Recent content by lazarus_long54

I have a Left Foot and a Right Foot, both manufactured in 1980 :P Alex

Well, all I can say if you have no right to be upset. If I put something arbitrary in a cardboard box and ask you to "guess what's inside" and I won't even give you a hint...how long would it take to guess that there was a half-eaten snickers and a paperclip inside? That's what laptop...

On the cost issue, if you average seeing one movie per month (as I do) then the 11 bucks a month you pay for the movies can just as easily go to a game you will play for more than 1 hr, 45 min a month. :p However I would not buy SWG unless you LOVE to craft. I say this having played it for 6...

On a sidenote, is there any way to actually control your breathing in AA? It drives me up the WALL that I can't finish boot with better than a 34 on the range...especially because IRL I'm a Rifle Expert in the Marine Corps, and I have been for 3 years. :P The guy in AA, by default, breathes...

Your poll sucks, because it makes it look like the people who left left because they can't hack anymore. I've never needed to hack, but I left Diablo 2 around 1.06 when the balance of that game shifted more times in a few months than....something REALLY shifty. :P In any case, D2 was like...

Fallout, Fallout 2. Also, MMORPGs are something you just can't get on the consoles without shelling out a crapload of extra money and even then, you're gimpy compared to the PC users cause a PC can just do so much more. Alex

"either the isp sucks or there's a catch, or both." No kidding. You get what you pay for. Out here in the boonies of WA cable is 26.99 / mo including the modem...that's not that bad. Alex

Oh I've got retail cables that work at 100Mbps, but none of them are long enough to make the run from one end of a 2-story house to the other. I definately know it's my cable and I know it was cat 5e before I slapped the connectors on there so it should work. However, 10 connectors later I...

Teamspeak is my favorite because it has so many codec choices and the "channel commander" functions which make it much more powerful if you use it for large scale gaming (I used to.) With it you can have a lot of command & control...for instance, in WWII online we would make teams of 7-8, and...

Also, if you are running Windows 2000 SP4 you can use compatibility modes by executing: regsvr32 C:\WINNT\apppatch\slayerui.dll as Adminstrator. You will then have a compatibility tab on the properties page of any -shortcut-. I've had better luck getting games to play on 2000...

Have you tried swapping out ethernet cords? Have you moved either machine recently? If you let a cord sit for a long period of time like, oh, let's say 3 years -- the cord will develop a "memory" and moving it could cause you some grief. Alex

Yes, the cable is fairly stiff. The Nic is a 10/100/1000, the router is a Linksys BEFSR41 which is 10/100. Setting the speed to autoneg yields a 100 Mbps connection which doesn't work. Setting it to 100 Full yields the same result. Setting it to 10 Full makes it work, just at 10 Mbps. While...

Yup, link light comes on, now I have found that if I set my adapters to run at 10 Mbps then the cables work fine, but 100 Mbps and they work not at all. I am surmising then that I have somehow made my cat5 into cat3 :( As for the questions about the cables, they are fairly sturdy, UTP Cat5e...

Thanks Mike, I've been to that link a couple of times today :) I've been trimming the wires as you describe, and making sure the wires go all the way to the end. I am curious, I'm being pretty careful to untwist the wires only as much as necessary (and not any further than the beginning of...

Hello all, I'm new here, but I'm looking for some help making cat5. My fiancee and some friends recently moved into a house and I'm trying to get some fairly longish (~150 ft) wires made up. I've gone through 10 connectors now and only made one semi-successful cable. :/ I am using the 568-B...