newsposter

It's still a limited time demo, it will cost UK 30 pounds to get a real license for the thing.

Block the IP address in your routers, send out an email to all users, and wait for someone to come around to your desk.

'mutual respect' includes reading the relavant material and doing searches before asking questions.......

This is just a common sense item. With all of the pirated versions of XP floating around on the net and now someone is trying to sell integrated XP install disks with 'SP3' it's more than possible that MSFT could take a hard look at msfn and decide that this site promotes piracy and dilutes MSFTs 'trademarks'. It doesn't matter that this is an end-user support site. If MSFT decides msfn isn't in their best interrest, including copyright and trademark issues, we'll be gone. If we don't police ourselves, then MSFT will do it for us.

Ok guys..... Onboard video chips have direct access to the cpu data lines, memory, and all that. That data transfer runs at the full, native speed of the chipsets. Additionally, the video chipsets are often integrated directly into the north/south bridge chips taking the GPU that much closer, logically and electrically, to the CPU and OS. Even the fastest PCIe/PCIx video cards will be getting their data through buffered motherboard connections/card slots. These are at least two, and more often three electrical jumps from the north/southbridge chips through which the CPU and OS communicate. Lots of potential for wait-state there. So assuming that the integrated video chipsets are capable of competetive rendering and frame rates, and the most recent ones are, there is no reason to aussume that on-board video will be slower than add-on cards. There is a lot of potential there for on-board video to be faster than add-on cards.

Ok, is it possible to run RIS on a simple/dumb network that doesn't have a local DNS or AD server and depends on local /etc/hosts files for name resolution? thanks

I'm looking for a statement of direction from Nuhi, not speculation from users.........

the concept of 'REAL' hardware is passe. It's been years since any user process or OS load was able to effectively use more than 25% of a processors capabilities. The real bottleneck is and always has been disk i/o.

Ok, which system ID bit do I need to flip so that things like McAfee will install on a converted Server2003/workstation setup? And do I need to flip that bit back so that Windows Update isn't messed up? thanks

if you don't have Vista and Vista-aware applications, why bother with .net v3??

WTFC.....

IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads or Alienware.

Most decent on-line stores, let you search on mobo features including memory type.

most on-line stores, including newegg.com, have a product finder that lets you search on items like that.

Ok, what services need to be running, and do they need to be auto or manual, so that a user can login via RDP/RDC?? thanks!

I screw around all day at work and do nothing but surf the net, you can release it anytime....... But if you could release it as nlite version 1.2RQZa1x so that it fits into my personal view of the universe, I'd really appreciate it..........

in case of a real emergency, you can boot from an old-fashoned DOS 6.1 disk and run "fdisk /mbr". Guaranteed all of your (current) problems will go away.........

Ok, in the middle of 'converting' a Server 2003 R2 box for workstaiton box. How do you turn on the standard control panel applets for user account management or shoudl I just go through the standard 'computer management' applet? thanks!

any decent ones out there? thanks!

I thought that Vista was a Microsoft product.......

well, yah. I was hoping to find something simpler and more 'universal' than DFS. There is plenty of network bandwidth for sync activities but not a lot of human bandwidth for design or sysadmin.

If you are asking if MSFT has a way to detect pirated installs of Vista and Office, the answer is yes. MSFT also has the ability (in theory) to make your PC inoperative if pirated license keys are in use.

Has anyone figured out how to do this?? **Or** have you found a decently robust file/folder syncronizer (free) that runs in the background (service) and will keep things sync'd up between 2-3 Server 2003 boxen. thanks

www.serverelements.com www.openfiler.com Both web sites are focused on linux-based NAS applicance software. I'd be booting XP from local disk and using iSCSI from the NAS appliances for media files into some HTPC setups.

Ok, what is needed to support iSCSI on Windows XP Pro? Does MSFT have a set of downloads or are there reliable freeware drivers/server available? thanks