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Reply #1225 on: September 18, 2009, 04:12:04 PM

Ok, I'm officially old.  awesome, for real

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Reply #1226 on: September 18, 2009, 07:43:54 PM

reminds me of the old crappy compaq presario cases.
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Reply #1227 on: September 21, 2009, 07:28:26 PM

Anyone have a working link to the Razer DeathAdder drivers from any webpage?  The official site is SHIT, and the downloads page is down.  Vista64 version.  I've searched everywhere and my googlefu is failing.

Nevermind.  Got it working. 
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Reply #1228 on: September 24, 2009, 07:23:38 AM

Edit: Found the drivers

Next question. Are there possible software reasons why my LAN - Connection displays "no cable connected" ?

This is my motherboad , I am trying to use the onboard LAN because I just got a new fibre optic cable connection installed.

edit: onboard LAN is enabled  awesome, for real
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Reply #1229 on: September 26, 2009, 10:32:39 AM

No cable connected means there is no electrical link (or optical in the case of fiber) to the other side.

Make sure the device you are plugging into is working. It may be that your NIC or the port it is plugged into is fried and the port does not work.

Occasionally, it can be a driver issue, but that is very rare. A "media state disconnected" issue is no link at all. Limited or no connection would mean that you get a link but you are unable to pull an address for some reason.

If you are plugging into a home router or a switch, try rebooting the device/trying another port/another cable. If it is plugging directly into whatever fiber-converter you were supplied, you might want to power cycle that as well.




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Reply #1230 on: September 28, 2009, 12:07:32 PM

Fixed, after trying sever cable I decided to look for even more new drivers and found them. Works like a charm now.

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Reply #1231 on: September 29, 2009, 11:06:22 AM

In the last few days, my FHD2400 has been exhibiting some strange behavior.  I notice it on black backgrounds the most.  If I were to type something, then backspace a few spots to correct a typo or erase what I wrong, I'd get dots where I backspaced over.  So, 'backspace' would like like 'back.....'.

Bad graphics card or monitor trying to take a crap?
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Reply #1232 on: September 29, 2009, 01:48:53 PM

I would lean towards graphics card, but cannot say for certain.

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Reply #1233 on: October 02, 2009, 11:25:09 AM

Awesome.

Speaking of video cards, anyone have an idea when the Nvidia DX11 cards are coming out?  Not looking to buy a DX11 card yet, but just trying to get a ballpark idea when the current high end cards will drop in price.
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Reply #1234 on: October 02, 2009, 11:29:30 AM

Speaking of video cards, anyone have an idea when the Nvidia DX11 cards are coming out?  Not looking to buy a DX11 card yet, but just trying to get a ballpark idea when the current high end cards will drop in price.
Supposedly this December.
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Reply #1235 on: October 11, 2009, 06:38:13 PM

Anyone have a lead on a quick and dirty way to convert ogg vorbis files into something usable on an ipod?

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Reply #1236 on: October 11, 2009, 06:56:53 PM

If you are using iTunes you can install the Ogg/Xiph QuickTime component and then iTunes can convert the files to AAC/MP4 format.

http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
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Reply #1237 on: October 12, 2009, 05:31:23 PM

Good stuff, now I just have to figure out how to clean up the mess iTunes makes.  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #1238 on: October 20, 2009, 06:35:07 AM

I think(don't have the cash yet) I sold my current desktop system q6600/8800gt for a tidy little sum, now mulling over on what to do. Wait to see Nvidia's new products change the video card market pricing. Or more disturbingly wait till late q1 2010 to see the 32nm i5's. I have a e2180 + nvidia 8something crap that can tide me over so in no big rush and only borderlands I want to play soon which i doubt will be demanding.

So wait?
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Reply #1239 on: October 20, 2009, 06:42:21 AM

What?
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Reply #1240 on: October 20, 2009, 06:46:34 AM

What?

Looking for recommendation, buy an i5-750/ATI HD5570 or wait?
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Reply #1241 on: October 20, 2009, 06:52:23 AM

You answered your own question. There will always be something better/cheaper/faster if you wait. If what you have now works fine then there's no reason to get something new now unless you have to spend the money now, for some reason.
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Reply #1242 on: October 20, 2009, 03:52:53 PM

Got mad as hell at my LINKSYS WAP54G, it went belly up after a 1 year, then the replacement went bad after 3 months, so I dug out my old Linksys wired router and got some cable and drilled some holes and was back surfing the net again.  It is only a 10/100, is the D-Link or Cisco 10/100/1000 worth getting?  I have a decent cable speed and I have the 10/100/1000 on my motherboards.  Plus I found a good price on Cat 6 cable that I'll install when it gets here (and finish up with the cable covers & paint them to match the walls I think), so I don't mind spending the extra money for a decent wired router anyway.  The D-Link is cheaper and seems to be more popular and I really would like a break from Linksys/Cisco products I think.

Oh yeah, I'm sure I made 2 of my neighbors made, the little bastards were stealing my connection and I hadn't noticed till about a week ago...the whole damn linksys security system was nuty to set up anyway...so glad I'm back on wired route.
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Reply #1243 on: October 20, 2009, 05:12:21 PM

If you are transferring large files (as in gigabytes) between two computers Gigabit Ethernet makes a huge difference. If that's your only computer or you only transfer documents and stuff Fast Ethernet is plenty.
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Reply #1244 on: October 21, 2009, 07:39:38 AM

More importantly it isn't going to make the internet any faster.  If you are streaming within your home network it might be nice to have.  Also a wired connection has less overhead and a much larger portion of the bandwidth will be used for your data, so your 100mbit wired will probably be a noticeable improvement over the 54g you were using.
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Reply #1245 on: October 23, 2009, 11:09:57 AM

Hey Trippy, what do you think of this router?  I've been thinking of upgrading to wireless N for a while and I want to get 2 of these and use one as a bridge in the living room for the Xbox 360, and laptops and the other in the home office with the cable modem.

Do you see an obvious issue that I am missing?  I.e. why the $35 price tag?

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Reply #1246 on: October 23, 2009, 01:11:03 PM

According to one review you'll have to wire the two together to get the 2nd one to act as a bridge. That may not be what you are trying to do. I don't know anything about how good Buffalo's wireless products are.
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Reply #1247 on: October 23, 2009, 06:49:47 PM

I was hoping the DD-WRT firmware would fix that.

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Reply #1248 on: October 23, 2009, 08:27:27 PM

I am pretty sure dd-wrt can do that but I haven't looked into it.

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Reply #1249 on: October 25, 2009, 11:35:24 AM

I was hoping the DD-WRT firmware would fix that.

DD-WRT is unstable for it at best at the moment. The client bridge mode (ie wifi client bridging same subnets) only seen work on WRT-54's. On a WRT160N on client mode is accessible but you use the "bridge" part so you have to use a different subnet.

The WRT-320N is highly experimental but looks like a final replacement for my wrt54gl's.
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Reply #1250 on: October 26, 2009, 10:47:37 AM

Ick.  I'll wait on that. awesome, for real

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Reply #1251 on: October 30, 2009, 01:26:56 PM

Storage questions:

I'm organizing 10 years of digital photos.  I'm thinking about getting an external HDD to store them all on.  The goal would be to make the drive read-only so it can be used on any PC in the house but it should also be good enough equipment that it will last a long time. 

Any other ideas for this come to mind?  What about HDD brands on externals?
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Reply #1252 on: October 30, 2009, 04:44:04 PM

how much space is it taking up?
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Reply #1253 on: October 30, 2009, 08:47:08 PM

It's growing almost exponentially.  It's only 15gig now, but easily 10 of that has been in the last year since we dropped $1000 on a new digital SLR. 

I suppose if I need to I can just burn the stuff down to CDs/DVDs, but I was hoping for an all in one solution. 
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Reply #1254 on: October 30, 2009, 09:40:06 PM

It's growing almost exponentially.  It's only 15gig now, but easily 10 of that has been in the last year since we dropped $1000 on a new digital SLR. 

I suppose if I need to I can just burn the stuff down to CDs/DVDs, but I was hoping for an all in one solution. 

I was going to suggest getting a blu-ray burner.  Not sure why you want it to be read only.  Have you considered a NAS device.  I think Buffalo has 500mb & 1gb solutions targeted at the home user for a few hundred $$.  You will still need to back whatever you do up though.
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Reply #1255 on: October 31, 2009, 09:54:06 AM

Yeah, I'm guessing CD/DVD is going to be the way to go then.  Since my wife and kid have access to the discs I wanted a read only option so they can't go jacking up the masters.  Best way is with CD/DVD-r I suppose. 

Thanks for the advice.
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Reply #1256 on: October 31, 2009, 06:04:00 PM

Probably building a new PC in a month-ish.

Should I go with XP, or Win7? (XP would be free and totally legit, Win7 would be an extra couple of hundred bucks).


What's Win7's compatability like with games/older games? Any issues?

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Reply #1257 on: November 02, 2009, 07:18:14 AM

Nebu, hard drives are cheap, you should just get a big external and dump it on there. Then burn it to optical for longer-term storage. Depending on the importance, don't forget you may want an off-site backup (in a lockbox or at a relative's or whatever). I've been using WDs lately, black for performance, green for low-power. The new black chassis elements drives are sleek and cool-looking, we just got a pair of TB externals for digitized documents.

Az, I love Win7 so far. You can get home premium for $107 from the egg, OEM version (tied to that machine). I've yet to find a problem with it, running LotRO, EQ2, Torchlight Demo and Borderlands. It actually fixed a persistent crash issue in EQ2 for me!
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Reply #1258 on: November 02, 2009, 10:10:46 AM

anyone have experience with SVN?  I'm thinking of getting an external drive to host a repository.  Would that work or does one really need a separate box?  I don't really need access outside my LAN.
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Reply #1259 on: November 02, 2009, 10:51:12 AM

Why do you need a drive just for SVN?

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