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go to verizonwireless and get a cell phone that is express network capable, and get the usb cable for it. all you'll need is the drivers for the phone if your using windows, otherwise linux should detect it as a standard usb modem. just setup a dial up connection using the phone number #777...

you have several options - 1) remove hard drive from laptop. get 2.5 --> 3.5 adapter and put in a desktop/tower pc and copy files over that way. 2) use null modem cable (serial) and interlink and direct cable connection to connect laptop and desktop link with help 3) use a network enabled...

Mercury Mail server - low resource requirements, and it's free

i'd stay with the laptop. get a nice roomy hardsided case and either a usb card reader or PCMCIA card reader, and an usb/firewire harddrive. here's some ideas for cases - this one or pelican cases

3ware has a 12 port RAID 5 IDE card. you should be able to put several in a system. but in order to get max performance you should use system with 64 bit, 66mhz pci slots. fill two cards up with 200's, and you've gone beyond 3TB. also you'll need one hella' psu setup to handle that many...

tcpview from sysinternals.com

you'll need to use sysprep. get it from microsoft.com look in the samples folder of the archive when you unzip it. i personally merge the scsi and ide sysprep.inf files so that win2k will work for all the different mass storage controllers. also you may have to execute sysprep with the...

doom for winCE google it

take a look at real vnc. there are registry settings that may make it work on a locked workstation. also i would suggest that you turn IPsec to encrypt all vnc traffic.

fujitsu p2100 series may be what you're looking for.... but basically every major computer manufacturer makes a small/sub notebook of some type. gateway and dell both have some sub 5lbs. notebooks, as does compaq/hp and sony. go to epionions.com to get ideas of what people think of a specific...

to get the internet easy access keys working look here

copy ntuser.dat from the profile with all the settings, and put it in the "default user" profile folder, replacing the stock ntuser.dat

you can uninstall the DNS server by going to control panels -> add/remove programs. then click on the add/remove windows components button. de-select the dns server, and you're done. or go into the services (under computer management, or the services snap-in in the administrative tools) and...

If the router you're going to buy is doing the VPN connection (i.e. one of the new netgear or linksys routers) then it doesn't matter what OS your server is running. As long as the server is running the necessary services to share the resources to the client. For example, if you connect to the...

Go to Linux Headquarters and LDP for help on setup of SAMBA, and sharing your internet connection. The filesystem doesn't matter. Your windows boxes aren't accessing the drive directly. I recommend that you have at least two partitions, "/" and "/home". For a small home server "/" doesn't...