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    Ghost with USB NIC?

    Does anyone know if it's possible to dump a Ghost image to a machine with a USB NIC? I hate having to install a common NIC into new PCs just to image them.
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    Best bang for your buck

    I'm building a christmas present for my bro, and I was wondering what video card will give the best performance per dollar in the 125-175 price range. I haven't been following cards lately since i bought my last pc, so I'm a little behind. THanks alot
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    Configure a laptop as a WLAN AP?

    Has anyone been able to successfully configure a Windows XP machine as a wireless access point? I assume this can be done by sharing the wireless connection, but I enabled it and don't know what to do after that. I have seen a program available for this called Seque, I believe, but they don't...
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    Syncronizing 2 netscape calendar server

    Here's the problem. Our company uses netscape calendar. Unfortunately, we are an international company, and the calendar server is in Luxembourg in Europe. Because of this, the calendar system is terribly slow, almost to the point where it is unusable.
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    Need help writing a bash script

    Hello, I'm trying to write a script that will check the modification date of a directory, and if the directory hasn't been modified in 5 days or more it will send and email to a specific address. I'm kinda new to Linux and I'm not doing too well at scripting. Any help would be greatly...
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    Quality DVD-R Media?

    Hello, I was wondering what everyone reccommends for backing up DVD's to DVD-Rs. I was wondering because the first brand I used, KHypermedia(cheapo that was on sale), gave me trouble. It would write just fine, but during playback it would skip the entire time. I was told that Fujifilm is a...
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    Best bang for your buck

    I was just looking for everyone's opinion on which card will give me the best bang for the buck. I am building a new system, but in my current system I'm using a GF3. I stopped following the video card market after I bough my GF3 for 500 the week it came out. The new system will be running an...
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    run a batch script minimized / invisible?

    Is it possible to run a batch script minimized or invisible. If so, how?
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    Is it possible to delay a startup program until network is up?

    I am trying to have a program run at startup from the Starup folder. The problem is that the file is on a server on the LAN, and windows is attempting to launch the program right at startup, before the network has initialized. Because of this it gives an error that the file cannot be accessed...
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    Ghost trouble

    I have an image i created on a compaq evo desktop. It's a rather general image containing basically an installation of Win2k, office programs, and corporate settings. I deployed the image to a IBM thinkpad laptop and had no trouble during the dump, but when I attempted to boot it, it seemed to...
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    Switching to 10 Mbps in windows 2000

    Does anyone know of a way to manually switch a NIC to 10 Mbps in Win2K. Generally I just switched that machine to a 10 Mbps switch, but the one we had died. Any ideas?
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    Network Software Audit (FREE?)

    I'm looking for either a free network software audit utility, or I would like to know if there is a file, or place in the registry that stores records of installed software. Nothing extremely in-depth. I have experimented with the demo's of many of the commercial programs, and they basically...
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    Trouble with email privacy in a multi-user Netscape environment...

    Ok here's the scoop. Here at the office I am setting up a shared system. The original problem I had encountered was that all of the users who had profiles residing on that machine could view each others IMAP messages. The problem here was protecting the actual profile with a password so a...
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    Changing IRQs with K7T Turbo

    I am trying to change the IRQs so I can play everquest. The problems im having are that my sound and my NIC are on the same IRQ and when i try to change them through the Device manager, it tells me "This resource setting can not be modified. I went into my BIOS and turned off the automatic IRQ...
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    Last day of IT...suggestions for awards?

    Today is my last day of IT work here at the company im with now. I am sending out an email before I leave to give everyone my home email address, and I was thinking of including awards in it. Things such as "Cleanest desktop", "Most cluutered desktop", "most wasted...
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    Question about an office prank...

    Tomarrow at work we are planning to play a prank on the secratary using sound clips of arnold schwarzenegger's voice. We are going to make the call using dialpad.com, but the problem is i do not know how to get it to pick up the output of the sounds, being when i click the sound file, i dont...
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    Finding out when a PC was setup (date)

    I was here at work and I'm putting together a spreadsheet with specs on all of the machines. The problem is that the president wants to know the date they started being used (put into service) but I personally dont know od any way to detect when a computer was first used. Any and all help is...
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    Vampire:The Masquerade Redemption corrupt WONDLL.DLL

    Can anyone ICQ me this file? It keeps currupting off the cd. i copied it from the demo and got the game to run but if i goto multiplayer and then internet in the game it just takes me outta the game. I would greatly appreciate this considering the 50$ i just payed for this :-( .
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    Linux Clock + Netscape Font size

    I finally got Linux working and I'm very excited. I would like to know how i can switch the clock in KDE to a 12 hour clock. Second I would like to know how I can make font bigger in netscape. I went to the fonts in prefrences and picked 14 for both values. Now most stuff is bigger but the...
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    Linux problems

    Im a first timer and im running Makdrake 8. I was using the KDE GUI and when i get in, as soon as i click on an icon, the system freezes. My linux swap partition is 100MB if that makes a difference. I dont know if this makes a difference but when i was installing it it selected GeForce 2, but i...
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    Hard drive errors

    I was trying to partition my hard drive for linux using partition magic and it told me it had reboot in DOS to apply some changes the boot back to windows. Well it did something, then booted back to windows. When i got to windows i checked and there were no new partitions. I checked in...
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    Linux Mandrake 8 CD Covers

    Does anyone know where i can find the cd covers, and/or cd label for Linux Mandrake 8? I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.
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    ATTENTION IT's: WIN2K NETWORK PRINTING

    Ok this is an odd one. In the office we had just upgraded all the boxes to win2k, and now we have a really odd problem. The printer we are using is a cutting plotter. For some odd reason, whenever anyone tries to print from their pc to that printer they have to be logged on to their pc and...
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    Please read...black screen.

    I have this problem in 3 games. In tony Hawk 2 the game starts up and all but then when I try to pick the level and hit play to start, the music runs but i get a black screen. I get the same thing at startup of unreal tournament and worms armageddon. Can anyone please help mee with this problem?
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    PROBLEM: I think DirectX. Please read...

    Im trying to run tony hawk's pro skater 2 but i only get a black screen. I dont know whats wrong. I think maybe its directX. Please help.
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    Formatting the HD of a laptop ( HP Omnibook 5700CTX )

    My grandmother just had recieved a used HP Omnibook 5700CTX laptop and is havin tons of trouble. I figured the best thing to do would be format the HD because it still had stuff left from the previous owner. Could someone please tell me how to go about formatting the HD on this thing, and then...
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    Cant get sound in anything but winamp

    For some odd reason suddenly I cant get sound in Q3 or AIM. These are the only programs i have tried so far. But when I run WinAmp to play my mp3s, The sound works fine. I tried running q3 with AIM in the backround and suprisngly when q3 was running I had no q3 sound but i could hear the AIM...
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    Odd framerate drop...

    I was running a AMD K6-2 500 MHz CPU with a DFI K6XV3+/66 mobo when i purchased my 700 MHz Duron and MSI K7T Pro. My video card is a Creative Labs GeForce DDR (32MB). I installed the CPU and mobo and then tested framerates in Q3. In normal mode(maybe res at 800 x 600...forgot to check) I got...
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    How can I overclock my 700 Duron with my MSI K7T Pro?

    I need loads of help. Never overclocked before. I heard they get up to 950. I have a 700 MHz Duron and a MSI K7T. I dont want to do the pencil trick because i dont really trust it. I heard that electricity running through graphite cause smoke often and can be unstable. Oh ya i have a...
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    Fonts and Photoshop

    I was wondering how i can use downloaded fonts in photoshop? can someone please help?
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    Does anyone know how to do this...

    I wanted to know how to hook my home stero system up to my PC. I know it can be done because I have seen it done at my friends house. I tried searching and cant figure out how to do it.
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    Does anyone know how to do this...

    I wanted to know how to hook my home stero system up to my PC. I know it can be done because I have seen it done at my friends house. I tried searching and cant figure out how to do it.
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    Does anyone know how to do this...

    I wanted to know how to hook my home stero system up to my PC. I know it can be done because I have seen it done at my friends house. I tried searching and cant figure out how to do it.
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    Does anyone know how to do this...

    I wanted to know how to hook my home stero system up to my PC. I know it can be done because I have seen it done at my friends house. I tried searching and cant figure out how to do it.
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    NEED HELP URGENTLY

    NOTE: NOTHING IN MY SYSTEM IS OVERCLOCKED I don't know what is going on here! My System keeps locking up spontanously. Yesterday it was fine all day until about 11:00 PM then it just locked up. I couldn't hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, ALT+F4, etc. The moouse cursor wouldn't even move. I rebooted after...