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    Malware that cannot be removed

    I am trying to help my uncle clean up a computer he has. Currently it will not boot into windows normally (it hangs when you click on a user). The machine can only boot up in safe mode. I have tried various boot discs and anti-virus programs. Everything from kaspersky, clamwin, mcaffee...
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    Inline coupler vs. punch down keystone jack. Differences?

    So I am moving into a new house and want to run cat6 to a couple of the room. I can run the cabling in the walls alongside the coax to the plates. So I started looking at monoprice to see what I should use for my jacks. Obviously for the punch downs i would need a punch down tool vs. the...
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    Hard drives not in windows but they are in bios

    I have an hp xw8200 I currently have a scsi drive as the primary drive and I have two ide drives attached to one of the ide channels. I pulled th jumper on both so they are seen as slaves. They are recognized in the bios and when i first started windowsi got a message in the bottom right...
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    Calling ATOT optometrists. How to figure pupilary distance

    So I am giving getting glasses online a try (just prescription sunglasses). I got all the other info from them. Sphere, Cylinder, Axis. But they didn't have the actual pupilary distance. All they had were the values OD-34 OS-32 OC Height 12 How do i get the value of my pupilary...
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    Should fillings hurt?

    Last week i just got my first dental fillings for a cavity. It's now a week later and i get dull - semi sharp pains whenever i chew on anything semi hard (like overcooked pizza crust). Is this normal or should i be calling the dentist asap?
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    SCSI drive runs fine in OS system locks up on testing

    Ok so i have a 15,000 rpm scsi drive in a work station. It boots into the OS fine and i can work fine for now. I just got this machine. I run the sisoft sandra file system burn in test on the drive and suddenly the drive makes a weird loud noise and the machine locks up. Is this a sign that...
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    Sub par performance on hp xw8200 what might be wrong?

    so i bought an hp xw8200 workstation dual intel xeon 3.4ghz cpu's, 4gb of ram and a 256mb nvidia quadro fx3400. I've installed windows xp 64bit edition with all updates and all drivers should be up to date. I try benchmarking it in 3dmark06 and i barely get 10fps. My score was 2166. 10fps...
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    1 program unable to access alias but can access server name

    Ok so far I have stumped half of my systems department with these one, so i thought i would pose it to the networking gurus here. Currently I have a piece of software which is capable of backing up client databases. When I am mapped to either the server name directly or it's ip the...
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    Can itunes point to 2 different places? or not import?

    SO currently my itunes basically imports everything into itunes and saves it on a local drive. I want to start leaving just music on the local drive and I want all my movies on an external drive but i still want all the movies to show in itunes for easy syncing with appletv. Is there a way to...
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    USB keyboard and mouse not recognized in bootloader

    So currently I have a usb wireless mouse/keyboard combo. It is recognized by the bios, inside of windows xp and inside of ubuntu but for some reason at the bootloader screen where i pick which os it is not recognized any way I can fix this?
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    Slow response times over internal network

    So my setup is currently a dir-655 router with gigabit cable to one desktop (with gigabit nic) and 802.11n to laptop. I have two external usb hard drives plugged into an nslu2 running the newest stock firmware. the nslu2 is only capable of 100mb. For some reason currently for any machine to...
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    old device can only use wep what can i do?

    So I have a small home network I like to keep pretty secure. My router and 95% of my hardware are capable of using wpa2, but I am still stuck with an old linksys adapter that is only capable of using wep. What would be best wireless security option be? Put the whole network on wpa2 and...
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    Access is denied to folder on external drive

    So I am trying to backup some data on a drive. The drive used to be a primary drive in a machine so I decided to hook it up externally to my desktop to backup some of the data. Only problem is I try to click on the user folder on the drive and it says access is denied. I know the username and...
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    Replacement fan for a switch

    I have a client that has a Nortel Baystack 24 port switch. One of the fans has died and I am looking around for a replacement for them. Where would I find a fan. I've tried google and ebay and no luck.
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    Loaned out money now person is back pedaling

    I'm looking for opinions and options. I loaned out a small sum of money to a semi close friend. He said he would pay me back 2 days after he got his check. 8 days later I have been on him to get me the money but i keep getting stories. Do i have any legal recourse to recoup my money in this...
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    Software solution for CPU identification?

    So i got an old desktop that I know is running an amd athlon xp cpu. I am unsure of what it is though. I have tried programs like cpu-z but basically the programs changes it's thought based upon what the clock and fsb is. So far i've gotten cpu-z to read it as an 1700, a 2000 and a 3000. I...
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    Vista backup software incompatible

    So i help out a small npo from time to time. Their current setup is that all the machines in the office (all xp home's) backup their my documents folders to one machine (xp home) at the end of each night. They recently received two new vista machines. They want to backup those folders as...
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    Wiring up an office. What is the standard?

    so a friend of the family works for an EXTREMELY tech unsavy small company. They are moving from one office to another and the new office is not wired up for network yet. SO first she asked if i could do it and i have never wired an office from scatch so i declined and told her to talk to a...
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    Security websites/forums that are updated daily?

    I have been getting into security and penetration testing as of late and was curious what websites are out there that are updated daily that deal with security or "white hat" hacking.
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    Need help trying to compare table field names in access

    So here is the setup I have two tables inside of an access database. What I want to do is create a command that somehow compares the field name in column 1 of table1 and field name in column 1 of table2. and so on and so forth for about 50 headers. Then spit out a box saying Mismatch if it is...
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    wireless chokes on streaming media

    my setup is 2 modded xbox's running xbmc connect to an ubuntu file server. They all connect into a d-link dir-655 router. File server has a gigabit nic, 1 xbox is hardwired and has no issues, the other xbox is wireless using a wet54g linksys wireless ethernet adapter. It absolutely chokes...
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    changing permissions on every file in a folder

    So i've copied about 2,000 files onto my ubuntu 8.04 machine from a windows machine but now whenever anybody on the network goes to access them they can see the file name but can't runs the files. I checked the permissions and the problem is permissions for group and others is none. I know I...
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    trouble with mounting and with ownership of 2nd drive

    I have a linux machine setup i've used as a media server for a while, I've just installed a new secondary drive for more storage space. I fired up gparted and partitioned the drive and set the format as ext3, but now every time i reboot i need to remount the volume for that secondary drive...
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    can cpu cause network bottleneck

    so for the past two years I have been on a university campus forced to use their network. I have had an old comp set up as a file/media server for myself (1.8ghz, 768mb ram). The network was limited to a 10mb hardwire speed. I am moving out next week and want to set my apartment up for...
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    Tax question

    I just got a letter from the irs last night. It's not an audit but they are questioning one line item on my 2006 tax return (yes 2006 not 2007). They are claiming they received nothing from any of my 3 school loan companies. Two of my loan interests are under $600 which is why they did not...
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    poor connection speeds to ubuntu ftp server

    So I have gproftpd 8.3.2. On the actual machine according to speakeasy speedtest I am getting 6274kbps download and 7009kbps upload. Yet when i connect to the server and download something the fastest I can get is 28kb/s. I am not the only user this is happening to. This just suddenly...
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    can you use expired contact solution?

    So i just started wearing contacts again today after about a year and a half of not wearing them. I went to grab my solution but i noticed there was an expiration date of 09/07. My question is is it really bad to use expired solution or does it just weaken with age?
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    are their any man-made diamond retaiers in Boston, Ma. or online?

    So I am looking around for diamond earrings for the g/f. I have seen that man-made diamonds typically max out at around .5ct but cost like 1/10 the price of real diamonds. That size is perfect for earrings. I was just curious if anyone knew of any retailers in Boston for man-made diamonds or...
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    Win Machine won't connect to printer on linux

    ok so i've shared my printer on my linux box. and it can be scene fine on the net i use the address http://<hostname>:631/printers/HL-2070N_series replace <hostname> with the name of my linux box. Yet when i try to add the printer on a win machine it just keeps saying it can't see the...
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    Going to see an allergist

    Ok so quick back story. I've had pollen allergies since i was 12 but usually a sudafed or two per day and I'm golden fast forward this year is the worst i've ever been i've tried every type of allergy med i could think of (afrin sprays, zyrtec-d and claritin-d, countless sinus and allergy meds...
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    do people not get fired in corporate environments?

    I have been working for a very large corporation for over 2 years now and the strangest thing I have seen is people never get fired. I have yet to see a single firing. I see people transfer within the company. I have seen people get jobs at other companies. I have seen manager's make...
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    Is this a craigslist scam?

    I put an old laptop up on craiglist w/ no hard drive so far today I've gotten like 5 e-mails from people either saying "what's your phone number" or "call me" and then some area code not from my area. Obviously these are all scammers but I am just curious what would they do with a phone...
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    Does video quality hurt iphone battery life?

    I couldn't find a clear answer so i just wanted to throw this out there. Does the quality of the video you play affect your iphone battery life? Like if you encoded a video at high levels vs. low levels.
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    ftp server keeps getting new ip is there a way to keep constant with name?

    So I have a laptop that is wireless that i set up as a small ftp server for me and my friends. Problem is it will occasionally drop wireless signal and when it reconnects the school will push down a new ip. A couple problems is it has to be wireless because there is only one ethernet jack...
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    How do you set restrictions on a networked printer?

    I have a brother hl-2070n networked laser printer. I am on a campus so i can't have any networking devices in my apartment. We only have 1 jack which i use for the printer and all our other devices and computers are wireless. We have a mac and a pc. The mac just automatically sees the...
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    Wireless Laptop can't see Wired Desktops off switch.

    Sorry for all the questions today but I am just stumped. Here is the setup. A linksys wireless router to a 16 port switch. 4 desktops are set up off the switch as a workgroup and can see each other fine. The wireless laptop connects directly wirelessly to the router. The laptop can't see...
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    av possibly blocking network share

    So I am trying to help out someone. I need to get them access to a shared folder on a workgroup but the norton av on that computer is somehow blocking the connection to the folder (i can connect fine through safemode just not in windows). How can i set norton to allow this connection.
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    How the F do i close norton protection center

    I am trying to close norton protection center because it is messing with a network share but I cannot find an option to just close the damn program. It won't even let me ctrl alt dlte and end the process. I know it is halting the network share so i need to either close the program or figure...
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    what kind of power supply is this?

    There are enclosures out there that are made to run just 4 hard drives and that's it. I wanted to know what the actual name for that kind of power supply is and where could I find a relatively cheap one meant for old ide drives. The power supply wouldn't need a mobo to be able to power on...
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    Linksys nslu2 opinions. also would this setup work?

    So I have two terabyte usb hard drives I use for digital media backups. I have a modded xbox running with xbox media center on it. How would the Linksys nslu2 work for streaming media. Most like I will just be using a 10/100 switch since that is the max capability of the xbox. This is in an...