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XP Home

Thanks for the replies dclive and Cerb; I kept on searching and I found a compelling reason to forget about XP HOME, Microsoft will stop supporting in the end of this year, unless they change their mind in the meantime for me that makes XP HOME a no go!
- thornc
- Post #19
- Feb 18, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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XP Home

Quick question... from a "home user" point of a view is there any actual drawback in using XP HOME instead of XP PRO? I know everything there is to know about the technical differences my problem is understanding if there any real differences in day to day usage (web browsing, gaming, word...
- thornc
- Post #16
- Feb 18, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What was the first OS you've ever used?

I think it was CP/M on an Amstrad PCW (don't recall the model).... shortly after DOS 3.01 on the Amstrad PC-1512! But there was also the Basic of the Timex, the ZX spectrum and the Commodore 64! I still remember some of my friends who had Commodore Amiga A500's and others the Atari ST520's...
- thornc
- Post #82
- Jul 29, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Toshiba Satellite M30X or M40X

Like I said they are equal except for the stated differences, both use PC-CARD and 10/100 network (didn't bother to check if they use different NIC)... Thanks for the help guys... I tend to lean for the M30X myself, but I am still in doubt! PS: After a bit more searching it seems that the...
- thornc
- Post #6
- Jul 11, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Toshiba Satellite M30X or M40X

Thanks for the comment fbrdphreak. They cost exactly the same.... that's the main reason I haven't still decided!!
- thornc
- Post #3
- Jul 11, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Toshiba Satellite M30X or M40X

Hello all, I have been looking around and can't seem to be able to make up my mind... The M30X has a PM 725, i855 and a MR9700, the M40X has a PM 730, i915 and a MRX300 everthing is pretty much the same (except the DVR writer on the M40X has dual layer support). Which one to get? I do...
- thornc
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- Jul 11, 2005
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Laptops
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the new firefox keeps crashing...

Mine crashed with SSL sites.... I'll be keeping with my 20040623-0.9 Aviary build for the time being!
- thornc
- Post #13
- Jun 18, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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Know of a good PHP/MySql tutorial ?

Look for this in PHP's section of Webmonkey, Index here. Here's a directy link to the PHP/MySQL tutorial!
- thornc
- Post #6
- Jun 18, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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Firefox Annoyance (and problem)

Same here!! With the default theme.. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040523 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MOOX-AV)
- thornc
- Post #19
- Jun 18, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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dev C++ users...

And you can find some Win32 C++ classes around to ease the loss of MFC!
- thornc
- Post #5
- May 25, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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Nero installation - multiple computers?

Well I know for a fact that Nero 5.x contained a database of warezed serials.... so it's to assume that they have improved that to add some kind of online checking!
- thornc
- Post #8
- Mar 17, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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Free PC Games

Pathological Nice game written in Python!
- thornc
- Post #91
- Mar 12, 2004
- Forum: PC Games
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TCP port forwarding by name...

re-bump!!
- thornc
- Post #3
- Jan 26, 2004
- Forum: Networking
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Help w/ Dual Boot: Xp and Linux redhat

Anyone heard of Lilo on a floppy... boots almost as fast as bootiing from disk, and you don't have to worry about messing the MBR. Which, btw, as cleverhandle points, is easy enough to fix these days( even in old days :))
- thornc
- Post #7
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Linux no longer boots .. successfully.

Really strange issue.... are you certain you are not using some weird software in windows that may be messing with Linux's partition? Perhaps you should also consider install it LiLo on a floppy and use that to boot (assuming you have Lilo, since you didn't state the distro!!
- thornc
- Post #10
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Configuring Lilo

Yes, you may have to copy RH9's kernel into Mandrakes /boot to make it work....
- thornc
- Post #2
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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upgraded SCSI drives, won't boot

And the solution was?? I hate it when people don't provide details for others that may follow with the same problem!! It isn't that difficult...
- thornc
- Post #6
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What's a good, LIGHTWEIGHT Window Manager? FreeBSD!

Don't know if they have FreeBSD ports but XFCE, IceWM, BlackBox and WindowMaker come to mind!
- thornc
- Post #2
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Desperatly need help with Linux PLEASE save me (frustrated)

A long time has passed since I've read this forums... nice to see that the usual people are still around helping! And nice to see that the trolls come and go! Just to add my to 0.02? to the flame war.... in recent months I've been seeing windows machines replaced by Linux machines...
- thornc
- Post #45
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
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TCP port forwarding by name...

bump!
- thornc
- Post #2
- Jan 23, 2004
- Forum: Networking
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Matlab Question, any difference between student and regular additions?

Also the matrix array size in the student version is limited to 1000x1000 at most!
- thornc
- Post #3
- Jan 22, 2004
- Forum: Windows
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TCP port forwarding by name...

I wanted to replicate something like this.... Is there any program around that can do it, whitout having to have an ip address to each sub.domain? Sort of a catch all tcp incoming and automatically forward it to a predefined host:Port!! Thanks for any comments in advance....
- thornc
- Thread
- Jan 22, 2004
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Networking
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Firebird .7 Only

Get some here!! Then set up the shortcuts...
- thornc
- Post #8
- Nov 21, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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IT Dept says Windows NT must go...

Well I tend to agree with the IT type guys here, but being a systems engineer I understand your problem!! You have a proven and working solution for your task, and someone is asking you to drop it for something you don't know when/if it's going to work. Not a nice prespective! I don't know how...
- thornc
- Post #35
- Nov 13, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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what is a named pipe?

I presume this is what you're talking about: MSDN->About Pipes->Named Pipes...
- thornc
- Post #2
- Nov 7, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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Why do people use Linux?

I remember Sopwith Camel.... I used to play that on an XT PC some 15years ago!!! Now you did it, now I must go and play that game... one more to lose time one!! :D edit: found a nice win32 3D version!!
- thornc
- Post #25
- Nov 7, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Why do people use Linux?

Hehe you really must have been bored ;)!
- thornc
- Post #22
- Nov 7, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Why do people use Linux?

Others have already replied to it, but the variety you're talking about it's even bigger in windows!! Just get one of those 200games CDs!! If he had said he used a computer mostly for browsing, mail and text processing I would have told to give Knoppix or SUSE live eval a try to see how he...
- thornc
- Post #12
- Nov 6, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Why do people use Linux?

1st question's answer: Because it's there, it's free, it's open, it works! 2nd question's answer: none, you stated it... your most important application are games! At the moment, there isn't a huge choice of native games for linux, altough you can get some of the windows versions to work to som...
- thornc
- Post #3
- Nov 5, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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PDFs will not display in the browser in Firebird???

Try this: inside Acrobat Reader's Browser directory there a file named nppdf32.dll, copy that into your Firebird's plugins directory! This did the trick for me! Every PDF is now loaded in a browser window!
- thornc
- Post #7
- Nov 5, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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Novell aquires SuSE

Still thinking were this might leed.... first I'll have to wait and see what the German governement and european comission has to say about it!! It seems like a good thing... but time will tell!
- thornc
- Post #9
- Nov 4, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Companies that make ultra light notebooks

yap, these guys sell really small lappys!!!
- thornc
- Post #11
- Oct 24, 2003
- Forum: Laptops
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SUSE Linux

Basically because they want to get paid for their work! They allow for a free network install and that's it! They also supply a Live Eval CD, which you can use to get a feeling of the distro! In fact after RedHat, SuSe is the next Linux player making serious business all over Europe and the US.
- thornc
- Post #7
- Oct 20, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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##POLL##What game are you awaiting the most?

Deus EX was cool.... still replay it from time to time! Most enjoyable.... specially because we can take several different aproaches to missions!! In the next one, I'll try to be a bad boy again!! Hope that Deus Ex 2, is a least as enjoyable as the first!
- thornc
- Post #2
- Oct 17, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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My Mozilla vs. my Firebird vs. Aebrahim's FB builds vs official Firebird nightly

Well this kind of depends on what's being optimized and what compiler is being used! I can tell you that I personnaly I have used compiler optimizations to reduce executions speeds of numeric models by factors of 10! Something that ran in 60s began running in 6s! In this particular case, I...
- thornc
- Post #5
- Oct 17, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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Calling all Programmers!

Yap, I had already posted about it some time ago... it's a laugh!!
- thornc
- Post #4
- Oct 17, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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SUSE Linux

If you do a network install it is free(gratis!)! With LSB this isn't that big of an issue anymore!
- thornc
- Post #3
- Oct 17, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Confirmed HL2 was not finished!!! Re-encode my a$$

I object to use of them term "Hacker" in this context! The guy is just a plain thieve!! Nothing more... Like others said, long live Stallman, Torvals, Kernighan, Ritchie, Jobs, Gates and specially Knuth! And a long praise to Turing, Dijkstra and Cray!! Finnally, I must say! Com'on this is just...
- thornc
- Post #34
- Oct 14, 2003
- Forum: Windows
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Fibre Channel

Nice replies, Not elaborate a bit on my problem... I'm looking for a storage solution to be used as temporary (1 to 5 days) storage for a big ammount of data, around 4 to 8 TeraBytes. The problem is not security but acceptable performance, the computers processing the data to be stored are...
- thornc
- Post #14
- Oct 13, 2003
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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For a file server, do I need to use Windows 2000 Server?

Did you ever thought about using linux+samba?? Shouldn't be very hard to configure, and you also use the built-in RAID features if you don't have them on the motherboard....
- thornc
- Post #8
- Oct 9, 2003
- Forum: Operating Systems

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