes out until, say 3 to 5 seconds later when all that I have typed suddenly bursts into the page I'm typing. Windows Explorer doesn't exhibit that behavior...

Thank you all for the replies, will research your suggestions. I was in the wife's province for the annual "All Saint's Day" observances. First time I've heard of Linspire, will surely check it out. But having two votes for KDE must mean a lot. Open Office will be there for sure, Tannin. BTW...

Hello, been a lurker since 1996 (storagereview yet), posted once or twice. Would you please recommend a version of Linux for someone who has experience only with Windows? I use Word, MS Publisher, Excel, some photo editing and some VHS to VCD video conversion. Hoping for a parallel...

I enjoyed reading this piece. I'm in the Philippines. I don't Kazaa, P2P but I tend to agree with the opinion of the speaker. What do people in the west usually think on this? I'm curious

yes, that did it. I shifted a jumper and made the drive "master" and XP sees it now. thanks

I triple boot, W98, W2K, and XP (for some reason). I have 2 HDDs and 2 optical drives on my mobo's 2 IDE channels. The partitions are a mix of Fat32 and NTFS owing to the use of W98. For some reason XP does not see the 80Gb Maxtor drive with a single partition on my Promise Ultra 66 ATA card. It...

the plug-ins work!! thanks a lot. the plug-ins work.