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You are sort of correct, but in terms of Virtual Memory. Don't confuse this with physical RAM. Again, correct but replace "kernel space" with "virtual memory". See previous comment.See this thread and the threads linked within it for more information: http://www.msfn.org/board/32bit-Windows-no...RAM-t97580.html

The real-world difference isn't noticeable. We're talking nanoseconds here...

Is there a reason why you don't want to install the full software package? This is a long way to get the drivers, but it should work. Download the full software package for XP and run it. By default, it will ask to extract the files to C:\Temp\HP All-in-One Series Web Release. Cancel the the install when it starts (after the files have extracted). Now plug in the all-in-one and when the system asks for drivers, simply point it to C:\Temp\HP All-in-One Series Web Release for them.

That's a rather high voltage for DDR2 800. The lower timings are likely the reason for the higher voltage (basically the memory is "overclocked"...the speed in MHz may be standard, but the timings are faster than the memory chips are rated for at 1.8v, so they require a higher voltage to maintain system stability at those settings).This happens quite a bit more often with memory than you might think. While it may be perfectly safe to run the memory at the higher voltage, it will also make the memory get hotter than normal. Also, if you reduce the timing to the normal 5-5-5-18 or somewhere in that range, you'll probably be able to lower the voltage to 1.8-1.9v.

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If this is a SAN I believe you're going to have to setup the new server as an allowed device to connect to the array(s). I would call IBM to see what you can do.

I did a quick search yesterday and didn't find anything. Does anyone know how to get the FSRM reports to return more than 1000 results?

DOH! I missed it! Hope you had a good one man!

Is the Drobo slow over a USB2 connection?You would think but it's actually rather quick. I was initially worried about the USB2 connection but after having using it for about a month or so that's no longer a concern. I thought the video of 300 was perhaps an Apple Quicktime trailer? I did think there was something a bit odd with the video though, did you also notice that quite a lot of time is spend away from the screen? The other thing I found a little bit suspicious was the two 'folders' that have been purposefully resized with no address bar! No, it's the full movie. Again, it's just heavily time lapsed. It's even time lapsed on the file copies. And yes, punto is right...he did use small drives so that it filled up quicker. That's actually the way the Dashboard looks so it's not just for show. Since the Drobo makes the drive appear to be 2TB to the system, the Dashboard is the only accurate way to check your actual usage. There does seem to be a bit of a niche market surrounding this device, somewhat similar to what I call the 'Apple' effect Well, I'm sure quite a bit of engineering went into the product to make everything automatic. It's quite literally one of the best examples of "plug and play".

Try this. Copy and paste the following code into an ADM file (outlookcheckadmsettings.adm or something...just so you know what it is in the future). Put the new custom ADM template in %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\GroupPolicy\ADM\. Now run gpedit.msc on the server. You'll have a new category under Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates called "Nuisances". Configure the "Disable Outlook Nag Message" setting to "Enabled" and it should apply to all users that logon to the server. CLASS USER CATEGORY Nuisances POLICY "Disable Outlook Nag Message" KEYNAME "Software\Policies\Microsoft\Security" VALUENAME "CheckAdminSettings" VALUEON NUMERIC 2 END POLICY END CATEGORY

I take it, it's similar to the 'data redundancy' that WHS provides? i.e. it's not technically RAID, but uses a form of parity in order to protect the data?Yeah, it's along those same lines. As an example, I have a Drobo attached to the workstation I'm on now with 4 x 250GB drives in it. The utility tells you how the drives are being used:Drives: 250.05GB + 250.05GB + 250.05GB + 250.05GB = 1.00TB (931.54 GB actual*) Available for data 694.29 GB Reserved for expansion 0B Used for protection 235.01GB Overhead 2.23 GB I don't have any "Reserved for expansion" because all of my drives are the same size so in a sense it's using a "RAID5" type algorithm right now. If one of them were, say, a 500GB drive then I would have ~250GB reserved for expansion. I'm glad you mentioned that. Until I read a little bit more about the Drobo, I never realised there was a 2 TB limit over USB (apparently because it's based on the SCSI command set?). I suppose when they designed the USB spec, they obviously didn't think we would reach that kind of limit any time soon. I suppose most home users won't require 1 TB yet anyway, let alone 2 TB.Yeah, I wasn't aware of the 2TB over USB limit either until I got the Drobo's we have. Yes, you are correct. I still haven't figured out exactly how they "share" the space though. We do have another one that has 4 x 1TB drives but we aren't anywhere close to filling it up. That video is heavily time lapsed. Watch how quickly it moves through 300 while he's doing the demonstration. I warned you it was expensive. I downloaded the release notes for the latest firmware version (v1.4) which apparently adds among other things the following new features... That's good to know. More and more hardware manufacturers are finally starting to put support for more than 2TB in their devices now. If you're going to put any money in a good NAS device you might as well get one that supports hot swap. If this is for home then it may not be such a big deal, but in a corporate environment downtime to replace a failed drive is unnecessary downtime IMO.

What's your current system specs? You may have to get a new power supply anyway.

Yeah, you have it right. Plugging a 2.0 device into a 1.1 port will give you the balloon message. Plugging a 1.1 device into a 2.0 port doesn't give you any message at all.

A 9600GT card will definitely let you play older titles on the higher settings, or at higher resolutions with mid-to-high settings. Especially when you compare it to your current Radeon 9250. Sometimes you really don't realize how "bad" your gaming experience is until you get a higher-end video card. You may think you're running your games fine with your Radeon 9250 now, but put in a better card and you can feel the difference. The games play smoother, you can turn settings up to see what you've been missing in the way of visual quality, you'll have less eye strain because you won't have to focus on a "stuttering" screen (smoother frame rates), etc, etc.

For it to work properly, yes. Most decent home routers have an option to enable or disable VPN passthrough though.

I completely forgot about the Intel SS4000. They're supposed to be really nice as well. The only word of warning is that the SS4000 supports "up to 2TB). The Drobo supports larger capacities.

When you access the VPN through broadband are you connecting through a Cable/DSL router? If so, you may need to enable that traffic to pass through. On a Linksys router go to Security > VPN and enable all three options.

It's quite pricey but there's a product called Drobo that does it's own "RAID" calculations. It's not really a RAID, per se, but they have their own algorithm they use to provide data redundancy. And the drive sizes don't have to match...all you need are standard SATA drives to plug into the thing. I have two of them at work, one with 4x250GB drives and one with 4x1TB WD GP drives. They work very well and do their own thing with regards to getting around the 2TB parition limit. And I have to say that even though it's only a USB 2.0 link, they're still quite speedy. Now, if you looked at the link before you got this far in the post you're saying "but that's not a NAS!". You're right...by itself it isn't. But they've just introduced the DroboShare that turns it into a NAS. And you can attach up to two Drobo's to a single DroboShare. Again, it's a pricey solution but to have something that automatically configures data redundancy for you is well worth the slight cost overhead. The other nice thing is that you can upgrade the drives while it's online. Just replace each drive one at a time allowing enough time between each drive for it to rebuild the data parity (this will depend on how much data you have). Watch the video to see it in action.

The GigE controller will more than max out the PCI bus by itself. Full duplex GigE operation requires approximately 250MB/s throughput (1000Mbit/s / 8 = 125MB/s * 2 = 250MB/s). This, of course, discards the TCP/IP overhead, CPU overhead (if the NIC doesn't have TOE) and a few other factors, but the end result is that the PCI bus is taxed beyond its capabilities just by the GigE NIC. While it's true that file serving doesn't require that much CPU power, it does require good file and network subsystems, which require good buses to work on. Honestly, unless your system has 64-bit PCI slots and there are seperate PCI buses that would allow you to put the RAID controller on one bus and the GigE NIC on another bus, which may the be case since it is a dual PII workstation/server board, there's no need to do that much testing because the PCI bus is, without a doubt, your bottleneck.

For real, how did you manage that?Eh...who knew about cooling back then? The 486DX 33's didn't even have a heatsink on 'em...

Oh I'm not saying that there aren't gains in performance to be had. My point was that if you aren't gaming or running a distributed computing app then the gains aren't as immediately "visible". IE/Firefox is only going to open so fast... Back in the days of the Celeron 300A, getting a good overclock out of it was immediately noticeable in anything you did on the system. Going from 2GHz to 3GHz doesn't give the same feeling in general system performance. And yes, I know what you mean about the 486's. My first adventure in overclocking was with a 486DX 33MHz to 40MHz. It ended up frying the motherboard after several months.

You also need to check the wireless mode and what her wireless adapter supports. If you have the router set to 'G-Only' and her adapter is only 802.11b then she won't get a connection. Aside from that, these are the settings I usually use: Security Mode: WPA2 Personal WPA Algorithms: AES (you can try TKIP+AES...if that works, use it) WPA Shared Key: <make up your own > Group key Renewal: 3600 seconds (default) Note that if her adapter is 802.11b only, chances are it won't support WPA2. A temporary fix would be to put the router in Mixed wireless mode and use WPA. Then I would suggest that she get an updated adapter. Of course, the first thing I should've asked was how close is her desktop to the router? Is a wired connection not possible? I personally prefer to put my desktop machines on wired connections.

And just for a little more clarification..."royalty" OEM meaning it was sold with a computer from a vendor such as Dell, HP, Acer, etc. Also, "corporate" and VLK are one in the same. There's really no such thing as a "corporate" license...that's just another name people have given to the Volume License Keys/Media. If I'm not mistaken, you can purchase a few as 10 licenses under the VLK.

If all you're doing is writing some data to the share you don't even need to map it. Just have the output go directly to the UNC (i.e. \\server\share\file.txt). For example, if I wanted to capture the output of IPCONFIG /ALL to a text file using the computers name and the server name is MYSRV and the share name is IPDATA$ then I would issue the following command at a command prompt: IPCONFIG /ALL > \\MYSRV\IPDATA$\%COMPUTERNAME%.txt The %COMPUTERNAME% syntax is a system variable. So if the computer was named MYCOMP the resulting output would be MYCOMP.txt. Since you can't have two computers on the network with the same name, this would ensure that no file would get overwritten unless the command is run on the same computer again.

You should also install KB917021 after installing KB893357. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en Brief Description Install this update to enhance the Windows XP support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) options in Wireless Group Policy (WGP), and to help prevent the Windows wireless client from advertising the wireless networks in its preferred networks list.