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    Passive FTP on IIS7

    Has anyone setup passive FTP on Server 2008 R2 behind a hardware firewall? I can't find where to designate the range for the data ports.
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    Alarm Clocks

    I'm looking for an alarm clock that will somehow signal some lamps in my room to come on. Any hints?
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    Offline and local backup software

    I am interested in software for both online backup (for offsite) and local backup (for restore speed) for a group of workstations. I'm looking at a RAID1 NAS for local backup but I'm having difficulty locating software. Ideally, I'm looking for something from a single vendor to reduce the...
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    How reliable is the ipconfig /all information?

    If the report says that a particular DHCP server was used, is that a guaranteed? From my understanding of the DHCP hanshake process I believe it to be true but I wanted to double check.
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    ComboFix

    Incredible spyware remover. Cleaned Vundo.H and Rootkit.tdss for me. http://www.combofix.org/
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    Cain and Able - anonymous enumeration of sam acounts

    What do you know about Cain and Able and stopping "anonymous enumeration of sam acounts"? I have the GP enabled (Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts) but I'm still able to enumerate. Any suggestions?
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    USB 2.0 enclosure drive upgrade

    I currently have a 75G drive in an external USB 2.0 enclosure and need to replace with a larger drive. Has hardware changed enough that I need to be concerned with compatibility with the enclosure chip? Am I better off switching over to SATA at this time? This drive recieves backup files over...
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    Fun with SAS details

    I had an issue this week to install a new SAS controller into a server and attach a tape drive. What I found was that the card would not see the drive if the card was plugged in to the end connector (of 2). If I plug the card into the middle connector it sees the drive fine. What's the story?
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    BSOD stop error 124

    My T61 with vista 64 or 32 is throwing up a BSOD stop error 124. It happens most often when I visit Google video, less often for youtube and least for straight up office work. It started when I turned on VT in the BIOS. Googling has not got me anywhere. Any ideas?
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    Vista x64 media

    It appears from this page that you can get free x64 media under certain circumstances: Or can I also convert over to x64, including receiving media, even though my codes are OEM?
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    PDF printer

    I am looking for a nice little PDF printer equivalent to Foxit. The one included with Foxit stamps with a watermark.
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    need an ATA DVD burner

    So I need an ATA DVD burner to drop into my external USB case and I have not been keeping up with all of the acronyms. :) Will just anything do or are there some gotchas? This would just be for burning ISOs and such, nothing archival, so I'd like maximum compatibility (within reason) and to keep...
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    Firefox Tweak question

    Is it possible to configure the download window so that certain specific files or file types do not appear?
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    experience with Juniper firewalls?

    Does anyone have experience with Juniper firewalls? In particular I want to enable management on the external interface for a Netscreen 25.
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    Five Myths About the Great Depression

    http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122576077569495545-lMyQjAxMDI4MjA1NzcwNjcwWj.html There are some history buffs here who I thought could editorialize.
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    What 50 CEOs Want from the Next President

    http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1106_ceos_on_election/index.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5
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    Virtualization test server

    I need to build a test server for server virtualization products. For production use I would buy something off the shelf but I need to keep costs down for this one. I would love an IBM T60/T60p but when compared to a Dell Optiplex GX745 I can't justify the cost difference. My other alternative...
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    Hauser's Law - You Can't Soak the Rich in America

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124460502305693.html "The chart nearby, updating the evidence to 2007, confirms Hauser's Law. The federal tax "yield" (revenues divided by GDP) has remained close to 19.5%, even as the top tax bracket was brought down from 91% to the present 35%. This is what...
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    The race for the US presidency

    An unscripted moment with an Ohio plumber produced a startling confession from Barack Obama Sunday: The Democrat's "middle-class tax cut" is in fact a scheme to "spread the wealth... http://www.nypost.com/seven/10152008/po ... 133633.htm
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    PTR records

    I know what PTR records are for and where they live. What I am interested in is the mechanisms by which the receiving mail server tracks back to the ISPs DNS server. How does this work?
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    Luxim develops 140 lumen per watt plasma lightbulb

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTGsM9pplUs&NR=1 They claim more than 80% of original output of full spectrum light even after 25 000 hours.
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    America's suburban dream?

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/16/suburb.city/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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    how to reset the password on a Cisco 9124 switch

    Does any one know how to reset the password on a Cisco 9124 switch? If it matters it is all fiber.
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    AoE - ATA over ethernet

    What maddness is this? : ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet This kinda makes a managed switch mandatory?
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    Stuff White People Like

    http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/ It is very funny and very true.
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    Total Lunar Eclipse 2/20/08

    http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6231126-2.html?tag=ne.gall.pg
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    Need KT266A board cheap

    My brother's Epox EP-8KHA+ (KT266A) board has bulging capacitors and is acting flaky. I don't want to spend much money. I need some way to revive this board (cap replacement service?) or find a working equivalent replacement board I can drop in. Any body got one?
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    14 Watt Dimmable Neptun Bulb-Shaped CFL

    http://e3living.com/catalog/45/energy_saving_lighting?gclid=CNOrt7Ct0o8CFQGdPAodBzpl9Q I couldn't remember which running thread to put this in.
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    EXT3 and IFS drives

    I'm trying to copy about 60G of data off of a USB hard drive ext3 partition using XP and IFS drives. Nothing copies and I get an access denied error. Any ideas?
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    Pavarotti and James Brown

    Two legends gone, RIP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q
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    Remote IMAP access to dovecot

    I have a working Roundcube installation hosted at unixshell but I want to access my mail remotely. On the server "telnet localhost imap" yields "* OK Dovecot ready." On the server "netstat -tl | grep -i imap" yields "tcp 0 0 localhost:imap2 *:* LISTEN" When I telnet to the server on 143 or...
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    Summing Up Literature

    http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070623/mathtrek.asp It's an old stereotype: he who hates mathematics curls up with a book, and she who revels in numbers is bored by fiction. But Franco Moretti, an English professor at Stanford University, believes that a full understanding of literature...
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    USB NIC through powered USB hub no worky

    Why does my USB NIC (Linksys USB100TX) not work through my Belkin powered USB hub (F5U234)?
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    nested quotes doesn't work

    A reply to nested quotes doesn't work. At least I can't figure out how to make it work. The "multi-quote" button doesn't help.
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    Train Travel

    I'm going to be traveling from Seattle to Portland at the end of next month and have chosen to go by train. It'll either be the Amtrak Cascades or the Coast Starlight. I'm leaning toward the Cascades and the $13 upgrade to business class.
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    tone generator and wand and a wiremap tool

    I'm looking to buy a tone generator and wand and a wiremap tool. In the past I've used a Fluke MICROSCANNER PRO and it worked well for my purposes. I'd prefer to spend around $200. Does anybody know of one of quality?
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    Symantec Licensing

    Why do you have to jump through so many hoops just to get a license key for installation? I have to believe there is some method to the madness but so far I don't see it.
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    Movies

    I watched Idiocracy and Fast Food Nation last weekend. Both movies were good and thought provoking.
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    Commutes

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all Personally, I can get anywhere I regularly need to go within a ten-minute drive or ten-minute walk. Driving instead of walking ten minutes is really ridiculous.
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    gettheglass.com

    http://gettheglass.com
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    An inconvienent Truth and Global warming

    The whole point of discussing the issue outside of mudslinging politics and mental masturbation is how does this information change the way I live my life. In order to examine the issue and come to a final understanding we must answer some basic questions: What is happening? Is the earth...
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    Symantec has security holes, Oh the horror.

    Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday...
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    World Cup 2006, June 9 - July 9

    Whose watching?
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    what it really costs to drive a car

    Ever wonder how much you're really paying to drive your car every year? $7,967 That's how much a person driving a medium sedan 15,000 miles a year can expect to pay, excluding loan payments. http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com/Main/Default.asp?SectionID=&SubCategoryID=9&CategoryID=3&ContentID=23
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    User-Mode Driver Framework

    http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/wdf/UMDF_FAQ.mspx Q. Which operating systems support the UMDF? A. UMDF drivers can run on Windows Vista. Support for UMDF on Windows XP is being considered for the Windows Vista release timeframe.
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    Blacklight Power Inc

    http://www.blacklightpower.com/
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    The Birthmark By Nathaniel Hawthorne

    In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of an...
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    China: Marxist Idealogy vs. Market Reality

    The Communist Party has launched a campaign among political leaders and senior academics to modernize Chinese Marxism, seeking to reconcile increasingly obvious contradictions between the government's founding ideology and its broad free-market reforms. The campaign involves the allocation of...
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    printing on the upward facing side of the paper ?

    Anybody know of a particular printer that will print on the upward facing side of the paper as it sits in the tray?
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    some tech needed

    I'm looking for two things: 1) An application or technology that will tell me system level information. At the very least, the total number of memory slots + how many are occupied and with what. 2) An application that would act as a point to point file trasnfer medium. Say I want a file but it...
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