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I get calls from a guy I went to high school with about computer stuffs. He's got a M.S. ChemE, a PhD. in Pharmacy and tops all that all off with a law degree, and graduated at the top of every one of those classes... but he'll call me for stuff like printing to a non-default printer in Windows...

Whoops. I meant a CNAME record. Duh.

There's such a thing as a PTR record on a DNS server. PTR records redirect only textual domain name to another, which can then be looked up on the appropriately authoritative DNS server for that domain. That's what ddrueding is doing. The only down side to doing that is when a user actually...

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I'd suggest starting with a thin client and some kind of remote access solution. It won't cost any less to set up, but administration will be easier. Since I'm assuming that Linux is off the table for you, you're left with Windows Server. Start with Terminal Server. Set the RDP client to use...

I just installed Fedora 6 RC1 on a 1.2GHz P3. I was able to get DoveCot IMAP, Samba (server), fetchmail for 4 users, and Wordpress (an app that requires Apache, MySQL and PHP to be configured) in about 30 minutes. OpenSuSE is wonderful as a client/workstation, but it's a lot easier to set up a...

There's really just nVidia right now, and you know I don't like saying that. But Via's not to be found in AM2-land and the companies I trust for boards don't trust ATI enough to offer their chipsets. Anyway, I feel Will's pain. I have a $600 X2/4600 and a $500 X2/4400.

Nerve.com (site is Not Safe For Work, but it's an arty, intellectual sort of NSWF) has a piece of short speculative fiction by Douglas Rushkoff (well known for writing Cyberia among other things). The story is a quick read, told as a series of e-mail messages, about the trevails of sexuality...

Monarch Computer is offering preorders for price-cut AMD X2s + motherboards right now. AM2 X2 3800 + Gigabyte 6100 motherboard = $237.

The joy and serendipity of being a general-purpose computer trainer guy: I wrote a little proposal for one of the organizations for whom I teach, for a class in "Personal Electronics" which is going to fund buying a whole bunch of different crap (MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones) and getting to...

Plus there's a certain artful charm in the WAY this particular thread went off topic. And we're already in the Off-Topic forum.

Yup.

How did this thread go so wrong so fast?

I'd suggest grabbing a set of Winternals applications before Microsoft buries all of them. Process Explorer by itself is worth its weight in gold, but there's so much crap on Microsoft's web site that even if the tools stay free you'll never be able to find them again.

I think in the long term Nirvana will be judged superior, mostly because what's-his-name blew his face off while people still thought he had talent and because their music was SO genre-defining that even I know what it sounds like. Pearl Jam has decades ahead to ruin whatever good name they...

I don't know about Olympus, but S*ny essentially makes all its hardware out of the same parts. An engineer someplace made an DSP for flash-memory-based voice recording and I'll bet you $100 that it's the same IC that's in a S*ny MP3 player. Open up a low-end S*ny DVD jukebox and compare it with...

I found a $40 512MB MP3 player/voice recorder that's designed to clip onto a collar or lapel. I've never heard of the brand but for $40, who the hell cares? Something else about flash MP3 players: They can be a lot smaller than single-function voice recorders. I don't mind that a bit.

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AM2 is the platform of choice for current AMD hardware. Socket 939 is classed as legacy hardware. AM2 gets you DDR2 instead of DDR (no particular benefit at the moment) and the dim possibility that you might replace a AM2/3800 with some faster AM2 chip at a later date. 64 bits doesn't really get...

Why buy a $100 voice recorder instead of a $100 device that is a voice recorder/mp3 player/photo viewer/kitchen sink?

Pretending you're from Euroland lets you use the higher frequencies. And if you have a hackable AP (mine isn't, the WRT55AG doesn't run Linux like the WRT54G does), there's usually firmware to boost your signal output by as much as 20 - 30%.

Of course, I could build a Linux-based PC for $500 that would beat on that Dell like a red-headed stepchild. So could ddrueding. If your friend doesn't need a display, something like an Athlon64/3800 with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB drive would fit pretty well in your $500 budget, just from parts...

There's a "manufacturered on" date on the label of the drive that should give you a rough guess.

They tell you when you do an RMA. They've taken in drives beyond three years old from me, though, and sent working replacements.

I bought a Casio Exilim EX-Z120 over the weekend, something cheap, light and easy to deal with for taking pictures at the big Chicago comic book convention coming up in a couple weeks. I found it, in all places, at a resale shop in Aurora, Illinois (Fushigi's neighborhood). $125, including a...

There's another way that OS upgrades happen, mubs. In poorly managed environments, new PCs will come with whatever is getting shoveled on to PCs that week. I run into that one a lot. I see a lot of companies that have a mix of XP Home and XP Pro or Office 2000/XP/2003/Works Suite/Perfect Office...

37?!? Er... don't feel bad if you don't get it. Someone will. And that person will laugh heartily.

What the hell are you talking about? I've got servers out in the world that're stuck on Windows 2000 SP2 and SQL Server 7 because the vendor for Vertical-Line-of-Business-App XYZ won't support anything newer. Pearson VUE's testing software (the software used to deliver Microsoft and Cisco...

Grub and Lilo are both rather more flexible than ntldr, sechs.

2.4GHz is worse than worthless in my apartment. I can see ten different WLANs right now from my laptop (none of them are mine), and there are phones, baby monitors and microwaves to contend with on top of that. Historically, I've prefered 5GHz A equipment, but A equipment is very hard to come...

Me. I care enough not to use Western Digital hard disks or Jetway motherboards or S*ny optical drives or Creative Labs sound cards. I choose not to buy flawed products. In this case, the iPod would be a very poor choice since Apple doesn't support voice recording to begin with. And I've had...

That's still an iPod. An iPod would make me feel all dirty inside.

I can't justify the changeover for any client I have right now. Over time, migrations for 95 to 2000 or 98 to 2000 or 2000 to XP have been very valuable to me. But in each of those cases, I could see a real benefit (even XP, if only for 802.11 and some other hardware support) that I'm just NOT...

Has anyone used or tried a draft-N 802.11 product yet? I'm about to order a Linksys WRT300N; I've heard PreN equipment pretty much KILLS b/g signal if it overlaps, and my poor old Linksys 802.11A router is acting like it's about to die.

Nope, but as I have time today, I'll build you a custom XP slipstream CD image. You'll have to find your own key (cough) but I can make a disc for you and put it somewhere you can get it.

Just found out that I need to buy something to record my lectures. Which pretty much means a flash-based MP3 player; I'm not flipping tapes. Has anyone here ever used the recorder function of their player and found it to work well or poorly?

There are 100 messages in my sf.net inbox, and 359 in my sentbox? Are these hard limits? Why am I keeping so many saved sent messages? Is there a reason I only have 100 messages sent to me?

Put in an XP install disc. Boot to the recovery console. Do checkdsk /f fixboot fixmbr On your boot drive. And you'll probably be OK. You might try disconnecting drives before you try installing Ubuntu again. WRT SuSE, didn't you just download the binary package from ATI and do a 'sh...

VMware, Tony. Running virtual machines used to bother me a little bit, since they always felt constrained. Nowadays, with 3GHz CPUs and 1GB+ RAM as standard components, the guest OS is snappy enough for continuous use.

Drop the DVD reader; I doubt you're using it much. Buy a Promise SATAII150 TX2. It works with everything. Yes, you still need a slipstream disc.

Someone has finally gotten written a full read/write NTFS implementation to work under Linux. For the non-Penguin-enabled, this means a much higher degree of interoperability for dual boot, forensic and filesystem repair/data recovery options. Previous versions of NTFS support under *nix were...

Thank you for bringing back the forum jump box at the bottom of the page. That was sorely missed.

Congratulations to Lunar for being around long enough to rack up the posts. :)

Real geeks use trackballs. Needing to clear enough space around my keyboard to use a mouse offends me.

Samba is a better deal. No cost for an OS. No license restrictions (XP Pro = max 10 connections, Server = Max however many connections you actually paid for). Management is very straightforward (SWAT or Webmin), can run on hardware that would be "marginal" or even utterly unable to run Windows...

I'm positive of it. Even still, Apple couldn't seriously consider AMD chips; AMD has enough problems manufacturing to meet demand as it is, and chip-shortages were a big reason Apple dropped Power in the first place. A Merome-based Thinkpad... Mmmm. That WOULD be nice.

Well, install time for TinyXP is about 1/4 of what a full install of XP is (6 or 7 minutes? Something like that). I tested it on an AthlonXP/2500 and a VMware guest hosted on an X2/4400. It also reboots in about 15 seconds and has an install-time commit charge of 57MB. I was not prompted for a...

Along the lines of getting something that sucks less than XP, Microsoft is also preparing a simplified version of 32-bit Windows called "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs." Supposedly, it'll run on 233MHz PCs with as little as 64MB RAM, and there's an option to boot directly to an RDP client...

If the rumored AMD X2 price cuts hit, I'm still going to have a hard time finding the will to buy Conroe chips; AMD chips are a known quantity, as are AMD motherboards, and AMD boards tend to be much cheaper anyway. Hopefully there will be a round of price cuts by the fall; a $120 or $150 chip...