Daily Internet Digest

Yep, those bloody pirates have struck again! But the British police were right to save the day as they conducted a dawn raid in Cardiff, Welsh and arrested three people suspected of involvement in Internet-based music and film piracy rings. Two men (one of which is the ring leader) and a woman were said to be part of the biggest suppliers of pirated music and films in Britain, earning about 3,000 pounds (6,173 $) a month. Now I understand how these cyber thieves find the piracy business a lucrative one. Too bad it�s considered illegal and unethical. But piracy is not going to end unless people stop buying from them. Just some food for thought, folks.

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Web radio is quite strange for us, but it has steadily grown into the user’s way of life. Sort of a habit when surfing.There are thousands of radio stations worldwide, by going online, these stations can each a global audience. How cool can that be? One thing you’re listening to your favorite local station, the next you might be dancing to the beat of a Chinese DJ. Internet radio revolutionized the way we listen to music. It has put us in total control. You can listen to what you want, when you want it. But behind the scene is the great technology that makes this all possible. It is called streaming audio. “Streaming” means that you don’t have to download the entire music file before you can play it. Once a small amount of the file is buffered, the audio begins. An you can enjoy that hard rocking music, you’ve been longing to hear.

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled – that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.