Carl

This thread failed to deliver I've been the other guy again, starting to be a pita, and i've just joined geekzone

Have a look at the crumpler bags, they're quite tough and funky, weird aussie website tho http://www.crumpler.com.au/

Well I hooked up the hauppauge mvp this morning and have watched a couple of divx movies already running through the wireless, it was so simple to set up, not a bad $300 piece of equipment given it's a low budget gadget.

I'm thinking a kid (<18) takes daddy's car for a spin, literally, and hits tree at 200kph???

All of the stuff i've seen are client end, ie, a little PC. The good ones are compatible with DivX and Xvid.

Or this then http://reviews.cnet.com/D_Link_MediaLounge...44.html?tag=sub

It'll be mainly for DivX so the outputs will suffice and it's also a plasma screen so isn't high res anyway. Would always go LAN over WLAN, we'll just stick another network socket in the wall next to the TV, we've got them all over the house as it is anyway haha

Hold out until they produce dual format players like the whole DVD-R/DVD+R, VHS / BETA, 33.5 / 45 format wars

Found something that'll work very nicely http://www.bdt.co.nz/computer/product.asp?item=4613880 http://www.bdt.co.nz/computer/product.asp?item=4613885

Another PC is last resort as we've already pondered that idea. An AV receiver would be ideal as that can run surround sound as PC output still needs a receiver anyway so 1 device instead of two would be better.

We've got a huge plasma in the lounge that we want to stream multimedia to from our fileserver but not by running AV cabling. Ideally we want to permanently network the TV somehow so we can play videos on it. We don't want to stick another PC or laptop next to the TV just to run multimedia. Is there an AV receiver or simlar device out there that can be networked specifically to play multimedia files from our fileserver??? If there is one can someone point me in the direction of the sales department

So long as you've got legit software on the disk take it in to a pro, there's no way you can fix a mechanical problem yourself.

For E30 medium and small case i've used a bottle (quart / 1L) of Redline MTL and that works fine

HB Going to be a sad day when you leave man

I think you'll find that the police don't care about the plates and that it is just the PP ppl chasing them up. Would be interesting to see somewhere flout their letter to see what the actual outcome would be. As for the D (GB, A, S, F etc) stickers, these are no longer used in europe since they went to the euro plates, although I do have a D sticker since I have friends there that sent me one as you can still find them but not so easy.

Had a fiddle with the window sizes last night and the throughput increased, seems that MS Windows is the culprit. The TCP/IP window sizes can be increased, I set them 10x larger and 10GB took 5mins (266Mb/s) so almost doubled the speed. I think the connectors still need fixing though as that's still lower than perfect.The TCP/IP sizes can be increased along with the buffers and other stuff although buffers are not as necessary in LANs due to the low latency. We've got two 8 port switches, the Cisco switch is a LinkSys, the other is a D-Link, both were $140ish through an admin account, normal retail is $200ish.

I must be bored, but i've read up more and TCP window size is a big culprit as default windows 2k and XP use a size designed for 10Mb/s LANs!!!

Running D-Link nics directly to a Cisco switch. It's XP and the cable is high quality cat 6. IMHO, I expected speeds of 400Mb/s which is fair given the read/write speeds and the PC's. 10GB in 3 mins is ~450Mb/s so it's not unrealistic. The more I think on it the more i'm convinced I need to get decent cat6 RJ-45's that have a loading bar to reduce the untwisted distance, however, if it were just a windows setting then that'd help!

323 = 3.64 Emailed sent

Anyone here wired up there own cat6 Gigabit LAN??? I just replaced our switches and our pc nic's in our home LAN to Gigabit gear - we've got 3 pc's and 2 laptops with Gigabit nic's - and I test transferred 10GB in 8 mins...that's only 170Mb/s...previously it took 10 mins so it was faster but not by much! While I know speeds are ultimately limited to the HDD's, the sources read is 1.5Gb/s and the targets write (burst) is 560Mb/s, so 170Mb/s seems awefully slow. The cabling between them is cat6, length is under 100m, there is a Gigabit switch between them, the switch and network connections say they're connected at 1Gb/s. Done some reading today and the only thing I can think that would be causing slow down is the RJ-45 (8P8C) connectors, since I wired them myself, as it seems that the length of untwisted wire allowed should be less than 1/2"...that's f**king hard to do and since there's 4 self wired connectors in the connection (PC-switch-PC) there could be a bit of Near End Cross Talk... Are there special cat6 connectors that make wiring easier??? Anyone got a cat6 cable tester??? Is 170Mb/s actually okay given that full duplex ethernet is theoretically 200Mb/s??? Come on geeks, I know there's a few here, thoughts???

3.91 will still be on the short side, 3.73 would be ideal blanace, i'm running 3.64 which is good, 3.45 is common but starts to get a little long

Ahaha, nicely done, always loved that music vid

The power shots aren't NOS, the engines are governed, so they just open up the full use of the engine from the point the button is pushed (extra 30hp) until the accelerator is depressed, making the best use of a boost where the track allows for continued acceleration. Good plug for NZ this year.

Must have a bloody fancy wide angle rear view camera hidden somewhere...so unless you're only going forward faster than everyone else, which i'd imagine would be the case, it'd be a blind spot bitch to drive

Might I remind you that this is a public forum and to stay on topic