Recent content by avianrand

never mind. i'm all set.

Hi there :) I have a 2 channel Adcom preamp. There's no subwoofer output (LFE or otherwise). For many years I've run my single M&K subwoofer with a double RCA cable, left to left and right to right from the tape outputs on the preamp. My 25 year old subwooder is failing. I'm probably going to...

I ran a pretty complete test of Acronis earlier today. I don't think I really like it. I spent 1/2 hour on the phone with them to get some questions answered. It's okay but not enough granular control for my taste. I also installed and did a pretty complete test with Macrium. I like it better...

I'll check those out. Thanks. :) I should also mention that I use Casper (been using it for a very long time) to clone my entire data drive(s) now and then and they go either in my fireproof safe or my safe deposit box at the bank. I liked having CrashPlan running too so that I'd have all those...

I'm a single person software development company. I don't need anything fancy and I don't want cloud. I've done cloud before. I used CrashPlan for year. I liked it but they are closing up shop for what I used them for. There are TOOOO many cloud companies out there who come and go. I don't want...

Thanks. I didn't say this exactly in my OP but one of the things I like about Magic DVD Ripper is that I can backup a DVD lossless to my HDD. It's not converting it to mpeg or avi (although that's possible). It puts the exact contents of the DVD onto the drive and makes it playable from there...

I'm just still in testing phases of a new build (see specs below). I use Magic DVD ripper to put my DVD's on my computer. On my XP machine (Q6600 with 4MB RAM) a full length movie can take around 9 minutes. I figured I'd get that way down on this new machine so I tried it out today just for...