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  1. Jon_R

    Speech Recognition in XP

    Microsoft ususally does NOT make their own products, outside of the core windows OS and office products. Take for instance their defrag with win2k/XP.. it is clearly the same defrag as Executive Software, it even shows that in the about page. Norton did the last defrag. It doesn't amaze me at...
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    looking at moving from 2000 to XP is it worth the $

    XP is Microsoft's move to make an NT based kernel the standard for all home users. There was a point when this was unheard of, but at that time running NT at home was also unheard of becuase of incompatibility. With Windows 2000 and XP home users can appreciate stability. At current time of...
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    HTML Opinions needed....

    No doubt my work enjoyed streaming those anime episodes. Very interesting to see the fundamental changes made so American audiences would accept them. Content is vital, and you've got that. There are some spelling errors here and there, but those are easily fixed. What you need is a basic...
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    Check out this Deal...WOW !!!

    Brett.. not to nitpick but you mention that you could possibly have made your computer for $900, instead of $1200. To me, 25% is a pretty big savings and would influence my buying decision. But I would never want the perks some people look at when buying a home computer so maybe thats where...
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    networking question

    In case you don't know, a hub does not need a dedicated uplink port. You can connect to any port using a crossover cable. However, those are special cables that aren't the same as regular cat5, obviously. Now, some hubs have little buttons that will change one port from regular to uplink. If...
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    Dont you think Bang&Olufson deserves the same fate as Bose?

    You could think of B&O as a rich person's Bose. Sure Bose makes lots of claims, but at the end of the day they are what J6P aspires to own. If you make a ton of money, why would you buy Bose, sure they are "the best" but they aren't the most expensive. That is where B&O comes in. They...
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    Windows XP ..how do I...

    Wayne Interesting.. 512 bytes. You say that is inefficient, how so? Say you have a 1022 byte file. With 4k clusters it will take up 4000 bytes, but w/ 512 byte clusters it will take up 1k, thus a savings of 3k with the expense of 8 times more clusters. I don't doubt this but I would like...
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    What's the grossest thing you've pulled out of a refrigerator?

    When I was younger my family had one of those really large horizontal freezers. You know, the kind you can chop lots of people up and hide in there. (Personally I think the deep well idea is lacking as there is a lot of wasted and unreachable space once it is filled with bodies, er groceries.)...
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    Windows XP ..how do I...

    Alan Not to be too picky, but NTFS5 (the version in XP) IS NT and thus you get full NT security. On a very basic level, it is very applicable to the home user and should have been added long ago to prevent problems. As shown in this thread. Jon
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    Check out this Deal...WOW !!!

    Are you sure that is such a great deal? Check www.Slickdeals.net Below is a paste from them Dell Home has Dell Dimension 4400 Pentium 4 1.8GHz Desktop (80GB HD, 16X CDRW, 256MB DDR, 64MB GeForce2MX) for $629 shipped. Go to Dell Home. Enter the E-Value code "6V303 - D4418SS" at the top left...
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    Windows XP ..how do I...

    you really need to run a scandisk on your drive before converting. I didn't see anything about what your current file system actually was. I assumed that if a PC shipped w/ XP from the factory that it would have NTFS as the file system. Anyway, don't worry about data loss w/ the conversion...
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    Options for correcting boomy bass in new truck

    Why don't you do a little investigating and see what some new speakers would cost. IF they are 5 1/4 or 6 inch then you can get some replacements fairly cheap. If you aren't comfortable installing them take it to a shop. Standard installs are very simple and a regular shop such as best buy or...
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    Windows XP ..how do I...

    I'm really not sure what file system PCs ship with, but if you go to My computer, and right click on the C drive, and view the Properties, it will tell you the file system. If it is Fat32 you need to convert to NTFS before you can effectively lock out your children from accessing certain...
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    Problem with my new Geforce 4!! Need Help Please!

    Could it be heat? Sometimes heat can do strange things, although ususally strange things are then accompanied by a total system lockup, but you never know.
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    anyone know about radioshack remote?

    Dave I'm confused. You had a break-in where they took your remote. Didn't they take your other stuff too? Where they remote bandits, poised to rid the world of efficient Home Theater navigation? Do you just have a remote and you are calling it a home theater? Do you perhaps program it...
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    Another Compuer Error... Cannot find GMT.EXE??

    gmt.exe is Gator, do a google search for it and you'll see. Very often programs, spyware or not, do not remove all their components, leaving traces of themselves behind. If your quite paranoid about spyware I think you should spoof your MAC address and IP. You could use a smoothwall firewall...
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    capture using radeon

    Patrick, As Masood stated that is a limitation of the fat32 system. Use NTFS, last time I read up on it, NTFS4 supported 3 exabytes!
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    Alpha PAL8045 & MOBO?

    Camp, I agree with almost all of what you said. If it is going to be a jukebox you want stability. I have had varying luck with stabilty from cheap motherboards. So, get a midlevel motherboard with a lower processor and you will save a bundle and be fine. Jon
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    Harry Potter WS for FREE at yourfreedvds.com

    Do not open and close multiple credit cards. When you APPLY for the credit card, a credit inquiry is issued. That is why, after you have applied for lots of cards you will begin to be turned down by other cards even if you have no balance. Also, this is very imporant. When test driving a...
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    Help- my new computer is LOUD!

    There have been some good suggestions so far but a few good tricks have been left out. If the power supply is the culprit, don't just change the fan, but cut out the original fan cover. This will leave a hole in the power supply. Air makes more noise flowing over jagged edges than it does...
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    Need an easy to use free Forum program: Help

    if you are unix aware check out www.freshmeat.com for some web boards. there are lots of them. 200th post
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    Help me please big you brained computer folks

    Pull all the hardware out aside from video card and modem. If you are comfortable in the BIOS, disable all other ports to free up IRQ. This is to see if you have a hardware conflict. Now connect and see what happens. If it still locks up, then its less likely a hardware problem. It could...
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    Is XP worth upgrading.....?

    IF it ain't broke don't fix it. That mantra works fairly well. However, it will break. They always do. I stated in my post that I haven't run, as my primary OS, a win9x based OS in a long time. There are many reasons. Me is based on win9x. It has the same kernel. One program can, and...
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    Is XP worth upgrading.....?

    There never was, and never will be any comparison between Win9x based (including Me) and an NT based kernel. I've been using NT as my primary OS for a long time. I dual booted for games. That being said, if Me isn't angry and crashing, then you might want to leave it alone. I have a celeron...
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    Noise and my PC

    My pc is really loud. It has to be. I can't sleep well without that sort of white noise. However, if I wanted to make it quieter there are lots of things to do. You could get some sound dampening material and line the inside of the case. This will deaden the case and surely quiet the hard...
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    I'm amazed at the difference...

    I'm not going to dispute SVS-Ron, as anyone in that sort of work obviously knows his stuff, but I will add my own experience. I know that subjective experiences don't hold much weight but when I first got into my stereo I listened to it for hours and hours a day. I had really thin wire. Then...
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    Downloading problem

    What OS are you running? Internet Explorer makes mad monkey love to every part of a Windows system and thus removing it never really seems to fix things. Oh sure, I've had mixed luck with that, but on the whole a reinstall seems to fix things. If you have win9x you can reinstall overtop of...
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    Floppie ain't working.. Has me scratchin my head..

    For future reference if you have an older floppy drive you CAN put the power on upside down. I have done this. If your light stays on, the cable is put on there incorrectly, but if when you boot the drive starts to spin up, and up, and up, and you think its going to explode, then your power...
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    Isn't stereo enough?

    That is the finest ASCII room I've ever seen!
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