Phyridean

Thanks. I guess it's back to the drawing board.

My suggestion (Let's toss another two cents into the giant money bin): If there were a clear cut winner, everyone would (should?) by it to the exclusion of everything else. Therefore, we can assume that both processor types are generally good, and perform well on most any task. So....buy whatever happens to be in front of you. If you want something cheap, go AMD. If you don't care about price too much, go Intel and get Aaron's stability...either way, you get your computer. I've never had significantly more problems or performance gains with either one...and I do a lot of different things on my computer (gaming, limited internet usage, word processing, some video editing, etc, etc). OR: you could buy some stock in one company or the other, and after that, buy only that brand of chip....

I have several different versions of an unattended XP cd. They all work fine on all machines, except one. On this machine, it loads only a couple files up, but then just after it trys to load the "Kernel debugger dll" it stops, saying it cannot find setupdd.sys. This file is on every disk I have tested, so I imagine it's a hardware problem, but none of the hardware seems to be bad. Has anyone else had this problem, before I waste all your reading time by posting my winnt.sif, which works fine on other machines anyway?

I've read a bunch about loopback processing, and managed to implement it, as long as the computers and users are in the same domain. Different OUs, but the same domain. Now, I want to do the same thing, except where the computers are in a child domain, and the users are in an OU in the parent domain. I can find nothing on google or here at msfn, but maybe someone out there can help me. Thanks in advance,

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Try the pause/break key above "page up." You'll have to be fast to push it, but it should eliminate the need for superhuman reading skills. Best of luck, Phy

The same kind of people who tag on walls. Great artists diverted through boredom into ugly practices. Thought everyone knew that....

19, though when this poll was started I was 18....there seem to be a LOT of us here. I wonder why that might be?

I'd wonder if any DOS would support SATA hard drives....you may have to go with a more modern system.

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Loopback processing was the key. It was necessary to make sure that all policies are set to either "merge" or "replace" but no combinations of the two within an OU. It's also necessary to have proper WINS addresses.

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Methinks Doom III is going to be limited to lan party gaming when it comes to players above the current 8. The fiber infrastructure won't be in place for some time, and by then, we'll have games that further push the boundaries of data transmission speeds. Oh, and to save yourself some typing, feel free to call me "Phy"

Doom III also has to deal with new network bandwidth issues. Remember all the talk of if you're hit in the arm, you lose use of that arm, and everyone around you can see that bullet hole until you die? Well it requires a tremendous amount of bandwidth to make sure that everyone has the same information on everyone else. Gigabit NIC's anyone?

As far as Averatec: they make an excellent, cheap, thin notebook (I have a sotec 3120s, which was Averatec's name up until last year), though they tend to lag behind the major laptop makers when it comes to features. Mine is a great notebook, but if you get one, make sure that you don't need something that'll survive rough use. Currently, they have two series of notebooks: I don't remember the model numbers, but one is thin and light, and the other is large, but still thin. The larger one comes with centrino and a dvd-rw, among other things. For my next notebook, I wanted the features of the larger notebook, in the smaller form factor. I therefore e-mailed them to see when they might have one. The answer was at the end of this year, to the beginning of next. I'm waiting for that one to buy a new one.

Personally, I've had bad luck with Sony. Driver incompatibility (when I reformatted and reinstalled, the stock sony drivers from their website no longer worked for some components) and touchpad crappiness were both issues. If you want something for school, I can recommend highly a tablet. They're very good for note taking, and can read even the most horrendous handwriting. If you want something for gaming, go with something other than centrino. It's really fast for office apps, but not very good for gaming. If you want something with good battery life, as everyone else has said, go with centrino. But most of all, ENJOY having a new laptop!

I got mine at CompUSA, and it's the basic ATI made model. (i.e. not Gigabyte or Sapphire...) Now I'm sure that there are those of you out there who don't like CompUSA, but they were the only ones who had it at the time. I can HIGHLY recommend it to anyone. And by the way, unless you just do a cut-and-paste, feel free to call me "Phy." Everyone else does.

What do you plan to use it for?

Check to make sure (in the properties of your network adapter) that File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks hasn't been uninstalled or omitted. I've had this problem before, and I think that worked.

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Try this: go to control panel->sounds and audio devices->the upper "advanced" button->make sure under "options" that "advanced" is checked. Click on the advanced button below the volume control, and either check or uncheck "digital output only." Hope this helps, Phy

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Actually, you don't get gipped. It's in the way we shorthand things. We imagine that a gigabyte (Giga=billion, byte=8 bits) is one billion bytes...but that's only one way of looking at it. The way the label on the box looks at it. The real and accepted way is that 1Kbyte=1024 bytes, 1mbyte=1024 kbytes, 1gbyte=1024 mbytes...so a full gig is 1,073,741,824 bytes, not 1,000,000,000. It's the same way with ram. So you're not getting screwed, you're just getting gigabytes that are easier to measure. So I suppose that in the interest of truth in advertising, I should say that my hard disks are as follows: 80GB=74.5 GB 120GB=111.76 GB 200GB=186.26 GB 250GB=232.83 GB Can you tell I was once in school for a math related field? (Now I'm an English major, for all those of you considering jobs in math-stuff...I can highly recommend the switch)

I feel sorry for your poor neglected desktop...