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Doug- In honor of your Mother, all of your friends here at SF have contributed to make a donation to the The Hole in the Wall Gang in the amount of $350. The thoughts of all of us are with you and your family at this difficult time in your lives.

Howdy- My company is moving from Lotus Notes 8.5 to the latest version of Outlook. They are touting better integration with the latest MS Office suite as a productivity improver. Do you guys think this will be improvement? What am I in store for? :eek: Thanks, Clocker

Howdy- My dad is having some issues with his Win7 Home 64-bit computer. He uses IE (WAS using, I mean). Somewhat randomly when he goes to enter a website address new windows start popping up to the point where the PC is un-usable. They are just blank IE windows. He has Norton AV installed...

You audio people out there... I stream HD content from my WHS (using Serviio) to my TV via DNLA with a variety of audio formats. I know to use my Sennheiser wireless headphones I have to convert the digital audio out from the TV to analog for the headphones. I've read that some converters...

Howdy- Just wanted to say 'THANKS' to Doug and all who keep SF going. SF has been going for well over 10 years now! It seems like just yesterday that Doug and I were ICQ'ing about him starting it after the SR crash. As my life and associated priorities have changed over time I have not had...

$70 OBO for anyone local. It is really in excellent shape. A couple little scuffs at the front upper LH corner. I found the mesh for the top bay (not shown in pictures). Stereodude, I think, is the only one who might be interested...

Hi Guys- I am thinking about building a system using the Bitfenix Prodigy mini-ITX case. I'm thinking a Z77 motherboard with a i3570k CPU. Do you guys have any experience or recommendations when using this case? Thanks, Clocker

I have an E3300 with unused Intel HS/F on eBay right now. If someone here has any interest before it sells on eBay, I'll cancel the auction and sell it for $25 shipped in the USA. It does 3.3-3.4 ghz at default motherboard settings in my cheap ga-g31m-es2l motherboard which I think just hit...

If anyone has a copy they are no longer using I would like to purchase it! Want to take advantage of the better power management capability compared to WHS v1. Thanks, Kevin

My e3300 @ 3.4ghz is not as fast as I'd like it to be at transcoding/encoding but I don't want to rebuild the server. Anyone have a good C2Q they would like to part with?

On July 27th at 10:14AM my parents and I watched my brother take his last breath @ the age of 46 years. He was essentially brain dead except for the most primitive functions that kept his heart beating, until we had to put an end to it. It's a process I'll never forget. He went out in a way...

Surely you guys have some RAM I can buy for my FreeNAS project?

This is extreme, made me think of dd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eULFf6F5Ri8 C

Please watch..let's discuss this. http://www.crisis8.com/ C

What's currently the best free program for imaging a system over from an old 160GB drive to a new 1TB drive that you guys would use? Coworker is going to be getting a new disk. He knows enough about computers to be able to boot to a CD/DVD if that's needed but it should otherwise be easy to...

I know I have one if not two of subject cards. They're in perfect shape and passively cooled. I have no use for them. Any one here who wants them and will pay for shipping can have them! DVI and VGA out.

Howdy- I have a Lenovo R61 laptop. 2Ghz C2D with 2GB RAM and onboard graphics. 30GB SSD. I want to put a Windows OS on it as cheaply as possible. I think XP is just a little too old and would prefer Win Vista or 7. If you guys have anything you would like to give a deal on let me know. I...

So my co-worker has three kids and his wife doesn't work. He needs a new computer but can't afford it, his 12 year old P4 system was letting him down. So I dig in the parts bin and this is the gift I build to give to him: Case: Antec P180 M/B: Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe CPU: Athlon 64 4000+ San...

New season of Spartacus started on Starz last night. They kicked this season off with the slaughter of a bunch Roman's in a brothel. Pretty much sums of the entire show I think. Excellent.

I have a couple new music CDs I got as gifts. What's the latest preferred method/app/settings that you audiophiles use to rip your music to MP3? Thanks, Clocker

http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+Server+8+Scraps+Part+of+NTFS+Base+Code+Gets+B+And+Thats+Good/article23795.htm

The small one has a S754 M/B in it. The medium one has a Socket-A M/B. The big Fong Kai FK-320 is empty but has a custom hammered metal paintjob. .. All the opticals in them area IDE. Going out to the curb this Friday AM for garbage pickup. Also have a matched pair of Kingston 512MB DDR400...

Windows 8 Storage Spaces Something that will get me to upgrade to Win8 when it comes out, I think: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/windows-8-storage-spaces-detailed-pooling-redundant-disk-space-for-all.ars Boot into the OS with an SSD and then have all my other disks be part of...

Way behind the times here but my 4 year old just got a Wii. I got it installed, have not played any games yet but connected it to the internet and downloaded all the updates etc. What's good on the Wii for little ones? Anything I should know these systems? Good accessories to get? How about...

What free app/service are you guys using for remote support of family/friends Windows 7 PCs? My brother has Win7 Home and will need some help configuring a couple things. I'd like to control his PC remotely if possible... Edit: It needs to be simple for him to setup at his end! Thanks...

Looks really nice to me and, bonus, they got rid of the stupid 'lower chamber' separating the PSU from the rest of the machine. All it did was cause routing problems for me. http://www.anandtech.com/show/5090/antec-p280-when-enthusiasts-are-engineers/

Is it difficult to setup SF to work with the mobile app. TapaTalk?

My parents system finally took a dump today. Probably a bad caps on the M/B or a PSU as the system won't even start up. Does this config. still represent a good value for quality parts? Or is there something else I should be looking at for them...

Will be time for me to get a new phone soon. Was happy enough with my Pre+ but it appears support for that & WebOS is coming to an end. So I am stuck with a decision. Get an iPhone 4 or 5 this winter or get an Android phone? My problem: form factor & battery life is important to me. I...

If not, they should! What a tragedy!

Anyone in the metro Detroit area, free black over the range microwave. We're re-doing our kitchen and no longer need it. Works great and is super clean. More info. on it can be found here: http://www.plassappliance.com/products/roper/mhe14xmb.html Clocker

My brother in law wants me to build him a new Windows 7 system. Looking for a recommendation as I don't know what is the best value right now. It's just for web surfing, email, youtube etc. No gaming. What's the best value with quality components? Thanks, Clocker

Hi Guys- Long time no see. Good to see most of you are still around and kicking. Anything new going on around here these days? Guys get married, divorced, have kids, etc? Just curious how things have been rolling around here. Looks like uda is gone, how did you manage that? Clocker

Maybe some of you have seen some of the pics. etc. released or maybe not. The initial 'leaked' pics. with the dorky-ass executives posing with it sucked really really bad. The pics linked to at the page below are nice. There's some good info. with several exterior and interior high resolution...

Interesing info: http://www.overthehillcarpeople.com/newsmediapublishthis.htm

Available as of yesterday.... I know some of you use it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en C

I was using OpenDNS but that service was actually interfering with the operation of my internal network (causing problems with connecting to my WHS to restore backups or run the console). So I decided to run my own DNS on the WHS box using Treewalk ( http://ntcanuck.com/ ). It seems to be...

I got tired of Vista Ultimate and decided I wanted to go back to XP. I have two legit OEM copies of Vista Business and heard you can downgrade to Vista. All that's required is you load up XP Pro (use any CD-key you might have), and call M$ to activate over the phone. I did that and, much to...

I'm looking for any ideas you might have for decreasing the power usage of my WHS box built out of old/spare parts. Here's how it is configured right now: Processor: AMD 4000+ Socket 939 (downclocks to ~1.15v and 1000Mhz with COOLnQUIET Enabled CPU Heatsink: Scythe Ninja passive cooler...

I think CityK uses this. http://www.opendns.com/features/overview/ I've decided to set it up on a couple machines to see how it works. It's free & offers content filtering which may be useful for those of you with families. In the unlikely event my son or two nieces accidentally click on...

Interesting info. on Toyota's abusive labor conditions in the USA as well as abroad. Prius Line Worker Worked To Death http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2008/06/18/090268.html Engineer Worked to Death http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/370115_overwork10.html?source=mypi Unfortunately...

Hi- I've pulled a bunch of video off Mini-DV tapes via firewire. About 60GB worth of avi files for about 4 hours (4 miniDV tapes), IIRC. Anyway, I want to make some video DVDs from the data I pulled from the tapes. Right now I'm just using Windows Movie Maker and it will burn a DVD for me...

I had to stay home from work today because I have vertigo. Doctor said it's from some really bad congestion I got from allergies over the weekend that somehow is messing around with my inner ear. It is freaking bizarre. If I force myself to walk long enough, I can get to the point where I'm...

Time to build my father-in-law a new machine. I'm looking for some advice! He'll be running my old (legit) WinXP license since I have finally jumped to 64-bit Vista Ultimate (hey it works fine for me since I don't have time to really do serious computing anymore :-) ). I have 2x1GB of...

Posted this in AVS Forum but thought I might get some opinions here as well: Thanks, C

I thought this was a good article: http://wardsauto.com/commentary/mileage_safety_affordability/

My friend had a Lacie external drive. It housed a ST3250823A 250GB Seagate drive. It appears the drive has gone belly-up. It spins up but the drive just clicks randomly. I told him I'd check it out. I pulled the drive and attached it to my other external enclosure. It still does the...

I'm looking for a socket 939 cpu for cheap. Let me know if any of you have anything! C

I'm thinking about getting a Thinkpad T61 with 15" screen. Is there something better that also has a trackpoint (or similar)? Also, I'm trying to decide if I should pay a little extra (~$40) to get XP Pro rather than Vista. I'm leaning toward XP but was wondering if there is any reason I...

You guys have any thoughts about these parts I plan on picking up toward the end of the month? Samsung HLT5687SAX 56" Slim LED Engine 1080p w/ free 1080p Upconverting DVD player...