Recent content by nova2

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    Hoping for professional advice re: office IT infrastructure for small business

    Synology and Drobo both have good reviews on amazon, but I suggest you first consider Synology network storage solution. as for load balancing, there is something that may work out great for you guys it is called dispatch by the connectify team...
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    Hoping for professional advice re: office IT infrastructure for small business

    Heres my advice. (Im the lead IT Specialist for a large MassMutual financial firm.) Keep it simple at first, and dont get too expensive at the beginning unless you are certain you can justify it. 1. DIY desktop PCs, or consider PCs from dell that come with respectable warranties, and pro...
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    Desperate for some Airplane, Helicopter, Naval or Submarine simulation

    sim copter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVymrjTJsI&NR=1 walk on water and kick ass
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    Symantec buys crypto firms PGP and GuardianEdge

    I'll be very interested to see if they make Guardian Edge removeable storage encryption (GERS) any better. Right now Mass Mutual home office is requiring us all to use it, except for people whom dont use USB drives/etc. there are various significant problems with backing up a lot of files, or...
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    IT Pros, what antivirus does your company use?

    Hospital I worked at used Symantec Endpoint on every device. Current financial company I work for uses it on every device too.
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    windows backup in server 2003 (without ASR and with shadow copy enabled)

    non-VSS aware databases, thanks for mentioning that - i will keep that in mind for the future.
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    windows backup in server 2003 (without ASR and with shadow copy enabled)

    I backed up a server I'm running using MS windows server 2003 windows backup. Backed up the whole HDD (1 partition exists only - c drive ) my question is if the HDD fails, I should be able to restore all c drive data from this backup file onto a new/similar HDD, and be done with restoration...
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    How did you last die?

    Battlefield 2: crushed to death by a jet ski prey: exit portal was in a room with the gravity reversed, and placed so i would fall just enough to an outside door where my killer was - camping. I admire his near perfect portal placement. portal (valve): fell/crushed to death due to bad portal...
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    Run a VM off of a USB 3.0 hard drive?

    errors in data transfer? as long as your usb3 cable is shielded, then you should be good to go indefinitely.
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    How frequent do you defrag your system?

    never, ever ever. not even my huge HDDs. no problems on my end.
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    Microwave ovens

    I think brain damage has already occurred. Unplug that bastard asap. you remind me of the last guy that posted here. he was operating his mic with no door.
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    Contact lens wearers...why is my right eye bothering me now, after 2 years of comfort

    watery feeling? or like something in your eye, right? so even after wearing them for 2 days, you still get this feeling? if so, i'd hit up your local eye doc. peace!
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    Your Favorite Audio Player?

    FOOBAR and WINAMP and Windows Media Player Classic
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    Win7 RC ran great, actual Win7 bluescreens all the time

    "Must have been an error on the disc itself. " if it were, then the install would abort with checksum errors. something else is going on here, good luck to you :-)
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    Portal 2 Announced

    really looking forward to COOP play! c'mon!