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Sean McKinnon
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posted 05-12-2008 10:15 AM

Mark,

Im trying to remember what NTSC really stood for? Im thinking is was something like "National Television Systems Commitee" for some reason but don't think thats correct? Is it?

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Chris Slycord
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posted 05-12-2008 11:43 AM

Change "systems" to "system" and you are correct, according to wikipedia. That's the group who chose that standard and the standard was simply named after them.

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David Stambaugh
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posted 05-12-2008 12:44 PM

The "S" is also commonly referred to as "Standards" as in National Television Standards Committee. But officially it's "System".

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 05-12-2008 12:58 PM

Bah... I still say "Never The Same Color" and those guys knew it when they adoped the standard! But I guess if it weren't for a tiny somewhat unstable 3.58mhz oscillator we'd all be exposed to spinning CBS Colorwheel disks....

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Charles Greenlee
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posted 05-12-2008 03:18 PM

Those old coloerwheel, and mechanical TV's look cool as hell. Crappy picture though. I still wouldn't mind having one simply as a collectors/conversation piece. Though I would have to rig up a converter to convert standard TV signals to work on it. Gotta go all out. Maybe watch family guy on the thing and see if you can make out the characters on screen.

but back on task. Formatting D: drive, won't totally start you over. You'd have to format C as well, but by doing that you'll lose windows and everything, and really will start over. "can't have a partition of a partition"? Can, in a way. Called a logical partition, which is a sub-partition of your extended partition, at least as far as the FAT(16 or 32) system goes. Maybe buying a windows guide book (like Windows for dummies. No I'm not trying to imply anything), may be a good idea. Good reference material to have around.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 05-12-2008 04:10 PM

I'm well aware that you can make an extended partition then have any number of logical partitions inside it. But you'll want to look back and notice I was responding to Michael saying that D drive was a partition of the C drive. And THAT is impossible. Guess I should've been more clear that I was talking about normal partitions; I assumed the context of my original response made that clear (since he was talking about the C drive which obviously isn't an extended partition) [Smile]

And she didn't say she wanted to start over with windows; just with the D: drive. She said she wants to erase the D: drive then use it for backups.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 05-12-2008 04:45 PM

The way I read it also told me that she had a physically seperate D drive.

Charlie... There is a television museum in Ohio that has a working color wheel television set. They built a digital convertor so it can play any NTSC source in color wheel mode.

Mark

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Charles Greenlee
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posted 05-12-2008 08:33 PM

"Charlie" And suddenly, I became my grandfather somehow. LoL It's ok. I knew who you were talking to. I didn't mean necessarily that was her case, just recalling. I was tired. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to put linux on here. It's a pain to dual boot, especially if you host a server or 2. So you'd have to set up similar servers in linux to keep those accessible. I could use that dist. that will run from within windows, but that's alot of overhead. Oh well, I figure out what I want to do eventually.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 05-12-2008 10:55 PM

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
The way I read it also told me that she had a physically seperate D drive.

Not necessarily. My vista box (generic gateway I got cheap thanks to compusa closing all their stores) came with a second partition by default which is used for backups and such. And this is with one disk.

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It's a pain to dual boot, especially if you host a server or 2. So you'd have to set up similar servers in linux to keep those accessible. I could use that dist. that will run from within windows, but that's alot of overhead. Oh well, I figure out what I want to do eventually.

Personally I think a better solution would be to buy a low-power (lower-energy consumer) computer exclusively for your servers you're hosting. Since your computer you're using for hosting would have to be up 24-7 you'd save money in the long-run from lower power consumption. Plus, generally servers don't actually have to be running on the newest, fastest processors anyway. via makes some motherboard-cpu combos that peak at 20 watts consumption.

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Ron Yost
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posted 05-13-2008 12:13 AM

"Never Twice Same Color" here on the west coast. Well, according to an engineer (friend of my dad's) at KTTV, L.A., back in the long ago.

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Charles Greenlee
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posted 05-13-2008 03:37 AM

This one scales back nicely at ide. CPU only uses 4-5 watts at idle with power saving enabled. And the software goes in to "nap" mode which uses even less, but still allows the background apps to continue running. In other words, the FTP and Apache, still work. Not sure what the system uses as a whole though. I've seen the CPU suck down 40W in turbo mode doing some encoding of video. My video also "throttles back" for power saving when it's not being pushed. Pretty much everything, except my sound card, and like that uses alot [Roll Eyes]

. SB-live 5.1. Yes, my mobo has a newer soundcard on board, but it's also only 5.1, and doesn't have a digital in jack, externally, or internally for the CD-drive.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 05-13-2008 07:33 AM

quote: Chris Slycord
Personally I think a better solution would be to buy a low-power (lower-energy consumer) computer exclusively for your servers you're hosting. Since your computer you're using for hosting would have to be up 24-7 you'd save money in the long-run from lower power consumption. Plus, generally servers don't actually have to be running on the newest, fastest processors anyway. via makes some motherboard-cpu combos that peak at 20 watts consumption.

Good idea but I bet that VIA board doesn't support x64 bit software. Future versions of WHS will be x64 bit. My Dell 2650 is certainly 64 bit capable and it is somewhat power hungry with its redundant supplies. There is a snap in program for WHS that allows one to hibernate the server at selected times and I may eventually add that program.

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Chris Slycord
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posted 05-13-2008 10:51 AM

Yeah via only has 32-bit processors now. Though AMD has introduced some processors that are closer to their level of power-consumption which are 64-bit. And I'm sure that they'll come out with 64-bit cpus eventually.

Though windows home server seems like overkill if all you're doing is what charles mentioned (just running ftp and http servers). And I'm not sure what exactly in a generic server would really need 64-bit either.

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Sean McKinnon
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posted 05-13-2008 11:16 AM

off topic, I used to volunteer at a cable access station in the mid 90's before I found bigger cooler machines to play with (35 projectors) we were all NTSC S-VHS format with the exception of one 1/2 inch deck in "Cablecasting" to playback programs from other access studios. I was one of few people who had the ability to properly white balance and phase the studio cameras using the wave form and vectorscope monitors. You could very very clearly tell which shows were taped on days when I wasn't there as the same people would look green on camera one, purple on camera two, and blue on camera three. It was pretty funny to watch! We would play a game trying to guess which color was going to come up every time they switched cameras! [Big Grin]

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James Westbrook
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posted 05-13-2008 02:58 PM

How did Allison's recovery drive get so full? My recovery drive is at 18 percent capacity, and I've had this computer since 2003.

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