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  1. J

    Guitar advice?

    If you like the sound of your yamaha why don't you just add a pickup to that guitar? There are pickups that just snap into the soundhole of the guitar and are easy to install/remove, or there are other types that install inside the guitar. Most of replace the strap button of the back of the...
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    Visual Source Safe thru VPN not working

    Have you tried archiving/splitting the project? I believe the reason why SS runs like crap is the way that it handles the file delta and the admin data. If you look in the data subdirectory for the database, there are a bunch of directories from a-z, every time you check in a file it hashes...
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    Visual Source Safe thru VPN not working

    Hmm, you have me worried, I will probably have to run SS over a VPN in a few months. One thing I have noticed is the Anti-virus software (Norton in this case) can have a really huge impact on the speed of SS. Even with local servers it is noticably slower (order of magnatude) when Norton...
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    Win XP pro "hanging" problem

    Oops, I didn't see your last reply before I replied. Anyway, when you first login (not coming out of standby), if you click the 'Options' button on the login screen it should give you a listbox that contains the domain name and your machine name; if you select your machine name it should just...
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    Win XP pro "hanging" problem

    I guess turning off 'Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby" isn't an option (corp security?) in the Power Options control panel? Is your machine set to hibernate or standby? When it goes into hibernation it will flush the entire contents of ram to a hidden file in the root...
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    Sony to solve PS3 shortages by May

    My local grocery store has had 3-4 in stock since mid-january. They had a 20% off coupon last week and actually sold them all (plus all of the 360 stuff got cleaned out), and I was just there and they are fully restocked again. So there seems to be plenty of PS3's in the pipeline.
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    For all you ps3 haters

    Yep, it reminds me when Apple was touting all of their altivec equiped macs and how they were much faster than intel. Of course, that was using a few select benchmarks that could use the vector processor, but when benchmarked using just about everything else they were still way behind intel...
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    My Calculator of 13 Years finally died this morning

    I also have an HP 41-CV that I bought 21 years ago, and it is still on the original set of batteries and it still works (still use it to balance the checkbook). Amazing, but those calculators have incredibly low power draw. I am worried about what will happen when the batteries finally run...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Have you been leaving the computer on or off? The clock will be much more accurate when running off the battery than when powered on due to fluctuations in wall current. I haven't noticed anything, computer is off most of the time.
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    Need DVD Player help

    Not close at all. I have a couple of upscaling DVD players and the image quality difference between 480p/720p/1080i is barely perceptable. It mostly depends on whether the scaler in the DVD player is better or worse than the one in the TV. Remember that no matter what the resolution you...
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    Where to find: PCI card that gives PS/2 Keyboard/mouse and serial ports

    Newegg has the usb->ps/2 type converters for $5.00 each. When you say you need a serial ports do you mean the old rs-232c type? Newegg also has usb-rs232c converters for around $12-13. I actually had no idea they made something like that until I did a search on the site, there are actually...
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    Pistachio nuts FTW (IMHO they tie with Macadamia Nuts @#1 for awesomeness)

    At around 8 calories each, that's important; count up the number of empty shells when you're done and do the math. I've eaten the equivalent of a Big Mac, Fries, and Coke just having a few for a snack during a football game. I'm just glad they don't dye them red like they used to, I hated...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    If you look at document 31305602.pdf (the tech spec for the ICH8), on page 162 there is a block that shows the feature set with/without ahci. You do get the 3 GB/s transfer speed and the staggered spinup, but none of the other feature such as NCQ (that seems a decelerator anyway from much of...
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    core 2 duo - not snappy

    Try downloading seatools from seagate and run the diagnostic tests. You may have a marginal drive.
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    IE and bargainbuddy on new install?

    The update of ad-aware from a couple of days ago has a number of false positives, including bargain buddy and W32.Trojan.Download. It found W32.Trojan.Download on my machine and after doing some research as to what it was pointing to, I determined that it was probably 'clean', so I didn't...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Whew, that's what I wanted to hear. BTW, folks who are worried about not getting DDR2-800 over DDR2-667, every benchmark I have seen comparing the two and DDR2-533, show there is a very small gain with the faster memory, at most 2-3% if any at all. Given the price and scarcity of DDR2-800...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Just did the bios flash and checked my temps, pretty much the same as what everyone else has reported +- 3 degress or so. I did try running an intensive app (Oblivion) for a while to heat things up, and when I went back in and checked the temps were pretty much the same, so I am not too...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    I looking forward to flashing this myself, I looked at the readme and I can't believe the number of bugs they fixed in this release. The ICH is the southbridge chip which is the I/O controller, i.e. controls SATA drives, USB, LAN, PCI slots, etc. If you are just looking at the temps in the...
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    Detroit Lions stripped of all remaining dignity

    I know, it is about a 2 hour drive for me to Detroit, I was seriously debating making the trip.
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    Detroit Lions stripped of all remaining dignity

    Well, they were hoping that Millen would be another Joe Dumars, but he has turned out to be another Isiah Thomas. I just hate the free pass that Millen gets from other newswriters and sportscasters.
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    PS3 delayed until March in Europe, ME, Africa and Australasia

    Wow, you really have to feel sorry for the third party software developers. Nothing like spending $10+ million to develop a game for launch and find out that there will be at most 500,000 machines available for it to run on. Even with expanded shipments over the next year, I imagine that...
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    Case

    +1 on the PC-60B, I just built my newest rig using one (my first Lian Li) and I was really impressed at just how polished and well done every little detail was with the case. I have built a number of machines with Antec cases and there really is no comparison (Antec isn't that bad either)...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Haven't tried it with this motherboard, but when using older Intel MB's whenever you plug something different in, a popup dialog will open asking what you plugged in and what is it for. I don't thing I ever tried that when the machine was already on, but at least at bootup you should get that...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    Well, fans and motors will draw the most current when they are spinning up; it sounds like you are running over the limit of the PS during startup and it levels off one everything is running. So I guess either upgrade the PS or keep staggering the startup of the Drives or even the various fans...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    GeoJet, That definately sounds like the power supply on the drives. With the various SCSI drive arrays I have worked with, you can set the drives to wait a couple of seconds X their SCSI id so each drive powers up one at a time; just to protect the drives and the power supply. This is...
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    My Conroe E6600 Build

    Newegg has fixed much of their shipping price stacking issues. I just build an e6600 system and ordered everything except for the case. MB + RAM +HD + Power Supply + Video Card + DVD + software = $15.00 ups/3day
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    A few more bugs I have run into: 1) I wanted to reinstall XP, and tried moving the DVD ahead of the harddrive so I could boot from the XP cd instead of hd. The first 2-3 times I tried that it refused to take and kept booting from hd. I finally moved the hd below the floppy (which I don't...
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    *** Official Intel DP965LT Thread ***

    I just completed my build with a DP965LT, E6600, Kingston DD2-667, ati x1900xt, Seagate 320 GB hd, XP Sp2, etc. Nice and stable so far, though it has only been a few hours. Not sure about the fan problem mentioned above, I have two of the four case fans attached to the MB headers and they...
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    Seagate not Sealing Anti-Static bags?

    Thanks guys, I guess that is how they are doing it now. What I need to do is just see if Seatools will display the hours on the drive. that would give a good indication of its usage.
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    Seagate not Sealing Anti-Static bags?

    I bought a new (I hope) seagate 7200.10 HD from newegg and I was surprised that the anti-static bad wasn't completely sealed, only folded over at one end with a 'Made in China' sticker. When I have purchased harddrives in the past, the bag has always been vacuum sealed with an airtight seal...