CUViper

I've got the TDK 12x, and I've been very happy with it. Spec-wise, it's pretty much identical to the Plextor model: Burn-Proof technology, 12x write, 10x re-write, and 32x read. They also have a 16x version out now - saw it at CompUSA the other day...

What server are you using? IIS? Some third-party server (i.e. Serv-U)?

"It's a Beta OS, don't expect everything to work!" I've seen a lot of people saying this lately, and as far as I'm concerned, it's just giving up. When people ask a question, they're not asking for the official, os-supported way for something to work. Often times I think people are interested whether there is a work-around to get something to work. Remember back before SB Liveware came out for win2k? There were still people trying to get it to work.... the same kind of thing could be happening now. So when somebody says "such and such feature doesn't work for me", just say something like "It doesn't work for me either, but here's how I deal with it".... if you don't know a way to fix it, just say so. Enough of this *****ing about it being a beta OS..... </preaching>

hmmm.... on further investigation, it appears that the 'start' command is only available from the command prompt... you could just make your shortcut point to that batch file though. If you're wondering how to get all those parameters for quake3 in, you just type them at the end. For example, your batch file could look like this: Code: @start /high "C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\quake3.exe" +set fs_game arena +bot_enable 0 +set vm_cgame 0 +set vm_ui 0 +set sv_pure 0 Of course, the above should all be on one line for it to work. And just fyi, the '@' accomplishes the same thing as 'echo off', but on a per-line basis. Usually, if I use echo off, I will write it as '@echo off'.

just add the "start /high" in front of the shortcut command

no.... the value packages are the xgamer and the mp3+ (do they still make the 'value' version?).... platinum was and still is the high end card. Please do tell where you saw them at that price!

well i have pnp os set to yes, with no problems at all.... i guess it really doesn't matter

Code: C:\WINNT\system32>convert /?Converts FAT volumes to NTFS.CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name. /FS:NTFS Specifies that the volume to be converted to NTFS. /V Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.C:\WINNT\system32> looks like this would do the trick.... did you not think of this DosFreak? or is there some reason you think this utility should not be used?

no hack needed.... go to the appearance tab of the display properties, and choose scrollbar from the item list. default size is 16, tweak it to whatever you want....

the dvorak keyboards lay out the characters more efficiently... qwerty was designed with typewriters in mind, so they spread out the commonly used keys, hoping to avoid having keys next to each other catch each other when typing fast. The only reason qwerty is still the most common is that people already knew how to type on qwerty, so it stuck. I've heard though that you can type a lot faster if you learn the dvorak layout.

I'm pretty sure there's just a setting that you can choose between basic ftp authentication and anonymous ftp authentication. I can't tell you exactly where as i don't have it set up on my machine at the moment. Just dig around in the settings a bit and you'll see it...

I'm gonna assume you're talking about setting up the ftp server on the win2k machine.... You need to set up the ftp server in the internet services manager (in administrative tools). If there is already an ftp site there, make sure it is not stopped, and if it is not there, then add a new ftp server. If you don't have internet services manager, then you need to install IIS from the win2k cd.

I'm not really sure why win2k does it.... maybe just to make sure that you always have enough standard IRQs. My system has 5 devices on IRQ11. I think it is done this way because some devices can only run on certain IRQs. By sharing wherever possible, it avoids conflicts between devices. I don't know how they implement it though, cause it seems like the interrupt-vector table would have to have multiple entries for a given irq, which doesn't work in the x86 architecture. Does anyone know the details? Here's my theory though... I guess the interrupt vector for an IRQ (IRQ11 in my case) could go to a portion of code that somehow determines which device issued the interrupt, then follow the appropriate interrupt vector for that device...

calm down man.... this is perfectly normal for windows 2000. Are you experiencing any problems with having them on the same IRQ? If not, don't worry about it. However, if you must change it, try disabling ACPI in the bios. This will probably require that you refresh your installation as well, but I don't think win2k will share IRQ's if ACPI is turned off.

games have no control of whether or not windows gives them swap memory or physical memory.... it's purely a function of the os...

Yes, I can access it just fine.... being fat32, they can't lock me out of the directory. I don't know what the purpose of the directory is, but there are files that have the same icons as my desktop items, as well as some of the sblive stuff..... here's a picture of what's in mine:

that can't be it..... i'm running fat32 (no encryption possible), and I've got that directory too.... it's only ~12mb though..... no big deal

I seem to remember seeing some setting that holds the mouse button for you when dragging.... when you hold the button down for some period of time, you can let go and still be dragging the file, and it will release when you click again. It sounds like that is exactly what is happening to you guys. Unfortunately I couldn't find where I saw that before, but at least it's something for you to go on...

i get my wallpapers here: http://www.skinz.org

it's not the very latest, but yes you can download it.... right now they've got build 2410

As to jd's first comment, this post first appeared in the hardware section, so it was very much out of place. Apparantly the admins saw fit to move it...

I don't think there is such a thing as FAT32 on floppies...

yep... changing to/from acpi requires a reinstall

Everyone - PLEASE do not turn this thread into another flame war! In their defense, there was nothing wrong with eddie's or jd's post. just because they didn't have the answer you were looking for doesn't make them "uneducated".... anyway, if you want to know where the traffic is heading, try running a packet sniffer on the network and see what happens...

I'm sure a repair would work too, but that's more work than necessary.