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arctirus

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  1. Webcam with software that senses when you walk away from your desk.
  2. Just download vista from an illicit source or copy a dvd from a friend. You have a license for the OS so it really doesn't matter where you get the media from. You can do a bunch of work to try to extract it from the recovery partition but you still end up with the same results either way.
  3. Doesn’t matter, ATI or nVidia have almost the same marketing techniques, so they release first the most popular cards. I’ll be happy if my 19" widescreen would be connected to an ATI 3850 for less then 200 USD. 2 of those in Crossfire and they knock hard against nVidias "high-end" desktop cards for les cash . For about the same money you would be better off with two 8800GT's in sli I just hope ATI / AMD release something decent and do it soon before processor and gpu competition is completely dead. I'm no intel nvidia fanboy, in fact, most of my life I've been buying AMD procs but since the core2's there's just no way I'd consider and AMD chip. ATI really hasn't had a great card since the 9800pro. Sure, they had some that were in the same class with nvidia but nothing that was an nvidia killer like that was.
  4. Yup, no drivers or anything like that, at least not in my experience.
  5. At home no, my wife would have a hissy fit. At work yes, I'm a domain admin so every time I leave my desk. I keep a shortcut to "Lock Workstation" in my quicklaunch. %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
  6. Which is sad, ATI/AMD has been floundering so nvidia decides to take a rest and not produce any new technology. This newer generation of games could really use a boost in horsepower and after my experience with SLI in the geforce 7 series I'm not about to try it again. Especially when a matching video card would cost me $550 for something as old as the 8800GTX currently is, over a year at this point. For a video card to remain top of the line for over a year is just sad.
  7. I did the same thing with my hp laptop that came with vista preloaded. However, now that I'm a beta tester for sp1 it's gone back to vista. Wait for the final of sp1 and give it another shot.
  8. The day Norton is actually better than AVG I'll start using a mac.
  9. I don't quite see why you mention nero. 32 bit applications run just peachy on a 64 bit windows os. Really the ONLY thing stopping a 64 bit os is driver support and even now there are very few modern devices that don't have 64 bit drivers. I think microsoft is doing the world a big disservice in even producing a 32 bit version of windows 7. On a positive note they have made exchange 2007 64 bit only, let's hope this trend continues.
  10. I use this myself, love it.
  11. No offense dude but throw it away and buy a $10 usb stick with twice that capacity. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches.
  12. 1) There are loads of pre-packaged add-ons available in the official forum. http://www.911cd.net/forums 2) N/A 3) Yes I've got loads of stuff on mine, spybot, avg, ghost, ability to edit the registry of the hard drive, do system restores, etc.
  13. I don't know what vize is because your site's links require javascipt enabled. I use noscript and I don't usually go to sites that require js. Not that I expect you to change your site for me because I'm too lazy to allow your domain but there are plenty of other people who use it too. Just fyi.
  14. $100 hddvd players at walmart starting Friday. I hope this buries bluray. http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/toshiba...riday-wal-mart/
  15. Actually I'm going to attempt vista x64 on my gaming rig this weekend again. I've vlited out security center and defender anyway so if I do need to use any unsigned drivers, which I don't think I will, it won't be a problem anyway. I'm excited to try the Crysis demo on dx10 and even with an 8800 I need all the extra horse power I can get. From the benchmarks I've seen x64 gives a significant performance boost to it.
  16. Home basic lacks aero, media center and remote desktop. Those are the only main things anyway. If you don't need any of those then go for it. Also, vnc is a decent substitute for remote desktop. It's not as fast but it's effective nonetheless.
  17. That's not it though. They were calling 1000mb 1gb when that's simply not the case. It's like dodge advertized your durango as having a dozen seats but actually only had 11. Anyway, link to claim form: http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/secure/fileNew.aspx
  18. Same thing here, Vista x64 ran mostly ok apart from a few small incompatibilities but it was just enough to make me ask myself why I am bothering with it. Back on xp x32 now. Nuhi, There was a hack to use non certified drivers but it did overlay the words "test mode" on top of wallpaper much in the way beta operating systems do, although in this case it's at the top instead of the lower right. Are you saying this no longer works? It's been a while since I've tried it.
  19. It's odd that the GC didn't get copied over. When you demoted the old DC did you check the radio button that said "This is the last DC" or something like that?
  20. Before throwing it away I installed a highly nlited copy of XP on a P1 133mhz laptop just a few months ago. It worked as well as one could expect a 133 to work, I'm not sure 98 would really have been any faster.
  21. I just wish the would dump the whole #x speed system. I don't know to know how many X my cd, dvd or flash card is. I want to know transfer speeds in real numbers.
  22. In another thread someone told me to replace the pidgen.dll on the slipstreamed disk sp3 to the one from an sp2 disk. It worked like a charm.
  23. It's for those reasons exactly that I do need to use outlook.
  24. I use outlook because it's my only option for connecting to exchange. For personal stuff I use gmail.
  25. Vista is very good at picking up new hardware, it's like we're back in the 9x days again. I installed vista to a VM, made a ghost image of it and restored that image to a physical machine and after taking some additional time on first boot it ran like it was installed on that machine directly from the cd.
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