Recent content by Civic2oo1x

Yeah I had a feeling that it was too good to be true. I wonder why they even give you an option to try and use USB if it's more trouble than good. Will just using a router be any different that using a direct connection that's being used right now? The reason I ask is the two computers are...

First off thanks for any help. My brother-in-law's parents are trying to get internet access in their business. They use two computers but they are networked to each other (Have a Cat 5 cable running from each others network cards). Computer 1 ------- Network cable --------- Computer 2...

I went T-Mobile because of the Blackberry Pearl when it was released and moved 3 of my families phones from Sprint (good service, but a little expensive) to T-Mobile, getting 1 BB Pearl and 2 standard phones. Quality was terrible at my house, even after talking to the rep and sitting through a...

I bought a 55" HDTV when I worked at Best Buy a few years ago, a brand new model Mitsubishi 3 days after they got it in the store. $2100 retail, I believe I paid roughly $1500 for it.

Yes. Install a HD in it (it doesn't come with one). Format and partition the HD. Connect it to your PC via USB, drag and copy the files over. Connect to your TV via composite, S-Video, Component, DVI (only the 350-HD). Make sure the files you want to play have the proper codec. Most of...

I'm between getting that or getting the new Media Gate MD-450HD. I'm not sure when that's supposed to be out, but it has support for SATA, HDMI, and is small enough to carry around. The Popcorn Hour seems like a standalone. Sadly for me I don't think I wired my CAT5 cable long enough from my...

A lot of the Media Centers don't do h.264 yet but keep your eyes out for this one. The name sounds cheesy, but the specs look good. I've heard it should be ready for purchase in Feb, there were a few beta units sent out that have been solid so far. http://www.popcornhour.com/

Seagates. All of my systems now use some form of the Barracuda including my main with a 500 Main and 750 archive drive. I have 5 Barracuda drives. Only one went belly up and was replaced by Seagate no questions asked, even gave me a larger drive then the one I replaced (200 by a 250 I...

Easy. Get something like this. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...E16817113001&Tpk=mg-35 Either use it like a external HDD and copy the files via USB or connect to your LAN and use it to stream.

In my Shuttle XPC I'm getting around 40 idle, 52 or so full load. I'm satisfied enough for a SFF. I also turned the fans down to Ultra-Silent in the bios, anything less and it sounds like a airplane hanger. I'm sure I could get the temps lower if I increased the fan speed, but it's a trade...

You know it's a time sink when you schedule part of your week around the game and not the other way around. Or when you log on to check something you get spammed with tells asking why you weren't around, "We could've used you in Dynamis".

I played FFXI from the time of the PS2 launch (bought it for the PS2, played it 3 days on the PS2, hated how crappy it looked on my projection screen, then went out and bought the PC version.) I played for a little over a year, 14 months or so, and really enjoyed it. I had a few jobs leveled...

I will confirm what the other user posted, some OEM drives that ship with a OEM version of Nero will not install if it's a different drive it will not install. Also you get to update it, but only within the version. In the past I had a retail copy of Nero 6. It updated all the way to...

Fully updated my Vista, still the same thing. So decided to ditch the FireWire (which was transferring at 500 kbps and estimated it to finish in 1 day 21 hours to give the USB a shot. It's going along at 31MB/sec and giving me a 2 hour estimate.

Hey guys, just a quick question. I just finished installing Vista Ultimate on my new PC and so far, so good. The question I have though is its incredible slow to transfer files. From my old PC I copied over my HD, roughly 200GB using an external HD w/FireWire 400. Took roughly 2 hours or so...