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ihsan, I suspect you'll see some serious performance loss in any case. Will the processor handling IPSec on, say, a 3Com NIC really do better than the processor handling parity calculations on a mid-range RAID controller? VPN = a lot of overhead. That's kind of a cool experiment to do in any case.

Hint: Look at Bulldog's location and occupation. :)

Yeah, and I'm looking for a way to expense a copy ASAP. I'd love to know if it works.

At the request of resident-person-who-needs-the-most-moderation and also fearless leader James, we're gonna try the new mod poll again, maybe without anyone voting for time, who has said he doesn't want the job. At the point where the thread was moved, the results were: Jake the Dog - 4 votes...

If you right click on your running process in the "processes" view in task manager, you can choose to "set affinity", which will let you permanently assign which CPU(s) handles a particular program. 2000 will also let you distribute interrupts to multiple CPUs, which can also help or hinder...

*I* was just about to mention screen, but I see James beat me to it. <sniff> Your X session, though, should run whether or not you're there. Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that a huge, gaping hole was found in Microsoft's PPTP over the weekend. There isn't a fix yet from Microsoft. This...

Foxpro is based on Clipper, the same tool that brought dbase into the world. It has a full-featured super-fast underlying database system, and initially, a really odd event-based programming model (your code could happen on one of FOUR events!). Microsoft bought Foxpro with the intention of...

timwhit, you must've just finished your post as I started mine. But seeing as how the content is the same...

1.) You're far better off with the Radeon. Display quality on the newer ones is a bit more even. The Rage128 chipset isn't bad, particularly if you aren't a gamer, and the divers for it are mature and well-refined at this point (non-ATI fans will, at this point, say, finally, five yeara after it...

How about Age of Wonders II? HotDog Professional? <--- HTML editor Here's some pretty respectable , if biased advocacy. When I was (briefly) doing professional dev work, I worked in Delphi and in FoxPro (visual and otherwise). I was reasonably productive in both, which is truly amazing...

I'm going to hope that's a typo, PW. Otherwise I'd be forced to flame you into oblivion. (and for the record, no, I've never done that here or on SR).

Prof, in the olden days, most sites on the internet consisted of more than one computer, each with a unique name. So for example, expert.cc.purdue.edu, mentor.cc.purdue.edu and sage.cc.purdue.edu were all computers on Purdue's network. Because outsiders weren't always aware what each computer...

I disagree strongly about using Microsoft's C. Basically, you start out writing standard code and end up in "funny Microsoft land" playing with their weirdo libraries and not writing any normal code. At least, that's what I've heard from the Windows developers I know.

Bluetooth is nowhere to be seen here in the states. Not surprising given microsoft's stance for support (XP doesn't even support it, officially). It's a low-bandwidth technology, anyway, and with the ranges and levels of interference i will be dealing with, not a solution in this instance.

I can tell you from experience that Wireless doesn't do well where there are lots of fluorescent lights, either. Maybe the 5GHz 802.11a is better. And honestly, the best possible answer is fiber. Fiber is used all the time in the worst environments imaginable, like power plants (think YOU have...

Well, I have no idea what the theory behind network wiring is. I just know the recipies for making it work. So it's good that we can agree, both from the experiential standpoint and the technical (your white paper), that i isn't in a very good place and STP isn't gonna help. Now the question...

If nothing else, you're looking at a substantial performance degradation from interference. Your network will probably work, sort of, but in my experience, you're better off looking for another plan of action. I've never tried steel pipe myself, but even STP doesn't do well in those...

DPLII works for everything that starts its life as a stereo signal. Some things, though, it doesn't work so well for. I have a couple of CDs that turn into extra-hissy messes on the surround channels when I use DPLII.. DPLII is still matrixed sound. It's not 5.1 in the same way that DTS or DD...

On the back of every modern, quality receiver, there is at least one set of analog 5.1 inputs. Those inputs require SIX connections, one for each monaural channel. Analog 5.1s are use by DVD players with internal decoders, SACD or DVD-A players (where the perfect, digital datastream simply isn't...

On the back of every modern, quality receiver, there is at least one set of analog 5.1 inputs. Those inputs require SIX connections, one for each monaural channel. Analog 5.1s are use by DVD players with internal decoders, SACD or DVD-A players (where the perfect, digital datastream simply isn't...

Optionally, yes. A receiver with Dolby Pro Logic II will try really hard to turn any input it gets into 5.1, even if it's a plain old stereo input. If you choose to hook up your PC through analog 5.1 inputs on a receiver, you'll get 6 channels any time there's six channels to be had, which is...

I've sat on CF modules - and I'm a substantial guy - and they've continued to work. Dropped them... ditto. The retention method for CF is fairly idiot proof. Like most computer stuff, you'd have to be very stupid and very strong to actually put on in the wrong way.

Anyone here ever seen Koyaanisqatsi or Powaqqatsi? Possibly more the latter than former, both movies endevour to show the changes modern civilization has wrought on nature. Most of the images look almost unreal but at the same time utterly prosaic. I'm watching Koyaanisqatsi right now...

Evidently, Tea doesn't share my fantasies of continuing to find new uses for hunks of iron-oxide formerly manufactured by Micropolis. That's a damn shame. ;)

This is the sort of speaker set I'm talking about. Onkyo and Yamaha both make really cute little external, USB multi-source receivers, too. They aren't cheap, but I hear the quality is excellent and they allow you to use real (not computer) speakers.

Philips Acoustic Edge ($50 or so) + Onkyo 494 ($250, does DD/DTS/DPLII and video switching) + cheap KLH 5.1 speaker set ($149 at Best Buy) + $5 SPDIF cable + a ton of speaker wire = You're under still under budget and ready for the future. I buy my AV cables from cableconn.com.

No, Will, I do not program for a living and I haven't since about a year after I got my degree. I just found the work uninteresting. When I was programming, I was doing so under contract - I built an information-management system for a photography business, a web-based Inventory scheduling and...

Wow. I got a four year degree in C++ without ever feeling "enthralled". What a gyp.

Wait until the third or fourth time it needs warranty repair (four to six weeks repair + transit) and tell me how much you like it. The original reason I bought my Kenwood receiver was as a cheap, temporary replacement during the regular disappearance of my Sony.

Delphi isn't dead. It just isn't VB. Just like Foxpro isn't Access. There are strong reasons for choosing both over their competition.

No Razorjack? Well, is there a "sack full of Full-Height Micropolis drives" at least? I wouldn't mind picking up a 9700AIW, but I think the 7500AIW is probably the best deal in video capture right now. I'm just hoping that one drops a little more.

As an aside, moderators HAVE occasionally made minor changes to posts for users here, but the editing of one's own posts is strongly discouraged.

Don't laugh too loud. I can play Doom on my old Kodak DC290.

Actually, I'd strongly suggest a learning language like Python or Delphi. There's a big difference between functional code and well-written code. Just about anyone can crank out an ugly but functional brute-force program, given enough time. Quick, elegant solutions are what take some...

I had a Sony ES Receiver. It broke an offensive number of times and frankly didn't sound as nice as some of the other things I could've spent $800 on. I sold it and bought the Onkyo.

Which room? My listen-only setup is an Onkyo 696 with Acoustic Research speakers (ARO-216s and ARO-208s, don't remember the center) and a little yamaha sub. It's hooked to a JVC 7-disc DVD-A changer and a Sony 400 disc CD changer that I absolutely despise (it won't read some discs new, out of...

Take four years of CS classes. You'll spend about two and a half of them spinning your wheels trying to figure things out and then <poof> suddenly things will sink in. No? OK. Everything I can think of is either deeply academic ("The Art of Computer Programming") or very task oriented ("Learn...

Not too long ago, Cambridge Soundworks was a respected mid-range speaker manufacturer. In fact, I get their catalog, and they still make some reasonably nice speakers in the $2000/speaker range. The thing is, Creative bought CSW to legitimize itself as a "home theater" brand, and now their low...

It'd be worth it just to make PeeWee eat Razorjack one time.

I suppose someone on dialup might not want to grab the whole darn thing... at least, that the best answer I can think of. I think I might've charged for a service call to go out and deliver a burned CD. I run into things like that from time to time. But then, maybe the guy was just a moron.

Without knowing for sure, I'd guess Spaf was slamming Linux in favor of a more organized development by a team of system programmers with a real design document and clearly defined roles. This is the model favored by *BSD and all commercial operating systems and was a primary resistance to Linux...

Before I go trying to find out how many new video cards I need to buy... How bad does UT2003 suck on dialup?

It's OK to skip anything that starts 100, 200 and even 300, but one does one's best to attend 400-level classes within one's major field of study. :) He's a bit of a celebrity. When I was taking his class, the internet had just caught on as a popular subject and he was off doing other things...

Spaf was theoretically one of my professors at Purdue. He literally wrote the book on Internet Security. The first one. I'm not kidding. He's an old Unix hand at a school where CS students don't touch Windows machines at all. If he says something isn't right security-wise, it isn't.

What timwhit said is essentially true... AC3 is the current encoding format for "Dolby Digital". There have been other encoding standards in the past (used in movie theaters). There may be other "Dolby Digital" standards in the future, such as an official "7.1" format. Your other options are...

Yeah, bankruptcy does that sort of thing. :( I've only been there once in the last three months, myself. I know a couple of other monitor resellers. I'll see what they've got.

Look here for the longest-running web servers. I think there are probably some Netware 3.12 boxes that might double 1350 days, but since those aren't exactly public machines, they don't show up anywhere.

Wanna hear something disgusting? One of my Linux boxes maintained its uptime through a change in residence. I left it plugged into a UPS while I moved it. ;) Of course, that machine had been down for a kernal upgrade a few months before, so it wasn't like I was preserving a record or anything...

Looking at the feature list for RH8, it looks like the two killer features (to me) are the unified desktop GUI and simplified font management. RedHat8's install supposedly is missing a lot of multimedia stuff, though, which probably makes it somewhat less appealing to the mandrake crowd. Galeon...

Your wife works for AOL? Did you know that when you married her? <shudder, shudder>