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Ah, the things we do for love... So here I am trying my best to move to Eugene as quickly as possible. Setting up my business down here so that it can run itself a couple weeks at a time is easy, handing off my consulting clients to colleagues in the area is easy as well, but from what I hear...

So, am I missing something here? I have 2 Linksys/Cisco NV042 VPN routers, each connected to a high-speed internet connection with a static IP. Each router has been competely configured and connects to the internet flawlessly. Each has been configured with a "Gateway to Gateway" VPN link and...

Just a random question... :eekers:

Why do we have these two formats? Why are servers coming out with PCI-X slots while desktop video cards are PCI-E? Which is technically superior and which is likely to succeed?

I'm sure quite a few of you have boxes of comupter parts lying around; either pulled from customer's machines, personal upgrades, or whimsical buys still sitting in their packaging. I have a 10'x10' spare bedroom that I can no longer navigate. I think it's time to start cleaning. I've already...

I've never had this problem before, and I'm not sure what the rules are like. My OCD side has driven me to pursue some hardcore computing silence. My travels have taken me over to SPCR, where I've been spending quite a bit of time reading. I'm now ready to put forth a rather unusual idea that...

Well, the K8T800 chipset seems to be getting a little long in the tooth. Time to evaluate a new board. The only features I'm really interested in are: 1. A64 Mobile support (this means socket 754, more requirements here) 2. S-ATA (at least 2 ports, RAID irrelevant) 3. Gig-E integrated into NB...

Is this too hot? I don't want to install a case fan.

Here's a new one for you.... My system failed to POST I reset the BIOS and restarted POSTs on restart, prompts for BIOS values If I go into the BIOS at all, exiting will cause the system to fail to POST If I "continue with default settings" I can get into the system, but a restart will cause...

So in my new favorite PC (a quiet one for my bedroom) I currently have a 1st gen WD360GD "Raptor" hard drive. The chasis is an Antec P160 all-aluminiun with aluminium drive rails and locates them right near the front large vent opening. However, there are no case fans in this chassis at all; and...

I have a list of people who have expresly requested to recieve our newsletter; but if I try to send the letter everyone via Outlook (putting everyone in the to, cc, or bcc fields), half the people don't recieve it as it is marked as spam. What I need is an easy way to send it where it appears...

Well, he beat me to it actually, but I didn't notice until now.... Congratulations ;)

I like tinkering with different technologies. Sometimes I even convince some of my more adventurous clients to take the plunge and check them out. My latest obsession has been in getting hard drives out of workstations/clients and consolidated into something fast and redundant. Like most...

This is something I'm interested in. Anyone have luck finding quality media in good quantity at good prices?

I'm looking very closely at a 35W A64 2700+ (1.2V stock) and a GIGABYTE GA-K8VT800M motherboard. I read on SPCR about some compatibility issues, but no specific list of what works and what doesn't. I did a search of the (rather extensive) forums there and came up dry. Does anyone here know of a...

...like really small. My GF needs a "really small" digital camera. I asked if a pack of cigarettes would be ok, and she implied that that would be on the large side. For reference, I used to smoke Nat Shermans (smaller case than normal). So she needs a really small camera and would like an...

It's been nearly 3 years since I built her current system, and it's beginning to look a bit drab. She's plays games everyday, and is taking an intern job at a law firm. As a graduation/birthday gift, I've decided to get her a new system. She has a condo in Santa Cruz, but will be spending...

I downloaded the West Point Bridge Designer 2004 software earlier and have found it more entertaining than my video games! Once I get a "worthy" design, I'll post it here. It would be interesting to see what the minds of SF could come up with.

I'm sure everyone's been afraid of doing this at least once... Don't you wish Ghost was a little more descriptive of the "source" and "destination" drives? I sure do. A client's hard drive was failing (according to SMART), so I brought in another drive and a copy of Ghost 2003. Connected the...

I'm sure everyone's been afraid of doing this at least once... Don't you wish Ghost was a little more descriptive of the "source" and "destination" drives? I sure do. A client's hard drive was failing (according to SMART), so I brought in another drive and a copy of Ghost 2003. Connected the...

I'm trying to best secure my gaming systems from happy hacking hands. The things I'd like to do: Disable all the nasty keyboard shortcuts Disable File downloads from IE The "internet options" panel is disabled using my client software, so a setting in there would work. I'd like to offer...

Just for fun... And for bonus points, what game is being played in the background :P

I recently upgraded an HTPC from an old Destination system to a new one using an AIW, keeping the screen, Amp, and control devices. The mouse is basically a remote control with a trackball on the top. What would you guys suggest? TIA

I have Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate and am looking for a way to enter a ghostcasting session manually from the client. In the "home" version of ghost, you can run the command from the start menu that reboots into the virtual partiton; where you can manually perform any of the tasks. In the...

I'm looking for a program that will sync a local directory with the contents of an FTP folder. It also needs to support subfolders, and free would be a good thing. I've found a few, but either their trial download is broken, or the site is down.

This is a very undeveloped idea that I'm hoping you guys (gals?) can help me work through. I'm toying with the idea of mapping a drive to a server, than installing a game (UT2004 for example) to the mapped drive, then playing the game off the mapped drive. Clearly this will have some...

Considering that my local friends pool has now shrunk to 1, and that she's more of a GF than a F, my social options are beginning to suck. This in addidion to my new business opening very soon and random curiosity have prompted this question: Is there anyone here (in cyberspace) that live...

...a brain fard I decided to share :eekers: Throughout history, when a disagreement arises in a civilized culture, the more forward-thinking group says "OK, you stay here...I'm leaving". This led people from Europe to the Eastern US, and then again to the western US. One of the more...

I've had it with this Celeron 466...so I'm building my new system right now. AMD Athlon64 3200+ MSI K8T NEO (K8T800) 1GB PC3200 DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 2x Raptor 360GD (the new ones, not in RAID) Pioneer DVR-A07 Sony DRU-510A Sony 52x24x52 Antec P160 Case Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu (CPU) Zalman...

Some people have voiced interest in this topic, and I've dabbled some with it, so I figured I'd start a gathering place for information/discussion. I've used the following hardware with much success: VIA EPIA-M motherboards (both the M10000 (1Ghz) and the 600Mhz fanless) 512MB RAM Assorted HDD...

Mini-ITX has been my friend for quite a while. I've built a few HTPCs out of them, and quite a few car-PCs. But this raises the bar again... http://www.nanode.com All I can say is...Damn. I could have a cluster of these in the exposed 5.25" drive bays of my current chassis :o

I'm sure this is a common situation... I currently have several servers at my current office, many DNS records are pointed to the IP address here. I will be moving all the servers to a new location whose IP is known. In order to avoid downtime while DNS switching/replicating is done, I'd like...

So here I am, putting together my new Athlon64 system (the prototype for my new gaming center). Everything goes together very quickly, and I'm installing Windows XP within an hour. Just about the time it boots to the desktop for the first time, I start to smell smoke. Lesson of the story: Even...

I have 2 surveilence cameras, D-Link DCS-1000Ws, they work great. I'm able to capture 640x480x24-bit@30fps only when there is motion in the frame. Perfect. It stores these in "MS-MPEG4 V3" format...about 1.2MB/min. One file per "incident". Is there a way to process these into a more efficent...

I am now officially in over my head (again). When I was putting together plans for a firewall, smoothwall looked really cool. It's easy interface and powerfull features are very nice. And it offers one of the features that I needed: web content filtering. It does this via a program called...

I must be an idiot... Can someone tell me how to change the IP address on the Green interface? I can't find that setting on the web interface anywhere. It's not in any of the manuals, or in their forums. Everyone just says that they did it, not mentioning how...so it must be obvious. Please...

...and IIS, and RRAS, and AD, and...ugh. Has anyone had compatability issues running all of these on the same machine? SBS2k3 has some limitations I'd like to avoid, but IIRC I had some issues with SQL2k and Exchange 2k running on the same box. comments?

Never done this before, but it souded pretty straightforward. I'm about to build 3 SQL Servers and set them up accross the US (Monterey, Miami, and Detroit). I need an entire database to replicate continuously between them. They are all connected to at least a 3Mbps SDSL line and will be linked...

I need to build a terminal server (Server 2003) to handle 10 full-time users toing some complex stuff. What do you think? Motherboard Tyan Thunder K8W $500 CPUs 2x AMD Opteron 242 (2Ghz, 64-bit, 1MB L2 $1,400 RAM 4GB PC3200 (DDR400)...

...not a happy camper. I'm working on an ECS K7VMM Rev. 1.2A. Then this system came in it ran fine, except in high-end (3D accelerated) games. After trying all the software stuff, I crack the case and find a whole load of dust and a failing GPU fan. The video card is too hot to touch. So I...

Thoughts? Just finnished downloading it (links to DL and BT on /.) Looks pretty good. Plays REALLY fast on my current machine.

I'm in need of a firewall that can perform the following services (in order of importance): 1. Typical firewall stuff 2. Web filtering (adult content, blacklist support, etc) 3. E-mail filtering (adult content, spam, virii, etc) 4. Web interface 5. Some form of per-connection bandwidth...

Well, my new business is finally moving ahead... I need a system of 3 video cameras with the following features: Color Wall mountable low-light capable (at least decent) 90-degree fov focus range of 5-30 ft. 40' cable lengths help? I have no idea where to start.[/list]

So I do a house call for a friend's friend :roll: His HP PC is all messed up, so I ploan to use the restore CDs. "All I need is my accounting data" he says. So I launch peachtree and use their "backup" routine to back up the company to a floppy. <Insert 3 hour formant and restore process>...

When a cd is inserted into either the cd-rw or dvd-rom of this machine, no files are displayed in explorer. When you select an empty drive, it prompts you to insert a disc (proper behavior) But if there is a disk in the drive, there is no prompt, just no files. In device manager the drives...

Yes, another system-building thread :roll: I need to build a PC capable of DVD playback and video capture with the following I/O: 1 S-Video in (from Satellite) 1 RCA in (from VCR) 1 S-Video out (to TV) 1 RCA out (to VCR) 1 VGA out (to secondary monitor - optional) The cheapest video card I...

Pretty simple, really. I need to be able to burn a file created from ntbackup to a DVD-RW as part of a regular backup routine. As simple as possible and as free as possible in that order of priority. IIRC, honold mentioned there was one integrated into Server 2003 (which this machine is...

I know, it's not much of a budget, but it's not for me. I need a single unit DVD Player/Reciever/Amp and all the speakers. Ideally with component video out, but that is a bit of a strech I know. Last year I got my GF a Pioneer model, the HTD-330 or the HTD-510DV, I can't remember. It's ok...

Here is what I need to create: A simple web page with a list of items (30-50) 1. When you click on an item, it is removed from that page and added to another page. 2. When you click on an item on the second page it is removed from that page and added to the first. 3. Setup can be complicated...

Going to get the stats now, but it was LONG