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ripken204

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  1. i am mainly comparing the time of xp vs vista and now vista vs windows 7

    for xp vs vista the drivers were not compatible, for vista vs windows 7 nearly all are.

    yes the installation of drivers has been improved.

    i guess we all have a different opinion on what "much faster" is.

    it may also depend on the speed of the computer that it is running on.

  2. Id say its prolly some combination of these 3 things:

    1. Your IT dept thinks its users are stupid and cant tell the difference between song.wav and song.wav.exe
    2. Your IT dept is stupid and thinks everything that cant be explained by them "must be a virus"
    3. Your IT dept thinks you dont "respect their authoritay" and so they are punishing you with stupid rules.

    well to comment on your first point, keep in mind that by default windows does not show extensions so most users truly won't know

    i do think they said this just to keep things simple, they don't want to bother explaining things.

  3. where us that quote from? i am still amazed to hear people's complaints about vista.

    win7 is a little faster, not amazingly.

    driver support? win7 and vista use the same drivers..

    and obviously win7 RTM is better than vista RTM since many bugs have been fixed since its essentially the same OS.

  4. I just had a fun conversation with a friend.

    Basically come up with your dream band.

    The requirements are that all the members must currently be living and that none of them have been a part of the same band before.

    This is what I came up with:

    Vocals: Robert Plant

    Guitar: Eric Clapton

    Bass: Roger Waters

    Drums: Neil Pert

    Keyboardist: Rick Wakeman

  5. Simple. Storing my Photos and Music. That's really it. But I want it to be safe, secure and reliable.
    If you want safe, secure and reliable, don't rely on the hardware. Even the best hardware can catastrophically fail. For true reliability, you need multiple copies of your data in different physical locations. I'd consider setting up an inexpensive home NAS and duplicating your data off-site either by means of media or an online backup service.

    that would be great but its an added cost :(

    so if this will be a pure file server then go with FreeNAS or OpenFiler.

    they are pretty easy to use and use very low resources.

    what is your budget, $650?

  6. i have no idea what type of flames there are in there but i found it funny for ppl to go to the 9X forum only to flame like that, these people much have some serious issues to waste their time like that.

    Ubuntu is awesome btw :)

    it just doesnt run alot of the programs that i run daily unless i spend a lot of time trying to make it work.

    it would be nice to hear from mods regarding how much time/effort this is causing them. we have already heard from some.

  7. is it a wireless router?

    if so, is the signal encrypted, if so which encryption?

    is mac address filtering enabled?

    when this problem is occurring try unplugging your ethernet cable or wireless card, that way if you are being hacked, there is no longer a way for him to get in. see if this solves anything.

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