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what stuff is this then?

In the future, we will have true AI. I believe that machines will be capable of exceeding their initial programming and being able to learn new things and make choices beyond any preset design constraints You do know that in 1997, Deep Blue beat chess champion Gary Kasparov don’t you? Computers will be better than us at a lot of things in the future. Who’s to say the a machine cant create another machine that’s better than us?

Sorry I didn't post earlier. I just removed everything using nlite except for about 2 or 3 essential things which are needed for the functionality of windows. I cant tell you what I removed exactly because I lost my nlite config file during a format. I'll try and redo and test it then post it shortly. I've been concentrating heavily on file removal these past few weeks and my Winnt folder is getting smaller each day. Currently its about 100Mb and I plan to cut this down much much more. When this is all complete, I'll post a list of all the files I removed. I'll also post a list of all files that are essential for Windows 2000 to be able to boot to the desktop. Also I’ll write a script which removes all these files for you. I’ll try and add all these files to nlite so it removes them from the install but I know I’m going to have problems because some of the files I’ve removed are needed for Windows installation. The sad thing is I don’t know exactly which ones so it’s going to be a bit trial and error. I also plan to do some major reg removal but that might take some time. I'm also planning to greatly reduce the memory that windows uses to run. I had a play around with getting the Windows Nt 4.0 shell to work in Windows 2000. The NT4 shell made the startmenu say "windows NT" and of course quick launch was removed and it had the Windows NT style windows and everything. It was really cool but the sad thing was that it used about the same amount of ram so I didn't gain.

PIII was the latest and greatest top of the range in cutting edge leading technology from intel when windows 2000 came out so why wouldn't it work ok? Again, the 600mhz duron was pretty **** good as well considering AMD and Intel had only just broke the 1GHz barier back when w2k came out.

but when the server goes down you've lost DHCP as well. you would have to set your router to do DHCP/DNS

Does the target computer have the same motherboard or something very similar? The NT OS line doesn't take too kindly to a motherboard change it doesn't work the way 9x does.

Is it an original CD your using or a copy? I've found that some really really old CD-ROM drives have problems booting from a lot of CD-R media.

With your laptop pluged in at work try: IPCONFIG /RELEASE IPCONFIG /RENEW IPCONFIG If it's still not working, specify a static IP in the same subnet as the network and see if you can ping the DHCP server. If you can, set your IP back to automatic and it should pick up an address from DHCP.

Here's what I normally do: FORMAT C: /Q MD D:\WIN98 COPY E:\WIN98 D:\WIN98 D: CD WIN98 SETUP

Considering Intel released the PIIIe at around May 2001 and Windows XP came out in September 2001, your PC is cutting edge technology as far as XP is conserned. Most people who bought XP back then didn't have anything close to the power of your computer (Except those who bought XP with a new PC). I considered my PC to be a near top of the range rig back in 2001 and that was a Duron 800Mhz overclocked to 1050MHz.

arrange for your domain name to be pointed to your IP address (providing its static) with whichever company is holding it. Now all you have to do is go into your router/firewall and configure port forwarding so port 80 is forwarded to the IP of your server. if your using Apache, the index file needs to go in htdocs. if your using iis, the index file needs to go in Inetpub (i think you have to configure iis in administrative tools to enable index.htm files because normally its just default.htm files that get opened where you type a url in the address bar without specifying an htm file)

I've never had problems with changing an IP. If your other servers are pointing to this server for dns then obviously you will need to change their dns address to reflect this. also, if you have any ports forwarded to this server then they will have to be changed as well. Everything on the actual server itself should be automatic. I've changed the IP on the main Exchange server at work without any problems.

Sorry to head this interesting discussion into a slightly different angle guys but personally I would hit IIS on the head and use Apache. Bundle it with MySQL + PHP and you have yourself a very nice webserver indeed.

I'm supprised no one so far is using QEMU + QGui seeing as its free. I dont know how good it is. I would give it a try but I already have Virtual PC. Personally, I just make a copy of the VHD and VMC files. Then I have a copy of the OS in its current state.

Windows Key + Pause Advanced Startup and Recovery - Settings untick Automatically restart Now at least you might get a blue screen with a memory error or harddisk error. have you seen it restart? maybe you've got the ms blaster worm where it says something like "restarting in 60 seconds"

Am I missing something here? Home really isn't as bad as everybody makes out. The comment about Home being crippled seems a bit harsh to me. I mean, ok, if Home was installed on a dual CPU computer then it would be crippled because the other CPU would be ignored but other than that, I can’t see how its crippled. If you install Home Edition on a non-networked computer with one CPU, one harddrive and you’re the only person who uses it, I can’t think of one single advantage you’ll get from using this apparently magical Professional version. In this scenario, Pro is NOT better. It’s only better if you need the extra features. In fact you’ll probably be better off in this scenario if you keep Home because a clean install uses less disk space. When I last installed Home for somebody at work, it only used around 1Gb of space and Pro uses 1.5Gb. Of course, if you need at least one of its extra features then Pro is obviously the way to go. Personally, I use Professional because I would truly miss Remote Desktop, Administrative shares and Dynamic disks if I used Home.

So your using SMTP then? I got a bit mixed up in what I said. As long as your ISP is directing smtp mail to your IP address and your firewall or router is forwarding port 25 to your exchange servers IP address then everything should be fine.

It depends how your email has been setup by your ISP. If it’s a group POP account then you need a third party program like IGetMail for pulling the email from your ISP and then delivering it to your Exchange server. Exchange will in turn deliver it to the individual mailboxes. All you need to do is enter your group pop account details into IGetMail and point it to the IP address of your Exchange Server. If on the other hand, it’s pure SMTP, then you need to instruct your ISP to point email to your IP address and enter in the appropriate pointers in to Exchange Manager. The thing about an SMTP only system is that you will need to talk to your ISP to see if they have any safeguards in place for the unfortunate event that your internet connectivity goes down. Some ISPs will keep the email on their servers until your connectivity resumes. Otherwise, you may loose some email. Group POP is different however, because the email will always stay with your ISP until you collect it. SMTP is preferable by some firewall/virus scanning appliances which pull email from your ISP and scan it before delivering it to your ISP.

I've been messing around with Windows 2000 and I’ve managed to get the memory usage down to only 29,780Kb which is lower than I thought possible. My WINNT folder is only 166Mb. I haven’t even started with this yet. I’m going to see how low I can get this. I plan to somehow knock a few more Mb’s off my memory usage as well.

On your server go Start | Programs | Administration Tools | DNS somewhere in there should be an entry which tells the machines on your network the old IP address instead of the new one for your website. find this entry and edit it to the correct address. Has your host for your email changed as well then with repect to where the mx records point to?

no thats fine to have that. I'll keep thinking ok and if something comes to me I'll post back if nobody else solves it. Can you access the site by IP address? No actually that will probably take you to your webhosts webpage. What you could try actually as an experiment is to go to a client machine and manually specify your external internet DNS address and see if that lets you see your website. Then we'll take things from there. By the way, the DG834 is a nice choice I used to have one at work its got some nice web filtering. Its such a sexy box - its worth buying one for its aesthetics just so you can look at it all day.

Ok does your network have the same domain name as your website? If so, and you haven't configured DNS properly, then this is the problem.

ok so your server is doing DHCP and DNS? Your client machines network settings are all set to automatic? You dont use a proxy?

need more infomation about your network. Like whether or not you use a modem, router, filewall, IIS, some kind of nerwork appliance that does firewall, url filtering etc. Do you use a host for the website or do you host it yourself? How many servers you have and what their roles are etc just to get a picture of how its been setup.

jesus christ are you joking you cant build 4000 computers and do your normal IT support at the same time. Last year I had 20 machines to build with a colleague of mine. We did it in a week as well as the normal day to day life of running a large network. We built the 20 and then set one up with windows, drivers, office etc then we just ghosted it to the other 19 harddrives. about eight wouldn't boot. I discovered that these eight had a slightly different revision number on the motherboard and so did the driver disk. So I had to reinstall everything on one of them and ghosted it to the other 7. Oh, and when the order arrived in the first place, the heatsink/fans were missing so we had to buy them locally from somewhere else to make a deadline. Afterwards we were left with 20 spare heatsink/fans. Another time, the heatsink/fans wouldn't fit the boards due to an annoying capacitor. Because I had a deadline of like, the same day, I had to cut a notch in each heatsink with a hacksaw. Earlier this year, I needed 25 machines so I thought to hell with building them. I just bought them already made and even then, a harddrive died so I had to call their tech support crew. It would have been so easy if it would have been a machine I built myself because I could have just replaced the HD myself and ghosted the OS from another machine.