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From what I saw, Longhorn seems to behave like XP, so Windows XP drivers may work, but I make no warranty...

Another hint: You should use to identical drives, otherwise, the drives will auto-adjust to match the size of the smallest, so if you have a 20 GB in a stripping array along with a 40 GB, you'll have 40 GB available. The remaining 20 GB of the 40 GB drive will be lost... (if you want to recover to 20 GB, you'll have to use 2 40 GB drives or unmount your array)

IMO, I think it's somewhat a no-surprise situation that Longhorn doesn't support some pieces of hardware, with or without latest drivers, since it's still in ALPHA phase. It's my idea that Longhorn ahould be installed to have an idea about what is Longhorn going to be, not as an everyday OS. It will be final in more than a year.

Amazing... My son does the very same thing (except he's not as chubby...)

Tinker's idea is the beat on paper, IMHO, but might be difficult to implement in real life if your IDE cables are short (like mine).

I'm actually doing the final project of my networking course, and we have to deploy some antivirus using GPOs. We're used to GPOs, we've deployed MS Office the same way, doing and .mst file to configure most of the options. The problem is that most antivirus don't work on Windows 2k server, so we need some special AV (like Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition), and we deploy it like usual. The problem is that when the user clicks on the icon to start the software to 1st time (and by the way, install the whole software on the machine), the installer says that the user doesn't have the required administrative rights. We did the same, but logged as an administrator and it worked. Since this is a simulation of a business with offices spread throughout Canada (and Canada is really wide) that run more than 400 computers, it's not a good idea to log on each computers as an administrator, click on the antivirus icon, and skip to the next computer. We've tried several options (and as many softwares) and nothing worked. My partner had an idea: make all the users member of the administrators of the domain user group, but setting their access rights with GPO on each OU. (users are in different OUs, so we'll be able to give them separate rights). Would that idea work? That way, all users will have the right to change the computer settings, but only some privileged users will have the right to access this menu. Sorry for the long post, but thanx for your input. PS: No, we don't need to reformat

These patches are useful, but if a user has a well configured firewall and/or NAT router, he is safe (he's safer if he applies both solutions, I admit...) MSBLast worm (and probably some worms to come) do attack computers by generating a (semi)random IP address that is pinged. If the address answers, the worm scans some ports in order to enter the system (ports TCP 135, TCP 139 and 2 others for MSBlast). If these ports are open, the worm tries to duplicate itself overthere after having detected if the OS is Windows NT4, Windows 2k, XP or 2k3. A good security with latest patches is the best way not to be annoyed with worms.

lol, lots of lol...

Anyway, FutureShop have a 30 days money-back warranty... If it doesn't work, he has 30 days (starting on date of purchase) to put it back in the box and go the to store (with the original receipt) to be reimbursed.

:rofl: :excited:

Technically, it should work in 2 different ways: 1) 1 network with different hubs. To achieve this, DO NOT USE THE WAN PORT OF YOUR ROUTER. I recommend using static IP addresses, but you can use one of these routers as a DHCP server (would work if less than 50 DHCP clients). 2) 3 different networks separated with routers. All of the computers are connected into the Ethernet LAN ports of the router, then the route is connected is the WAN port to the uplink port of the next router, and so on untill you reach your modem. You will have to configure your routeurs and a subtile way, give each subnetworks different IP addresses and Windows shares won't work because they work on NetBios (or NetBeui, I can't remember) and this protocol can't be routed. For you, I'd recommend setting 2 since setting wouldn't give you that much benefit and is a little harder to setup. It should work, I attend a well known and renowned Montreal Informatics school and they use three Linksys routers (model BESFR11 I guess) for their 100 computers network and it works just fine.

Have you changed the OS? Maybe it's a driver problem... Have you checked the wire? The problem may be there too (a friend of mine had that problem recently. He removed the wire and put it back in and it worked.) Might be the hub-switch-router problem either... Another suggestion would be to use a PCI network card rather than the onboard one. It's easier to replace when it breaks.

There's already a SP1 for win2k3

Here are my scores at HD_speed.exe: On my Maxtor 40 GB 7200 rpm (doing some stuff at the same time, so may be biaised): an average speed of 57.4 MB/s. On my Maxtor 20 GB 5400 rpm (doing the same other stuff) I have an average of 37.3 MB/s. Burst rate seems to be slower (?) at 22.5 MB/s on my 20 GB drive. So it is on my 40 GB drive at 29.8 MB/s. I see that the rpm does have an influence, just have to ask AaronXP to post his mark so I can compare.

That's what I've read somewhere, but I just don't remind if it were on some hardware news website, or in some AMD propaganda... please, don't quote me on this, since I cannot backup this saying.

Just wondering if a hard disk drive with 8 mB of cache is a real improvement over an identical drive but that only has 2 mB of cache.

From what I've read/heard, 32 bits apps will run twice as fast on a Athlon64 as they actually do on a 32 bits CPU.

Did you subscribe to the new Sympatico promo (35$/month for unlimited bandwidth - that's 35 CANADIAN dollars)? If so, I heard that the connection cuts from time to time, because the service is unlimited in quantity of transfers, but not in hours online (despite what CS might say). Otherwise, you've been disconnected for some mysterious reasons...

For your english, there's no problem with it. Every one has to start somewhere (some just start sooner than others - it's also my second language). Concerning Active D, its main advantage, I'd say, is to allow user to be able to open a session everywhere in the company, no matter wich computer there are using, and have access to the usual softwares with the usual stuff in the "My Documents" folder. Is allows you to build your network in a way that will make it "transparent" to the user. I mean, the user won't notice how it works, but it works, and the average user only wants it to work. Wherever the printers or the files are, you can use it. Active D allows you to control how, why and when users log in, and what they can do. You can also create "Group Policy Objects" (called GPO) to set some rules for some specific user, group of users or computers. It goes to disabling the "search" button in the Start Menu, up to installing/removing applications through the network. Active Directory is a powerful tool, and is not quite easy to master. I've had more than 300 hours of courses, labs, and readings on that matter and I only begin to have a clear idea of how powerful it really is. ISA server and Exchange can be merged to Active D to add even more functionnalities (ISA is for Internet Security and Acceleration; it's a proxy. Exchange is a messenger application designed for Active D - I'm about to start them soon). I suggest you to read a book or two and do some testing before implementing Active D in your entreprise (you don't want to lose your job, do you?)

The only ways I know to increase the speed of a dial-up 56k connections are -material compression (up to 10%) -many parallel connections with a router that can do load balance.

Since you posted in the Lonhgorn section, I take for granted you are using it. I'd say not to worry, Longhorn is still in alpha phase (that means that there are hundreds of bugs and they are implementing lots of new features). Longhorn should work a lot better when it will be in beta phase (probably sometime in 2004).

Simply set a forwarding from that port to the address you want (be it real or not.) You can do it in the configuration webpage, under the advanced tab, in the virtual server section. It's all listed on page 21 of the user's guide that you can download here.

Whatever what it is, I think you did the right thing by not allowing it to connect to the net. My policy on that is not to allow something I don't know to connect to the net. Other' suggestions are good too, especially the one about the anti-virus...

I'm gonna give it a try tomorrow. Anyone know if it'd work through a proxy?

Have you installed the software that goes with the card? It's usually available on the manufacturer website. Have you installed the latest drivers? Is it compatible with your OS (wich OS do you use?)