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What I would do (given I have the money) is I would buy an external drive and save a compressed archive to it. I use WinRAR to do such, and when compressing a RAR archive I also save the NTFS file streams (option in advanced tab). If I am backing up a system drive (ie windows drive), I would use ima...

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Cool desktops, guys. I wish there was some good free virtual desktop software Winblows.

I changed my wallpaper, yet again:

http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images ... 1-2009.jpg

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Primarily 3d animation, digital painting, and vertex art. But I've grown tired trying to find work with these skills. But I'm good at Excel spreadsheet programs. (I'm starting to like 'openoffice') The three most recent jobs were for a voluntary benefits company, then Medicaid and Medicare customer...

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Close call, indeed.

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What are the timings for your RAM? It's a set of 4 numbers, measured in CPU clocks. For example, my RAM timings is 3-3-3-8 (DDR-400 speed). Do you have high performance or budget RAM?

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Welcome back! I'm glad you had fun!

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I would think that for all the wear that a flash drive would be subjected to, it'd be a better choice to use an SSD or external HDD, mostly for the longevity of the device.

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I use RawCopy. It's part of UBCD 4 Windows.

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Speech recognition is the best you could do so far. I'm not sure the programming for motion recognition has become sophisticated enough for reading sign language with a camera to be done.

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Krom wrote:Yes its possible to boot XP off a USB flash drive, however it should be noted that many USB flash drives are actually very slow at random reads/writes and will take forever to boot.

that is correct. You'd be better off booting from a solid state drive (SSD) or external hard drive.

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What kind of imaging? What do you mean by the term \"image\"?

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I am familiar with data measure scale up to yottabytes and zetabytes. Krom, you certainly do have a better understanding of how numbers relate with computing than I do, so thank you for the corrective insight. :) If windows won't see more than 4GB, it wasn't programmed to support more than that. Tha...

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A 64-bit OS and CPU can address up to 8GB of memory; 32-bit can address up to 4GB. Often support for those amounts aren't put in by motherboards, BIOS, or OSes because of the effort needed to support such an amount. For example, this is why most 32-bit boards/chipsets supported up to 2GB of RAM most...

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That is a fantastic find, Duper! I'll be sure to spread the word.

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Yeah, that is bizarre. I'm sure everyone here's had their share of weird dreams, Descent or not.

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It is Brood War, not the original; I shortened the title for my own liking. Since about v1.14, they've included a new icon, which is the sleeker looking Wraith for both the original and BW.

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New wallpaper, this time a screen shot from the upcoming game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time. It's to be released this fall.

http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images ... 2-2009.jpg

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The air conditioner at my house broke Monday last week. Water leaking from the condenser coil dripped through the unit and got into the little metal box where the control circuit board is, and the board shorted out and fried. It's a good thing my house has an attic fan, and the weather's been cool; ...

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Something you can accomplish just as easily with partitioning... True, that. I use two drives for such purposes (rather than using partitions), as well as dividing the load to improve performance. I've had as much as a 30-40% performance boost by keeping windows on a separate drive from everything ...

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It is possible that the video driver is out of date. See if you can find a newer one.

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Zantor, I can't even GET it into Safe Mode. Windows was NEVER setup after a reinstall that was attempted as a repair for what we thought was a corrupted OS. All it comes up with is a warning that Windows can't enter safe mode and then a reboot! Any other suggestions? GRRRRRRRRRR! BUBBALOU, THANKS b...

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dissent wrote:bumpage.

because today is the day the “Eagle” landed.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." --Neil Armstrong

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dissent wrote:bumpage.

because today is the day the “Eagle” landed.

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." --Neil Armstrong

Doggone it! I didn't mean to double post. Firefox was being a little screwy. Would a moderator please delete the other one? ~Zan

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BUBBALOU, do you have a link or some other info.? My unit is P/N EW680AV, was a build to order unit now 3 years old and it comes under that list of yours. But HP, no matter who I talk to, is giving me the line that the extended warranty ended for my laptop 12/2008 and so I'm SOL! They claim the ext...

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What if there were no hypothetical questions?

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captain_twinkie wrote:Yes it drops when connected directly, and I have already gone through 3 modems for this issue.

If that is the case, there might be a problem with the physical line itself. Has your ISP checked the line to make sure there are no faults?

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AlphaDoG wrote:OK, I'm in, just let me know when.

Likewise.

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There is a recent documents thing in the start menu somewhere; I know XP has it, but I'm not sure about Vista.

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tunnelcat wrote:Good Duper, it's a plum. But what variety? It looks like a cherry on the outside in size, shape and color when ripe, but the inside, it looks and tastes like a plum. Really odd.

Cherry Plum?

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I agree with the rest of those guys. Wait for Win7 if you want to get it, rather than messing with the RC especially if everything is running fine in XP. I have found that Win7 is a great deal more customizable than vista, and you can get rid of a lot of the security and other nagging. When I tried ...

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That's an issue that I have not run into playing FS1 on an XP machine with 1GB of RAM. I have played FS1 fine on my machine without using 3D acceleration and it runs fine. Somehow that ancient engine could run on a 2.0+ GHz machine of mine without any problems; HOWEVER, some other programs I have ha...

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To my knowledge, Descent 1 does not support such a large number of levels in one mission file. Descent 2 I think does, but I could be totally off. I'd prefer Descent 2 because of its better weapons and improved programming (comparing retail with retail).

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Personally, I've always had to install IPX on XP to get Kali to work. I ran into the same trouble you're having. I know you aren't Supposed to have to install it, but in this case for some reason you do. *shrug* You can always turn it off later if you want. To my knowledge, KALI uses the IPX networ...

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Octopus wrote:
Stroodles wrote:NES pwns you all
Fancy space age overpriced junk :p

LOL

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ASUS, Cyber Power PC, Dell Latitude or Precision (the business grade stuff), or a Lenovo Thinkpad are my suggestions. I'd get a Dell as a last resort though.

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If you have D1 retail patched to 1.4a, patch it to 1.5. You can find the patch on Planet Descent.

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The WD Caviar RE3 is a little over the top. An RE2 or older would suit you fine, as would one of the newer WD Black line.

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A year or two ago nvidia took a $200 million charge to cover a recall of defective mobile GPUs (and subsequently got sued by its shareholders). The 7600 go series was one of the affected parts along with pretty much every mobile part from the 6000 to the 8000 series. I think it was an issue with th...

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I'd be interested as well to see what software is available to play these movies. Which codecs do they use? To my knowledge, the cinematics use a proprietary codec which could be reverse engineered out of the source code. I do know that people have converted them to other formats, but you'd have to...

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Unfortunately, our independence has been bought and is now controlled by the highest bidder, and it ain't us, the commoners. I'm still going to go watch the fireworks. Huzza! But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under a...

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