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More necro-posting! My Gateway MX7515 died today. Specifically, the Radeon X600 crapped out, and it does funky things whenever it's in any kind of graphics mode other than 80x24 text. I thought I might be able to replace RAM and get it back to working order, but no, it has discrete memory...

That device looks and has capabilities that are awfully similar to my phone, including the touchscreen and microSD support. My phone retails for $500. Makes me wonder how much of my phone's price is in the Windows mobile license; 64MB RAM, the radio transceivers and the CPU certainly don't add...

Can anyone get to demonoid.com right now?

SLI is single monitor only. You'll need an additional video card. A PCI video card will in fact work just fine for any normal-ish sized monitor.

As a contractor I was once sent to a law office where employees were told to raise their hands and ask a superior to visit the restroom. I stayed exactly as long as it took for someone to explain that to me. There is a medical practice where I have worked in the past, where employees are...

Nope. You can do everything on one server if you like.

There should be pretty detailed howtos for everything you want to do. It's mostly just a matter of figuring out what steps you need to take and repeating them. More fun: Configure Squid + SquidGuard (content monitoring) ClamAV (Virus Detection) SSH endpoint Asterix (PBX)

There should be some kind of preconfigured package for Apache/MySQL/php that already has everything working. I don't see Spamassassin on that list anyplace, and if you're doing a mail server, you'll want it. Also, some kind of IMAP server (Dovecot, probably).

sudo find / -name phpldapadmin -print will search your whole directory structure for the files you need. It should be somewhere under /var/www.

My previous experiences with Ubuntu are that the server install CD did not include lots of little things I expected to have from long-term use of RedHat/Fedora/Centos. No one thing is terribly annoying, but in combination it led to a great deal of irritation.

Try phpLDAPadmin. Makes sense to manage your database from a browser anyway. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish in doing server-y stuff on one of the most obnoxiously desktop-focused Linux distros there is - but that's up to you. As far as structuring your directory, it's rare for...

The stuff I read indicates that Maxtor as a brand will continue to exist for the foreseeable future as Seagate's budget line, similar to how Mercury = budget Ford. I'm not sure I understand that strategy, since the price difference at retail seems to be minimal, but there is a big difference in...

qmail is deprecated. The guy responsible for it quit working on it and was pretty much an asshole besides. sendmail has pretty much had no end of security issues and forked off into commercial software a while back (there is still a free version, naturally, but IIRC the commercial one comes with...

vi makes plenty of sense if you understand where it came from. 25 years ago, a multiuser terminal system generally would not have the RAM to allow dozens of people access to full screens of text, so a text editor operated one line at a time. The standard editor was called 'ed' and was basically...

There is a very, very good reason to learn vi. It is the standard text editor. Every system has to have it. Also, using anything less makes you a total wuss.

No idea. That was around 10 years ago. It was 3 blocks from the Fisk power plant just south of the loop. Don't have the book, but I'd buy it if I saw it.

These days it's probably procmail.

I have a couple bridge boards that are designed to connect two standard SATA cables and a standard molex power connection. They came with some Gigabyte motherboards that I got a couple years ago.

The Big Con. I thought it an interesting article.

I've used literally dozens of those NEC SATA drives without incident. Are you sure you don't have some marginal media? Win2k has the same fundamental drivers and file-handling characteristics as XP. I sincerely doubt that it is the cause of any problems. Also, AFAIK, SATA drives don't have PIO...

Yup, the servers were all part of the same domain. I also found out that they used pretty much the most obvious password known to man (the same as their registered domain name) and none of their internal machines even had the built in Windows Firewall running. Yes, knowing that, they pretty...

Coug says he's been very busy with work and not inclined to spend leisure time at his PC at the moment. So that's one...

I, on the other hand, have far too much control of myself.

I was once eating lunch in Chicago's Chinatown. I went into a restaurant, a little hole in the wall place that just smelled spicy and awesome. I told the only guy in the place who spoke English that I wanted something hot and spicy. He asked me "How spicy you want?" I said "Bring it to me the...

Like 15 wings or so. I also had to sign a medical release before they would serve them to me. It was probably a mix of some kind of BBQ sauce with some Dave's Ultimate Insanity or something similar.

I just ate a plate of really, really (150,000 scoville) hot wings. Apparently there's a mild chemical burn around my lips, but the endorphin release has me feeling pretty damned good. And now my name is going to be engraved on a plaque for my accomplishment. :D

Also, technically, 192.168.x.y is supposed to be a /16 and not a /24, so using it as a class B sized network is certainly valid.

I know that your setup would talk if it were with a bunch of stuff on interconnected LANs and with entirely static routes. I'm less sure how well it would work over wide area links and I am thinking there is probably a good performance-related reason to not do things that way.

... on the other hand, repeated recalls for the same part are probably a decent indication of a problem. I know Ford sedans have notoriously unreliable automatic transmissions and Volvos seem to have lots of problems with turbo or fuel injection parts, and if those things are bad enough that...

This guy, looking at his offices and staffing and frankly how he dresses, probably bills out a million bucks a year. Guess who is being listened to?

If my client have enough money to care, usually they like having someone to indemnify in the event of a security lapse, which is why I usually buy Sonicwall products if they can afford them. I can make a Linux-based router/firewall out of anything.

Through my trainer job, I have come into contact with a mid-sized business - an architecture company - which is generally serviced by another contractor-type guy. This guy likes to set up Windows Servers as primary internet servers; directly connecting his Windows machines to internet...

Yeah. Proper DHCP servers pinch their cheeks to get them that color. Only the really slutty DHCP servers use rouge. Congratulations to those of you who have maintained long term relationships with females interested in the opposite gender. :|

I guess you could also define an Active Desktop .html file for that folder, if the contents of it don't change that much.

I have a couple (2) male to female bridges sitting here on my desk, now that I look around. They came with Gigabyte motherboards. Mine need a standard molex extension or molex to SATA cable. They look really cheesy.

Why bother with Active Directory? It's far more of a pain than it's worth, and OpenLDAP isn't that hard to set up.

Here's a fun idea for the non-Smoothwall types (I've never used one): OpenWRT - the alternative Linux-based firmware for the WRT54G(L) - has a Samba client. That means it can address external storage, even without a local drive. And it can run a bittorrent client. I'm not sure if there's a...

I emailed Coug and CityK. Groltz has told me in the past that he doesn't think very many people notice his contributions, and he has a history of coming and going anyway. I'm not sure I have a current E-mail address for him either. Buck never answers E-mail I send...

I can E-mail Coug and Buck should be reachable through his web site. Actually I probably have CityK and Groltz's direct email addresses as well.

I wouldn't laugh too hard, Mr. Can't Make Linux Work.

Usually you want to have a decent range open, like 10 or so ports.

Guide to making a bootable TrueImage Flash drive.

Putting a machine in DMZ means that it's not being protected by a firewall. If you're doing this for torrenting, be aware that you need to forward a range of ports, which might be why the Netgear is choking. I haven't had much luck configuring Netgear routers to do anything out of the ordinary...

At least he stopped putting inline scantily clad Asian women in his posts. Not that there's anything wrong with Asian women.

Honestly, it should be the very straightforward matter of forwarding the port twice. If that's not working, you need to make some alternative arrangements. A few thing that occur to me: 1. Put the PC on your second router's DMZ. 2. Plug the PC into the semi-public network. 3. Create a Virtual...

Odd. I was just thinking of how long it's been since Buck's been around.

Windows isn't a "desktop OS" - Windows is Windows, with some tunable parameters for desktop, application or file server workloads. You use essentially the same kernel and support files no matter what version of Windows you have (more or less, anyway). That said, x86 as a platform isn't really...

I've been pretty happy with the $15 X700SE cards that come up on woot.com from time to time, but I don't build many systems that that kind of hardware.

Speed is good, but I wish they'd take some time to reduce CPU overhead instead. Plus, I have a feeling that the market will prefer Wireless USB over greater speed.

MCSE to the rescue! The rule is: sub-"Basic" versions support one core, one processor (e.g. Starter or Legacy Windows) Home versions support one processor with as many cores as one processor can have. Professional versions can have two processors each with as many cores as any one processor...