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Please edit the .reg file that you've used and post the code here.

I'm guessing you're just a spammer considering your email address format. I'm watching your next move. Regards!

Happy Birthday Rick! Any news from Marion regarding the misterious package?

Agreed with Rick. Voted!

I might sell my Popcorn Hour A-110 device and now I'm in doubt what to buy next. As more reviews I read, the more I get confused The first and and the cheapest device was WD TV Live player, but I've given up on it as I've seen a lot of issues with this device. By your thoughts and opinions, which one would be a fair substitute for my Popcorn Hour A-110 player? Xtreamer - Previous versions had the fan that was pretty loud, but this version has a passive cooler. Except from lousy remote controller, this is a very good device. ( $190 in Croatia ) Mede8er - According to some of my colleagues that own this device it is working perfectly and without any glitches. ( $225 in Croatia ) PopCorn Hour A-210 - A-200 wasn't accepted very well by customers because of the plastic case and a lousy fan, so A-210 was realeased shortly after it's predecessor A-200. ( $312 in Croatia ) Dune HD Base 3.0 - Nobody I know owns this device and not many thorough reviews can be found on the net. Apart from that it looks very good and that it is very expensive, I don't know much about this device. ( $355 in Croatia) Any suggestion or advice is highly appreciated.

The only thing I did is cleared the cache for the forum from the Admin Panel.

Because of this, our Page Rank has dropped to 4 as it was 5 before this issues.

Is it just me, or this site is really loading faster now?

OpenID login methond has been removed from WinCert.net for the reasons mentioned in post on robrohan.com web site: This blog has been having some serious uptime problems, but with our move and starting our new jobs, I haven't had time to look into the problem. At completely random times the server would just spin out of control as if it was under a denial of service attack. I figured it was just someone's home made, badly written spider, and it would just stop – but it kept happening. Finally, I got a chance to sit down and see what might be going on with the box, and it looks like someone – well, several people, actually a lot of people – were using the OpenID plugin on wordpress (and the openid module on drupal (I have both on this server)) to either proxy porn and gambling sites, or to increase hits on their porn and gambling sites. The apache error log was full – and I mean full – of things like this (where "…" is some porn or gambling site): [color=#555C62][font=arial, helvetica, arial, tahoma, sans-serif][size=2]21-Dec-2010 10:40:10] Successfully fetched 'http://www.evdenevenakliyatt.org/': GET response code 200 [21-Dec-2010 11:02:26] Got no response code when fetching [url="http://www.kiralikotolar.org/audi-q7-kiralama.html"]http://www.kiralikotolar.org/audi-q7-kiralama.html[/url] [21-Dec-2010 11:02:26] CURL error (6): Couldn't resolve host 'www.kiralikotolar.org' [21-Dec-2010 11:10:59] Successfully fetched 'http://www.evdenevenakliyatt.org/': GET response code 200 [21-Dec-2010 11:23:02] Successfully fetched 'http://www.kravmagabootcamp.com/': GET response code 200 [21-Dec-2010 11:36:38] Successfully fetched 'http://www.evdenevenakliyatt.org/': GET response code 200 [21-Dec-2010 11:55:27] Successfully fetched 'http://onlinealibabamovie.tk/': GET response code 200 [21-Dec-2010 12:08:47] Successfully fetched 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The disk was faulty and I got it replaced with a 7200rpm one. I don't know why they gave me almost 20$ more expensive disk. I've also replaced another 3.5" 1.5TB disk from Seagate that started clicking. That drive was at 5900 (green) and I also got it replaced for a faster 7200rpm, 1.5TB Seagate drive. I'm guessing that Seagate has problems with 5400 or 5900 rpm drives.

Hey guys, why aren't we updating this list anymore?

Happy Birthday KELS!!

I've just made some tests with Seagate Tools and long and short DST tests FAILED. What I've seen on the net, I should backup the data and replace the drive. Maybe that was the reason of whine sound while reading the disk.

Well, I think it was about time to replace my Seagate 1.5TB Green 5900rpm since for the last couple of months I hear it clicking. I have now connected it to my PC where I'm using Ext2Explore so I can access the Linux partition on Windows OS. Today, it is click much more than before, but I can still download data. I am worried that it is starting to malfunction. What should I do with it once I move the data? Format and scan it with some third party software? Update: I am copying data to my 2.5" disk now and this whining can't be heard during the copy/write process, but only while watching the movie/read process. Any ideas?

I haven't tried that, but I could try it. For instance we've watched the movie yesterday and that sound is pretty irritating.

Yes, I've put some silicone stoppers similar to this: http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00FeWQpsAykgol/Silicone-Vial-Stoppers-Plugs-and-Pieces-Using-in-Oral-Agents-calt006-.jpg No matter that, disk is not quiet.

Well, I ain't satisfied with the disk. Although I've bought 5400rpm, I hear it whining which is very irritant. This disk is NOT quiet as I thought. It is more quiet than 3.5", but far from the silence that I need. One other thing, when you connect the 3.5" disk in the Popcorn Hour it will be recognized out of the box, but that is not the situation with the 2.5" drive/s, well, at least this one. I had to format it in Windows and then place it in the Popcorn so it can be formated to EXT3. Also, when I was connecting the HDMI to the POPCORN, that was already connected with the TV, I've accidentally touched the Popcorn screw when small sparks showed up. I was scared to shit as I've seen on the net that you can easily fry your HDMI port. Luckily, as I can see, nothing bad happened. Maybe that was just a static or a very small voltage, although I doubt that TV was jeopardized here as IT was the one sending that voltage. In worst scenario, Popcorn could get a nasty shock

After reading a bit more reviews, I've decided to go with the slower one (5400.6). I hope that it will be ok

Media stuttering, that shouldn't be happening on a 5400rpm drive, at least according to the PCH forums. You're telling me??? I want the A-210 !!! )) A-200 was a miss with the plastic case and a fan. This is the same model but in aluminium case and a passive cooler. If I manage to sell the A-110, I'll surely go for the A-210!

Thanks Mr_Smartepants, that spin "whine" is driving me crazy on my current 3.5" Seagate Green drive that I currently have installed in PCH-A110, although 2.5" drive will me very silent compared to 3.5" drive. I almost decided to go with the slower one, but one user said that he often hears clicking on it and that silentpc review also said that 7200rpm is more silent than 5400, but they can't tell why.. Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB - We're at a loss to explain how this 7200rpm drive can be quieter than the 5400rpm Momentus 500GB with the same number of platters that we reviewed in the spring. Perhaps one or both of our samples are atypical

Hi guys, I need a 2.5" drive for my Popcorn Hour Media Player. This drive will be used for ext3 (Linux) file system and only for watching my backed-up Blu-ray movies (.mkv) I currently have Seagate Green at 5900 (16MB or 32MB cache), I'm not sure.. This disk is too loud when watching movies with low volume, so I need a quiet and cool disk. The speed shouldn't make a difference for my needs, but I'm wondering is there a huge difference between 8MB and 16MB cache sizes, especially for this purpose? HDD Mobile SEAGATE Momentus 5400.6 (2.5",500GB,8MB,Serial ATA II-300) HDD Mobile SEAGATE Momentus 7200.4 (2.5",500GB,16MB,Serial ATA II-300) According to this review, Seagate Momentus 7200.4 is more silent than his slower brother at 5400.6 ??? http://www.silentpcreview.com/article992-page1.html The price difference between these two models is around $7.