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ironfist241

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  1. If the thread was titled "why use Win98/SE/ME as your primary OS?" Id have trouble putting together a post.. Since 98 really doesnt play with today's hardware/software and the tasks they are used for. However what 98 does perfectly is the same stuff it did nigh on ten years ago, and with todays blisteringly powerful hardware its not too much trouble to have a little VM running 98 for thos odd tasks it comes in handy for... (incidentally my main box is a C2D 6600 w/4GB RAM.. Vista Ultimate is a joy to use and I cant contemplate switching back to an older OS for -everything-)
  2. Yes they will open fine, we have a few Office 2000 clients working fine in a predominantly Office 2003 environment at work. Its the ones created by Office 2007 you need to watch out for!
  3. Now is just not the time to be building a presler-based system, with solid AM2 offerings from AMD and Intel's conroe around the corner you should be patient. (even if you chose to stick with presler you should be patient, conroe will cause a drop in the prices of presler chips)
  4. Ah that first post made my day Well you could go about building the rest of the pc around the motherboard, then when the cpu arrives drop it in and switch the thing on (not forgetting the heatsink/fan tho ).. saves a little time that way.
  5. Horses for courses. If you need the features of Server 2003 then you should use it - if you dont then youll probably find XP pro far more economical at less than half the price (you were of course talking about a legitimate copy right? ) I voted Server 2003, my qualification is based on it and it makes my work just that little bit more bearable
  6. He doesnt -need- a common username password for all pcs, merely the knowledge of one on each. When mapping the drives he should use the "connect using a different username and password" option - in the following format (for workgroups): username: "<other computer name>\<other computer's local user>" password: "<password of the user account on the other computer>" also NTFS and share-level permission should be set for the user account that will be used to access the share. to ensure connectivity (assuming most settings are windows default and the network hardware is fine): -for the small network use statically assigned IPs instead of DHCP. -check that netbios over TCPIP is enabled in advanced properties of the TCPIP component for the networking adapter used. -windows firewall (if used) has exceptions for windows file and printer sharing. -in an environment lacking a proper DNS server (no a router doesnt count) add entries to the hosts file (%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) for the other hosts you want to connect to. Edit: furthermore, administrative shares could be mapped for each other host - using the UNC path \\<computer name>\<drive letter>$ which allows browsing of the roots of volumes of other machines - however as the name implies an administrative account's credentials must be supplied when mapping the drive.
  7. If it wasnt for firefox I dont think the development of IE 7 wouldve been as progressive as it was, it could be argued that MS had those intentions anyway but when you look at the features added it does look suspiciously like a reaction to firefox. Also firefox is my personal favourite, the customizations and plugins are indispensible to me (gotta love that BlackJapan theme aswell hehe). Thats not to say I dont appreciate IE (6 or 7) at all, if one day I swapped IE for FF on all our networks clients my boss would most probably fire me - IE and ActiveX is a staple requirement in the corp environment even if its not in use all the time. Also its integration to windows makes it far more secure than FF - "how?!" i hear you cry - simple. Patches to IE get synchronised to our WSUS server which in conjunction with the automatic updates GPO means the IE on each client gets patched at 3am the morning after the patch for any vulnerability is released. Im not going to go around every workstation in the place installing FF updates, nor would I leave it down to the users.
  8. I have mixed feelings on the changes, in one respect the changes are pure obfuscation for the veteran windows user, but then again some of us used to use windows for workgroups (ah file manager hehe ).. we adapted to 95/98 ok.. 2000 wasnt hugely different at least in its interface.. then we adapted to XP ok.. surely Vista will just be another step? Besides, XP allowed use of different shellstyles so nobody is really stuck with that fisherprice toy theme if they dont like it - chances are thatll be the case with Vista too (with the added bonus of coupling custom themes/shellstyles with the advanced graphical features that Vista will offer)
  9. if youve been waiting for a "new pentium" you should look at the current LGA775 offerings, theyre fairly different from the original P4.
  10. The under construction page is the home page of the default site served by IIS (assuming that your webserver uses IIS). That webserver probably uses alternate port numbers to host multiple sites off one IP address, to further configure your DNS to accomodate for this you would need to know the details of this, you should talk with whoever set up that webserver to obtain these details. (or if you can, run iis.msc locally at the webserver and view the configuration of the acharrow.org.uk site - just be careful not to adjust anything)
  11. Bear in mind that the record division is separate from the PC hardware division, im not about to chuck my vaio off a balcony
  12. 192.168.155.1 is the internal IP address of your webserver, what I suggested is to use the external IP address (212.104.129.25) of your webserver in the DNS entry. I suggest this because it sounds like your webserver is multi-homed (has more than one network interface, in this case an internal LAN and external WAN) and the internal interface isnt responding to requests for whatever reason (do you use IIS to host it?). If your requests to the webserver are routed to its external interface then the web server will respond, just as it does to our requests. For the requests to take this route, the DNS server you use needs to resolve the external IP to the name www.acharrow.org.uk. In the long run of course it would be better if your webserver would respond to requests properly on its internal interface (192.168.155.1), but I cant suggest a solution to that without knowing a lot more detail. Also Im not sure how familiar you are with Windows 2000 DNS, the host (A) record shouldve been for just "www", not the entire FQDN, but it shouldve been created in the forward lookup zone "acharrow.org.uk" (if add the zone to the host it should equal the FQDN)
  13. age concern Harrow? interesting, I live in Harrow - small world As a temporary fix I would suggest manually adding a host (A) record to your DNS server that specifies 212.104.129.25 (your external IP) as the IP for www.acharrow.org.uk, it will at least aid name resolution until a more thorough solution is procured.
  14. Ive been running SAV v10 since about 20mins after i installed x64 XP, its been absolutely fine (as a side note the only thing thats ever brought the OS down is a recurring bug in GTA san andreas that can make it hang on loading games) and ive stressed/strained it many times. Usually when such errors are created under heavy workloads its best to check things like RAM timings etc. However if youre very certain its SAV causing grief then ensure it is disabled while installing the drivers and that you set an exclusion for the location of the driver files once installed.
  15. Well I personally quite like using it, its like a somewhat more stable version of XP (or so it seems.. im sure some would argue this) the only real official plus points are ones that everyday users dont utilise eg 64bit apps (there arent many, very specialist) and addressing ridiculous amounts of memory (like 16GB.. I dont even know any motherboards that supports that). The downside has gotta be drivers, you need to get 64bit versions of all your drivers from the vendors, depending on your hardware there may not be 64bit drivers available (and its not just old hardware like my speedtouch dsl modem that suffer this, creatives brand new high-end X-Fi soundcard has no 64bit drivers at the time of writing)
  16. This game is quite realistic from what ive heard, so i would basically assume its cos youre used to driving games and the common approach of thundering into corners with too much speed, but using a powerslide to scrub that speed off and still come out smiling - no shame in that however simply put this wont work with bikes also note that you cant accelerate or brake much while leant over, so no braking as you lean into the bend and dont jump on the gas after it until youre upright again.
  17. ah, i see. in that case you should map the drives instead of browsing in network places: -right click "my computer" and select "map network drive". -in the dialog box select a drive letter suitable for the remote share to be represented by. -type the path to the share (\\fast\c). -click the blue text below that reads "connect using a different user name". -in the boxes type the username and password of a user account that has the rights to access that share (eg the user account you use at the pc where you created the share) and click OK. -click finish. now the share will appear in "my computer" as a drive.
  18. If you are trying to access the pcs by name then a means of name resolution is required, ideally a DNS server but with such few pcs you could make entries to the hosts files on each with the static IP assignments you use in your network (static IPs are preferable with so few pcs).
  19. in terms of value id say dell, you cant beat their economies of scale even when building your own. in terms of building the perfect setup you gotta do it yourself or commission someone to do so if you dont have the ability (hey not everyone is so inclined as we are). however on the poll i voted sony, their pcs/notebooks arent the fastest or the quietest, or the cheapest... but all sony products have an aesthetic quality which ive rarely seen elsewhere.
  20. From all thats been said about Vista it would appear it leans more on your graphics card than your CPU - thats what you should be concerned about (but you should still consider upgrading, my best advice would be to get a barebones package including a socket939 +PCIx motherboard - then drop in whatever components you deem economical)
  21. and this is with a perfectly standard copy of XP + SP2? if so then i cant say much more apart from return/replace the motherboard or install a PCI RAID controller...
  22. over a year is pushing it in terms of warranty - you could try tho. btw when you try the floppy what sort of error are you getting? i remember when i first started using floppies to load mass storage drivers the thing that first confused me is that after you press F6 the install continues as normal for a few minutes and only then prompts you to select a driver. btw without the testing kits etc that techs use there is no concrete way of proving the RAID controller is at fault.
  23. Hmm this is really mystifying. All of the other RAID issues i know of cause complete failures, yet in this youre just getting reduced performance... the only thing i could suggest is that the RAID driver you are using couldve been corrupted at some stage, also there is some confusion when integrating drivers whether its textmode or not.. but again problems with the RAID driver should cause a full failure so im not 100% sure. for now you could try installing an "untouched" copy of XP and using a non-integrated method of installing the RAID driver (in other words having the driver on a floppy and pressing F6), if this fails and your still stuck with the reduced speed then id suspect faulty hardware (the RAID controller) and id advise you to either RMA the board or get a RAID controller that sits as an expansion card.
  24. The problem sounds very bizarre, i have the same RAID controller but in a different motherboard. there are only two things that i can think of: -a RAID 1 array was created by accident instead of RAID 0 (doublecheck in the utility) -a faulty drive (check the drives individually for problems)
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