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File Managers

Well, it's not really needed, but maintenance is just a drag. No, not limited to source code files specifically.
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- Post #4
- Jul 11, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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File Managers

Are there any operating systems with file managers or utilities that treat data as resources, for example: 1) can identify whether files are exactly the same (not just timestamp or size but content) and automatically rename or skip, 2) can track and update shortcuts linked to files, 3) can allow...
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- Jul 10, 2002
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Differences from ATX and MicroATX?

yes, it should. visit: http://www.formfactors.org/
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- Post #2
- Jun 19, 2002
- Forum: Motherboards
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mATX for Athlon900 in rackmount case

I need a microatx board w/ SDRAM slots (not DDR) and integrated video for an Athlon 900MHz in a rackmount case for a RAID server. Any recommendations on chipsets or boards? Thanks.
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- Jun 19, 2002
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Motherboards
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Anyone try something new?

So are you guys saying that air is still the better heat transfer medium? PS: Remember that the fans are inside the case and the air has to flow through holes and around obstructions.
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- Post #8
- Jun 17, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Anyone try something new?

Hmm...actually heatsinks should have high thermal conductivity. As you recall, thermal conductivity is the measure of heat flow through a material. For example, thermal conductivity (W/cm K) of the following materials are roughly: Air (still) - 0.0003 Wood - 0.001 Water - 0.0055 Thermal grease...
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- Post #5
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Anyone try something new?

Well, a heatsink is just a block of metal with fins to increase the outside surface area. You can shape them any way you want. And aluminum can be anodized with different colors. But yeah, heatsinks aren't the prettiest of things. Besides a computer case is just a retangular box, with fan...
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- Post #3
- Jun 15, 2002
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Anyone try something new?

Why outfit your case with a ton of noisy power hungry fans when you can turn your entire case into a heatsink? Like attaching your processor and drives directly to a strong aluminum plate and mounting a heatsink to the outside, like you'd find on car stereo amplifiers? Then your fans can be...
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- Jun 14, 2002
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Linux Maintenance

Ah. So administration will be a breeze. That's good to know... I have the download edition of Mandrake 8.1 on there. Just the basic shell, IceWM, ProFTPd, Mozilla and a couple of utilities for around 250MB, very good when compared to a Windows install. It doesn't perform all that bad. I...
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- Post #11
- Feb 4, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Linux Maintenance

So, I finally got Mandrake Linux slimmed down to fit on my 500MB partition of my 1GB hard drive of my Pentium Pro 180MHz w/ 64MB RAM. Now, what is required of me to keep it in shape? For example, in Windows, you had to run a couple of utilites such as defrag or scandisk every so often, clear...
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- Feb 4, 2002
- Replies: 28
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Auto-logout in Linux

Is there an auto-logout feature in Linux? I would like to specify the machine to logout of the current account after a set amount of time.
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- Feb 3, 2002
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Help w/ installing Linux on old machine...

After some research on popular, yet compact Linux distros, I figure I'd attempt to use Debian or Slackware for this application. Now, for the ultimate decision. It seems to me that Slackware has text-menu scripts that help with configuration. Does Debian have anything like that, or is it all...
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- Post #12
- Jan 28, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Help w/ installing Linux on old machine...

I got this suggestion on another forum: "KDE will work very slow on that computer. I advice to use windowmanagers like AfterStep or Blackbox. Browser- Opera, spreadsheet - GNumerica. KOffice can read MS Office files, but it's better to use OpenOffice ;)" Do you guys have feedback on that...
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- Post #9
- Jan 28, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Help w/ installing Linux on old machine...

Hmm, interesrting... Since the Linux office apps. have difficulty creating/reading *.doc or *.xls on such a slow machine, then forget about complete MS Office compatibility. Word and Excel have some filters which allow it to import some files with basic formatting. So it could go the other...
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- Post #8
- Jan 28, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Big registry problem, please help!

Doesn't Windows store the backups in some folder as I recall? You could boot into dos, find them and make a copy just in case. Can someone verify that they exist? I don't use 9x anymore, so I can't look myself.
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- Post #7
- Jan 28, 2002
- Forum: Operating Systems

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