Well, I doubt fluffy kittens could help with technical issues. Or are we saying that fluffy kittens create technical issues? My first suggestion would be, clean out your fan periodically. Make sure all kitty hair has been removed from the fan.

OK, the fans are cleared of all kitty hairs.

Linksys router still at fault.

Dune are you getting any error messages when you log into the router?

The old Linksys router has been given away to some poor smuck.

What are you using now?

It's a Dynex E401

How is it working so far?

It's great. But it's my son's. I can't tell you much other than: he hasn't had a bit of trouble for 6 months now.

If you start having problems with it check your OS network settings.

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Have to be careful because there are a couple kinds of s-video, but the quality should be very high. I use s-vid wires for cable to tv, dvd/vhs to tv, and computer to tv. I use my DVI to flat screen and projector, and SGI out to monitor.

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Some video cards had capture capabilities but I don't know about now. I bought a dvd/vhs combo to get it done without having the added steps of capture, conversion, burning.

I'd like to make videos some day and would have gone the computer route had I needed it for movie "making". Probably cheaper to get a capture card rather than the combo I went with. Felt bad going backwards just to convert my vhs's to dvd's, which I still haven't done even one yet, lol. Plus I have a laptop which made the choice easier for me.

:)

I used to have one of this type of video card, but it was first generation and wasn't very good. They still make them like that, but the stand-alone video capture devices seem to be the norm now.

There are attachment cards and USB capture devices. I'm using a USB device currently. It is by Dazzle and came with Pinnacle's Studio 9 software (mine is a couple of years old). It connects to a USB 2.0 port, USB 1 is too slow. But most computers built over the last couple of years have USB 2.0, so that shouldn't be an issue.

I'm using it on a P4-HT 3.2 GHZ Northwood processor, and I can't run SETI at full load and capture video at the same time without dropping frames.

My capture device has both RCA and S-video inbound ports, the newer ones have component (digital) ports and HD capabilities.

I use the Pinnacle software to capture to either MPG or AVI formats, but then use NERO to compile the DVD features and convert the MPG/AVI file to DVD format and burn it. You can get about 2 hours of good quality video on a standard 4.7GB DVD blank; if you take the quality down, you can get more time. The Dual Layer DVD's (9 GB) are hard to find in stores around here, and are expensive, so I haven't tried any of those, but my burner is supposed to be able to burn them.

There's the basics, any questions?

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USB 2.0 cap cards? Nice!!!

RCA for vid and audio?

Thanks Labbie!

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USB 2.0 cap cards? Nice!!!

Thanks Labbie!

Yeah, I had trouble with an attachment card so I tried the USB, it works fine.

Only cost me about $80 too for the device and the software, IIRC.

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RCA for vid and audio?

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RCA for vid and audio?

Vid has both RCA and S-vid, audio is RCA L & R.

but like I said, there are newer ones that give you the full digital vid and digital audio (OK I may not have mentioned the audio), provided your PC can handle it.

My PC supposedly can handle digital audio, but I'd need another card for it to make it happen. But to capture digital audio, your source has to be digital too. But I'm sure someone has made a device to convert that signal too. ;)

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Understood,


Thanks again!

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Back to the cabled router issues.
When I first set it up, I just wanted to have both connected to the internet.
I knew at some point I would want to be able to share files between them, but it was not (and is not yet) an urgent issue.
Last night, I ran the Wizard. I was able to have my personal laptop recognize my work laptop and sees the folders/files I told it to share. But, the work laptop does not always see the personal laptop; or, when it does, it still cannot see which files I've told the personal laptop to share.
TimeLord gave some assistance. He thinks I need to have an account with the same name and password on each. If I followed his instructions correctly, it did not work.
The IT Helpdesk at work told me to check the IP of each machine. When logged in at home, the two IPs different only in the last digit. The guy I spoke with told me one other thing I could try would be to type, in DOS on the work laptop, \\\\ip of personal laptop.
The message I received was: The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Any suggestions, folks?

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The workgroup name must match on the two machines. To get to this, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties, then click on the Computer Name tab, then click on the Change button.

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The workgroup name must match on the two machines. To get to this, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties, then click on the Computer Name tab, then click on the Change button.

Took care of that while using the Wizard on each. Just double-checked. The workgroup name is the same on each, all in caps on each.

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The workgroup name must match on the two machines. To get to this, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties, then click on the Computer Name tab, then click on the Change button.

Took care of that while using the Wizard on each. Just double-checked. The workgroup name is the same on each, all in caps on each.

Are you using wireless? With a 3rd party driver setup (LinkSys or Cisco, etc.)? Some of those default setup to an Access point connection instead of an Infrastructure, which prevents sharing.

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The workgroup name must match on the two machines. To get to this, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties, then click on the Computer Name tab, then click on the Change button.

Took care of that while using the Wizard on each. Just double-checked. The workgroup name is the same on each, all in caps on each.

Are you using wireless? With a 3rd party driver setup (LinkSys or Cisco, etc.)? Some of those default setup to an Access point connection instead of an Infrastructure, which prevents sharing.

Cabled. Not wireless. Linksys.

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The workgroup name must match on the two machines. To get to this, right-click on the My Computer icon and select Properties, then click on the Computer Name tab, then click on the Change button.

Took care of that while using the Wizard on each. Just double-checked. The workgroup name is the same on each, all in caps on each.

Are you using wireless? With a 3rd party driver setup (LinkSys or Cisco, etc.)? Some of those default setup to an Access point connection instead of an Infrastructure, which prevents sharing.

Cabled. Not wireless. Linksys.

Are you using XP or Vista? And which flavor of each (Pro, Home, Business, Ultimate, etc.)?

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Work laptop:
Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

Personal laptop:
Windows XP Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

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Then I'm not sure what is going on. Personally, I have never used the wizard, so I don't really know what it asks you to do.

Another thing to check is, open My Computer, click on the Tools drop-down and select Folder Options. Click on the View tab and make sure the Use Simple File Sharing option is checked. It should be the last item in the list.

Could also be a firewall problem. Are you using the Windows firewall or a 3rd party firewall?

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Then I'm not sure what is going on. Personally, I have never used the wizard, so I don't really know what it asks you to do.

Another thing to check is, open My Computer, click on the Tools drop-down and select Folder Options. Click on the View tab and make sure the Use Simple File Sharing option is checked. It should be the last item in the list.

Could also be a firewall problem. Are you using the Windows firewall or a 3rd party firewall?

Since one is from work, I cannot even tell what firewall is being used; they just assure me it has one. Real helpful , eh?

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With the work laptop are you logging into a domain or into the computer itself? If you normally log into a domain, you can still get to your PC when you're not connected to the domain, but you may NOT be able to share within a workgroup until you are logged onto the computer. I don;t know that I have ever tried to do that.

At the login box, click Advanced (More, something like that) button and it should expand the box to add a 3rd drop-down box. You can choose between the domain and the computer there.

But...your account for the domain may NOT be the account for the computer. The IT desk may have to help in this area. Logging into the computer instead of the domain (and vise-versa) can be confusing at first, but normally the only difference to the user is that 3rd drop-down list on the login page.

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Then I'm not sure what is going on. Personally, I have never used the wizard, so I don't really know what it asks you to do.

Another thing to check is, open My Computer, click on the Tools drop-down and select Folder Options. Click on the View tab and make sure the Use Simple File Sharing option is checked. It should be the last item in the list.

Could also be a firewall problem. Are you using the Windows firewall or a 3rd party firewall?

Since one is from work, I cannot even tell what firewall is being used; they just assure me it has one. Real helpful , eh?

Corporate firewall, you probably couldn't change the setting anyway.

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