Zxian

I'll say that for value per dollar, XP wins the competition. Since there's no mention of price here, I'll go with 2003 server. I've got the trial version of Enterprise Edition here, and I'm blown away. I left it on for over a week before I got my new hard drive and its was absolutely rock solid. Just as fast the moment I turned it off as when I first turned it on. I've never been able to say that about XP... it's good, just not as good. The fact that DirectX 9.0c and WMP10 are built into SP1 is a nice plus too.

I'll throw in another vote for building your own (other). You end up getting more of what you want, and usually at a lower price than you'd pay with a name brand. As for laptops, I can say that my Compaq has been pretty good. Aside from a problem with the original hard drive, it's been rock solid otherwise.

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Well said... I'm probably going to stick with the PS3 as my first next-gen console since I've always been partial to the types of games that are released for it, but that doesn't mean that the PS3 is going to "cream" the XBox360 or the other way around. I've said this in a couple of other threads... everyone just chill... there's no competition here of who can make the better argument for their favorite system.

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Acronis TrueImage is the best partition backup software I've found. As for partitioning software, PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 is still the best I've found (not the new stuff after they got bought up by Symantec...) I've got 6 partitions on my laptop and 5 on my desktop. Just for ease of use and minimization of fragmentation.

Wow... that's nuts... really confusing at first. Good find!

Har har har.... very... funny.... No, but seriously... I'm surprised I ended up with 85 in that course considering all the... *ahem*... studying that I did... B)

@Lost Soul: Yep, that's exactly how they do it out in the bush. A friend of mine was working with a company last year that had a number of sensor systems placed out in the forest. They relayed the signals back to the base center using ethernet cables. They had to put relay stations every 200m or so (they designed their own ethernet controller circuits so they could boost the power) since they needed to transfer the data at 100Mbps Full Duplex. The relay circuit itself is really simple actually, just a plain old amplifier will do, with the signal in on one side and the signal out on the other.

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Was it the Windows Firewall? I thought that with SP2, it automatically picked up on whether or not file sharing was enabled and set the firewall accordingly...

Have you tried turning off Simple File Sharing? That's always the first thing that I disable on my computers, since I share between XP Home and XP Pro computers on my network.

Look in the hardware section here... I just bought a new Seagate drive. My motherboard is fairly old, so in BIOS, I only see a 136GB drive, but when I get into Windows, all is well, and I can access the whole drive. From what little I've used it so far, the new drive is great! Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 200GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache ATA100/133 It took a bit of work getting it working right, but it's worth it in the end! Boot times halfed for me... I guess I know where my bottleneck was!

I'll give that a try and see how things go. Now that I've got the chipset drivers installed, the drive is running at UDMA133/100 (at least that's what the mobo utility tells me). You can't see this under device manager tho, since the drive is listed as a SCSI hard drive... I don't quite know what that means.

It could also be an issue with permissions. I remember having to set the permissions for the child directories with something like "Apply this settings to all subfolders and files", but I can't remember where that is. Maybe with Simple File Sharing turned off, you can find the setting a bit easier (no SFS gives you the permissions tab in folder properties).

You need to have both computers on the same workgroup. Otherwise they won't be able to see each other in Windows' file sharing. Try manually going to the share directory on the other computer. For example, if the computer name is "Comp" and the shared folder is shared as "Folder", type the following into the address bar. \\Comp\Folder That should get you in. Windows sometimes needs a little kick to get the file sharing working between computers.

Try manually assigning IPs to the two computers. Under the network connection properties, select TCP/IP and then Properties. Enter a unique IP for the two computers (say 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2) and the same Subnet Mask (perhaps 255.255.255.0). Then see if you can ping back and forth between the two computers. After that, it's just a matter of running the network setup wizard on the two computers and putting them on the same Workgroup.

Hey everyone, I'm trying to find out about a little quirk that happens sometimes with my laptop. Pentium-M 1.4GHz 1GB PC2700 DDR RAM 80GB 5400RPM Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 ATI Radeon 9200 Mobility When I'm stitting at home with my laptop connected to the network and I've transferred files either to or from my desktop, the laptop hard drive will have a very short disk access every second, like clockwork. This access is right in sync with a page fault by explorer.exe every second. The problem goes away after a few minutes, but it's somwhat annoying to have the clicking go on... I've done all the usual checks for nasties. I've scanned my computer with the following (with all the updates, of course): NOD32 2.50.19 Trend Micro Housecall Online Scanner Ad-Aware 1.06 Personal Spybot S&D 1.4 I've got SpywareBlaster 3.4 installed, and I use Opera for browsing. Added to the fact that I've only got a fairly minimal 16 processes running at startup, I'm pretty sure I don't have anything malicious on my computer. For the record, I have ResHacked my explorer.exe to remove the search item in the start menu (while keeping search functionality), but I don't see how this would lead to my situation. Can anyone give any insight as to why this might be happening? I've checked for the latest drivers and BIOS at the Compaq website, and I have everything up to date. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated. Cheers!

While I haven't nLited it out, I have that service disabled on both of my computers, and I don't have any problems. Maybe it's not the service itself, but the files that nLite removes that are the culprit here.

How do you get around this problem? Reboot? Are you still able to play music in WMP or another music player? Do you get any error messages? Or just no sound? Check the Winamp website for any bug reports that seem similar to your problem. The more info you give us, the more we can help.

It's actually not the electrons that are moving in the wires... We had an assignment in my Electomagnetism course where we calculated the velocity of the electrons in a typical telephone wire... turned out to be about 30um/s (um = 1/1000000 m, you do the conversion to imperial... ). It's the electomagnetic wave that travels quickly along the wire. Just some food for thought.

Soyo SY-K7ADA V1.0 motherboard Athlon T-bird 1333MHz It's about 3-4 years old... with the new drive there, it runs like stink tho! One interesting thing about setting up the drive... When windows loads by default, it sets up two IDE controllers, one for each IDE slot on my mobo. The mobo drivers, however, install SCSI-RAID drivers, which device manager now lists as being the devices that the drive is connected to... I'll post a picture of my device manager later on tonight to show you guys. It took me a while to figure that one out... I was trying to force DMA mode by hacking the registry... uninstalling the IDE controllers... etc etc etc I can now definately tell that my old drive was dying on me... I would get blue screens every second or third reboot during startup (with both XP and 2K3)... now, I've rebooted several times because of software installations and settings and not one BSOD. I'm probably gonna end up taking the old drive apart, just for fun. It's dying anyways, and I've got all the data off of it.

Yep I did. Set me back a whole $149 CAD incl tax. Now the only thing to work on is getting it to work in DMA mode... stupid PIO. Oh... sweet..... 500 posts!!! w00t!!!

Wow... ack-hh... that's a good long list. Way better than my first post here... I'll definately have a look at some of those when I get home tonight... Oh... and welcome to MSFN!