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  1. Santilli

    Hosting a website? Costs? Setup? etc...

    Hi I've got a friend that has a business, and he needs a website working and functioning. I'm wondering what you need to host a website, and what costs are involved with your service provider. In other words, is SBC going to freak if I use my broadband to run a website? What software am I...
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    waol.exe taking 95 to 100 percent cpu usage at idle

    Hi My SO uses Aol, and, I've found a rather intresting bit of work. the process file waol.exe was using between 95-100% of the processor on the Athlon 3000, at idle. When I started working, it continued sucking up the cpu. I stopped the process, did a little research, and, it seems to be...
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    It's official : Windows boots on a Macbook Pro!

    If someone GAVE me a super high end mac, with scsi raid boot drive, and removeable drive setups, I'd certainly consider playing with it. Otherwise, forget it. S
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    Tuning 2003 server for workstation use

    David's better then he gives himself credit for. It's already disabled. Thanks Greg
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    Tuning 2003 server for workstation use

    Mercutio: The last of your four instructions doesn't seem to go to the right place. Could you check that one? "4. Open Admin Tools > Local Security Policy > Computer Config > Administrative Templates > System and change "Display Shutdown Event Tracker" to Disabled. " Computer Config is the...
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    It's official : Windows boots on a Macbook Pro!

    I really don't trust apple at all with hardware. Even their famous laptops have had some sort of twist, or problems, in my experience, or been absurdly overpriced. Their towers have sucked eggs, giving you a emachine with a Alienware price. S
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    It's official : Windows boots on a Macbook Pro!

    Sorry Sol: I'm not thinking the last couple years, I'm thinking from my first Mac Plus to now, in perspective... s
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    It's official : Windows boots on a Macbook Pro!

    Well, still issues are the OS changing every six months? Now, that shouldn't have any hardware excuses. Will all the 3rd party software producers do the upgrade every month charge, as in the past? I can see this with pc hardware, easily. Want to upgrade? No drivers, unless you upgrade to...
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    Silent Power Supply?

    While this guy didn't really give it the full run, it looks like a Seasonic, but 50 bucks cheaper. Competition is a good thing... s
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    It's official : Windows boots on a Macbook Pro!

    What an amazing change in business strategies... I can't get over the incredible change.... Almost makes me think macs might, sometime in the far future, be a viable alternative. Now, if they just provide quality, unneutered, hardware for thier price, I'll be convinced... s
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    Something Random

    Mercutio: Enjoy it. Female attention can be a wonderful thing... s
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    Ultra low-end dilemma.

    Mark: What OS are you running? Can that machine work up to 8 cores???? s
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    Ultra low-end dilemma.

    I just got out of a school district, Cabrillo Unified School District, Half Moon Bay, that has a standard, POS, install, with 2.4 ghz celies. They SUCK eggs. Even with a stripped down, ultra low price install, it barely matched my 1.4 ghz, 8 year old, or so, Athlon. When coupled with a...
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    Something Random

    One of these nights, we ought to wander down to the Sardine Factory.... s
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    Something Random

    My early 20's I had the experience of a 16 year old. My late 20's I became a 50 year old. Where do you think Merc fits on this scale, after reading his experiences...? s
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    Something Random

    Sam: David has his s... together. His idea of partying, is, well, lightweight, compared to the stuff I did at his age. He's amazing, that way. Alcohol, in moderation, doesn't make one depressed. David, in my observation, keeps control, and awareness of the evils of alcohol. Salinas is a...
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    Something Random

    Mercutio: I don't see David drinking himself silly, but, slightly indulgent. Still, in his area, not a lot to do. Seems like they roll up sidewalks at Dark, down there. As for the 18 year old: Have a more worldly view of age. The majority of the world is still on the old common law system...
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    Treo 700w as a car computer?

    Hi David Try going here http://www.traffic.com/index.html and setup your highway routes, and alerts. I think you can get on the net with your current phone, anyway. With that, you can check at anytime, what the freeways are doing. I've found if I check the freeways at departure, it...
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    NASA mission sets world speed record

    Doesn't anyone see the small detail, that it requires going mach 5 before it starts working? Just a minor detail. At Mach 3 Titanium starts flowing. I want to know what materials will take sustained speeds at Mach 5, much less Mach 8. s
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    Codec/Spyware from Hell

    By the way, about every two weeks I was getting a virus in some spam email. It's been two years now, and, thanks to the email features, and scanning in Penicillin, I have been virus free, knock on wood... S
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    Codec/Spyware from Hell

    No I didn't pay for the anti-spyware, that was included in the Penicillin package, which, so far, has kept this machine virus free, though Penicillin is really annoying... S
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    Codec/Spyware from Hell

    That's the really weird part: I ran Adaware, and, I have Trendmicro Penicillin, paid version, including their anti-spyware program. I also ran their web based spyware program, and it found a bunch of stuff my paid version didn't. You just reminded me to run trends free version of anti-spyware...
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    Codec/Spyware from Hell

    Hi I just went through a really fun experience. I was told I needed a new Code4 to view some windows media player files. I was suspicious, but tried it anyway. WRONG MOVE. It installed files into my temp folder, in Internet Explorer, that appeared to be linked to a warning about I had...
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    Laptop HDD migration

    LM: The difference between the drives, in all the tests I looked at wasn't enough to get me to fork over the money. But, my CF-51 came with a ATA 6 4200 rpm drive, and sustained data transfer is not the double that I look for, before buying a new drive. Tony can certainly afford to play with...
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    ATI X800XL's and heat...

    Hi Since I have two of these now, I thought I might post a bit about the heat stuff. With my computers, I've been trying to cut noise down. On the server box, this meant not installing a 120mm fan to blow over the PCI cards, and, in the new box David built, it meant keeping the fans running...
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    2003 Server DVD player?

    Mercutio: No, just a very nice set of headphones I can plug into the front of this machine, with out having to squirrel about with the cat to plug in in the back of my server box. "Have you tried running the installer in Windows XP compatability mode?" Yes, no joy. I guess I could just buy a...
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    Laptop HDD migration

    I researched this a bunch, and came to the conclusion the new generation drives are much better then the old, but, that even the 4200rpm new drives are decent, and cheaper. 5400 are nice, but not enough faster then the 4200rpm in my Panasonic to make me want to change. For the older...
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    NASA mission sets world speed record

    Didn't Kelly, and Skunkworks, come up with a hybrid jet/ramjet for the SR-71? IIRC, once up, and moving at 2500 mph, the turbines were taken out of the airflow, their angle was changed, so the engines became ramjets? I do remember the pilots talking about the nozzles, or entry ports, for the...
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    Musings on a new PC

    I think it's too close in price to some of the Gigabyte offerings, but, I don't know enough about the two of them to make a good guess... S
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    CD emulation software conflict with Call of Duty game.

    The last technique worked. Have a functioning copy of United on 2003, now. Also, while PowerDVD won't install on 2003, the Mediaplayer set works great. Watching Pam Andersen in the opening part of Barbwire, and, she's incredible... WOW.. "One more person calls me babe...." ROFL :mrgrn...
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    CD emulation software conflict with Call of Duty game.

    Well, they also wrote in something in the United Offensive upgrade package. The following setup file is not present in the initial Call of Duty, which installs, and runs fine, on 2003 SERVER. Figure their must be a way to support 2003 with a quick text change, but, I can't figure out what it...
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    2003 Server DVD player?

    Hi thanks. The codec pack gave me a useable DVD player. Maybe better then Power DVD, but I doubt the sound is the same quality. Still, thanks, that was a quick fix. Now to contact Call of Duty guys... gs
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    2003 Server DVD player?

    2003 Server, while a blindingly fast os, does have it's quirks. I've been playing Call of Duty on the machine, but, it will not install Call of Duty United Offensive. As much as I can tell, the install code looks for the os, and, since it doesn't find the text in the ini. text approving 2003...
  34. Santilli

    Cyclone

    After rereading that post, I can't help but think of Jaws, on a much larger scale... :wink: S
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    Cyclone

    From a NOAA report in Iniki, in PDF: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/iniki/iniki1.pdf " a 217 MPH gust was reported by personnel at the USN radar site, at Makaha Ridge...." But, the machinery was not calibrated, so it was not considered valid by NOAA. Iniki apparently went from class...
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    Cyclone

    http://www.video-hawaii.com/iniki.html http://www.video-hawaii.com/iniki.html I wonder what would have happened if Iniki would have gone right over Honolulu? S
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    Energy Vampires

    Well, likewise. Every computer is hooked up to a UPS, to stop the frying of my home computers, unlike the one I had at work. It is funny the amount of draw we put on the circuits around here. Pretty clear it wasn't designed for today, but for the 50's when it was built. gs
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    Energy Vampires

    I'm seriously thinking of setting up all the power stuff on power switches, and, when I leave, just hitting the power switch, for each area, at the plug. I already have the problem that when everything is up, and we kick on the new Panasonic microwave, it blows the circuit. I have the...
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    Cyclone

    I think it was Ineki that hit Kaui, when I was on Oahu. Winds hit 225 on the peaks of Kaui, before the wind gauges where blown off, and their supports blown down. I slept through the whole thing, in a pillbox I lived in on the beach at Diamond head... s
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    Really Fast Drive! or ?

    2003 Windows Server web install is how much :?: :wink: 4 gigs? GS
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    SATA external enclosures

    http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg62_alumhotswapinternal.htm I've also bought, and used, three of these, and been happy with them http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg51_hot-swapinternalsystem.htm GS
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    Post Counts Piling Up

    Been a long time together, hasn't it Tannin? Wonder what Bill's doing? David's a class act, and I'm glad he's here. Fantastic group, and glad to be a member, and participant, and would like to thank Mercutio, and Handurin for being here, and keeping the lights on. Glad the motherboard...
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    For the first time of my life, I'll have a job I'll like.

    Well, congratulation CK. Pradeep, glad to hear you are moving on. I'm sure things will work out better for you. Good luck and God Bless both of you. S
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    2003 Server DVD player?

    Still gives me the same message, and, direct X 9.0C is installed... Weird. Greg
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    2003 Server DVD player?

    Weird. I installed it on the work computer, which is Direct X 8. and it works fine... Again, weird. GS
  46. Santilli

    2003 Server DVD player?

    I've got version 5.0, and, it's not supported by tech support. The hardware graphics acceleration is on, and, the newest ATI drivers are installed. I can't remember how to check for the version of Direct X, but I thought I downloaded the new version, and installed it. Greg
  47. Santilli

    2003 Server DVD player?

    Hi Anyone have a program that plays DVD's on 2003 Server? PowerDVD doesn't support 2003 Server, and says Direct x is version 8, when it's actuall 9.03C, and won't install. GS
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    Recommendation wanted, HDD cooler

    Try checking how much it would be to ship a pound to San Francisco. That should give us a ball park figure if it's worth my even digging around to find it. Thanks Greg
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    Recommendation wanted, HDD cooler

    http://www.casecooler.com/casecooler/ulhardrivcoo.html http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835888312&CMP=OTC-Froogle&ATT=AOC+UHDC-S+40mm+Ball+Ultimate+Hard+Drive+cooler+with+2+sleeve+fans These used to be 50 dollars. I've used them in the past, with no problems. If I find...
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