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    Helllp!

    I'm a level 1 tech at a company that hosts it services for small businesses. The CEO asked me personally to research video conferencing services that we can market to our clients. I've done a little web surfing, but I know that yall may have some experiance in video conferencing. So, I'm...
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    Somethin up with the world today?

    Coincidence? Call Volume quadrupled, only a few of the issues networking problems and i couldn't find a correlation.... Computers randomly getting disjoined from domain...Printers printing out garbage text, users being unusually stupid.... well the last one is normal, but anybody else...
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    RAID Help

    hey Guys, I have a 2 raid mirror setup with seagate SCSI drives where I gotta rip one out to do data recovery on it. I was wondering whether i need to have another seagate 300 drive... I've got a maxtor SCSI 300GB, but I'm not sure whether its good to replace the drive, being that their diff...
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    For those of you that work at a "help desk"

    How many e-mails/tickets do you generally process a day and how many people do you support. For me, in a University of 17k students, faculty, and staff members working 20 hours a week I've alone, sent 320 e-mails and touched at least 400 tickets. JUST THIS YEAR. How are your stats?
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    List your favorite Hip hop/R&B/Trance songs you would want to hear in the club!

    I love hearing "Beware of the Boys" by Jay Z and Punjabi MC.
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    Sayyy Hellooo to my lilll Friiiend!!!

    Gotta love the movie, it's the best.
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    Hindu guy dating a Muslim Girl.

    I of course am the Hindu guy...born n raised in the US. She was born in India, but came here when she was young. But anyways, for discussion points, I know her parents are strict, but I don't know if they are conservative, she doesnt wear a hijab... I might put up a pic.
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    For all you techs out there!

    What type of tools do you carry in your onsite toolkit (if applicable) or in your work area. What's your favorite tool & why.
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    And

    OH yeah, and *(W@&$(*&(E& I'm 19 we live for a long ass time, so many fish in the sea....
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    So, I broke up with my girlfriend

    I'm 19, second year in college, she was 17, found me on friendster and started messaging me... We hit it off great, 2/3 months into the relationship (or a lot less) we were talkin to each other on the phone for 4-5 hours a day, she lived in austin, me in dallas. She went, I love you. I...
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    Im getting free electricity!

    Im living in college apartments, the previous 4 tenants of the apartment (4bedroom) obviousely had electricity, now we moved in, 4 new people (one of the old guys, not the one who had his name on electricity has his name on the lease) and we did a lease transfer. Anyways, to make the story...
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    How to stream music over network?!?

    I'm currently using itunes on my laptop and have tons of songs on it, and my computer is connected to my Z-5500 speakers, my roomate who's on my network also has a set of Z-5500's in his room. What im trying to do is find a way to get itunes to broadcast whatever audio it is currently...
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    Rent Music. Can it happen?

    Do you think it would be possible to start a music rental service with the same premise as Netflix? Are there already laws against "renting" music. I personally know that if a service like this started up I would use it. They could pay something to the artist, every time a cd' changed...
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    Use Unbuffered memory instead of Registered?

    Im about to get the Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro a dual opteron server board and was wondering if i really needed to get registered memory for it. Im runnin non mission critical stuff, and actually probably gonna use it more to the likes of a desktop computer. Here is the spec sheet...
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    PCI Express and Why Nvidia, ATI and AMD are failling to deliver!

    So I'm trying to replace my shuttle SN41G2 which I gave to my mom. Looking for that slightly above average in price and performance gaming PC. But low and behold, nothing ecists on the market! Lets start with where gaming begins, graphics cards. I bounce and rebound (bounce and rebound)...
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    Too Strip, or not to Strip, that is the question

    So I am now the proud owner of a belkin medium duty crimper. I had gotten in on a deal a year or two ago at Radio shack with Cat 5e cable for 4 cents a foot or something crazy like that and I bought my self at least five hundred. I was trying so hard to get this one cable to work today and I...
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    NZXT Guardian Case

    What are your impressions and more importantly your experiances with this case.
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    Which Online A+ Course is the best to take?

    I''ve got a free month this summer and I'd like to get A+ certified, I already know like 40% of it, and am familiar with about another 25%. Which online A+ did you find to be the most informative, yet still fast experiance. Like I said, I've got about till August 11th. Ty in advance
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    Best PCMCIA (Laptop) Wireless network card for War Driving?

    What do yall use for some serious war hammering/driving. I've got a few unsupecting neibhors who I'm getting around 16% sniff on, and im looking to get a better signal. hehehe....I don't have to use my own bandiwth for my laptop then. What's a good PCMCIA Card, and are there good PCMCIA cards...
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    Whats your favorite All Purpose POWER TOOL! Ohgrr Ohrr!

    Whats your favorite All purpose power tool? Like, Those miracle ones that can cut through anything, like the RotoZip, or the Sharky extreme?
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    98 Honda Accord, replaced stereo, still want to use steering wheel controls

    Actually, I'm trying to buy this for my brother. He bought a real nice panasonic system for his 98 Honda Accord but obviosely the steering wheel controls don't work anymore as they were made for the factory unit. I was surfin along the web and I saw these things which are supposed to allow you...
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    Look at the Wonderfull Presidency that is George W.Bush

    http://www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov Indeed we do have an error! (If they do take it down, when you went to www.whitehouse.gov you got a 404 error. http://www.whitehouse.gov
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    Where America needs to get back on its feet.

    Education. 8 hours a day, five days a week. Add homework, add friends and our education system does more parenting than parents do. So what do we do? We spend more money on computers and all this other junk to get kids to learn. In india they dont use computers or calculators and it gets...
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    Best HTML Editor for Cheap $$$

    My friend would like to buy it for his dad as a fathers day gift.
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    Is the AMD RMA Number toll free?

    Needa get my 2400+ Rma'd but i wasnt sure if the number was gonna be toll free or not.
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    Is the AMD RMA Service number toll free?

    I got myself a dead 2400+ and the number for amd is (408) 749-3060, is it a toll free call? Or am i somehow gonna be charged 5$ a minute so they can get back the warranty cost?
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    Is anybody going to, or has gone to University of Texas at Dallas?

    I'm going there next year, since it is founded by the founders of Texas Instruments, has a top notch CS and Engineering school I'm wonderin if there are any At'ers out there that are attending or have attended it.
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    US Government Tracking CASH!

    Ok so like a month ago I read an article about the new twenty and fifty dollar bills federally backed by none other than the United States of America, setting off anti theft devices in stores. http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904rfidtagsexplode.html So I came back from india a little while ago...
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    Could you take my poll

    Trying to open my own business and I need a slogan http://rstation.rootmybox.com/poll.html Thanks a mill. http://rstation.rootmybox.com/poll.html
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    India, The Final Frontier...what should I bring?

    Hey guys, Im 17 and the last time i went to india was like seven or eight years ago, so obviousely Im not exactly warm to the idea of going there for two months on a whim my parents had, but from what ive heard its changed a lot so who knows maybe itll be something I enjoy. One thing however I...
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    ATI is becomming a real pain in the!

    I have an ATI Tv Wonder PCI, its worked perfectly fine on my Nvidia Nforce 2 SN41G2 Shuttle. a little while ago something else happened to the computer so I had to reinstal the ATI drivers! Lo and behold ATI had released their DOA package and MMC edition 8. Now whenever I try to start TV it...
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    The Best Tools of The Trade?!??!!

    Lets talk about the tools which make the case modders able to do more wild things. Ill start with a couple questions, ad more if you wish. What's your favorite tool for cutting side panels for windows? Whats your favorite device for painting your case Whats your favorite paint Whats your...
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    Using an ATX power supply for stuff other than computer.

    I would like to use ATX power supplies to modify like everything in my house from the couches to the kitchen sink (seriousely). Is there a way that I can dupe the power supply into turning on without being connected to a motherboard? And then have it so i can use its own switch to turn it on...
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    DFI Lan Party NFII Overclock now cant boot.

    Ok First here are my system specs: Athlon XP 2500+ 1 Gigabyte of Geil Pc3200 Ram Samsung 160GB 7200RPM Hard Drive Model# SP1614N DFI "LAN Party" Model NFII Ultra Retail Artec 16x DVD Artec 52x cd-rw ATI All in Wonder 9700 Pro Ok I finally fixed that hal.dll file so i installed xp on the...
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    Vote for AnandTech as best hardware review site!

    Go to www.newegg.com and look on the right there is a poll! Those loosers THG are catching up to Anand! Lets make them loose! Newegg! Repost
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    Intel Confusion! Mistakes made, need help to fix!

    Ok so my friend tried building my first P4 for somebody who bought there stuff from compusa. Got the 2.4Ghz 800MGhz bus P4 with HT. Unfortunately the mobo we got is the GA-8IP900-(L) Gigabyte which only supports FSB 533. We also only have one ram stick of PC2700. System wouldnt post, nor...
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    Nvidia Nforce AutoUnlock Multiplier Motherboards

    I know a ton of people are confused by this so lets start a thread on this. The Nvidia Nforce 2 chipset being present on a motherboard does not neccessarily mean that the multiplier on the motherboard will be automatically unlocked. There are however several Nforce 2 motherboards who's...
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    Nforce 2 Decisions

    Hey guys, I bought my first Nforce 2 board under the Leadtek brand name, the K7NCR18D-Pro. Its served me well. Now i have to pick a new mobo for a new computer. Once again I turn to Nforce but with many more choices than what was available at Nforce2 Launch. I was wondering if anyone has...
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    Difference Between Windows XP Home and Pro

    Well after the little cute 30 day expose of WinXP ran out, im lookin to see which ver of WinXP i should buy. Main thing I was wondering is, does Windows XP Proffesional have the User switch interface? Like in XP Home you boot up and you have all the user account buttons set up, u can click...
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    Best Buy 22-24 Ad!!!

    http://www.bestbuy.com/Homepage/WeeklyStoreAd.asp?b=0 For your store, unfortunately for the houston area, the paper sucks. I mean, there are like no good deals, buy a pc get 200$ off, thats it, but who wants to actually BUY a computer?