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i, AFAIK, the first step is the player. If the player is set to Rgn 1 and the disc is some other Rgn, you have a problem. If the player is set to no region, you may or may not have a problem with the sw.

Checked 5 stores that are in a 10 mile radius. Not one has them. :evil:

Region checks work in 2 places simultaneously: the hardware (drive) and software (the player). To defeat it, you'll need to "fix" both areas. I'm a Linux noobie, but I'll assume that the player you have doesn't care about regions. You fix the hw by installing firmware that defeats the region...

Come on over, then!

Include me out. I feel naked when I step out of the house in shorts. In the distant past, I used to wear a tie to work everyday and my co-workers and subs would tease me that I probably went to bed in one. Ya'll think Merc is shy and introverted?? You ain't seen nothin yet. This way of remote...

Friday the wife & I saw LOTR - Fellowship for the first time - we must be the last ones in the galaxy to see it. Wifey picked up a collectors extended edition set of the three movies at Costco months ago, and we saw the first one just now. It was 208 minutes! Two Towers is 223 minutes...

C'mon, guys, don't sound like a bunch of losers. I've had a shitty 6 years (it's true) and I still haven't curled up and died. Chin up, hopes up, and go at it. Sometimes when things seem hopeless, it's better to dumb down a bit and go with the "ours is not to qurestion why, ours is but to do and...

Not true; they are two different things. Yup; that's right. It's been quite a while since I did this, and I'm not 100% clear as to the process. But please read thru the following links completely before attempting this: What is Booktype / BitSetting? Apply Compatibility Bitsettings using a...

Sheesh, Greg, you're going off the deep end again. Go with USB thumbdrives, they'd be the cheapest, easiest, quickest, most practical solution for the needs you have right now.

Cool, Will. It's highly rated - enjoy your vehicle.

Amen! Happy New Year, everybody (though it's still 2005 in the U.S.). May the coming years be filled with great happiness, robust health and prosperity for you and your loved ones.

I understand Serenity is available for $15 as well. I went to my local Wally Mart this afternoon expressly to buy Firefly & Serenity. "We don't carry 'em in this store". :(

I don't remember which menu the Preferences or Settings option is. Once there, the Files option then the Document tab should have the option for automatic timed backup. Get her OEM version 12 from here for $7 + tax + shipping.

Generally, older players play -R but not +R. Newer ones play both. Some, like Philips, support only +R and won't recognize -R. This applies even to their latest players, and they do this on purpose. Most burners and good burning SW (like Nero) today have "bitsetting" capability; you burn a +R...

Fry's has a Bluetooth dongle made by PPA for $25 this weekend. Last but one from the bottom, last but one from the right in this ad.

Thanks, Bozo. Firefox 1.5 on W2k, ran all 40 tests.

I have Media Player Classic + QT Alternative + RT Alternative. When I double-click the HD Apple file, MPC is launched. Beyond this, I don't know - you da man.

I think it's a combination of video card and processor. The 720p Wildlife "movie" was showing one frame every 10-12 seconds on my m/c, and the 420p version was not much better. The audio was fairly ok. Radeon 9000 w/ 64MB vram, 2xP3-900/100, 1GB RAM. The AGP slot is a 1x/2x. CPU Utilization...

I thought the industry had promised to scrap this "region-code" shit with the next format. Now it's Deja-Vu all over again??

Thanks for all the research, Maxburn. I may need to go down this road myself, so this really helps. Asinine, the way these are designed, no? 2 independent 16x or even 2 independent 8x would have been great. I have a feeling you won't find what you want any time soon in these "consumer" class...

Nobody likes doctors (Adcadet excepted, of course) and hospitals and medical tests, but they have to be put up with so we can get well. Clench your teeth, get things taken care of and get away from doctors and hospitals and medical tests. Sometimes what seems really bad to us lay people is an...

Mark: I think Merc's rant has more to do with SD's other comments, rather than the wish. It rankled me too, though I don't consider myself a liberal. I wrote a response as well, but aborted it - based on his comments in other threads, it would be wasted anyway. I'm tempted to post something...

Congrats, JoJo, and a Very Merry Christmas to you and your family! And belated Birthday wishes to you, Doug!

You ok, Eric?

62F = 16.66667C. Freeware called Convert is pretty good; I install it on all systems I set up. It's been rather warm for this time of the year in S. CA as well; I'm sure Buck and the other denizens of this area will concur. The last few years have been very atypical as far as weather and rain...

Thanks for the clarification, Gary, that's good to know. It means I can fool around with my PC even more! (Have W98 at the beginning of the disk, followed by W2k. Now I can install WXP next! Yes, I'm a masochist.)

I saw that too.

Ack! Got wrapped! Looked ok in preview. Sorry.

Thanks, Dave. 2 x SATA HDDs, 2 x Opticals, 1 x FDD, 4 x 92mm case fans, 1 x fan controller, 1 x USB/FW front panel bay. I thought the CPU ran off the 3.3v rail? I know the P4 requires a dedicated 12v rail, but didn't know A64's used 12v as well. Of the brands I've checked (Seasonic, Antec...

I fail to see the business advantage behind this. Unless Seagate wanted Quaxtor's additional factory capacity cheaper and faster than they could build themselves.

I'm presuming XP's boot files will be on the 190GB partition. If so will XP boot? IIRC a bootable partition has to start before the 8GB boundary for Windows OSes.

Thanks Dave. How does one size the +3.3v, +5v and +12v rails? The various online PSU calculators only spit out the aggregate power required. My concern is undersizing one of these crucial rails. Let's say the system would be: A64 X2 4800 Nforce4 Ultra (non-SLI) motherboard Radeon x1600 XT...

It's impossible that's it's impossible - I see these on a daily basis! :D Perhaps the ones I see are not made by Lumileds. Just to clarify, the lights I see are a matrix of individual LEDs, whether for the red or the green signal. Individual green LEDs don't light up. Whether this is because...

Thanks jtr. An odd thing I've noticed is with traffic lights that have been converted to LEDs. I see many greens with quite a few LEDs in the matrix that are dead -- 10% or less, but they are visibly dark when the green light comes on, but they don't affect the overall quality of the signal. I...

I read the reviews at Newegg, and it looks like Seasonic's quality swings wildly back and forth. Quite a few DOA units, many units dying after a day or two. Anybody care to comment?

I wonder what jtr will have to say about this: Myths Busted, LED Lighting

Actually is quite a bit slower for me now.

Interesting idea on social change: A Lever Long Enough to Move the World

Scott Finnie says this is a common problem in FF 1.5 and recommends not installing it.

"Your dick is not only for pissing!" That's the title of one I received today. I didn't know spammers were into educating dumb fools like me. Reminds me of one of those "Height of" jokes that were popular eons ago when I was in high school. "What's the height of innocence?" "A pregnant girl...

Folder compaction has been around since the Netscrape 4.x days, at least. If you just delete, the mail goes to trash and sits there (like Wreck Bin), and when you empty trash it compacts folders. Or, if you delete the message using Shift-Del (as I do), it disappears instantly, but the space the...

IIRC, it was a Plextor.

I must have been born under the same stars as Santilli. I bought the Gigabyte 9600XT video card from ZipZoomFly on Sep. 20. Give a few days for shipping and installation. The thing croaked in the first week of November (I've been away since about then till a few days ago). Symptom: Display...

The AGP slot shares the IRQ with one or more PCI slots; make sure the Promise isn't sitting in one of those. As I said, W2k & XP don't use the BIOS and will not have a problem with resources. No need to worry on that score. My Penium-3 BX motherboard has AGP + 5 PCI slots, and every one of...

I've always refused to give phone # / zip code. If they insist, I'd rather walk away without the purchase.

Actually, no. NT class operating systems (NT, 2000, XP) don't use the BIOS at all, but manage resources and hardware themselves. That's one reason many of the earlier posts urged you to use one of those. The best you can do with the BIOS for W98 is to clear CMOS and/or reset BIOS settings to...

i, Merc, Tannin, I suspect the problem is more prevalent than is believed. Here's my guess on the population breakdwown worldwide. I suspect 49% of people fall in the above category. Another 49% consisting of the i's, Merc's and Mubs' of the world. 2% of type Tannin.

I watch with deep sorrow as this country verily turns into that against which it has stood from the beginning.

Thanks, Will. After much research and reboots, it transpires that it wasn't the profiles at all. Uninstalling still left a ton of stuff in the Program Files\Mozilla folder. Deleting this folder (leaving my profile intact) and reinstalling 1.5 solved the problem. I'm a happy camper now. I'm...