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There are a couple of power users around here that could use more RAM, but they have a ridiculous amount of apps and special configs on their machines. Is there a way to upgrade without losing all the apps? I assume no, since the programs need to move from "Program Files" to "Program Files...

Title says it all. I only need managed for basic reporting and 2 VLans, so nothing major. I need Gigabit and at least 48 ports per switch, and I'll be getting 2 or 3 of them. The cheapest non Linksys/Netgear is the 3Com 3CBLSG48. Thoughts?

We have an accounting program with a really out-dated back-end. Some reports need to be sent to a network printer directly from the unix/dos-based server. Apparently, the SAMSUNG CLP Series CLP-315W I recently purchased doesn't support that, even though it is PCL6 compliant. According to the...

I have an IP, and from that a machine name. I need to know the username of who is currently logged in. Any advice?

Thoughts? The features list looks pretty awesome. I also hear that it is finally 64-bit and can therefore handle more RAM. It also looks like they are making the extended edition more worth it.

I'm looking for motherboards whose onboard video can drive two monitors simultaneously. Spanned, not mirrored. The one I'm looking at is here. It has "Intel GMA X4500HD" graphics, which I know nothing about. Thanks.

We'll be moving in about a month, and will need a full suite of appliances when we do. Fridge, stove/oven, dishwasher, clothes washer and clothes dryer. Right now I'm flicking through all the manufacturers websites keying comparative data into a spreadsheet. Where should I be looking? What is...

One of the things I get to do as IT Manager is document everything. Does anyone have a template that they like? A format? Does anyone see the need to include system specs for workstations? How about including every software license? How far is too far?

Looking for a low-powered yet powerful workstation for a corporate environment. AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core - $77 GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX - $69 Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) - $36 SUPER TALENT FTM30GK25H 2.5"...

I've been asked to put together a compensation package by a potential full-time employer. Besides the usual salary, insurance, 401K, and profit sharing, what should I be looking at? Company cars are fairly common, but I'd like to buy my own. What is a company car worth in cash? What resources...

I feel guilty watching TV as it is, so I don't enjoy things that aren't at least slightly informative. Shows that I wish they made more of: Grand Designs Top Gear Mythbusters Good Eats The West Wing Does anyone have suggestions for similar shows?

I'm redoing the cooling for my system and am hoping for some feedback on my setup. Speedfan 4.35 Beta 24 is giving the following temps at idle: CPU: 40C Core 0: 49C Core 1: 48C Core 2: 42C Core 3: 43C HD1: 39C (this is actually from some part of the Seagate RAID-5 array, not sure how) GPU: 50C...

Just a dumping ground for information on this sucker. I don't know if you guys are having to deal with it as much as I am. Looking for the fastest, most complete free removal method. Information: Precise Security Bleeping Computer Has anyone used this Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware that is...

Thanks to the help of many of you, I now have the data array on my system being powered by a separate PSU. This got me thinking. I only need the array to be available when I am watching movies or listening to music (15% of the time?). So I'm playing with the idea of powering up/down the array as...

See attached image. I currently have a Seasonic 700W PSU that I am very happy with. Except for the fact that my system is currently maxing out at 699W while behaving in a slightly unstable way. Event manager is showing random drive spin-downs and IO errors. I suspect I have pushed this PSU too...

I know RAID-50 is supposed to be faster, but what if the computations are happening on a dedicated card (specifically my 3Ware 9650SE)? From what I understand, reads from RAID-5 are essentially as fast as RAID-0 anyway (the data is striped, but to one less drive) and writes are limited to the...

Might as well start a list. Requirements: 1. Must be very common (lots of people effected) 2. Must be bad at what it was designed to do (AV that doesn't, etc) 3. Must be misunderstood (users should have the impression that it's good) 4. Must effect the computers general operation (running at...

Intel DG31PR Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz single core (32W) 2x Geil 1GB 800Mhz DDR2 160GB Toshiba 2.5" SATA drive (OS) connected to onboard SATA controller Server 2003 R2 When I connect my 3Ware Escalade 9650SE-16 to the PCI-E 16x slot, it locks on post. The Intel splash-screen stays up forever and a...

I'm planning on buying one for my grandmother. She doesn't have a computer, but I would like to mail her SD cards and have her put them in. The less features beyond that the better. I'm not sure what size to get, either. Somewhere between 8-15", ideally less than $500. Thoughts?

Office of 50 employees. All running XP and Office 2003, Outlook is connected to an Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. One user has an empty inbox. All other users operating fine. This inbox had many items, now it is empty. The connection to exchange works fine, calendar, contacts, sending, it all...

Quoting from another thread: So, I just took my first stab and managed a kernel panic! Yay! Good to know I haven't lost my touch. What I have learned is that I don't know nearly enough about this subject, but Googling hasn't returned much. Where would I look to see if these features are...

In a late-night moment of stupidity about 6 months ago, I converted my array to a dynamic disk. It hasn't been a big deal, because Server 2003 doesn't care. Now I'm moving to Linux, and it can't see dynamic disks. The only way I've read to "convert" back to a basic disk is to copy the data...

I didn't want to derail Tannin's laptop thread, but I hadn't thought of this before. Is it possible to boot from a 32GB ExpressCard SSD? Are there any that are fast enough to see the "SSD benefit"? Has anyone here tried it? Googling doesn't reveal much, and the only ones I see are quite slow...

A client just lost his Palm and it was replaced with a blackberry. He is giving me the opportunity to recommend something else (Treo?). I have practically no experience with any of them. If you could choose which one to support, what would it be? Requirements: Live updates of Calendar, Inbox...

As mentioned in the massive DSLR thread of doom, I'm getting a second camera body. I was thinking of a 1D MkIII over a 40D, but other than the inability to use my EF-S lenses and more weight, I'm not sure what I would be getting. Then I started looking at the 450D, and I'm not sure what I would...

3 users. All they need to do is share a contact list (all have it open at the same time) in Outlook. It seems a really stupid reason to install an exchange server. Please tell me there is an easy way to do this.

An interesting comment to a Slashdot post. An interesting take that I haven't heard before, and it seems to pass the smell test. Anyone care to comment?

Sources for info and discussion: Wikipedia: Population Growth US Census Bureau: International Database With all the talk of global warming and food shortages, I have yet to hear talk of this as the source of our problems, but I suspect that it is. Even if we are able to cut our emissions per...

I have a bunch of video in different formats, and I just bought a Creative Zen 16GB. I also have a phone that supports playback of specific video types. I've been trying a bunch of different conversion programs. The most promising looked like WinFF. It seems to support most of the different...

We've seen a bunch of announcements, and a bunch of reviews. I've had them in my shopping cart at least 4 times, but no one I know actually has one. I'm hoping for information anyone has on what is currently available, how they compare, and what the best place to buy is. Links to reviews that...

I'm looking for a way to manage the issues at a client. 3 offices, about 30 employees, and me stopping by occasionally to fix stuff. Things seem to end up forgotten or ignored for a long time, and I want something that lets the boss monitor how many issues there are, how long I've known about...

This morning I hated Zoos. The animals are kept in cages and that can't be a good thing. The whole concept seemed fairly barbaric. The SO really wanted to go, so we went anyway. While there, I noticed the number of kids that were loving it. I expected screaming toddlers and other children...

I'm stuck and could use some help. This is a paying gig, but I need some help now.

Unfortunately, my favorite Smoothwall doesn't support multiple internet connections. I need the following: 1. Support for multiple WANs (load balancing preferable to fail-over, Static and PPPoE) 2. Site-to-Site VPN tunnels 3. Content Filtering (Dans Guardian or similar) 4. Web interface Help?

I've tried this either through windows update or by downloading the file directly from the site. I've tried reboots and it never appears in add/remove programs. Significantly into the SP2 installation it pops up the following error and goes away. Help?

Media Player Classic is awesome. And it can output video to any display hooked up to your primary video card. But it goes blank or crashes when outputting to a screen driven by another video card. Has anyone else run into this? Is there another player I should be looking at?

I'd never heard of it before, but it works great. Includes the ability to close the running OS both to a file or to another drive. I'm running a clone right now from one 1TB Samsung drive to another, and it is maintaining over 100MB/sec. Website

I think I need to investigate setting some kind of distributed file system. I need a single drive letter at every desk in every office that points to the same share. Unfortunatly, the files in question (mostly Quickbooks) are too big to simply transfer over the VPN on demand. Therefore I need...

How much do you have, how's it set up, and how much of it do you use?

I just checked, and we are a few days short of 6 years since the first accounts were created. I'd like to thank everyone here for making it such a nice and easy place to be. And of course special thanks to Handruin for running the place!

We've been building quite a movie collection, and I keep all of them on my server, for easy access from anywhere in the house. Now the biggest problem is deciding what to watch. What I really want is to tag the .avi files with the names of the actors, directors, genres, awards, etc so I can view...

Small retail store w/2 computer-driven registers. I'm looking for a card and software to put in one of the machines that will capture video and serve it via web interface. Suggestions on brand, e-tailor, or anything else welcome.

An HP Pavilion DV6000 had a failed video card (part of the mainboard) and I scrapped it. I removed the following: AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz Socket S1 (TMDTL52HAX5CT) Laptop DVD-Burner (GMA-4082N) Broadcom WiFi Module (BCM94311MCG) HP Laptop IR Remote control that fits in PCMCIA slot (HSTNN-PR04) If...

Interesting problem: I have 2 Exchange servers. The old one is broken in such a way that the RPC service crashes when the exchange load is high, causing a reboot (no, it isn't Blaster, I checked). I built a nice new shiny Exchange server to take over, but trying to move the mailboxes causes the...

I received an e-mail to join a YouTube group. I checked that the link did indeed go to YouTube, then followed it. No videos, just the group description that I might win a cruise! Just a heads-up...

I have one of these laptops and have installed XP on it. Got all the drivers running except the audio, I can't find what type of audio hardware it runs listed anywhere! The chipset is GM965, and UAA is installed. I've been searching for hours, and haven't been this frustrated in quite some time.

That's what I'm looking for. I picked up a Turtle Beach AudioAdvantage Micro today, but it only does optical (TosLink). On closer inspection, it seems all the products in this space do 1/8" analog and optical digital. Help?

A client receives printed forms in similar but not identical formats from many customers. I need a way to scan it in, identify the fields, and then enter the data in a similar format Excel spreadsheet used internally. I'm pretty sure this will be a multi-step workflow, but it will have to be...

As I mentioned in "Something Random", my cell phone bricked itself. I've been using an LG VX9800 on Verizon for years. I have a KRZR K1 in my trunk that I was thinking of switching to, but I'm thinking of re-evaluating my service as well. My GF is still using the pre-pay phone she got years...

Client has a couple hundred employees and wants to know if they are going places they shouldn't on company time. They don't want to block it (yet), just know how serious a problem it is. I can see the logs from Dan's Guardian or similar, but the issue is that a single users purchase of a single...