if you drag and drop the emails to a folder they will be a bunch of .eml

Alternatly grab a premade imap server virtual machine image, set it up in outlook, copy the emails to the imap server, and i presume windows live or whatever the crap it is could import from the imap server.

Although imap is an open standard, so i wouldn't be suprised if its not supported by microsoft. outlook has notoriously bad imap support.
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Blu-Ray VS DVD drives

I am duilding up a new PC order and I can't re-use the DVD burner from my old PC as it is IDE and not supported on the new mobo.

If I can get a good DVD burner for around $75 and a Blu-ray burner for double that, what's the better option? I don't need to burn large backup disks as I already have a 320Gb tape drive and I don't have any blu-ray movies (yet), so is there any other advantages to going blu-ray? Has anyone heard of compatibility issues between Blu-ray and older disk formats?

BD reader can be a bit more fussy with reading scratched disks etc.
$75 for a DVD?
I usually pay like $30
but then i only every read disks and burn the occasional iso.

Everything is USB storage these days, HDD's are cheaper than pretty much any other backup media.

I was looking at the cpus.
I'm not sure the I7 is worth it now.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-cpu,2971-4.html
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I was going for an average price of 'name-brand' DVD burners; I have had too many cheapo drives fail early. All the new mobos have USB 3 and its easy to make your own USB3 or eSATA external backup disks - I just happen to have the choice of LTO or DLT tape drives that have been written off at work (if you want one, just ask - you need a SCSI card to interface it though)

The review doesn't mention that the I7 unlocked CPUs can be clocked to amazing frequencies with little work. Most people report pushing them over 4GHz with air cooling. Whether that is worth an extra $10 or so depends on what level of performance you want. I also notice in reviews that the Mobo can limit the CPU speed; if you go extreme, make sure the mobo is known for good overclocking support.

Im with Valen on the DVD's, just grab a cheap DVD burner and work with Hard Drives, 1 720p movie is ~5-7gb and 1 2TB HHD is under $100. If your really crazy about data grab one of the portable HHD stacks and run it in Raid 5, however this is pricy ~$1000-1500 for 10TB of Raided storage.

As for processors I have an i7 XXX older series chip and its still terrific, the i5 XXXX cleans it up though.

If your buying parts in Syd check out the following 3 for cheap parts. ITestate is probably the most reputable with Fluidtek being the least.
MSY - http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf
Fluidtek - http://www.fluidtek.com.au/
ITestate - http://www.itestate.com.au/pages/product/pdt_homepage.faces

umart.com.au has pretty good prices on most stuff. I use them these days instead of MSY because they ship things fast and at a reasonable price. I was charged $30 by MSY to get a stick of ram shipped to work once, and the courier had just dumped it in a $8 express post pack....
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https://www.halfdonethings.com/

Thanks for the links - I never heard of them before. All my parts just shipped from AUS PC market, who are fairly cheap but can definitely be beaten. I will stick with a DVD - seems little advantage to Blu-ray so far.

I hate msy
bunch of assholes wouldn't sell me a video card without buying a whole computer after waiting in line for 40 minutes.

Went to my usual store, paid $30 extra and if i have a warranty issue i can actually talk to somebody about it.

I have been using eyo latley for stuff, they seem fairly cheap.


I'm not going to overclock this machine, its for cassie so reliability is key and I don't think CPU's are really being taxed that much compared to video cards just yet.
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I got my rig from MSY, though i got it from their new store in Auburn. Wasn't a line at all. I got an i7-2600 with a gigabyte board, as I really dislike the asus boards now.

Funny though, no motherboards these days come with a centronics port and for some reason I couldnt get the PCI centronics port to work with the asus boards, but no probs with the gigabyte.

Anyone else getting some error messages from the forums today?
I've have 5-6 of these errors pop up today, just wondering if it's everyone or just me.

code:

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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@robowars.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at robowars.org Port 80

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yeah i got that
opened 19 new tabs to see all new posts, 4 or 5 were 500
reload that page worked ok.

didn't seem slow or anything
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Yeah getting them for about 3 days now.
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www.demon50s.com - Minimoto parts
http://www.youtube.com/user/HyzerGlen - Videoooozzz

Yeh been getting them since Thursday/Friday.

Steve
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Steven Martin
Twisted Constructions
http://www.botbitz.com

Been getting that error every 2nd/3rd page today...
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I havent seen it once yet.

nontheless, I have notified the hosting companys support department. Ill let you know that they say
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