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that's exactly why you should have a firewall when using windows networking (or any other internal server for that matter)

i can see real reason to ignore the automatic updates... several of the updates are known to cause more problems than they fix. I, personally, would not setup auto updates on my own computer.

i totally understand. It's always a good idea to update your hardware if you're diing a clean install anyway... you don't want old device drivers clogging up your system or creating conflicts. it also lets you get a chance to create backups, etc so that you are prepared incase things don't go...

I would think this would be very embarrassing to microsoft.

JTR, i've seen 440BX boards only support 8GB drives.. all depends on the mobo maker and how good they are at BIOS updates.

Unfortunately Merc you probably have more ghost experience than any of us feeble minions. What version of ghost and what version of DOS?

nope... not here.... i had some weirdness when my IDE cable was connected in reverse... seems weird for 15GB drives... perhaps you can run a chkdsk or fix MBR on both drives...

disable the process msblast or msblaster.. goto windows update.. if they have XP enable the firewall... i've taken 30 or so calls on it...

OMG, somebody help these poor windowsupdateless people! anybody else hear about this, merc, honold, tannin?

things always pick up at the end...

looks like a nice printer, how much ar you expecting for it?

heh, we're installing new carpet.. whcih means im fixing squeaks and running wire before they get the new carpet down... Also means my computers are packed up ... my only access is via work at the moment. Then I have to move later this week.. so no use setting things back up in between...

not everything works with daemon tools... ala SIMS and having an external drive would make the computer even less portable than having a "large" optical drive

I really don't see a reason to get anything other than the bare minimum p4 based celeron for office use... The main thing is to get 512MB RAM and not the 128 or 256 that comes with most celeron computers. -windows, along with a couple office apps can be a real hog. low level graphics(TNT class...

some people could.. not a SIMS addict... good points though...

remember windows install from floppy?... ugh...

yeah, im getting new carpet... my room is empty and my server off.. in th box.. in the basement... I'm moving on Friday/sat and don't have any internet service plans as of yet so my avatar will need to be hosted somewhere else. I'll get around to it.. sorry if it's sloing page loading.

why exactly would you want to puta 2.5" drive inside a desktop? I could see in racks because you can fit more in the same space... adn I can see for external.. and I can see for anything portable... but for desktops I just don't see the point...

Heh, the machines at work are PII/Celeron class with 320MB RAM.. hardly a workstation machine. I'm giving a similar machine away to my sister for web/email/music use.

can you print screen and then paste into an imaging program? have you tried linux PDF viewers? can you copy and paste the text into a word processing program?

Merc, I think it depends on the software player.. some willl play OK on a fast PII or slow PIII. Of course, the video card has to atleast support overlay... motion compensation and stuff like that would be nice as well, but not necessary. I agree that a PCI sound card is probably the best way...

just check out webattack.com off my head there is cloneCD for copying and alcohol is another option on the win32 side...

you're not stressing the video card.. 2D is all about the CPU...

I have 3 Rockford Fosgate AGU 60 amp gold plated glass fuses from a 4 pack that I bought a few years ago. None of these fuses have been used and they are still in the original packaging. These would be great for anyone wanting to protect their car stereo investment. I used one on my Memphis...

The delivered on Sat? I was expecting (hoping) that they'd get there on friday.

or atleast the 1st season that had Page Davis.

beacsue trading spaces became popular and now there are copy cats.... I really liked the 1st season of trading spaces on TLC.

I ahve an Epson Dot matrix Action Printer 5000 exactly like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3426268741&category=41819 For sale. Looks in good condition, but is untested. comes with printer cable and power cable. I also have an HP Deskjet 560C color inkjet printer in...

i don't get the buffy opinion....

what differences are there in the kernel from 2k to XP to 2k3? were things rewritten, or just things added? what stayed the same?

i still have the old one if anybody wants to setup an extreme heat exchanger for a water cooling setup....

as flagreen said, lack of freon can cuase that problem.. happen ed to us, we had a very small freon leak and over time we would get the exact same ice buildup on the inside and outside pipes in our central air. we had to replace the condensor.

i loved the seinfeld TV series... but you're right about his stand-up material.. not very funny.

huh, i was thinking Vdub was linux as well as windows... guess it's just open source win32 only.... I can do without ATi's MMC mainly because i get shit on by ATi because I have a TV wonder and not an All-in-wonder card. I don't mess wiht .mpg files anymore and haven't used tmpeg in over a...

i was working on a machine today at work.. the keyboard stopped responding(no text input, num lock stuck on).. mouse worked fine... keyboard was plugged in, but was using some type of adapter cable (old keybaord plugged into a ps/2 port) so I pushed it in all the way, but the keyboard refused...

is anybody else impressed with the ability to run photoshop and office in linux? what other applications do you require that are windows only? (i haven't used IE for months accept for testing)

marks last solution seems to have the most redundacy if you ask me... It think it's a great idea. You can survive a failure of all but 1 disk and still maintain a backup of a max of 1 week old. in a RAID 5 array you only have to lose 2 disks for the entire set of data to be hosed.

looknig back, it was howell that I remember specifically recomending it here for troubleshooting.. i think newton also mentioned it, as did someone else... on this board atleast...

I'd try netperf... that's just me though... search on SR.

For years I have used a tool called X-Setup form Xteq as a complementary tool to tweakUI. I never understood why people were so obsessed with registry tweaks the hard way. Simply use the X-Setup GUI and you have the option to enable/disable/set 99% of the registry tweaks out there for win9x to...

clean c:\winNT\temp (or tmp) heh... stuff in the media folder...

or just "update drivers" for the controller and select a different driver if available.

I've had good results with the built in windows/microsoft fastrack drivers. The promise ones seem to suck lately to be honest. Make sure you have the newest BIOS for your motherboard (sot hat your fastrack BIOS is up to date) and see if win2k has drivers that support the fastrack by...

yup, no crashes here man.

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http://movix.sourceforge.net/ interesting tool... another live linux on CD distro.

im the webmaster of my domain.. does that count?

yes, but then you get in the habbit (on both things).. and become dependant on them.

just a few thoughts... 1) you could have somebody dress up like a hdd and stand outside the store with a big sign advertising your disks. 2) I'm sure somebodies made sculpture from old media... 3) mount a fan to the spindle motor of a hdd and use the HDD to cool your PC...