I have 100Mbps service with Charter and find that many (most?) sites cannot or do not deliver content at that speed. Some clearly do (like Steam), so I know I am getting 100Mbps service, but for the most part this speed doesn't "feel" much faster than the 40Mbps I had before.
Incorrect. I had the very first portable MD recorder and it had digital optical in/out. It was a feature on almost all portable units, and actually became less common in recent years when NetMD hit the scene.
Interesting.. an iMac from 2001 would have a G3 processor. G3 support was dropped in Mac OS X 10.5. Mac OS X 10.6 is the latest. So how the hell does his G3 Mac run OS X 10.6?
It used to be that one of the big selling points of Mozilla/Firefox was that it could run on almost any OS!....
What happened to all of that?
Not having to ensure compatibility with really old operating systems enables the developers to spend more time adding features and capabilities, for one.
M$ wouldn't let me enable AERO
That's not because of your RAM. It's because of your video card and driver. Try educating yourself on the requirements to run Aero.
Vista is really bad about the constant prompting? Sorry but that's a massive productivity killer.
It only prompts during system-level changes. After your system is configured, you generally don't see the prompts. If you're an advanced user that knows what you're doing, just disable the damn thing entirely.
Also most things don't have drivers yet.
That's flat out wrong. Most things have drivers. There are a few things that may not, but you can use XP drivers in the meantime for most everything (except graphics drivers).
For every "Windows expert" that switches, there are probably 10 experts that wouldn't. I consider myself a Windows and Linux expert, and I owned a Mac OS X laptop for about 6 months. It was fun to play with, but I would never have considered switching away from Windows as my primary machine.
Big, big difference. You're talking blank recordable media. If the Blu-ray/HD-DVD conflict only affected blank media, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we are talking about factory pressed discs with movie content. It is a big problem that you can only get some moves on one format.
I love my cable company. In fact I am considering switching *away* from Verizon telephone service and getting Charter's phone service. I have digital cable through them (including about 10 HD channels and on demand), plus 6M/1M internet service. Everything works great, and when I call to make adjustments to my service they are always very helpful.
I feel sorry for this guy moving everything to Verizon. My experience with them has been less than stellar.
Not sure your method is completely accurate. I have a spindle of DVD+R media from TDK with the lip you describe. The media is indeed Taiyo Yuden.
I then checked a spindle of CD-R media without the lip. Nope, not Taiyo Yuden. So far your method looks good! But I have another spindle of CD-R media (Maxell) with the same lip as the DVD+R TDK media and Nero shows the disk as being made by Ritek.
Damn!
My sister's Dell (which came with XP) was recently displaying the WGA warning. It turned out that her clock was set to October which was causing the problem. Setting it back to the correct month fixed the issue.
2.5Gbps? Since most computers have only a 1Gbps network card (at best), you would never see that kind of utilization unless you shared the connection... and you better have one hell of a router.
...then shouldn't the Pope be against all science? Funny how they only do this with the sciences that threaten their beliefs. I find this interesting since this same Pope embraced evolution.
Mac users by and large have become complacent when it comes to basic security principles. They are even more at risk of infecting their machine when viruses and other threats start to spread on the Mac platform.
I completely agree. I don't understand why people don't understand this. I think they would appreciate true SMP if they actually used it for a few days!
Yes, I did try a dual Athlon setup (1800MP procs, IIRC). Unfortunately it was not a stable setup so I ditched it for a single P4.
I have not seen HT cause poor performance with how I use my system, and it does improve multitasking between several apps. I can't wait to get back to true SMP though.
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I have 100Mbps service with Charter and find that many (most?) sites cannot or do not deliver content at that speed. Some clearly do (like Steam), so I know I am getting 100Mbps service, but for the most part this speed doesn't "feel" much faster than the 40Mbps I had before.
Incorrect. I had the very first portable MD recorder and it had digital optical in/out. It was a feature on almost all portable units, and actually became less common in recent years when NetMD hit the scene.
OS X 10.5.8 is not the latest. And G4s were not available in 2001. fail
Interesting.. an iMac from 2001 would have a G3 processor. G3 support was dropped in Mac OS X 10.5. Mac OS X 10.6 is the latest. So how the hell does his G3 Mac run OS X 10.6?
It used to be that one of the big selling points of Mozilla/Firefox was that it could run on almost any OS! ....
What happened to all of that?
Not having to ensure compatibility with really old operating systems enables the developers to spend more time adding features and capabilities, for one.
Assuming your documents are stored on a Windows server, one option is to enable NTFS auditing. This requires no changes on the client side.
M$ wouldn't let me enable AERO That's not because of your RAM. It's because of your video card and driver. Try educating yourself on the requirements to run Aero.
Actually, IBM/Lenovo finally changed that. Just ordered some T60's at work and they have the Windows/Menu keys on the keyboard.
Vista is really bad about the constant prompting? Sorry but that's a massive productivity killer.
It only prompts during system-level changes. After your system is configured, you generally don't see the prompts. If you're an advanced user that knows what you're doing, just disable the damn thing entirely.
Also most things don't have drivers yet.
That's flat out wrong. Most things have drivers. There are a few things that may not, but you can use XP drivers in the meantime for most everything (except graphics drivers).
For every "Windows expert" that switches, there are probably 10 experts that wouldn't. I consider myself a Windows and Linux expert, and I owned a Mac OS X laptop for about 6 months. It was fun to play with, but I would never have considered switching away from Windows as my primary machine.
Big, big difference. You're talking blank recordable media. If the Blu-ray/HD-DVD conflict only affected blank media, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we are talking about factory pressed discs with movie content. It is a big problem that you can only get some moves on one format.
Oops, I actually have 10M/1M service, not 6M/1M.
I love my cable company. In fact I am considering switching *away* from Verizon telephone service and getting Charter's phone service. I have digital cable through them (including about 10 HD channels and on demand), plus 6M/1M internet service. Everything works great, and when I call to make adjustments to my service they are always very helpful.
I feel sorry for this guy moving everything to Verizon. My experience with them has been less than stellar.
Not sure your method is completely accurate. I have a spindle of DVD+R media from TDK with the lip you describe. The media is indeed Taiyo Yuden. I then checked a spindle of CD-R media without the lip. Nope, not Taiyo Yuden. So far your method looks good! But I have another spindle of CD-R media (Maxell) with the same lip as the DVD+R TDK media and Nero shows the disk as being made by Ritek. Damn!
My sister's Dell (which came with XP) was recently displaying the WGA warning. It turned out that her clock was set to October which was causing the problem. Setting it back to the correct month fixed the issue.
2.5Gbps? Since most computers have only a 1Gbps network card (at best), you would never see that kind of utilization unless you shared the connection... and you better have one hell of a router.
...then shouldn't the Pope be against all science? Funny how they only do this with the sciences that threaten their beliefs. I find this interesting since this same Pope embraced evolution.
Red hot lave?
Mac users by and large have become complacent when it comes to basic security principles. They are even more at risk of infecting their machine when viruses and other threats start to spread on the Mac platform.
HD-DVD only drives will be significantly easier to produce, using the same wavelengths as today.
Wrong.. HD DVD and Blu-Ray use the same blue laser with a 405nm wavelength.
People complaining about the DRM in Blu-Ray need to realize that HD DVD uses the *same* DRM: AACS.
Personally I hope Blu-Ray wins because the discs are higher capacity, and they are coated with a polymer that makes them almost scratch-proof.
You do realize that regular ol' DVD has DRM, right? It's a fact of digital life. Get used to it.
Windows 2003 pre-SP1 had a firewall. It was just like the one in Windows XP pre-SP2 (ie, not as robust).
I haven't tried 2003 SP1 yet but I imagine it brings the firewall up to the functionality of the XP SP2 firewall.
I completely agree. I don't understand why people don't understand this. I think they would appreciate true SMP if they actually used it for a few days!
I have not seen HT cause poor performance with how I use my system, and it does improve multitasking between several apps. I can't wait to get back to true SMP though.