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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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    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?

    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..

    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?

    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?

    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?

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    PC Power up problem. Got Workaround, but need fix...

    Here is the problem. I press the power button, nothing happens. No fans, nothing but silence. But, if I disconnect the ATX power cable to the motherboard and reconnect it, the PC now fires up with no problem. Well, until I shut it down again where I have to reconnect the ATX cable. It used to be...
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    $99USD 8-port managed switch?

    I remember reading a review somewhere on an 8-port managed switch that would only drain the pocketboot for just $99USD. Does anyone remember where that article is and what was the manufacturer and model number of that switch? For that price, it would make for a nice new toy around the house.