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FWIW, if you go SSD, you probably want to make a RAMdisk too.

That's some expensive RAM. 4GB of CAS4 DDR2-800 is under $50.

Oh, didn't know that's what you were talking about. Isn't a Tomato'd router a little low end for an VPN gateway? You always seems to have deep pockets for these things. :p

What are you talking about with Tomato and VPN? I can VPN through a Tomato'd WRT-54GL.

You must do some serious uploading. :eek:

Use uTorrent instead.

It is a very new subdivision (about 2 years old), and the neighbor does have FTTP. I checked the "cable" running to the box on the side of their house and the writing on the part I could read said "optical fiber".

If there's no damage how does the premium go up? I mean I assume you didn't file a claim with no damage.

Well not until you had to go and ruin the silence. :p

Unfortunately I think the same oligopolists are going to end up controlling those new wireless technologies as well. :(

Yeah, it sucks... I also looked into getting a cellular data card & the mating cellular/wi-fi router, but it isn't a very viable option either because of BW limits. Fixed WiMAX isn't anywhere to be found, so as you point out we're at the mercy of the oligopoly.

My biggest complaint against AT&T U-verse is that they don't seem interested in eating the local cable companies lunch. Verizon offers a superior product to cable for like 2/3rds the price. People are lined up to dump their cable companies and get it. I mean who doesn't hate their cable...

Nope... :( AFAIK, Verizon has not deployed FIOS where they are not also the local phone company. Where I am is all AT&T (former SBC) territory.

Well, I called AT&T, and they're going to go out and confirm if I can get or can't get U-verse since my house is not in their database. I was told it will take 3-5 days for confirmation. That shouldn't be a problem since my neighbor has it and I believe it's FTTP as well. I was also told...

Edit: Double post removal. :(

I don't really intend to connect the Dish tuner to my 2nd HDTV, but I want to ensure I get a dual tuner DVR, not a single tuner DVR, so I plan to order for a 1HD 1SD configuration. It sounds like it will do what I want. Now I need to confirm that I can really get internet only U-verse for the...

Anyone here have any experience with U-verse and / or Dish Network? I've had it with my local cable company, Bright House Networks, and their repeated price hikes. My bill for internet and cable TV with 1 HD-DVR, a 2nd HD receiver, and no premium channels is almost $130. I only need a few non...

FWIW, I think you're confusing some of our first names, unless there's more than one of us with the same first name.

Can't you do that just by layering them to each other with PS? (since the noise should be Gaussian in nature)

Odd, I have a motherboard with DTS connect and I can turn it off.

Udaman, you're slacking. I thought for sure we'd see a post about the Nikon D5000 by now.

Can you turn it off? Seems like you don't need it.

That port on the video card will also output component with the proper breakout cable so you do get better image quality. If you look closely you'll see it's got a lot more pins than normal s-video jack.

It won't switch between PCM and DD/DTS automatically? I don't have to change anything on my HTPC. You can only get 2 channels via PCM anyhow, so it doesn't really matter. Does the system do DD Live or DTS Connect?

You mean the Mtron SLC SSD when you say "it" ?

I don't think I can stomach that 6 cell battery on the HP 2140. Back to the drawing board... Too bad Samsung doesn't offer the 1366x768 screen on any of their netbooks. I guess I'll just keep waiting.

You're a crazy man with too much money. ;)

The 6 cell battery doesn't exactly blow my skirt up. link

I think I found a netbook worth giving a shot, but HP is on crack. They want $30 tax and $22 shipping. I'll wait a few weeks until it's available from places that don't charge either.

Try this one if you want lots of VRAM. There is only 1 9600GT with 256MB of VRAM on Newegg. 17 have 512MB and 8 have 1GB.

nVidia's DXVA acceleration supports higher profile level H.264 streams, which will be significant with Greg's not so powerful CPU. There are other ATI driver problems mentioned, but that wasn't the basis of my recommendation. I stand by my recommendation. Aside from the HDMI audio portion...

I decided to drop from 3 discs to 2 discs.

Well, there's no point in throwing them out if you already paid for 'em...

You need one of these.

The integrated sound on the motherboard has a coax SPDIF output which should be adequate assuming you have a DD/DTS capable receiver.

Neither does ATI if you're running Windows XP in a lot of cases. I bought a 4550, tried it, and returned it to Newegg (less the restocking fee) because it wouldn't pass HDMI audio in my system thanks to ATI's driver writing incompetence. FWIW, nVidia has much better video acceleration...

You don't need a HDMI output on the card. You can use a DVI output and get a DVI to HDMI cable.

I'm a big fan of fanless video cards for HTPC's (no pun intended). Neither of those cards will work. You need one that has a video out. Like this.

Well, the motherboard doesn't have any fans, so that's good. 1) Get an OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD to replace your SCSI boot drive [silent]. 2) Get a fanless nVidia graphics card (86xx / 95xx series or greater with HDCP) [silent, more capable, and future proof for when you get a HDTV with HDMI]. 3)...

I was able to get it working by doing the following. I created two bat files. One is run at startup and the other at shutdown by using the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to tell Windows to use the .bat files. Createpage.bat ------------------------------------------------- CSCRIPT...

It looks like I'm having the same problem that's described here. Windows isn't loading the RAMdrive fast enough, or before it tries to use the pagefile. :mad:

Well, I got my 2x2GB of RAM for my HTPC. So far I can't get the pagefile to work on the RAM drive. :( I've tried it both ways. Saving the RAMdrive at shutdown and loading it at boot, and not doing it. In both cases it creates a pagefile.sys on the C drive despite being set to none for the C...

It sounds to me like they want you visit the barbary coast so you can play it.

That one still has some shadows, but they're clearly on the endangered subject list in DD's photos. :p We might have to start a Shadow Protection Agency and have them monitor his photos.

You can't get rid of it in safe mode?

So then why does it add 10 minutes to you boot sequence?

I was thinking about this some more, and I can't come up with any logical reason why you would want to save the pagefile on the RAMdisk on shutdown and load it back up on the next reboot. I understand that if you put your Firefox cache on the RAMdisk you'd want to save it and load it during the...

I've tried a 100MB RAMDisk for the FF cache on two of my laptops, and I'm completely sold on the idea. Both only have 2GB of RAM though, so I'm not going to try putting the pagefile on a RAMDisk. Once my new RAM sticks gets here for my HTPC (currently only 512MBx2), I'll try a larger one for...

I tried a 100MB RAMdisk using their recommended program on one of my laptops for the FF cache and didn't notice any real change on startup, but it seemed to take longer to shutdown, although it wasn't more than a few seconds.

10 minutes? That's crazy. My HTPC is off most of the time, and I only turn it on when I want to use it. A long delay on start up is not going to be acceptable.