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Hi Someone I know has a 38" Sony, but, needs a HD capable TV to go with her Blue Ray. The Sony is not HD capable. Now, it should have S-video, and, my ATI 1650 has a S-Video out. Anyone using such a TV as a primary monitor? The other option is either a 22" Samsung, or a 25" Viewsonic.

Being the cat in the bowling alley: What are the differences between XP, 2003, and Vista, that make Vista require so much faster hardware, and so much ram? Thanks

If the guys that did WINE were more intrested in making office apps, rather then games work, it would be wonderful. Yes, Synaptic works, and works well. Course you have to get used to the Linux apps. I like the idea of having a WINE developer actually get mainstream, or even industry unique...

The computer is just three years old, and, it's just out of warranty, which of course I find out when one of the speakers dies... It's an intel processor, 1.6 ghz, stepped, Pentium R M. Drive it's running off is 4200 rpm, the one that came in it, but, it was actually reasonably fast, about 25...

I've got a spare drive and caddy for my Panasonic CF-51, and, for the first time ever, I've got a Nix based OS that actually does some basic functionality stuff, like playing a movie, watching something on youtube.com, etc. This is a first for me, and, even though it's on a 5400 rpm drive, vs...

David what are you using for cable internet, and, what do you pay? How was Russia? S

I have the fax problem too, and, a nice fax machine. Wondering about your solution, or, just take it to a Kinko's, and send from there, for the number of faxes we send. On the other hand, Murphy will probably get me, and, right after I cancel it, I end up doing a bunch of faxing...

Generally, using headers and a free flow exhaust will increase acceleration, and top speed, so, that should really help increase the speed, when you're dragging it behind your car...

"outside a Toughbook (which is too dear and (last time I looked) not very nice to use) " If you shop, I don't agree with the first part, nor the later... CF51 has removeable hard drive caddies, which, with your problems with drives, might be a partial solution. It also uses IDE drives, and, I...

AT^T=MY MOST HATED PHONE COMPANY. Recently, I got phone calls, and turned off service, because I had been late on my bill. I said something like, you send an email, you get payment. You've done this before. Then they came up with some corporate garbage that as long as I was getting paper...

Besides SWEARING never to own anything by Apple, ever again... My girlfriend just asked me what's the big deal about the iPhone? Problem is, I can't find much that isn't Apple hype. It does appear to be a blackberry at half the price, which means one, it's not paying for windows, and, two...

Actually, the two districts I know are just now moving from iMacs with 9.1, to Dells, with 2000...

Canon's BJ-85 was rather cool, since it could be had with a mobile battery, if it worked, and, a scanner cartridge. Had one, gave it to a friend...May get it back...

By the way, you have the right ZE4600 designation. It's on ebay already... It's NOT a Panasonic...

"Greg: Does Apple still support 9.1? If they do not then I wouldn't expect any ISVs or peripheral vendors to support it. If they do, then HP made the decision to not support older Mac OSes, probably with the reasoning that it was a small target audience. I don't see the SE4600 on HP's site...

I think I've traced it to at least a defective CD drive in the laptop. Both Ubuntus fail to boot, and, the ram is tested, so, it should easily load into 192 mb of ram. Of course it could be something else on top of that... I have just zero intrest in trying to sort out a computer with...

Any guess when SSD's(sounds like some sort of sexually transmitted disease) will hit the same price range as SCSI drives? Or, like the Samsung, actually get big enough to boot Windows from, and install a few programs?

Let's see: I'm blessed by HP because I've recently had enough of their products to never buy another. However, I didn't have to buy any of them to find this out. At school we had a all in one printer the guy couldn't get to work with his 9.1 mac. Why not? HP only provided software for OSX. I...

Sorry if the initial post was confusing. I'm looking for the same solution David has in Moscow, but in Kali.. At the same time, it would be nice to be able to pull the card out of the laptop, plug it in to a router, wired is fine, and be able to run a couple of desktops off that.

Hi Looks like the rent here is outpacing my income. I'm going to move, and, I don't know where. Thinking of bouncing around a bit over the summer, and, I'm considering a wireless solution. My questions are what company(currently have AT&T for the cell, and, they bought SBC and took over my...

Update: Now the monitor is fine, and has been for near 2 months????? Cat hair?

Didn't see an IDE version, or a converter that would work in a laptop. In theory, the 32mb version would work, since the XP install, and document is at 16GB. That would make for a VERY insane laptop.

HMMMM. Would be rather cool if they made one that worked for laptops, and it didn't cost as much as the laptop... Using Ubuntu off a 4200 rpm drive right now, and, it's not bad.

Seems pretty obvious why they aren't mainstream. With a 15-30 year life span, you wouldn't exactly be out shopping for new drives very often. So, SSD buyer=lost customer. 5.9 vs. 7.6ms? Rather strange they didn't compare the VR against 15k drives.

Not that hard. The issue requires either in statute, or case law, a number of hoops you have to jump through, prior to getting to the end result. Quick example: My leg had blood clots formed, I thought by Vioxx, post surgery. The clots went into my lungs, nearly killed me, and, screwed the...

Since I posted that, I figured that out, by looking at the ESPN HD offering. It's clear that it's much better then standard. Also this video card plays the HD trailers with no problems, and very well. Have to try it on the Athlon you built in the other room. I was refering to the HDCP...

OK: Let me get this straight: The ATI 1650 series card I have is good at displaying HD quality digital, like ESPN360 stuff, but, it does, or doesn't display it at it's maximum ability, just does a good job, after the signal is graded down, because the card doesn't have HDTV protection chips, or...

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That actually brings up a really good point. What do you need to play HD, like ESPN HD, on a computer, and screen? Also, is a 1 mb/sec connection fast enough for an HD feed?

Now the darn thing is working fine. Wonder if cat hair got in the top, and caused a short?

I've tried both sides. Currently the best result is plugged into an adapter, and in the DVI. Prior, it was nothing but blue, plugged into the VGA. However, the Sony is now plugged into the VGA and appears to be working perfectly. I guess it could be the cable. Any idea where to get a new...

WEIRD. Monitor starts up fine, sometimes. The will go blue only, and, now it just switched back to perfect. Any ideas why it's doing this?

Hi My 21" Hitachi is now displaying pretty much nothing but blue. Switched channels on the video card, so, I'm pretty sure it's the monitor, since the 19 inch Sony worked fine on that same channel. Any suggestions for a LCD that does NOT have speakers, since I'm likely to move the LCD to the...

Well????? Got it going???

1650 Pro seems to be a bit faster then the X700XL that it replaced, and, the colors seem to be darker, more vivid, and clearer, in 2d.

My thought exactly. Figured moving the squirrel over a slot would stop whatever might have been happening. Give the front fan a better chance to blow cool air over the heatsink on the card, and, the squirrel can exit hot air out the back, along with another slot being open as a vent.

Switch went well, despite constant swearing, and, too much wine....Bit of thought, moved the squirrel over one slot, not that noisy, with stock fan, compared to X700XL. Hope the cooling is better. Problem maybe excess heat from cpu cooler,...

Thanks Yes, the side with the board has two 120MM's, one at the front, one at the back. I've also put a squirrel cage fan right next to the video card, that blows out the back of the case, and pulls air off the video card. I change resolutions without restarting the computer, and, I suspect...

Hi ATI just replaced another fried X800XL(that's three) with the above 1650 Pro card. I was wondering what fan to use to replace the noisy, not so good fan they use stock? Who makes the best quiet fan for the ATI card? Thanks

What kind of cpu usage does PowerDVD Ultra cause? As for video cards, I did a little research, and it seems like everyone is advertizing about HDCP capable, but none of the cards really are, without an additional chip. If I wasn't already into the cards fairly cheap, I'd try something else...

I do like duals, and, they are snappy, with Server 2003 or XP. Great website and reviews. What software are you using for Blue Ray decoding? How did you find out the Corsair was a relabled Seasonic? How much power consumption difference between a 500 and 700watt PS, and, what would it cost per...

Did you get the B3 or the GO?

What is it that you want your computer to do that it doesn't now? What areas are you trying to improve? What program so taxes your computer that you want to lower the cpu useage? Is that the issue? You aren't playing games, so that's out. Your machine sounds great to me, and, I just pointed out...

Well, I stand corrected. YOU are the expert...

Thanks David. Sort of thought so...

What's wrong with the Seasonic 700Watt 4 rail power supply? I've got the scythe in my gaming machine, and, I crank the fans up when I'm gaming. I'd get a variable rate front mounting fan control. About 30 bucks. IF I did it again, I'd probably go with that gaming cooler that mounts a fan...

What's wrong with the Seasonic 700Watt 4 rail power supply? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151031 I've got the scythe in my gaming machine, and, I crank the fans up when I'm gaming. I'd get a variable rate front mounting fan control. About 30 bucks. IF I did it...

HMMMM I thought it was a storing function in games like Quake 4, that without the memory, the game has to use some other sort of storage, like virtual memory, and that just slows things to a crawl... Funny thing about this is my ATI 800XL just died, so, I'm back to the 700XL, and, once tweaked...

HMMM. Sure glad I have an extra copy of XP, and, thank David for 2003 Server...