Recent content by HellDesk

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    Anandtech is being rated and could use your vote.

    Why not make this a competition .. First to make 20000 gets a free T-shirt or stuff .. That'll get people voting (or would that be like .. hehe .. bribery ?) just hit 11129 !
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    To Raid or Not the Raid? That is the question...

    Although I'm a simple consumer too, I installed win2K Pro on a SCSI U160 Quantum Atlas 10K II, and keep my Programs & data on a RAID-0-setup (2-drives setup). If you already own a decent SCSI-controller, by all means go for SCSI, if not, go for RAID-0 (but don't take the "Inexpensive...
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    Will Maxtor ATA/100 Add more stress?

    I recently moved my 2 Seagates from a plain old ATA66-controller to my onboard highpoint-370 (I had my reasons not to use it in the past). I am now running these two drives at ATA-100 instead of ATA-66, and in RAID0-setup! Results: Temp increased by 3°Celsius. So much for increased stress. go...
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    Desktop Setup

    You're absolutely right .. One of THE things to look for in an operating system is the availability of colour schemes and lovely icons. Why bother with stability or security ? But although, I'm going with the kid .. Win98 Green is just plain yuck! (I'm just one of those people who use 256...
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    how to ADD win98 or winMe ... when I already have win2k?

    The Win2K bootloader will pick up the presence of any Win98-clones installed and put them in the boot.ini. however, since you've already installed W2K, I'd say write an image of your current MBR (any good linux how-to will show you the ropes & tools for this), install Windows Me, save the...
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    TCP port 27374 being scanned frequently.

    You could see if there's a program (zombie or trojan) listening at that specific port. If there is, isolate and get rid of it. e.g. <netstat -na | find &quot;:27374&quot;> would give you all the services/progs listening on that specific internal port. Don't let the bots bite..
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    Where Can I get the latest Ver. of MS-DOS??

    I've still got a DOS 1.0 on a single disk lying around somewhere. (oh no, that would be pirating .. )
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    how the fsck do you get out of emacs in linux?!!??!?

    Alt-F3 su -c &quot;Kill -9 emacs&quot; rpm -u emacs joe <whatever you want to edit ...>