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  1. MaxBurn

    problem Video trouble on game computer

    Gigabyte sent an email a while back saying they received it but I got nothing saying they sent out a replacement. They don't appear to have a way to check RMA status on line either. Do they usually take a long time?
  2. MaxBurn

    Windows 8

    I think my main gripe with the new start menu is there are no folders, so all the links that are usually tucked away in a folder with a meaningful name are now top level with everything else. Uninstall and readme shortcuts etc. The default view for this thing is a bit of a mess, where the start...
  3. MaxBurn

    Something Random

    I picked up some Levis at an OK price and a 64gb microSD card for $38. Maybe a movie or two. None of that involved leaving the house.
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    The obligatory Blackberry thread

    Interesting read here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/20/3669590/ecosystem-microsoft-apple-google-facebook-cold-war Blackberry could have been pretty successful as a service driven company but they have banked an awful lot on BB10 and if BB10 isn't successful the company as a service will...
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    Windows 8

    I don't know, it's going head to head with the macbook air. That's $1k-1.5k.
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    Windows 8

    It's another step away from general purpose computing that some people are scared of. I don't think the surface is going to do that well and win 8 is going to be the next vista as far as businesses are concerned. The surface pro with it's x86 engine could do well once people understand what...
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    Windows 8

    I have the means and the time but I still think I'm holding off for a while before going win 8. Need to spend some more time with it in vmware but honestly I'm not getting used to the workflow. Our app for example has two versions to install with the same shortcut names in the start menu, but...
  8. MaxBurn

    Looking for an App thread

    But then they wouldn't sell apple TV things and you might be moving out of their itunes store for content, so where is the incentive to make that work?
  9. MaxBurn

    Hurricane Sandy

    This could be a good thing for aging infrastructure. Lots of old crap getting replaced. http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/17/3655442/restoring-verizon-service-manhattan-hurricane-sandy
  10. MaxBurn

    Mains Voltage Control

    And repaired sure. I went so far as to look up schematics and a repair manual for them once.
  11. MaxBurn

    Looking for an App thread

    I think it's more of a codec thing, apples support is somewhat narrow so they can get the most out of hardware decoding and get that battery life. Some apps like VLC before they killed it will allow for software decoding of other media. Handbrake is pretty popular over there.
  12. MaxBurn

    Mains Voltage Control

    I have a dead 8060A and loved it. Can't bring myself to throw it out because I think I might eventually fix it myself or pay to have someone fix it. I was also looking for one at the MIT swap meet but no luck yet.
  13. MaxBurn

    Looking for an App thread

    Never used DLNA, sorry. I do see a small selection of these apps when I search for DLNA in the app store on my ipad. I am also going to guess that the iOS app storage containerization are going to make these things less useful than you might think. Apple's answer to this is the apple TV via airplay.
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    Mains Voltage Control

    Fluke is good stuff, won't let you down. For work I have a 77 III and a 77 V, no 123 any more though. Only thing that goes bad on them is the cables and that takes some serious use. We have to calibrate them every year and they never come back from cal saying anything was done, never out of cal...
  15. MaxBurn

    Personal Music Players - I need to scratch an itch

    What did they have to say? No based on piracy or privacy reasons?
  16. MaxBurn

    Mains Voltage Control

    Good online UPSs will match frequency and to a certain extent voltage to the input. This aids their transferring to bypass in a fault condition or just normal operation and initiating a load transfer.
  17. MaxBurn

    VMWare Converter

    Good to hear. This is likely going to be a common thing in years to come.
  18. MaxBurn

    Mains Voltage Control

    Looked at a couple random chargers I have here and they are all marked 240v tops. Assuming yours are the same that's an issue. There is a step down transformer up stream somewhere that needs to be retapped. They are adjustable within reason but nothing you can do about it, this is a utilities...
  19. MaxBurn

    VMWare Converter

    When you converted it did you chose the SCSI disk controller? I have another thread about that ATA trap here somewhere.
  20. MaxBurn

    Unbelievable Cisco server deal

    You don't have the money you don't have the money. How dumb would it be to get a couple and part them out? I'm thinking they are sort of top heavy on CPU verses memory to be useful for things except a render farm maybe.
  21. MaxBurn

    This is the thread for the discussion of interesting apps.

    Replace your share menu. Can change list order, hide things you don't use and automate some things. I just stumbled on this and really like the concept, if you know of a better one let me know. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andmadesoft.share
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    Unbelievable Cisco server deal

    Certainly has some CPU ability in there.
  23. MaxBurn

    Windows 8

    It has adds in it? First I have heard of this. http://hothardware.com/News/Microsofts-Big-Hidden-Windows-8-Feature-BuiltIn-Advertising/
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    VMWare Converter

    Oh no, do the repair install inside the VM. I think you are almost there.
  25. MaxBurn

    Windows 8

    Windows 8 crashes 55 percent less and is 84 percent less frustrating than Windows 7, according to a new report...
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    VMWare Converter

    Given the difference in hardware maybe a repair install would be the first option, need to get it happy in the new hardware environment as well as booting.
  27. MaxBurn

    Mobile Networks

    FaceTime on AT&T got better, because they were under investigation. http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/8/3619058/att-facetime-flip-flop-fcc
  28. MaxBurn

    Surface with Windows 8/RT

    Covergate http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/9/3622306/surface-touch-cover-audio-issues
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    VMWare Converter

    I'd try a repair install but someone more adept at disk utilities might be able to do something with the boot sector MBR or something.
  30. MaxBurn

    VMWare Converter

    Oh, didn't catch that. I'd pick one and try it anyway, unless they made major changes the images they support of the same file type are likely backwards compatible.
  31. MaxBurn

    VMWare Converter

    Image the drive and use one of those options?
  32. MaxBurn

    Personal Music Players - I need to scratch an itch

    Right, or some small difference in metadata or tags. Much better to have each users files separate.
  33. MaxBurn

    The obligatory Blackberry thread

    A; that's already happened several times, starting to look suspicious. B; when it happens you get whatever piece of USED blackberry crap they have laying around, almost always a downgrade. I'm at the point where I might just tell the company directory to change my number to the real phone /...
  34. MaxBurn

    Personal Music Players - I need to scratch an itch

    Don't see what the trouble is, people can hire others to take care of their belongings.
  35. MaxBurn

    The obligatory Blackberry thread

    Unbelievable. I posted this over on crackberry for some help but this is what I am dealing with now.
  36. MaxBurn

    PC not booting :(

    Pretty cool success story.
  37. MaxBurn

    Personal Music Players - I need to scratch an itch

    My phone got that too, 48gb free for two years. Also if you use the dropbox photo uploader they increase your storage in 500mb increments as you fill it up. Up to 8gb now free. That seems like a deal they will kill soon, it was supposedly to test out their beta photo uploading service.
  38. MaxBurn

    iPhone syndrome

    Me, just the one. But apparently if you want google shared calendars to show on those devices you enter each as a seperate ical (*.ics) calendar on the device.
  39. MaxBurn

    Personal Music Players - I need to scratch an itch

    Interesting problem. First issue I see is dropbox doesn't appear to support SDcard storage on android. If only 8gb of music maybe it's OK? Supposedly once on the phone the android media scanner would pick it up, no action necessary. That's the way it worked putting a folder of music on my...
  40. MaxBurn

    Google shared calendar

    Is the apps domain thing a paid service? I made and shared a group calendar and viewed it no problem on my note. Problem is on the blackberry I can't figure out how to see shared calendars, it just shows the main calendar. Something else to run my the BIS rep. Not an issue for me but most in my...
  41. MaxBurn

    Google shared calendar

    Seems like the whole groups thing requires google apps. But apparently calendars can be shared and editable.
  42. MaxBurn

    Google shared calendar

    Need advice, I know some of you mentioned google stuff in the past for business. What's the best way to do a shared calendar via google? I don't want to associate it with my account, assuming start a fresh account? Have a group of 8 that need to read/write to it so I don't think just sharing...
  43. MaxBurn

    Something Random

    I had lasik done back in 2002 and it was totally worth it, 20/15 till now. My right eye is a little off now but I think I can go a couple more years at least.
  44. MaxBurn

    problem Video trouble on game computer

    I remembered wrong, it was Connect3D http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1378874&highlight=x1950xtx
  45. MaxBurn

    problem Video trouble on game computer

    Thinking back over the last four gaming video cards I have had I believe this is the third that died on me. At least gigabyte is still in business though, powercolor and BFG went under when those cards died.
  46. MaxBurn

    problem Video trouble on game computer

    Well I should have mentioned that is on a KVM and the other two machines don't have that type of problem. What one dell laptop does have is a problem initially picking up video sometimes but never a problem maintaining it. I guess I could try it direct.
  47. MaxBurn

    problem Video trouble on game computer

    Having trouble on my gaming computer. Started when I was playing games but progressed into presenting shortly after I booted to windows desktop. Basically after a while the screen just goes out and monitor says detecting signal, at the same time I can hear the video card fan ramp up and down a...
  48. MaxBurn

    New phone time

    4.2 it out but don't worry about it. http://www.androidcentral.com/why-you-shouldn-t-worry-about-android-42
  49. MaxBurn

    Surface with Windows 8/RT

    Not a great out of box experience. http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface-rt/
  50. MaxBurn

    The obligatory Blackberry thread

    Down another 34+% https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23771812
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