ninjageek

Oh yea I could forsure live without mine. I started I think about 10 years ago. Time just goes so fast. I will say it was fun messing with the computer and learing lots of stuff. Latest was learning nlite and how to make the addons for it. I orginally started to learn about them because of my kids. Keep them safe online and how to use a computer. If this computer died tommorow I would be ok with that. Someday I would probally replace it but no big hurry.

Wrong grasshoper. As far as getting rid of junk files CCleaner is still better. This program will optimize your internet settings and will clean the registry. Give it a shot. Its free. Run it, reboot your computer see what happens.

Lord knows over the years I have tried about every program to tweak a cable connection. I even used to use cablenut. Then I found this free program and never looked back. http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html this program rocks. I even use the defrager from the same website. Let it load with windows and it will defrag when no harddrive activity for 5 min. Works great. Give it a shot. Reboot. See what ya think. If it does not work for ya we will see about the cablenut help.

That would be my first concern. All the programs you tried to accelerate your connection. The first step would be to get your connection back to default settings. I am guessing your using XP ??. So your first step would be getting everything set back to default settings. You using Xp??

I know xp has problems with sata drives. Vista may be the same ?? Unsure about that. May try to reinstall if you can the motherboard drivers that should of come on a disk with the new mobo. You also may try the cd that came with your harddrives to format them before you try the install? It is possible you could have a bad harddive. Maybe just unhook one of the two drives, hopefully you have one thats not sata and is ide. Just hook up one ide drive and try your install from that. Just trying to throw you a few ideas that may help. Its to bad you can not get xp with sata drivers already pre installed ya know. That would probally be the way to go. To bad its not possible if ya know what im saying.

This may help ya out. Hopefully if its not right someone will come along and clarify how to better do it. I have never done this before so I can not tell you if the video is right or not. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2186454/connect_pc_with_tv/

I have always believed a warning should be issued first and foremost. Many would stop at the first warning. The riaa wanted to shoot first and ask questions later. They have lost more than a few cases. The second part is I am sure the Riaa is starting to get nervous about what and how they will distribute all this money collected. I have yet to see any of it returned to the artists. Just nice to see the whole "pay us x amount of dollars or risk the courts making you pay us even more" is hopefully done.

At last, the music industry admits what we've known for years: That filing music-swapping lawsuits against teenagers, little old ladies, and corpses is a fool's errand (not to mention an expensive headache for the defendants). But don't worry—the RIAA has something new up its sleeves. The new strategy (as reported by the Wall Street Journal): If the music industry finds out that you're swapping music files online, it'll send an e-mail to your ISP (agreements have already hashed out agreements with "some" unnamed service providers, apparently), which will in turn forward the message to you—probably with a little "P.S." asking you to stop. [update: CNET has a copy of the RIAA's form letter to ISPs.] If you don't stop, well ... your service provider probably won't sue you, but it might slow down your broadband connection, or cut off your service altogether. So, why has the RIAA changed the play? Well, maybe it's been looking at reports like this one from the NPD Group, which shows that U.S. CD sales continue to slide, while the number of tunes shared via P2P sites continues to increase, despite all the litigation. And then there's the disastrous headlines, as the RIAA relentlessly tracked down and sued tens of thousands of alleged music pirates. Among them: Kids, octogenarians, and a few dead people. Reaction to the news? Mixed. Engadget's headline reads (in part): "RIAA finds its soul," with the story noting that while the RIAA reserves the right to go after "heavy uploaders or repeat offenders ... it appears that single mothers are in the clear." All Things Digital has a darker outlook, speculating that ISPs—which "care about the cost of moving lots of data around … [and] want to make money by selling, renting, or just offering up Hollywood's movies and TV shows to subscribers"—might be more than content to "cut off file-sharers … [or] simply [charge] heavy file-sharers a lot of money." And here's another possibility, courtesy of yours truly: Say your ISP catches you sharing tunes via P2P. No problem—download away! But when you get your next cable bill, you'll find the itemized songs added to your monthly charge, kind of like an iTunes bill. Call it the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy. P.S. Make no mistake—just because the RIAA has stopped filing new music-swapping lawsuits doesn't mean that it's dropped the existing ones, according to the Journal. Quite the contrary. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/31678/riaa-to-halt-lawsuits-cozy-up-to-isps-instead/

If Microsoft delivers on stuff like this story http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-cpu-gpu,6645.html Its gonna be a major blow to video cards. If I am understanding it right games like crysis will not even need a video card to play?? If the other things I am seeing and such, I may finally put away xp and go with windows 7. I just feel bad for people that spent all that money on that pos vista. Vista is gonna be a white elephant type of software. You guys seen anything else of interest good or bad??

Sure wish I would of known your on half life 2 mud. Getting ready to install and play that one again. Could of seen who beat it first. Just a friendly bit of compition. If your not that far along, still bay be possible? If not anyone else up for a tiny bit of fun and compititon??

Lets see, This year, Call of duty 4 and 5. Flight simulator X. Getting ready to start in on fall out 3. Assassins Creed and Alone in the dark.

I think most don't realize sure you can save a couple hundred or whatever, But now your in the store, So spend spend spend. They will make there money. They will sell you a couple of things at cost no problem, They will make there profit someplace else.

NEW YORK – Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman . Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries. The store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening. Police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the Wal-Mart doors before its 5 a.m. opening at a mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan . The impatient crowd knocked the employee, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion. "This crowd was out of control," Fleming said. He described the scene as "utter chaos," and said the store didn't have enough security. Dozens of store employees trying to fight their way out to help Damour were also getting trampled by the crowd, Fleming said. Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. Damour, 34, of Queens, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6 a.m., police said. The exact cause of death has not been determined. A 28-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a hospital, where she and the baby were reported to be OK, said police Sgt. Anthony Repalone. Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages." "When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081129/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death How in the world can you be so desperate to save a couple hundred bucks on a flat screen t.v. you will do this kinda thing. Just reminds me of the "running of the bulls" type of situation.

What I would try. Unplug the keyboard from the computer. Get some windex or something close. Get a old tooth brush and scrub away and try to be careful not to get to much liquid on it. Dip the toothbrush and shake of the excess and go for it. Thats what I would try.

I am running a 400w Power supply and it runs my 8800gt fine. Also have 2 gig of ram and amd dual core 6000. Xp and Linux Flys right along. I did give vista with sp1 a shot, could be ram issue, But it is so much slower than xp. Kinda hoped with the service pack and stuff it would help.

http://www.techmixer.com/ And on the bottome of the page for iolo, click on that one and you can get all kinds of free full verson keys for most there stuff. Enjoy.

I just HAD to laugh. GF sister got a snail mail letter from "you just won the Canada lottery". We both told her its a scam. Nope she refused to believe it. Now she send them 20.00 bucks. Now they got her hooked. Now she gets a small check for 5 grand, needs to cash it and send back 3 grand and keep 2 grand. Again we are telling her its a scam. Don't be stupid. Oh no.....we are dumb. So she takes off to the bank. It took the tellers about 20 seconds to figure out its a fake check. Oh I will give her crap for sometime over this deal. Hey how about a loan of some of that Canada lottery cash you have just laying around. You guys may wanna make sure Grandma does not get this type of letter. If you head over to cnn.com. There is a story of a lady loosing 400 thousand dollars yes 400 thousand dollars to the Nigerian relative e-mail scam. Cops, Banks, Everyone told her to stop it was B.S. Nope she took out a mortgage on her home, wiped out her husbands retirement, took a loan out on her car she was no sucker, She was gonna get 20 million in repayment. Another lady 92 year old woman got robbed. Guy posing as a water man, emergency issues, Had to check her toilet. Now she must hold the handle to the toilet down or her house will explode. Entire time dude is ripping her off. That makes me sick. Some people.

Better think twice before installing any program from Kyle Katarn, including : - SuMo - KCleaner - and his countless others.... KCleaner installs the spyware component "RelevantKnowledge" by DEFAULT, without any option to skip its installation. That brings us to the conclusion that Kyle Katarn is NOT TO BE TRUSTED. To save his ***, he rapidly created a small page (which no single unknowing downloader finds anyway) on http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?rk The Thumbs-Up days are over, Kyle. You did your very best to cover who/what you really are. The above is a copy and paste job from another web site I use and trust. MajorGeeks. Even the owner of majorgeeks has issues with this stuff, has removed it from his website. Not sure if any one uses this software, Just thought you all may wanna know. In the end you be the judge if you wanna continue to use this or not. Myself never have used it. With all this and such........Don't think I ever will.

Bill Gates had the same attitude. Vista would stop the pirates. That Never happed. Never will. There are tons of drivers out there for the hackintosh. Google the name of your motherboard and mac drivers. I found all the ones for my set up in under 10 min. I think in the end I will leave the mac alone. Linux and Xp on my computer is enough. Heck even my Ol lady is really starting to dig Linux, especially the fact you really don't have to worry so much about virus and spyware, and with no registry to Linux not much I can screw up, Hey what happens if I do this..........darn........time to reload Linux.

Yea I have been seeing you could do that for sometime. How she running on your pc fatty. I just never really took the leap myself. I am still playing with Linux. Who knows maybe that will be my next project. And if you wanna hook up ninja with a link I to can run my own hackintosh.

Just learning the ins and outs of what can and can not be done. Whats possible whats not. The information I have picked up, has been fun and eye opening to say the least. I got it set up and everythings cool. Had one issue with a program. Thought forsure I was gonna have figure that one out. Come to find out there are some Super Smart guys that can take the free program, Repackage it for my verson of linux. Had no idea that was even possible. So I gave up for now on how to install a hard to install program. My next thing will be how they repackaged it from its current form to a form that can be installed on my verson of linux. This is the program I was working on installing, Some guy repackaged it for me to install on ubuntu. http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ . He is a hardcore user of linux, LIked the program he was gonna talk to the maker and have it released so others could use it on a Debian based linux.

Well again. I may be way off base mud. The program (forget the name) Its just like autoit for windows. I would think you could just use a right click to compile the script. Make sense? Kinda a way to simplify the install with a right click. Maybe I'm nuts, the voices in my head say I am fine. I KNOW there is a easy way to install programs like this. May take me a year, but I will figure it out. One guy at another forum really helped TONS. He some how fixed it to open in ubuntu and install on its own. Changed it to a .deb file? Then walked me through how to make a shortcut to the desktop for it. He loved it, was gonna try to get them to release it for I think he said Debain release, which must be the same as ubuntu. That way you can just get it and install it with Synaptic.

To clarify a bit, No I am not sure this will work.May be the wrong Idea. But this is what I was talking about the right click thing. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-gnome-open-terminal-shell-prompt-here/ I can do the first half. The second part Save and close the file. Now, setup permissions, enter:: $ chmod +x "$HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Open Terminal Here" Has me a bit baffled. Not sure after I close that file how to exactly setup the permissions thing. Do I use terminal, or a run command. Do I Open a window and throw the computer and either go for distance, or style points. Im kidding, Its no big deal. Just gotta figure it out. I will.

Got my first program for linux. Its on my desktop.I know i gotta run the .sh install to install it. Is there a program that will do it for me. Ya know, right click open with ? I am in the process of getting some help. But its a hardcore linux user, Man I think he is making the way more complicated than it needs to be. If i understand it right, its nothing more than a script, so why not just a simple "execute script" type of setting in the right click. Yea I know really not the safest and best bet, Can understand it not being there. So my next thing would be find a program that will do it for me, right click, open with and there ya go. I did try the open terminal thing when ya click on it, and the other option as well, nothing. Poked around and dont see it. I have thrown all my windows know how at it. No luck. I know I am gonna be frustrated when this turns out to be a simple process.

Yea I went Gnome to. Sure seems to be better and faster, still customize it as you want. TONS easier to find stuff you want. My new responce to someone asking What linux build to go with. There Is one thing you need to decide before which version of linux you want. There are 2 Basic desktops to choose from. KDE- That will give you all the fancy, Cube, Windows Blows up kinda stuff. You will spend some time trying to figure what does what and what keyboard shortcuts you will need to make some of the fancy stuff do what it does. Finding installed programs can be a bit tough. Gnome- Not all the bells and whistles but you can still customize it, add themes, Looks nice, as a new Linux user myself from windows 98 days, Gnome is much easier to find stuff, and Can be changed over to kde in time if you want. As far as which brand of linux, Ubuntu,OpenSuse, all that, They are all pretty much the same. One offers no more features than the other, What may work Great on my computer, May not work well with yours. The one Build That is as close to windows as you can possible get, Including the desktop trash can and "my computer" icon is Manriva I prefer 2008. So decide on your desktop, Then decide which flavor of Linux you want, Hit the forums, Give the one you like a shot.