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Mike		2010-03-25 10:58:53 PM

oh, with s-video, you really can't do better than 720x480.

Mike		2010-03-25 11:00:53 PM

errr... 640x480 if it's a regular 4:3 SD set, 800x480 for a 16:9 SD set.

No_47		2010-03-26 12:53:50 AM

In Firefox you click View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only and then hold CTRL and scroll your mouse wheel up.

Barakku		2010-03-27 12:59:43 AM

Thanks for the tips guys, I found a similar "appearance" menu that lets you pic the width/font/ect of all the basic Windows elements, I'll screw with the numbers later and see if it works. I'll probably do the uniform fonts thing for firefox, annoyingly the ctrl-scroll zoom trick only works on a per-website basis.

geekybroad: I can already tell there will be a big learning curve ahead, before I even decide what to buy...

This is basically what I do with my TV, like 90% of the time it's either a computer or a game output. Just shop for a flatscreen TV that looks nice, and make sure it has VGA and HDMI/whatever dvd player input that you need. It shouldn't be that hard, every model I remember seeing in stores or checked the specs on had at least one of each of VGA/component/RGB/HDMI/coax ports. I doubt you'll find much that doesn't have the connections you need.

I don't know why people are so confused when I tell them my computer is on my TV. A non-bigscreen LCD TV is 98% the same damn thing as a monitor anyway.

No_47: On Vista and 7 you can set custom DPI

I tried this, sounds promising but you end up with a taskbar that takes up 40% of the screen. Somehow the window elements increase in size more than the fonts,which is spectacularly unhelpful. With the appearance settings maybe I can trim the fat though

Barakku		2010-03-27 01:04:29 AM

Oh holy crap I just found the minimum font size option in FF, how did I not see that the first 10 times I was opening that menu?

Vindibudd		2010-03-28 06:11:07 PM

I have a dilemma, Gamestop is doing this promo where if you trade in a DSlite you can get a DSixl for $130. Well, if I trade in a DSlite normally, I can get basically $40 off the DSi.

Now I hate the colors of the DSixl, but it is the latest and greatest from Nintendo, so the question is:

Given that they will cost the same amount of money, what would you do? DSi? or DSixl?

TehNacho		2010-03-28 06:26:01 PM

Vindibudd: I have a dilemma, Gamestop is doing this promo where if you trade in a DSlite you can get a DSixl for $130. Well, if I trade in a DSlite normally, I can get basically $40 off the DSi.

Now I hate the colors of the DSixl, but it is the latest and greatest from Nintendo, so the question is:

Given that they will cost the same amount of money, what would you do? DSi? or DSixl?

Play N' Trade gave me $40 in trade in credit for a DSlite. Didn't matter what I spent it on.

If your DSlite is working fine, I'd honestly think about keeping it. I got rid of mine but am kind of regretting it because the wife is always using our DSi (we had one of each... long story I won't bore you with) and I don't care for the GBA Micro for playing the GBA library that I have (which is fairly extensive).

Just sayin'

Vindibudd		2010-03-28 06:37:45 PM

If your DSlite is working fine, I'd honestly think about keeping it. I got rid of mine but am kind of regretting it because the wife is always using our DSi (we had one of each... long story I won't bore you with) and I don't care for the GBA Micro for playing the GBA library that I have (which is fairly extensive).

Just sayin'

Well, I already made the decision to move up, I'm just conflicted with the choice to go with the xl or the normal one.

TehNacho		2010-03-28 07:28:33 PM

Vindibudd: If your DSlite is working fine, I'd honestly think about keeping it. I got rid of mine but am kind of regretting it because the wife is always using our DSi (we had one of each... long story I won't bore you with) and I don't care for the GBA Micro for playing the GBA library that I have (which is fairly extensive).

Just sayin'

Well, I already made the decision to move up, I'm just conflicted with the choice to go with the xl or the normal one.

In that case, as they're both gonna be the same price with the discount I'd probably reach for the XL, I'd imagine the bigger brighter screens and bigger stylus would come in handy. I'd imagine that it probably also has some kind of refinement in the way it handles the wireless connection that will make it even better than the DSi which is better than the DSlite. But I could be wrong. I reserve the right to be wrong.

TehNacho		2010-03-28 08:01:45 PM

So I've been fiddling with that media center pc for the last few days and two things I haven't been able to figure out;

1) When showing a big field of blue (for example, a pure blue desktop background) part of my screen appears to have magnetic damage. It goes away with any other color though. What could be causing this?

2) I've installed the FFDshow video codec pack in order to watch DVDs on it... but when I use WMP to play a DVD, I get a cryptic message that seems to suggest that my display is showing too many colors. Can't even begin to imagine what is wrong there. What could be causing that?

Barakku		2010-03-28 08:58:43 PM

TehNacho: So I've been fiddling with that media center pc for the last few days and two things I haven't been able to figure out;

1) When showing a big field of blue (for example, a pure blue desktop background) part of my screen appears to have magnetic damage. It goes away with any other color though. What could be causing this?

Does your TV have a degauss option in it's menu? I remember CRT monitors having issues with magnets and most have degaussing abilities, I assume CRT TVs are the same?

TehNacho		2010-03-28 09:34:43 PM

Barakku:

Does your TV have a degauss option in it's menu? I remember CRT monitors having issues with magnets and most have degaussing abilities, I assume CRT TVs are the same?

Can't find any thing along the lines of a degauss option. There should not be magnetic damage, it only shows up when I'm using the computer on the TV, not when I use a console or a DVD player or anything else.

Barakku		2010-03-28 11:46:26 PM

TehNacho: Barakku:

Does your TV have a degauss option in it's menu? I remember CRT monitors having issues with magnets and most have degaussing abilities, I assume CRT TVs are the same?

Can't find any thing along the lines of a degauss option. There should not be magnetic damage, it only shows up when I'm using the computer on the TV, not when I use a console or a DVD player or anything else.

Odd, is it local to the area on the screen or is it only blue of an exact color? I've never had a problem with it, but if the computer is using a different color profile than the TV it would mess up. In all my life I've only had to install a color profile for one monitor, and it worked before I installed it anyway.

Man On Fire		2010-03-29 02:07:06 PM

TheyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re suddenly relevant again,

mike, quoted from drew's last post. wtf?

Mike		2010-03-29 03:44:29 PM

known bug, gonna try to fix it today.

TehNacho		2010-03-29 11:01:48 PM

Barakku: Oh holy crap I just found the minimum font size option in FF, how did I not see that the first 10 times I was opening that menu?

I have found that if you are needing to screw with something in Windows, temporarily changing the screen res to 800X600 (at least on my setup) gives you a ginormogantuan font that you can read.

Mike		2010-03-30 05:06:07 PM

SCO lost again. w00t

Barakku		2010-03-31 05:02:06 PM

My FF is stuck with Ask.com. So very scared.
I accidentally installed the damn ask.com toolbar and it hijacked firefox's search functions. I changed about:config and changed the serachbar's default, but when I enter text in the address bar and hit enter, it searches Ask instead of the wonderful google algorithm. Anyone know how to get that back?

/Need help, soonish

Mike		2010-03-31 05:38:36 PM

in the search bar to the right of the address bar, there's a site logo (usually a 'g' for Google), click that and a pulldown list appears, one option in the list is "manage search engines".

Barakku		2010-03-31 11:09:58 PM

Mike: in the search bar to the right of the address bar, there's a site logo (usually a 'g' for Google), click that and a pulldown list appears, one option in the list is "manage search engines".

It wasn't that, it was the default engine when you enter text-with google you can just type "fark" and google finds fark.com. I found ask.com's uninstall utility though, got it removed.

geekybroad		2010-04-06 01:17:48 PM

noob MCSE question:

I am doing an assignment for school... I've run into a problem where I've got DHCP set up on a server (with scopes, etc), but I can't authorize it (the option doesn't show). The user technically is an Enterprise Admin, though DHCP on srv1 says it can't contact Active Directory (on that domain controller). The weird thing is I can successfully ping my domain controller from srv1. Any ideas?

I am doing this with virutal machines. The interfaces of the server and the dc are setup as static addresses on the same network

srv1
172.16.1.2 /24 with default gateway of 172.16.1.1
(the dhcp with scopes will be used for clients and servers on a private network on srv1; servers on that network have reservations)

dc
172.16.1.1 /24 with default gateway going to another server (srv2, which is sitting on the edge out to the internet - there is another lan adapter on another network set up with this)

There used to be another dhcp service running on one of the other machines, but I uninstalled it there. Then I re-installed dhcp on srv1

//I'd ask my instructor, but he doesn't answer anyone's emails, and buggers off home the second he doesn't have a class.
//hello from a 2267B student in chapter 2...

geekybroad		2010-04-06 08:26:07 PM

Farking DNS.

The Voice of Doom		2010-04-06 11:15:43 PM

geekybroad
Farking DNS.

www.clusterfake.net

RabidDog		2010-04-07 08:14:40 AM

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Fritriac		2010-04-07 03:47:43 PM

geekybroad

What about changing the ports? I remember a former co-worker (and network admin) had a similar problem (ping worked, but connection didn't). It turned out that there were some thingies about a firewall config.

Sorry, I can't remember what he exactly did (e.g. which ports he changed). We both left the company and there's no contact since then... :/

/Just an idea
//No networking guy

Mike		2010-04-07 05:11:47 PM

Ya can't change what ports DHCP runs on :)

DHCP doesn't tend to work across subnets (i.e. clients are on a different subnet than the server) unless the router is explicitly configured to relay DHCP packets. That doesn't appear to be a factor here though...

The Voice of Doom		2010-04-08 01:52:59 PM

When I googled "dhcp active directory" the first result was some article from MS for Windows 2000 that mentioned:

"You can install DHCP either during or after the initial installation of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, although there must be a working DNS in the environment.".

So I took "farking DNS" to mean that geekybroad actually found a solution.

/might be mistaken

geekybroad		2010-04-08 04:22:14 PM

Yup, farking DNS, that did it. Had to set it as 172.16.1.1 for srv1. I assumed since the link between srv1 and dc1 is on the same network, it would automatically find it. Guess not.

(Love the photoshop, got a kick out of it.)

No need to relay DHCP in this scenario, the 192 addresses for DHCP clients are all connected to srv1 (the other 3 LAN adapters on srv1 have a static address on those scopes).

Just need to play with static routes and whatnot on the machines for gateways and networks in the land of beyond.

No_47		2010-04-10 03:54:33 AM

Anyone else experiencing system freezes when Windows 7 turns a screen back on from power saving?

RabidDog		2010-04-10 03:23:20 PM

No_47: Anyone else experiencing system freezes when Windows 7 turns a screen back on from power saving?

Yeah, mine never comes back from those. Lights come on but no fan/video/hd.
Presuming you mean sleep/hibernate and not just screensaver.

No_47		2010-04-10 03:27:27 PM

I have it set to turn the screen off after half an hour. When I move my mouse the screen wakes up, mouse cursor moves, but no applications, nor explorer, are responsive. Then it freezes completely and I have to reset.

RabidDog		2010-04-10 03:33:40 PM

I did a lot of googling on it, something about a BIOS setting but I could never find it.
I guess you've checked all the power saving settings in the control panel already for wake up stuff.

No_47		2010-04-10 04:10:18 PM

Coming out of sleep is fine.

FuturePastNow		2010-04-10 09:58:36 PM

In case anyone here ever wanted to know, a Core Duo T2130 is not compatible with the Compaq Presario V5209.

geekybroad		2010-04-11 07:13:02 PM

Farking DHCP classid`s, farking everything up.

nosajghoul		2010-04-12 10:33:02 AM

Should I be concerned if FireFTP suddenly pops up a window (cant change directory to :/ access denied) on its own? (The issue is not that I cant change directory, the issue is FireFTP, or someone, seems to be trying to connect.)

Im working on a site, Im in another tab (not FireFTP), when that popped up. I look at the logs and see

220-You are user number 4 of 100 allowed.

Ummm.... wtf?

Im on a ubuntu system, if that matters. Anything else I can check? Or ideas? Im getting kinda paranoid here.

outback_rebel		2010-04-12 12:24:56 PM

Okay, this is driving me nuts. I had someone show me a way that the content on your television or computer monitor could be inadvertently broadcast over a telephone when you are talking on it nearby, and I can't for the life of me remember what the process was called. Can anyone help?

nosajghoul		2010-04-12 12:27:11 PM

Magic?

You can send the content of your television screen over an audio connection? That I gotta see.

outback_rebel		2010-04-12 12:35:39 PM

Yeah, that's what I was thinking until he showed me how it's done. It takes some hardware on the other end to decipher it. Super cool spy shiat and all that. And now, I can't find it for the life of me. I fail at google.

outback_rebel		2010-04-12 12:50:56 PM

Found it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

Mike		2010-04-12 01:09:38 PM

There's not enough bandwidth on a phone line to pick up those kinds of high frequences. Phones max out at only 4 khz. That's why they talk about using VHF antennas.

nosajghoul		2010-04-12 02:51:38 PM

That is awesome.

The Voice of Doom		2010-04-12 02:52:04 PM

outback_rebel
Van_Eck_phreaking

I'm pretty sure you don't use phone lines for that, the folks doing that are more likely to be the ones sitting in that black van parked in front of your house. Or on your neighbors balcony.

nosajghoul
You can send the content of your television screen over an audio connection?

*readies modem*

Let me introduce you to something called "the internet". ;-)

Pootums		2010-04-12 04:40:52 PM

Hay Guys. A few quick opinions, please, on HDs.

My brother is looking to do a large storage capacity jump. He's looking at the different 2 TB SATA Hard Drives. No gaming.

Was it Seagate that had a link here about quality problems? (Amazon has many reviews about noisy and hot Seagates. WD has fail reviews.)

What is SATA-2? A Speed upgrade only? Sata connectors are the same, I presume.

General preferences for;

Seagate

Western Dig

Hitachi

Mike		2010-04-12 06:13:43 PM

You'll find people that love and hate all brands of drives. Everyone's had good and bad years. Hitachi had the old Deathstar stuff, Seagate had firmware bugs in the 7200.11 line, WD's Green drives have obnoxious issues w/ their power-save feature, there's some firmware issue w/ some Samsungs that I just read about but forget the details of... Personally I tend to stick w/ Seagate because I'm used to their quirks :)

The upshot is, if this is a desktop PC... whatever you get... get two, and mirror them. And do backups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

All versions of SATA use the same plugs and cables. SAS (serial SCSI) uses sort-of-the-same stuff too. Speed's the main difference, plus SATA 2.0 has NCQ, hotswap, etc. SATA 3.0 is just starting to show up.

Pootums		2010-04-12 09:24:01 PM

Thanks, Mike.

I had zero info to add to my owning a 1 tb WD.

My Brother is penny pinching and is looking for longevity.

Benny_Hill		2010-04-12 10:21:26 PM

Like Mike said, you'll get positive and negative views on every manufacturer out there.

I also stick with Seagate. I've had a couple of drives that died prematurely but overall I like them better than the drives I've had from others.

Mike		2010-04-13 02:05:12 AM

fwiw Fark is all Barracudas and Cheetah 15K's, except for two recently added Intel X25-M SSD's used as L2 cache for the 8 Cheetahs.

The Voice of Doom		2010-04-13 10:04:01 AM

I have one or two Samsungs and lots of Seagates because the last times I needed drives they still had that 5-year-warranty.
Since I need new ones and AFAIK they dropped that 5-year-warranty for most or all of their models, I'm thinking about another pair of slightly cheaper ~1.5TB Samsungs to replace a bunch of IDE drives in the 160-250GB range.

Mike		2010-04-13 12:21:44 PM

Specifics:

Seagate 7200.11 drives had a firmware glitch that would cause the drives to just brick themselves. Some kind of off-by-one error in the firmware writing to an internal log buffer. Updated firmware has been out for about a year now, and so has a newer 7200.12 series of drives. Most of ours are 7200.10 anyway... and the only firmware bugs there are strictly performance related...

WD Caviar Green drives park their heads after 8 seconds of inactivity, which on anything other than a non-raid Windows setup causes the heads to load/unload thousands of times more than they should, so you hit the drive's rated max within weeks/months instead of years... WD has a utility that changes the firmware to fix this, though apparently some people have had the drive erase itself or change its size by +/- a few hundred sectors (!!) when running that utility.

I can't find the discussion I was reading about Samsung drives now, or what their specific glitch was. Might have been related to write caching or NCQ.

Also watch for the new "advanced format" drives, there are some performance quirks on those that -- depending on which OS you run -- may require twiddling a jumper on the drive to fix.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues is also interesting reading

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