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I don't know, but some institutions save on bandwidth costs by implementing a cache server of cache box. This device/host, stores copies of internet request, url, dns cache, images, code, etc. for duration till it's purged.The cache is used if people, staff, or computer labs frequent certain web sites all the time. this makes web sites (pages) appear to load faster than their Internet connection and saves bandwidth.Companies that do and create cache solutions would have a better chance along with major backbone ISPs, of answering or at least making an educated guess at the question you are trying to ask.Levimage ;)P.S. I myself have no clue, 10 GB/ps Ethernet is coming out soon. Probably good new for dvd torrent hippies

You could look for 775 compatible motherboard and go with a Core 2 Duo with the most GHz you can find - this would be good for fast computing and gaming. Opt for a Qual Core or Extreme if you want graphics/ and cpu intensive performance; I believe you can run 800MHz DDR2(s) with that board and above processors, Get ram with extremely low latency, memory profiles, and adjustable voltages. This will make better use of your graphics card/memory; Your hard drive is okay with your board, you could look into a SATA II solid state drive for the best performance from your SATAII bus. * If you're getting a motherboard that's more recent than 775, then you will also have to invest in a compatible CPU and memory. So it depends what you're willing to spend. Levimage

If the 'Add and Remove' attempt did not work then you will have to do some manual file/folder deleting as well as deleting some registry entries.Sometime the installer does not recognize the installation location and/or source location. This might be a registry entry that was deleted or omitted either accidentally or intentionally.Now days PC OEMs are up-selling their products by having the Office 2002/XP, 2003, 2007, etc. pre-installed so the can increase their revenues. At first they would include media cd's with the product even though you didn't need them, cause the Office suite was installed by imaging and probably Microsoft Office Custom Installation Kit (or something similar) prior to imaging. Eventually the OEM/vendors decided to save even more costs my removing the physical media cd/dvd(s) from the transaction and thereby saving even more money cause the system you bought already has the software included with the recovery image - which is probably installed a hidden partition locked from the OS.A typical Microsoft Office installation will have like a temp folder (temporary installation cache) in addition to the installed software. You may have to search through your registry and possibly online for the exact entry and what you should do to call out the 'temporary installation source'. It may be as simple as that. You could also do an in place recovery using you installed PC/Laptop recovery options setup with your OEM. Just search for recovery options in you Help or Recovery software's help. This is not to be confused with Microsoft System Recovery which is another option which you can go back to a previous state before you were experiencing problems. In either case you should always backup you data prior to attempting such system wide changes. If download and run your version of Office's service pack, do so it might be able to resolve your issues get you to a point where the 'Add & Remove - Microsoft Office' works.If not you might have to download that 'Microsoft Office Un-installer Utility'.Symantec also has such a utility for their products as a fail safe if their product fails to work as a result from a viruses related issue.Through trial and error, I also looked into uninstalling the downloaded Office Trial, then reinstalling it so I can reopen some files I created with the new versions instead of my old version. The time trial could not be reset even with the uninstall and a restart. So this just goes to show even the product installed there are stay files and registry entries which remain in your system which report to the installer that the product 'Trial' was once installed. Try one of those registry/file cleaners after you uninstall the product and reboot your system. You may have to run two (2) or three (3) of them.So with these suggested options try again and let us know if you are still getting errors.Levimage

When in the registry you can highlight the key. In this case ' Memory Managment' and right click it... select export. Name it some thing like 'Page On.reg' save it to the desktop. Now change the value to 1. Right click the 'Memory Management' select export and save it now to something like 'Page Off.reg'. You can later double click these files to import them into the registry to turn on or off the Pagefile respectively. Also you will have to reboot the PC for the changes to take effect. Levimage

Any boot time that is longer than 45 seconds to a 1 minutes is too long. You might has well take a walk around the office, get some water, stretch a little, or call your uncle Bob if he has a tip on the Horse track coming up this weekend. If you're in the 2-3 minutes. LOL you might as well microwave some noodles (you're favorite snack), go to vending machine, take a number (2) two, empty your pencil sharpener/paper shredder, or something. If you're taking +3 minutes. Oh... sh**! Let's just say you might not be as productive as you think you are. You might look into thinking what kinda of data you have on your HD, long over due defrag, or then again you might be running a very old hard drive on a dated bus like ATA-66. Upgrade that dinosaur already (your PC)! C'mon you don't need all those plugin's and miscellaneous software you don't used installed on your PC. Maybe uninstall some stuff or do some research on disabling some services. If you're pc is taking +5 minutes to load. You probably have a virus or some form of active spy/malware received via the Internet. If you online protection software scans come out clean, then you could have a rootkit. Consider having a professional clean it up, backup your clean data to an portable HD, and reinstall/patch your Operating System and restore your data. Well this what I think of boot times, Levimage (avg booting time is 45-60 seconds on XPSP3) P.S. if I have a solid state drive (version 2), I know I can achieve 15-20 seconds boot time. Essentially 1/3 for typically disk reads. This might also apply to you. but don't take my word for it. I just saw a video on the Patriot's web site.

I use to have a similar awkward VGA setup when the 1st XBox came out. Of course I really didn't have much space in my room/office for a 19" CRT (very BIG), and a 20" TV on my desk/drafting table. I like games, pc games, but my work/schooling was more leaning to onscreen PC/work than physical drawings/paper assignments/etc. From video console gaming I knew there were products which you could connect various incoming RCA, svideo, and rf switches together and connect to one outgoing video/audio output. The product I had was a Pelican A/V switch that eventually broke. I ended up taking it apart and found out I also had support for additional output sources via unused solder contacts for 'composite video, muti-channel audio, and contrast, brightness, bass, treble, etc.' I used it so I could play video games on my computer screen and make use of the multi-channel audio output of my 5.1 speakers since I did not have a a/v stereo setup. After Google'ing I could not find my product but here is a link to something more current and robust that what I had. I might get something very similar Outside review of a Pelican product- just so I can test it with my Video over Cat5e cabling tests - you never know when you might be in a pickle of bidding on datacom project for an event like a Golf tournament. j/k LOL Hope this helps Levimage

If your PC is still running on IDE you can populated 2 drives per an interface.IDE0, IDE1 as master/slave or cable select. Now days the preferred option is cable select. Limit of 4 driveswith no optical drive.You can add on ATA/SATA card to your PCI, PCIe bus. Which you give you another set of 4 drives.With SATA it depends on the number of SATA ports on you motherboard or addin card. Early motherboards had no support for SATA or just a couple ports. New boards typically have 4 or more.Within each of these drives you can have 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partions and one secondary partition with logical drives - each their own partitions.Windows 2000/XP/Vista/etc. have support for Dynamic Disks. This gives the ability to resize partitions, or strip partitions across other Dynamic Disks. So if you you have a bunch of mixed match 20GB, 30GB, 40GB drives. You set them up as one big drive.When transfering data speed is dependent upon what type of BUS(es) your transferring on. Reading from a 100GB ATA-6 on an IDE bus, writing to a 500GB ATA-6 over a USB1.0 bus (usb enclosure with IDE inside). The bottleneck here is a dated motherboard that does not have support for USB2.0 bus.Here are some of the buses listed, even though there are scsi buses, and raid over scsi they usually don't really apply to to consumer users.SATA II, SATA 1, External SATA ATA6, ATA5, ATA..2, USB2.0, USB, Firewire.Nowdays external enclosures are geared towards USB 2.0 with an internal SATA connection to the enclosed hard drive. Some options also have and an external SATA or eSATA port which can connect to a pc with a dongle that connects to an internal SATA port, and is usually mounted in the back panel of the PC.Some of the more higher end external enclosures have support for firewire, network, or can house multiple drives, and even offer various hardware/software backup options.The best practice now is to invest in a pc or motherboard with as many SATA ports with SATAII or upcoming standard, have external SATA ports on you pc/laptop case, and make sure the external drive you have has support for USB2.0 (USB 3.0 if your purchasing later in 2010), eSATA port, and if possible a Gigabit network port. These will eventually be mainstream in consumer pc/laptops as the price of technology lowers and as the demand for speeds increase. These solutions should get you by for next 5 years.What normally takes hours or a couple of days to transfer/backup data will take mere minutes or at most couple of hours.Levimage

Some vga cables are different. Especially VGA cables made for LCDs, VGA cables made for CRTs, and VGA cables made for LCD projectors. Believe me I had problems, trying to fire up an LCD projector from certain Gateway workstations, and Gateway laptops, when I was doing some computer training for a crowd. I had to 1) first make sure the projector had the right vga cable that came with it, 2) second, make sure that projector was compatible with the PC/laptops motherboard's VGA slot or Video card; 3) third was making sure if integrated video card, the BIOS had options to run multiple video output (laptops), 4) check those Function Key, Ctl+Alt+? keys in the video card and manual.It was pretty quirky back then... 2002-2005. If you equipment is that dated, or older you may be in the same boat. Hope this helps out. ;)Levimage

Well contrary to what most people believe there are rules when it comes to meta tags. Like the number of words, keywords used, total character length of the values of metatags, and repetition of words.Every search engine out there has some form of algorithm (almost always proprietary) when i comes to evaluating meta data in relation to the web page, the site, linked sites, and content.And it's interesting to note that the algorithm is always changing. The architects always factor in trends, hacking, spamming, and other web search bumping tactics. Also some companies also have an interesting in generating revenue by various search marketing programs.If you are interested in meta data some more then you can always view the source of web pages you look up via search engines. This will give you an idea of what works, and what doesn't. It also doesn't hurt to see what your competition is doing.Sorry I can't delve to much into this topic cause the book I read about it was returned to the library. :DLevimage

Oh I just also recently found out that, since it is winter and the air is more drier, there is a higher chance of generating static electricity in my room now. I can now bring my computer out of stand by, just by touching my computer or the glass computer desk (metal frame) - electrostatic discharge (ESD). So this might also apply to you, another option to bring your pc out of stand by.I'm thinking of getting a humidifier and possibly one of those LED clocks with the humidity, temp, and stuff. I might note the humidity when static is mostly generated, so I don't go zapping out my precious computer components.Levimage

I am curious what solution you are referring to. Same thing?

With the Itunes, and I'm not sure about the other software. Make sure you don't disable the software related services on startup, (BONJOUR, APPLEDEVICE, UPDATE, QUICKTIME QUICKSTART, and Some other other one). The software checks to see it these are running, which provide better interactivity and connectivity especially when connecting devices and using online features.Well you pretty much answered you own question running 32bit software on a 64bit operating system. Although depending on how old you PC is, it might just not only be software/game related. It could be an issue with a 64 bit driver on you OS running in a 32-bit compatibility mode (emulation?) for you installed hardware.Check with the software vendors, look into their software releases' read me.txt, offline/online help, requirements, compatibility issues, online forums, online FAQ's, and if you are a paid customer it doesn't hurt to call them or send them a detailed email. Who knows they may send you a 64bit version just for providing some customer insight/feedback.I've got Microsoft, and some other vendors to kick down some media cd's from time to time.Enjoy!Levimage :DP.S. With so much advances inhardware performance, virtual solutions, and open source options, it doesn't hurt to look into virtual technology (make use of the VT in your processor with VT enabled software). Whether it is a virtual OS, a live boot cd(usb/dvd), other other (partitioned) boot environment. Just experiment, make it happen, and show us the tutorial.

I remember a lot of the early Nintendo midi sound effects. Like Zelda, Mario, Castlevania, Friday of the Thirteenth, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Robocop, Master Blaster, and some of the Dragon Warrior Series. I'm not going to mention SNES games.In fact don't you remember them silly game shows about video games where they'd play a tune and the contestants have to guess what game it was from? Cheesy but true.Then they made it as midi's in the PC world. Try Google(ing) for a video game midi, convert it to a wav file and set it up as of your operating system sound events. Pretty Cool. Especially when you experiment with different sound font banks (varies depending on sound card and midi software).Then they made an appearance as Guitar tab's, some of which sound cool if played on an acoustic.After that came ring tones... and other polymorphic derivatives.Some of the old sounds are eventually remastered or reused in future releases of games from the same developer.EnjoyLevimage

I'll vote for Microsoft. Even though almost all my A/V equipment has the Sony emblem. I like the fact that the Xbox has had the ability to circumvent the OEM installed hardware. You can swap out hard drives, backup images, load it with a new image, save movies and games to you drive, so you don't have to worry about loading delays and scratching your precious games. I'm sure there is a way to do modding for the Sony.I bought the 1st Sony Playstation Player when it was released in the states. From video game magazines at that era they had game genie, game shark, action replay, and other gadgets that made use of the In/Out (I/O) interface connector on the back of the unit. One of which was for Sony developers who made, tested, and programmed their games. Maybe you can google for images.I would like a device which you can load/download additional software, interfacing themes, games, music, pics, videos, and other digital media.Features I would like would be total wireless, 802.11x(abgn), bluetooth, 900MHz, 2.4GHz, inferred, remotes. So you can connect all kinds of devices (legacy and upcoming) and interfaces for HDMI, Gig-10Gig Ethernet, USB 3.0, media cardslots. And maybe something like A Sound Blaster's I/O Front panel.In terms of graphics. Have like an external modular unit, hot swappable cards with integrated fans/coolers. With virtual reality like ATI like rendering (every gameplay screen renders different). So I can just just drop $300 each year on this every 2 years.The BIOSes could be like solid-state image CF (400x) cards.For console tune-ups. The unit could be shipped back to SONY/MICROSOFT, every 1 year, for custom modifications, chassis, RAM,processors, PSU, optical drives, etc.Well I'm kind of dreaming off topic. Well that's what these discussions are for, to share ideas.Levimage

If it is not a hard drive going bad, your fans might need to be replaced. It could be your dustys lint filled fans. Fan's typically have a long life. But there are times when too much fine dust, dirty, smoke, or other airborne contaminents can affect the noise output by fans. Also on a side note if you pc is full of lint and dust, it may tend to run hotter because of less clean surface area to expel the heat. This will lead to the cpu, chassis, and other system fans to run faster and therefore louder than normal. They might run from a 50% speed to as much as 110% the fan's maximum rated speed.Overclocking also has this negative effect.

It is okay to have backup copies of media or games, if there is an End User License Agreement which permits it, or if you are making a copy 3rd party made cd/dvd's which are included in various video games, pc game magazines - which already have EULA's or software release/demo version appropriate for sharing and distribution; as long as you don't modify the software code or readme.txt notices.Usually all current media have some for of copy protection whether it is implement via software code or hardware defect in the burned media, which makes running the copied media difficult - not an exact 1 to 1 copy.Other family members are pretty bad about scratching my games when it comes to them wanting to watch a DVD with the player. Iso/torrent downloads are not really the best route to go when replacing scratched media. There is no telling what was added or removed from from the corresponding cd. Typically there is some form of patches malacious software involved which trys to send packets across the Internet.As far as using you USB as a boot media, you can, depending on how old your PC or laptop is. Mainly if you bios has that boot capability. Typically there are the external usb drives, the flash media, and zip (iomega) like devices which you bios can can be set to check by changing boot order. Once they pc/laptop queries the device, reading the boot information is totally different process.Partions like a boot partition, boot sector, additional drivers may have to be loaded to read the device, and drivers for the filesystem (fat32, ntfs) prior to the detection of the contents of the media. If you are trying to replicate a cd/dvd boot media, you probably have to make a copy of the boot information from the source of what you're trying to copy, which is seperate from the contents. Almost like creating a custom bart pe, custo boot cd, or UBCD.I recently tried to make a copy of the recovery partition already preloaded on a laptop (without recovery media). It was a heckit process, but I cound not modify the config file which points to the partition (flash drive) which had the recovery partition.Another option I tried was moving all the client burned recovery files to a flash drive, but the I did not have the proper pre boot enviroment setup to read the files.I ended up doing a reinstall (destroying the recovery partitions), and then using the recovery cd's to load the drivers and applications. It wasn't the best recovery I did but at least the client had a clean OS installation, updated driver from manufacture, only the oem software she wanted installed. We ended up creating a recovery media next.

I never played that... is it fun. I'm more of D&D kinda guy. Dungeon Siege, Diablo, Fate and runescape are also interesting. Wonder if Runescape F2P had anything going on?

What did you do for Halloween this year? Did you dress up, as what? Did you put up decorations this year, really, what kind? What was you Halloween budget (amount you spent this year) on candy, costumes, decoration? Did you do everything you wanted to do? What would you do differently next year?

Okay, first off, sorry about the bad grammar. I think I was in a bad mood or my afternoon eDrink crash was setting in. Sometimes I type like I talk, other times, my ideas come faster than I type or care to correct myself. All posts usually edited for spelling after I posted... at times.Anyway, back to the subject. I've be troubleshooting PC's since, well let's just say I've been helping people along time, and have been taking tabs on online protection software, methods, and pricing as it relates to the problems at hand (or in the software vendor's words -- their solutions).My method for an online software solution on a shoe string (no pun intended) includes:1. Grisoft AVG Free Edition (been tinkering with this since v6, other free canidates had performance issues or customization problems)2. Spybot S&D (web browser protection, scanner; since v14, Ad-aware was much to slow and had other sideshow scanning of no real use)3. SpywareBlaster 4.2 (additional provides protection for web browsers)4. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.40 (additonal scanner, the quick scan option is the fastest, and scans the most relevant areas of computer/registry)The above software has been tested on M$ windows 2000, XP, and Vista. I have yet to get my hands on a version of Windows 7.Other useful technologies - help safely conduct online activities.Web spoofingURL verifying (verifiy sites)Firewall (incoming and outgoingblocking ports)Packet analyzinginstant messagingftp/puttyDNS caching

It depends how they're shutting down. Is it throught the taskbar, the Ctrl+Alt+Del, or through some other software command/option. There are settings which can be set per user setting (HKCU) via the registry, which should hide or disable shutdown options while they're logon or logged off. Physically they can also press the power button on computer/laptop, a key on keyboard which you'd have no control over. Do a search on google for registry options, group/system policies, then look for options to disable shutdown options, keys, buttons. Create enable the setting on your pc, find the registry key in the corresponding registry location that was created/changed via setting the option, and save that key to a file on your computer. Email or send that file to which ever computer that has the same operating system and run the file (apply that registy file to the registry). Log out or restart the pc for the change to take effect. You should also create another registry file which either disables or removes the registry key from the computer should you want to revert back to the original settings. If you have time you can call out the registy key files from a Yes/No batch file script. Also look look for tweakui, windows registry help file, M$ registy/security whitepages, or other premade registry/policy files online. They maybe of help. Trust me, there are certain things you need to learn when you inherit a network. Hope this helps and Have fun.

There are bios options like Alarm clock, Wake on LAN, and Wake on Modem. I believe there are options within the operating system like Control Panel-Scheduled Tasks. If laptop has the standby (sleep mode) capability, you can turn on you laptop, set an AM task in the Schedule Tasks -- has an option called 'Wake the computer to run this task.' Check that box. Then when you select the 'Turn off computer' button, select Stand By. This may get you around the BIOS limitations.Other other above options. Wake on LAN (WOL) requires another computer sending a packet and your laptop's NIC/Wireless Card receiving a packet. For options on enabling your NIC/Wireless card to use WOL packet detecting features check the Device Manager-Network Adapters-NIC/Wi_Card's advance or power management features. Enable those settings and look your other computer on your LAN or WWW to send a time based request/query. E.I access a shared mp3 on a playlist from a share on your laptop or something.Wake on modem would be a scheduled call from a modem or telephone. Kind of like the old Dial-Up ISP(s) where you connect via username/password. Setup an incoming connection an a user account with remote access.Another idea which is not off topic is having something physically jar the mouse or tap the keyboard to bring it out of sleep. Like a robot or cell phone with vibrate alarm leaning against mouse. :DHope this helps.

I don't have an Xisto - Support account. Or it's not there, I tried all of my recent email addresses and numerous password (sounds bad doesn't it ) I created a new Xisto - Support account, so we'll see what happens.When I created the account, it asked me to create a strong password. Maybe I'm forgetting my numbers and symbols. It's been awhile, but I don't remember this support interface.With all the Xisto.com ongoing updates, numerous features, and upcoming hosting packages, I guess my site just slipped though cracks.Patiently waiting for a response.

Yeah, what's up? I have a site, http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. Is the gamma.xisto.com server off the face of the earth? Someone tell me what's up. Apparently I can't login using other login methods. Like the :20xx ports doesn't seem to help. The alpha, beta, and other servers are working, but I don't know what's up with mining. I was hoping to get in some posts this week just to be on the safe side, but, Asthost forms were reporting an IPS error for some time. Now I can't log in anywhere. This is kind of sad too cause I just made/printed promotional fliers and business cards to distribute during my local annual fair. I don't have anything for people to see online, it kind of downplays the professionalism on my part. I guess I'm going to try this Qupis flavor. The terms and conditions are abit more stringent than Xisto but it's my only last minute option (free hosting), with a minimum amount of down time (learn curve for hosting interface). I hope this doesn't waterdown my relationship with Xisto, it's forums, and the time and effort I've put in to the Xisto forum community.

Okay here is my 2 cents. I'm learning about karaoke software... yah dah dah...So I my pc and laptop both have mics (pink imput adapter) and speakers... uh huh. I try some software other than typical media players WMP11, iTunes, etc. And I buy a standard mic. Okay. By chance my mic came with a stand mic adapter to mini-audio (sorry, don't know the exact terms.) I also have some spare adapters and connecters from my audio days.Well I found out my pc's motherboard's internal sound card has cheap mic boot options +12DB while my laptop goes to +20.And I found out there is always noise regardless of how it is setup. I'm thinking the +DB boost has something to do with it, not to mention the software/windows mic imput volume sliderbar.Also from a hardware point of view. Certain connectors do not work with the microphone. Upon examination. The gold tip spacings on the microphone adapters' connectors and different. While this might not affect typical audio it could have an impact on sounds cards mic input.EDIT: make sure you are not using a stereo to mono or mono to stereo adapter/plug. That will not work.Quality. The quality of my connectors also vary. In addition to my mic which was only $8.90 plus tax. The lowest possible I could by instore. I guess you have to look for the sensitivity and the gain on that one. All greek to me there.So yeah those are some of the various variables that come to mine when it comes to microphones and pc audio setups.

I think this is just another sly software update to make sure Microsoft still keeps their foot in the door. It's there attempt to roll out their updates, enforce thier windows genuine advantage and other similar copy protection features. It might look like a simple and straight forward program but like all software there is still information about your PC that is revealed during online updates or customer feedback.I think AVG Free edition and other free lite flavors of online protection are your best method of protecting your pc. First you save money every year, you can change software with no loss, and can always install more than one software at time so you are not limited to on vendors virus definitions.That being said, this just microsoft initial release, who knows when their drop support for this. They're (microsoft) is just get the public use to their products interface to help you make that transistion to Windows Vista, Windows 7, etc. Like Microsoft Office you you start using it you eventually need it.