Recent content by npsken

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    Failed Hard Drive?

    Any particular recommendations? EDIT: It would appear that my motherboard doesn't have on board raid, and I don't have any more room for any more components. I was planning on having Raid 10 for my next machine so I guess I'll have my fun there.
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    Failed Hard Drive?

    I've had a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS since late 2007. Recently (a few weeks ago) when Windows was booting up it wanted to do a disk scan, I let it do its thing and didn't think much of it. I decided today that I wanted to reinstall Windows (7 Professional). I've done this many...
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    Disabling multiple devices

    Does anybody know of an effective method to create a script that will disable devices (and another script that will re-enable them)? I want to disable certain devices when I am recording and using the device manager is a pain to have to use every time I want to record. My initial thought was...
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    Building a new PC

    I am building a new PC for a friend. He doesn't want to go over $800 (including shipping). He has an external CD drive which should be good enough for installing an OS. He also already has a keyboard, mouse, and monitor (the monitor is a 17" 4:3, so I have a new one in the list below). The...
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    Apache Load Balancing

    Moving the database to a separate server was another alternative I was looking at. Do you think that would really make a big difference (along with memcached)?
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    Apache Load Balancing

    Starting out I was going to run a LAMP stack on the RackspaceCloud (CloudServers). I was just curious for the worst case scenario when upscaling doesn't work anymore and I have to use more servers. Thanks!
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    Apache Load Balancing

    I am currently researching apache load balancing and I was wondering if anybody could tell me an extremely general idea about when it is necessary to load balance in terms of hits, memory usage, and cpu usage. If anybody was able to decipher what I'm asking and knows an answer that could...
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    PHP Frameworks vs Ruby On Rails vs etc

    Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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    PHP Frameworks vs Ruby On Rails vs etc

    I am trying to understand the differences of different web technologies under load (as in lots of users visiting the site). My basic understanding so far is that every visit to a php site creates a new instance in memory that must be managed by the server, while with Ruby on Rails (or Java)...
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    Help with Diagnosis

    Here's everything I found related to the internet: 3 Times: WLAN-Tray: Unable to gain access to user store 3 Times: Dhcp-Client: The IP address lease ***.***.***.*** for the Network Card with network address ************ has been denied by the DHCP server ***.***.***.*** (The DHCP Server sent...
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    Help with Diagnosis

    My laptop has a problem that I am having trouble diagnosing. Randomly, either connected to the internet through ethernet or wifi, I will lose the connection. Sometimes only in firefox, and sometimes on the whole system. Windows claims that I am still connected and I have internet access. When...
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    ga-7dpxdw-p

    We are trying to install CentOS on an old server to give it new life and about 89% into formatting the HDD the motherboard starts beeping (integrated case speaker). All the alarms in the BIOS are turned off and the CPU temperature was at about 41 degrees Celsius. The motherboard is a Gigabyte...
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    Installing a driver on linux...

    I'm looking to start using linux as my primary OS (Ubuntu 7.10), and before I was finding it pretty simple to use; however, my onboard ethernet crapped out and I had to get a wireless card (I was planning on moving this computer far away from the router anyway). Installing the wireless card on...
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    Linux Drivers

    Thanks, second most awesome person in the world! ;)
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    Linux Drivers

    I am looking for a linux (32 bit) driver for the following product: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16833180052 If you could help me find one you would be the second most awesome person in the world. To be the first most awesome the driver has to be in a debian package ;)