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Hey everyone, I just wanted to apologize to everyone for any issues you may have noticed occurring over the past day or two in regards to any slowdown or page loading problems. I, myself, realized something was wrong yesterday afternoon through this morning. I called up my host and had them submit a ticket to check switch which they just recently replaced and any other network related issues as the server seemed fine. As of roughly 11AM EST this morning everything has seemed to be fine. If you notice any loading issues/slowdowns please let me know. Thanks! B

FIRST OFF HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BESTTECHIE!!! And TODAY is the giveaway! Be at http://live.besttechie.net - 4PM EST! Try and arrive a few minutes (or more) before then. B

Yes, it should. B

Jeff generally works. B

Just be registered and in the chat room. B

Not a huge of WD My Book external drives - love WD internal drives, but not a big fan of the external stuff. I prefer LaCie drives - if you look on my blog I recently did a post on buying an external drive. Also, I have a special discount on LaCie drives for BestTechie members which can be found here: http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/15/speci...al-hard-drives/ As for the other post with regards to buying an external drive see here: http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/12/buyin...nal-hard-drive/ And yes, you're correct about the interfaces. B

Welcome! We're always looking for new people to help out. B

You need to be in the live chat room! Which can be found here: http://live.besttechie.net - join the chat there! B

That's great Matt! B

Seems we survived. Did anyone notice a hiccup? B

Moved to PC Support. B

Glad you figured it out! Did you have it set to hide inactive icons? B

Reminder: THIS SATURDAY IS THE GIVEAWAY @ 4PM EST! http://live.besttechie.net B

Hey everyone, This is a BestTechie exclusive! I have received a special discount on LaCie External Hard Drives for everyone here! The information is in the blog post below: http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/15/speci...al-hard-drives/ There is no expiration on this offer either! B

Just received this email from the data center the BestTechie server is located: - Maintenance window: Start Date and Time: 2008-Aug-17 02:00 EST End Date and Time: 2008-Aug-17 04:00 EST Action and Reason: Edge router hardware upgrade for increased capacity Location of work: New York, US. Description of work: Webair will be upgrading a customer facing edge router, installing additional 10 Gigabit interfaces. Service will be failed over to a redundant router during the maintenance window. Client Impact: Clients may experience brief packet loss while service is switched to the redundant routers

Hi Everyone, I'm happy to announce the newest admin on BestTechie - TheTerrorist_75. TheTerrorist_75 has continued to work extremely hard throughout the years and today I'm glad to announce he's our newest administrator. Congrats to TheTerrorist_75 - keep up the great work! B

UPDATE: The giveaway will be on August 23rd, 2008 @ 4PM EST! B

You could always convert the mov file to an avi and edit it in Windows Movie Maker. This should convert the file to an avi which then can imported into Windows Movie Maker or whatever you use to edit it: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mov2avi.html EDIT: You can also use the program (looks to have more features/functionality) TT_75 recommended to convert it which can then be imported to an editing program. B

Should be here today... I will do a live unboxing when it arrives. B

Hey guys! As a lot of you may know the BestTechie forums are approaching the 4 year mark and in order to celebrate I decided we are going to be giving away an 8GB iPod Touch! The information can be found in the blog post below: http://www.besttechie.net/2008/08/05/ipod-touch-giveaway/ Thankfully August 23rd, 2008 is a Saturday so I hope everyone who wants to be a part of this can be. I haven't decided a time yet, I will post an update when I figure out a time that will work for most people. UPDATE: The giveaway will be on August 23rd, 2008 @ 4PM EST! B

You know it! B

Thanks to Larry at BleepingComputer for the warning... Someone has been PMing members at BC with the following: The topic is actually disguised using BBCode so that it leads to a different domain: [url="hXXp://8cd46.9hz.com"]http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic161242.html[/url] It's now offline, but I added the XX in place of tt just to be safe. The page is a rip of the BleepingComputer login page. If you didn't notice the strange URL, and logged in, it would redirect you to the proper topic... after it stole your login details! They've tried it once, and they're likely to try again.

Thanks to Matt for editing the folder icons a bit so it is now easier to differentiate whether there are new posts in a forum or not. B

Hey Everyone, You may have noticed a new look to our forums - I have revamped the skin along with the help of my friend Bayliss to make it more "BestTechieized". I really am loving it and I hope you all do as well. However, for those of you who do not particularly like it or do not like change I have left the old skin still available. All you have to do to use it is go down to the bottom of the forums by the RSS icon and in the drop down menu select "IPB 2.2.0 Default". This will revert your skin to the older version. If you notice any problems with the skin, please let me know. Enjoy

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