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Remote virtual PC (running mydsl linux)

Since I'm trying to set up a few different types of remote system loads (PXE diskless boot, custom liveboot cds or memory sticks) it seemed like a good chance to try some other configurations. The one that I'm currently on is sort of novel to me, and the results are kind of fun. Using QEMU, a...
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- Sep 11, 2007
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- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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~~~~ IWANNA ~~~~

I'm looking for a decent brand (3-5yr warranty) IDE or SATA internal hard drive. Whatever is the cheapest, best deal between 200-500gb.
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- Post #227
- Sep 10, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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budget AGP card for general and 3D

It looks like it will be the 6600 GT, which came down in price a bit. I'm eying a x1650, but the memory is slower and it's 20-30 pricier. Thanks for the fs/ft suggestions but I'm only looking at new or possibly refurbs.
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- Post #13
- Sep 10, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Secure remote computing

Well 2005 wasn't that long ago. Can RDP really be reliable upon? Not that it makes a huge difference, but RDP as far as I know is limited to 128-bit encryption, which seems to be lower than other similar systems. Additionally, from http://www.mobydisk.com/techre...ng_remote_desktop.html...
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- Post #5
- Jul 28, 2007
- Forum: Security
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Open a free checking acct @ Key Bank get a free Nano

anyone know what exactly qualifies as "automated payments"?
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- Post #19
- Jul 28, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Secure remote computing

That might be the best thing, but is Remote Desktop really safe and trustworthy? It seems to have had a lot of flaws found, how reliable is the security?
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- Post #3
- Jul 26, 2007
- Forum: Security
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Secure remote computing

Using portable applications like Firefox with my preferred extensions, bookmarks, even passwords is a great feature and I would like to begin using this over a home network or through the internet, however I am concerned about how to accomplish this securely without special software. The best...
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- Jul 25, 2007
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Security
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budget AGP card for general and 3D

That seems like the best choice, I'm trying to figure if it would be better to get a slower card with more video ram, but it seems at this point getting the most recent chipset is a priority. I've been waiting for prices to go down for a while, but now something has to be done and I need to...
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- Post #11
- Jul 13, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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budget AGP card for general and 3D

All I'm really expecting / hoping for 30 fps in CS:S with some video settings. The goal is to get the most performance for the price, but yeah it is difficult to find something modern for that price range :D So what would you suggest looking for in this case? Should I be looking for at...
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- Post #8
- Jul 12, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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$100 for Opening Citibank Ultimate Savings Account

This was in the terms and agreements: II. Promotion Disclosure PROMOTION DISCLOSURE Promotion Code: CSLN When you applied for your Ultimate Savings Account, you identified the special offer code of CSLN to receive a $100 bonus. Below are the terms and conditions that you must meet in...
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- Post #16
- Jul 12, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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budget AGP card for general and 3D

yeah thanks ive been looking through the TH charts, but most of the stuff i'm looking at is way on the low end so it is kind of hard to compare found the x1300 - ATI RADEON X1300 Pro - Graphics adapter - Radeon X1300 Pro - AGP 8x - 256 MB DDR II - DVI (Refurbished) for $70 which is a bit over...
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- Post #3
- Jul 11, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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budget AGP card for general and 3D

Really need to upgrade the graphics card, what would be the best AGP card for under $50? I'm looking to buy it new and that doesnt have to include S&H. Would definitely like 256mb vram but manufacturer should be high quality. Right now im considering: MSI NX6200-TD256H GeForce 6200LE...
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- Jul 10, 2007
- Replies: 17
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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OSS content or project management systems

ok well went with drupal because my host doesn't support plone. setup was pretty painless, just make db run script etc. dunno how to use it yet, but it seems to have all the features needed
- mike3411
- Post #4
- Jul 4, 2007
- Forum: Open Source
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OSS content or project management systems

cool thanks, will check that out another one that has been recommended to me is Plone http://plone.org/
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- Post #3
- Jul 4, 2007
- Forum: Open Source
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OSS content or project management systems

I'm looking to install a content or project management system on a Linux server running standard Apache/MySQL/PHP. Does anyone have a recommendation? I'm currently looking at Joomla and Activcollab, but there may be other good choices as well. Does anyone have experience with either of these...
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- Jul 4, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Open Source
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Task Manager / To Do list software

Totally! I've found a few in the past, but each has had too many limitations, for example one nice website would let me create tasks with different priorities, but the notes for each task were too short and I couldn't set up a tree of sub-tasks. Anyway thanks for all the suggestions, I'll go...
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- Post #8
- May 23, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Task Manager / To Do list software

That sounds rather complicated, but it may be the best way to address this issue. It sounds like you have the functionality I'd like of being able to set up more advanced forms and linking, but I'd like to find this in a single software package that won't take too much time to set up.
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- Post #7
- May 23, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Task Manager / To Do list software

Yah Outlook is ok, but it's task list is too simple, for example I would like to be able to set up sub tasks and I don't recall if Outlook will let me set individual priorities for each task
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- Post #6
- May 23, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Task Manager / To Do list software

What programs does everyone use to manage their to-do lists or for general task management? In the past I've used Outlook Calendar to schedule things, and their built-in to do list. Now I've moved to Gmail Calendar, but I find that many things shouldn't be on a Calendar exactly, just on a To-Do...
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- May 22, 2007
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows
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Simple stock market simulation

That works for pretend trading on an existing exchange, but for the purpose of this experiment the market will be very small, consisting of only the people in our group, and all the stocks are custom things related to our project. Basically we just need the software NASDAQ or something use to...
- mike3411
- Post #3
- May 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Simple stock market simulation

I'm working a project for an econ class, and we'd like to set up a simple stock market and trading system. I think I can do this with PHP and SQL, but someone has probably made something similar in the past, and I'd like to do as little actual coding as possible. Does anyone know of any open...
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- May 6, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows
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Mirroring directories?

MS's latest version of Office has "Groove" folder synchronization. Otherwise, the raid tools in Linux will allow this for free =D
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- Post #5
- Apr 11, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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BitTorrent download speeds

Yeah another possible cause is a certain chunk is seeded better than the rest of the file, so at first you are downloading from many peers but then fewer after a little while. It would be weird for this to happen on a well-seeded torrent but I guess its possible, not sure how you might check though.
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- Post #6
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Convert html to .bmp .jpg or .tiff

Yup that's what I did for the time being. Its kind of a weird extra step but it works alright, and there are open source html <-> pdf and pdf is easy to output as tif jpg etc.
- mike3411
- Post #8
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Convert html to .bmp .jpg or .tiff

Are you sure that would work? It just looks like a general screen-capture program. Hmm well I don't really have many other browsers =D but I'll try in Opera. I think it's just a function of the windows document writer, when on tif format it only outputs one image. Exporting as .mdi might...
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- Post #6
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Convert html to .bmp .jpg or .tiff

Very long documents. The commercial demos I tried wouldn't do more than ~10k pixel height. There were a couple Firefox plugins like Screengrab and Pearl Crescent that had higher limits, but they still wouldn't work for longer documents.
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- Post #5
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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How do I connect to a website in Dreamweaver 8?

My guess is that your school has some kind of web system set up that will allow you log in to an FTP or other special server so that you can update the files, you need to know what kind of server it is and exactly what the address is. You need to find out from your professor exactly what...
- mike3411
- Post #2
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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File Compression

Isn't the whole point of dual-core as opposed to dual-cpu that you don't need multithreading to use all the processing power? In any case this one says it is definitely multithreaded: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Prog...veX/Xceed_Zip_Compression_Library.html
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- Post #3
- Apr 6, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Convert html to .bmp .jpg or .tiff

Anyone know an open source / freeware utility to convert an html document (including embedded images) into an image or series of images? Any standard format would be fine. I've been trying to print from a web browser and use the windows document writer but it's only outputting a single page...
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- Apr 6, 2007
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Windows
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Al Gore

Comparing the electrical usage in a non-average American household with the average American household usage is totally wrong. Average homes dont have 20 bedrooms. Although Gore as a prominent conservation advocate should clearly attempt to reduce overall consumption, his gross electrical usage...
- mike3411
- Post #247
- Mar 1, 2007
- Forum: Politics and News
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Places besides YouTube to host Video Podcast?

Google Video is a bit of a hassle to figure out, but they offer better quality hosting than YouTube
- mike3411
- Post #4
- Feb 27, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Journaling, error correction in Windows software

In a Windows XP environment, I'd like to be able to have file journaling as well as error correction / detection from some kind of software system that will also allow me to perform backups of this data. I'm not sure if I'm using these terms correctly; I'd like, for example, to have a drive...
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- Feb 27, 2007
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows
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Microsoft Fax Console Win XP..

IIRC, it's best to get the file into Window's Document & Imaging format. Do this by using the print function, and print to file. The outputted file can then be opened/imported into the Fax program, and sent like that.
- mike3411
- Post #3
- Feb 27, 2007
- Forum: Windows
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Weird Dual-Channel Memory on Asus A8V Problems

Wow, that seems to have worked! I increased the VDIMM to 1.65, and Memtest no longer reports errors. Should I go ahead and use the system this way? It seems to have fixed the system stability, even though I wasn't entirely sure it was a memory issue in the first place (and I still get a beep or...
- mike3411
- Post #3
- Jan 24, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Weird Dual-Channel Memory on Asus A8V Problems

I have an Asus A8V, with an Athlon64 2000+ and two sticks of Corsair VS512MB400 . After noticing more instability than I'd expect, I decided to run Memtest to check the RAM. Using memtest86+ v1.70 from a CD I checked each stick of RAM separately, and after a few a hours of testing each, neither...
- mike3411
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- Jan 17, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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Western Digital 500GB Caviar SE16 $150

Well, the original deal seems to be dead, but ZipZoomFly's is only $154. What's different about the warranty? According to ZZF, the KS has a 3 year warranty: Warranty Length: Three years manufacturer warranty beginning from the manufacturing date. Does the YS have a 5-year??
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- Post #7
- Jan 3, 2007
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Logitech MX Revolution $59.99 AR - Amazon

that's supposed to be a pretty good mouse
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- Post #2
- Dec 27, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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winamp / other: how to play random albums?

in all the programs i've tried, adding together each album's playlist would just make one bigger playlist that simply includes all the tracks, and playing this on random would mean skipping from track to track (without it mattering what album the track was from) Cool! I'll give Foobar another...
- mike3411
- Post #7
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Windows
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winamp / other: how to play random albums?

I guess I need some other program to do this?
- mike3411
- Post #3
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Windows
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Upgrading DVD drive firmware

So I emailed NEC, and I actually got a response! Apparantly I have a very old firmware version, which required a different updater from - http://de.nec.de/softwareoverview2.php/id/557 Also, I had been forgetting to boot up in safe mode, but just as general info it appears that Safe Mode is...
- mike3411
- Post #4
- Oct 26, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building

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