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Questions about Windows Home Server:

I have a LaserJet 4 attached to the server and shared out - works fine, and WHS is running on a dual PIII-800 w 1 Gig of RAM (old, old Dell PowerEdge server). Haven't seen it using more than 500MB of RAM so far. Btw, I installed the free version of PRTG Network Monitoring on it (since it's...
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- Post #26
- Apr 27, 2009
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What do you think is better? 2004/5 Mazdaspeed MX-5 or S2000?

Now if I knew how to post pics ... anyway, I went with a MY 2005 black-on-black S2k, 35k miles. Drove it from Chicago to NoVA, doing 37 mpg on the first leg of the trip (Indiana/Ohio toll road). Towards the end it went down to about 31 mpg. My biggest mistake so far: I forgot the sunscreen :D...
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- Post #36
- Aug 4, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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What's the best MPG you've ever managed?

My recently deceased 2000 VW Passat Wagon (1.8T): best ever 35 mpg HWY, avarage 31 HWY, city with short trips 2 miles a trip down to 22 mpg. Back in Germany the best I did was 5.4 l/100km on pure biodiesel (canola based) with a 1999 VW Golf Wagon TDI (PD). Too early for me to get a calculatur...
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- Post #89
- Jul 23, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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What do you think is better? 2004/5 Mazdaspeed MX-5 or S2000?

Okay, originally I also had the Mustang, Audi TT and Mitsubishi Eclipse on my list, and they are not anymore. One reason is price, another one is build quality. So far I have only heard praise for the Honda, a little less Mazda, not so great everything else. And I've seen loose door handles...
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- Post #17
- Jul 22, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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What do you think is better? 2004/5 Mazdaspeed MX-5 or S2000?

I actually came across their website before. Are they reputable?
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- Post #7
- Jul 22, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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What do you think is better? 2004/5 Mazdaspeed MX-5 or S2000?

So my 2000 VW Passat Wagon's engine died :brokenheart: (and it's not economical to get it fixed), and I think it's time to have some fun - and get a roadster. So I narrowed down my choice to the MS MX-5 or the S2000 (no particular car in mind, want to spend around $17k). So what do you...
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- Thread
- Jul 22, 2008
- Replies: 37
- Forum: The Garage
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When buying a used car, what kind of inspection do you perform?

I'm going to print this and take it with me.
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- Post #9
- Jul 19, 2008
- Forum: The Garage
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Uninstalled XP SP3 - seems to have corrupted Outlook .PST

Yeah, and there is always a guy named "Murphy" involved, isn't he? But "chkdsk" was the first thing I did, and it didn't find any errors, and ScanPST still doesn't do the whole scan. Are there any more competent scan&repair programs out there?
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- Post #3
- Jan 22, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Uninstalled XP SP3 - seems to have corrupted Outlook .PST

So, I installed the Windows XP SP3 RC on my IBM T41 - but it seems to have interfered with the IBM HDD-head-park software (my guess - BSOD whenever I physically moved the laptop). So I uninstalled it, and everything seems to work, but for Outlook, which won't start due to a corrupted .PST! I...
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- Thread
- Jan 22, 2008
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Information about AGP 4x slot

Hooflung, you wouldn't happen to have any personal knowledge of that, would you? ;) Anyway, comparing what I remember the performance numbers to be, you may actually gain more by checking ebay for some older generation top of the line cards, like a decent 6800 GT. It's a wee bit dated, but I...
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- Post #16
- Dec 18, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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32 bit is no longer valid

What no one seems to remember is that AMD64 doubled the number of available General Purpose and SSE(2) registers for processors, which is only accessible in the processor's Long Mode (64 bit prog running on a 64 bit OS). If I remember correctly this is the reason why 64 bit progs run faster...
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- Post #110
- Dec 17, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Vista rant - transfering files to USB thumb drive

Go to the "Manual Driver Install" dialog and point Vista to "C:\Windows\System32" (or wherever your Vista copy happens to sit). You'll need to do this for every one of the three times a driver install dialog shows up, then you're good to go.
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- Post #38
- Oct 18, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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what you hate about vista the most

Okay, so what do I hate about Vista the most? 1) Refresh rates. Vista doesn't recognize my monitor (Sony SDM-HS93) and installs the generic driver, a product specific driver is nowhere to be found and every so often a program switches it to unsupported refresh rates (and it always does that...
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- Post #63
- Oct 18, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Do you create a seperate partition for your OS?

I've used different partitions for OS and data since DOS 5.0. My standard setup used to be 4 GB OS, rest data (including games). I've changed that now to 4 GB Win XP and rest Vista x64 on my 36 GB Raptor and the data on two RAID 1 arrays on a dedicated file server.
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- Post #22
- Oct 13, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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trouble multitasking with c2d

One other thing: Did you do a complete reinstall of XP when you moved to c2d or did you just pop in your old system? If you did the latter, I'd think that wouold be the source of the issue.
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- Post #14
- Jul 27, 2007
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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