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  1. Chewy509

    Microsoft DHCP Server Scope Change

    Hi dd, Linky is broken...
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    Defective Seagates

    As much as I dislike Apple, at least they are being proactive about replacing the defective drives... Pity they don't give reason for the issue? Could be a bad batch, or improper shipping between Seagate and Apple?
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    New TV ideas

    LM, we had similar problems in deciding the most appropriate TV as well. It was shocking to see how poorly some TVs were setup instore, especially for some top-end models from Sony, LG and Samsung were being feed BR content via 576i component? Maybe they couldn't afford to or spare to use a...
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    Contact synchronization

    Not forgetting all HTC Android based phones come with "HTCSync" for free to do the same thing, which works well with Outlook. For TB, the situation is as Merc post.
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    Paid antivirus

    Home use or corporate use? For Corporate stuff, the Trend Micro management software is one of the better ones, and Officescan is fairly light on resources. On the other hand, I've personally found anything Symantec or McAfee to be horrible on the management side of things, with the clients...
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    Contact synchronization

    Did you want direct phone -> mail client sync, or is it okay to use a 3rd party as a conduit? Also what OS for the desktop? Windows only? Windows/Linux mix? For Android based phones, use GMail as a conduit and use the "Google Contacts" plugin for Thunderbird or "Google Apps Sync for Outlook" -...
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    Domain Controllers

    Out of interest, was the server also providing DHCP? If so, did it "just work" or did they have to fiddle with it to make it work? (My experience shows that the Microsoft DHCP service ties it's configuration to the MAC address of the NIC, and after a cloning operation or changing the NIC, you...
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    And here is how to decipher Kingston's current model numbering scheme... http://www.valueram.com/desktop/memory.asp What I described was their old numbering scheme for DDR. Looks like they changed it recently... Apologies for the confusion
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Umm, that's DDR2 RAM? Not DDR 1 RAM (which is what you need). Time linked to the correct RAM... (But you can only use 2 of those sticks as they are dual rank DIMMs, so using more than 3 sticks of it, will take you over the 6 rank limit). PS. On Kingston's website - here is a reference to the 6...
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    I don't know where you got the 1.8v from, as the datasheet I found links it as 2.6V Reg ECC DDR400 Single Rank. :frowner: The problem is Kingston recently changed their naming scheme and removed all references to the number of ranks on the DIMM. (X64 is Registered, and X72 is Registered ECC)...
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    10 Year Anniversary for StorageForum

    I really like this thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41 That reminds, apparently there is another "Chewy509" on the Interweb, as I was informed a few weeks ago... (Someone was looking for her, and got me instead).
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    With Clawhammer (and Sledgehammer) CPUs, the IMC (integrated memory controller) is limited to handling 6 ranks of RAM irrespective of the speed or number of DIMM slots. So you could use 1 quad rank DIMM + 1 dual rank DIMM, or 3 dual rank DIMMS + 1 single rank DIMM or 4 single rank DIMMs, or...
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    10 Year Anniversary for StorageForum

    The recall you guys seems to have: :rambo: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/member.php?u=3 - Doug joined 13 Jan 2002 http://www.storageforum.net/forum/member.php?u=4 - Clocker joined 14 Jan 2002. There is no user id 1 and 2, well not publicly accessible at least.
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    Dead AMD 3200+, Dead ram, and possibly Power supply

    Very true, but it does make for a much more responsive system.
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    10 Year Anniversary for StorageForum

    yes, according to thread #1, it was 01-15-2002, 12:57 PM . http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1
  16. Chewy509

    68 MBPS IS FAST, WITH BURSTS TO 98, AND, THAT'S JUST SO FAR

    :frowner: That sucks, and based on the attenuation figure you gave, you're about the same distance from the exchange as I am. Have you done an isolation test and may be replaced the ADSL filters? (Might give you some more speed since your SNR is better than mine). Mind you can't be that bad...
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    68 MBPS IS FAST, WITH BURSTS TO 98, AND, THAT'S JUST SO FAR

    Just another note, Telstra have pretty much disable most features through the web-interface (including even changing the DHCP address range available - you can either turn on or off DHCP - you get no other configuration), but if you man-up and use the telnet interface the entire router can be...
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    68 MBPS IS FAST, WITH BURSTS TO 98, AND, THAT'S JUST SO FAR

    Here are my stats: Uptime: 1 day, 0:40:46 DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 917 / 9,846 Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.5 / 1.5 Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 26.0 / 45.5 SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6.5 / 5.5 And this...
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    New TV ideas

    Had our new TV delivered today, and spent more time fiddling with and adjusting the wall mount than actually setting up the TV. Managed to get a new Sony 40" LCD TV (KDL40CX52) for just under AU$700, including 5yr onsite warranty and free home delivery. (it's a 1080p 50Hz LCD TV, with 4x HDMI...
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    68 MBPS IS FAST, WITH BURSTS TO 98, AND, THAT'S JUST SO FAR

    And here I am happy finally getting ADSL2+, after being stuck with 1.5Mbps ADSL for the last 2yrs. :crap: PS. Due to my distance from the exchange (roughly 2.8km or 1.7mi), I can only get 9Mbps down with 950kbps up. But this is obviously far better than the 1.5Mbps/384kbps connection I had...
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    Migrating to Gmail

    Not for LDAP address books. IIRC, most people use the central LDAP address book for the central corporate email addresses, and then use private address books for all other contacts. (Yes, that sucks when you want a centralised client address book). But for Gmail, the "Google Contacts" add-in...
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    New TV ideas

    Thanks for the feedback. I've only rarely seen the Sharp TVs in store, so they don't tend to be popular in these parts. (But if you want a Samsung, those things breed like rabbits). I'm definitely considering the Sharp TV as the number 1 option... The next version of the Wii (called Wii U)...
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    New TV ideas

    Hi Everyone, I must start this post with, we are having a royal PITA time with electronics recently, and am getting sick of having to replace our stuff... Anyway, long story short, our current LG 42" Plasma TV (which is a 480p panel) decided to not play nice anymore. It's 3.5yr old, and the...
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    RAID1 "Broken", Re- install or Recover ?

    Excellent. Sorry can't help you with that one. Only you know which SATA ports on the mother board it was connected to. Does the SSD have a working OS installation on it? I don't know your motherboard that well, but if it has 2 drive controllers, the Intel ICH10R and the JMicron controller...
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    RAID1 "Broken", Re- install or Recover ?

    This is only a suggestion, any may result in data loss. If you are ensure, immediately grab a copy of Ghost or some other drive duplication application, and make a sector for sector copy of one of the drives for safe keeping in case something goes wrong. I would connect both drives to the...
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    question SSD Partitioning

    AFAIK it'll distribute over the whole 120GB...
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    Advanced formating on WD10EALX?

    Totally agree, that there are often mistakes in spec sheets. However since this series of drives also come in PATA models (at lower capacities), it would make sense that these are 512byte sector drives due to the PATA factor. But since we know WDC naming scheme leave a lot to be desired, it's...
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    Advanced formating on WD10EALX?

    To the original question, according to the spec sheet, it's 512byte sectors. Formatted Capacity: 1,000,204 MB User Sector Count: 1,953,525,169 Therefore 1,000,204,000,000 bytes / 1,953,525,169 sectors = 512 bytes/sector Source: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701277.pdf
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    Plus Me.

    I don't have any, but Joerg may have some left? http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7379-Need-a-Google+-invite.html (Joerg runs a Solaris blog that I read every 2nd/3rd day).
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    Old military planes

    Very nice... I just wish the ADF Media library had some pics of the older planes in Australian service. (They recently released about 30pics of the Mirage fleet with some pics from the 1960s). For those interested the Australian Defence Media library can be found here...
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    Old military planes

    Think SR-71 but with weapons...
  32. Chewy509

    Different types of SFF-8484 to SATA cable?

    What's wrong with ZFS on FreeBSD? It'll give you the RAID component, plus a few other nice features like checksumming on all files?
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    question Mobile Phones

    Having the touchscreen only becomes a problem once you get into the higher levels when the bricks are falling faster. You occasionally hit the wrong button. We eneded up settling for this version of Tetris: http://www.topandroidgames.net/detail?package=com.mybo.tetris
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    question Mobile Phones

    Just to follow on from this older post. On the Wildfire with the HTC Android 2.2 image, my wife and I are getting 4-5 days before a recharge with our normal usage. Initially it was every 2-3 days, but that had to do more with use constantly playing with the phones and working out how to do...
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    question Mobile Phones

    Does anyone know of a free Tetris game for Android that does not suck? I've tried the paid EA version, and a few others I've downloaded, but they all suck in some manner? Also does anyone know of a Puzzle Bobble like game as well?
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    Avira Alternative

    +1 for MSE
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    RDP file transfers can't be trusted

    I've only rarely used the internal file transfer in RDP, but didn't know that it didn't use any form of checksumming. (Now that explains why the few tims I had problems with it). Thanks for the info. Most of the time, I've used FTP/HTTP to transfer stuff across especially across the Internet...
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    Internal firewalls were/are implemented to stop worms from travelling around the LAN, when brought in by other means like USB keys. The problem is, most worms use services/protocols that need to be open on the firewall by default for anything useful to be done. eg Admin file shares. My biggest...
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    Phenom as Server

    AMD based server Just saw this on HP's website. It's targeted at SMB, but should make a nice home server for those with minimal requirements. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/au/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-5040202.html Price starts at AU$480, with 1yr next business...
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    Glad you got it working. Alternatively setup a domain, and set all that as a domain wide GPO, that way you only need to do it once to it'll be applied all machines within the domain.
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    Now, now, don't be so harsh. The answer to all your problems is here or here.
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    On the Win7 PC, in event log> security, do you see the WinXP client attempting to authenticate? (I can't remember if Win7 records success/fail login attempts on shares or not. If not, just enable the right GPO objects to do the recording). This may give you some clues as to what is going on.
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    You log in as your normal user account. When connecting to a foreign machine, Windows will attempt to authenticate with your user account. If authentication fails, it will then try authenticate as "Guest" with no password, and if that fails will attempt to authenticate as the Computer name with...
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    My preference would be to use a real user account with a password instead of the Guest. Enabled the Guest user account on the LAN side of things is just a really bad idea with Windows. IIRC, in Advanced Settings, you need to set: "Turn on network discovery", "Turn on file and printer sharing"...
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    Map XP to Windows 7 share

    Have you enabled blank passwords for CIFS in local group policy? Other you may have problems with Guest accounts gaining access to SMB shares, or attempts for users on other computers to gain access to the SMB shares. Open gpedit.msc and it's in: Computer > Windows Settings > Security Settings...
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    question Mobile Phones

    Yep, they predate the Galaxy S by at least 12mths. Wish I had known that at the time, and would've saved having to get alternates phones later on. BTW, my wife loves the HTC Wildfire. (Couldn't afford the Desire). The problem we had, was availablity of models here in Australia. I found a few...
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    MBR rootkit

    Yep, there's been a lot of talk about this newish rootkit, and Microsoft's advise on how to clean it. But going back years when I first started with UNIX systems, the advise for a system that had a rootkit installed or had been hacked was simple. "Wipe the HDDs and do a clean install. Restore...
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    Companies that have burnt...

    A bit of luck I guess. However in order to get the best deal from Telstra, there are a few helpful items to know. There are actually 2 different Sales departments, one for inbound sales and one for outbound sales. The inbound sales department are very hardline about what they give out, and...
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    Companies that have burnt...

    We don't have any price difference between cable and ADSL2+, with either service it's about your download limits and if you can get a static IP or not. And cable rollout was very limited to certain areas only with each city. ADSL1 is a different story. But it's interesting to note, that in some...
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    Companies that have burnt...

    Who said anything about a 24mth contract? :confused: (No fixed term contract was part of the deal - I can leave at any time). :rambo: Anyway, it's all Helstra infrastructure in my area. (One of the problems when semi-rural). If I went with anyone else, they just blame Telstra for any problems...
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