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by red0510
Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:31 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Flash Card Unreadable.....Options?
Replies: 12
Views: 1824

Re: Flash Card Unreadable.....Options?

This happened to me recently with my 32GB USB drive. I was getting a "The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable" message. If you are getting the same, Microsoft suggests the following: 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. In the Open box, type chkdsk /f <drive>:, where <drive> is...
by red0510
Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:36 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: I'm going to Hilton Head
Replies: 5
Views: 844

I'm going to Hilton Head

So my friend wins an all-expense paid trip to Hilton Head, SC through his work. His wife, who works in a school district, can't get the time off. So he asks me if I want to go with. I'm like, hmmm, let me think about it....Uh, YEAH! We'll be heading out this Sunday, March 30th and returning on Wedne...
by red0510
Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:00 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Remote connection on a network
Replies: 8
Views: 1266

Re: Remote connection on a network

If you don't need to interact with the remote computer's desktop GUI, Start > Run > \\remotecomputername\c$ will allow you to access the C: drive to copy/move files to and fro.
by red0510
Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:15 am
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Shutdown.bat file
Replies: 5
Views: 2682

Re: MS-DOS batch file help

This site is what you are looking for :wink: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/shorts.html Check if a value is numeric FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=0123456789" %%A IN ("%Value%") DO ( ECHO.%Value% is NOT a valid decimal, octal or binary number ) Positive numbers only, no hexadecimal. If ...
by red0510
Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:24 pm
Forum: Developer's Den
Topic: Shutdown.bat file
Replies: 5
Views: 2682

Shutdown.bat file

I'm a very amateur batch file person looking for a simple fix to my problem here. I am trying to write a simple batch file that will shutdown the local computer. I want to be able to input the number of seconds and then pass that to the shutdown -t parameter. Here's what it looks like so far: @echo ...
by red0510
Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:31 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Are Vizio LCD HDTV's decent?
Replies: 22
Views: 4541

Re: Are Vizio LCD HDTV's decent?

Run, don't walk away from anything Vizio. They are the RCA of the 21st century. Good enough for grandmas and people who don't know better. If you're looking for a decent and cheap LCD, go Philips. Samsung and Sony on the high end. Avoid Sharp, they've banding issues with their TVs. IMO if you're go...
by red0510
Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:40 pm
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Are Vizio LCD HDTV's decent?
Replies: 22
Views: 4541

Are Vizio LCD HDTV's decent?

TigerDirect has a 42" LCD HDTV for sale at $1100. Are Vizio HDTV's any good? Or is it truly a case of 'you get what you pay for'? Here's the link to the one that I am considering: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3538898&CatId=2815 If Vizio's are no...
by red0510
Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:06 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: a story ...3 words at a time
Replies: 180
Views: 10716

Re: a story ...3 words at a time

in the bushes.
by red0510
Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:49 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Scam or no scam?
Replies: 23
Views: 5647

Run, do not walk, from this "opportunity". Not that I think you'll find them gone in the morning with nothing to show for it... but I suspect their "kit" will consist of a pamphlet giving you instructions such as: 1) Register a business domain with GoDaddy.com. 2) Use the "...
by red0510
Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:52 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: So you can't build a gaming PC for $500?
Replies: 20
Views: 2329

Don't forget about the added cost of buying XP/Vista. That $500 could be closer to $1000 sooner than you think.
by red0510
Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:24 pm
Forum: Echo Vale
Topic: Ripping my CD Collection (again)
Replies: 11
Views: 2366

Windows Explorer? Right-click the columns and 'bit rate' is an option there. You can just do a search for *.mp3 and then in the search window at that column. Hmmm....interesting. Sometimes the solutions are so easy that you don't even think of them! :lol: Will that method group the results by bitra...
by red0510
Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: Echo Vale
Topic: Ripping my CD Collection (again)
Replies: 11
Views: 2366

Ripping my CD Collection (again)

It has been about 6 years since I ripped my CD collection to my hard drive. Back then, my HDD space was more limited, so I initially ripped my CD's at 192kbps. I have more recently (<3 years) changed that to use the -alt preset extreme setting (resulting in songs with ~400-600kbps) as I acquired new...
by red0510
Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:42 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: wowfx.dll, virus?
Replies: 10
Views: 7307

If you have the time and the patience, the person over in <a href="http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171358" target="_blank" class="postlink">this thread</a> was able to clean out his system that had the same 'wowfx.dll' error message. It took quite a few steps and some work, but ...
by red0510
Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:45 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: December slowdown
Replies: 23
Views: 3411

Nah, the attention has been shifted the past week over the front page. All the fanboys are coming out of the woodwork en masse. Not to mention everyone's favourite, our own G-man , is thread-crapping (in his own way) all over the place and continues to piss more people off. Still pretty "alive...
by red0510
Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:19 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Lose a glove?
Replies: 2
Views: 1244

Heh. Made me think of this timeless classic from M.O.D. for some reason. No Glove, No Love Two days before the road we're running to the store. We're loading up on Trojans that we're taking on the tour. We've seen your kind before, you say you're something new. You saw the show, you want to party wi...
by red0510
Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:21 pm
Forum: TR Sports
Topic: Time to add that asterisk to Bonds*
Replies: 22
Views: 4120

I'm just waiting for the obligatory appearances from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. :roll:
by red0510
Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:31 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Current War - Tesla Wins!
Replies: 34
Views: 5385

I agree. <a href="http://www.teslatheband.com/home.aspx" target="_blank" class="postlink">Tesla</a> rocks.
by red0510
Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:24 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: BAD_POOL_CALLER stop BSOD
Replies: 3
Views: 1257

Have you had a look at <a href="http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm" target="_blank" class="postlink">this</a> page to check on your 0xC2 error?
by red0510
Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:06 am
Forum: Echo Vale
Topic: MP3 / Wav Audio Cropper
Replies: 9
Views: 10459

<a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" class="postlink">Audacity</a>
by red0510
Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:13 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: question about after reformatting
Replies: 7
Views: 1791

Well, here's one problem:

"Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)"
by red0510
Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:51 pm
Forum: TR Sports
Topic: So long and thanks for...uhm...nothing?
Replies: 7
Views: 2261

Yeah, I just caught this myself. The thing that bugs me the most about the situation is this little blurb: "...Jocketty's departure with a year remaining on his contract was a mutual decision, and that he'd be paid ." <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ao6G160bpCJHsVfp9Y2vEWsRv...
by red0510
Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:18 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 785649

Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno
by red0510
Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:20 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Favorite way to die?
Replies: 67
Views: 11707

Somebody please tell me that Im dreaming Its not so easy to stop from screaming But words escape me when I try to speak Tears they flow but why am I crying After all I am not afraid of dying Dont believe that there is never an end Or get shot in the heart. Thats how real men die. Up the F***ing Iro...
by red0510
Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:14 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Joining the Religion & Politics Forum
Replies: 421
Views: 422739

Rock my R&P world, por favor.
by red0510
Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:48 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: weather junkies!
Replies: 96
Views: 20226

Yeah, http://www.weatherunderground.com rules. The Weather Channel and all it stands for can go rot. They have become more media and making money and sensationalizing things than just giving the weather.-LS Totally agree with you here, both about WU and TWC. I never visit weather.com anymore. Their...
by red0510
Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:56 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: can i split my ws in tow diferent screens?
Replies: 14
Views: 2628

pani_alex is a non native English speaker from Paraguay; Considering this, I think his post is pretty understandable and readable.
by red0510
Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:55 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Now THIS is just pathetisad
Replies: 52
Views: 9079

Why not just resize your images and not retain proportion until you're stick-thin and everything is distrorted? While you're at it, why not make your boobs bigger, your stomach flatter, your delts wider, your eyes bluer, your teeth whiter, your dome less chrome, and that double-wide behind you into...
by red0510
Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:11 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: The Wedding Industry
Replies: 14
Views: 3002

The Wedding Industry

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/39681 A good read on the wedding industry and how it targets the emotionally vulnerable and the 'look at ME' mentality of brides-to-be. I wish my friend had known about the book referenced in the article before his family dropped $14K on a wedding. ...
by red0510
Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:34 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Horrible Plots/Plot Twists
Replies: 55
Views: 9177

The first half of "From Dusk Til Dawn" was great. Clooney and Keitel and Tarantino were awesome.

Then they went into that Mexican biker bar and...

It was the only movie that I've ever walked out of.
by red0510
Tue May 15, 2007 3:38 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: band names
Replies: 45
Views: 8894

Re: band names

..the whole band agrees that it should be one word. and no "the" in front of it... How about >Subrogate >Meth >Draconian >Paralysis >Diphtheria >Hyperbole >Procurement >Neural >Abacinate >Narcosis Just some that popped into my head. Rock on and stay metal! \m/..\m/
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