Recent content by montag451

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    Computer beeps while in Left 4 Dead

    Are you using a usb joystick/kb/mouse? If so, it is possible that whilst you are playing, you might be yanking it around too much and disconnecting it. Or, there may be a bad wire in the device.
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    Wiping a Hard Drive

    Yeah, at the place we go to to fix ole pootas, first thing that happens is DBAN if they power on.
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    How would you transfer eleventy billion Hi8 tapes to a hard drive...

    Get a secondhand Hi8 cam with firewire. Get something like Pinnacle software, or Ulead video studio etc. Get a couple of those new big 1TB drives!!! Convert away, then edit after, then chuck the drives in the bin afterwards (or give them to me.) Bear in mind that a 45min Hi8 tape will take...
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    Program to convert

    vdownloader if you don't mind downloading them again.
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    New Laptop: i need to image the HDD

    Some of the hard drive manufacturers use Acronis TrueImage as their FREE cloning software. Its rebadged, but its still the same engine. Its free on their sites!!!! Just make sure you have one of their drives in your machine - doesn't have to be one that your are cloning to/from.
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    scanning

    Yeah, OCR But I usually find it quicker to re-type a small article - By the time you've scanned, spell checked, corrected the errors (probably about 2-5% depending on the text) .............
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    Losing Registry Settings

    Are you making the changes in an admin account? If not, then any changes won't be written.
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    Accidently raided a drive, is my data lost???

    Did you 'wipe' it, or format? If you wiped, using, say DBAN, or something similar that overwrites data - don't waste your time trying to recover anything. If it was just formatted, you might have a chance as long as nothing else has been written to the drives. Even so, you might not get your...
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    Internet Browser Security

    Opera 8.51 Doesn't seem to be as 'holey' as Firefox (they bring out an update every few days it seems), although it could be said that because Opera doesn't update as often, it might be slightly less secure. I would defo go with Opera, but as a very close second Firefox (the latest one...
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    New mobo, old HDD works, still reformat?

    But then again, Spending 8-12 hours reinstalling everything from scratch and getting those settings to how you like it (another 4 hours tweaking)- You'll notice a big improvement in speed and niggles that may have popped up lately will most likely disappear. Look upon it as a new start...
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    Reliability

    I would say that a 'good' psu is probably more reliable than a piece of RAM or a CPU, just on the basis of the complicated/small structures in these items. If your PSU cost more than your RAM, then you probably have a good reliable block of capacitors etc.
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    Best free anti virus

    I'm with you on that one. Mind you, I had roughly the same problem when i installed avg8. That is probably the only way to make it scan to the end without flagging up every little bit of whinge.
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    Best free anti virus

    Hmmm, Just uncompressed large rar file - Avira was scanning each file - usage went upto 210MB. Don't mind that so much, but 5 minutes later and it hasn't released 165MB (avguard) that it doesn't need anymore. Waited a couple of minutes. Still at 165MB RAM usage. Decide to go to...
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    Best free anti virus

    I take some of that back. It deleted all my recovery passwords softwares (luckily it was being run as user and couldn't delete the admin protected backups! phew ) Anyway - from now on 'exception filter' will be taken more seriously.
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    Building your own wind turbine - has anyone ever done it?

    I can't see why you couldn't still carry on with your project. Just use smaller fins. (This is the first time I've heard complaints about there being too much wind for a wind turbine!!) Make sure you aren't putting it on top of a building. That way leads to troubles. Lots of turbulence. In...