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    Fire/Flood/Alien Invasion-proof data backup for a small business

    Here's what I've got for you, fellas: I started a thread in the general forum (http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=27&threadid=2324033), and got some very good suggestions. It's a quick read and has all of the backstory involved with my conundrum. The Cliff's Notes are: I work for a...
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    Fire/flood-proof backup storage for a small business

    Howdy, fellas! I was wondering if anyone has any advice for me. I am planning out a small storage/backup system for the small business that I work for, and thought the good people here at this forum may have been down this road before. My company designs small medical devices, and we do...
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    Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W making a very high frequency noise

    Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've got an Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W power supply, and anytime it is plugged in, it makes a really, really high frequency noise that seems to change pitch whenever load changes (hard drive read/write, new USB device plugged in, etc). The...
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    Having trouble with Dell's 'PC Restore'

    I'm in a hell of a pickle here. I have thoroughly trashed a Dell E510 with the premise that I'd be able to just wipe it clean and start over using Dell's really neat PC Restore feature. I mean, I really hammered on it good. I jammed it with software, and even cut 10GB out of the main...
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    Windows says my DVD is blank, Nero says it's multisession

    This is a cute problem: I burned a whole bunch of files onto a DVD to back them up. Now I pop that DVD into the drive, and windows identifies it as a blank disc. When I look at the disc in Nero, I see lots of files in there as a multi-session disc. Does anyone know what might have...
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    Having trouble recovering an eMachine with PC Angel System Restore

    This is kind of a funny story. I nuked an eMachine W3410 a while ago, and now I want to restore it to its factory-installed OS. My problem is that now I don't seem to have a way to invoke the cool PC Angel thingy. I have left the factory-installed backup partition totally intact, which seems...
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    Converting 15-pin SATA power to 4-pin Molex

    I just ran into a really, really hilarious problem. A *special* friend of mine got herself a sweet, new Dell. So I figured I'd get her a nice graphics card as a computer-warming present (she likes teh Warcraft). So I checked with the guides at Anandtech.com and grabbed a hot, new Sapphire...
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    Converting 15-pin SATA power to 4-pin Molex

    I just ran into a really, really hilarious problem. A *special* friend of mine got herself a sweet, new Dell. So I figured I'd get her a nice graphics card as a computer-warming present (she likes teh Warcraft). So I checked with the guides at Anandtech.com and grabbed a hot, new Sapphire...
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    Playing a Movie Clip backwards in Flash 8

    I'm having a a hell of a time cracking this problem here. In an amazingly roundabout process, I am making animated 360 degree views of products for my employer's website. If you want to know the specifics, I'll tell you all about it, but in a nutshell I: Build a model in Solidworks, render a...
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    Suggestions for a very good 3D rendering machine

    Howdy, fellas! With the advent of 2 and 4-core CPUs, I am wondering: Would it be worth it to sell a kidney and go for a dual-quad-core (8 cores total) setup? I've been giving a lot of thought to spending some serious cash on a new system so that I don't have to wait 30+ hours for some of...
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    DVR on a PC

    I've been thinking about getting DVR from my local Time Warner cable company here, but a couple days ago I read an article about using your PC to record/watch cable TV as opposed to old fashioned VHS and such. Plus, I think that there is a way to burn to DVD anything that you really want to...
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    Adding 3D graphics to a website

    I've been searching for a solution for this problem for a couple days now and can't seem to find one, so I thought I'd run it by you guys. I'm looking to make little 3D representations for products on a commercial website. I was looking for an open source (read: free) method to show & rotate...
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    Burning VCD or SVCD onto a DVD

    I know this one is sorta coming out of left field, but does anyone know if it's possible to use VCD or SVCD compression and burn it to a DVD? You could sure fit a lot of episodes onto a DVD as opposed to a CD. Nero has such a cool way of authoring VCD's and SVCD's, I was thinking it would be...
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    Flash 8 - controlling a movie clip's timeline separately from main timeline

    I've got a problem here that I've been trying to figure out for a while now, and it seems like it should be way easier than this. Here's what I've got: I'm trying to make a neato little flash swf with lots of buttons (_btn) that you can push and another little movie clip will show some...
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    Experience with D-Link tech support?

    Howdy, fellas! I was wondering if anyone has had any recent experience with D-Link's tech support. I had a real bad time last week trying to get a little help finding out why I couldn't get my computer to connect to my new router (strangely the wired stuff worked perfectly). I figured that...
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    Need some advice making navigation menu for website

    Howdy guys, I am in need of some more advice: I'm rebuilding a website for a company that I work for, and I'm having gone hell of a time digging up a nice, sharp-looking navigation menu. I've been looking through the goodies at Dynamic Drive and a couple other sites like it. My problem is...
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    Need PCI USB expansion card

    Howdy, guys. This is gonna sound funny at first, but go with me on this one: I ran out of USB plugs on my motherboard. The case I'm using actually has more USB plugs than the motherboard has jumper-looking-thingies. I thought for sure I could solve the problem by putting in a USB PCI...
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    Computer's DVD-RW drive won't play/read a DVD

    Howdy fellas! I've been getting the 2nd season of Nip/Tuck from Netflix, and this week I got to disc 6. That disc won't play in either of my computer DVD-RW drives (2 separate computers). I'm assuming this is due to some sort of ridiculous copy protection. I tried it over at my friend's...
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    Couple of questions about tough notebooks

    Does anyone have any experience with these really neato "tough" notebooks? I've been looking around at the ones that Panasonic has to offer, and they look pretty cool, but I'm wondering if any of you guys knows exactly how 'tough' they really are. I see videos of the Panasonic computers running...
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    Trying to make a home-grown disaster recovery DVD

    Howdy, fellas! I got a really cool problem for you today: So I've got this crusty old Gateway laptop from like 2000, it's a Solo 5300 with Windows Me on it (what a bummer). It took me quite a while to run the Gateway recovery discs on it to wipe and reinstall the OEM OS and drivers. So I...
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    Quick survey: What's your fav FTP program?

    There is a BUTTLOAD of FTP utilities out there, and I realize that this is just about the most basic thing in the world, but does anyone know of a certain one that stands out? I'm still using WS FTP 6, and thinking of trying something new. Maybe even someting real risque from Sourceforge or...
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    Horrible trouble with recovering a new Gateway GT4010

    This is just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. So, it seems that new computers don't really ship with recovery CD's anymore, the recovery data is kept on a little partition on the hard drive. That's cool, I guess. No CD to lose, and everything. But now I have a really nasty...
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    Dell LCD flat panel monitors

    It always seems like Dell has great deals of LCD flat panels, and judging from how they make (read: rebrand) other peripherals like keyboards and cases, you would think that the monitors are equally as good. What do you guys think about 'em? Is there like a Samsung or other brand that is the...
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    Looking for suggestions for a new PCI video card

    I've got me a real hot Dell Dimension 3000, but it seems to have no AGP or PCI-E slots. I'm going to have to open this puppy up next chance I get and make abso-fruitly sure that it actually is slot-less, since this doesn't make any sense at all (somehow it made sense to the good peoples at...
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    Strange problem limiting internet/network access

    This is a really strange problem and I can't seem to get anywhere with it, maybe someone has seen something like it: Yesterday just before I was about to leave work, I installed a copy of WS_FTP 2007 and then turned the computer off and left before I restarted and put in the authorization...
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    Locked out, can't connect USB keyboard or mouse

    This is easily the stupidest problem I've ever seen. If anyone has a work-around for me, I'm in a bit of an emergency situation. I'm at work, a new Dell showed up, so I configured it, unplugged it and put it into its new home in another office. When I turned it back on, (probably a mistake)...
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    Upgrading the CD drive on a Gateway Laptop

    Howdy, fellas! I don't do a lot of work on laptops, so I need a little advice: I'm trying to put a new CD drive into an old Gateway Solo 1450, and from what I'm seeing, it says that it is not upgrade-able. Nothing here indicates that it can be switched out for a new one, but aren't these...
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    Looking for storefront and e-commerce solutions

    Howdy guys! A couple of my friends are starting up a little business, and I told 'em I'd help them out with their internet stuff to keep their startup costs down (we're all poor college kids). I've got the webhosting all set, and now I'm looking for ecommerce/storefront/shopping cart code to...
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    Quick question about DNS registration

    I've got a real quick one for you fellas: If I were to register a domain name with someone like godaddy.com or something, have them map my domain name to a host somewhere, how hard is it to get them to map it to another host if I don't like the host I'm about to try? Thanks guys! :beer:
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    Trouble customizing toolbars in Word 2002

    I've got a really weird problem this morning. I'm working off of a pretty fresh (~1 week old) install of XP Pro, and I'm having trouble getting customizations (new buttons) on the toolbars to stay. Strangely, toolbars stay wherever I physically put them, but I can't get new buttons to stay...
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    Mouse trouble with Mandrake 10.1 and a USB Logitech Optical

    I've got a really weird mouse problem with Mandrake 10.1. Every time I restart I have to go into the configuration with my keyboard only and select my mouse. I select the auto USB mouse that is already selected, the mouse comes to life, and tests ok. I can log out and in again and the mouse...
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    Got whacked with a virus, need some advice

    Welp. . . I gone and done it. I just nuked my computer like last week, and had a fresh copy of XP Pro SP2 running like a champ, and the I got nailed with a nasty virus or 2. I can't seem to flush it out even with a 100% updated Norton Antivirus 2005. It is a REAL pain in the tuchas. I've...
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    Looking for ways to display an RSS feed on a website

    Howdy, fellas! I've been trying to figure out how to display an RSS feed from Netflix on my website, and although it is supposedly really easy, I'm having one hell of a time. I'd love to use some sort of fancy javascript, or something that looks really sharp and doesn't take up a whole lot...
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    Looking for another "What's Playing" plugin for Winamp

    What's up, guys! I'm searching around for another plugin like What's Playing 1.4 that will post what you're currently listening to as an HTML document. I really liked this plugin, but it hasen't been updated since like 2003, and I don't think it works with Winamp 5. I've seen other stuff...
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    MS Word XP flashing in taskbar and opening document slowly

    I'm having a really odd problem with MS Word. I have one document that causes Word to flash in the taskbar for a couple of minutes before it opens, and since that started happening, when I go to print any document, it does the same thing, UNLESS I print by pressing the print button in the...
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    Looking for some good architecture software

    Does anyone here know where I can dig up some good architecture software? I've seen some pretty neat stuff at the Cheif Architect and Punch! websites, but I'm wondering if there's anything else out there that maybe the real pros use. Has anyone seen anything like that? Thanks for reading...
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    How do you make a Mac CD from a PC?

    Does anyone know off of the top of their head how to go about burning a CD for a Macintosh from a PC using a Mac .bin disc image? Is it even possible? Thanks for your time! :beer:
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    Curious about streaming MP3's

    So my friends are always bugging me for new music 'cause I've got a lot of relatively obscure stuff, and I got to thinking maybe I could just stream them from the webserver (Apache) in my apartment. I've looked into Shoutcast, Icecast and some stuff at MP3toolbox. Before I go barking up the...
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    Anyone know where I can pick up a nice Dell keyboard?

    Do any of you fellas know where I can pick up one of those nice black Dell keyboards? I picked this one up at a computer show like 2 or 3 years ago and it's getting kind of worn out (hee hee hee, especially the wasd keys). I looked around the Dell website, and they have 'em, but I'm...
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    Trying to use a linksys router as a switch

    Howdy fellas, I'm trying to find a way to get this to work: I have a spare router since I replaced it with a wireless. I don't have any wireless devices, but all my roommates do, so I just run wires into my room still, but I'm wondering if I could get away with only running one patch cable...