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Typical problem. Batteries in UPS'es (much like in anything else) only last so long. 3 years is fairly average. Unfortunately, it often cost almost the same as a new UPS to replace them, especially in the case of cheaper UPS'es.

Just like puntoMX said. You're always posting "xyz doesn't work on my box", yet you're stubborn on keeping using that old junker (along with the very worst OS ever devised, no less) Guess what? There's people who paid lots more for even older systems (or newer), and yet they've all moved to modern systems. Except in your case, you could probably find computers that don't cost any money (as in free) that are vastly better than yours (I've seen TONS of systems discarded/thrown away that were MUCH nicer for sure). I fail to see why that would even be a reason to keep using an old junker in the first place. Not so. Not by a LONG shot. There are TONS of very high quality components out there these days (FAR better than anything from the P3 era). From motherboards with solid polymer caps, various coolers with heatpipes, great PSUs like Seasonics, etc. Something like a million times better built than your old box thrown together from no-name parts, including a cheapo yamaha sound card (or is that the vortex one?), sitting on a low-budget mATX motherboard (GA-6WMM7) which is built from a low-cost i810 chipset, along with a video card from a budget series (the MX 4xx series) -- but even then that wasn't cheap enough, it had to be the SE version of it, and PCI too (which gets thoroughly slaughtered by any older GeForce 3 Ti, and is faster than a much older GeForce 2 Ti by something like 10%)... All cheap/budget/low-cost parts, and probably all worn out by now too (e.g. fans). Not exactly what I'd call quality, even for 10 years ago. It's like the computer equivalent of a Ford Pinto. BTW, "lol" is not a replacement for punctuation.

Beware though. Lots of switches claim to support jumbo frames, but don't actually support them in a meaningful way. Some have a max packet size in the 1500's still (and often with small buffers), and not like 9000+ bytes like you'd expect.

It all depends. Sometimes it's useful (e.g. winrar), sometimes it's not. Acdsee asks which file extensions you want to associate during the install process and there's even menu entries to associate/disassociate it (no need to fire up regedit) so I wouldn't really blame it.

The 810 chipset is very old (10 years), and indeed doesn't support beyond 512MB, as in two 256MB sticks. As for bigger sticks, if you're lucky it'll only see them as 256MB sticks, if you're unlucky it won't POST. Not that I'd spend a dime on a RAM upgrade for such an old board (Socket 370!, old PC100 RAM, ATA66 and obviously no LBA48 support and no SATA, no USB2, no AGP slot much less a PCI-e one, etc). I see people throwing away MUCH faster boxes all the time (got a co-worker getting rid of a 4200+ AMD box as a matter of fact -- I just might grab it to make a fancy NAS box out of it).

Then you can't use jumbo frames. It doesn't pass then. If a switch doesn't support jumbo frames, it'll just "drop" them i.e. not work. Sounds like you're in the market for a new switch.

It's a generic error message saying it can't start a process (can't find the exe seemingly). You provided very little details (like what program it is), so we can't help very much either. Looks like a fairly ghetto app too, so not surprised it crashes. WindowsApplication1? [unknown Company]? ...

Ouch. Assuming that's your upload speed (and not your download speed, with a even slower upload), and that you're always getting 100% of that (which would hardly ever be the case), and that your ftp transfers are 100% efficient (not the case), then transferring 15GB would take over 5 days. In a real-life scenario, it will take much longer than that. That's why most people don't bother with online backups in the first place (15GB ain't much either).

This has *NOTHING* to do with wireless networks.

You could say that about ANY technology pretty much. Next years' model will be better, faster and all that. They'll keep lowering response times (and doing other related tricks like black frame insertion), better viewing angles, better color calibration, better backlighting, the gamut will become larger (more bits per pixel too), 120Hz is coming too, upscaling and processing in general will likely get better, extra connections should appear soon (like displayport) and adoption of more recent HDMI versions in some cases, you might get better tuners, eventually resolutions WAY past 1080p, etc.t And by the time that finally gets mature, it'll likely get replaced by LCoS or something else, which will also need years to improve and mature, only to be replaced with something better at that point. And they'll likely keep adding "other" features too, like showing JPEG images from SD cards or the like, and it wouldn't be surprising to see HTPC-like "appliances" built-in eventually (DVR & what not). Just saying, if you want to wait, you could wait forever...

There's other decent Finnish metal bands, in fact, listening to one now: Torture Killer - Obsessed With Homicide Then again, anything with Chris Barnes in it PWNS.

Or then again you could use the Win32_PingStatus WMI class and skip the parsing altogether (and get more detailed information along with it). Or the System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping object if you use Powershell (again, no parsing)

Vista x64 for sure, especially if you're using Photoshop CS4! The OpenGL-accelerated version is by FAR the biggest upgrade since I can remember (and I've been using it since v2.5). I surely wouldn't go using any platform without OpenGL drivers. It is a very big deal, those who say otherwise seemingly haven't even tried it. GPU acceleration is amazing, the image looks great any *ANY* zoom level (about time! and the pixel grid at high zoom levels too), much improved "navigation" around the image (animated zoom, birds eye view, flick the image around and watch it slide by...), many everyday functions like setting the brush size, color space conversions, image rotations (working rotated, that is), etc. I've been using it for a while on Vista x64 (on a machine with similar specs) and it works absolutely great. Other CS4 apps (like Bridge) also make use of the GPU. OpenGL makes a world of difference here -- day and night! There's just no going back once you've tried it. Besides, Adobe doesn't officially support XP x64 either (you could almost say the same about MS, heh), and that's not going to change anytime soon... Also, a large number of your other apps make heavy use of OpenGL (After Effects, Cinema4D, Blender 3D...). Going with a OpenGL-less platform in your scenario sure seems like a VERY bad idea to me (doubly so when you forked out the extra money for the fancy Quadro FX 1500M to have superior OpenGL performance in the first place)

It isn't. They sell a "cheap" windows web server edition specifically for this purpose. But again, I'd just use a decent ftp server app if I meant to have a ftp server. Not that 10 simultaneous conns would be a big issue for most home users, as the usual 1mbit or less of upload speed divided by 10 users only gives users speeds of like 10KB/s on a good day, and more users would mean even slower (dialup-like speeds pretty much)

I'm starting to believe it's really that. Googling for "RTL8102E +problem" or similar searches doesn't seem to return any Vista-related issues (it's almost all Linux problems). So the NIC chip doesn't seem to be problematic, nor the drivers. Redetecting already installed hardware is a strange thing too. Either ways, if it doesn't work at all with Vista, and it's claimed to work with it, I'd be inquiring about a RMA.

Which mostly is a question of network latency, which isn't really a DSL vs cable thing, just a matter of network design, amount of hops, etc. But yeah, both can be good or bad, depending on which specific ISPs, local line conditions, etc.

That mostly depends on the particular ISPs you've tried. I always get the speeds they claim to provide (using cable), any time I try it. That's been true for every cable ISP I've been with (cogeco, eastlink & videotron). While every DSL I've seen had issues (where mostly they had to reduce the speed to very low levels to work out sync issues, change lines and all). Perhaps your local ISP's line qualities are the other way around (good phone lines & short distances for DSL, crappy old coax), but as far as I've seen it's very much the inverse... DSL is barely usable (again, 512kbps tops, yuck), when even available. Nevermind all the heavy PPPoE/ATM overhead, and the usual really crappy USB-only modems they tend to use (with really crappy firmwares too) Again, it comes down to which ISPs, local line quality and everything...

Just curious: how's that any better than using move, copy, ren , del (and executing) directly? I don't really see the point of adding a 3rd party util that does nothing new over what's been included in the OS since the early DOS days. It's totally trivial to write an util like this (you could do this using a batch file, vbscript/jscript/powershell, autoit, or any scripting/programming language in like 5 minutes). I just don't see the point of it all. I mean, instead of having a batch file with (add paths if you want to): copy file1.ext file2.ext move file1.ext file2.ext ren file1.ext file2.ext del file1.ext file.exe then it just becomes: vfm /c file1.ext file2.ext vfm /m file1.ext file2.ext vfm /r file1.ext file2.ext vfm /d file1.ext vfm /e file.exe I fail to see what new problem it solves, or how it solves an old problem any better than the existing solutions. It only seems to complicate things IMO. The commands are a bit longer to type, and you gotta know the syntax too. I mean, especially /e -- why have a batch file launch your program so it can launch a program? What's the goal achieved here? Might as well skip the middleman and just start the program you want in the first place, no? Am I missing something?

A true salesman at work That's what I'd call a half-truth. The only "dedicated" part when it comes to DSL, it from your house to the CO or RDSLAM. Then you're back on the same congested/very oversold network as anyone else. As for cable internet (DOCSIS), only the upstream channel is shared, so if it's too oversold in your immediate area (or lots of neighbors who upload lots), then it might be slower in that particular direction than DSL (depending on the actual DSL speeds, network congestion, line quality, etc). Download speeds are unaffected (not shared i.e. "dedicated" the same way -- no one else uses your channel, then it goes back to another oversold network too). Either ways, lots of them advertise very high speeds/claim higher speeds, then they end up throttling your downloads, or offering very fast speeds along with low bandwidth caps... There's no way to tell for sure which one is faster, short of trying both. I never dealt with either ISP as I don't live in the USA. Here, I can get 20Mbit or more using cable (they have a 50Mbit plan, not sure if I can get it -- too pricey anyways), and the top speed offered on DSL is 512kbps... Easy choice to make.

Rather strange. I have 2 Vista boxes with Realtek Gigabit NICs. One "Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC" (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R) and one "Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E GBE NIC" (Asus M3A78-EM). Both never had such issues and just worked out of the box without any fiddling whatsoever. Might be that specific model you got which has driver issues, hard to tell from so little. SPDIF wise, that's normal AFAIK, unless you somehow disable the output (I use mine, so haven't tried).

Go go google, type "list of html tags", then either hit "i feel lucky" or go to the first link. Tons of similar pages around. Either ways, it's easy to remember all the useful ones, and you likely won't need that. Well, no idea what the course actually covers, but start by going to a place like w3schools.com and go through the tutorials. You'll be writing basic pages in no time flat, it's actually very easy. 2 things: HTML isn't code, nor is writing HTML programming (doesn't get compiled or anything). It's simply markup. Editor wise, it's very much a personal choice, some like notepad, others like fancy IDEs with syntax highlighting, folding, intellisense and such (plus site management features and what not), and there's tons of others in-between both extremes. Anyways. You'll grasp HTML in no time flat, but it's only the very beginning. Next, you gotta learn CSS (make sure you do get a good understanding of the box model), Javascript (and possibly related frameworks e.g. jQuery), various server-side technologies (to generate the pages, along with databases and all), and there's still plenty more one can learn beyond that (e.g. flash, silverlight, etc)

You can't. IIS 5.1 is limited to 10 connections as it's a desktop OS. If you want/need more, then you have to buy Win 2003 or win 2008, which have IIS 6 and 7 respectively, and have no such limits. Not that I'd use IIS for a FTP site mind you...

Winamp doesn't work "100%" in Vista Aero in the first place, so I doubt it works perfect on Win 7. They've had over 2 years to make it work with desktop composing, but I guess they just suck too bad to properly implement a layered window or whatever. The alt-tab thumbnail, the flip3d thumbnail, the taskbar preview thumbnail... all show the "classic" look, when it works at all (even though they somehow claim it was fixed in their changelogs). Even setting vista_thumbnail=1 manually in the config file (no, it's not enabled by default, for no apparent reason, nor is there an option in the GUI for it seemingly, changing between GDI+ and DirectDraw and such is no help either). It still has numerous glitches e.g. when it's minimized: I'm starting to lose any confidence in them folks these days. 2 years to fix it wasn't enough? Seriously? It's the ONLY app I've seen with such issues too. Is it gonna take 2 years+ to fix possible Win 7-related issues as well? Seems like it's been mostly downhill since AOL bought nullsoft really. In fact, I just might switch to WMP instead (and that's coming from a die-hard winamp user) -- actually, I'm already started, and kinda liking it. The library (and way to assign ratings) and auto playlists seem to be a million times better anyways (and probably the device sync'ing and other stuff too, and also mp3's show up in MCE too). It even works with my fancy keyboard buttons without any messing around (nice) and using the remote in MCE too (getting any remote to work with winamp is a royal PITA to say the least). Doesn't cost $20 to have all the features either...

Norton junk isn't even able to get rid of itself properly, you usually have to use SymNRT. There's bits and pieces of it left: Services, startup processes, BHO's, toolbars, etc. It's still all over the place, and I'm sure there's plenty more of it scattered everywhere. So I'd try to truly eradicate it first. Then, if things still don't work, I'd try to reset the tcp/ip stack: netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt That often solves the problem.

Well, the cheaper SSDs' performance isn't quite as good as the "nicer" ones (like Intel's, which are very pricey) and in some cases slower than a classic mechanical HD... The main advantage is seek times. When it comes to transfer speeds, there's not that much difference. It's a pretty hefty price tag ($420 for the 32GB Intel X25-E) for a relatively minimal gain IMO. Anyways. Mounting is the easy part. They've been making mounting brackets specifically for this for just about forever, like these.