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Just to clarify, nForce 3 and nForce 4 controllers (not sure about nForce 2) don't require special drivers when installing Windows - assuming the BIOS implementation is okay. You mainly need them for SiL (or VIA?), and you can slipstream those. Perhaps you should consider an nForce board to...

This is how it's done on an $80 Vigor 2500: It can do PPTP, IPSec and L2TP in both LAN-to-LAN and dial-in VPN. The firmware limits it to 2 concurrent VPN channels, but the Australian firmware expands this to 4. The VPN capability works well - I've had one at one end of a permanent VPN for the...

This seems like a good place to ask: Do you need the 3Ware controller to read a drive that has been in a RAID 1 configuration?

Out of curiosity, why didn't you use SATA drives?

You should probably message or email Blakerwry directly. He's pretty switched on with Linux, but doesn't usually frequent the forum until the weekend. One member who seemed to get into Smoothwall was Tannin, but that was some time ago, and of course I don't know how to contact him - short of a...

I'd recommend this site to anyone who's ever tried Linux or even thought about it. Although I disagreed with some things, on the whole it's a great read and I found it highly entertaining: http://www.geocities.com/techie_moe/ A must-read for CougTek. :wink:

As it happens, I just noticed reasonably priced LCD monitors on a supplier's pricelist, and they turned out to be ... AG Neovo. However, there are two incarnations of the F-419; one has a rated response of 12 mS but the other is 25mS. The 12mS version should sell under AU$525. According to...

Good call, Mark. :aok: Bill, could the RAM explain some of your other issues?

You're missing the point. Only a tiny fraction of zoo viruses are in the wild, but certain A/V vendors (Kaspersky) add them to their definitions so they look good in tests like this (at the expense of speed and bloat). Detection by "at least one" A/V product doesn't mean a damn thing. Try...

Where to start? How about: :roll: or: Wow, what a scientific selection method. Which ones are actually in the wild, I wonder: 5%? So if say, out of the collection hand-picked by the author, Kaspersky finds 10 'new' variants of a zoo virus, other products fail because they don't detect it...

Advanced Bar Management?

Sweet. 8)

You need to look at the opposition (and its history) to understand why, despite a very significant protest vote, the citizens were unable to bring themselves to change the government.

Complete bullsh*t.

It's up from here.

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Forgot to mention, I'm using IPSec. I would think PPTP would be the most likely to work - from memory it's just an initial authentication system? I believe L2TP is less demanding than endpoint-to-endpoint IPSec, so it would probably also work. It just seems to be too complicated for a lot of...

This worked fine, although I also went through three modems trying to find one that played nicely. Well, it's stops AH (Authentication Header) dead, and I'd agree that the client is important - when you're using a router endpoint rather than a client, it depends on your router. But it also...

New careers in IT :eekers:

It's a Linux server. Do Offline Folders work when the server doesn't support them? It still doesn't get around the hassles of relocating email, address books, etc. And I was really hoping to stick with alternative logins - it's a pain waiting for a domain login to time out every time on a...

Thanks, the general reaction accords with my own understanding - I just wanted to see what other people had experienced. On a related topic, what's everyone's preferred way of dealing with laptops that need to operate both on and off a domain? This morning, I ended up moving documents, mail...

And they work as advertised?

Thanks, Doug. So it seems StormFusion was recently known as www.xcensus.com :-? Unfortunately, not only did Shaun Anderson not enable his email link, he is (no longer?) listed as an employee at StormFusion. And as you can see, the xcensus domain is forwarded to StormFusion.

Okay, it does have a publicly accessible tower. :) Based on my aforementioned most recent trip: Food quality was pretty good and fairly cheap from the places I tried. Beer from the supermarket was amazingly cheap. I bought a six-pack of Grolsch for NZ$12, which included 12.5% GST and equates to...

There is no such thing as a "low noise" Sunon fan. They only come in irritating, loud and eardrum-exploding. :P Okay, maybe they've improved. Otherwise, I'd strongly suggest you try something else. If you're referring to your CPU coolers, vibration (fan balance) is the key problem. Putting...

I just came back from 9 long days working there on the worst installation I've ever had the misfortune to be involved with. I can't stand the place. :( Seriously, unless you have Pradeep's luck, it holds no interest for anyone. It has terrible traffic jams for a relatively small city and would...

Unfortunately, StormFusion has charged my client's credit card but failed to deliver anything. They have also failed to respond to my email pointing this out, despite an auto-ticketing acknowledgement. If anyone has a phone number or some other means of contacting them, that would be...

There is a static address, served up via DHCP ... I'm not sure what you mean. Yes, like multiple VPN endpoints, 'dialup' VPN endpoints, VPN that works reliably, 802.11g with WPA etc. I should point out that the range of available equipment is constrained because of the telecommunications...

I've just spent several hours over the last two days wrestling with a a couple of routers. The trick is, I want it quit being a router and just be a modem, so I can connect a real router to it. Under normal circumstances, I'd plump for an integrated unit, but that's not possible here. One of my...

For completeness, I ended up creating a two cylinder (16MB) boot partition and installing GRUB in that. It was the only way I could get it all to hang together. Mirroring the boot partition causes the boot process to fail, so I have to fudge around to ensure the second drive can boot...

So, Word documents are a security risk even without macro viruses. :roll: I despair.

Thanks for the offer, Blake, but I need a solution by tomorrow - I'm a little far away for an overnight delivery. ;) I think I've got software RAID working with a separate boot partition. Extremely clunky, but it might have to do. :(

The nVidia RAID utility for Windows handles everything we've talked about easily; you can definitely boot from the array. Apparently, it can even convert from one type of RAID to another. My problem goes much deeper than I thought. Foolishly, I believed the 'gurus' who claimed that nVidia RAID...

Sorry Buck, I've been vigorously removing my remaining hairs while trying to deal with nVidia RAID under Linux. :( I'm glad you have recourse to some fine liquor when under siege by a female contingent.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That's about the most kitsch thing I've ever seen! Just brilliant.

:o Sh*t! Anyone can do this standing on their head in Windows; you're telling me that bootable software RAID under Linux is nothing but grief? Good grief! Unfortunately, things have taken a turn for the worse. Something I tried (don't know what) left me with a GRUB prompt - and no obvious way...

They're both single platter drives. The higher sectors per track of the Seagate compensates for the higher spin rate of the Raptor. But Atto measure sequential transfers, not overall disk performance. The Raptor will kill the Seagate in real applications. At least, that's my understanding.

Is there a way to mirror an existing Linux bootable partition/drive? The techniques I've seen on the net seem to assume you have a third partition/drive available. It looks like Suse YAST should be able to do it - you can remove the / mountpoint and create the RAID, but it fails when you try to...

Ummm Doug, Merc created an nLite entry (with the link) in the toolbox section back in October last year.

10 nanometers? :bigeek: So this mechanical device relies on a tolerance 10 times smaller than the resolution in a state of the art CPU? I'm trying to imagine what a head crash looks like when the distance is about 30 atoms ...

I couldn't find any references on Dell Australia's site to indicate the warranty is anything other than 12 months. Samsung and the other brands you mentioned include three years. You also don't have to deal with Dell's call center ... The 193T is no longer available in Oz; the replacement is...

Wonderful stuff, CityK! Actually, the app that incorrectly calculated the mem speed was me. :oops: I was trying to finish the post, thought I'd add the memclock, and guessed wrongly that ClockGen was mistaken. In fact, ClockGen and CPU-Z both display the correct frequencies, and your...

I'd call you cavalier. You haven't the faintest idea what sort of less than noble intentions you're inferring, yet you're happy to use innuendo. For anyone who wants uncolored information on this sorry saga, here is the report of the Guardian Ad Litem appointed in response to the governor's...

As I've pointed out here, I have the socket 754 equivalent on nForce3 also running at 2.4GHz, but it seems capable of much more. I'd be surprised if the brand of motherboard made terribly much difference, as long as it's an nForce chipset with an nVidia design. Last time I messed around with...

Well, this is going to depress you Bill, but I'm currently running: s754 2800+ stock cooler Asus K8N CrystalCPUID 4.3.10 The BIOS lets me boot at 2.53GHz and complete 3DMark. I can get well above 2.6GHz with ClockGen, finally blue-screening at 2.7GHz (300MHz FSB). For this limit testing, I...

Whoops! You're right about the dates. The problem was that Intel still wasn't supporting its own standard in its own mobile chipsets. :roll: Only a couple of enlightened manufacturers were putting USB 2.0 into laptops at that stage, although doesn't the 8200 have Firewire anyway?

No, the 6600GT is significantly faster than an X700 Pro, let alone the slower X700. This is on paper as well as in practise. A straight X700 would have more of chance with a straight 6600, but the latter of course is far cheaper. A quick google threw up two comparisons between the 6600GT and...

Wouldn't the GV-NX66T128VP (fanless "turbo force" 6600GT) be a better buy than an X700?

Howell, I did read the affidavit. Frankly, I was amazed at the absence of professionalism. I can see why Mub's acquaintance made that comment. Convinced he must be a fraud, I checked out his qualifications. He really is a neurologist, although he doesn't appear to have published anything...

Although I didn't get a coherent response from RWIndiana, I think I now have a glimmer of understanding: Religious fanatics don't like to think for themselves. They gravitate towards leaders who can feed them black and white views of the world. In their eyes, people are either good or bad...