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VPNs? Who needs VPNs? Everyone Hamachi! :) Piyono

Someone gave me a SonicWall Soho3 (25 Users). SonicWall discontinued these but they still sell used for about $100. What's the big deal about these routers? Why are they so expensive? What benefit will I see if I swap this in for my D-Link DI604? Piyono

I made a new favicon for SF. On the original one (the one in the address bar as I type this) I applied a dropshadow and the resulting geometric distortion makes me cringe every time I look at it. So whoever's updates the website, please drop this favicon in the root directory and we can all...

Steve Gibson has a couple of webcasts in which he discusses Hamachi. Sold me. http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm Search the page for "Hamachi Rocks!" ]-[

Round cables: In general, yes. On this drive, no. ]-[

S.M.A.R.T. checks out OK. Don't know what SpinRite can do for low benchmark scores but I'll give it a try. Not a WD fan, Merc? :p ]-[

For kicks I just ran ATTO Disk Benchmark and HD Tach on my 3 internal drives. My boot/system drive (WE800JB on nForce 2 Ultra) scored several times lower on the benchmarks than my data drive (WD800JB on onboad ITE controller) and photo drive (Samsung SP2504C on onboard Sil3512). Cables are...

Mubs, you can do what I've been meaning to do: buy a small prototyping board and a bunch of 3-pin headers (like the kind used for motherboard fans). Should cost you all of four bucks at an electronics surplus shop. Find a proto board with holes bridged legthwise in rows and position the headers...

Oh, wait... you mean the benchmark, don't you... Yeah, haven't tried. Will test. ]-[

I thought Atto made only Fibre Channel and SCSI stuff. ]-[

Clearly the game of mating bridges to controllers is more involved than a spec sheet would have one believe. I've spent the last couple of hours researching enclosures and it's becoming quite evident that no particular chipset is necessarily better or worse than any other. The key is finding a...

Ok, I cracked open my BT-200. The bridge chipset is a Genesys Logic GL811E However, I suspect Bytecc might use other chipsets in this device because the Windows98 driver package includes folders named "AT2_CY68300 For Win98 Driver", "CS881x For Win98 Driver" and "M5621 For Win98 Driver"...

I started getting copy errors so I pulled the drive out of the new enclosure and popped it onto a Bytecc BT-200. The difference was immediate and dramatic. Transfer rates roughly doubled and the copy errors were non-existent. Bytecc doesn't specify what chipset is used in the BT-200 and as I...

So, given a single, 100MB file and 100 1MB files, the 100MB file will transfer faster, yes? Why? ]-[

I just purchased a Samsung SpinPoint SV1604N (5400 RPM, 160GB) to use as a backup drive for my photos. I also picked up an external USB 2.0 enclosure based on the ALi 5621 A1 chipset (inside of which, by the way, it was impossible to format the new drive - I had to hook it up to a different...

I installed IISadmin recently to help manage multiple ASP testing servers on my XP Pro machine. It's been fine up until recently. Today I launched my demo of TweakXP Pro 4.x and immediately after clicking "start" on the demo startup screen the IISadmin installer or repair utility started up and...

Well, I just installed the latest Catalyst drivers but saw no difference in playback quality. Guess my hardware just isn't up to the task. ]-[

Tony's got a shop. You stock components, Merc? Piyono

Currently we have little vacuum cleaners attached to our 6800s which do a nice job of spinning the hot air around between the video card and the adjacent PCI card. Wow. Very efficient. I'm all for getting the GPU's heat on the other side of the card where it can be more effectively evacuated by...

Wha-! <wakes with a start> Build systems? Sure, maybe at 1998's margins. The only parts I stock are common cables and network cards. For me, building a box means spending half a day getting up to date on the latest trends, filtering out the bleeding edge and then scouring spec sheets to find...

I'm playing the vids in Media Player Classic using QuickTime Alternative. I didn't really notice any difference between MPC and WMP in terms of smoothness. Both were pretty choppy. I'll try ffdshow and see what happens. ]-[

Happy Chanukah, Video has never really been a big interest of mine so I should be forgiven for displaying the following bit of ignorance: I found myself on Apple's movie trailer site, today, downloading HD movie trailers, and was surprised to discover that my computer was having trouble...

What's the best way to set up a workstation so that it can participate in local network activities but has no access or controlled access to the internet? With Win98 I remember being able to bind different network protocols to different tasks on a single NIC, but I don't see the facilities to do...

I tried that after the fact but Windows couldn't find any useable driver files. Piyono

^"All I could do was sit through a..."

My mother, God bless her innocent soul, bought an HP 4070 scanner a little while ago. Having recently formatted its host machine, I was faced with the task of reinstalling its drivers. I hopped on over to HP's site to get the latest release but all I could find was a single 300MB file...

Since we're swapping company horror stories and all... I moved back to my parents' house on June 6 [Aaaaaaggghh! The horror! Stop! Please! -ed.]. I wanted to keep my phone number but didn't want to pay telco line fees so I decided to go VoIP. On May 30 I set up a VoIp account with Primus. They...

What's wrong with floppies? I mean, besides their unreliable nature and miniscule capacity? The way I figure, until every new computer comes with a new, dirt-cheap, standard for removable, bootable storage (CF/SD?), and until every computer sporting a floppy drive is permanently retired I have...

Huh?

I long for that day, too. Piyono

Something that's always irked me is that hard drive manufacturers label the *tops* of their drives, which is great and all, but more often than not, when I'm servicing a computer, the only part of the drive I can see is the backplane. If I need to see the jumper configuration or the model or...

I called my VoIP provider, Primus, to iron out some minor details regarding my service (they botched the number transfer from Sprint twice and left it up to me to figure out what the problem was, but they were happy charge me anyway). When I told the agent that the call was being recorded she...

Goodness... If memory prevails it's a USR 3094 OEM modem. I believe it was billed as a "Voice Fax" modem, but I guess I could be wrong. ]-[

My years of dealing with telephone customer service and tech support agents has turned me sour. I've been lied to, neglected, cut off, misinformed, patronized and generally mistreated. In light of this I recently decided to start recording my phone calls to support and service desks in order to...

Well, for starters, my modem and my sound card lack these connectors. Moreover, that's not quite what I'm after. I can already take an analog signal to my soundcard using my JK Audio handset tap. I want to record directly into my audio software using the modem's wave drivers. :p Please pardon...

Hey, Merc, I would be happy to donate a few hours of coding (CSS/HTML) or custom graphic design to help nice-ify your site. I feel like I'm constantly leeching advice from this forum and I'd be happy for a chance to give something back! Please peruse my credentials, and let me know if you like...

Listed among the options in the Record Source drop-down in WaveLab is the wave driver from my modem. One would think this means that with my phone plugged into my modem I could record telephone conversations "inside the box". However, when I hit 'record' an error message appears, telling me I...

I removed the common driver files listed above from the /windows/system32/drivers directory and selected "restart" from the shutdown menu. Lo and behold! It worked. Looking back in the /drivers directory I noticed that all of the driver files except asapi.sys had been magically regenerated. I...

Yeah, already did that. No love. Progress report: I performed a System Restore to a point immediately before the problem first occured. No love. When I restart my computer now, before the XP splash screen I get a Win2K-style segmented, gray progress bar at the bottom of the screen; something...

Merc, I don't think mup.sys has anything to do with the problem, I just pointed it out as the last driver that loads before the system hangs. It's most likely a device driver loading *after* mup.sys that's messing up. Device manager doesn't show anything running that wasn't running before the...

Yesterday my otherwise-stable XP box started hanging at the Windows splash screen, but only after a soft reboot, e.g., after choosing "Restart" from the XP shutdown menu, or after hitting the reset button on the box. The hang occurs regardless of whether I'm booting in Normal Mode or in Safe...

The ME-320F enclosure is FireWire-only and it uses the 911 chipset. ]-[

15 minutes with Google reveal that I'm not the first one to encounter this bug. Nobody has an answer, tho. Piyono

My250GB MaxLine Plus II drive is housed in a Bytec ME-320U2F enclosure (which sports a Prolific PL-3507 chipset), connected to my Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 rev.2 through its onboard firewire port (controlled by a TI TSB43AB23). Twice, so far, the drive letter has simply vanished in the course of...

<woosh> Okaaay, so that went right over my head... Piyono

Merc, I'm trying GetDataBack FAT. It's running now. I'll let you know how it fared. I ran Active Partition Recovery again and took note of the startup message. I think it's rather telling: " LOGICAL DRIVE E Detected file systems: from Partition Table: FAT32 from boot sector: UNKNOWN...

The saga continues: Some of you will remember MLII from my previous episodes. For those uninitiated, MLII is a Maxtor MaxLine II hard drive with a capacity of 250GB. MLII is a backup drive, and was formatted with an extended partition containing two 119GB (after formatting overhead) FAT32...

I've used 'em all, and I can say without hesitation that trackballs are not for me. ]-[

Me, I'm possibly the single biggest unfulfilled keyboard snob on the planet. At least in my area code (this one'll look good next to my WBS trophy). Not only do I seek a solidly buit keyboard with juuuust the right tactile response and a particular key layout, I'm also after a keyboard which...

Yup, those are four questions I have up there... Four questions remain unanswered... Four... count 'em - four question... Piyono