What are you guys doing right now?

bmwracer wrote:Shopping online for a new monitor.

hope you find a great one...seems you guys have been discussing the matter for a minute or two...that's gotta be something out there that tickles your fancy. good luck.

Just got home from school and I was supposed to watch Last Christmas episodes 1 and 2. Before I went to school, I left my computer running so that when I come home, the download would be completed. But my internet service provider did a maintenance today so my DSL automatically got disconnected and my download stopped :grumble: . When I got home, my BT was just 59% for episode 1 and 46% for episode 2. So now, I'll have to wait for an hour or 2 before I can watch it, damnit! :angry:

Tu_triky wrote:hope you find a great one...seems you guys have been discussing the matter for a minute or two...that's gotta be something out there that tickles your fancy. good luck.

There are a couple, but I haveta check 'em out in person before actually buying online (which offers the best price)....

chilling out after a chilly day at work. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
There are a couple, but I haveta check 'em out in person before actually buying online (which offers the best price)....

hope you find the one you are looking forward to. atleast you won't have to deal with the hassle of rebates... :hehe:

littlemissfab wrote:

:tolerance: fight the FLU!!! FIGHT IT!!!! have you d-ld' the subs? it's already out! you're lucky you have to watch the ep at the same time.. i watch it without the subs.. then with the subs.. i think it's better to watch doramas with subs ready/available.. watching it raw kinda takes the element of surprise...

ideally with the subs in it, which are hard subbed ones, soft sub ones are ok too. But i do have a few series where it is not subb'ed yet, so that is very challenging and difficult to understand. I did pick up on a few words here and there from watching so much j-dramas. :hehe:

I got jacked with my stupid 200gb hardrive.. circuit city was selling external HDs 250gb for only 130... i had to pay 150 for mine.. but then again.. mine's firewire not USB.. eat that circuit city..

Oh well.. I'm at work, doing research.. and transferring my office downloaded doramas to my laptop..

:victory:

probably could've built your own for under $100.

krim wrote:probably could've built your own for under $100.

yeah, if you are computer techie savvy like some of you guys....
some of us are not, like me. :hehe:

littlemissfab wrote:I got jacked with my stupid 200gb hardrive.. circuit city was selling external HDs 250gb for only 130... i had to pay 150 for mine.. but then again.. mine's firewire not USB.. eat that circuit city..

Oh well.. I'm at work, doing research.. and transferring my office downloaded doramas to my laptop..

:victory:

excuse my lack of knowledge here, but what is the diff btw firewire and usb, someone care to provide some info??

qilver wrote:

excuse my lack of knowledge here, but what is the diff btw firewire and usb, someone care to provide some info??

If you care to read some things: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,848858,00.asp

More: http://www.directron.com/firewirevsusb.html

qilver wrote:

yeah, if you are computer techie savvy like some of you guys....
some of us are not, like me. :hehe:

open both boxes,
set hard drive to master, plug in power and IDE connection. Close the external case.

that's it. more or less. :hehe:

qilver wrote:

excuse my lack of knowledge here, but what is the diff btw firewire and usb, someone care to provide some info??

Firewire and USB are connection types

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

krim wrote:

Firewire and USB are connection types

when i was in college, one friend confused firewire with wifi.

we made fun of him until end of college. even now, if we met. :nut:

dochira wrote:
If you care to read some things: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,848858,00.asp

More: http://www.directron.com/firewirevsusb.html

no worries, thanks for the direction/info. :bonk:

krim wrote:

Firewire and USB are connection types

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

cool man...
way to save bundles by building it yourself....
in assembling stuff, i don't trust myself with that, i leave it to the experts. :hehe:

I was sendin a thankyou mail to tabana right now XD

krim wrote:probably could've built your own for under $100.

no way!! serious?? darnit.. well yeah.. if you have the casing and the desktop HD.. that would be nice.. but I have no experience in building things from scratch up.. (except for cooking i guess) but like soldering pieces together.. uhhhhh.. i don't think so...


yeah.. Firewire is a faster connection than USB.. i think standard firewire transfers around 400mbps... It took me an hour to transfer my doramas last night.. i transfered, full seasons of engine, mukodono, trick 3, incompletes of brother beat, hyd, nobuta, ganbatte, ichi, dragonz and lunch no jouu..

the only thing i regret about firewire is that i don't have it in my office pc.. meaning.. everytime i dl a series.. i have to drag my laptop to work and transfer it over the wireless network which takes about 15-30 mins per series..

Just finished reading it. :mrgreen:
Looks like the new avatar is working fine. I wouldn't have mind a cookie as a thank you. ;) :victory:

littlemissfab wrote:...
yeah.. Firewire is a faster connection than USB.. i think standard firewire transfers around 400mbps...

USB 1.1: 10 or 12mbps :headscratch:
USB 2.0: 480mbps
Firewire: 400mbps
Firewire 800: 800mbps. Only on Mac at the moment if I remember correctly.

littlemissfab wrote:

no way!! serious?? darnit.. well yeah.. if you have the casing and the desktop HD.. that would be nice.. but I have no experience in building things from scratch up.. (except for cooking i guess) but like soldering pieces together.. uhhhhh.. i don't think so...

...

If you can plug in your keyboard/mouse/printer to your PC, you can build one, like i told qilver earlier. No soldering involved. screwdriver is just about all you'll need.


For anyone that wants to try.... basic directions.

set your hard drive to Master (directions should have come with the drive)
plug in power cable
plug in IDE cable
screw in the drive to the case
close case
plug in power cable to wall
plug in both ends of the firewire cable

turn power on.

done.