rich
rich
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  • Digital Music Sites

    RareWares. A great place to get codec binaries. “Hydrogen Audio”:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/. Seems like the best forums for those with digital music technology questions.

  • NTFSDOS

    Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 – NTFSDOS. Another darn useful tool if you corrupt your Windows NT/2000/XP installation. Let’s you read an NTFS partition from plain old DOS. When used with the network boot floppy, it should get you home no problem.

  • More on creating a Network Boot Floppy

    Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks. Amazing someone is still maintaining this. Darn useful though if your machine doesn’t have a CD-ROM

  • XP Partition Management

    Also know as how to get one big fat Windows partition into something manageable. I have a big partition and lots of data. So, how do you get to the right configuration and make everything boot correctly? * “Mandrake Linux”:http://mandrake.com. This Linux has a dynamic repartitioner for NTFS partitions. You defrag, backup and then run…

  • Epson 3200 35mm scanning

    Using my Dad’s new Epson 3200 scanner. Man, there are a lot of software settings, here are some guides to getting the scanning right: * Epson Perfection 3200 scanner: Impressions by Norman Koren, Benjamin Kanarek, and Guido Bruck

  • Plasma Balls

    Alex and Calvin are working on understanding those strange plasma balls you see in science experiments. Here are some links: PLASMA BALLS. You can buy one. “History”:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kier/history.html. History of the plasma ball. It’s actually a kind of Tesla Coil. Didn’t know that. So on to this fellow Nikola Tesla. Amongst other things, Marconi (I though…

  • The file comparisons

    Since I’ve been overclocking, I’ve seen two cases where the file systems have gotten corrupted, so caveat emptor. Seems pretty serious on NTFS since it scrambles everything. For instance on one machine, I lost a big part of the file tables. On another, it corrupted the Windows installation. In order to get back to sanity,…

  • Shuttle ST61G4

    Shuttle ST61G4. This could very well be the perfect Intel-based small form factor machine. Has a very fast ATI Radeon integrated graphics chipset (about half the speed of their top of the line card, which costs more than the entire Shuttle box!) Also has silencing technology to be quiet as well as a 6-in-1 card…

  • Video Cards

    Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts Part III – . _Tom’s Hardware latest reviews now takes price into account, basically you can buy a $400 card (!!!) and it is 50% faster than a $150 card, so the sweetspot in the market is nVidia and ATI’s mid range card_ We see that the Radeon…

  • ACL Website

    Diary of an ACL Reconstruction. Had to happen, here is an entire site just devoted to getting your ACL back! “ACL links”:http://janet.braystudio.com/acl/links.htm. Her list of ACL related sites is great too. I like “Knee1”:http://knee1.com