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  1. I agree with everything you wrote, jaclaz. I used to get all wrapped up in these things but haven't seen them cause any real-world problems in so long that I rarely go back to these principles of length/interference/attenuation/etc. For the average person using decent cables and modern equipment, he should be fine. Not optimal, but fine. The fine vs. optimal point is one to consider. WIth modern equipment negotiating a slower speed for slow/noisy links it is common to see reduced throughput in such scenarios. But when grandpa's A/B/G/N wifi link negotiates down to B due to a noisy environment...well his email will still load just as fast. (excuse the wifi example, I'm too tired and lazy to rewrite :) )

  2. I needed to rotate a cell phone video but didn't find anything on MSFN so had to search elsewhere. This is just a quick note for anyone else that needs to do this.

    VLC can kinda do it, but it is cumbersome and ill-supported to save/export/convert the output.

    Use AVIDemux to rotate and save. It works pretty well. I used an old portable version that I found here to avoid going through an installer process.

    Then I used the steps outlined here.

    Pretty quick and easy.

  3. Most sources recommend this older device:

    Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044DEDCA

    This appears to be the newer version:

    Creative Sound Blaster Omni Surround 5.1

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EZT7RE4

    Has anyone upgraded from the X-Fi to the Omni? Or have any experience with the Omni to share? I'm specifically interested in the Dolby Digital Live performance for 5.1 gaming optical output.

  4. I've created a new slip for win7 that does the same thing as hfslip, but has better features. It has an automatic hotfix downloader, it slipstreams, it reduces, it slips drivers, applies inf & reg tweaks, etc. It even reduces the "live" winsxs folder to reduce your OS footprint. I saved myself nearly a gig of diskspace after running that part of the new slip. All in all, it's still a big ole batch file but won't release it because of the same reason why I stopped supporting hfslip. I have only shared it with 3 other people that I've met on this forum.

    No lie. tommyp has been up to his old tricks. He's a wizard!
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