Madmanmcp

Great, you can delete my notes to clean up the topic if you wish.

you forgot the nickname. Without it nickserv will not know which one to kill. /nickserv ghost NICKNAME mypassword

Which is better, +/-R, not exactly sure if there is a technical reason for one being better than the other. I think its more of a what you have and need to use to make it work for you. I use the +R because I can get these to work in all the players I have. It works on My wife's Compaq DVD and my HP. It also works on the DVD player we have in the Family room and on my Son's EMachine and his PS2. So I would suggest you start off not buying in bulk till you determine which format is best for you. Compression. I don't want to step outside my expertise but I'll tell you the way I understand it, or "believe" I understand it . DVD XCopy at first was not able to fit a straight 1-1 DVD movie and we were stuck with 1-2 copy burn. They started to use a compression scheme a little while ago which has since fixed this issue and I get mostly all my copies to fit on 1 DVD, menus, headers and trailers. What the other programs do I don't know since I have only used DVD XCopy. How its done. DVD XCopy uses a "ripper" which reads the DVD first and then strips off the DVD protection and copies the left over to the hard drive. It then reads this and runs it through the compression and burns the final output to the DVD. So its not a straight read from one and write to the other. All this ripping and compression takes a high end machine to accomplish in a reasonable amount of time.

Raul, the +/- R is just a difference in the recording format, two manufacturers decided to format differently...like German and English. For instance the 1st 4 bytes in +R are the recording speed whereas the 1st 10 bytes in -R is the starting block of data. This is an example. Yes the DVD's that are made are actually burned at two layers, and upper and lower layer. The burners you buy at home only burn one layer so you do not get to fit as much on a home burned DVD. BUt compression is used to fit most of the movie on the home burners.

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Hi Jim, TCH is a Web Hosting company and provides space and servers for web sites. News Groups is a "service" provided by an ISP or "Internet Service Provider". This would involve setting up dedicated servers and the software for these servers, large amounts of disk space and bandwidth and a few admins to run and keep them running. I don't think it would be cost effective for TCH to try and supply this to its members. But I am not the expert here so we'll wait to see what the TCH guys say. I do know there are other services out there that supply access to their servers for a small monthly fee. Let me take a look around some of my notes and see if I can find you some names.

I found two here that got thru if you want them...nevermind, I had McAfee delete them

Since you are not the one infected there is not much help anyone can give you. Bout all you can do is sit back hope it ends soon.

Check the specs and make sure it also supports +/- R. From the burns I have done and from reading the forums over there for the last year there are issues with all the different formats and which drives will work with each one. You may be able to burn onto a +RW but you will have difficulity playing the movie later on a different reader. Also be prepared to make a lot of coasters

I'll have to take a look at DVD Shrink, thanks HG. But is it truly like DVD Xcopy Express? With Express I can do 2 clicks and it is completed...but I have a DVD Burner and a DVD reader so there is no swaping or burning to the HD first. Another thing folks will need to know is both DVD Xcopy and Shrink will need to have the "burning" software installed. Nero is my choice.

WEll guys, you may be a minute too late. There was just a ruling made against DVD Xcopy which made them modify the program they sold. www.dvdxcopy.com Their program allowed you to get around the copy protection and did a straight 1 to 1 DVD copy of most DVD movies. But with the current ruling they have removed this capability and you can not copy copy protected DVD anymore (without another ripper). They have a forum and you can read about it there. forum.321studios.com

Lets see, My first was a '64 Ford Galaxy 500 with a 390 4 barrel, yeah it loved gas stations. Next was a brand new '68 Fiat 850 like Bruce ($2000) but I only stopped for gas once a month . Next was my favorite, a '70 Triumph TR6...geesh, just strap me to the engine and get out of the way. And the Canary Yellow just made the hood look longer.

WOAH! NOWAY! Not sure who you are looking at but I would head straight for the exit and look elsewhere. You can get 2.5Ghz EMachine with a monitor and a printer for that much! If DSL is not in your "neck of the woods", look into Satellite. I know some friends who use Starband. www.starband.com

There are always two sides to a disagreement, the customer believes he/she is right and the company believes they are right. So they go to a place that is not associated with either and ask them to listen to both sides and help resolve the problem. Just because most of the customers here think TCH is the greatest (which it is) doesn't mean they are perfect. There are always going to be problems and someone will be unhappy and these things get escalated to where they are now. But this doesn't mean TCH is going out of business or has a problem that should disqualify them from your list of possibilities. You need to weight the goods and the bad and realize that yes, someone out there filed a complaint. It happens. I would assume that former members would file for mediation since these usually involve money or service. If you are not a customer there is no service or money involved. Hope I've helped with these question and please, don't run off because of one complaint. I'm sure the other companies have their own complaints if you look hard enough.

as the big g says, I was pointing out the possibility that some folks may have a surprise in store for them concerning their bandwidth usage. At first it looked like everyone was placing their picture on THEIR websites and then inserting an image link to it so it displays on the board. What happens is that everytime someone views the topic each and every one of these pictures is downloaded, if someone refreshes the page it is downloaded again. This can be problem for folks who are reaching the end of their bandwidth limits here toward the end of the month. I saw a few pictures that were way up in the 700-900k range, and with the "views" of the topic reaching 2000 that could quickly push you over the limit. This post may have done some good, I see a lot of the pictures have been changed to attachments which will reside on TCH side of the house.

we don't need a speil chucker here.

Was sitting here wondering what affect this topic has on the bandwidth in different areas. The TCH servers must be going crazy with usage. Customers may need to keep an eye on their individual limits. What I see is a lot of folks have uploaded their pictures to their web sites at TCH and placed the img on the board. What I believe this does is downloads all the images each time someone visits this topic. Right now I see 70 replies and 2500+ views. And the views are climbing every time someone goes back to view the new pictures. Is this correct or am I way off base here

Didn't get what I actually wanted so this will have to do. Picture of my desk at home. Laptop on the left is a web site hosted at TCH. Laptop in the middle is TCH web page monitor on the right is a video (frozen) of my work area at Digex (NOC)

Where I first learned http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62300,00.html

For me this is a great tool to add to my toolbox and helps save me a ton of time. A lot of time I end up reinstalling systems back to factory settings or a simple "clean" install. I then spend hours at the Windows Update site downloading and installing all the updates that have accumilated over the years. Installing them from a CD is ten times faster.

Under the GENERAL tab is DIAGNOSTIC STARTUP selected? Be sure the NORMAL STARTUP is selected. Also see if this will help troubleshoot. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...0&Product=winxp

See if this article relates to your problem http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...6&Product=winxp

shhhh, still a lot of time left. But I survived my shift with no major server or network problems. cha-ching, overtime pay

Well I am still waiting to be able to have my official holiday off A real shame that a vet doesn't get Veterans Day off. Guess its the companies I work for

ajm200, from a quick look I see two things I would question. zentray.exe is a Remote Control program, do you remotely control your laptop? Did you install this program? Next I believe you are infected with the "WinMuschi" virus...this line O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CFDStart] C:\WINNT\WinMuschi.exe -m see http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen....winmuschi.html from the other lines I am looking at is this a work laptop? There are thing running that suggest this is connected to a company network. If it is a company laptop are you allowed to go changing things on it? The Remote Control Program may be there for a reason.