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By default Winamp ignores any multimedia keys on your keyboard.
To enable them, go to options, preferences.
Select the general options tab, then Global Hotkeys.
And the click the boxes…”Enable Default multimedia keys”, and “Enabled”
I just brought a old motherboard (MSI KT6V-LSR) to use in a NAS server.
Its on board SATA could not detect any of my SATA drives.
At first I thought great the on-board sata is dead.
Well I had a closer look at the drives and one had a jumper setting to limit the drive to 1.5 gbs per sec i.e Sata 1. Sata 2 runs at 3 gbps.
With the drive limited to SATA 1 the drive worked fine with the boards on board sata.
How ever one of the drives a Samsung, had no jumper setting after some research I found out, you have use a boot disk called ES-tool with allows you to switch the drive to SATA 1. Now the drive works fine.
This device allows to connect your laptop to your desktops LCD and keyboard, and switch between controlling PC and laptop with the touch of a button.
Wireless USB could mean a whole new generation of wireless devices. So long wire, I knew thee well…
The future is bright for Certified Wireless USB with the announcement of six products that have passed the USB Implementers Forum’s certification.
The products that have recently been certified include Dell’s Inspiron 1720, Lenovo’s ThinkPad T61/T61p, an IOGEAR Wireless USB Hub, an IOGEAR Adapter Kit, along with D-Link’s Wireless USB Adapter (DUB-1210) and 4-Port Wireless USB Hub (DUB-2240).
Collectively, these mark the first batch products to be branded Certified Wireless USB.
Certified Wireless USB 1.0 devices will send data at rates of 480Mb/sec over a distance of three meters but will drop considerably to 110Mb/sec when at the ten meter mark. The peak transfer speed is on par with the rated speed of USB 2.0 while still maintaining a speed greater than USB 1.1 over a greater distance.
The specification is also backwards compatible with previous USB versions and will allow you to use your other USB devices across the room, with an adapter of course. Future Certified Wireless USB devices will have the technology built right into the products allowing them to natively communicate between them at speeds faster than Bluetooth. Consumers can expect to see the Certified Wireless USB logo on product packaging early this Autumn.
I just edited a xvid movie the file size was slightly too large for a cdr.
So I used virualdub to cut some of the end credits off.
I was shocked to find it only took a about a minute to save the edited avi.
AMDs quad core is going to Hit the market out this august, the first version will be 2.00 ghz, increased to 2.5 ghz in the forth quarter of the year.
The new processers will use the AM2+ socket but can be used in a standard AMD2 socket as well, with a reduced HyperTransport speed.