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    WPA2 AP's for > 25 users?

    Hello all, I'm in the midst of getting ready to place a few AP's in a small building to cover for a 24 piece roaming laptop cart... I can get the coverage I need out of 3 or 4 AP's (I need to do some testing, thanks Droid/Wifi Analyzer) but my main concern is getting AP's that can handle...
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    USB Flash drive price increase?

    Wow, I bought 20 or so Crucial 4GB Flash drives during the summer for $~8 each. Now they are at $14?? Anyone have some insight to this? I want to get some real cheap for students to buy at cost since there aren't many stores around with them available, but it's hard to choke down...
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    WRT54GL - Several covering a school...

    Here's the situation: I'll have limited usage of these (at the most ~20 devices.) I didn't think the situation all the way through when I bought them. Here is what I have. 4 WRT54GL Routers, all within range of each other (in a square basically). Mounted on the wall. Each has it's...
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    Video card to pair with AMD 5800+ for TF2

    My personal computer is a beater, it's a Dell e521 with a 305w PSU. It currently has an EVGA 7600GT in it, I started with a 3800x2, and just spent a whole $40 upgrading to the 5800+ a bit ago, it didn't improve framerates much at all. Would anyone here agree that it is the GPU? What is an...
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    AMD 5800+ x2 hitting 70* !?

    I have this in a rackmount case with the following cooler: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835114039 It's mounted with Arctic Silver 5. The mobo is an ASUS M3A78-CM. There is great air flow through the case. (it's currently not even in the rack, so the top vents are not...
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    Refurbished PC's and Laptops/sites

    I do some work for a small k-12 school whose average computer is a celery 850 Mhz with 256 MB ram. The budget is tight, real tight. I've looked at new Dell PC's and Laptops, they come in at 550, 1100 each. I am looking for some refurbs that would also work (off lease etc are fine) This is...
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    Server 2k3 R2 DFS replication?

    I've got a VM thread going in the CPU forum, but I figured while I was at it I'd look for some more help real quick. I've got 2 sites connected via a fibre lan. I'm hoping to replicate files from a Server 2k3 R2 file server, to another in the other building. This isn't so much for off-site...
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    CPU for VMware Server

    I'm looking at building a box to host 5 or so vmware server instances of Win2k3. This is for a school system of about 550 users total. As we are a small system, cheaper is almost always better, but I'm not looking to sacrifice to much performance. These will be running on either a debian or...
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    Student loan consolidation?

    I searched the forum briefly, and this didn't seem to have any info. The tail end of my federal loans suck for interest, something like 6.8% (it was like sub 4% at the beginning) and I'm trying to find out the best way to consolidate. I've got about 35k or so in student loans floating...
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    Dual Quad Server: To build or Buy?

    I'm trying to make up my mind on what to do for a mid-range server to host VM's for a school system of less than 500 users. This will run a 64 bit linux host (Most likely opensuse) VM's likely to be placed on this: Domain Controller/DHCP/DNS Server Exchange (future possibility) Intranet...
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    Ricoh Laserjet Printer, black faded down center?

    I've got this ricoh cl3500n color laserjet printer (which is really kind a bizarre design, the toner is off to the side of the paper trail) and the dumb thing isn't printing black down the center of the page, it's faded badly. It has a seperate black PCU from the color, and the color one...
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    Server 2003 NTFS network issues...

    I've got a folder located in a share that I need to allow people to save files to.. So I did the sane thing and granted the group all users are in the "write" permission in the Security tab of the folder.. Now the users cannot save there from excel. They can save on the desktop, and then...
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    Masters in Information systems degrees online?

    I'm just about done with my BS in computer science and have a job in IT already. I'm hoping to start on a masters but don't really want to do a MS in CS, but would rather get more on the business side of stuff.. Have any of you taken any online Masters courses? Anyone have any recommended...
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    Starting a Repair Business.. Insurance?

    Welp, I think this is a decent guess of where to put this thread, so if it's not, I'm sorry mods, please move me and only give a MERCIFUL tongue lashing if possible.. Anyway, I'm looking at doing a small computer repair business (DBA) and am wondering what I should be looking for as far as...
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    Computers in a metal shop..

    I've got a semi-unique problem, involving about a dozen CAD stations in a metalshop environment... Does anyone know of some decent filters that won't require too much maintenance etc. that I can place on the monitors and/or boxes to keep them from getting to much metallic dust, smoke, etc in...
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    Server 2003 Standard CPU count question.

    I'm in need of a Server 2003 version that will support > 4 gigs of ram, but have a question about the licensing. Does Server 2003 Standard x64 support only 4 CPU cores, or 4 CPU's? (ie 2x dual core xeons, or would it work with 2x quad xeons.) Thanks
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    How do I get domain clients logged in from WAP's?

    I must be exhausted, but for the life of me I can't think of the best way to connect clients from WAP's and internal Linksys WRT54GL's to my NT4 domain controller. I need my mobile (read: laptop) users to be able to connect to the domain controller and have the login scripts etc. run when...
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    Small Company VPN?

    I'm working for a company that is trying to setup a VPN system to no less than 3 branch offices, and a few roaming users. I've done some research and was hoping someone else out here had some decent ideas. First off, our goals are the following: Remote VNC-like connections to the few...
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    Starting a computer REPAIR shop... Need test hardware advice.

    I'm looking at doing some PC repair professionally. I've been doing it off and on as a side job now for several years.. But am looking for some more info from those that have been doing it for a long time. If you have any suggestions I'm open to them. Here's the list of what I think I need...
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    Quick semi-unique question

    How well would HL2/CSS run on a dual 1800+ system with 1.5 gigs of ram and a 6600gt run? i'm looking at this specifically.. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=45&threadid=1728543&enterthread=y i'm thinking of buying it just to have a computer to throw linux on even if i...
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    Troubleshooting a boot problem?

    I've got a dell 4500 sitting ehre that i'm trying to figure out whats going on. A guy brought it in to me from work to look at it, and to be honest its got me kinda stumped. Here's the story: He shut it down for the night, and now it wont turn back on. lol. There was a power surge in the...
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    WLAN cant see LAN and visa-versa?

    I have a 4 port router (netgear 611?) with a wireless AP connected to it (Buffalo wla-l11). more specs: 2 computers (xp home), all firewalls disabled (other than the routers) Configured into workgroup Home AP configured as 192.168.0.4 the laptop (WLAN) ends up getting configed with...
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    NO resources for my video card!? Help me kick XP in the nuts.

    I was trying to get wdm capturing going using an older asus gf3 ti200 card.. and it crapped out on me, and suddenly i have no video acceleration after removing that card and changing in at 5200fx. Here's the message.. ///// This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use...
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    Help with perpetual lock up and windows xp.

    I used UBCD (ultimate boot cd) and ran memtest86 and the quanta hard disk tool, both came up as the hardware was fine. But windows will reboot the computer under every different loading option, no matter what. It also will not load the windows setup from the windows xp cd. It locks at "Setup is...
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    Need a networking professional.

    I know there has to be atleast one or two of you guys on here, i'm in a networking class at school and have to do a report and would love it if someone could answer a few of these questions for a report i have to do. I'm supposed to find a pro whose been in the industry for a couple of years and...
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    Grub is kicking my butt..

    Here's the grub.conf file.. ######################################### # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative...
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    Setting permissions up in xp?

    I searched around some on the net, but i need to setup an account on some computers at work that will boot xp and a diagnostic program, and allow access to only that specific program. How would i go about doing this? i know i need to setup limited users, but the security tab isnt showing up when...
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    External HDD Enclosure Q's.

    I'm looking to get a hdd enclosure instead of getting a usbkey that i'll just lose somewhere again. This thing needs to be durable because its going to end up in my backpack and taken to class etc etc. Are they also Plug and Play on most machines? I really dont think i could install software on...
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    Need help with grub..

    I have fedora core 2 on one my drives, but i'm looking to get rid of it on this computer and run straight windows. the primary drive has the bootloader and fedora on it, and the secondary has something going on with grub also.. i just need to know how to change the MBR so that the second drive...
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    What should i do for video capture.. ?

    I'm trying to figure out which is the best option, i'm looking to dub videos to dvd's through encoding it on my computer.. Or should i totally go the other route and just buy a dvd/video dubber/recorder or whatever that would probably be faster, but far more expensive, especially since i want a...
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    Help with 2600+ mobile and a7n8x deluxe mulitpilier settings

    For whatever reason the bios keeps setting the multiplier to 6x instead of the 14 i want it to set it to. The FSB settings etc are setup right. No matter what, the speed ends up at 800 mhz, which is obviously WAY to slow for a 2600+. Any ideas? Sorry for the seperate post, but i tried to...
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    Unique? wireless/wired question...

    Ok, NO DSL, and NO CABLE in the area, dont ask 'why dont you have dsl?' ... because its not possible. SOO.... onto the question. I'm looking to put a wireless WAP of some form in my basement connected to a computer that will be constantly online via dial-up networking. My intention is to be...
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    Laptop LCD backlight help?

    Ok, i'm assuming the backlight in my laptop is going bad, as my screen is REALLY dark but still quite sharp. I have found numerous tutorials on how to REPLACE an lcd backlight, but i have yet to find a place that sells them.. Somebody have a store or something somewhere? Any help is...
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    Where to buy win2k?

    I need about 5 licensed copies of windows2k... Where should i look for it, either in a pack or at a good price seperatly? Looking into putting together computers for my company, but need to find the OS at a decent price. Any help is appreciated.
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    omg.. help me with raid..

    I have a fast track100 by promise. I have 2 wd SE's setup for striping (masters on their own channel), but the card just suddenly stopped working... i reset my xp, and it suddenly will not get past the "detecting hard drives" with the "......" it finishes like it normally would, but when it...
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    Need help with an older video card (gf3 ti200)...

    My computer is being a real pain in my ass tonight, Here's the specs before i get into anything. Windows XP K7s5a xp 2100+ paly 1 gig kingston 2700 ddr (infineon) 60 gig maxtor Master primary CD RW Master, secondary. 2x WD SE 80 gig hdds on promise fasttrack 100 56k pci modem floppy.. and an...
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    So what AMD's are OCing great lately?

    I know that the 1700+ L's are becoming quite scarce, and where you find them they are going for ~90 or some crazy thing, and the higher volt U stepping is 43 at newegg but doesnt take an OC as nicely. Are the 2100+ B's worth looking into? I'm going to upgrade my mobo, have a Volcano 7 and...