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Better. I just installed the drive and it still has data on it :o If I had more time, I'd discover the original owner and let them know they were screwed. Whatever, I'm in a hurry.

I just unwrapped a Samsung 80GB PATA drive from the ABS plastic wrapper it was shipped to me in from newegg. I bought it new for ~$70 about 2 weeks ago. I notice as I'm installing it that it already has a significant amount of dust around the screw heads and sides, clear signs IMO of a used...

Well, swapping optical and cable did nothing. Doing a mobo swap as we speak. Back to a good ol' MSI K8T NEO FSR...stupid SATA driver floppy....

goys.....hah! You don't know the number of times I re-read the entire thread looking for where Howell's comment came from.

Thanks Merc, thats what I was thinking. The only ISDN/router review I could find was from 1999 and the two "winners" of the bunch are the two I've already tried.

I accidentally posted this help thread at SR instead of SF. I don't want to double-post, but I know many of the people I'd like to read it don't frequent there. What do you goys think of posting at both?

Bump. I need to send in my reccomendation tomorrow. If all you had was an ISDN to the internet and needed to get a LAN onto a VPN, what would you do? What would you buy? I can do almost anything I want within those limitations.

Hugh Hefner

That link just cause me to spend a lot of time at http://www.redbullairrace.com/ thanks a lot :roll:

If only they would just market a motherboard with the features I want integrated - Soundstorm, PCI-E attached GigE and SATA, Socket939, 4 DIMM slots, and a top-end graphics card. I'd even put up with it being an nVidia card for the convienece of having it all on the motherboard.

It is tempting to put in a PC with VPN software and some form of ICS, thoughts?

Well, I have these spiffy Linksys VPN routers that seem to work fairly well (time knows better than I), and the first thing I thought of was to use the same device on both ends and use the modem in passthrough mode for compatability's sake. Then I decided it would be sompler to use the same...

NAV Corp? F-Secure? What app would you use to secure a network of 50+ workstations and 10 servers? Some Exchange integration would be nice as well.

That about sums it up. I have a remote location 30 miles from anywhere, barely in ISDN range, and need an ISDN LAN modem that is capable of serving as a VPN endpoint as well. I've tried 3Com's OCLM series, as well as Netopia's R300. Both claim VPN passthrough capability, neither works. Help?

"This is my kernel, this is my gun..."

Wow, not cheap.

Format and install XP :P

My total Linux experience is 2 GUI-based installs and prompt formatting due to inability to configure sound and video to my taste or install anything at all. If your students are at my level, my condolences. I'd like a class to start with: 1. Installation basics ...partition management...

Going back is clearly the wrong solution. Hosting a webserver, FTP, RDC, whatever behind a router is really, really easy. Do it and thank yourself in all the time you saved from reconfiguring a computer.

From what I've gathered, VPN uses more complicated stuff than just ports; you need to have PPTP(?) forwarding enabled. See if you can set the ICF to specifically allow VPN connections.

From a current thread @ SR, it implys that an ASUS rep stated the cards are for graphics cards only.

I'm of the opinion that most everything will continue the current trend of motherboard integration with the sole exception of video cards. It's been a long time since I had a card besides video in a gaming machine.

Firstly, from what I've gathered, there is only one board that actually has 2x 16x slots. All the "SLI" boards talked about here are actually splitting the 16 channels into 2 8x connections using 16x slots. Secondly, I don;t know all that many people who "upgrade" their systems anymore. I know...

I don't really want SLI, it's just that the only boards I could find were SLI. Having a single 16x slot is all I really want.

This guy wants leading-edge, but under $200 for the mobo would be nice.

I'm looking for a Socket 939 board with 16x PCI-Express slot available today. Anyone? Anything? Newegg doesn't even seem to be equipped for PCI-e. ASUS and Gigabyte both have SLI-capable boards, but I can't find them in the channel. help? Anything else I should be considering?

Well done again Merc, I'm really enjoying your writing style and choice of content ;)

Sounds good to me.

Done. ;) It's basically the same business plan as the currently profitable store in Monterey, only with lower start-up costs due to the cheaper rent and lower wages.

Yup, this one definatly belongs in the toolbox section...

Got it with FF, just had to scroll way off to the left to see the DL options...

I'd really like to check this out, is anyone else having a massively difficult time trying to download it? Neither FF nor IE is able to get a download prompt at all.

Well, we'll see how it goes. I'm trying to keep all my clients down here (Monterey, CA) while going up there, so I won't need that much income, but I better find some solid work or I'll go crazy. The alternative is that I just found a great location for another computer gaming center; it's half...

Well, after some soul-searching, I've decided I don't want to be a corporate drone :o Looks like I'll be trying to start a new consulting business in Eugene, maybe opening a LAN center if I can get the capital. At least Portland International has free WiFi access (posting from gate C1 right...

Just a comment about the commentary regarding the reputation of various companies and/or products. It seems every company out there has had a reason to be hated and a reason to be loved. The reasons to be loved are immediatly visible and the resons to be hated may take months/years to surface...

sweet

You need to go to SPCR and build some quieter computers! Then disconnect all the LEDs ;)

Now that I switched to a silent A64 Mobile as my home machine, and ditched the 9800XT for a 9200 w/256MB, My system hardly produces any heat at all. Still have quite a few machines folding, still playing with the ones at the center.

^bump Any suggestions? I've been searching google, and found a lot of people with different hardware and the same problem...just no answers.

Congratulations, Merc. That sounds great. The holidays are always a tough time to be alone, which is usually the case for me, and having something to be a part of is wonderful. Wishing you the best.

Checking in @ 12:19PM...too bad this isn't my first stop. Congratulations to you both; here's to more!

Until it's available in SATA, it does no such thing.

Out of curiosity, what is your subject when shooting single-row vertical pans?

Although I have no personal experience with it, I can look at the specs and be cautious. Dot Pitch: 0.25 is mediocre. Resolution: 1280x1024@76hz MAX, Although this is likely the resolution I'd use, most CRTs don't perform well when operating at max spec.

I agree that 90% of users don't need to break the 1GB barrier any time soon. When regular users ask me what machine to get, I say "The cheapest Dell you can get with a DVD burner and the nicest monitor you can afford". I haven't had a complaint yet. What I mean by "desktop motherboard" is...

Yes, definatly have a good time. I am most jealous.

As far as the "big picture" and upgrading, I don't see a major step coming until desktop-class systems are able to exceed 4GB of RAM. Until then, masses of CPU power and evolutionary and 15k RPM drives are stagnant.

Max Lyon's Digital Image Gallery is amazing...I just blew away 30 minutes surfing around. Really tempted to buy some of his work...

Neat. They say the image is available on the web, but they don't give a link to the site...

Make that a running average of about 55 minutes...