Recent content by Scyon

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    What to do with an older PC?

    I turned an old Dell Dimension desktop that was collecting dust into a Wordpress blog server.
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    Vista Home Premium 32 bit on 1 gig ram

    We run several Vista test machines with 1GB of RAM and they run fine. I'd recommend getting more RAM just because it is so cheap nowadays, but you'll be fine either way. Sam L. Customer Service Solid Documents, LLC saml@soliddocuments.com http://www.soliddocuments.com
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    Diskeeper question for all the smart people out there

    Unfortunately, the best way to keep your computer stable is to use a configuration that does not change, outside of security patches and anti-virus updates. If you don't want to plunk down the money for VMWare and another windows license (which is understandable), get Norton Ghost instead (or...
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    What can Linux do that Windows cannot?!?!?

    Check out this thread, you can create a shortcut for this with two keys in Ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79560
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    Upgrading vista basic

    I doubt that Microsoft would be able to help out as they didn't sell you the software, the OEM did. The OEM (In this case, Office Depot) would be the organization you'd want to contact about getting a laptop sans Vista. Sam L. Customer Service Solid Documents, LLC saml@soliddocuments.com...
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    Where is my bottleneck?

    Have you tried looking in Task Manager, in the Performance tab? You can tell fairly quickly if your CPU or RAM are being bogged down. If neither appear to be the culprit, I have a couple thoughts: 1. What is the model of your motherboard? 2. What are the models of your storage devices...
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    Its that time again! Post your PC pics!

    Please excuse the soda and poor cable management... ;) Main Computer running Vista/XP Test box running Fedora Core 6/2003 Server