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Tom’s Hardware Guide Mainboard Guide: SiS 645DX – Is This The Best Chipset For The P4? – Memory Problem: DDR333 Is Still Rare on the Market. OK, in buying a new system, the big question is, the new Pentium 2500 will be 133 FSB and have incredible memory throughput for video but use RDRAM which…

Buy the right software Here’s a quote from them. I’m assuming that I get a fireware on the motherboard for Grace’s computer… The MOST important decision you are going to make when you get started in digital video editing is picking the right software for you. As you probably know, there are several very inexpensive…

The Electronic Mailbox – Windows XP tips & tricks for NLE. Some tips for using XP for DV editing.

Videoguys makes an EIDE RAID Controllers suggestion If you have a fasttrak or any other IDE Raid controller and you are dropping frames or simply not getting the performance you expect, try this great tip. Your computer will act like you’ve increased your CPU Power, Windows will open faster, your system will be more stable,…

Mountain Bike – Bikes. A good piece about trail bikes. Specialized does well again.

Monkey’s Audio – a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor. OK, got things working, butnow I’m ripping things. Seems like Monkey’s lossless compression is a good idea. Also going to try variable bit rate MP3 to see if that is as good.

TMPG Enc Net. Reportedly the very best MPEG2 Encoder there is and it’s free!

VCDHelp.com. Wow a site that will help you make VCDs and DVDs. The next step for me!

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa – Get rid of Kazaa ASAP! By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 1, 2002, 5:35 PM PT A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely “turn on” people’s PCs, welding them into a…

Fixed DMA on Hard Drive Thank goodness for the Internet! I finally deleted the checksum entries per the note about doing this in the registry. It reidentified the hard disk. I guess I was getting CRC errors before. Anyway, now I’m Ultra DMA Mode 4 on the main hard drive and Mode 2 on my…

Windows XP and unsticking PIO Mode Here is another piece about this. Will try this next after an uninstall. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can revert to using PIO mode, despite being set to use “DMA if Available.” This article explains how to make Windows XP redetect the DMA capabilities of the drives. This behaviour occurs…

DMA Mode for ATA/ATAPI Devices in Windows XP. I can’t get my boot drive on my P3V4x into Ultra DMA mode anymore. STaty stuck in PIO. Tried to toggle the setting, but it won’t stick. It used to work under Windows 98.

www.firmware.fr.st. Wow, yet another firmware page. I can’t believe this goes on and on.

The firmware forum – -. I think that my firmware is bad on my Lite-on CDRW. The stuff from the internet is now making coasters. The discussion on the LIte-on forum seem to all say this. Amazingly, there is actually an entire forum and website on firmware flashing so I’ll check here.

LiteonitWell, taking the mirror off my hard drives has improved stability. I haven’t had a single chkdsk problem since I got rid of the hardware mirroring, but now my CDRW keeps breaking. Am installing the latest firm called R32XS0R.zip updated 02-04-2002 in the hopes that it will help. Also uninstalled Nero and deleted the CD…

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2003 XTR Preview! Shimano’s flagshDrivetrain: It is still 9-speed and compatible with current 9-s components, although there are updates in drivetrain technology. The new crankset is still hollow, but is now a two-piece setup (the bottom bracket spindle is one-piece with the driveside crankarm, the left crankarm clamps onto the splines similar to a BMX…

Mountain Bike – News – Answer’s Manitou to launch 5th element in 2003 Eric Carter, Intense, and Santa Cruz all began to play around with and race (successfully) on the 5th Element last season, with the latter two entering into exclusive OE deals with Progressive. That’s right, Intense and Santa Cruz are the only two…

Mountain Bike – News – Klein to replace Adept with Maverick-based design in 2003. The Klein design will be called the Palomino, and should hit stores for the 2003 season, and will replace the Adept platform. Klein’s Harry Spehar said there will be three bikes available, with kits based around Shimano LX, XT and XTR…

Mountain Bike – Equipment – 2002 Cross-country gear. Ah the key list for building a bike from the frame up. I used to have the magazine but lost it somewhere.

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day – Avid Ball Bearing. The best disc brake. Very affordable too.

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day. Probably the right one to get 40 grams and $15

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day Arundael Carbon Bottle Cage. Wow, $40 for a 26 gram bottle holder. Perfect for my HID battery, but will the batter work given that this thing needs a bottom, but this holds by friction.

Annoyances.org – Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network Bingo. Figures that what I want would not be on the Microsoft site. REad it and weep

How to Enable NTLM 2 Authentication for Windows 95/98/2000/NT. The start of my study on how to let Windows 98 machines access Windows XP Professional files without just opening everything up. I thought that Lan Manager authentication woudl take care of this, but apparently, it is more complex. There is LM, NTLM v1 and NTLM…

VIA Arena Forums – Windosw 2000 data corruption on VIA Apollo266 with mirrored Promise This seems close to my problem. Data corruption with Promise RAID controller and some versino of NT. Appears to be some kind of bug with the 4-in-1 driver. Worked fine once it went all native XP. I think I did install…

VIA IDE Driver Guide This is a great piece that explains what exactly is going on with the IDE drivers that you get from VIA and directly from MIcrosoft. Well worth the read.

Reviewmakers.com – VIA Promise Raid Performance Patch Effectiveness. Here is a note on VIA and Promise RAID performanceproblems. It appears that Promise doesn’t like the VIA chipset. There is a fix, but only for later chipsets that a 266MHz DDR. I have a Apollo Pro133a, so this doesn’t help me I don’t think.