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  1. Posted

    well the problem is that i am going to be using an overhead projector for the project. The staging area on a standard overhead projector is 11.25" x 11.25" the width of a 15" LCD is about 11.25" so that is a perfect fit the width of a 17" LCD is almost 13" so the 17" would end up overhaning. Unless I was able to modify the projector to change its focal point to be a bit further away so that it would capture the whole screen as an image.

     

    Shitty thing is that even a 1600 x 1200 res if I could get it to work would still not be HDTV resolution (1080i = 1920 x 1080)

     

    Sharp makes an LCD with DVI input which would be fine for playing DVD since the resolution of DVD is 720x480.

     

    I really want to get this for my projector setup aswell. http://www.autumnwave.com/product/product_info_2.php

     

    You see the dream is to build this projector with a computer attached to play DVD's TV etc really freaking big. I have computers for the task. All I need is a good 4000+ lumen projector, an LCD screen, and a DVI card.

     

     

  3. Posted

    Haven't been around here for a while but I thought i would drop in to talk about my new toy.

     

    I bought a Sony Ericsson GC-83 card off of ebay for $150 and go an unlimited data plan from ny local wireless provider (Unicel) and now I have internet on my laptop every where that there is GSM cell service.

     

    I have to say that it works quite well. Max speed is 240kbps which translates to 30K downloads tops. Actual performance is a constant 110kbs which is about like old ISDN speed. So all in all not that fast but it means i am connected to the internet from just about anywhere. BTW the unlimited data is $75 a month. If i didn't live in the middle of nowhere I could get t-mobile unlimited data for $50 a month. Anyhow i thought i would tell you all about it because i bet some of you didn't even know that it was such a viable and affordable option.

     

    I can't wait to test it in a better service area i bet i will get just abou top speed all the time.

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    I just bought a sony vaio fs550 laptop which uses the intel centrino processor

     

    my problem is that it always reports that it is running at 798mhz when it is supposed to run at 1.6 Ghz

     

    There was a reg hack for the P3's that had speedstep to that would allow you to lock the processor to the max speed all the time. That section of the registry doesn't exist on this computer. One of the downloads from sony said that it fixes the problem and it doesn't work either. I am not sure weather the processor is running that slow or not. The computer seems to be very fast. What I did when I got the computer was wipe out the hard drive and install winxp pro sp2 on it. Then I installed all the updates from winupdate then I put on all of the sony drivers. I found out later that there is a certain order that you are supposed to install the sony drivers but it is a little late for that now. Anyhow if anyone knows of a reg hack that can lock in max speed for the centrino or anything else that might help please let me know.

  8. Posted

    Originally posted by jwdeff:

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    Originally posted by adamvjackson:

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    A Cisco 2600 series router should do fine. You'll need two WAN cards, most likely a serial card for the T1, and then an ethernet WAN card for the cable service.

     

    The load balancing should all be done on the router via Cisco's IOS.

     

    How do you set that up in IOS? I talked to the local Cisco rep about doing something similar, and he suggested a crazy 3-router OER solution.

     

    I'm not confident that the consumer-grade dual-WAN port routers have have the features we need, so I was hoping to do something similar with a Cisco. Static routing, EIGRP, OSPF, etc all won't work for us, and we don't have enough people to get a whole class C block to do BGP.

     

     

    I would also like to know how to do this.

     

    The cheapo load balancing router i have is nice for now but I will be adding more T1's in the future so I would like a better solution soon.

  9. Posted

    i am really loving this router

    it worked like crap at first untill i got the latest firmware update.

     

    now it has been up for almost 3 days

     

    It is amazing that you can buy a hardware load balancing firewall/router for $80. Technology has gotten so cheap.

     

    I can now leave the office for long periods of time knowing that if on internet connection goes down nothing needs to be changed.

     

    the t1 has never gone down but the cable sure has. I like having the cable for everyone to surf on because we consistantly get 5.5 mbps off of it.

     

    I would highly recomend this product for anyone looking to hook up 2 broadband connections to their network. I am still amazed that it works this well. It was kind of a gamble buying it but I figured I could take that gamble at only $80 and it worked out great. Did I mention I like this product?

  10. Posted

    I ended up buying this cheap one

    http://www.xincom.com/twr402.html

     

    good news is that it works great and i can do all the outbound IP/port routing that I need to do.

     

    I love it cause I can surf on the Cable and do FTP uploads and remote SQL admin on the T1

     

    also the firewall is great.

     

    only downside to this router is you can't have a VPN behind it but that is ok cause i have server on the T1 that are also on the private net so i can VPN through them.

  12. Posted

    I would like to put a load balancing router in between my private network and my T1 + Cable.

     

    Right now I have a T1 a SDSL and a Cable modem

    I have somewhere in the area of 25 computers in the building with many switches and routers connecting different groups of computers to different connections.

     

    As you can imagine this is quite a mess and i am not quite sure how or why it got this way. We have good structured cabling in place so that is not an issue at all. I am dropping the SDSL because i just got the T1 to replace it. I would like to load balance the T1 and the cable so that i can get the fast download speed that I get off the cable and the robust reliable connection that i get with the T1.

     

    One other thing that i would like this router to do if possible would be to direct certian request to certian connections.

    like say i hit some public ip address outside my private network like 66.232.22.10 i want that to go over the T1. The reason being is that some of the stuff i connect will only authenticate IP's that i specify with them so i would need to connect with an ip on my t1 that is static.

    If that feature wasn't on there that would be no big deal because i will still have some servers that are not on the private network at all and i can remote desktop into them to do stuff on the other servers. That just seems a little round about but i am used to it.

     

    Any what reasonably priced router can do what i am talking about?

    it would need DHCP also.

     

    -Jeff

  14. Posted

    I have a laptop with xp tablet pc edition on it.

     

    i tried to install mssql2k on it twice and it failed both times

     

    i cannot uninstall it because it says the log file is corrupt

     

    i want to install MSDE on there instead since mssql2k failed but but i can't because a the MSDE installer says that there is an existing instance of SQL server and quits.

     

    How do i manualy remove the MSSQL mess?

     

    I would just reload the whole OS but this damn thing has no cd rom drive.

     

    CRAP

  17. Posted

    does anyone know what the legalities are for using microsoft windows and office icons on a website or in a software package?

    I have seen lots of people use ms icons one their websites and in their software. Is this ok to do?

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    i say 32 is good 64 is good also

     

    i like 64 cause it is right in the middle

    seems like with 64 you can get that good sustained transfer needed for video capture/large file copy but you also get the bus to switch to another task pretty quick.

     

    64 clock cycles at 33 mhz happens pretty friggin quick so that is why you don't see a real humanly noticable diff when you run your system.

     

    i think that the bus latentcy matters most for sustained transfer dependent stuff (you gotta open up a big enough window to get the stuff done before interuption)

     

    also i think that the bus is generally pretty saturated and most cards these days do a lotta crap at once so your best bet is probably the middle of the road at 64.

     

    that is what i have and it runs great.

     

    -Jeff

  24. Posted

    well alec I am not a device driver programmer so i don't know this stuff for sure either. You really need to ask Jeh at 2cpu.com he can sort you out.

     

    Anyway here is what i remember/know

    I read somewhere sometime that the latentcy time that you set is how long the card can hold the bus not how long the card will hold the bus. If this is true then every one should have the latentcy as high as possible. I think that the real reason that the setting is there is not for performance but for compatibility. I.E. as someone mentioned earlier VIA boards have problems with pci cards which may sometimes be resolved by messing with this setting. VIA makes total shit so this makes sense. As I have an i840 chipset and mulitple pci busses on my board this setting really doesn't amount to crap on my system unless you set it too low. If you do that you are then causing bottlenecks i think because you limit how much each card can do at one time there for each card has to do a little bit then wait then do some more and so on. I don't really have any isses with that here because i have the high banwidth cards on the separate 64 bit bus.

     

    Basically all i have is theory just like you but if my theory is right then you want to have it set high maybe even highest possible.

     

    Then again it depends waht you are doing. If it is lots of little requests then you want a medium low setting. Things like a server with lots of random file access perhaps. If you have large sustained transfers then you want a high setting. Like Video capture.

     

    This is pretty much why i recomended something in the middle. People like you and me are multitaskers. I run every application i use in a day all the time.

     

    I don't really do much video editing anymore but setting the latentcy high did make an improvement in the sustained transfer then.

     

    Once again i beleive things i have read stated that it was how long a card could hold the bus. Not that it would hold it that long for every request.

     

    I do web application programing and SQL databases. Which couldn't be further from device driver programming. THe closest thing i do to even memory managment is designing tables in MS SQL so that certain fields will line up on certian datapages.

    So basically i am all theory here. but i do have some experience messing with this stuff.

     

    -Jeff

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