Recent content by jai

My first post here in a very long time. The TweakGuides site has just put up the Windows Vista TweakGuide for free download. Get it here. It seems to be a massive 250 page document that has everything from basics to advanced stuff. Worth a read.

Unfortunately, it seems to be giving faulty readings. Here is a screenshot of what it shows on my system: 126 Deg C on my CPU??? And look at what Asus Probe is reporting at the same time. 36 C!! Either I did something wrong or there is a huge bug in SensorsView... Since there is nothing for...

Your take on this article, guys? We use Microsoft Office at our office and I had visions of moving to OO, but after looking at this article I am having second thoughts. Typical reaction by a prospective user, but while I can make the move personally it will probably remain a strict no-no for...

I think "switch off soft shadows" should be stuck on the retail box of F.E.A.R. The implementation is terrible to say the least and looks like they tried offsetting the actual shadow a few times with slightly varying angles and hoped it would look good. It didn't, but they went with it any way...

My LAN icon in the tray to which only the DataOne modem's Ethernet cable is connected, always shows the status as "Acquiring network address", as can be seen below: I have noticed that it will take anywhere between 15 to 20 minutes to actually say "Connected" in the status. But during this...

I dont know if this has been posted before, but is a very interesting site comparing Mac OSX to Windows XP, feature by feature. X vs. XP Enjoy!

There doesn't seem to be any simple solution for this. The nearest I got was CommView, which will record activity based on IP addresses on the LAN. Understanding and using it seems to be quite a learning curve. Hmmm, I guess I have to continue to rely on the ISP's counter for the moment. I must...

Yeah, that is what I did. But my LAN traffic is also being recorded, since it is going thru the same NIC. Since the router is directly connected to the network switch, there is no way I can install DUMeter on one single system to monitor traffic. Googling for this problem is not yielding any...

I downloaded and installed DUMeter for checking DL/UL data transfer on my computer in the office. However, there is a BIG problem. DUMeter counts all data transfer (including those that are happening on the LAN) and thereby records unwanted information. There are several systems on the LAN and I...

Take a look at this: http://www.evga.com/articles/public.asp?AID=258 First, there was COD2 free with the card. Now there is a SLI mobo free. Next? Any guesses?

But that doesn't explain why the same game was running perfectly well on the same set of drivers. Anyway, I will update to the latest WHQL drivers and see if it makes any difference.

Just downloaded the Starship Troopers Demo from nZone. It installed successfully and the first time, even ran successfully. I was able to play some part of the level. Some time later (maybe a day or so), I started playing it again. The initial movies come out OK, but from the main screen...

I remember reading somewhere that the power line from the PSU to the GFX card should not be shared with any other peripheral, especially with the HDD. You know what I mean, right? Some cables that comes out of the PSU have two power connectors that can be attached to different peripherals. I...

I tried that, but no go. Site is not responding. Customer support is not very helpful in this regard. Does anyone know if the server is down or something? Been quite a while now since I logged in.

Whenever I open the DataOne oprtal at http://10.240.43.216/webLogin.jsp, I get a message that I should enable cookies in IE. Well, duh, cookies are enabled and I was able to login to the site until a few days back. Are any of you DataOne users able to login to the portal? I am not able to check...