Steps and programs:
1) Windows OS and all Updates. (though I am currently working with a program to install the patches along with the OS in an unattended Install using a version of CDIMAGE)
2) Ulitmatezip (I like it better for GUI reasons)
3) Adaware 6.0
4) Directx 9
5) Updated Drivers for all the hardware
6) Any other OS patches not found earlier
7) Daemon Tools
8) TweakUI
9) Powerstrip
10) Ghost (and make a Image for future Reinstallations)
I agree with you, I also work with a lot of different type of Displays, and the Plasma screens have a lot more problems then they are worth, so much in fact that we are starting to steer away from Plasma's as a product and using DLP projectors now. I had a 42" Plasma screen for home use, and now have a DLP projector for home use, and I must say that the DLP has a far superior image quality then hte plasma screen ever did.
thats the point of a configurable Audio Delay, if you run your audio through a Alternate device (Say a Stereo Receiver) then setting the delay for audio forward or backwards to adjust for the alternate routing of your audio. I for one do not see a problem with my setup, but then again I am using a PC as a Multimedia device with Satellite input, that shoots the audio out to a Digital Surround Receiver using Fiber optic output (via SB Audigy2), and my video is fed to a Sanyo Digital Projector via DVI connectors from a ATI 8500DV AIW (for a 107" screen). So my problem is mostly solved because my Video rendering is done onboard the Video card unlike other devices using less intensive Graphics rendering devices.
.... and one more time for you Hollywood morons: THERE IS NO SOUND IN SPACE! Starships, fighters, etc, explode in silence. Get used to it.
This is one of the main reasons I like(d) the Firefly series. On the off chance that the hollywood morons finally figure it out, I think a movie based between the "Enterprise" (latest TV series) timeline and the original series (Captain Kirk) timeline, there could be great potential to produce something very interesting, with some of the first large space battles to be fought with the federation and klingons, or maybe some other races that turned out to bite off more then they could chew and the "Federation" had to wipe them out completely. A Universe with more then 1 ship (ala Enterprise) where we are just stretching our arms and establishing our borders in Space. There is plenty of opportunites to push our standards and ways of life onto other unsuspecting cultures and races (kind of like what we do now in RL with other countries).
yeah that will work, sheesh we can't even get most of the people to set the autoupdate feature of a antivirus software, what makes you think they will set this option to on?
to also change their name to Whispering-Window because Redmond told them to. Whispering-Windows is not even a computer product, it's a speaker system for retail store windows. Next thing you know, when you build a house your going to have to purchase large panes of glass to be mounted in the side of a wall. When will this insane madness stop and common sense start to prevail? but then again I guess, common sense is not all that common.
thats already been done, and the press had a field day with it, saying how bad it was that a virus could go in and repair a link that was created by another virus then delete itself, the end result is that it dies out faster because it deletes itself, if it were to spread itself repeatedly, and stay in action to constantly repair whatever it is that keeps getting changed via other maleware/virus/end user, then it might be a good thing, but wheres the percentage in this, if it stays, you get some yahoo who wants to sue said person for making it and that it is violating some law or something about invading a computer even though it is only invading it to repair the stupidity factor of most end users.
and started training myself to accept good enough, I found his speech to not be good enough and shut it off... See that, minimal Choices there, to listen to his garbage or not to listen to his garbage, simple choice there...... Love that Line "train yourself to accept just good enough" to me that sounds like extremely poor advice, would hate to get a Car that runs just good enough, or get some food that tastes just good enough, or how about some contraceptives that seem just good enough. I am sorry, Choices are there for everyone, if one feels pressured by the ammount of chocies, then you have the choice to choose from less ammounts of products, or you have the choice to Suffer the time consuming motion of finding the best product for yourself. Besides not everything needs to be a Life or death choice that you must get the absolute Best.
Am I the only one that seems to have seen a rather disturbing trend of late with Google searches? Seems like every time I do a search nowadays, I end up with the first few pages (sometimes every page) of websites that are only interested in selling me the Item I was trying to find more information about, to me this is annoying as hell, as all I wanted was some specs on the product, I don't need to be shown 50 different websites that sell the damn thing and have the same Stupid General Info sheet.
Maybe its the way I am doing my searches, but I seem to recall last year about this time doing some similar Research on New items and Was getting Manufacturers, Forums about, Tech info Sites about, Reviews, etc. Not anymore though, now I get Buy it here, or we have lower prices, or Best price on the Net, etc. I have just about given up using Google for any kind of serious research searching. I shall give this Personalized Search engine a Try, and maybe I could stop getting tons of sites trying to Sell me some product that I am only interested in trying to figure out if it will work for me.
You are correct, they would have taken my money, my reference was to the fact that they were not all that interested in taking my money on a monthly basis, by making the up front demands to high.
I recently was in the market seeking a better alternative to the Cable companies offerings. I first tried to get Digital cable but due to my current resident arrangement, they would not sell me the service (no clue why, I wanted to pay for the digital service in a house that already had another standard cable service running) I was told I would have to get the current account to upgrade theirs in order for me to get it, so screw them, they don't want my money.
I next looked into the satellite offerings, after checking out all the local competition for selling these services, I choose one that had some special offers going, DishNetwork was my first choice because they had a better startup offer until they told me that I did not qualify for that special and that it would cost me almost $200 to get started with their service, oh and get this, they would offer me a $10.00 a month rebate until the ammount was covered. Needless to say I told them where they could stick their $200 up front costs.
I then decided to check and see if I could sign up with DirecTV or if they would offer the same BS, the price per package was slighty cheaper then DishNetwork's the ammount of Channels was more, and at the time of installation, if I didn't qualify, the most I would pay was $50.00, which is applied to the first bill I get.
I have lived in my current Residence for over 7 years, I have Established DSL/phone payments, Established Cable Broadband payments, but because I prefer to pay cash and not run up excessive ammounts of credit on CC's I did not qualify. DishNetwork did not want my money, Comcast cable did not want my money, to me this seems kind of stupid and self defeating.
And you people ask why someone would choose one company over another? IMHO DishNetwork and Comcast cable seem to think that they are offering you something special, when in reality, its the consumers that are offering the companies something special (namely their hard earned cash)
How about a DVD portable with a 7" screen? Digix DVD seen at Fry's on sale for as low as $249, Reg priced at $349.99 that is one option, there is also the Archos though a tad pricey, at around $550. Then you have PDA's for $300 - $500.
There are several others as well, check this link out Search results
Next step: Actually implanting a device in your hand that controls the cursor, oh the possibilities........ when you point at the screen it actually does something, this would be great for teachers and those trying to train Novices how to use a computer... "No, no, no, I said click on this". This product may have its uses, but I do not think Gaming is one of them.
HA HA HA, I just started cracking up right at the start reading that article. Yes, I had 2 of those RCA Lyra's in my possession for evaluation for one of our projects, after an extreme ammount of time just getting it to connect to an older PC (USB 1), and then finding feature after feature "Soon to be available", my recommendation was that we do not use this item at all, and I also would recommend to everyone reading this to not even waste your time purchasing this device unless you really just want a MP3 player and are pretty tech savvy that you could muddle through the connection proceedures. I find that having to update firmware is a necessary thing if your using the latest in tech, of which I happen to deal with a lot (and I also enjoy playing with all the new tech items coming into the marketplace). FYI we ended up using a tablet style DVD player (w/a 7" screen) for the project that I was testing the Lyra (w/a 3.5" screen) for. (for those interested google Digix)
We had a Remote Worker that was in or near the spokane area, he had to Admin our Network here in Seattle during a Family Crisis. He was able to complete his work without any shortcomings, time of did not matter, it worked well for the remote admin work that needed to be done. And as you already stated this type of setup is not for gaming, but Admin stuff it works. SSH, PHP, Remote Admin, all worked without any problems.
ok obviously to many people are taking things literally to much, they only glow when there is a Light source that shows the transplanted Gene, ie a Black light or a infrared light, they do not glow in the dark, they do not emit light at all. under normal light they appear to be normal Zerba striped fish. so all this glowing poop and firefly fish is utter nonsense. Sheesh no wonder they got people like those that are sueing for regulation of these fish. The unfortunate part in all of this is that their parents were not sued and stopped from creating such a whining ass Tard as they have become. The worlds population is doubling every 40 years, what a shame the intelligence factor is not keeping pace.
Well, there is obviously someone out there with some logic, they are now starting to make Audio DVD's with extra content, and packaging extras with the sets, though they haven't quite learned yet that by adding fluff and raising the price, is still not what the public really wants, I personally would start buying CD's again if the cost came down to a managable level, paying $15.99 for something I would only listen to on occasion is not a cost effect purchase, not to mention the fact that they are trying to make it so that you couldn't even make a copy for your own use, ie Copy for the Car that people can steal or trash instead of the original. Paying $4.99 for a CD that I occasionally might listen to, well I would Purchase the CD. Buying a CD at $15.99 for the 1 song that I liked, Totally unreasonable, and staying away from a P2P setup I can still get the song and record it, ie. Call up a fav radio station and request the song, then just start recording that station, then edit out the song you wanted. So now I guess they should start Sueing the radio stations for transmitting of copyright material.
Whats the Next format that I can Buy Pink Floyd _ Dark side of the moon in? So far I have had Eight track, Cassette, Vinyl Album, CD, DVD. Not to mention the fact that some were purchased multiple times (Cassettes wear out, CD's get stolen or lost).
Well with the life expectancy of 6 months to 1 years for all of todays electronic products, The warranty is about to run out on the Mars mission space crafts, no wonder its failing, maybe they should have opted for the Extended Service plan. For only an addition $6,500,000 they could have had a 3 year warranty.
Good luck, I have used this many times in the past, now though I work almost exclusively with WinXP. Once you have created your Disk, you should edit the oeminfo file which is what gets placed in the My Computer properties section.
Well, I might have a small bit of knowledge in this area, as I dupe like systems in various sized lots from 1's and 2's up to 50 - 80 units at a time. I have a ton of Dupe software, but if your one that does this Duplication on a frequent basis like I do, then the only solution is to get a hard drive mass duplication machine, currently I am using the ImageMasster 2000 by ICS. Other software that I have found useful and work well with W2K and WinXP, is Nortons Ghost 2002, DriveImage by powerquest.
The key is to create a Bootable CD (I have worked hard at the start of our venture to remove all Floppy Drives - waste of resources and useless) So the only way to boot a system other then through the HD is via Network or CD, Network has its advantages, but the CD is the best way to go. I create a bootable CD (there are several different types of Dos style boot images out there, I currently use an old Win98 Basic DOS boot, and PCDos) with Ghost on it and then boot with that CD and both HD's (be careful when doing this that you have the correct source and destination drives). I also did the same thing with DriveImage software though I only use that for really persistant and tough HD's. As this software takes far longer to Dupe, but does a pretty thorough job.
For really bad drives with images that can not be removed or repartitioned, I use a combo boot CD with AEFDisk on it (this little utility will repair or remove and partition you have set onto a HD's Disks).
Well good luck and I hope you haev found this of some use.
Now I am not saying you should use this info to pirate Articles of intellectual Property, but there are Professional VCR's out there that have a switch that can bypass the macrovision so that you may make a copy.
One product is a Sony Professional VCR, I had one a while back and could make copies of any VCR tape.
E-Bay might have some for sale, or check local Repair shops, or pawn shops (this is where I purchased mine)
GL
Ok, I had a plasma screen, and we use plasma screens and LCD screens, as well as projectors here at work, and I can tell you burn in is a HUGE issue, these people will be out of business after they get a lot of burn in screen issues thrown back at them, the easiest way to turn a $3,000-$10,000 plasma screen into junk is to display static images on it.
Another issue is life of plasma screen issues, plasma screens as well as other video devices have a set life time before failure or unusability, to constantly run your screen for extended periods of time for nothing other then a few pictures is a huge waste, the technology for this type of thing is still 3-5 years away, the OLED screens with the flexibility and thinness (creates wallpaper) is still in its infancy, but when then comes into its maturity, then displaying art via electronic means will be worth while.
Imagine the possibilities, wall paper the becomes your TV screen, or change the color of rooms, or turn a wall into a ocean view with sunset. Life will be good then for the digital media, until that time, its just not a very feasible idea to waste your power and money on something like this.
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Steps and programs: 1) Windows OS and all Updates. (though I am currently working with a program to install the patches along with the OS in an unattended Install using a version of CDIMAGE) 2) Ulitmatezip (I like it better for GUI reasons) 3) Adaware 6.0 4) Directx 9 5) Updated Drivers for all the hardware 6) Any other OS patches not found earlier 7) Daemon Tools 8) TweakUI 9) Powerstrip 10) Ghost (and make a Image for future Reinstallations)
Time to upgrade the Heatsink of Earth, maybe go with a Heatpipe and a couple of huge fans?
I agree with you, I also work with a lot of different type of Displays, and the Plasma screens have a lot more problems then they are worth, so much in fact that we are starting to steer away from Plasma's as a product and using DLP projectors now. I had a 42" Plasma screen for home use, and now have a DLP projector for home use, and I must say that the DLP has a far superior image quality then hte plasma screen ever did.
thats the point of a configurable Audio Delay, if you run your audio through a Alternate device (Say a Stereo Receiver) then setting the delay for audio forward or backwards to adjust for the alternate routing of your audio. I for one do not see a problem with my setup, but then again I am using a PC as a Multimedia device with Satellite input, that shoots the audio out to a Digital Surround Receiver using Fiber optic output (via SB Audigy2), and my video is fed to a Sanyo Digital Projector via DVI connectors from a ATI 8500DV AIW (for a 107" screen). So my problem is mostly solved because my Video rendering is done onboard the Video card unlike other devices using less intensive Graphics rendering devices.
This is one of the main reasons I like(d) the Firefly series. On the off chance that the hollywood morons finally figure it out, I think a movie based between the "Enterprise" (latest TV series) timeline and the original series (Captain Kirk) timeline, there could be great potential to produce something very interesting, with some of the first large space battles to be fought with the federation and klingons, or maybe some other races that turned out to bite off more then they could chew and the "Federation" had to wipe them out completely. A Universe with more then 1 ship (ala Enterprise) where we are just stretching our arms and establishing our borders in Space. There is plenty of opportunites to push our standards and ways of life onto other unsuspecting cultures and races (kind of like what we do now in RL with other countries).
Aluminum Foiled Apartment
yeah that will work, sheesh we can't even get most of the people to set the autoupdate feature of a antivirus software, what makes you think they will set this option to on?
to also change their name to Whispering-Window because Redmond told them to. Whispering-Windows is not even a computer product, it's a speaker system for retail store windows.
Next thing you know, when you build a house your going to have to purchase large panes of glass to be mounted in the side of a wall. When will this insane madness stop and common sense start to prevail? but then again I guess, common sense is not all that common.
thats already been done, and the press had a field day with it, saying how bad it was that a virus could go in and repair a link that was created by another virus then delete itself, the end result is that it dies out faster because it deletes itself, if it were to spread itself repeatedly, and stay in action to constantly repair whatever it is that keeps getting changed via other maleware/virus/end user, then it might be a good thing, but wheres the percentage in this, if it stays, you get some yahoo who wants to sue said person for making it and that it is violating some law or something about invading a computer even though it is only invading it to repair the stupidity factor of most end users.
and started training myself to accept good enough, I found his speech to not be good enough and shut it off... See that, minimal Choices there, to listen to his garbage or not to listen to his garbage, simple choice there...... Love that Line "train yourself to accept just good enough" to me that sounds like extremely poor advice, would hate to get a Car that runs just good enough, or get some food that tastes just good enough, or how about some contraceptives that seem just good enough. I am sorry, Choices are there for everyone, if one feels pressured by the ammount of chocies, then you have the choice to choose from less ammounts of products, or you have the choice to Suffer the time consuming motion of finding the best product for yourself. Besides not everything needs to be a Life or death choice that you must get the absolute Best.
Am I the only one that seems to have seen a rather disturbing trend of late with Google searches? Seems like every time I do a search nowadays, I end up with the first few pages (sometimes every page) of websites that are only interested in selling me the Item I was trying to find more information about, to me this is annoying as hell, as all I wanted was some specs on the product, I don't need to be shown 50 different websites that sell the damn thing and have the same Stupid General Info sheet.
Maybe its the way I am doing my searches, but I seem to recall last year about this time doing some similar Research on New items and Was getting Manufacturers, Forums about, Tech info Sites about, Reviews, etc. Not anymore though, now I get Buy it here, or we have lower prices, or Best price on the Net, etc. I have just about given up using Google for any kind of serious research searching. I shall give this Personalized Search engine a Try, and maybe I could stop getting tons of sites trying to Sell me some product that I am only interested in trying to figure out if it will work for me.
Signed, One Pissed Off Searcher.
You are correct, they would have taken my money, my reference was to the fact that they were not all that interested in taking my money on a monthly basis, by making the up front demands to high.
I recently was in the market seeking a better alternative to the Cable companies offerings. I first tried to get Digital cable but due to my current resident arrangement, they would not sell me the service (no clue why, I wanted to pay for the digital service in a house that already had another standard cable service running) I was told I would have to get the current account to upgrade theirs in order for me to get it, so screw them, they don't want my money.
I next looked into the satellite offerings, after checking out all the local competition for selling these services, I choose one that had some special offers going, DishNetwork was my first choice because they had a better startup offer until they told me that I did not qualify for that special and that it would cost me almost $200 to get started with their service, oh and get this, they would offer me a $10.00 a month rebate until the ammount was covered. Needless to say I told them where they could stick their $200 up front costs.
I then decided to check and see if I could sign up with DirecTV or if they would offer the same BS, the price per package was slighty cheaper then DishNetwork's the ammount of Channels was more, and at the time of installation, if I didn't qualify, the most I would pay was $50.00, which is applied to the first bill I get.
I have lived in my current Residence for over 7 years, I have Established DSL/phone payments, Established Cable Broadband payments, but because I prefer to pay cash and not run up excessive ammounts of credit on CC's I did not qualify. DishNetwork did not want my money, Comcast cable did not want my money, to me this seems kind of stupid and self defeating.
And you people ask why someone would choose one company over another? IMHO DishNetwork and Comcast cable seem to think that they are offering you something special, when in reality, its the consumers that are offering the companies something special (namely their hard earned cash)
How about a DVD portable with a 7" screen? Digix DVD seen at Fry's on sale for as low as $249, Reg priced at $349.99 that is one option, there is also the Archos though a tad pricey, at around $550. Then you have PDA's for $300 - $500. There are several others as well, check this link out Search results
Next step: Actually implanting a device in your hand that controls the cursor, oh the possibilities........ when you point at the screen it actually does something, this would be great for teachers and those trying to train Novices how to use a computer... "No, no, no, I said click on this". This product may have its uses, but I do not think Gaming is one of them.
HA HA HA, I just started cracking up right at the start reading that article. Yes, I had 2 of those RCA Lyra's in my possession for evaluation for one of our projects, after an extreme ammount of time just getting it to connect to an older PC (USB 1), and then finding feature after feature "Soon to be available", my recommendation was that we do not use this item at all, and I also would recommend to everyone reading this to not even waste your time purchasing this device unless you really just want a MP3 player and are pretty tech savvy that you could muddle through the connection proceedures. I find that having to update firmware is a necessary thing if your using the latest in tech, of which I happen to deal with a lot (and I also enjoy playing with all the new tech items coming into the marketplace). FYI we ended up using a tablet style DVD player (w/a 7" screen) for the project that I was testing the Lyra (w/a 3.5" screen) for. (for those interested google Digix)
We had a Remote Worker that was in or near the spokane area, he had to Admin our Network here in Seattle during a Family Crisis. He was able to complete his work without any shortcomings, time of did not matter, it worked well for the remote admin work that needed to be done. And as you already stated this type of setup is not for gaming, but Admin stuff it works. SSH, PHP, Remote Admin, all worked without any problems.
ok obviously to many people are taking things literally to much, they only glow when there is a Light source that shows the transplanted Gene, ie a Black light or a infrared light, they do not glow in the dark, they do not emit light at all. under normal light they appear to be normal Zerba striped fish. so all this glowing poop and firefly fish is utter nonsense. Sheesh no wonder they got people like those that are sueing for regulation of these fish. The unfortunate part in all of this is that their parents were not sued and stopped from creating such a whining ass Tard as they have become. The worlds population is doubling every 40 years, what a shame the intelligence factor is not keeping pace.
Well, there is obviously someone out there with some logic, they are now starting to make Audio DVD's with extra content, and packaging extras with the sets, though they haven't quite learned yet that by adding fluff and raising the price, is still not what the public really wants, I personally would start buying CD's again if the cost came down to a managable level, paying $15.99 for something I would only listen to on occasion is not a cost effect purchase, not to mention the fact that they are trying to make it so that you couldn't even make a copy for your own use, ie Copy for the Car that people can steal or trash instead of the original. Paying $4.99 for a CD that I occasionally might listen to, well I would Purchase the CD. Buying a CD at $15.99 for the 1 song that I liked, Totally unreasonable, and staying away from a P2P setup I can still get the song and record it, ie. Call up a fav radio station and request the song, then just start recording that station, then edit out the song you wanted. So now I guess they should start Sueing the radio stations for transmitting of copyright material.
Whats the Next format that I can Buy Pink Floyd _ Dark side of the moon in? So far I have had Eight track, Cassette, Vinyl Album, CD, DVD. Not to mention the fact that some were purchased multiple times (Cassettes wear out, CD's get stolen or lost).
Well with the life expectancy of 6 months to 1 years for all of todays electronic products, The warranty is about to run out on the Mars mission space crafts, no wonder its failing, maybe they should have opted for the Extended Service plan. For only an addition $6,500,000 they could have had a 3 year warranty.
Sorry I do not know what ddent.net is, so I just uploaded to my clan message board, here is the link.
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http://www.damitclan.com/yabb/index.php?board=6;b
Good luck, I have used this many times in the past, now though I work almost exclusively with WinXP. Once you have created your Disk, you should edit the oeminfo file which is what gets placed in the My Computer properties section.
If you want the sysprep tool I can send you the floppy Image. Its for unattended install of Windows 98
Well, I might have a small bit of knowledge in this area, as I dupe like systems in various sized lots from 1's and 2's up to 50 - 80 units at a time. I have a ton of Dupe software, but if your one that does this Duplication on a frequent basis like I do, then the only solution is to get a hard drive mass duplication machine, currently I am using the ImageMasster 2000 by ICS. Other software that I have found useful and work well with W2K and WinXP, is Nortons Ghost 2002, DriveImage by powerquest.
The key is to create a Bootable CD (I have worked hard at the start of our venture to remove all Floppy Drives - waste of resources and useless) So the only way to boot a system other then through the HD is via Network or CD, Network has its advantages, but the CD is the best way to go. I create a bootable CD (there are several different types of Dos style boot images out there, I currently use an old Win98 Basic DOS boot, and PCDos) with Ghost on it and then boot with that CD and both HD's (be careful when doing this that you have the correct source and destination drives). I also did the same thing with DriveImage software though I only use that for really persistant and tough HD's. As this software takes far longer to Dupe, but does a pretty thorough job.
For really bad drives with images that can not be removed or repartitioned, I use a combo boot CD with AEFDisk on it (this little utility will repair or remove and partition you have set onto a HD's Disks).
Well good luck and I hope you haev found this of some use.
Now I am not saying you should use this info to pirate Articles of intellectual Property, but there are Professional VCR's out there that have a switch that can bypass the macrovision so that you may make a copy.
One product is a Sony Professional VCR, I had one a while back and could make copies of any VCR tape.
E-Bay might have some for sale, or check local Repair shops, or pawn shops (this is where I purchased mine) GL
Ok, I had a plasma screen, and we use plasma screens and LCD screens, as well as projectors here at work, and I can tell you burn in is a HUGE issue, these people will be out of business after they get a lot of burn in screen issues thrown back at them, the easiest way to turn a $3,000-$10,000 plasma screen into junk is to display static images on it.
Another issue is life of plasma screen issues, plasma screens as well as other video devices have a set life time before failure or unusability, to constantly run your screen for extended periods of time for nothing other then a few pictures is a huge waste, the technology for this type of thing is still 3-5 years away, the OLED screens with the flexibility and thinness (creates wallpaper) is still in its infancy, but when then comes into its maturity, then displaying art via electronic means will be worth while.
Imagine the possibilities, wall paper the becomes your TV screen, or change the color of rooms, or turn a wall into a ocean view with sunset. Life will be good then for the digital media, until that time, its just not a very feasible idea to waste your power and money on something like this.