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    [Solved] Civilization IV GOTY on Windows 7?

    I just tried installing Civilization IV (game of the year boxed edition) on Windows 7 (RC) and at the very beginning of the process, it says "Setup has determined that you need to install DirectX". I pressed cancel, and it cancels setup. I also tried to cancel out of just the DirectX part of...
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    Best Windows pre-installed environment?

    I've used BartPE several times in the past, and I was just about to make a new build with updated plugins. Then I found something called "Reatogo-X-PE" which is basically from a guy that had his own free, custom BartPE bundled with 500 plugins available. In researching whether or not that was...
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    PC powering off at night

    I just started having trouble about two weeks ago where my desktop PC is powering off at night. Not every night, but I would say two out of three nights or three out of four. A few days ago, I went to go on the PC around 7:30am and it was off. I powered it on and it gave me the error that...
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    Sharing problem between Vista x64 and Debian Samba

    I don't know if this is a Vista problem or a Samba problem. All I know is that it worked fine when I had XP. I have a file server running on Debian. I put most of my downloads there as well as my music. I had been using iTunes, and it was a restore of my database from my XP install so...
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    RAM issue

    I just completed a new installation of Vista Business 64-bit. I decided to upgrade from Windows XP Professional 32-bit because I have 4 GB of physical RAM. Well, I just got finished installing my drivers and I decided to look at system properties. It is seeing 3007 MB. I ran CPU-Z and it...
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    2nd hard drive question

    Since I have 4GB of RAM and XP only sees 3GB, I have decided to move to Vista Business 64-bit. On my current computer, I have a 80GB primary drive which XP and my applications are installed on. I also have a 500GB secondary drive that possesses the contents of my My Documents folders and the...
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    Samba sticky bit issue

    I have been running a Samba server for awhile and there has been and issue that's been perplexing me for quite some time: how do you get Samba to create folders with the sticky bit already applied? Aside from the private home folders and a music folder, I have a shared folder on which the...
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    Samba and the sticky bit

    I have a Samba file server. There are three shares, but for the purpose of this post, I'll discuss just one. This share is called [share] and it's smb.conf configuration is below: The folder /home/share/misc has the following user/group/permissions settings: In other words, it was...
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    Possible to prevent users from changing desktop color?

    We have a Citrix environment, with a published full desktop that most users use. The background of this desktop has no image, and is gray in color. My manager has it in her head that if it is any other color other than this gray, then it will cause server memory and CPU utilization to increase...
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    IE6 doesn't resolve website without "http://"

    One of my users reported a strange problem: IE6 would not work unless the full URL was typed in the Address bar. For instance, "www.google.com" would result in IE seemingly working on taking her to the page, but nothing but a white screen would be displayed while the little Windows symbol...
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    Windows File Permissions Mapping

    I've been tasked with mapping the file permissions for all the folders on our fileserver for migration to a new fileserver. We're talking a huge hierarchy of folders, and some are indeed customized with special group and file permissions. I've already spent an hour on it and barely scratched...
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    XP Pro and wierd optical drive issue

    I reformatted my PC some time ago, and reinstalled Windows XP Professional. Ever since then, I've been getting wierd behavior out of how Windows deals with my optical drives. For instance, I did not turn Autorun off, but nothing happens when I insert any disc. If I go into My Computer, the...
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    Recovering backed up files encrypted with EFS

    Here's the situation: I have a WinXP Pro machine in workgroup mode that has never been the part of a domain. The entire My Documents folder is encrypted and backed up (with ntbackup) in a non-encypted BKF file on another workgroup computer. I backed up my EFS private key and certificate by...
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    Chipset recommendation for Linux & USB

    I want to build an AMD CPU-based system that is going to be compatible with Linux, and I'm looking for a recommended chipset. The Linux communtiy seems to advise everyone to stay away from boards with the nVidia chipsets because of Linux driver issues. I'm guessing an ATi chipset is a really...
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    Best distro for MythTV?

    I am considering making a MythTV box out of an old PIII-733 HP that I have*, and I was wondering what distro I should use? The author of the Anandtech guide used SuSE, but he plainly said it wasn't the ideal OS to use for that purpose and seemed to run into a few problems in the setup. I...
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    Radeon X1900XTX connectors

    http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/ati/x1900/x1900card.png It's hard to tell from the pictures, but those two connectors on the left look like SCSI connectors for LVD/SE cables. The Anandtech article makes no mention of the connectors whatsoever. At first I thought maybe it had...
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    Windows doesn't state volume name of media in optical drives

    In Windows XP Professional, Windows Explorer will only tell me what disc is inserted in a given drive if the disc is already in there when I start the computer. If I eject and then reinsert the media, Explorer just sits there, showing me that I have a CD-RW or DVD-ROM drive. Ejecting and...
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    Trying to get wireless card working in Linux

    I have a dual-boot system. I had originally formatted a 210GB Windows XP Pro partition and left 10GB unpartitioned for a future Linux install. Well last week, I installed Ubuntu 5.10. I have a Motorola WPCI810G, which uses the Broadcom chipset. There are no drivers for this chipset in Linux...
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    WMF Vulnerability Not Fixed

    http://www.informationweek.com/windows/...ticle.jhtml?articleID=175802831&pgno=1 It sounds like Microsoft addressed the direct attack from late December, but has not addressed overall vulnerability of WMF. I read another report that Microsoft was kind of miffed they were basically forced...
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    HP t5710 thin client & digital camera USB interface

    When I hook up a Sony DSC-W7 digital camera via USB to the HP t5710 thin client, the Find New Hardware Wizard discovers and tries to install the device via Plug n Play. It shows up as "SONY DSC" but the installation of the drivers fails, stating that it cannot locate them. I copied the...
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    Need help getting laptop to see shared printers...

    Problem: Trying to allow a laptop PC to access printers shared on a desktop PC. Ok, on to the network setup: DSL comes through a Sprint DSL CSU, which is hooked up to a Microsoft MN-500 broadband wireless router. The router is set up to act as a DHCP server as well, and it's network is...
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    When will prices fall?!

    I've been waiting for the Radeon 9800 Pro to dip below $300 for ages. Any idea when it might do so?
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    Can't stay connected

    First, the basics: Windows XP Professional AMD Athlon XP 2400+ EPoX 8K5A2+ 768MB Corsair XMS PC2700 Visiontek GeForce 3 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer 2 Maxtor ATA133, 7200RPM, 40GB hdds in RAID0 Netgear GA302T gigabit ethernet card Ok, this system, with the exception of the ethernet card...
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    Some programs no longer detect my optical drives

    I've been using Exact Audio Copy 0.9 beta 4 and LAME (currently using 3.90.3) for a couple years now to rip my audio CDs. Today I got a couple CDs, including Linkin Park's Meteora. When I got home, I popped the disc in the drive. It's one of those enhanced CDs, so some menu with the extras...
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    Installing Linux Mandrake onto a RAID 0

    Ok, I have two Maxtor 40 GB drives set up in RAID 0. Windows XP is installed on a partition ~76 GB in size. I have 4 GB unpartitioned, where I was going to install Linux. My EPoX 8K5A2+ has a Highpoint 372 RAID controller. I located and downloaded a Linux open source driver for this controller...