Recent content by Luminous22

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    DVI output to HDTV

    I'm having an issue trying to send video to my Samsung 16:9 DLP HDTV via DVI-D from my Geforce4 4400 using the Full Screen Device setting in the nVidia drivers. I use a Viewsonic A90 4:3 19" CRT for my primary display and would like to get the video overlay to run full screen on the HDTV when...
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    Geographic trace

    Thanks, looks like hop 2/3 of all my traces wound up in Englewood, CO. Sounds good to me, crazy satellites. Thanks.
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    Geographic trace

    I'm currently in Iraq and I've just slipped onto a satellite connection. I'm wondering if there is a website/util that I can use to find out where my connection gets down to Earth at. Basically so I can download from the closets mirror, using the old American servers just isnt the same on the...
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    Hardware Primers

    I knew it was gonna happen. For the past 10 years I've had to tell my dad what to do to his computer and be his personal tech support. And I knew one day I would leave and he'd be screwed. Well I left 2 years ago and moved out of state, but somehow I was able to coach him through a lot of it...
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    Current LCD technology

    biz-ump y'all
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    Current LCD technology

    I'm just wondering this and I haven't found an answer anywhere, but with all the talk of LCDs now, have they really gotten better in the past 2 years? What I'm most concerned about is the colors, and more specifically the gradients. On my Dell (ugh..) laptop the lcd doesn't seem to support...
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    ~~~ The Official Gmail Thread ~~~

    Hey guys, was wondering if I could get an invite. I'm out in Iraq right now and the firewalls on our computers block all the other email services, I know they don't count gmail yet. EDIT: Request has been graciously filled by santmr, thanks again man!
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    4 disk vs 2 disk raid-0

    I'm building a file server for about 4 computers to feed off of. Mostly is going to be an archiving/streaming kind of machine for video and multimedia files. It will probably end up doing a lot of video encoding also, and will eventually be playing multimedia files to a TV. My question here...