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    Making a wireless Access Point...

    The other day I took down my router (mostly) and replaced it with a PC running Smoothwall; currently it's still used as a Wireless Access point, although everything else is handled by Smoothwall. What I wanted to know though, is if it's possible to buy a Wireless NIC, plug it into the...
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    SATA, eSATA, and hot swappable hard disks

    I'm currently running an Intel C2D 6600 on an Asus P5K motherboard with the Intel P35 chipset. There's 4 "standard" SATA connectors on the motherboard, and a jmicro RAID/IDE controller which has a backplate eSATA connector, one SATA connector on the motherboard, and the old IDE connector...
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    Performance and Reliability in Vista x64 broke my driver

    Yesterday I downloaded and installed both the Performance and Reliability and the Compatibility and Reliability packages in Vista Ultimate x64; both seemed to work fine, until I tried to play a game using my Nostromo n52 controller. The controller has only an unsigned, very unofficial driver...
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    How much performance am I losing?

    Last week a put together a system for my wife on a strict budget - it ended up being an AMD 64 X2 5200+, on an Asus M2N-E motherboard. The only ram that I had available to use was 2 GB of 400 Mhz DDR2. I realize that is very slow ram copared to the 800+ mhz that you mostly see now, but as it...
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    Really WEIRD monitor issue

    Just last week I picked up a new Acer 22" Widescreen monitor (the model number escapes me right now, as it's at home and I'm at work). I used it on my old system until last night, when my nVidia 8800 GTS 640 arrived, to complete my new computer. Upon moving the monitor over, I noticed that...