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Hi there! Good to be back thank you :) You are using a windows machine right?

so true! (I wish I could claim to have meant that typo!)

don't mind me, just changing the subject back on topic :P iTunes for Windows. I despise it.

What does the event log say? It shoudl detail a reason for failure to start. Looking at XP-Pro, the firewall is depedant on two RPC services, Network Connections and WMI. Go to the Services Console, check the "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)" list of dependance and see if...

Glad you got it sorted Mark. AVI is a relativety simple media container that it doesn't accomadate rights information so I would be more inclined to suggest that the the server's media streaming service had been changed or a global policy enforced that affected the WMS multicast data writer eg...

Hi Buck and P5. Thanks Buck! Sorry, forgot to add IMDB link - V for Vendetta My comment: "True poetic anti-establishment. Natalie Portman is superb as is Stephen Fry. Hugo Weaving's performance using voice and inflection of movement only, is sublime. Despite it being fiction, it does beg...

agreed - Syriana is a recent fave of mine too but my current fave is most definitely "V for Vendetta".

Yup, did all of that in steps 7 & 8. I forgot to mention that I updated both the BIOS on both boards and tried the RAM in slots both slots too. A thought, the RAM modules are single sided so I'm gonna give some dbl-sided RAM a go.

It's back! My once yearly bastard PC build has reared it's head. I suspect many here know exactly what I mean and have a periodical bastard build of your own. Yes, it's the one where you happily agree to build a PC for a thrift needy friend cuz you like to help them save their money, only to...

Have you considered the Fuji S5100/5500 which seemingly fits your needs? I have the S5500 and find the following points to be some of it's best points 37-370mm equivalent focal length thus plenty of zooooom (10x) from the quality Fujinon lens RAW image saves. Photoshop CS/CS2 and Elements now...

I only use the MS anti-spyware tool nowadays. I've no need for anything else since I started using Firefox & Avast.

indeed. it's a marketing model. the actual cooler is on the right.

Exactly like that. Thanks! I must embarrassingly confess that Audio Authority was the second mob I went to when searching for a switch. Obviously managed to miss it somehow... The new HTPC I'm building will have an Audigy 2 Value which sports an SPDIF output. I toyed with using my main PC's...

Hi all, I'm looking for a device that will auto-switch multiple optical audio inputs when they become active. I've found a few manual switches on the web but what I'm after is one that will auto-switch between two or more sources with one input being a "master" input in that it will always be...

I have been using DK 9.0 for 7-odd months on five PC's, two of which do a lot of disk work with many files that range from <1KB to 5GB is size and total over 200GB. Since installing DK, those five PC's have maintained disk performance better than they ever have in the past. Enabling DK to...

Most HDD's in PVR's/DVR's have firmware optimised for 3x stream read/writes and reduced operational noise. A straight out swap might increase capacity but also has the potential to create I/O issues and at worst, render it unusable. Using 8MB cache drive should will help avoid any issues. I...

Luck o' the draw I guess. I've had a couple of dozen WD drives myself and used maybe a few few hundred in PCs' I've built. But then I've only used their premium drives if that makes a difference. Only ever had a few fail and two of those were likely due to poor power. For me, Seagate sucks like...

I look forward to you review Merc.

A very nice system you'll have there Only until you complete your Storage Freak apprenticeship hehe...

Personally I see very little difference bewteen true 720p and true 1080i and only few times have I seen what I thought was a difference. Admittedly my experience is limited, being only to our 32" CRT and on the two true HD projectors I've seen. Indeed the Sony has the better res but res is only...

That Marantz is certainly a nice peice of kit, and the Sony nicer again but for some $8k less than the Marantz you can have Digi Projection's Mercury HD. With 3DLP, 1600ANSI and 4000:1, it outshines and darkens both the Marantz and Sony. It's network connectivity doesn't go against it either :)...

We get a lot of use out of our Topfield 5000PVRt. It's twin tuners allow dual records and simultaneous playback from it's 120GB HDD (also upgradable). Has an excellent GUI, plenty of 3rd party & free apps, auto & man record setup, EPG & USB. Any recordings we want keep are either d/loaded to...

US$25 for the decoder Also for sale: D-Link D-Link DUB-AV200 S-Video/Composite video & Audio capture via USB2 device. Looking for AU$40 Features - NTSC & PAL DVD/SVCD/VCD MPEG-2/1, MPEG-4 like DivX/XviD Still image snap shot: Max 12Mbps video b/rate Max 768Kbps audio b/rate...

Cool. What methods of payment can you accept and what sort of $$$ are you looking for? I'm guessing shipping to Melbourne will be in the order of US$ 6-8.

nice gear and setup, shame about the horrid decor... is it supposed to be a representation of a well known cinema? (the only well known US cinema I've been in is Grauman's and that's not how I remember it...)

Hiya sechs, Would you be willing to accept payment for the RAM and SP1614N via PayPal and ship them down under? Cheers

my Pioneer S806 succesfully reconises and burns Verbatim DL discs at 4x. no such luck with Riteks though. at this stage video on DL discs is best left for PC playback since very few standalone alone players can read them. of the five DVD players we have here, the oldest and cheapest (a generic...

One of these: combined with one of these: may meet your colour needs and available for at least 12 months yet at around the $1600-1700 mark total.

we've a few redbacks around our place our house but they're not the one's I worry about since we're not getting the type of weather that drives them indoors. the one's we're currently looking out for are white-tails. I've found three inside since Xmas, one which was in our youngest son's room...

the failure here came way before the captain's incompetance forced it to appear. fail-safe computer operation under any circumstance should been a critical and mandatory requirement met before that boat was out to sea. I'd say more likely the blame should be placed on the selection committee...

this is just one thread?

sacre merde!

and those four point prove what? it's a joke if it's an attempt to discredit "libs". Ok so maybe they got those wrong but how does that compare to getting arguments about WMD, Saddam threats, etc wrong? how is it that republicans seem to disregard the death of 10's of thousands of innocent...

right you are young buck :) good point.

cool :) not quite as off-topic as it seems: has anyone read Michael Crichton's book "Prey"?

ohh I forgot to add one siginificant benefit of LG DVD writers, and the reason I bought one, they write to DVD-RAM too :)

I purchased a LG 4163B a few days ago and it's OK. the specs are similar to my Pioneer S806 (externally cased DVR-A08XL) and does 16x DVD+/-R and 4x DL +R but it seems noticeably slower doing -R, -RW and +RW writes. I haven't measured how much slower so that's just my subjective opinion. the...

merry holiidays all :)

does anyone else here have an interest in string theory? I've been wanting to ask this for a while now but haven’t and I really don’t know why now that I think of it. since string theory is really starting to get some public awareness, perhaps it’s the case that we’re all fans or followers of it...

See: http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/20041119/index.html

I'm not surprised at the overwhelming interest this sale has generated :P Despite this, an offer around the AU$76/US$60 would see it sell sooner.

Taken a few weeks ago: myself holding our now 6 weeks old new addition, Cale. His due date is tomorrow actually!

No I haven't used it sorry but it will have me interested if I can find out if it supports NFS shares with a "nolock" attribute. The readme file they call a manual mentions nothing of the sort nor does the nfs-utils site on sourceforge. Would you know?

Not really though I did load my comment in an attempt to fish out a bad experience that a forum member may have had. Opinions of people I know or know of provide me with much more value than an anti-[insert company name] website and I though sechs may feel the same way. You know how it is...

OK, so we have two distinct opinions thus far. The pro PayPal mob are those that have/are using PayPal and those against ... apparently haven't!

I've used PayPal about a dozen times to invoice people who wish to pay me via CC (since I'm not a CC merchant.) In those cases I've received US dollars deposited from a Aus CC which I then withdrawn and place into one of my local bank accounts. It's always worked well for me and the whole...

well said Gilbo, well said!

the Tree Snake photo is my favourite as well though I love the image of the Brolgas almost as much. thanks for sharing such spectacular images Tannin. besides your obvious talent and presumably top notch photo equipment, what makes them so good, at least for me, is that I think I can 'feel' the...

their TV's may have SCART sockets but they'll still mostly only support component YUV. SCART is purely just a connector type only and can various video signals including composite, S-Video and YUV and RGB as well as audio too. a fully wired 21pin SCART cable can carry all these but the TV has to...