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  1. blakerwry

    [NEWS] - Now you can SuSe for free

    Granted, this was not my normal pick of hardware, but Suse mis-identified my monitor and also, I think the gfx card from the start (graphical installation wouldn't continue unless I manually changed resolution down to 800x600) Even upon manual editing of the XF86config file I was unable to get...
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    speaker hiss

    lol, i was reading through some forums and a guy said his new computer wouldn't turn on.... I almost replied back to him asking if it was plugged in... i managed to stop myself... but I thought it was pretty funny.
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    [NEWS] - Now you can SuSe for free

    hmm.. I followed the guide. Install was easy, but I was dissapointed by alot of the hardware detection. 1) No sound (ensoniq onboard sound equivalent to Sb 64/128) 2) Incorrect monitor detection (samsung 172T) 3) Incorrect video card detection (ATi RageIIc, mach64 chipset) I was also...
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    speaker hiss

    I wasn't going to play any sounds... just plug in and listen for hiss... you're right though. I certainly wasn't going to plug a nice pair of headphones into the system. I thought perhaps there was some kind of inline filter I could add (like a resistor) that would, in effect, lower the...
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    speaker hiss

    Like I said merc. It happens even when not connected to the comptuer. It does offer PCM coax for the front two speakers, but not the rear. However, my sound card only has optical out for digital connections, so I'm just using analog. The front speakers actually don't bother me (hiss is not...
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    Building a Storage Server Thread

    Oh, I should have added, that is through two switches over about 30 feet of CAT5e.
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    Building a Storage Server Thread

    wow, testing some other transfers, a transfer from winXP AthlonXP 2GHz w/ SiS900 NIC-> winXP Celeron 2.0GHz w/ realtek 8139 gets as high as 10MB/sec.
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    speaker hiss

    The hiss is more aparent when using the surround speakers vs just the fronts
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    speaker hiss

    BTW, a google search for ACS56 and speaker hiss did turn up some results that show other people have experienced the same problem with this set of speakers as well as a preceeding model.
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    speaker hiss

    I figured we had some electrically inclined people here... especially relating to audio. I have an Altec Lansing ACS56 4.1 computer speaker setup. My problem is that when the system i on there is audible hiss coming from the 4 satellite speakers. This happens at any volume level, even when the...
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    Building a Storage Server Thread

    wow, I found a bug in the kernel... I experienced it with Fedora core 1... looks like it's been there since RedHat 7.2 ifconfig wraps the Tx/Rx count at 4GB because of the use of 32bit interger variables.. It is documented in bugzilla.redhat.com... aparently they chose to leave it in for...
  12. blakerwry

    Uninstalling NAV2003 mess up internet connection?

    im looking forward to some of these updates.
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    Uninstalling NAV2003 mess up internet connection?

    he's got some new cats I see.
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    Uninstalling NAV2003 mess up internet connection?

    i guess it would also be a good idea to compare the running services to those liseted on blackviper.com's winXP services guide.... or if you're lazy just do an OS repair.
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    Uninstalling NAV2003 mess up internet connection?

    Sounds like you should reinstall your NIC and pray... if all else fails there is the system file checker (start->run type: sfc /scannow) and a reboot.
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    Alternative Browser

    grrr... it took me 2 years to figure out why photoshop wouldn't display my brushes in presise vs standard mode per the options I had set.... I was constantly ahving to chagne the options or restart my computer. It was the stupid CAPS LOCK... RAGAGREAREGGGGG!!!@! Ok ok... im over it...
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    The flu sucks :(

    It was really a tricycle!
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    SpelChek feature added.

    works fine in cosmic distortion.
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    Alternative Browser

    I can't agree with television... it's bloated with crappy content and ads ads ads. Napster is dead... (cept for the new pay version)... write offers name of the features that are needed in a desktop publishing program, but for some reason not everyone realizes this. For more functionality...
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    Mobile Athlon Chips

    I know you'll love the nvidia-ness of the Shuttle MN31N Intel makes some nice u-atx boards if you swing that way.
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    SpelChek feature added.

    works fine for me in firebird 0.7 on winXP SP1
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    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    then I'll give it another go sometime. Maybe I'll try winXP instead of 2k.
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    Alternative Browser

    Just to add, I noticed IE is significantly slower on my p200 MMX laptop... esp during scrolling (smooth or non) Firebird runs much better. Havent tried opera.
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    Abit and nVidia are friends no more.

    i would think Nvidia would want all the partners they could get considering the recent competition from ATi
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    Peachtree Accounting blows

    peachtree must do some marketting because I've encountered some other businesses that use that software and it really sucks. There must be better alternatves out there (even free ones).
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    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    Is that using the VIVO cards that are made by a 3rd party like Sapphire? If so, I may give it another go. I think that I'd almost have to do another windows install just because I have tried everything I can think of. ATi is just a pain sometimes. I remember with my TV wonder I actually had...
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    SR Dead?

    they weren't elected and they are not our representatives... so really they only get hounded by a bunch of whiners when their site goes down. :-)
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    SR Dead?

    That's one of the things... freedom to have your own beliefs and be able to express them. However, I'm not going to let someone come into my home and "troll" me. SR is a privately owned website, it is a privaledge to post there, not a right. Eugene and Davin can do whatever they want there.
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    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    and I had both installed per the readme file that comes up when you start the installation of those programs.
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    opininos on Asrock mobo

    I just realized that the southbridge on this Asrock board is the same one used on the newer AMD64 SiS chipset boards that everyone seems to like so much.
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    Mount CD-images

    btw, I used daemon tools with a shell extention called awxDTools It allows you to easily right click on an image and mount it.
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    Mount CD-images

    in safe mode? wow. wait... do you mean win2k/XP safe mode? cause in win9x I thought you lost CD support in safe mode.
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    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    Merc, you dont give me enough credit. I've installed the MMC before on ATi cards and I know how it's done. It was fairly obvious the Sapphire CD didnt come with crap except the basic drivers that were already outdataed. I downloaded the newest catalyst drivers, then the DAO, then the MMC...
  34. blakerwry

    Folding@Home

    hey coug, i have a shuttle AK32L. Supposedly it's max is 266 (officially), but i was able to run the board fine at 333. Knowing you, your board probably offers overclocking options so even if you cant get to 2.13GHz you can probably get close.
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    Folding@Home

    just checking my psersonal stats... I'm planning on overtaking JMP on 2014-03-10 at 5:00pm. It's only a matter of time.
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    SR Dead?

    btw, it does say enterprise redhat... as far as I know SR was on an older version of redhat... 8.x or older as of a few months ago.
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    SR Dead?

    same here steve. This is the apache test page that you'd see on a freshly installed server. It could be that they are changing which server the site is hosted on or they ahve made changes on the hosts end and possibly changed the IP of the hosting server... it might mean that DNS has to...
  38. blakerwry

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    hmm.. maybe I'm not using the newest MMC. But I'll check when my gf gets off the TV.
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    Weird CD-ROM behavior

    also, what does disk management say when you ahve a CD inserted? does it give you any volume information?
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    Alternative Browser

    you should
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    Weird CD-ROM behavior

    i would suspect a software problem.. most likely with something like inCD or direct CD. btw, you're code shouldn't work... 1) switchind drives works by typing the drive letter followed by a colon. Typing "CD d:" does something completely different. 2)the dir command should ALWAYS have...
  42. blakerwry

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    steve, where do you get video soap for the 8500?
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    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    snapstream is a neat idea, but I've had some problems with it. Besides, I was only able to get the Pause, FF, RW TV feature (forget what it's called... oh yeah timeshifing) to work smoothly while maintaining high quality by adding a RAM drive. The ATi and winDVR software work much better in this...
  44. blakerwry

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    Unfortunately you cant... that version of windows is only available to OEMs.
  45. blakerwry

    Most stupid waste of $700 I ever saw

    There are several listings for a G. Hayes in the whitepages, but no grant hayes. A reverse phone number lookup shows that that phone number belongs to Forest View Recycling.. the address matches the phone number. Here's a map Maybe he works there... maybe it's just a fake address/name....
  46. blakerwry

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    watch out D, i just got a sapphire 9000 VIVO and the ATI software doesn't work with it. Admitedley, I didnt fool around with it too much (not more than 4 hours). I had already had my full of the MMC not working with ATi cards. The 9000 VIVO does have an ATi rage theater 100 capture chip which...
  47. blakerwry

    Alternative Browser

    huh.. and here I thought HTML was the standard.
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    Alternative Browser

    they render very similarly. The IE rendering has better aligned bulletted lists. In firebird the lists are spaced out too much from the margin and have to wrap some if the listed items. This causes things to get pushed down and spread apart more. There are no major rendering differences.
  49. blakerwry

    Why do you call a ring a ring if it's square.

    a ring can be a shape, but it can also be an enclosed area or to surround something. From which I believe the term "boxing ring" comes from.
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    winXP SP2 looks good

    yeah, I saw that. Looked like most of the options would be best for most of the people though.
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