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What is the OS of your WDS Server?

Maybe I feel nice today and will give you one little chance. No spam. All the links you posted have been removed, please read the forum rules.

That recent article about Foxconn was to make a Microsoft Windows 8 Phone. Its speculation that it might be called Surface Phone... It would be a bad move calling both the tablet and a phone Surface. Samsung gets away with it with their Galaxy products, but each one has a suffix like Tab or S or whatever. Microsoft has already caused confusion among consumers by have Windows 8 be the name of the OS for Phone, RT and desktop, and further confusion by having no suffix on the "Core" version of Windows 8.

I find it strange that it shows up. Presumably using the Live ID should allow to sign into the system on the local level... It makes sense that you cannot log into the domain using the Live ID, since that account would need to be added to AD Users first.

I'd say this is waaaay out of StartIsBack's context. Are there any Start Menu/Screen replacers in the app store now? I was under the impression that such apps wouldn't be allowed into the store.

I know it is possible to use MDT to build stand-alone media (DVD or USB i guess) in case you do not have the ability to do network deployments. I haven't done it myself but I have seen examples from clients.

Not all MP3s are created equal. They can have different gain levels at the same sampling rate. Have you tried playing with the EQ built into Winamp?

Good point. It doesn't hurt to disable audio inputs (like mic) that aren't being used.

There are predefined PHP functions to get the time, including minutes. http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php#datetime.constants.types

A stock Windows 7 bootable Live DVD isn't really something that is easily made. You are better off using something like Make_PE3 or Winbuilder to build a WinPE 3.x bootable CD/DVD with Windows features.

I had some trouble getting a DD-WRT D-Link N router to connect to a stock Linksys N router. It just never seemed to work. Do you think that you need the custom firmware on both routers?

I think most standard video cards only support 2 displays, even if they have a third output, like S-Video. Everything else in your build looks like it could be anything, but you'll need to research on video cards. I know that you can get Workstation class multimonitor cards, but they don't always work well with games. For example, the FireMV I have in my PC, I can't even enable Aero in Windows 7. Also, with the popularity of touch-screen displays, I don't know if you need a special video card for those or what. So since you want something special concerning the video card, you should probably start with that and plan your build based on that. I'd expect you'll have more work figuring out the correct video card to get than the rest of the components.

Have you already looked at RIS or MDT 2010? If your company is a Microsoft Partner, you can also email your partner rep to see if they can recommend any methods that match your requirements, as they would know more about what you do than any random online people would.

Usually, the import ADMX function is designed to use packs not available on the OS. Here is one example: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6243

Its almost always caused by poor connections. Connectors and cables that are not shielded properly (more prevalent in cheaper products) will pick up interference and this shows up as noise from the speakers. First I would try connecting the speakers directly into the sound card, without using the extension cable, and see if it is any better.

The thing I wonder about is the multiple monitors thing. How many monitors are we talking about?

Well you can export the data out of MySQL (for example) and it would save it as the commands to recreate the data. So a file that was made by exporting a table would say CREATE TABLE. Now, MySQL and MSSQL is fairly similar in how their syntax works but there are some differences. It may be easier to use a converter (they must exist) that can change a MySQL query saved to a file into one that you can use with MSSQL. I'm not familiar with other DB solutions and I'm fairly rusty in both of the ones I mentioned. But I have a feeling that there is a better solution for what you really want to do. There shouldn't be a reason to create 3 databases at all. It should be fine to just use one database. Database planning can range from simple to complicated... Some generic thing I came up with using 1 database. Table for users (user_id) Table for users job histories (user_hist) The table for users job histories would have a field for the user ID number stored in the user table. Then say you want to look at the job history of User1, when that user logs into the website, it already would have to check credentials, so you can easily store the user ID number at login and keep it in the session data. So let's say User1's user ID is 01. Something like... SELECT * FROM user_hist WHERE user_id = 01

In addition to bouncing our failed disks off tables or putting them in the freezer, I have found a new method: Putting them in the oven. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/26/exploding_computer_vs_reg_reader/

Take a look here: The 1GB RAM topic is in there at least. As far as the Creative drivers, I'm sure they are available somewhere. Sometimes they are on the original CD and sometimes it seems easier to find the CD than find the download.

It would be interesting indeed. I'd just think we'd see some other window manager surface to relevance for professional use without the toy'ish appearance. Still remember as a teenager when Win95 came up, that thing just looked hypnotizing and modern when compared to other options such as DOS and Win 3.x. I wonder if teenagers are indeed feeling the same "wow" experience with Win8 nowadays. I'm not sure if we will ever experience those days anymore. Computers are a lot more accessible and a way of life than it was say in the early 90s. Nearly everyone (here in the US) has a computer of some sort. Back in the early 90s, not everyone had computers and I recall that not even all schools had computers in them. It seems to me that computing even in the early 90s carried over a lot of the hobbyist feeling to it from the 80s. If I were a kid nowadays, I probably wouldn't see a computer as being some rare mystery machine that I wanted to learn more about, simply because they are everywhere and are no mystery.

I also had wanted something more out of Microsoft Bob. The strange thing about it is that it is designed to appear like a point and click adventure game. I knew it wasn't a game but I was always interested in the concept of it. I had no use for such a program as a kid as I didn't know anything about checkbooks or whatever else you could do in there. It probably made things more confusing for people than it needed to be. I'd expect that adults didn't like it because it looked too much like a game, and kids didn't like it because it looked like a game but wasn't. The Packard Bell version may be slightly cooler since you get to see your 3D house... but hope it doesn't rain because there is no roof. http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35.html

Many of the features seen on HD TVs with power saving are also available in computer displays. Unfortunately, data on temperature of the displays themselves are not readily available when looking at specs. I wonder how close the relation of wattage to temperature really is... Anyways, I found some page about different "green" displays you can get, for example: http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-computing/reviews/65304.aspx But the obvious problem is that you wouldn't know exactly if any display is what you need until you could actually use it in that room.

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I will take a look at that and see if I can use it. I have already done a work-around where I change the background color of the Start Screen to red while the installer is working, and then change it to green when it is done. And anything that requires user interaction has to be done manually for now.