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    Searching for an image! This is driving me nuts

    I distinctly remember a picture being passed around the interwebs of a guy holding an XP build 2600 CD out in his hand, in front of the official release countdown clock at Microsoft. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I have been unable to find this in like 10 minutes of searching and...
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    charging canon powershot via usb?

    I just made the plunge for a new SD850 IS, and I was wondering.... The included battery charger is nice and all, but it would be really fantastic if I could charge it through the included mini-usb cable. Then, when I travel, the only power adapter I would need is for my computer and I could use...
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    recommendations for server class hardware

    Hi all, I'm sysadmin for a small not-for-profit with about 10 employees +2 sysadmins (we're part time). We will soon have the opportunity to purchase new hardware with a 1-time budget, so I'd like to do things right. Currently all of our services and servers are a hodgepodge and provided by...
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    Finding the bad component

    I've got a whole bunch of newish dells deployed in an enterprise environment. They're P4-HT's with 2x512 ram, running XP Pro. Lately, several of them have started having random reboots or bluescreens. In the process of trying to figure out what's wrong, I've done the following: memtest86...
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    Professional Hard Drive Recovery

    Hi All, I have a laptop hard drive (80gb, Hitachi - I think) which is dead. It doesn't spin up, though I do hear the motor begin to engage when the system powers on. I have no reason to believe that the drive has incurred any physical damage (outside of the obvious) -- ie. I believe that...
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    recommend good ftp sync software?

    So I'd really like to get myself up and running with an offsite backup (small NFP), but I haven't found any good software to do so. I imagine that there's go to be something out there (windows based) that can do this, but I haven't found anything yet. I would like it to connect via FTP or...
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    problem getting rid of partition magic popup

    I used an (apparently) older version of partition magic to try and resize a system partition and add another after it. The operation failed, computer rebooted, and everything was fine. I managed to get the change done with a usb-stick of gparted. However, now I have a problem that everytime...
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    windows file copy question

    Hi all, Is there a way that anyone knows of to copy a file and preserve the original file creation date? I'm getting a new computer today, and I'd like to copy over all of my documents w/o losing all this information. Many times it is useful to sort files by creation date, and if I copy the...
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    pick the best laptop!

    So what's the best laptop out there? What would you get? 2 responses: 1) unlimited budget 2) ~2k range.
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    time to upgrade?

    Hi all, I hate to be the newbie of the group, so I've done my best to at least get the background info, if not answer my own questions. I'm currently running a 2.53Ghz Celeron-D 325 (Prescott 775 LGA 90nm 16/256 L1/L2) on the stock motherboard that came with my Dell SC420 server. I've got...
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    isolate wireless for corp environment

    I'm looking to set up a wireless network for my company with some very specific requirements, and I'm not sure how to go about doing it. I have 1 windows and 1 blank (linux, freebsd, whatever) computer to work with. Please advise. requirements: *Seamless (or at least painless) transition...
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    How the hell can people say Israel is a terrorist?

    Take a look at this (nytimes.com) article. The caption under the picture at the top shows a crater where a house used to be, and reads: The army called to warn them to get out! Who does that?! I just dont' understand how people can be all hatin' on Israel when they're clearly not in it to...
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    broken phone! what do i do?

    So I have a cingular (HTC) 2125, which I've been very happy with. However, last night I took it out of my pocket, where I always keep it, and discovered that one of the internal layers to the screen was cracked. The whole display is useless now, and while the phone still works, I obviously...
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    looking for photo editing software

    Hey everyone, not sure which forum this should go into... I'm looking for some photo editing software that can help me merge two pictures. Specifically, I want to merge two faces and find what you might call the "halfway" between them. I feel like there has got to be something out there...
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    quick help in excel

    I've got a column of dates that are formatted as such: '03/15/1988' '03/17/1988' '04/02/1992' .....etc I'd like to sort them by date. If I can remote the apostrophe on each end, then it shoudln't be a problem. I feel like there really ought to be an easy to way to apply expressions to...
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    need new credit card

    I'm looking for a new credit card. Probably one with cashback. I have citibank atm, and kind of like it. Suggestions?
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    which of these is a good webhost?

    I'm looking at a couple of webhosts. (hosting service) I need lots space (for backups) and lots of bandwidth (ditto). I'm looking at dreamhost, 1and1 and godaddy. All at the $15 or $20/mo plan. thoughts? Right now i'm leaning towards 1and1
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    free public ssh server

    Hey guys, Sorry in advance if this is posted somewhere -- I did a quick search and didn't see anything. I'm looking for a free, public ssh server out on the net somewhere. I remember seeing a list of them once, but googling seems to list only results for installing OpenSSH or FreeSSH or...
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    windows file sharing

    I have a folder on one computer that I need to be shared, accessible by all. When I share it using simple file sharing, all computer on the network can access it just fine. However, I'd like the ability to fine tune my controls a little bit. Using advanced file sharing, I can't figure out a...
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    logon message in XP Pro

    Hey, I'm setting up a computer for public consumption at my workplace. I've got it locked down pretty good, but I'd like to put in a Legal message type of popup when a user logs on. I figured out how to do this, but the caveat is that when the machine boots up, it also pops up the...
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    online access to wall street journal?

    so uhhh I'm in this econ class that we were supposed to order the WSJ as part of it, and they gave us this form at the start of class to fill out and get a subscription for free. Well, obviously, I forgot to do it. Now that I'm writing the term paper, I should probably have that. Anyway...
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    dead laptop?

    So I have this POS compaq presario laptop. 80gb 5400 drive, which has already been replaced by compaq once. I'm sitting working on it 5 minutes ago, and *snap*, bluescreen and an immediate reboot. Starts coming back up and I get . I seem to recall that this is indictive of a bad hard...
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    all sorts of Linux questions

    UPDATE: I plan to use this thread as sort of a troubleshooting area for my own (and anyone else's) general linux woes. It should be seen as a idea board of sorts, and while I'd love any help you can offer, many times I'll probably also figure it out on my own. I hope this doesn't conflict...
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    ms access database corrupted, i think

    I have this problem with access, and I can't think of anything that might cause this problem, much less know what to do about it. I have a list of donors for our NP organization in a table, with, among other information, ID and Donor ID as two different colomns. As expected, Donor ID is...
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    can you help with my math homework?

    I could use some serious help with this. Anybody want to step up? O:-)
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    advanced iptables shiznit

    I'm kind of new to iptables, andw hile I gather that it is very powerful, I'm not sure of how to use all the features. Would someone please let me know if this is feasable? Or am I better off just using a captive portal solution (which one?!) Have an iptables rule that checks an outgoing...
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    MS Batch Scripting help?

    hey there so I have my own vpn server set up, and I'd like to have my computer automatically connect. I'm in a weird situation where the connection that the server is on dies every so often. When this happens, the client does NOT reconnect automatically, but the window is clsoed. I'd like...
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    Server 2k3 versus xp pro

    Hey there. I have access to a free (legit) copy of server 2003, which I'm considering running on my desktop (I also have a laptop). I'm kind of considering running my own exchange server (would be hosted on residential cable modem -- is that ok?), and like the idea of having multiple TS...
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    coolest phone ever!

    well, this is the first chance I've really had to play with my phone for internet access, but now that I've got a nice 3hr drive to play with, I've managed to connect my laptop to the internet using my phone! (cingular 2125/HTC Faraday) SO COOL! I'm writing this from the car right now! (not...
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    Captive portal for public hotspot

    does anyone have any experience with NoCatAuth? or any other portal for that matter? I'd like to set something up so that new users to our wireless network get a splash screen asking for their name and email before allowing them to surf. No need to authenticate. Anybody have experience...
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    dynamic iptables by hostname -- Possible?

    Hey there. I'm somewhat new to the whole iptables thing (and linux), so bear with me. I've got a router running dd-wrt custom firmware, which is a minidistro of linux. I'd like to forward a port from external to my server. When I use the built in GUI interface and add the forward, it...
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    how to deal with bruteforcing

    I'm the net admin for a small organization in town (it's a part time job), and I was going through the logs to find a bunch of ssh brute force attempts (pretty normal). However, I noticed over 1000 of them from a particular .edu host. I figure that this is something that their network admin...
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    data plan for my cellphone?

    I just bought a cingular 2125 smartphone -- they're trying to sell me on the unlimited data plan for $20/mo. What do you think? I'm a student, so I'm not sure how useful it would be except for IM'ing or something.... thoughts?
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    problems with seagate hard drives? *UPDATE* which to get?

    I was reading on FW about how some seagate 7200.8's are known to have a lot of problems... do you guys know if there's any credence to this claim? As far as I know, seagate is a very good manufactuer, and offer 5yr warranty. I'm looking at the 300gb pata100 7200, 16mb cache (ST3300631A-RK)...
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    Hard drive surgery

    So my hard drive started spewing smoke the other day... And while there's nothing "mission critical" on there -- there's a bunch of stuff I'd like to save. So I'm hoping to attempt this [hackaday.com] recovery on it. ...Am I crazy? Anyone have some suggestions? Feel free to run the gambit...
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    exchange server 2003

    Does anyone know if its possible to run exchange server 2003 on a personal computer (ie. xp pro)? It's available to me for free, and I'd like the convinience that goes with outlook web access and things like that (btw -- will that run allright over a cablemodem?), but was under the impression...
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    best way to convert money?

    I know the best way to convert money used to be just using a credit card/atm, but may credit cards (and both of mine) are now instituting a percentage based fee for overseas transactions... so I don't know if that's the best idea anymore. Anybody know?
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    sync software

    I have a laptop and a desktop that I'd like to keep synced up (at least a couple of folders anyway). There's tons of software out there, but I'd prefer to avoid a trial and error kind of thing if I can. Can anyone suggest some good software? thanks!
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    searching for file in linux

    ok, here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to recursively search every file in a directory for a specific phrase /within/ the file. What I've got: cat `find .` | grep "phrase" but then I don't know what file it's in. ideas?
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    Mouse moves only left and right, not up and down

    I have this targus mini wireless optical guy for my laptop. I haven't used it in a few months, but I went and plugged it in today to find that it doesn't move up and down, no matter how I move the mouse. It just goes from left to right on the screen. I've never heard of anything like this...