Recent content by TlitJ

I had a Dell 600m with a Hitachi. It was the biggest dissapointment I've ever seen. Loud clicking from the git go, bad sectors everytime I checked. It was terrible. They sent me a replacement Hitachi and the same thing happened. They finally sent me a 5400 speed Hitachi that did ok. I now...

Just finished building my computer this last weekend and it was giving me the F1 button deal you are talking about. Seems the BIOS setting had a floppy drive called out when I don't actually have a floppy. Had to go into the settings and say floppy drive=none. Now it boots through. I'm sure...

I have the original Star Wars on LD plus a pretty big collection of other movies. My LD player (Pioneer) went on the fritz awhile ago and I haven't been able to play anything for quite some time. I wonder if there is somewhere to get it fixed?

Also, a couple of other good sites: Infosync PocketPCPassion (for Pocket PCs, obviously!)

I have a Dell 600m (my first laptop, ever). I originally had a 30 gig Hitachi/IBM Travelstar that began getting bad sectors. It would make a horrible clicking sound for like 6 seconds every once in a while and no hard drive activity would go on during these 6 second intervals. They would...

I bought a cheap eMachine about 2 years ago to throw Linux on and I've had no problems. The only thing I had to do was add some oil to the processor fan (it started making noises, but hasn't after lubing) and added a stick of ram to bring it up to 256. I've gotten my money's worth I think (I...

My home network has the router firewall plus personal software firewalls on each computer. You can get a basic free one for your needs. I use (both free): Windows XP machines: Zonealarm Linux machine: Guarddog (as a front end to manipulate rules).

Yes, in tweakUI under "taskbar" it asks how many of the same type of files/programs need to be open before it cascades them (well it doesn't ask it in that long of a sentence, but you get the idea). Anyway, set that to like 10 (or whatever value you think you need) and it should group them...