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Heh, found this old readme of ghost 1.x I thought it was funny reading.. dongles.. insane prices... bah! The tyrany and bullshit has gone on too long! glad prices are quite a bit cheaper now.

How do I get the XP style login in win2k3 Enterprise?

The other place has low level results for the 7200.7, very comparable to the ATA V, despite its slower access times.

Just saw that shuttle has a new AK32 board out, featuring the new VT8235CD south bridge. http://us.shuttle.com/specs.asp?pro_id=247 AFAIK shuttle is the only board maker to use this SB with the kt266a NB. The new SB will add USB 2.0, ATA 133 support, and the full featured PCI bus including PCI...

Any body have any good examples of stupid computer boxes. Either hardware or software? I found this highly typical box while scavenging ebay. notice the card is ISA... But truthfully, i've seen some really stupid boxes with incredibly unfounded claims, serious spelling/grammar errors, really...

So.. how quiet and cool are these Samsung drives? I'm putting together a new Shuttle SFF machine for someone and was going to put an ATA V in the box. My ata IV runs acceptably cool, but if I can get something just as quiet and maybe even cooler for less price per GB and a 3 year warranty then...

why does the Adobe acrobat plugin suck so much? I mean really... it doesn't exit after i close IE... it takes up 28MB of RAM even when it's not being used... it sometimes has problems with (i guess) bad pdf's causing it to not load/mess up the associated IE window... I think I should get rid...

Hey, I bought some 256MB sticks of Crucial PC2100 to stick into my main PC and my SB51G server(mandrake 9.1)... Unfortunately 1 of the sticks was DOA.. But the other stick tested good with memtest86 on both these systems. So, after debating whether to stick the 1 good stick in the main PC or...

Hey, I just found out that my popup menus aren't displaying correctly in some browsers (Opera, macintosh IE 5, Konqueror). When I designed the site I did so for IE and Mozilla (win/linux). The problem with the popups is that they are displaying behind the content of the page. The content is in...

Hey guys, I have a bunch of 10baseT ISA NICs that I think I'll probably never get around to using... I have: 1 x Linksys LNE/2000T 1 x SMC EZ card10 (model 1660T) 3 x HP 27247A (Ethertwist AKA HP PC LAN Adapter/16 Plus TL) 3 x 3com 509TP (Etherlink III) All have RJ45 connectors, the HP and...

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=427003 Two autosensing 10/100 Mbps NICs (model FA310) One 4-port 10Base-T Ethernet hubs (model EN104TP) Two 25-foot Cat 5 UTP cables Power adapter for hub Drivers and diagnostics floppy disk Wall mount kit How-to guides I...

Hey, my friend bought a Linksys 8 port hub from ebay about a year ago and it stopped working for him recently. He tried contacting Linksys tech support and they went through the standard motions and determined that it had failed and needed to be replaced. (Hub turns on and resets, but only port...

Hey guys, I keep having a problem with my girlfriends account. On a clean install of XP, when I try to logon I have been getting the error message "Windows cannot load the locally stored profile: Insufficient security rights or a corrupted local file. Windows has logged you in with a temporary...

I was wondering if anybody had suggestions on the best way to implement dual NICs for redundancy purposes. I am planning on putting together a Linux server for my counter strike clan. Since I have a lot of 10baseT NICs I was going to put 2 of em in this server for redundancy. I have my choice...

Hey guys, just wanted to say that Ewen is alive and doing well. He's working hard at school and getting ready to graduate in May. Says he might drop by when he gets a chance. -blake

Last semester I planned on creating a help type site with howto guides on specific subjects.. adding to the collection one by one... so far I only ahve 3 subjects, but atleast I think it's quality work... http://howto.dns2go.com/

Merc, do you think this hellow kitty USB hub would go well with your animated USB powered Homer Simpson? are the two compatible, or would Marge get in the way? http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,715961,00.asp

What do you guys think is the best bargain motherboard available right now? what about in 6 months? I'm wondering what people think constitutes a "bargain" board... price, features, upgradability, etc... and what motherboards fit that definition. Personally, I have thought for a few months...

hey, I got fed up with the noise from my 800JB (even thoug it was sandwiched) and went to my 180gxp that I recently aquired... i tried to do a ghost dirve->drive copy but it resulted in a non-bootable machine (i even tried sector->sector copy)... booting safe mode showed that the boot process...

150/170Watt fanless PSU with 85% efficiency typical and upto 97%! totally fanless(watercooled) system with side sinks on the case. http://www.whisperpc.co.uk/default.htm Reviews: http://www.whisperpc.co.uk/reviews/inquirer.pdf http://www.whisperpc.co.uk/reviews/ct_signum_engl.pdf

I just setup a stats system for halflife (Counter strike) and had to install several servers and possible security risks to get it working... I'm wondering what precautions I should take. I installed: MySQL version 3.23.55 Perl 5.8.0 mod_PHP version 4.3.1 for Apache version 2.0.44 A DBI Perl...

I just got the replacement hard drive for my 1 year old 120gxp... Hitachi sent me a brand new Deskstar 180GXP IC35L090AVV207-0 (80gb) drive made in January. It took them 10 days from the time they got the drive till the time I got the replacement... That's awesome cust service. I love it. One...

Hey ya'll I was inspired by a mod I had seen on www.SilentPCReview.com. The mod outlined a way to effectively shut up a hard drive while cooling it at the same time. here's the Mod http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11&page=1 I...

http://www.muffledcomputing.com/ Just saw this today while looking for HDD quieting equipment, thought it was a neat idea to put a muffler on your PC... after all, it seems most of a PC's noise comes out of the free holes.

Anyone else notice that this site is practically unbearable with win95B using IE 3.0? I constantly get java script errors.. there are text formatting/layout issues... and font/color problems... sheesh... btw, my site at home looks like crap without style sheet support Who is still using...

Hey all, just was flippin channels this week and came across this Discovery channel special entitled "Birth of a Salespitch". It talks about the history of sales pitching starting with the "boardwalk" pitch, onto commercials, and then to infomercials. Anyway, i thought it'd be interesting so I...

Hey all, I have an Antec 300Watt PSU that is about 1 week past 1 year old. It is the smart power 300 (basically a SL300). The 80mm smart fan in it is starting to die... every once in awhile (has happenned twice this week) it will begin to make the ratling of death. I have to either turn off...

anybody ever recieve this error message while trying to start FAH? [root@artemis tmp]# ./FAH3Console-Linux.exe -verbosity 9 Note: Please read the license agreement (FAH3Console-Linux.exe -license). Further use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement. ---...

can someone tell me how i can do a lookup to find out what info is in the MX record of a specific domain? A friend of mine is getting email service on their domain and wants to make sure their domain registrar has things setup correctly... lol.. nevermind.. i think i found it...

Hey guys... I am trying to lessen the number of 24x7 computers in my room from 4 to 2-3. In the beginning I had a web server(486dx2) and my main PC... The web server was getting pretty old and I wanted to experiment with linux.. so a new computer was born.... Christmas came around l a few...

Hey all, I have wanted to get a laser printer for awhile. Mainly because most of the printing I do is black and white and I'm tired of baby sitting the past couple inkjet's I've had. I want something that can print reliably and affordably every time. My volume of printing is very sporadic...

Anybody know if AMD will continue their Duron line of CPU's? I remember it was originally speculated on some hardware review sites that Durons would move to the 133mHz FSB hat the Athlon XP's enjoyed... but I wonder if that will happen. Additionally.. do you think it's even neccessary to...

here's a small rant I made on guillemot's tech support forums after I got mad at them for not honoring their warantee. Previous reference to the problem can be found here: http://storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1615&highlight=guillemot so this leaves me with a half way broken...

here's a small rant I made on guillemot's tech support forums after I got mad at them for not honoring their warantee. Previous reference to the problem can be found here: http://storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1615&highlight=guillemot so this leaves me with a half way broken...

Hey guys... I sucessfully managed to upgrade the bios in the motherboard mentioned http://storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1322&... i found out that this board actually had 2 different version of BIOS... one was AMI and one was Award... doh! aparently the newest AMI BIOS (which i just...

Hey, I'm looking for a way to use a batch file to create directories based on the current date.... this is an extention of a batch file that creates a nightly backup of a friend's files. i tried: mkdir %date$ however the %date% command returns slashes (ex: 1/29/2003) that will not work with...

I decided to paint my boring "plain jane" Enlight mid tower case (model 7237) to a sleek midnight blue and chrome coloration... I must say it turned out much better than I had imagined.. especially the optical drives... I am still wondering if I should have the floppy drive door chrome or...

What do you guys think of this so far? http://mouse.howto.dns2go.com just a short guide I put together on a whim after reading a post on mousepads at [H]ardForums My 3M pads seem to wear out after awhile (just aren't as smooth) it seems to be a deterioration in the plastic... I might get a...

Hey, I found a neat utility that works in combination with motherboard monitor. It can put up all kinds of stats on your desktop and is completely customizable and configurable. it's called coolmon, http://coolmon.arsware.org/ Here's how I have mine set (pinned to the desktop)...

I'm in the market for another sound card... I need something pretty basic and was probably going to order off ebay or get something overstock or on clearance if possible... I was thinking about getting another Fortissimo II because the one I got from Clocker works great, the control panel/mixer...

This is a slotA athlon 750 (model 2, k75, .18 micron process, 512MB L2 cache) with heatsink (a moderate fan is needed but not included) Markings on CPU read: K7750MTR52B A I have been able to clock it to 900mHz but not stable (didn't over volt).. and normally ran it at 800mHz The motherboard...

Thanks merc, becuase of your recomendation I bought 2 of the speeze coolers from newegg for only $8 each Speeze CPU Fan Model 5F263B1M3 for AMD/Intel Socket A/370 http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=5F263B1M3 http://www.spirecoolers.com/asp/fcc.asp?ProdID=86...

Re:Intel Builds In More Built In Obsolescence I think this areticle is really bias against intel and goes against what it itself is saying... the author is critisizing in this statement "Hopefully, next time, the technical community as a whole, both paper and web, will recognise that fact — and...

I am looking for a network bandwidth tester basically... I once had a command line tool that would test the bandwidth from one computer to another on a LAN using randomly generated data... this meant that one could easily test the network speed without fear of interfearence from the rest of...

hey, as of the last day or two my video on one of my PC's has had a problem... kind of like a horizintally ghosted image across the whole screen... This happens at the desktop and even in the BIOS screens.... I have tried switching positions on my KVM switch but that did not make any...

I have been looking for a DVD/CD-RW combo drive for awhile... actually, I probably need 2 of them (for 2 different systems). I saw these at compgeek.net LG 32x10x40 CD-RW & 16x DVD-ROM IDE Drive w/ Roxio SW (new) LG 12x8x32 CD-RW & 8x DVD Combo Drive Only (refurbished) Philips 16x10x40 CDRW...

I was just wondering what everbody thinks the "avererage joe" is running in their computer. This does not neccessarily mean what people are buying... if you think the average joe is using 2+ year old equipment because it stil meets his needs, then by all means say so. I through in the core...

I hvae a question... err rather would like to hear a debate on the topic... If you are viewing the voltage monitoring software for your mobo and notice that your CPU or RAM voltage is a little low... should you raise the values in order to get the monitoring software to show the correct values...

Has anybody taken the time to review Arctic Silver's instructions for mounting heat sinks? http://www.articsilver.com/PDF/CompInst.pdf I know I have done a few of their no no's... including cleaning off an old thermal pad with a citrus based cleaner... heating up a thermal pad to help ease...

woohoo, I got my first paycheck in waht seems about 6 months. The government automatically took ~10% of it for with holdings and I'm sure they will take another 10% come income tax time. We also have sales tax (7%) on anything we buy here(Johnson county, Kansas City, USA) and then property tax...