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I love smoothwalls; but in this instance they think they want a Microsoft VPN solution. Therefore I need to at least prove my competence at that before explaining why a smoothie is better. So L2TP is out, will PPTP work better?

I'm thinking of taking this to the next level. By "next level", I mean spending a significant amount of money in an attempt to mask my inferior skills. I've been toying with all kinds of light tents, and all kinds of lights, diffusers, reflectors, etc. The materiels I'm trying to shoot are just...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/vpn/default.mspx

Thanks, now for the server part ;)

I get to be an expert at setting up a microsoft VPN on Monday. Any particular suggestions on where to start?

Radioshack is doing the same thing. They have some of the major player involved as well.

But if that's all you use iTunes for, there are lots of better apps for under $20.

6 Seconds! Benchmarking with acrobat! Wooo! Maybe if I upgrade to a RAID-0 array of Raptors....

:oops: Sorry guys, I usually read the entire thread...I swear!

squirrel cage it is, this is the one I like.

Do you mean PEBKAC? Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

Looks to me like printing the D50 manual is not allowed in the security settings?!?! :evil:

Finally got around to updating the BIOS on this thing. It has been rock-solid, so this was my first chance to crack the machine (adding more optical drives). As a matter of fact, they have a new BIOS dated 4/27/2006 for those using this hardware.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104 I found this very funny. It was (like most of his material) a bit slow, but considering the crowd, it shows he has Balls.

I don't care so much about that, they helped the price of 500GB drives down to $280 ;)

How overbuilding can save you from stupidity: After sticking the server in the server room (attic) last night and queueing up a batch of XviDs, I remembere this morning that I hadn't hooked up all the chassis fans. So I head up there only to discover that not only are all the chassis fans...

My new home fileserver :mrgrn: TBs of data without redundancy? Am I crazy? Nope; it's mirrored to the other server ;)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833320110 Anyone have experience with this hardware? I need this functionality for a project. TIA

I agree 100%. They seem to have an air of un-suckiness about their products.

I really don't feel like going to work today. It's my least-favorite part of being self-employed: collections. :evil:

The problem with giving people that cheap systems that are that cheap is that they try to make them run for 5 years, and then try to upgrade them using used parts from E-Bay.

That is a sin the that Dell, HP, and others will have to pay for in hell.

Don't ask me why, but I felt like doing this:

Merc, Although that is certainly an incredible price, I'm a bit of a snob about certain things. Here's the cheapest system using parts I'd touch without gloves (and even be willing to support)! AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 ADA3000BPBOX Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce...

And mine...and I signed up the Bartender for fun ;)

It is a close call; removing everything takes about an hour. Formatting, re-installing, and getting all the drivers right takes about the same. The big difference is when doing it my way I don't need to futz with disks at all.

It's not even that amazing a hoax website. The address listed is a residence (confirmed via maps.google.com), the images can be found many other places via google image search - and there is no context for them in the site, the concepts are pretty clearly preposterous (I've only had 2 years of...

I didn't use the tool, I just did i the old-fashioned way. 1. Add/Remove programs everything 2. Regedit - delete everything from "Run" 3. Delete Everything from "Startup" 4. Disable system restore, disable any additional taskbar items 5. Defrag Next comes the rebuilding process: 1. Join to...

Here's the rundown: Before / After PF Useage: 316MB / 130MB CPU Useage: 2% / 0% Time to login screen: 18s / 15s Time to desktop: 49s / 3s Shutdown Time: 9s / 6s Oh, yeah. I want to pay this much for a system that takes over a minute to boot.

I happen to have just unwrapped a pair of Dell Inspiron 6400 Core Duo Laptops...I'll do the de-crapifier test on one and see what happens. Anyone have specific requests for testing?

So a single bullet in the front and out the back would do it, too

It was an absolute blast. It wasn't hard to do; it just took a long time (replacing the bits frequently) and made an awful noise. The precision of the machining was the finished product, there really wasn't much else to do.

Just talked to the g/f, and she has no knowlegde in the Ti stuff. She works in the more traditional metals (silver and gold), that are soft enough and melt at a low enough temperature that you can have more fun with it. I, however, do have some experience with the stuff. I helped my...

So long as it can be turned off in firmware, that's fine with me. I wouldn't mind such a feature in my server room, but my desktop must remain silent! (one more reason for local storage to be solid state).

So when is AMD joining the party?

300GB and 320GB? What the hell? The difference in price couldn't be more than a few bucks at the retail level (those are likely $80-$90 drives). It can't possibly justify the added complexity of the supply chain. Perhaps one is a 8MB and the other a 16MB cache?

What would a woman need a 15k drive for? <ducks>

Yay! A new hard drive that is actually faster in a significant way! Now, where's the SATA version? Seagate doesn't make SCSI controlers or cables, so just put on a cheaper interface and charge the same amount.

IIRC, it is still lower power, just not by as much. And I think "successor" is more apropriate than "alternative".

I feel your pain; I've done similar in the past. That's why I don't add crap to my system anymore. No expansion cards, no break-out cables, no small fans, no optical or floppy drives. All that stuff is on another pc that I don't care about (e-machine) that sits in the closet. In my box their...

Pretty pictures. I wonder how hard it was to generate them? Windows puts a lot of effort into making their product easy to use and have lots of features (and it is), and then attempts to secure it. Apache puts a lot of effort into making their product secure (and it is) and then attempts to...

I used the link at the bottom to save it, then opened it up with Media Player Classic.

My complaints aren't about Dell hardware, it really isn't that bad. My complaint is about Dell users; these are people that for the most part really aren't smart enough to own a computer. Dell makes computing accessible, therefore making these people feel empowered, and that is dangerous. Job...

Oh, yeah...forgot about that ;)

These will be wall-mounted and used just to watch DivXed video. They won't be used as monitors per-se. There will be no tuning at all, just video from a basic machine that is attached directly to it.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-4720.html

Oh, and widescreen format of course, if you please. TIA

Back to looking at small LCD TVs. I'd really like a ~20" and a ~26" that has VGA in and no speakers. Anyone seen any?

Just got back from a trip and in my joy at being on my own PC, I just spammed the computing forum...sorry. :mrgrn:

Nice board. I have the ASUS-equivalent (also DVI) and it worked quite well after some BIOS issues (I blame ASUS).