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Especially when we're talking about large LCD monitors. Prices have fallen like a stone in the last few months, and with a shaky economy, I reckon the trend will continue. Still, you have to enter the market at some point. :wink:

Yes, employers seem to have hardly any interest in professional development these days. I wonder if our Indian friends have the same sort of attitude? Congratulations JoJo.

AFAIK, 8Mbs is the design limit of ADSL - it's not capping. You need ADSL2 to go beyond that and ADSL2+ to reach 25Mbps. I've been told that range at the higher speeds is very limited (just looked it up and the cable length tops out at 1500m!)

DTemp: Power-on time count = 000000001CCAh HDDHealth: Power-On Hours = 7370 minuties (hours) I guess blakerwry must have 16 fingers. :o

I did. It's cool. :) I hadn't realized that Porsche was making such a wild monster. After reading up on it, I wondered if the driver in the video mightn't have been better off with traction control enabled. 0 - 100mph and back down to 0 in less than the length of an aircraft carrier. 0 -...

I couldn't see actual hours in the Dtemp program. Try CityK's link instead. It works.

Many utilities that read SMART data are not free. Handy may yet come up with one, but in the meantime, try PC Wizard.

Re: Grisoft AVG The latest VB100% test is still only for subscribers, but you can read the Virus Bulletin June comparison. (285kB PDF)

My daughter has been using version 3 and found it a hassle-free program. So I'll second Merc's opinion.

The Millau Viaduct is due to be completed in the next month or so. It's likely to be one of the wonders of the modern world. At 245m above ground level, the deck is nearly four times higher than the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge. That's about 80 stories! Overall height is 336m. It's difficult...

Eset NOD32 is certainly not perfect, but I still think it's more effective than anything else. Antivirus software relies chiefly on recognising code fragments, or signatures. Without regular and timely updates, it's useless. Eset is fast and consistent in updating their virus signature lists...

1. Try a different optical drive 2. Try installing a different OS to confirm the CPU, motherboard and HDD.Even Win98 DOS would be a start (I think the BIOS will allow it to install on the SATA drive?). 3. Replace the motherboard.

The numbers appear to be across all sites. Further, I suspect he doesn't mean those 20-30 users are actually updating or running queries all at the same time. Bozo, what have you been smoking? dimwit didn't say this was a mission-critical application (it's hard to imagine how it could be) and...

Six days of storms and flooding. I can just see Tea and Tannin together in a beautiful pea green boat.

Whoa! Your requirements description sounds like only a modest database application. But then you talk about a terabyte of storage! What gives? Are you planning to use the server for something else? MS SQL server takes over your server and tries to cache everything, so it's normal to keep it on...

The deal is done. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4077579.stm

The problem usually lies with the hosting VPN endpoint server rather than the remote router handling the passthrough. I'm not sure anything short of a Cisco PIX or equivalent will work. Of course, I'm referring to IPSec. PPP should work. ISDN is now poorly supported. If Netopia doesn't work...

It would have been nice if someone had mentioned that F-Secure proceeds to download more than 50MB as part of its initialization. :P It took so long, I had to leave it still downloading. :-? Giant found one piece of spyware - PowerReg Scheduler V3, which the PC had had previously. I thought it...

I wonder how much Dell's exclusive arrangement with Intel affects AMD? Opteron and Athlon 64 are recognized as great products, so isn't it possible that this one deal is influencing the market out of all proportion? I'd speculate it could be as much as halving AMD's sales. Which makes me wonder...

I'm thinking Filemon from Sysinternals might be worth a shot.

What Buck said. :) Permissions are a biggie. Most people don't seem to understand them properly.

It's impossible to say without knowing what the focus of the course is supposed to be and at what level the students are. Like Sechs said, I guess stdin, stdout, stderr and redirections are a good start. Plus practical uses for grep, although this is just basic UNIX stuff. How to configure a...

Thanks for that, Mubs. It looks a lot better than the others I dug up. Buck, why F-Secure? No, I haven't run Giant. I guess I'll give it a try, but I lack confidence in all spyware scanners when things get this hairy.

Yes. Mod immediately flicked me to Eset support. I was going to post a link to my post there, but the Wilders site appears to be down right now.

I was waiting for you to raise the point about page rendering. ;) As far as I can see, it's now significantly more stable in this regard than Firefox. Seriously. For me, it comes down to: Firefox is free and Opera isn't (it's possible to reduce the banner ad to a thin strip, and monitors are...

A customer is experiencing extremely strange behaviour on their Win2k PC. Specifically, enormous (up to 30-40GB) files are being created in their NOD32 updfiles folder. Both Eset and I are stumped. The files are not being downloaded - sometimes the system adds nearly 1GB to the size every...

I haven't used Opera 7.5 much because I found the interface irritating. In fact, I've been busily recommending Firefox to people, partly because there has been no Opera update for more than three months. I was startled when someone raved to me about Opera 7.60. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't...

We're now up to 1.0 release candidate 1, and it still has the same problem, i.e. you cannot pass an email to Thunderbird as a command line argument (and therefore cannot create any kind of association!), even though this has worked for ages with Mozilla and just about every other email client...

Incidentally, what makes you think the VPN is using port 7000?

I haven't ordered from them (wrong country). I think they're primarily a distributor: http://www.draytek.us/html/distributors.html Guideband has them for $40. There are others, but they're value-added resellers concentrating on the more sophisticated models.

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-June/045720.html Tight VNC is usually considered faster, but perhaps not as robust (I haven't tried it lately). I notice that they are now using a mirror driver, which should help speed a great deal. I'd certainly give it a try.

Del /S only deletes files, not directories. for /D %a in (*) do @rd /Q /S %a\output 2>nul /D specifies directories; /S deletes any files in an 'output' directory; /Q suppresses user confirmation; @suppresses echo; 2>nul suppresses stderr.

DrayTek 2104p $31 for a surprisingly competent router/firewall that only lacks URL/content filtering and VPN endpoints. It's easier to configure for servers than Netgear, has multiple choices for Dynamic DNS that - unlike Linksys - actually work, and throws in a parallel port print server as a...

Advanced Space Hunter (ASH) combines both functions, but is old shareware ($20). Check it out: http://www.jimjams.com/xashss.html

How about working gigabit ethernet? :)

I'd been told that there were working v1 units, but frankly I didn't really believe it. I went through three in very rapid succession before Netgear said: "You have a version 1? My God, we'll send you a v4 immediately. Send the v1 back when you get a chance." The v4s I've used have been great...

Another vote for NEC.

I agree with Merc about Spybot - I'm not convinced it achieves anything beyond what Ad-Aware does, let alone as much, so I no longer recommend it. Regarding the review, I'm fairly sure I saw Ad-Aware recognize Altnet some time in the last month. Finally, due to a particularly difficult problem...

The IP address doesn't have to come from the router. It's the gateway setting that they're getting from the router that makes them accessible. Rather than mess about with MAC addresses, just assign server IP addresses outside the pool used by the router's DHCP server. As long as you enter the...

I notice there's no fan guard. I discovered a couple of weeks ago that despite their low rpm, 120mm fans have a lot of momentum and can slice and dice with the best of them. :o

I may well be asking for a basic lesson in Networking 101 here, but I think you and Mark are on different wavelengths. Firstly, a gateway is the junction between two networks. Modern definitions like to be more specific by also requiring a change of protocol, but IMO that's just turning an...

My expectations have remained below basement level ever since Jar Jar Binks set foot on screen.

With a first past the post system, it's foolish to vote for anyone other than the two leading contenders. Your vote becomes worthless. In fact, that's often the reason that other candidates register - to suck votes away from one side or another in a calculated act of bastardry. The reality is...

Oliver burns meat and two veg

Well, a couple of months have passed and I know a fair bit more about VPNs. Router options don't appear complex and obscure, and the whole experience no longer feels like witchcraft. So I'm making this post to warn people off D-Link (and other lesser brands) when it comes to usable VPN...

You're back! The attitudes you describe are what would explicitly exclude someone from many elite military corps around the world, such as the SAS. You've just found out for yourself that the US Marine Corp is, like many things today, more hype than substance. Make that your life lesson and...

The 12V rail is out of spec, but a little on the high side is okay as long as it's consistent. If you're reading this from the BIOS, then the 3.3V rail is all over the place. Asus rounds to one decimal point in the BIOS, so that's at least a 3% swing under steady load. By way of contrast, the...

In general, the fast remote control apps cost money, i.e. you can have free or fast but not both. Remote Desktop on a server acts like Citrix, because it is in fact the same thing. It is not possible to control the console like VNC et al. This means that you simply can't run certain software...

Sheer poetry. Quite magnificent. Bloody tremendous. Why on earth are you wasting time pretending to run a successful computer store when you could be a great professional photographer?

The older drive uses a considerably slower interface (ATA33 I'd guess) and doesn't require the 80-wire cable. If you can't borrow some alternative RAM, try slowing it down in the BIOS. The nForce2 BIOS usually allows a good amount of fine tuning, so try 166MHz instead of accepting the defaults...