Recent content by MajorC

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    Water Cooling

    Anyone care to share their experiences? I am at the brink of trying and don't want to waste $$$
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    To water cool or not to water cool?

    Yep posted in wrong forum..........
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    To water cool or not to water cool?

    That is my question! Anyone care to share their experience with cooling via H2O?
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    IE 6.0 question

    Click View/Toolbars Check Address Bar Move it to where you want it Click View/Toolbars/Lock the Toolbars
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    Change the drive letter of the drive XP is installed on?

    Absolutely don't change the drive letter! You can't from within XP and if you try it from a boot disk (Linux) your results will be bad........
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    Can someone explain the 'nobody' user in Linux?

    To add my $0.02 to these already correct explanations, nobody provides a user account under which to run a process. By using nobody this process will give no other permission (file/dir) to 'other' user accounts that use this process. If you ran a process under the account 'root' you may then...
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    Windows XP pro - question on boot account

    Try this: Select Run from the Start Menu, type control userpasswords2, and click Ok The option to require a username and password should be checked. Also both your admin account and the 'Us" account you refer to should have passwords.
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    win 2000 pro locked out of administrator options

    But certainly infuriating I bet! The easy fixes always are......
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    Can you run xp with no monitor

    Agreed! I have two computers in my basement that I remote desktop to. In both cases I did need a (cheapy!) vid card to successfully boot.
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    DOS command question

    Right on - fdisk will tell you all of the drive letters
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    Redhat to Release 9 on March 31st

    Anyone hear anything positive about the 'supposed' true multi-threading in 9?
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    Reduced Sign-On

    Reduced Sign-on. Biometrics is just the flash that makes this technology pretty to non techs. I was just curious what others were experiencing in this arena....
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    Geology question and the movie Core

    Anything that is powerful enough to stop the core would certainly annihilate all life. Hence this question is moot! :D
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    Reduced Sign-On

    What is the closest anyone has come to this holy grail? At my company we piloted a product called Trinity paired with a biometric device. The technology actually worked extremely well and wasn't the typical screen scraping junk that most of the rest use. Of course, nothing good lasts forever...
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    Which gives better sound and why: cassette adapter or FM transmitter

    Does anyone have experience with satellite radio? How does this compare with good reception FM radio?