Erik

Many thanks for your welcome to the site, Erik. And congratulations to you, Omar and the rest of the hard-working and knowledgeable folks who make it awesome!

I'm in the market for a Samsung or Sony HDTV 1080p by Xmas time, so I'm trying to keep up with the latest developments. This revamped "LED backlight" technology seems to be very promising, and might even change the LCD/Plasma standards as we now know them... don't you think?

Regards,
fpcross

Ubuntu is better supported and works better if you know how to use it. It also lets you change more settings.

Thanks for the advice, we were thinking a power supply around 500 watt so it could power many things if the server ends up being large, I found one of those 80-clear or whatever they're called for $60 and 550W.

As for RAM, we need PC1066, 240 pin and were thinking 2GB. A-DATA only has a two pack of 2 GB for $120, but the only other 2GB DDR2 PC1066 was by some other brand and still $67.

Hitman monkey rules!

OK, unfortunately the ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI did not suite my gaming needs
for one, it will not take the 125Watt Phenoms or Athlon X2 such as the
9700, 9850 phenoms and the AMD 6400+.
It will take the 6000+ and lower.

The situation is bad in that an invalid combination will cause the
board to blow up so do not make that mistake.

In terms of the graphics performance, I can't say because I did not get it working the way I wanted to. (but got it working after a few trials and errors).

I ended up using my old 7600 GT. Gaming is not what it was on my CrossHair.
I do C++ programming on this system - gaming is secondary so it is suiting that part of my needs.

Finally the RAM at 1066 will not work unless it was designed for the board and CPU.
And the graphics will take away from your RAM.

However,
1. It is stable - no lockup or reboot issues since I installed it (1 week now). (XP SP2/AMD 6000+/3x1 Gigs 800 Mhz RAM)

2. It has a built in serial port for legacy applications like cash register / external modem / PABX interfaces. (However you will need to buy the cable to bring it out of the Motherboard

3. Has no parallel port externally - need to get a cable to bring it out externally.

4. Can do low power stand by (use this all the time)

5. Remember this is Micro ATX form factor i.e. smaller motherboard - so be careful of the case you get for it.

6. The built in VGA is good, probably for business so no need to buy a graphics card (gaming however is another story).

7. Has enough SATA ports and can do RAID1 so maybe you can make a cheap file server/NAS or something.

8. Giggy LAN, 8 port audio built in, plenty USB ports. Also, I had an external USB Hard Disk that did not want to work with my CrossHair (which I crashed - permanently!!!)
but the ones on this MOBO works with my external USB H.D fine. The problem was the power in my old system was not enough to power the ext U.S.B. H.D. There is a jumper for this...


Erik, this is not a high performing MOBO, it is ok for the office but not for general home/gaming use.

I am just really sad that I flashed my CrossHair MOBO and disabled it permanently (*sob, *sob)
glad if I was any help......


Colin B Maharaj
Trinidad, WI

From what I've seen, people who have a pair of Vibrams love them. Not everyone can pull it off, though. :) Do you run with them as well?

I sure love mine! Can't wait to get another, more suitable pair (I have the neoprene ones). I am not much of a runner - I don't go out just to run but I do run around in my FiveFingers, sprinting, jogging, hopping and skipping, or whatever feels good at the time. ;) Because your gait is totally changed to a more natural, "fox walking" short step, it often feels better to run in them, for sure, so I can see how so many people become addicted to moving faster in them. I basically wear mine whenever I am going where I know I won't be on pavement much: walking to work, going for hikes, or working out in the yard. I have had mine for every season BUT summer so I will be putting them to the real test from now til the snow flies.

What's genius?

Heya -- I have the 5Bs and the 8D in cherry. The piano black finish is pretty awesome if you like the minimalist look, but I was looking for something warmer. :)

I Erik. The upscaling is incredible. Much better than my previous DVD player. No audio problem by now on my side.

Christophe

yeah i know!

i'm just sorta marking everything i like right now

hey, awesome site man

I bought the PS3 in 2006 based on the inclusion of the Blu-ray player. At the time a separate Blu-ray player was about $800. Luck was with me, given the demise of HD-DVD and the timely PS3 firmware updates.

I believe Sony is able to market the STR-DG720 at the low price point in part because they have eliminated the S-video jacks and video up-conversion feature. neither of these features are useful to me.

Regarding the new Onkyo AV receivers: I believe they are equipped with HDMI v1.2 (TX-SR576) I prefer HDMI v 1.3a,b See the difference in the table at the bottom of this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_1.2

I'm assuming you sent it as Erik Kalviainen with the number 80025 14646 meaning something to you, either a zip code or tracking number. I did get what was meant for me?

Sweet. I don't know much about receivers, so your help is appreciated. Let me know if you find any cheap HDMI ones as well.

That is very cool! Great job!
I truly believe it is going to become a hot seller in no time!
Apparently, some people on DPReview.com Sony SLR Talk forum are saying that they had received ETA on delivery and it is tomorrow! Looking forward to reading their opinions.

Yes affirmative! Any word when Season 2 will be out?
I keep looking for rumors :p


Robot boogie!


...beouw... -.-

I am honored!!

 

BTW just noticed you have the exact same taste in TV as me. Flight of the Conchords, Extras, The Office BOTH UK AND US, Curb Your Enthusiasm rocks too :D

ekup! How much do you know about Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. XP Pro? We just got my mother a new computer and she doesn't know yet. My Dad and I are trying to figure out whether we should leave it on Home Basic and "down/upgrade" to XP Pro? We have a SMB network in our house and have some kinda advanced settings (passwords and the like), along with a Wireless Network. All our other PC's are running XP (except for one we're probably getting rid of or turning into a RAID that currently has Win2K.) Any suggestions or info? So far I've just looked at the wikipedia article on the versions. I'd like to try to get this resolved before the weekend.

Hi Erik, I finally got around to citing my source for the RX-V3800 confusion. Take a look on the talk page.

Cheers

Its all common sense really.

A MiniDV camcorder compresses a standard definition video into about 35Mbps. That's about 3 times more than the HD1000 has to play with for compressing 1080i video (12Mbps)! So, the more motion there is, the more obvious the compression. Putting the camera on the tripod (or just not moving it much) eliminates a lot of motion and lets the compression concentrate on picture quality . :)

As for most people, I am afraid quality isn't really what most people worry about. Dominance of technologies like VHS and Windows is a testimony to that. :)

I think my dad has a 30 inch hd CRT in the back room and I think it's a Toshiba. That's a nice tv. no complaints out of him he just wanted something a bit bigger for the living room.

So I take it not many people were at the meeting? Sorry I missed it. And what was the song that was in the video you made for the Crunchies?

Yep, I was at work. But it was productive?

Hey Eric, I noticed you were really into Android. Check this out.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6697265909.html

Hah - You're stuck with dialup, and I have high speed.

Sha-bam! It was awesome talking to you and Omar today. I'm almost done with the essay! You guys gave me a lot of ideas. And yes, this was copy and paste'd from the comment I left with Omar.

But this isn't;
Arcade Fire is awesome!

re: NDS flashcarts. When I marked that I prefer the CycloDS Evolution over the M3 DS Real I was thinking the M3 was the same old M3 DS Simply. After a very quick look at the M3 it looks very comparable to the Evo I have, but with a couple extras that look pretty nice. The Real looks like it has a better config and customization of the Cheats and also has the ability to easily keep multiple save files per game. With my Evo I can do that, but I have to manually rename the files.

I think I will be changing that vote in favor of the Real.

I just installed Leopard this morning. So far so good. NO glitches or anything yet. Seems slightly faster, and should be much better once I figure out all of the new features.

Thanks for checking out my portfolio. I need to update it pretty badly, so when I do, I'll let you know.

Thanks Again!!
MK

Thanks for the positive comments. I'm flattered that you've decided to make me a featured user. More than simply being a fan of the Humax Tivo DVR's, I'm a fan of Tivo in general. Honestly, Tivo in specific, and the DVR concept in general has completely changed the way I watch TV. I'd always felt that, since I pay for cable and will continue to do so, I shouldn't have to suffer watching through commercials. DVR's and Tivo in particular enable me to watch what I want, discover new shows, and completely avoid suffering commercials. Evidence of my devotion to the concept of the DVR can be observed by looking at my AV cabinet. I've got the Humax DVR, a Comcast Digital Cable DVR, and an HTPC which I built and which has over 1 TB of storage.

Thanks for the positive feedback. I know what you mean. It's almost as though the manufacturers consider something costing less than a couple grand to be a disposable commodity. Of all the receiver manufacturers, only Denon and Onkyo have seemed committed to supporting a particular product after its initial release - and that only for the flagship models. Unfortunately, Denon will no longer support upgrades for the 48xx and 58xx series and I have yet to see an upgrade announced for the Onkyon's TX-NR1000 which they touted as the only receiver made which will not become obsolete. If Onkyo made an upgrade for the 1000 that incorporated 6 HDMI 1.3 inputs, Realta video processing and HD surround audio processing, that would be a no-brainer for me as it would have all the features I'm looking for and demonstrate their continued commitment to customer support for several generations of technology.

hi,Eric,I'm a new memember in here,and thanks for your attention and rectifying my mistake.

thanks and ill let you know if have any questions and yes im into elctronics

Ugg - I was planning to but they never got back to me about my request for student pricing since I'm still in university (well technically - got a few credits to finish up next year)... so I suppose I'll just have to wait for the next one.

You are probably thinking of Sierra Wireless, which is quite popular with Wifi chips and related consumer products. PMC-Sierra is another company that is designing mostly chips: for Wireline networking, NAS, MIPS processors, VoIP and VDSL Both of them are located in Vancouver.

Hey, yeah the apprentice last year was a great for greentea, the kitchen looked amazing. I (as a person, not just as a representative on greentea design) am pretty interested in math stuff to somewhat interested in math stuff as well. I just completed my fourth year at York University here in Toronto doing philosophy and asian studies. The course I did for finishing up my major in philosophy was The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism. So took a really in depth look at a variety of concepts that were quite interesting; did lots of Bertrand Russell, Frege, A. J. Ayer, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and so on. Don't know if this is quite the area of math you're interested in but figured I'd mention since I saw it in your profile.

i just posted a discussion topic, yet i can't get the font to look right, it's all funky. Can you help me fix it

Erick check your productwiki email. And I take it your into fractals?

You know on the side of the user page it tells you how many products you added and what percentage was featured? I was looking and mine and it is 5:1, however I was still featured. Now, if I were a person just looking at the site, I would see people like you, Omar, and Silence Omo who have added a ton of products. I'd be like, WTF why is this person featured? He hasn't done anything. But what I have done is write several widely read articles. You may want to consider adding that to the side of every user page, also. And you could also consider me your official "I found a minor error and trivial thing on the site and decided I complain about it" person. Butt you'll thank me in the end. (I do this to videogames also ;))

Your site is way too easy to use! I'm having fun today, all play -- no work. BTW, I love Clicky for webanalytics. I use Google Analytics as well but find Clicky is easier to work with for basic site statistics and information on site visitors. I'm still using the free version but may pay the small yearly amount to get all of the features.

Ill probably be there at 3:45

I know this is kind of picky, but on your video game product info table thingy on the side, all you have there is developer. Sometimes the developer is wrong, because you did not also include publisher. The developer is the people who make the game, and the publisher is those who sell it. For example the Halo developer is Bungie, but the publisher is Microsoft Game Studios. LucasArts is a publisher, not a developer also.

Thanks Erik, I lve it. This is my 5th SUV (had a 1997 LR Discovery, 2000 LR Discovery, 2002 Lexus RX300, and 2005 Lexus RX330) and to tell you the truth, the RX's were probably the most comfortable of the rest, the the FJ surpasses in maneuverability, style, customizability, and overall happiness that the vehicle gives. It's totally worth the upgrade for the TRD, but good luck finding one. I got lucky and got the only one up here in NYC.

Hi Erik We are open to the options, so lets discuss over the coming days/weeks Thanks niall

Hi I uploaded too many photos in the image gallery and I want to delete all of them because they are not the ones I want...how can I delete them?

hey, have you found the adidas rowing shoe yet in black/white or white/blue? if so, please email me at k4lnamja1@yahoo.com. I would be very appreciative