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  1. Mercutio

    A company without Exchange?

    Try phpGroupWare.
  2. Mercutio

    Moving a RAID-0 to another motherboard?

    If it's the same kind of controller it should work. I've replaced controllers a few times without difficulty (eg Promise Fasttrack to Promise Fasttrack), though never from one chip to another.
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    Moving a RAID-0 to another motherboard?

    Hardware or software RAID?
  4. Mercutio

    TinyXP

    The newest versions have a sucky Vista theme I don't like and use more RAM than rev4. It *is* really nice, though.
  5. Mercutio

    Something Random

    She does not know any other women either. :(
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    Something Random

    From the PC Gaming thread... Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman. Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah...
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    Something Random

    Meh. The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week. I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my...
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    LM, I think you know full well how likely THAT is for me. :(
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    I have a PC that, if I lowered myself to install the 8800GTX I have, literally could not be made faster with any commodity part. It is as top of the line as things get. 4GB RAM, 3.6GHz+ CPUs etc. And there's not a damned thing I actually want to play. Nothing. Again. I have a whole month of...
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    Asus strikes again, and what to do about it?

    Assuming you are using the precompiled kernel, you will boot a non-smp kernel (no harm there!) and you'll probably have to configure the new NIC with YaST. It's never a bad idea to make a backup but it should be straightforward to make the switch you need.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    I will have five total when I get these. Some will be given away, though. I was actually waiting for a BoC. Usually when they do the woot-off on a Thursday, the BoC hits between 4PM and 6PM on Friday. No BoC, but since I had the page reloading every 3 seconds I was well-poised to snag my monkeys.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    I got three of them. Again!
  13. Mercutio

    New home! Advice welcome

    No, but with mudslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and typhoons and radical islamic separatists, your roof probably needs to be replaced every few decades too, paugie.
  14. Mercutio

    Least awful vomit box

    Some .wmv files are problematic under linux. WMV is a common format on for-pay porn sites (e.g danni.com) since it can be copy protected. There are ways around the copy protection on Windows, such as fraps. Adult torrent sites generally offer the same content with protection stripped, and those...
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    Least awful vomit box

    Thunderbird can import OE stuff. Installing apps is the thing that Ubuntu is super good at. You use Synaptic or just click to open a .rpm or a .deb or a .tgz and your package manager should handle it.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    "...as is the ultra-light membrane and the over-sized leather muffs, which strongly remind one of the older Kate Bush." I think the woot guys are making a very naughty joke, there.
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    Least awful vomit box

    The Ubuntu 7 liveCD loses since it does not have Frozen Bubble. That is the suck. :P
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    Free Anti-Virus software

    Article about the basics of Antivirus software from consumerist.com. The Consumerist is not a tech web site. It's a pretty interesting place for consumer rights information, and it's good to see some of the things we've largely been saying repeated there. I don't agree with the author's...
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    woot is in woot off mode

    Left handed golf things and whatever the hell sake is are pissing me off.
  20. Mercutio

    Asus strikes again, and what to do about it?

    You have your hobbies and I have mine. Either that our you are remembering that one thread about Asia Carrera.
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    Video Cards 2007

    Auzentech, my good man. Auzentech. Nine letters. Much better than four.
  22. Mercutio

    Video Cards 2007

    Man, I don't know. I've heard that those new ATI cards were going to be released at the end of February, the end of March, the end of April and now "sometime in May." Who knows?
  23. Mercutio

    Asus strikes again, and what to do about it?

    You should be able to get something with AM2 and Nforce4. 6100/6150-series boards are basically nforce 4s and they're basically fine in Linux. For what it's worth, Linux isn't likely to puke or kernel panic from a hardware change. There's a decent chance you could just pop in whatever and the...
  24. Mercutio

    Video Cards 2007

    ddrueding, the 8800s, if you haven't played with one, are REALLY quiet. The only time you can hear the fan at all is when you're playing a game, and even at that, you might not notice because you've probably got speakers or headphones turned up a bit. I think a smart man would be waiting to see...
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    Video Cards 2007

    Just to clarify something: I was comparing the GS to the more expensive sorts of GT. ...all the cheap X1650 Pro I can buy come with noisy cheapo fans. The Sapphire and genuine ATI X1650s I've purchased have quiet fans on them. I'd expect "real" ATI stuff to be common and cheap up in...
  26. Mercutio

    New video card doesn't like OC

    I think those guys mostly don't know what the hell they're talking about. But then, I'm basing that on the god-awful signature graphics they're using. Well, that and thinking that a 500W power supply isn't enough to handle a fairly vanilla computer like yours.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    Another woot off today.
  28. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Just watch it. It's cool.
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    Something Random

    Also, Duke Nukem Forever was announced 10 years ago today.
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    Something Random

    Pure awesome
  31. Mercutio

    Video Cards 2007

    There's not too much wrong with onboard video these days. GMA3000 and nv6100 can both do DX9 well enough to make UT2004 or WoW playable. R200's probably pretty good, too. Via's still shipping basically a Savage4, which was sucky the day it came out in 1999, let alone today, but even that's good...
  32. Mercutio

    VMware converter

    Live View is so insanely useful that I weep tears of joy for having found it.
  33. Mercutio

    Hairy Aussies

    He's probably been over 5k for a couple weeks and we did not notice. :( Welcome to the Hair Club, Handy!
  34. Mercutio

    Video Cards 2007

    The 7900GS does seem to be a bargain in terms of graphics power, for the money. It's still an nVidia product and therefore not worthy of my money, but seeing one side-by-side with a much more expensive -GT, the smaller one seems like a better deal. I don't know why you don't have inexpensive...
  35. Mercutio

    woot is in woot off mode

    Tour of Woot's new HQ. I like the bit about "Soviet Post-Brutalist Architecture".
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    Windows CD Burning not working?

    Those machines don't get any. Since we re-image them every couple days, I don't bother to update them unless I'm making a new image. I have no idea how long the PCs in question haven't been able to burn, either.
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    Quiet tower case for 8+ HDDs?

    No clue, but I'll bet the ones I got are a lot cheaper than that Zalman thing. I think Bluegears rails are $11 or $12 for a set of two.
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    Quiet tower case for 8+ HDDs?

    Turns out my heat sink rail thingies were made by BlueGears.
  39. Mercutio

    Windows CD Burning not working?

    I have a whole lab of PCs where, for some reason, Windows integrated CD burning has stopped working. These machines all have Nero 6.3 installed on Windows XP, and Nero works just fine, but when I try to burn a CD with Windows Explorer I'm told to that the media I'm using is not writable and to...
  40. Mercutio

    Personal Dilemma

    No toilet. Just a trough or something... ;) Actually, my bed is physically about as far from my bathroom as it could be. I actually got up and paced it out so I'm pretty confident of the measurement. And I'm down to only eight computers now, not including laptops. I think that 's pretty...
  41. Mercutio

    Personal Dilemma

    It is the same size as my living room. :)
  42. Mercutio

    New video card doesn't like OC

    I've tried about six different video cards on my 865P-S3, including (in a rare display of magnanimity) a 7900GT, a Sapphire x1900XT and an 8800GTX and not experienced anything like that, even in with extreme overclocking. HOWEVER... *All* the video cards I have tried (except a PCI one that...
  43. Mercutio

    Least awful vomit box

    You have to be smart enough to know you want a Mac. I really do wish I could install Linux on every home PC. It really does make the machine better in every way once no one can install spyware/virus laden crap on a computer.
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    Personal Dilemma

    Bed to bathroom: 24 feet. Bed to front door: 36 feet. Bed to car: About 90 feet total. I do not want a larger apartment. Then there would be more to clean.
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    Personal Dilemma

    Merc does not like biking. I did walk to work today. One of the places I occasionally teach is directly across the street from my apartment. I thought about driving anyway.
  46. Mercutio

    Quiet tower case for 8+ HDDs?

    My "standard" case for non-rackmount computers is one very similar to the Antec SLK3800, which takes seven 3.5" drives. The ones I have were made by Chieftec, and do not have drive rails for the 5.25" bays. When I am pressed, I use some really nifty solid-piece heat-sink 3.5 to 5.25" rails to...
  47. Mercutio

    Core 2 Duo on steroids

    The 6320 is looking like a real winner to me.
  48. Mercutio

    Something to think about

    I think, in times of war - justifiable, non-treasonous wars unlike the one we're fighting now - that it would be more important to have our flag stand at full mast to show the spirit of our country is unbowed by our enemies. Hey, speaking of treason and justification for impeachments and other...
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    Personal Dilemma

    In high school PE I remember being timed to do a mile and being told I could go at whatever "steady pace" I wanted. The coach made me stop when he realized my "pace" (and I *was* moving the whole time) was a 26 minute mile. :D
  50. Mercutio

    Least awful vomit box

    The extra partition was completely, 100% empty. I have done things like re-locate the documents and settings folder to another partition a time or two, but that was doing some REALLY freakish stuff, and it's just easier to do everything with TrueImage now.
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