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    Netscreen site-to-site VPN, passing traffic, sort of....

    I've got an issue with a site to site vpn between a few netscreens. Imagine a corporate site with a few branches. At the corporate site, there is a Netscreen 50, with site to site VPN's to all the branches who also have netscreens. Every branch is nearly set up identical, but for some...
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    Confused about later PCI standards

    I need to build a server for a client. But, lately, I've been slacking on learning the later standards of PCI. Basically, I need to build a linux system for an email server. I plan on using the following two main components, a barebones server and a 3ware RAID controller. Here are the newegg...
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    List operating system in Windows 2000 Active Directory

    One of the strangest things about using Active Directory Users and Computers in a windows 2000 enviroment is the inability to list the operating system in a column and then export that list to a .csv file for editing. Does anyone know of an easy (or hard, I guess) way of listing the...
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    volume license antivirus software

    ClamWin would not work for a school in my opinion due to the lack of an active scanner, provided that the computers in the school run windows. I'm currently going through the same process for a car dealership, with about 80 PCs. I've recieved a quote from Kaspersky, running much less...
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    BSOD (MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION) + weird gray "progress meter" on reboot = Disk Read Error

    I hate to be the one to break this to you, but from my experience, your hard drive is failing miserably. I think you already know this, but looking for confirmation. MarkR has a good tip that I have also heard as well, which is to freeze the drive overnight in a freezer (being careful not to...
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    Changing corporate antivirus. What is better, smaller than Symantec?

    Thanks. I've contacted the Kaspersky sales team for a quote. Two servers, 75 workstations.
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    Changing corporate antivirus. What is better, smaller than Symantec?

    For years we've used Symantec Corporate AV, and while its not a bad AV product, it does seem to tax the system resources a little bit more than we would like to see. It is also a tad pricey, at around $2300 a year for the 70 PCs on a network I service. What is a good, cost effective...
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    Fake-Raid SATA controllers. How reliable in case of HD failure?

    Well, my coworker and I went with this off-the-shelf adaptec, 1240 is the number stuck in my head. I know it wont be as fast, but hopefully as reliable as the 3ware controllers I've been used to in the past. Hopefully, knock on wood, nothing will happen to the new hard drives in the system...
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    Fake-Raid SATA controllers. How reliable in case of HD failure?

    I am considering using a SATA controller, such as a SIIG SATA RAID controller for a server that we need to rebuild in a hurry. Normally, I'd order a 3ware raid controller, since this RAID controller is a true hardware based RAID controller. But, in today's case, I don't have the time to wait to...
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    Slow and agonizing death of a Barton..

    Many times, actually. Its currently running at 40' and holding steady at 2000@200fsb. So, this whole time, it turns out to be my power supply as the culprit. The old one was an Antec TruePower 2.0, and its been replaced by some cheapo AGI 400w unit. Its heavy. I really don't know the quality...
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    Slow and agonizing death of a Barton..

    Well, I've had a breakthrough. The new CPU came in the mail, an AQYHA, and this performed no better. I tried to push this as well, and would up the voltage to 1.725. Using the AbitEQ software supplied with my board, I'd monitor the actual cpu voltage readings. While the CPU voltage itself was...
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    Slow and agonizing death of a Barton..

    Keeleysam, I've tried to clean off the cpu and reapply thermal grease. No luck. BoboKatt, It doesn't boot windows. If it did, it would lock up windows. Lock up even while I'm configuring the BIOS. I've tried upping to voltage from 1.625 all the way to 1.725. No luck Sandorski, I hope it...
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    Slow and agonizing death of a Barton..

    A few years ago, I bought a Mobile Athlon 2500, and overclocked the heck out of it to 2300@@200FSB. And life was good. And, after time, I could no longer keep it at that rate and had to throttle it back to 2200@166FSB. And life was still good. About a week ago, even 2000 was hardly...
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    Open Source daycare/childcare software? Any?

    I've been trying to find an open sourced solution for an afterschool child care center for one of our Catholic School clients. While there are plenty of closed source solutions, there doesn't seem to be anything OSS directly for a day care center. If anyone knows of a program that can do...
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    whole office load of MS Wireless Keyboards/Mice. Problems...

    One of our clients decided to purchase about 20 Microsoft Wireless Keyboard/Mice combos, and placed all of them in two large adjecent room. And, you can guess what problems came about. Yep, yer' right. At times, one person will move his mouse, and elsewhere in the office, another person is...
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    ATI All-in-Wonder Rage 128, what cables needed to TV?

    Dude, you are a LIFESAVER!!! Thanks a million for your quick and accurate reply!! -Tim Bazz
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    ATI All-in-Wonder Rage 128, what cables needed to TV?

    Ran into an issue at work the other day. One of our machines uses a Rage 128 All-in-Wonder video card. One of the managers wants to hook that card up to a TV. Now, this PC has been moved, been stored in a closet, reassigned, over and over again. So, the original cabling that came with this...
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    Need a decent, fast flatbed scanner, what's good?

    Thanks for the replies. Under pressure from management to get this ordered immediately, I decided to go with a Xerox 510 Documate http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=549975 The resolution needed to enough to handle text invoices, and speed was a big concern, and they...
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    Need a decent, fast flatbed scanner, what's good?

    For our company, we are looking for a good, fast flatbed scanner. Being the PC guy for the company, the responsibility fell on me. On any given day, if you were to ask me about video cards, CPU's, or operating systems, I can spout off facts left and right. But, I was asked today to pick and buy...
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    Taking apart a USB external hard drive, convert to internal?

    Thanks, I think you have provided that answer I needed.
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    Taking apart a USB external hard drive, convert to internal?

    Attached to a server at a client site, there is an external USB 120gig hard drive. The the hard drive USB 2.0, with a USB 2.0 card in the server itself. Yet, the backups are taking too long writing to the drive. The server is an HP Proliant, and has an ATA controller in addition to the SCSI...
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    Dell optiplex, DMA on=slow, DMA off=fast? Huh?

    Well, here is a problem I have never encountered before. It pertains to a Dell PC at a car dealership. The problem dates back for a bit now. When win98 was on it, and you had the Intel Controller drivers loaded, the PC ran really slow. By taking the drivers off and loading generic controller...
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    Power Supply. Voltage Settings, Windbonds Hardware Doctor

    Lately, I have been having a tad bit of trouble of the CPU locking up while overclocking it. It is a Tbird 1700 running at a true 2200. It ran fine for the longest at that speed, and during the winter, it was stable at 2300. It seem fine running games at 2200. But, if I leave the system on all...
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    Crucial Ram part# CT3264Z265.16T. What does the 16T mean?

    This was a message posted in a sim racing forum that had me stumped for an answer: "Wanting to upgrade and get more ram--right now have 256mb of Crucial brand RAM(PC2100) purchased from newegg. Went back to newegg only to find that now they list 3 different types of the Crucial 2100--4t,8t, and...
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    Comp is lagging, need help!

    Sounds like a problem I had with a few PCs running Nortons AV. The PCs would just slow to a crawl, mouse moving incredibly, and basically impossible to use for about 30 seconds. I removed AV and everything was fine. Try to uninstall AVG and see if the problem still exists.
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    ME doesn't want to be reformatted...

    Go to www.bootdisk.com and download the 95b bootdisk. Run the utility with a floppy in the drive, then reboot. After it reboots and you are at a DOS prompt, type format c: /u and wait forever for the format to finish.
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    Active Directory and DNS on child, other domain contollers

    Thanks Stash, You cleared up some questions that I had!!
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    Active Directory and DNS on child, other domain contollers

    Once you have your first domain contoller in the forest setup, ensuring that the NIC's DNS points to itself, AD integrated zones match the AD name, and the svc directories are in DNS, what do you do for the other domain controllers in the same containter for the first forest domain contoller. Do...
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    linux suggestions

    Red Hat is easy to configure and learn. Lycoris is much easier for those who are used to Windows XP. There are probably easier distrobutions out there.
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    qmail RBLCHECK, adding lists... How do I add to existing service

    Since I am not the most knowledgeable linux guru, I have a question about setting up RBL lists with our qmail server. We get enough spam as it is, and with the most recent lawsuit noted in news.com about some lady suing her employer after receiving porn spam, I have taken it upon myself to...
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    What are the advantages of this network setup ->

    The best reason is because peer to peer authentication is pure hell. Trying to create local account for every single share, printer or file, plain outright sux. Any central authentication server makes this much easier, whether it be a windows 2k/NT4.0, or a Samba v2.2 or newer PDC, make file...
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    Oh no!! My system just went down and it's not coming back up!!

    The power supply is a RAIDMAX 400W with an external fan that cools it off. The PC does power up, and the PSU still keeps my water cooling system flowing. The BIOS does try to check all of the components like the CD-Rom, DVD player. It just keeps saying that the memory is bad or not inserted (the...
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    Oh no!! My system just went down and it's not coming back up!!

    Using an althlon XP-1700 @ 1875mhz, leadteck 7350 KDA mobo, and 512 sticks of Kingston Valu-Ram... ...my computer with the leadtek board just had the screen go black, and the system attempt to reboot itself for no appearent reason. It never came back up so I tried to cold boot it. Now, it just...
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    Scsi and CD Array. Not experienced enough to figure it out....

    Using an adaptec AH2940 (I think) scsi controller and a seperate box/tower that holds 5 CD-Rom drives, I am getting some weird errors while trying to read the CDs. Each CD drive has a green LED and an amber LED on them. After a reboot of the CD tower and the server, the two drives with CD's...
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    What broadband router do you have at home?

    BEFSR11, the one port version that I dont this is made anymore.
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    Suggestions for network/server based Antivirus Software

    Nortons CE for our clients. Best thing that we've used so far.
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    Routing failures using 2 NICs and w2k srv

    Pulling my hair out because I thought this would be easy. Boy was I wrong. Here goes my setup: Installed 2 NICs, both with IPs setup properly Went into the registry in enabled Ip Forwarding, and a ipconfig /all reports Ip forwarding as yes. NIC #1: IP 10.176.251.50 SM: 255.255.255.0 GW...
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    Help my comp won't bootup.

    My daughters PC has the some problem from time to time. I just take out the CPU and stick it back in and it works after that. She kicks it playing Clifford and Jump Start games, and somehow gets the flimsy slot 1 celeron loose.
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    boot up problem!

    Not too sure, but it might be the power supply. Just taking a guess really based off of a problem I had a few years back with an AMD K6 200 system.