Megaohm

Bingo!

I need to know the name of an orchestral work. It has percussion and a little bit of brass. It goes a little bit like this: bah bah buh bum bum dum dum dum It is often associated with space. I had seen it performed (with men were banging large drums) on PBS 20 something years ago and I know it is a very well known tune. I think it ends with drums escalating and a cymbal clash. -O

What a waste of a thread or crappy use of bandwith. /end thread.

Your best bet is to get one or two 150GB Raptors and an auxillary 500GB drive to store your media (music,pictures, doccuments, movies, etc) on. Here is how I have it set up: Two 150GB Raptors: One holds the operating system and related stuff. The second Raptor has all my installed programs on it. This method is better than RAID 0 and it offers better mulititasking ablilites and program load times. Do not install any non-os related (updates, patches,etc) on to the OS drive (C:\). Install all programs on to the (D:\) second Raptor. Mixing programs with the OS drive can hamper performance. The Thrid Drive is one large 500GB for all my songs, pictures, bit-torrent, downloads, drivers, etc. I also have a 320GB 1394 Mybook that I use to as a back up my pictures, music, Chipset drivers, and NIC drivers. No other drivers need to be saved or backed up, they can be re-downloaded once the chipset and nic have been installed. -Megaohm CompTIA Member

Opera beats the living snot out of Internet Explorer. http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/ You can use opera as a bit-torrent client too! It does it all and is very small. When you donwload it use opera to got to this URL for a demonstation of it's slide show feature. Press F-11 (full screen) to view the hidden slide show feature of the web page. (similar to power point) http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/

No issues at all. It actualy works much better than the old version six. But Opera is way better and Firefox is still better than MSIE but not as good as Opera.

Sorry, I misunderstood your reply.

Any Sinatra, Count Basie, Lois Armstrong, etc?

I bought this set a few weeks ago when It went on sale ($49) at Best Buy. I have to say that the set of 4 CD's plus one DVD is a real treat to listen to. The rendition are fresh, the dialogue is fun, and I love the 1966 CD that features all his goof ups; what a hoot! Does anyone else have this set and are you enjoying it as much as I am? Are you considering it's purchase? Discuss the it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinatra:_Vegas Costco has it for $59 http://www.costco.com/Common/Search.aspx?whse=BC&topnav=&search=sinatra&N=0&Ntt=sinatra&cm_re=1-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search Best Buy has it for $79 (with website audible samples) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8107425&st=sinatra+vegas&type=product&id=1570460

Wow, that must be a great CD! I would be interested but not for $10. For $5 including the 40¢ (media rate) shipping and you might have a buyer.

Denon Hi-Fi check CD, both. Best Buy and Amazon.com sell it. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=1373150&st=denon+cd&type=product&id=260622 http://www.amazon.com/Denon-Hi-Fi-Check-CD/dp/B0009AGP7I/sr=8-6/qid=1168827042/ref=sr_1_6/103-7831980-8899023?ie=UTF8&s=music http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/roomacoustics/subwoofercalibration1.php

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=446

USB cannot ever achieve it's top speed of 480 Mb/s because of it's higher latency. The reason why 1394 is the interconnect of choice is because of it's low overhead, low latency (gam3r speak- Low Ping Time), and most importantly- Isosycronous transfers. USB is software based while 1394 is hardware accelarated. 1394 was also desinged from the start to be a protocol that allows for peer to peer transfers and usb cannot do that becuase it requires a host to control all funtions of data transfer. Just Trust Me ON THIS!

That is what I was going to suggest along with the new external X-Fi or an older Extigy (on ebay for $20). Also some company (I forgot about) makes a 1394 sound card that offers low cpu utilization and low latency. 1394 is better for time sensitive data like audio. USB offers higher latency and cpu usage. http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/firewave/ http://soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=11226 http://soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=207&product=10246 http://soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=206&product=10702

Computer Guru to the rescue! A sound card is a device that allows someone to hear music, sound effects, movies, and anyother audio effect. In a (modern pc) multimedia system this is an almost essential peripherial. In every PC built since 2000-2001-ish the Sound chip is usualy built in to the motherboard. Such chips are often called onboard sound and are usualy very low quality and sound muddy. A sound card is an expansion or separate from the motherboard and usualy offers better quality sound with features like multichannel audio, sound up-mixing, pop and crackle removal, and high end DAC's that are found on very expensive audio equipment (like Denon or Onkyo Integra). It's almost always recomended that onboard sound be disabled or not used in favor of a sound card. Before 2000-2001 sound cards were avalable in two types: ISA (obsolete) and PCI. Now you can buy PCI, and 1394 aka firewire aka i.Link, and USB. If you are buying a soundcard (and I recomend Onkyo or Creative labs X-Fi Fatlity or X-Fi Elite or X-Fi Platinum) be sure to get a PCI version. Do not buy USB, you will waste your money, slow your PC down (maybe 5-15%-ish), and get poor sound with very few features like up mixing. 1394 is an ok type and you can use it, but make it a second choice with USB as your last resort. Recomended Products http://www.audiocubes.com/product/Onkyo_SE-200PCI_HD_PCI_Digital_Audio_Board.html http://soundblaster.com/products/x-fi/ Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundcard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundblaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac97