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Gaaah! I screwed up writing my previous post! The AverTV definitely supports NTSC (good, because I need that), but I also need PAL-B support and it has only PAL-M / PAL-N support. That's a deal-breaker for me. So this raises the question that if all the other guys say they support PAL (without...

Thanks Sol and Merc. On their website, the AVerTV PVR 150 is listed as a white box product, and comes without software; OS required is listed as WXP MCE; only PAL M/N are supported (that won't work for me, I need support for PAL-B). Thanks for the offer to let me try out your gear; I'll have...

Cuts both ways. We could bring B(ill) J(efferson) Clinton back!

Thank, CityK. Your post clearly points out how much I don't know about this stuff! :oops: First, I don't have a DV cam. Yet. I wanted the ability down the road to cap DV. That said, the PC will have FW ports (heck even the 5+ year old system I'm using now has an add-on FW card). I have Nero...

Thanks, LM and Sechs. I've scanned some in hi-rez and straightened and cropped, but obviously need to play a bit more. They're mostly 2"x2", high contrast prints. Most here are young, so a trip down memory lane might be fun. The household had a Viceroy bellows camera that used 120 film. It was...

As usual, the weathers has been SNAFUd. A week ago it was so hot (90 F) - in winter. Now it's gotten cold, but nowhere as cold as it should be in winter.

I'm scanning quite a few old (35+ years) photographs, most of them black & white, on an "Epson Perfection 2480 Photo" scanner. Specs say: 2400 dpi main scan 4800 dpi with Micro Step (sub scan) output resoulutions from 50 dpi to 12800 dpi 16 bits per pixel per color internal 1, 8 and 16 bits...

I'm mulling buying one of these. Most products seem to be kinda hit-and-miss, everything I see seems to get bad reviews by a good proportion of users. I checked out videohelp.com as well. Features: 1) Interface: no preference, and in no particular order: USB2, Firewire, PCI, PCI-E 2) Must...

Elmer Fudd. Vewy, vewy scawy. Just like Mawy, Mawy, Quite Contwawy. I have a welapse of Elmer Fudd disease evewy now and then. Stwikes without wawning. Fowtunately, it's not dangewous. Just contagious...

I read part of the page (FAQs) that Will linked to just above; pretty funny. Guys certainly have a sense of humor, which is soooo lacking in our world.

You're right, Bill, looks like Flash is the problem. I installed Flashblock, closed FF, cleared cache, came to this page, opened my link in a new tab; CPU util was 0-1%. Uninstalled Flashblock, did same thing (two tabs only), and CPU util varies between 2% and 22%. Obviously if I have...

Thanks for the testing, Bill. I'm unable to install Flashblock; the "server timed out". Will keep trying and will report back.

I've often wished for it, but it sure is going to be costly. Either you make a small quantity and pay thru your nose, or spend on tooling for a larger quantity. In the end, you're better off buying the best ones that meet your needs and getting proficient with a Dremel. I've also had very good...

I use AVG. Obviously, I have a slow CPU and a slow system bus. That will change in a few weeks, though :D

Sorry if this has been asked before. Do DOS based utilities like PartitionMagic, Drive Image and Ghost (each one) work with SATA drives? Do I have to load SATA drivers on the boot floppies to access the drives? Thanks.

You have company, Coug. I had no idea what that was all about either. Thanks Tim.

CPU hogging: Try this page. On my 2xP3-900 1GB RAM, my CPU utilization is consistently betwwen 37 and 48%, not doing anything at all. CPU is hogged even if that tab is not the active one. Task Mangler says it's FF that's doing the hogging. Mem usage for FF is 90MB, peak 109MB, VM 76MB. Peak...

Cowwect, except that AFAIk you'll still have activation to deal with, but should be easier to handle when you tell them you're upgrading and the OS is still being used on only one machine.

So what's it like when you go away on those long road trips, Tannin?

I cried from laughing too hard when I watched this Jay Leno prank. It's a several-minute video, but opens as a .swf tab.

One series of radial fans goes: L, M, H, U, for low, medium, high and ultra speed. They get louder as the speed increases. This is the series most commonly available. The CFM / dBA numbers I quoted above are for the 120mm FBA12G12L1A. In the last few years, quality kind went down and there was...

Dunno; many of the big thingies require a back plate or their own custom retention module. For those feeling adventurous (Groltz/DD), there's a 140mm fan available. They claim 54.7 CFM @ 19.6 dBA, which sounds borderline dubious. The Nexus 120 is 36.9 CFM @ 22.8 dBA, and the Panaflo 120 L1A is...

Thash why, Tea, because years ago MS made it mandatory for VB makers to stick a special sumtin in de BIOS. So when you do a reinstall on the original hw, there's no problem at all. When you change the motherboard, that OEM's copy of Wndows XP looks for the special sumtin and freaks out when it...

All I can say, time, is that for me, dbx was really good. I don't have an external unit; my Yamaha high-end cassette deck came built with it, and for NR you could select dbx, Dolby B or Dolby C. I bought the deck new in the late Eighties for what was then quite a bit of money for a tape deck. I...

Feeling a bit ornery today, Time? :)

As Groltz pointed out to me in this thread, Yate-Loons are the same thing for less - often one-third the price. Jab Tech has Yate-Loons for $6. If I had known it before I ordered the Nexii, I would have bought Yate-Loons instead. YL makes them for Nexus.

It's in the BIOS.

Distronic Plus. Radar beams. Infrared emitters. Night vision. Pre-Safe. Perform-Safe. Passive-Safe. ...seats swell up like nothing so much as French-stitched hemorrhoids... Whew. Free registration required; get a login at BugMeNot.

Coug, my post was in defense of yours. Sorry I didn't make that explicit. You were and still are right.

You lose, Merc. Tannin always has 65,536 browser windows open, each with 65,536 tabs.

Many of my tapes were made with dBX; I don't remember the specs, but it's virtually CD quality. That's something I've got to keep in mind. Having said that, I've converted some said dBX tapes to CD (live recordings --> TB Santa Cruz --> CD) and had no issues with hum / distortion / ground loop...

Howell, do you mean the connectors made for 9V batteries? Now there's an idea I'll file in memory for possible use in the future. Thanks!

Thanks, Piyono. I'm too lazy, so I'm buying a bunch of 12" 3-pin fan power extension cables (found a good source). Used with the original 12" Panaflo tails I got when I bought the fans, the cable from each fan will be long enough to reach the fan controller. Thin cables, small connectors...

Nope. I don;t run Tbird. This happens even when FF is the only program running.

Tannin, I have the same exact problem, except in my case I cannot even scroll the browser window, that's how slow my system becomes. I've gone to task manager, and it will say FF is not responding, but if I wait a minute FF will begin to respond. This problem usually goes away for me when I...

I wuz going to ask about this. My new board comes with, surprise!, Karajan. Would I be better off using my PCI Turtle Beach Santa Cruz instead? I hardly ever use the sound card now, but in the coming months could be digitizing a lot of hard-to-replace stuff that's on cassette tape.

Thanks to everybody who responded; I really appreciate your advice. I don't want U-shaped connections, where the power-lead and fan lead go parallel into a connector and terminate (join) there; I'd prefer "in-line" conenctions that result in a straight-line type connection. Soldering meets...

I've read about them in other industry rags as well (Infoworld? Info Week?); they seem to be legit.

When I was a kid growing up (many decades ago) my father would say the same thing; that the world was over populated, and nuclear weapons should be dropped an a few big cities of the world. Credit to him, the first city he would mention was the one we were living in! I recently viewed these...

If it's that important, you shouldn't bank on one medium only. I'd suggest also burning DVDs on archival quality media (Verbatim Datalife, etc.), and having multiple copies on each type of media. Temperature also plays a part. You may want to look into having it stored not underground but in...

LM, thanks, I used to regularly vaccum the entire case and blow compressed air through the HSF. What I meant was that the HSF was attached to the CPU 5 years ago, and not moved / removed since. The P3 FC-PGA CPU is in a slotket, so it's easy to remove the slotket from the slot without removing...

That is a bummer, isn't it? I have this on order, and will use it if the one that comes on the DFI is too noisy. I didn't buy it because it twinkles, but because it fits the the DFI and is supposed to be efficient. In another note, I am astonished at some temp. drops I've experienced. My P3-800...

The new system I'm building is going to have many fans. What's the neatest way of powering these? They'll all be controlled by a multi-channel fan controllers sitting in 5.25 bays. Most of these are 2-wire fans (no RPM sensing) with bare leads. I've looked for elegant (small) solutions that will...

Merc: I bought a LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert, but I had my reasons for that and it would be gross overkill for your purpose. Mark: I would have loved to have gone with the new AMD socket, but there were 2 problems: 1) It's still several months away (June?), and I needed to do this now. There...

Ha! Tried it just now, and one nice whack and it came out all easy and really cleanly. Thanks, Tannin and Tea, you're the best!

Thanks, Tannin, and Tea, your expertise is invaluable! It's an old case (5+ years), but a very good one, so I'm going to mod it a bit for the new setup and it'll be good to go. I think it came with the "Venus compatible" shield installed at the factory, and since my Tyan Tiger BX based board was...

I briefly read a news item that Gmail was offering file transfer facilities. Catch is that the transferred file can live on Google's servers for up to 30 days. What was their motto again? Do No Evil? Utter BS. I regret opening a gmail account. Consolation is that it's dormant, I don't use it.

Paugie, no matter the culture, shape, size or color of humans, they are amazingly similar all over the world. Most of your descriptions of your country and people apply equally well to every part of the world! So this ain't a new problem, then. Years back, I read a report that linked the...

Thanks, Anathor21, that's good to know!

The shield has two layers to it: a layer visible from the outside that is the same gray color as the unpainted portions of the SECC steel; and a layer visible from the inside that is shiny like it's chrome plated. The inner layer is quite thin, like typical IO shields. The outer layer appears to...