Posts by redfish

Toast and Load. If it is as bad as you say, format it, to clean it otherwise is a hit and miss undertaking.

I am just curious, and use a UPS. I see lots of talk about what laptop to purchase, how to spec it out, and how to save money, but nothing on protecting our "investment". How about it? What are you doing to protect your...

If I didn't see the picture, I would not have believed! There has got to be a hole in your LCD cartridge from inside the lid for them to get in there. I have a hard time believing they "hatched" in there. I would that lid...

Take a look in "Dell Quickset", all your power management options and details are taken care of from here. From "what to do if the lid is shut" to "go into hibernation after so many minutes in standby".

Then there is "hardware" based and "software" based RAID. The "hardware" version has dedicated hardware for calculating the parity etc., whereas the "software" depends on the OS and main...

If you want to, you can even run the line out to your stereo system... but that might be overkill.

I use crossover cables quite frequently for this purpose. Just make sure that if you are running Norton Internet Security you add the other computer/domain & IP mask to the "trusted" zone in the Firewall configuration. ...

Just how much audio? Recording 4 tracks or 32? Honestly, the 80GB 5400 RPM drive may sorely disapoint you depending on how much you want to lay down, especially if it is a live recording. For heavy duty audio you want SCSI hard...

Sure, not turning off System Restore can do some pretty screwed up things, and it will fight the AV system restoring the deleted files etc. depending on how far back the clean restore point is from initial infection. For those that...

Honestly, with all the people in all the countries, speaking different languages, all working on the same platform, statistically speaking even if all of them made just one mistake, it is a wonder any Microsoft stuff works at all. ...