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In a corporate environment any system administrator worth their salt makes sure that the deployment image they use for XP not only includes passwords on every account, but also some form of rejection mechanism for overly-simplistic passwords (username, username123, dictionary words, etc.).

Please Lord, don't let the "bits are bits/bits ain't bits" discussion start here. :) Jan, probably best to go to www.avsforum.com site and search the archives for the HTPC forum. There are pages and pages on this debate, the conclusion of which seems to answer your question as "not necessarily."

No. PC A (LAN segment) -->--unencrypted-->--PIX/ISAKMPD gateway-->--ESP (IPsec)-->--encrypted-->-- PC B (on WLAN). Or vice versa. The client encrypts the data before it goes into the VPN tunnel (otherwise it's not much use). The VPN gateway looks after terminating VPN endpoints and routing...

Thanks Groltz, that's seriously useful. Now we seem to have a consensus of sorts on the AUD50 range, how about cards in the AUD100-200 range - what's the go there, do y'all think? This is primarily for building budget game systems. At the moment I'm using 8x Geforce 4 MX440s despite my dislike...

Yes, you definitely want NAT turned off on the first router or Things Will Go Badly. In general, I think these integrated firewall/router units are pretty good - I don't know how much extra protection you're getting by putting two in series. You should probably be more concerned about outgoing...

My Gladiator DVD recently bit the dust - looks like its suffering from exactly what was described. Very annoying.

I provided a bit of a song of joy on the subject of the SunBlade 100s back on SR before the ... unfortunate event we won't discuss. They are very nice boxes, albeit cheaply made, but they go like the clappers and they are really a bargain basement price. Ihsan, I guess shipping to your part of...

Yes, I get all that. But my question is, is there actually a requirement for what you're trying to build here? In my experience there are requirements for things that clearly require HD technology and ones that clearly require tape technology (of various types depending on specification). Sure...

Probably not literally flying off the screen.

But why? I don't understand the problem you're trying to solve.

I have an Ultra 5 (333MHz, 256MB, 9GB, CDROM, mouse and keyboard) I'm happy to sell you for USD300+shipping If you're interested.

Actually I went to Cape Kennedy early last year and learned a number of things I did not previously know, apart from also seeing some pretty neat stuff. The interesting thing is that the batch of shuttles that exist now are not the same as the ones they started off with, they refresh them every...

You might want to check the year of the stats. It's 2003 now, not 1999, so these are figures well over four years old. It's a bit hard to draw meaningful conclusions from this.

Apart from the obvious that the US should never consider using nuclear weapons anyway except in that circumstance, isn't that the whole basis of nuclear deterrence? If Iraq (or any other country) is really determined to obtain nuclear weapons, is there anything at all the international...

Not to be callous or insensitive or anything (always a good opening) but the day before outside Sydney there was a train derailment which killed 7 people. Then the shuttle thing comes along and the train disaster can't even get a short paragraph at the bottom of page one. It is a tragedy...

Adaware 6 Pro is pretty impressive. Wonder what the free version has?

Until the backbone filters went in C&W was seeing over 500Mb/s of worm traffic on some interfaces.

The obvious conclusion is that it is because you suck in some deep and fundamental way. :mrgrn:

Slackware. The questions aren't well thought out, are they? A lot of them really need a "none of the above" option.

I did remove all the drives first, yes. It's really annoying - the only thing I want to get into the BIOS for is to tell it what device number to make the boot device. Grrrr.

Errr, I'm okay now. Sorry Doug! :-?

Sorry, but it's exactly that sort of trite nonsensical crap that really infuriates me. Number one - freedom from what? Are there ravening hordes just outside the US border who would invade if the US armed forces were just 1 B2 bomber smaller than it is? 2 B2s? 20 F-18s? 50,000 troops? What's...

Okay, so I tried to flash the BIOS on my 29160 from 2.57.2 to 3.10.0. I got a failure code 8, could not verify. Sure enough, while the adapter works fine, hitting ctrl-A to change the config of the adapter gets me a blank screen now. Trying to restore the previous BIOS has much the same effect...

A friend of mine from Canada sent me an email during the week. She said it had been -20C for the last 2 weeks. I thought, well, it was 45 here last weekend, perhaps I could send her 25 degrees or so. Tomorrow's due to be warm again.

Sometimes I crave a little more excitement than working for a telco can give me.

Mind you the 995e, while a nice display for the price, is not exactly high end.

That's a lot of cash you just spent there dude. :)

I think I liked the second (j) better than the first, and so intriguingly alphabetically placed, too.

The Sydney Morning Herald had an article on it over the weekend. The Truth Is Out There, as they say. :) This press release includes : "A group of advertisers, concerned about the dearth of such programs on the networks, agreed to fund development of several ideas to see if the WB could find...

Jerry Springer and similar shows are (of course, like wrestling) not real. They use college drama class students and script the show from start to finish. Next time a "fight" happens watch the security people get up before anything actually happens. Precognisant? No, they just know when the...

One other small point : if you're running NT4, be very careful where your files end up. If the critical system files end up being beyond the ~8GB point on the disk (especially happens if you add some big new files, then install a service pack), NT won't boot. If you have Partition Magic lying...

Let me just take this oportunity to say that Intel are a real bunch of f*ckers. Why can't they stick to a single CPU pinout/board configuration for more than ten seconds? AMD are so much better in this respect (among others).

When I joined Cable & Wireless in early 1999, we had 55,000 staff globally of which 22,000 were in my division. We're presently going through the latest series of lay-offs and at the end of it my division will be down to 9,500 and the company overall down to about 19,000, although that does...

Thanks for that Buck, my girlfriend is always looking for cheaper CMS solutions. I'll see what she thinks of it.

I'm happy with my Gigabyte GA-8SG667. I would class it as a budget board but it is flexible, has plenty of USB ports and you can clock the RAM, FSB, PCI and AGP independently. Note there is no voltage adjustment on the CPU core AFAIK. It does support DDR400 RAM but make sure you check their list...

So the short answer is really a "no," eh? :) I'll be entering the joys of home ownership of a SCSI drive for the first time in almost 4 years with a Quantum Atlas 10K III courtesy of Clocker in about a week or so, hence the question.

I think it has been at least 6 months since I last posted at SR. It's very sad that it's worked out that way, but everything you say above is why I simply stopped going there.

The album information in WMP9 is more elegantly done than in competing products (although it sticks the album cover files in your default music directory :bibber: ), but otherwise it's unremarkable and functional.

Sorta related, sorta unrelated - is the transfer speed issue on XP/2000 with SCSI drives fixed, does anyone know? There just aren't enough hours in the day to reread all the stuff in the SR forum on the subject...

Well of course. Whether I should actually be buying it is another question...

C, Surely you won't include shipping to Oz in that $165 price?!

MyIE includes the "resume where I left off/you crashed" functionality too.

S'OK. I must quash this acquisitive streak in me anyway...

Flippin' heck that's a good deal. But I'm out of the dual market for the moment. :(

None at all, I would say, speaking as someone who has to deal with at least 4 other timezones every day (Singapore/HK, London, Japan and east coast US). In the end I put a line of clocks up on the wall just to keep track of it all.

The mod as I see it has the local time the poster posted at (?!) as well as the local time of the viewer (bottom left of each post). I think that's pretty good.

You should try living in Australia mate!

I have jwalker.com, but I don't use it for anything except mail. It's a vanity domain, if you will. ;)

Gah. I have no idea what to offer for this. What was the sort of number you had in mind Tim?

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