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Hi Guys, I'm in the mood to purchase an external HDD, for when I'm at LAN's. Reasons are twofold, 1, I'm now using a laptop for gaming, so HDD space is limited. (I can't be bothered carting around my main PC to a LAN anymore). 2, I can just share drive around and have it connect locally to...

Did you watch the c'net video embedded in the blog? (It has the instructions) http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-25854.html

Sounds like a dead controller board on the HDD. (I've had SCSI chains fail in a similar fashion, due to dead drives). Best course, send it to a professional recovery company. I recently used CBL Technologies (Queensland, Australia), and they managed to pull critical data off a drive whose...

A quick Google finds this... http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2007/02/make-windows-vista-look-like-xp/

Thanks for the confirmation, just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed it, or LSI was using an alternate name for the same functionality. Like Merc says, I haven't had a lot of success with Ghost (early versions) on real RAID controllers, so will have to obtain a newer Ghost version or a copy of...

Hi Guys, I've recently inherited a fileserver (SBS2003), who's main duties are fileserving and MSSQL2K for the Point of Sale (POS) System and Intranet/Sharepoint. The POS was installed at the same time we inherited the management of the server. Long story is, they are receiving numerous SQL...

I'm still here? When did I ever mention that I like that look? :scratch: Even though my current partner (who is the same age as myself), grooms herself in a similar manner (no wax, just razor) it was entirely her choice and she had been doing so for many years before we meet... In fact she...

When I originally purchased my ATi R9600XT, it came with the "HL2 voucher". After sending away the voucher and ticking "PLEASE SEND ME A CD" and including CC details for shipping, I never got the CD (wasn't billed either). I emailed the support for the offer about 2mths after sending away...

Just purchased this album on the weekend and have been listening to it more today... A pretty good album, very different, very conceptual in it's nature. Having just finished watching/listening to "NIN: Beside you in Time" DVD, I found "Year Zero" to be very industrial in it's sound, and...

After shopping around for a new fan to replace the stock Asus fan, couldn't really find anything. So just ended buying a Zalman VF-700Cu for AU$29 incl shipping. Fitted without any problems, and running great... There's about 4-5mm between the HSF and the next SCSI card, even though the Zalman...

What a new review at SR! Better go read it... Actually I preferred the old look of SR! Seriously, I've only been visiting SR as part of my morning round trip of website looking for new news, and SR forums have stagnated as Udaman suggests. No new posts in B&G for about a week, and on avg 4-10...

Reminds me of the IQ scale. If I have an IQ of 100, then every second person I meet is less intelligent that I am...

Re: Vista Kernel performance... Speaking to our dev guys, a lot of work went into the kernel and there has been improvement within the kernel in regards to performance. However improvements within the kernel, don't mean much if you change the driver model associated (which is what they did...

I would like to go to Vista on both my home development PC and my work laptop, however there are a few catches that I would have to live with... Vista no longer supports Tape Drives with the inbuilt backup utilities, and since I actively use a tape for backups (VXA) this would be a problem...

Reg ECC DDR hasn't seen much of a price shift recently, particularly 1GB or 2GB DDR400 Reg ECC Single Rank DIMMS (roughly ~AU$200 for 1GB or ~AU$550 for 2GB per DIMM for Kingston Value RAM).

Easy, get a MSDN subscription (if you already don't) and ask MS themselves. Anyone here (unless someone here works secretly for MS, and write SCSI drivers all day), will only be able to speculate on the actual reason...

Merc: Unfortunately most 9700's are known not to work with the AMD-8151. Apparently a bug in the gfx chip that was fixed with the 9600/9800's. Thanks for the offer though. The Zalman solutions won't really fit (in my case), due to taking over the next slot. (The price quoted is the retail box...

Hi Guys, The fan on my gfx card has decided to start whining... (a really high pitched whine, pretty sure it's a dead bearing or something)... It's gotten to a point, that I think the fan is ready to die a spinning death... Its an Asus A9600XT/TVD/128M (an ATi R9600XT w/VIVO w/128MB)...

Seconded... Next round of drinks on me... :tgif:

Then as Merc mentions:

With only 4 PCs, why is it hitting the 10 connection limit??? Or more correctly what software is causing the problem?

EFS encryption keys are tied to the user account, or more correctly the SID associated with the account. In a domain setup, this generally isn't an issue as the keys will follow you around the domain... You'll be able to access your files freely, irrespective of the PC/Terminal you log in from...

I can personally relate, up until 6mths ago I was commuting 1hr:20min each way (approx 100km or 62miles). Did that for over 18mths. All of it was freeway, but a single accident could delay travel time up to an hour, and I was working a normal 8hr day. In the end I was leaving home at 7am, and...

Firewall installed/running on Laptop??? Try turning it off. What's the LAN Manager authentication level set to on all PCs? XPSP2 in some circumstances set it too high, and won't talk to older OSes? PS. start > run > gepdit.msc Browse to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security...

But with a private P2P WAN, wouldn't your user numbers by in the single digits or 10's, negating many of the advantages that large scale P2P networks bring, eg bandwidth sharing? I see FTP as a viable solution for this scenario (considering all Win2K+ boxes come with a FTP server built-in as...

Claire Geraghty (female winner) has won the last few major half marathons and 10k events, and IIRC she's heading off to Beijing for the Olympics next year to compete. Thanks! :D (and same to everyone else whose offered words of encouragement). Overall, it really doesn't matter if you run a sub...

For those interested, my unofficial time for the half marathon was 1:45:55. (Distance was 21.1km). It is just over a 5min/km time, which is pretty damn good. Official results won't be posted for about a week. I pulled up pretty well afterwards, and am over the moon with my time. Sub 1hr 45min...

<homer simpson>Mmmmm.... Ice Crreeaamm....<drooling></homer simpson>

The best one I had was from a seaside property, rusted out in 9mths! Sorry dude, no warranty on that sucker! The PSU, gfx card and HS and most of the mobo had a fine layer of salt across them. But I too have heard of horror stories from PCs kept in less than ideal conditions, eg pet hair, and...

Merc, no offense, that sounds like my work day. Just because I'm a sysadmin/hardware tech I can recovery data off a dead harddrive due to a blown PCB that's damaged the drive mechanism, and do it all in 5mins onsite... And they don't have *any* backup, nor disaster recovery plan. That's what I'm...

I personally know a lot of people/companies still running Office 2000, because the newer versions offered nothing that they required (or even would like to have). Some are migrating to Office2K7 due to the new file format (so that they are able to received Office2K7 docs without any issues), but...

It was originally negotiated by the Unions, as "thank you" for long term service. A left over from the post-WW2 years.

20 days annual leave, of which up to 10 days can be cashed in. 8 days sick leave, with medical certificate. Additional sick leave may be taken, but is unpaid. 2 days compassionate leave. (Assist sick family members, funerals, etc). 3 mths annual leave on completion of 10yrs employment. (aka Long...

All trades come under the same employment laws now. (No exemptions). Work conditions are now essentially negotiated contracts between the employer and employee ONLY. No other 3rd party, being a Union nor government agency may dictate what is and is not included, except conditions set by the...

There's a lot of depends with these clauses. Companies with LESS than 100 employees, the employees quite frankly are getting shafted by these new laws. I personally wouldn't work for a company with less than 100 employees these days (unless I was a contractor). Once a company has over 100...

Twist of fate, my boss has contacted the clients and has changed the job dates... Obviously didn't like the "conditions" I had set on me doing the job... So now I get to run, and do the job...

Thanks guys, I've let my boss know I'll do the job with a few added conditions... As some of you know, I've been through some shit over the last few years (divorce, internet dating :hurl: , etc), and the half marathon was one of the goals I had set myself nearly 2 years ago (it's one of the...

Hi Guys, I've got a bit of a personal dilemma happening with work. Next weekend (21/22 Apr) is the Brisbane marathon which I've entered in the half marathon. I'm personally looking at a sub 1hr:45min time for the half marathon (21.5km). Now I've been training for the marathon for the last 4...

I think he was referring the DiamondMax 8 and DiamondMax 9 series which had a funny habit of committing Hara-kiri at about the 2yr mark...

Holy f**k! Sorry didn't realise housing was soooo expensive on your area. :crap:

Is your math right? 215000 / 30yr / 12mth = ~$600 month or with a 7.6% interest rate fixed 30yr = ~$1500 month PS. 7.6% is roughly avg here in Australia at the moment, with median housing around $300K for a 3-4 bedroom house... Avg family income is around $70K - $80K. (both husband and wife...

Only problem with SP2 that I've noticed is that WSUS will occasionally crash during the primary repository update process. Haven't bothered looking into it further, since it's on a test server and not the production servers... No issues otherwise.

I was looking at a Traser H3 series, but lack of availability and support in Australia put me off. Ended up getting a Citizen Promaster Divers watch (http://www.citizenwatches.com.au/products/model/Promaster/BK3150-04E), large analog display, clean and simple. Very easy to read just with a...

Apparently not? One of the founders could be Texan though? (From the website) Mailing Address: 509 East Ridgeville Blvd. Mount Airy, MD 21771

Thanks Merc, forgot about Lone Tar and LTX (Lone Tar GUI for X11)...

Hi Guys, I've been hunting for a backup utility that's a bit more user friendly than the old 'tar' utility. (I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE). It's for a single workstation with local tape drive (/dev/sa0). Backup set is about 12GB of critical data (email, application source code, personal...

Warning: This is going to be a mini-rant about the current Vista vs Apple vs Linux vs *BSD crap going on. I don't know if it's because I'm feeling like crap today (mild dose of the flu), or sh*tty customers or I've been reading to much slashdot? But I've come to the realisation, Who gives a...

I haven't used SatPhones in at least 5yrs, but back then, any of the portable INMARSAT systems, (eg Nera World Phone) where quite good, excellent world wide coverage, and support voice, data (9600bps or 64K) and fax services. All phones (I used) came with international power adapters, and took...

Don't know about the others, but in my case, it's for application development and testing... I program mainly in assembler, and now focus solely on 64bit development. Hence I use Windows XP x64 and FreeBSD v6.1 AMD64... (Waiting for FreeBSD 7.0 before upgrading my FreeBSD install). As for...

Thanks for the link, downloading now. However has anyone read the release notes? (http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/ed5382af-e819-4d33-ace0-225d31b7ab751033.mspx?mfr=true) Now if you follow the link to get the update.exe you get taken to the generic download center. And...