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- Tue May 15, 2007 5:44 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: well, I have (another) confession to make ...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1084
It's OK, there's a completely legal way to turn your DRM'ed .m4p files to unrestricted .mp3 files. Itunes itself will let you burn the .m4p's to CD, and then you can re-rip them to .mp3. Admittedly, this is a hassle if you buy a ton of music through Itunes, but I've only bought a handful so it's no ...
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I like the Sawyer character on Lost. By far my favorite. A lot of people tend to dislike him when they first see him (probably not so much anymore) because he acts like a jerk all the time. But he has his reasons for it. And he is pretty entertaining in the way that he acts like a jerk. :) You just...
Lost started out great, but after season 1 it became apparent the writers had lost their way. They're making it up as they go along. They're leaving loose threads that even if they were wrapped up they wouldn't be believable. They're introducing more and more random crap without providing many answe...
- Thu May 10, 2007 8:32 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
OK, everything seems to be running OK now. It was indeed the old 930D CPU, and the new Core 2 Duo works fine. I don't think I did anything wrong diagnostically; you've got to assume a bad mobo before a bad cpu. I had a brief hiccup when the HDD would boot XP but I couldn't get any optical drive to b...
- Mon May 07, 2007 4:33 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
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did you remember fresh thermal paste? I cleaned off the old paste with alcohol and applied some more from the tube I bought 1.5 years ago. Is it possible for thermal paste to "go bad" in the tube? My temps seemed fine in my BIOS. Dumb question, but how large are the power supplied you use...
- Mon May 07, 2007 7:01 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
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Try one stick, swap sticks. Tried that (see above) There's a slight chance that the optical drive is bad and the HDD is corrupted (kinda unlikely IMHO tho). The HDD can boot my other machine just fine (or could for 3 days...until Genuine Advantage said to screw off). Did you even try a different CD...
- Sun May 06, 2007 5:16 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
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So you're saying both motherboards are bad? That seems unlikely, but not impossible.fliptw wrote:take the board back, its a dud.
- Sun May 06, 2007 3:37 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
- Sat May 05, 2007 6:26 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
- Fri May 04, 2007 10:31 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
- Fri May 04, 2007 9:44 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
Well that didn't go so well. Maybe it wasn't the motherboard after all. Neither the new board nor the old one will successfully boot an OS. I've tried a Knoppix Live DVD using an optical drive on IDE, and Windows XP using a hard drive on SATA. Memory has passed memtest on both boards. I don't see ho...
- Fri May 04, 2007 7:01 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
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Perhaps we should sticky this so we don' thave to anwser this next time somebody asks for mobo advice? That wouldn't be helpful, unless you mean just keep one long-running thread instead of lots of short ones as needed. If there was only one motherboard that worked for everyone then OK. But there's...
- Thu May 03, 2007 10:19 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
- Thu May 03, 2007 7:09 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: HERE SHE IS!
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4243
- Thu May 03, 2007 6:41 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
Turns out Grendel is right; there's just no avoiding ASUS if you want all the good features. I forgot to mention that I use eSATA as well. I ended up ordering an ASUS P5B-Plus. Even so I had to sacrifice my pair of old IDE drives. Maybe I'll make them into external drives. We'll see how long this AS...
- Tue May 01, 2007 5:06 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: New Motherboard Advice
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1842
New Motherboard Advice
My current system seems fried and I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard. I usually enjoy doing the research on this stuff, but I'm way too busy right now and I need my computer back pronto. I'm hoping you guys can give me some advice. Here's what I have: Pentium D 930 Asus 975X motherboard 2x1GB DDR2...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:06 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Should I drop out of law school
- Replies: 10
- Views: 922
- Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:32 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Super VF-1S and Jetfire alike?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 685
- Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:12 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84
- Replies: 5
- Views: 920
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Failure of the education system?TIGERassault wrote:hmm...
Never heard of him. Sorry.
- Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:19 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Ohio State is..............
- Replies: 5
- Views: 659
- Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:47 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Tower Defense flash game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1021
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Evolution of Mosquito
- Replies: 10
- Views: 802
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:56 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: A convenient lie
- Replies: 91
- Views: 6383
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:28 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: BattleStar Galactica (WARNING:SPOILER)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1420
On another forum someone said that you could see her cockpit intact when her viper exploded, indicating she didn't eject. My first assumption was that she's a cylon and will be resurrected. In any case, I'm sure she'll be back. This is science fiction. Probably they'll write their way out of it usin...
- Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:15 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Hosting a Website
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1048
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Did you buy the domain? I'm trying to host a DNS server. It shouldn't be necessary to buy a domain. What did you think step 2 of your linked tutorial meant? 2. Get a DNS hostname for your home Internet connection. How did you "get" negatratoron.com ? Your DNS server needs to be pointed to...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Movie Quotes
- Replies: 249
- Views: 12140
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"The Usual Suspects"...or as Arnold Schwarzenegger once called it, "The Unusual Suspect."whuppinboy wrote:--the greatest trick the devil ever played was making everyone think he didn't exist--
Here's an easy one:
"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow"
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:11 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Congratulations - you are 9th on the list
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3376
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Just got fired at bennigans.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2601
- Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:13 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Out with the old
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1320
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If you're not doing anything wrong (and use a little wisdom on the net)... you have absolutely nothing to be worried about. I really don't want to make you defensive, but I think it's important to expose this all-too-common false argument whenever I encounter it. I think I do this because it's both...
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:47 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Out with the old
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1320
I've seen this news item in a few places, so it's not being entirely ignored. It's well known, however, that programs like Carnivore don't go away, they just get dropped from the public view and shortly thereafter quietly revived under new names. I do wish folks were more upset about this, but I sus...
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:45 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: i want to touch an iphone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 998
I agree; this is nothing new, we already have all this functionality out there. If this things succeeds, it will once again be due to the mysterious pull of Apple's branding and marketing. With a little help from the clueless popular press. Aside from the comments so far, I would add these two obser...
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:55 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: What would you prefer to lose?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1619
- Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:44 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mr. Deity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1125
Mr. Deity
I'd have posted this in the Cafe because it's for fun, but there's a good chance it'll end up in here eventually:
http://mrdeity.com/
I like them all except episode 3: \"Mr. Deity and the Light,\" which I found unclever and boring.
http://mrdeity.com/
I like them all except episode 3: \"Mr. Deity and the Light,\" which I found unclever and boring.
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:43 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
- Replies: 6
- Views: 683
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:24 pm
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
- Replies: 6
- Views: 683
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:25 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
- Replies: 6
- Views: 683
Reboot fixes ethernet
Every time I cold start my computer after a number of hours, Windows comes up without the ethernet detected. So I reboot the machine and this time ethernet is there and working. My only guess is a physical problem with the ethernet hardware on the motherboard that requires it to be warmed up. Any ot...
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:16 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: Vote for Descent 4!!!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 2953
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:11 am
- Forum: Tech Forum
- Topic: Linux and Wifi networking ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 510
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:36 am
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: buffalo wings cooking - help plz
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1218
- Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:45 pm
- Forum: PTMC Cafe
- Topic: When Orlies Attack
- Replies: 0
- Views: 437
When Orlies Attack
I was checking out the new comic by the guy who does Order of the Stick (which is great), and LOL'ed at something rather unexpected. You can start on the first comic or skip to comic 8 where a flight of orlies is ordered by the commander. They do OK against ground forces in the next episode, but not...