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  1. blakerwry

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    Did you have any problems with the paint scratching/chipping or did you not find the same thing that I and others have seen where the paint is poorly done. Hopefully this is something antec will resolve.
  2. blakerwry

    Windows XP Pro Login Debacle

    i sure he already paid eymantec for them to tell him they won't help. Their support is utter crap (pay for the product, if anything goes wrong pay for support), anyway you look at it they get your money.
  3. blakerwry

    Digital Copyright Protection Error

    can you atleast reinstall the software.. howabout device manager, does it report the correct country/region?
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    My mom's a senior citizen today

    bwahgahgaha. ugh :-(
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    What about Howard Dean?

    life isn't good?
  6. blakerwry

    Windows XP Pro Login Debacle

    http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm or I suppose you could reinstall XP ontop of itself.
  7. blakerwry

    Digital Copyright Protection Error

    i haven't gotten into that myself. Possibly trying other DVD playing software will resolve the problem if a firmware fix does not.
  8. blakerwry

    [NEWS] - Video Encoding

    yup, I openned MyIE2 to view the cruddy review.
  9. blakerwry

    Digital Copyright Protection Error

    Maybe the software is unable to raed the RPC data off the drive. Perhaps something like DVD region free... or amybe just a firmware update for the controller/drive.
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    HD read/write question

    lol. Share the wealth
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    HD read/write question

    just a thought: A JOBD array would perform in the same manner as what you suggested.
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    HD read/write question

    Correct. By using the fastest part of each disk at the beginning you are exacerbating the high performing beginning of the disk along with the decay at the end of the disk. I think there have been drives like this, and I'm sure with a firmware change you could make a drive like this. A drive...
  13. blakerwry

    HD read/write question

    It's just a physical limitation that the inner part of the disk will be slower than the outer. Disk platters are shaped like records. Imagine the outter tracks of a record, they are much longer than the inner tracks. The disk spins at a constant RPM speed. This means that the outer track can be...
  14. blakerwry

    Jumbo frames over Gigabit, what to do?

    I agree that a speed test is in order here, you can try netperf or like Merc said, large file transfers.
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    What about Howard Dean?

    I used to think SS was a bad idea. But I see your point merc. Maybe if it were implemented better... I dont see it as fair when I have to support someone else by working harder. I do think it would be more fair if I could put money away for myself, ie: you get back what you put in + yeild from...
  16. blakerwry

    Writing something

    i thought it looked familiar, same syntax as a MS product key. I didnt bother to check its authenticity.
  17. blakerwry

    Alternative Browser

    IE 2 and IE 3 were the most god awefully unstable things in win3.1 On the other hand netscape 2 and 3 ran great on it for me. I never used Mosaic, but I've heard about it because I went to KU (where it was atleast partially developed)
  18. blakerwry

    Writing something

    good luck
  19. blakerwry

    Writing something

    I feel the same way sometimes. You can't always pick a time to create. Sometimes you just have to wait until something inspires you. :idea:
  20. blakerwry

    Tools to make Gecko browsers rule even more

    awesome! lately my extnetions include: mouse guestures Things they left out compact menu All of which are available on the normal extions page accessible by clicking on the "get new extentions" link in the options menu.
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    Alternative Browser

    not mozaic -> netscape? since uh... they were around before internet exploder.
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    HD read/write question

    if the track to track seeks are less time consuming than head switches it would be faster.
  23. blakerwry

    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    They sell the ss51g. (albeit that's not just a board) The 651 is roughly equivalent to the 845PE. While it will still run willamette and Northwood processors, intel has left behind the 533MHz FSB. One of the *FX or *TX chipsets from SiS would give you more longevity...
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    Alternative Browser

    Most thorough browser comparision I've seen on the web
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    HD read/write question

    it certainly is an odd pattern.
  26. blakerwry

    Wireless Network Problem

    I've never used netstumbler, I'd be interested in what it shows.
  27. blakerwry

    Article on Longhorns news file system

    does it make any difference?
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    Article on Longhorns news file system

    Since we're on the topic of file systems, will it make a noticable effect on performance if I mount a HDD as say "/mnt/hdc1" then I mount a folder on hdc1 to another place on the file system(using the --bind switch) to access it?
  29. blakerwry

    Wireless Network Problem

    do you have security off? broadcasting of SSID's on? WAP enabled? authentication to automatic? can you see the laptop in the attached devices list?
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    Article on Longhorns news file system

    DOS fdisk is bad.... cfdisk is a marked improvement. gdisk and GNU fdisk are too hard to use. Who would want to use DOS Fdisk in winXP when you can use disk management? It works great for fat16, fat32, and NTFS... easy to use... requires no rebooting... For an initial install just use another...
  31. blakerwry

    Building a (really cheap) Server

    No. There's no standard for 400Mbps over ethrnet that I know of. There is firewire over cat5, but that is an entirely different story.
  32. blakerwry

    Article on Longhorns news file system

    who doesnt want to switch to NTFS? I've used NTFS for years and welcomed it highly over fat32 when my computer became fast enough to use it. (my 66MHz 486 was markedly slower with NTFS, a pentium II made no noticable difference in speed but gave me many more options over FAT).
  33. blakerwry

    Wireless Network Problem

    hmm.. I got the same router for christmas.. no problems with it. You might want to try changing it to a different channel in the wireless config. Do you have a known working wireless NIC?
  34. blakerwry

    Building a (really cheap) Server

    if the gig-e is negotiating at 100BaseT then task manager should only show 100Mbps as the max. Even for full duplex connections.
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    Building a (really cheap) Server

    btw, you can add columns to the network display in task manager, I like to add the incoming bytes/sec and outgoing bytes/sec.
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    Building a (really cheap) Server

    sounds like a firewire net adapter From what I've seen, task manager seperates different NIC's so you can see them individually, just like CPU usage. But if two connections were bridged then I don't know how it works. In any event I wouldn't worry about it.
  37. blakerwry

    Building a (really cheap) Server

    She might, simply becasue photoshop will be writing to scratch and any other disk activity will interfear with that. It all depends on what she's working on and how complex it is. The CPU hit should be minor even at worst case (10-20%). I'd use your pII as the file server if it has the space...
  38. blakerwry

    Building a (really cheap) Server

    Do you already have a router/gateway? A pII is plenty for a file serving box as I've already shown and many others have said. It is also plenty to act as a file server in combination with performaing firewall/gateway functions and even internal/external web and FTP services.
  39. blakerwry

    Replace Epox with MSI?

    That's like saying the intel 845+ICH4 has no S-ATA, you want a 964 or newer SB. Just like with VIA, you'd want an 8237 SB and not an 8235.
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    Replace Epox with MSI?

    or Intel or SiS boards.
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    HD read/write question

    I could also add that there's only one actuator which means all heads must be located on the same cylinder at any given time. Additionally, from what I understand, only one head may be reading or writing at a time.
  42. blakerwry

    [NEWS] - Memtest86+ v1.0

    yup, should be moved. I saw this tool on AMDMB.com and thought it was neat that it could read many of the memory timings, etc.
  43. blakerwry

    Epox 8KHA+ leaky capacitors

    i heard a similar loud pop with my abit board... i didnt find the cap... dont know if it was missing or just plain popped....
  44. blakerwry

    Epox 8KHA+ leaky capacitors

    i concur. Even my abit that eventually died of bad caps only had at most 6 leaking ones(they leaked from the underside)... all the big ones were bulging though.
  45. blakerwry

    [NEWS] - SiS releases PCI-E-capable south bridge

    I'm sure it's just like USB was limited to 2 ports... in 6 months we'll have several S-ATA connectors and I'll finally get an S-ATA drive.
  46. blakerwry

    Need Scsi Guru

    Perhaps setting the options to default?
  47. blakerwry

    Folding@Home

    is that a script? cause there was no fah file in my download.... You should be executing FAH4Console-Linux.exe to run the client. IF you're running the core then that explains your problem. The FAH4Console file manages the core.
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    Folding@Home

    how are you starting f@h?
  49. blakerwry

    Weird CD-ROM behavior

    yup, my fedora system puts a notice in the event logs that shows that there's no CD in the drive... often resulting in something like this in the event logs.
  50. blakerwry

    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    I realize that SiS has been in the pits before, but for atleast 2 years they have been turning out very nice chipsets at low prices with the feature sets equal or better than the others. For instance, on the ASrock board I bought, it supports native SATA II hot plugging features (SiS 964SB)...
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