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I had an 8.4gb WD drive that made the clicking noise from the time I bought it. As you describe, sometimes when there was a lot of disk activity, the drive would make two clicking noises, about a second or so apart. It seemed like disk activity stopped between the clicks, but then started...

I don't have as much knowledge about specifically how interrupt controllers work as Peter or KF, but I can say that I've seen the debate about whether or not IRQ sharing is an issue many times over the last several years. It usually goes much like the conversation between Peter and...

As others have said, it's probably unlikely that one instance of bit torrnet killed your network. However, it IS definitely possible for one program on one computer to bring down a network, particularly if it is poorly (or maliciously) written. I used to work as an admin for a university...

Thanks for the reply, NaughtyusMaximus. If it's of any help to anybody else, I figured out what the problem is. I've got the directory I was talking about password protected. I was using AuthType Basic, but I've found that if I switch it to Digest, directory listings are much faster...

I've got a sorta old box that I use as a web server, among other things. It's got dual 450mhz Xeons and 640mb of ram, so it's a decently fast server. It's running Debian. Anyway, up until tonight, I was running Apache 1.3.27 on it, and everything was fine. Tonight, I got bored, and so I...

IMHO, unless you have a bad interviewer, it's more important in a job interview to show that you CAN learn things, rather than showing that you've memorized all of the details of something. If you get the job and you need to know some technical detail, you can always look it up in a book or on...

Just in case anybody's curious, the reason that ice has a lower density than liquid water is because of what are called hydrogen bonds. A hydrogen bond is a type of dispersion force that exists between hydrogen atoms and electrons on other molecules. In ice, hydrogen bonds form between the...

I don't want to sound harsh, but I personally HATE using gui/web tools for doing admin stuff on Linux/Unix type OSs. I think that if you start using command line tools and editing configuration files manually, you will find that you will have a much better understanding of how the programs...

It's JavaScript. I really doubt the machine has been hacked. As you see in the picture, an assertion failed. Assertions are a common thing in C and C++ programming. Basically, if an assertion is reached, and the condition it specifies is not true at that point in the program, the program...

Not sure how helpful this is, but I've got a KT333 Dragon Lite running an XP2400+ at 133mhz FSB. It's very stable. I'm using a 512mb stick of cheapo generic DDR 2100 and a 350 watt power supply.

I'd guess IRQ sharing is the problem. Probably your sound card is sharing an IRQ with your PS/2 or USB controller for your mouse, or maybe with your video card. If this is the case, I'd recommend trying to reassign IRQs in your bios, or moving around PCI cards.

Personally, I'm not sure that a college student really needs a printer at all, let alone an expensive laser. I'm going to be a senior in Computer Science this year. For the last 3 years, I've had a HP Deskjet. I used it quite a bit my freshman year, but after that, I found out that the CS...

I've been playing with Microsoft Print Services for Unix in Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I've been trying to set up the Windows server as an LPD server to use with Linux and Solaris clients. I've gotten printing to work ok. The problem is that I want only certain users to be able to print to...

I've got a VisionTek GeForce 3 Ti 200. A couple of days ago, I pulled it out of my computer, and when I did, a small silver-colored round electrical component of some sort fell off of it. I don't know if the card still works correctly without it, but I'm sort of afraid to try it. I'd like to...

I'm an administrator for a network of Windows computers. We recently upgraded our machines to Windows XP from 2000. After the upgrade, a lot of our users started complaining about Hotmail being slow in Internet Explorer 6 (the version that came with XP). I've found that if a non-administrator...