Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Monkey’s Audio – a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor. OK, got things working, butnow I’m ripping things. Seems like Monkey’s lossless compression is a good idea. Also going to try variable bit rate MP3 to see if that is as good.

TMPG Enc Net. Reportedly the very best MPEG2 Encoder there is and it’s free!

VCDHelp.com. Wow a site that will help you make VCDs and DVDs. The next step for me!

Stealth P2P network hides inside Kazaa – Get rid of Kazaa ASAP! By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 1, 2002, 5:35 PM PT A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely “turn on” people’s…

Fixed DMA on Hard Drive Thank goodness for the Internet! I finally deleted the checksum entries per the note about doing this in the registry. It reidentified the hard disk. I guess I was getting CRC errors before. Anyway, now I’m Ultra DMA Mode 4 on the main hard drive…

Windows XP and unsticking PIO Mode Here is another piece about this. Will try this next after an uninstall. CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can revert to using PIO mode, despite being set to use “DMA if Available.” This article explains how to make Windows XP redetect the DMA capabilities of…

DMA Mode for ATA/ATAPI Devices in Windows XP. I can’t get my boot drive on my P3V4x into Ultra DMA mode anymore. STaty stuck in PIO. Tried to toggle the setting, but it won’t stick. It used to work under Windows 98.

www.firmware.fr.st. Wow, yet another firmware page. I can’t believe this goes on and on.

The firmware forum – -. I think that my firmware is bad on my Lite-on CDRW. The stuff from the internet is now making coasters. The discussion on the LIte-on forum seem to all say this. Amazingly, there is actually an entire forum and website on firmware flashing so I’ll…

LiteonitWell, taking the mirror off my hard drives has improved stability. I haven’t had a single chkdsk problem since I got rid of the hardware mirroring, but now my CDRW keeps breaking. Am installing the latest firm called R32XS0R.zip updated 02-04-2002 in the hopes that it will help. Also uninstalled…