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[Khalqat]

I absolutely hate social networks.

any ways. any suggestion on mp3 p2p software. I used limewire long time ago. so what is the best now? I tried it yesterday and lots of crap is coming through.

Get utorrent.

[blueazure]

I absolutely hate social networks.

any ways. any suggestion on mp3 p2p software. I used limewire long time ago. so what is the best now? I tried it yesterday and lots of crap is coming through.

ustaad utorrent zindaba'd


yesterday i downloaded the complete U2 JOSHUA TREE album

[sobank]

yaar aik gana download karna hay

yup for discographies utorrent is the way to go I got my rock collection from there........................in flac absolutely hate mp3 format.

[blueazure]

Acer Netbooks Will Dual-Boot Android and Windows 7

By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld




In what will surely provide a boost to Google's Android platform outside the smartphone arena, computer maker Acer reportedly announced on Wednesday that all of its upcoming dual-core netbooks will run both Android and Windows 7.

The announcement was made at Acer's Taiwan launch of its new dual-core Aspire One netbooks, which will feature Intel's Atom 550 processor as well as Android, according to a report in DigiTimes

The move is expected to increase demand by providing "more efficiency to consumers" while costing Acer very little, the report said.

Also included in the new "Happy" Aspire One netbooks will be a built-in 250GB hard drive, the Taipei Times reported. [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2010/10/07/2003484712] Priced at US$431, the machines will reportedly be available in Taiwan this month.

Citing recent figures from Gartner, Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin also asserted that tablets will not replace netbooks anytime soon. Acer reportedly expects to ship 10 million netbooks this year.

It's not uncommon for computer users to run two operating systems on a laptop or desktop--usually Linux and Windows--but it's still pretty rare to see that capability provided as a standard specification.

Acer's existing Aspire One D250 and Aspire One D260 have already provided the dual-boot option with Android and Windows for some time, as has the Taiwan-only Aspire One D255, which is based on the single-core Atom N450, according to reports. Typically, Android functions as an instant-on operating system for such devices.

Dell, in fact, has experimented with an Ubuntu Linux option on its machines as well. For Acer to go so far as to make Linux-based Android--and dual-booting in general--a standard specification, however, is a significant endorsement of both.

This is one more piece of evidence that it is no longer a Windows-only world, despite what Microsoft would have us believe. Rather, choices abound, in operating systems as in virtually everything else. With all the many arguments in favor of both Linux and Android, it's exciting to see a hardware maker recognize that all consumers--not just technically minded enthusiasts--may want something better.



http://www.pcworld.c..._windows_7.html

[sobank]

oh crap. look out microshaft....... here comes google. Their idiocies and atrocities of vista and windows 7 was going to rise to another monster and the monster is here.

I can keep writing about the stuff that is a total fail in windows 7 but i will be repeating myself ................... again.

[blueazure]

^^ the way android took over the smartphone market by totally out gunning established names such as symbian and iOS should be an eye opener to everyone,, same story with the chrome,, where internet explorer / mozilla etc are no where to be seen



the google team is simply more creative and knows what the end user wants,,

[sobank]

I still dont understand why microshaft felt that remodeling the UI was needed. Here is a food for thought......... all xp + all the good stuff from 7. oh and I would like to kill the jack a$$ who thought leaving out the theater mode was a good idea............ microshaft excuse is "its not supported".

[blueazure]

^^


i did find some good points on the 7 though,,


1) connecting to a wi-fi network is a PIA in XP , in win 7, it barely takes a sec

2) the search function in the 7 is really good

3) the desktop gadget support etc ,, works like android apps,, shows all the basic hardware parameters like CPU-z, GPU monitor, battery widget , outlook

4) as for games and stuff,, its been so far so good,, have been using 7 on my machine for abt six months and no crashes so far,,

cod5 , cod6, cod5 all A OK,,

it does bit.ch about the sound card drivers and did the same about the GPU driver,, i managed the GPU one but still stuck with the custom driver for the sound card, so volume is a bit choppy on my acer machine,,


what went wrong with your 7??

[sobank]

first thing is this library crap. Idea is great. play with virtual access but dont touch the real folder. but really it doesnt work out like that. Some sh|t goes in your profile some sh|t goes in your libraries. WTF. If library was the thing that was gonna put everything together then perhaps every thing should have gone through it. Now I have to remember my special folder location, for actual path, profile for any other use, and the folder heirchy of saving the files.

Sound card interface is unbelievably slow. Now blame the soundblaster or W7, in any case it doesnt work like it supposed to.

multimedia keys are ####............. again either logitech and microsoft keyboard mouse problems (I use two keyboards and two mouses for one computer). turns out the interface is not allowing it and it is not the logitech. I have to write script in autohotkey to get this sh|t working properly.

samsung 226bw monitor................. magic touch is not supported by windows 7.................so I have lost the software interface to monitor. use the hard keys on monitor to adjust the color and it is real pain in the a$$.

Network sharing............... what the hell man. I will set it up quick and get over with it........noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. there is a homegroup and there is standard network. oh and did i mention that password protection means that i have to create users which will be displayed on the login screen without any option of hiding them.

Bigger, better and advance user management............. my a$$. There are so many restrictions in the software that customization thrid party software practically gave up. start menu makes me scream when i have to look through the list of programs installed. whose fuc|(ing idea was to put a scroll in there??????????????????????????????? click a folder to see the programs in it....... wtf man!!!!

its a media oriented like never before........really?????????????? no theater mode, sound cards are like universally fuc|(ed up on interface. Global keys have problems with media softwares.

no list view in control panel.................... good luck on finding the right link there. oh yeah it is sorted by name but 10 bucks say that i will find the setting faster in xp then w7. dont believe me......... ok try finding mouse in control panel in small icon setting. do the same in xp. see which was faster.

sorry no more show desktop icon. click that damn small bar. if you want it do it yourself.

want basic theme -fine. here take this theme which is even uglier than windows 95.

62 freaking services.......................... all the big memory advantage you got with 64 bit is gone. I use 33% physical memory when i run it without aero.

now you can configure start services in service.msc, registery in run key, msconfig, and program itself. I guess some a$$ hole forgot to simplify that.

oh did you know that you can often get the ownership errors .........................................................

Now to be fair most of these things can be worked out. But takes sh|t load of time. So much that as compared to once in a two month schedual back up in xp, i run back up every week so i dont have to do the same thing again.


for those who are not involved in IT, please ignore my rant.......it is amazing OS for normal user.


is it safe....................yes.............. is it too safe..................hell yeah. They come up scanner on airport kind of thing. virus attack will still find its way in but real power user will get a kick in the A$$ to get anything done.

[sobank]

which sound card are you using blu???

[blueazure]

which sound card are you using blu???

sound blaster audigy ( 7.1 ) on my desktop machine ,,, ( Win XP sp3 )

some custom acer card ( 5.1 ) on my aspire 6930 notebook ,,, ( win 7 ultimate 64 bit )


yeah, i know where we're going wiith this , win 7 doesn't let me install drivers for custom card, so im stuck with flat sound effects ,and forget about audigy 7.1 's and other devices ,, this is the one thing that's totally un- acceptable on the 7 ...

[blueazure]

delted

[blueazure]

1) memory usage is unusually high :S , contrary to the advertised nonsense that 7 will be light on resources ?

2) control panel is not the most user friendly , maybe its the crappy vista theme that makes icons hard to locate ,, CP in XP was far better

3) owner ship issues, well, as long as the updates are off, you shouldn't have any ?

4 ) my biggest complaint is still the lack of hardware support and 7 thinking it knows best... i did some jugaar with the GPU , but still stuck with the custom driver for the sound

5) for your Samsung LCD, i guess this the same problem as was with my 9300M GS GPU... i solved it by jugaar ,, extracted the setup and from the device manager, gave the location and it picked it up( luckily ) ... or maybe samsung hasent released drivers for 7 as yet ????

[sobank]

sound blaster audigy ( 7.1 ) on my desktop machine ,,, ( Win XP sp3 )

some custom acer card ( 5.1 ) on my aspire 6930 notebook ,,, ( win 7 ultimate 64 bit )


yeah, i know where we're going wiith this , win 7 doesn't let me install drivers for custom card, so im stuck with flat sound effects ,and forget about audigy 7.1 's and other devices ,, this is the one thing that's totally un- acceptable on the 7 ...

Read this. It might help you out if you have not tried it already.

http://www.wired.com...aniel_k-who-fi/

[blueazure]

Read this. It might help you out if you have not tried it already.

http://www.wired.com...aniel_k-who-fi/

man !!!! what a guru !!!

"I’m NOT a **********, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent."

too bad, he wasted time with vista only

[maglomanic]

first thing is this library crap......... A$$ to get anything done.

Since you are really disaffected i would do the Ubuntu plug again. Try it. You don't have to delete your partition for Windows. It can dual boot with existing windows and make space for itself. It is extremely fast and i for games they do have program based on WINE that allows you to run windows based programs. Play on Linux:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

I would not have recommended it if it wasn't for the level of effort Canonical has put into coming up with a polished interface. OK leave it. At least go to their website and read about it. See if it allows you to do what you are trying to do.
www.ubuntu.com

[sobank]

I already downloaded ubuntu but forgot to instal well gaming thing is good news so i will try it tomorrow. Have some other work to do.

too bad, he wasted time with vista only LOLANI.GIF

well time is not wasted............ people need the same thing in windows 7 anyways i hope you try his driver for your soundcard.

[Khalqat]

Oooooh, nice discussion going on here...

It so happens, that my laptop gave up on me several weeks ago, and I am gonna go for one this black friday. Any suggestions on the OS and latest on the hardware?

Thanks in advance.

[Simpleton]

For about a month now, I've been getting something called an IPS Driver Error of and on when accessing this site, and only this site. After this error occurs and I finally manage to access this site I notice the numbers of members logged in usually has dropped to zero. What's this about? Is this something on my end or at the website's end?

P.S: don't know much about computers and internet.

[sobank]

problem from site. dont worry.


oh and kubuntu 64 bit version failed installation. I was using wubi. will try 32 bit now.

[maglomanic]

problem from site. dont worry.


oh and kubuntu 64 bit version failed installation. I was using wubi. will try 32 bit now.

Wubi is for running it from inside windows. I have never done that. If i was you and had enough space, i would go for multiboot. I think you could simply run a basic ubuntu version right off a cd as well.

[sobank]

well screw unix too. wubi screwed up my bootloader. Thank you u stupid kubuntu..............

any idea how to solve the ntldr missing problem. Back in days we use to fix boot.ini does is it still the same crap of wrong path.......................

[maglomanic]

well screw unix too. wubi screwed up my bootloader. Thank you u stupid kubuntu..............

any idea how to solve the ntldr missing problem. Back in days we use to fix boot.ini does is it still the same crap of wrong path.......................

I am sorry to hear that. If you install ubuntu successfully it replaces the primary boot entry to point to its bootloader instead of Windows bootloader. Then Ubuntu's boot loader (GRUB) can point you to either windows boatloader or Ubuntu installation.

Either you can do a real physical install from Ubuntu and go for the dual boot which will fix your problem (When you are installing Ubuntu it should show you your windows installation and let you know that it has recognized existing windows system which can be added to GRUB bootloader).

OR if you have already had enough , you can use your windows installation media which should give you the option to fix the windows bootloader.

Initially you have this boot sequence

BIOS loading---->NTLoader---->Windows Kernel ----> Windows file system

After ubuntu install this is how it works

......................................---->NTLoader->WIndows Kernel ----> Windows file system
BIOS Loading ----> GRUB
...................................... ---->Ubuntu Linux Kernel ----> Ubuntu file system



When you run the windows installation media boot fix, it would replace the GRUB with NTloader address and that should fix it.

Here is dualboot approach:
https://help.ubuntu....ot/WindowsFirst


Here is Windows bootloader Fix approach using your windows installation media:
http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256

[sobank]

I am sorry to hear that. If you install ubuntu successfully it replaces the primary boot entry to point to its bootloader instead of Windows bootloader. Then Ubuntu's boot loader (GRUB) can point you to either windows boatloader or Ubuntu installation.

Either you can do a real physical install from Ubuntu and go for the dual boot which will fix your problem (When you are installing Ubuntu it should show you your windows installation and let you know that it has recognized existing windows system which can be added to GRUB bootloader).

OR if you have already had enough , you can use your windows installation media which should give you the option to fix the windows bootloader.

Initially you have this boot sequence

BIOS loading---->NTLoader---->Windows Kernel ----> Windows file system

After ubuntu install this is how it works

......................................---->NTLoader->WIndows Kernel ----> Windows file system
BIOS Loading ----> GRUB
...................................... ---->Ubuntu Linux Kernel ----> Ubuntu file system



When you run the windows installation media boot fix, it would replace the GRUB with NTloader address and that should fix it.

Here is dualboot approach:
https://help.ubuntu....ot/WindowsFirst


Here is Windows bootloader Fix approach using your windows installation media:
http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256

you better hope it works............. or i am coming down to kick your a$$ for suggesting the unix......

actually what pissed me off was the fact it happened after I installed the packages for kubuntu.

Anyways tell me. what if I want to use unix in such a way that only if i manually boot from the unix drive, only then unix starts. In other words, it never changes my bootloader of other OS.

yaar kya baythay bithaaye pangay mein daal diya hitwall.gif

[maglomanic]

you better hope it works............. or i am coming down to kick your a$$ for suggesting the unix......

actually what pissed me off was the fact it happened after I installed the packages for kubuntu.

Anyways tell me. what if I want to use unix in such a way that only if i manually boot from the unix drive, only then unix starts. In other words, it never changes my bootloader of other OS.

yaar kya baythay bithaaye pangay mein daal diya hitwall.gif

Maaf karday bhai.

Aik kaam kar Linux ko bhol ja lets try to get your system up and running on windows first. The Wubi thing is really messed up, i never used it and i guess you got confused while installing and selected this option. I have created multiboot system a thousand times without any issues. You pop in CD it shows you windows partition and asks you if you want to automatically create space for Ubuntu and all you have to do is do next with default settings.

Do you have windows installation cd with you? Pop it in and it should show you an option for fixing bootloader i believe. Lets start with that and see what happens.

Anyways tell me. what if I want to use unix in such a way that only if i manually boot from the unix drive, only then unix starts. In other words, it never changes my bootloader of other OS.

That is doable but trust me you dont wanna go down that road unless you are feeling like Christopher Columbus right now.

By the way, your boatloader hasnt been touched at all. Windows boat loader is still sitting on your windows drive. The only thing Linux has done is it has changed boot sequence inserted its boot loader in between where it is supposed to show you options for picking linux or windows for startup.

[sobank]

oh well that heiser guy saved me. After seeing his girlfriend pics, I totally understand why the tutorial is so short on detail

ok problem is partially solved. I fixed the damn mbr. Now I have to bring back the xp on boot list. Working on that already. I am using windows 7 right now.

well another run to boot file modification

oh and I am gonna be christopher columbus but not today. Give me a week of relaxation

and good news is, I have not given up on linux just yet. I will try it again but this time i will go the proper way................... its just wubi looked so damn good. and you know what they say about those things. if it is too good to be true.... you know the rest

before i close this chapter.................... ubuntu did freeze. I had to power down the pc and all the sh|t just hit the fan. but heiser guy really did do the job.

[maglomanic]

oh well that heiser guy saved me. After seeing his girlfriend pics, I totally understand why the tutorial is so short on detail

ok problem is partially solved. I fixed the damn mbr. Now I have to bring back the xp on boot list. Working on that already. I am using windows 7 right now.

well another run to boot file modification

oh and I am gonna be christopher columbus but not today. Give me a week of relaxation

and good news is, I have not given up on linux just yet. I will try it again but this time i will go the proper way................... its just wubi looked so damn good. and you know what they say about those things. if it is too good to be true.... you know the rest

before i close this chapter.................... ubuntu did freeze. I had to power down the pc and all the sh|t just hit the fan. but heiser guy really did do the job.

hilarious
I swear i did not see any pictures on that link.
I am glad you havent given up yet. Thats the spirit boy!


Ooh by the way. I was doing some search for finding something on your ordeal and i did come across a microsoft's link that deals with multiboot for XP and Windows 7. I believe there is a command line utility that could be run from within Windows i think. If i find it i will copy it here.

[sobank]

hilarious
I swear i did not see any pictures on that link.
I am glad you havent given up yet. Thats the spirit boy!


Ooh by the way. I was doing some search for finding something on your ordeal and i did come across a microsoft's link that deals with multiboot for XP and Windows 7. I believe there is a command line utility that could be run from within Windows i think. If i find it i will copy it here.

oh boy forget the pics buddy go you tube and type her girlfriend name along with dance. you will see

bhai omar guzar gai hay en OS kay chakroon mein. trying again is just second in the nature now

I found some non MS links but not the MS link. Thanks for the help buddy. looking forward to the link.

some do say that boot file needs to be changed but i want to know the whole thing before i do some tinkering. MS link would hopefully tell.

[maglomanic]

OK Soban i think this might just do it for ya. You are missing an entry in Windows Boot Configuration datastore. The Microsoft command line utility is BCDEdit.

Here is the official MS help on BCDEdit
http://technet.micro...667(WS.10).aspx


Even better, some good fella has created a GUI for this command line called EasyBCD
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Here is a screenshot and few lines how to edit BCD using EasyBCD.
http://apcmag.com/ho...hots.htm?page=5

I am guessing your XP is on a separate drive and you know the drive letter. Is the XP drive showing under windows 7 as a data drive?

[sobank]

lol. all the geeks think the same. I downloaded the neo bcd last night. I just didnt go through edit yet. Actually there was a reason i didnt do it. when i booted from xp, the xp drive was shown as C. when I booted windows 7, the xp drive was shown as D.

So when i do the edit should I use the C or D. I am guessing it has to be D cause I am using windows 7 loader. What do you think? Do I set d as active? Again my guess is I shouldnt do it.

[maglomanic]

Intersting. I think XP is not using the Boot Configuration Data store which is probably a new technology introduced in Vista and Windows 7. It is using its own boot sector entries which designate the XP drive as primary C drive.

I agree with your conclusion that since you are under Windows 7 and editing BCD, you should use the drive letter entry for XP in BCD (i.e. Drive D). One more thing If i was you i would not designate this new entry as your primary boot media. Keep Windows 7 as your primary boot system. When you restart you should see both entries, one for windows 7 and one for XP. Try XP manually and see if it boots into XP. If it does not, you should still be able to go back to windows 7 and tweak/troubleshoot the BCD entry.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

[sobank]

so far so good. edited the boot file. I didnt have to manually select the drive but seems like that conclusion was correct. here is the added entry into boot file

Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {43b61c8d-f85b-11df-8c2d-92e89c68027f}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\ntldr

[sobank]

notice that the drive is c: which contains the bootloader for windows7 from there ntldr is started.

[maglomanic]

Good deal. So do you see the new entry at boot time? Have you tried to select the entry for XP and load the XP system?

[blueazure]

http://www.coolest-g...ard/#more-46233

Back in the golden age of ocean going travel, companies like Cunard, White Star and the like were involved in a travel style arms race, each vying for the fastest steam ship. And the winner was usually the one who travelled from London to New York in the fastest time (as signified by the Blue Riband Trophy). Well, tech companies are doing the same thing with SD cards, each vying for both the largest and fastest SD cards on the market. Toshiba is now claiming to have the fastest in the world … let’s take a look.


In today’s HD Video obsessed market, write speed is as important as storage size since cameras are writing tremendous amounts of digital data onto those SD cards. And Toshiba’s cards are claiming blazing read/write speeds of 95Mbps and 80Mbps respectively. With that kind of speed, videographers will also be able to enjoy faster transfer speeds once USB 3.0 is all the rage.

Look for them in sizes of 8GB to 32GB in SDHC and 4GB to 16GB in microSDHC formats, where all are compliant to the SD 3.0 standard and will be due in December – just in time to make excellent stocking stuffers.

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http://www.maximumpc...features?page=3

Corsair's new Vengeance high-performance DDR3 memory kits don't just look mean, they purportedly back up their aggressive styling with plenty of overclocking potential. According to Corsair, the Vengeance line consists of "carefully selected RAMS to enable excellent overclocking results," whether you're sporting an AMD or Intel processor inside.

"Customers have been asking for outstanding memory with a lower price tag, and we have been listening," said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair. "I believe that our users will love both the exciting new look and the overclocking results they are able to achieve with our new Vengeance memory."

Vengeance kits come in a variety of high tech flavors, including single, dual, and triple-channel kits ranging from 4GB to 16GB in capacity.

[blueazure]

Brazilian Overclocker Gooses Phenom X4 975 to 7.134GHz





It takes a little bit of luck, the right components, and a whole lot of liquid nitrogen to set new CPU overclocking records, and all three played a factor in pushing an AMD Phenom II X4 975 processor to 7.134GHz.

There have been faster overclocks before, but this is the highest anyone has ever taken an AMD chip. And while it required LN2 cooling, keep in mind that the stock frequency is 3.6GHz. For those of you who still aren't impressed, consider that there's never been a higher overclock on anything other than old Celeron and Pentium 4 processors.

The overclock was performed on an Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. With LN2 in place, the Brazilian team was able to crank up the voltage to 1.788V and the multiplier from 18 to 31.5.


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liquid nitro cooling ,!!

thats like a NOS boost on your custom Honda drag racer,, only this time, its cooling !!

[sobank]

Brazilian Overclocker Gooses Phenom X4 975 to 7.134GHz





It takes a little bit of luck, the right components, and a whole lot of liquid nitrogen to set new CPU overclocking records, and all three played a factor in pushing an AMD Phenom II X4 975 processor to 7.134GHz.

There have been faster overclocks before, but this is the highest anyone has ever taken an AMD chip. And while it required LN2 cooling, keep in mind that the stock frequency is 3.6GHz. For those of you who still aren't impressed, consider that there's never been a higher overclock on anything other than old Celeron and Pentium 4 processors.

The overclock was performed on an Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. With LN2 in place, the Brazilian team was able to crank up the voltage to 1.788V and the multiplier from 18 to 31.5.


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liquid nitro cooling ,!!

thats like a NOS boost on your custom Honda drag racer,, only this time, its cooling !!

Cool..... (figuratively and literally) but not sustainable.

in other words, i am jealous.

[maglomanic]

oay soban kaka,
did you ever get your windows xp boot fixed?

by the way i got my new laptop(Lenovo core i5 ) and took me around half an hour from download to full installation of a dual boot with windows 7. Both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 are working fine. It did show me an option for trying it out without installation (booting from cd). So far i am loving it. But i mostly don't play any games so it might not be what you need. I would be more than glad to give you feed back on any questions you might have.

[sobank]

got it done the same day. I thought i posted about that.

anyways its working all fine. I am going to install xp 64 bit and will say my fair well to w7 as a regular OS. will be back on xp. though i am going to install ubuntu but not now. two weeks time.

well u got it going. good for u man. I will start bothering you once i will start installing. well first of all I will go and get some pc case. I am thinking of putting together my old parts and make one home media server pc. I got everything from old pcs from drives to x1950 pro card. not bad for living room pc

[maglomanic]

got it done the same day. I thought i posted about that.

anyways its working all fine. I am going to install xp 64 bit and will say my fair well to w7 as a regular OS. will be back on xp. though i am going to install ubuntu but not now. two weeks time.

well u got it going. good for u man. I will start bothering you once i will start installing. well first of all I will go and get some pc case. I am thinking of putting together my old parts and make one home media server pc. I got everything from old pcs from drives to x1950 pro card. not bad for living room pc

I am glad you got it up and running again

I would say, be very conservative and don't experiment on a system that is for ever day use or needed for work. This can definitely wait .

I don't know when was the last time i used desktop. Must be a gaming thing. I believe most gamer community prefers it due to the high end specs they can get on desktops. The last game i played was Commandos in late 90s lol.