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Excellent suggestion from Stereodude. I'm progressing, I've tried about a dozen products now and formed some conclusions. Unfortunately, my testing was with material captured from a TV source. Now, I'm realizing just how few lines are left when you capture a 2.35 aspect ratio movie: with 640...

In general, power supplies with 8cm fans are likely to be noisy. Most of the ones that aren't will probably fail prematurely, or provide insufficient airflow to cool your case (the PS is still the primary exhaust for the CPU). Okay, so I exaggerated slightly, but a dose of reality seems...

No joy with a trial version of Nero Vision Express. The links on Ahead's website are broken, but a version I downloaded elsewhere still wants me to pay Ahead for DVD authoring capability - before I can try their trial! :sad: I had more success with version 5 of Ulead's Movie Factory; no...

What I am trying to do is keep life simple. I want simple software that a simpleton could use to convert avi files to DVD movie format. I thought Merc had previously recommended MovieFactory et al, so I assumed it worked. Perhaps the latest version does? Liam, not only would I have to buy a...

We have Ulead DVD MovieFactory Suite 3.5 (a lite version of 3.0?) and Cyberlink's PowerProducer Gold 2.0. Ulead's product seems infested with bugs, while Cyberlink's is just plain stupid. I've downloaded a couple of patches for MovieFactory, which didn't bring it any closer to looking like its...

For all intents and purposes, non-widescreen laptops with any kind of graphics capability have disappeared. :boom: I know the X1700 is more powerful than the GO-7300; what I don't know is whether the difference is noticeable. Given that the 7300 is essentially a 6200, I imagine it's not going...

In the context of the post that precedes it, Lunar Mist's post is very special. :o

I'm looking at laptops with usable gaming graphics. The choices are nVidia 7300 or ATI X1700, in Acer, Asus and Lenovo models. I think they're all 128MB VRAM, although the specs for the X1700 state 512MB. On a 1280x800 screen, what's the difference likely to be? There's also the Core 2 Duo vs...

Whoa, take it easy. I'm not Tannin and feel no obligation to convert people to UKor Australian spelling!

Note the sequence of the characters "r" and "e".

Actually, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Macquarie Dictionary (Australia) for starters. AFAIK, it means "the act of agreeing", as distinct from "the thing agreed upon". It's sometimes used in legal jargon to avoid confusion with the word "agreement", meaning "contract".

Only seconds? I'm impressed with your ability to comprehend gibberish.

:pale: :poke:

Flying solo again?

"Old" seems a bit of an understatement; AFAIK, 80286 disappeared from desktops in 1991 or thereabouts. So your PC is at least 15 years old. :o To make it this far, it must have some kind of replaceable battery (not soldered on), but it could be awfully difficult to find a new one that's...

Okay, Ridgid is, now in effect, a house brand of Home Depot.

Thanks for pointing that out, Bung. It made me chortle. In the same vein, I see that B&D and Hitachi have been sharing models since 2002: Also, Ridgid is, in effect, a house brand of Home Depot: TTI also owns Ryobi.

Self-indulgent twat.

Sony is a four-letter word spelt "H Y P E".

The mind truly boggles, it really does. :o

That's certainly going the extra mile for her. I believe the Governor of California once made a film about this?

Yay! Thanks for that, I missed the funny little green guy. My daughter says it suits me perfectly.

I was happy until I tried to use it: Despite that, thanks for enabling my smileys.

WTF is the point of the "image verification" when you try to search for posts? Apart from pissing people off, that is.

And where the hell are the embeddable smileys?

I can't update mine because it got blown away with the upgrade.

That should be: -8.78V on the -5V line and -1.58V on the -12V line.

Groltz posted info on this issue some time ago. The short answer is: not since ISA, and that's talking about -5V. -12V probably dates back to the original IBM PC or AT! According to Speedfan, the PC I'm typing this on has -0.878V on the -5V line and -1.58V on the -12V line. It has a good...

As I'm sure you're aware, they both have about the same total screen real estate: 1296000 vs 1310720 pixels (yes, the 19" WS is slightly smaller!). Which is more suitable will really depend on your applications. Most will probably me more able to take advantage of the taller 5:4 screen, but some...

The NOD32 distributor in New Zealand couldn't be more different. For resellers, licences are available online immediately and there is automatic credit, so you can supply the licence anytime and pay a consolidated bill a several days later. You can also review your order history to the extent of...

Client had a trojan that wasn't detected by his A/V (NOD32) or Spybot or Ad-Aware (I think). He bought Spyware Doctor, which claimed to get rid of the gremlin but didn't. His commit charge was >300MB while sitting at the desktop, so I suggested he uninstall that POS. Memory usage dropped to...

This is a very worrying trend. It's all too easy to foresee a future where TCP/IP is locked up in hardware.

You're welcome. In fact, I think your sentiments would be shared by many members here. Just remember to keep returning for occasional therapeutic visits. ;)

Turbines nuke Hitachi rating (The Australian) The article also mentions that Hitachi has ¥1.42trillion (US$12billion) in long-term debt. :cry:

It is? Wow, I thought the US had cheap DSL? If it is cheaper, it's still no substitute in any conceivable way. The argument for TOE applies to 10GbE, and to a much lesser extent, GbE. It's only relevant where the bandwidth is saturated, which is really only likely with a SAN. The figures I've...

This is like the amp volume control in Spinal Tap, isn't it?

There may well be people here with something positive to say about Kyle and his site, but I'm not one of them. Made THG look pretty good, I always thought. How could anyone take this complete crap seriously? Try pinging a router or other PC on your LAN: < 10mS (in reality, < 1mS). In other...

In the old days, they used to sell people bridges. Doesn't the US have any consumer protection laws?

They'll release a service pack before they've even released the product? :o Incidentally, one of the big local banks (Westpac) has announced it will be migrating to Vista. Fortunately, I don't have any accounts with them.

That is, part of one physical track. I don't believe that can be explained by a head or amp problem. Also, no further blocks failed - in fact, I still haven't got around to making a claim on it, wondering whether some sort of drive initialization might be enough. Samsung 200GB SATA.

Tweaking the parameters didn't help in the single drive situation I mentioned. :(

Actually, you'd be fourth ... Having said that, I found iRecover to work just as well - maybe slightly better in my test case. It's also cheaper and the trial allows you to recover one folder for free (unlike GDB). The only reason I didn't recommend it ahead of GetDataBack is that their online...

Yep. It's best if you can keep your day job, like Merc.

There's a PM in your inbox.

You inadvertently selected the wrong drivers. Try this again and select only the Silicon Image driver, and all will be well.

This wirleless cable can be bought almost anywhere, but it's a little tricky tying it onto the RJ45 connectors.

Have you considered upgrading to a VIA All-In-One board?

Indeed, it's slower than a hard disk drive, particularly as swap space. Not sure what its value as a disk cache would be ...

That would make it FAT16 (NT enhanced with 64kB blocks) rather than FAT32.

In the extremely limited Oz market, I'd strongly recommend Fujitsu FA-19 (yes, I know Fujitsu sold their monitor business). Similar specs to Samsung, much better picture than AG Neovo. And I know you're not a believer, but DVI to boot. Having said that, it's still only the 'enhanced' 16-bit...