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    XP file sharing upload speed tied to adapter's download speed (BIZARRE!)

    This is the strangest networking problem I have ever seen. I have a Belkin N router with my winXP desktop attached to it via a wn311b netgear N PCI card. The router is connected by cat 5 to a win2003 server. Router is connected to an ADSL2+ netopia router that is bridged. In trying to backup...
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    is something wrong with my house or do i have the worst luck with PSUs??

    well I bought another PSU today (non-Antec) and I'm back in business. We'll see how long this one lasts (!).
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    is something wrong with my house or do i have the worst luck with PSUs??

    I should add that I only found that these NEO PSUs suck after I bought one so in that regard I made an uninformed decision. I knew it was going back though. The reason I shopped at BB was because it is the only store in town that carries parts like this and doesn't have a 15% restocking fee...
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    is something wrong with my house or do i have the worst luck with PSUs??

    I bought an antec @ BB most recently because I wanted the most expensive one just to see if that fixed anything. I knew I was taking it back once I got my original Antec RMAd. I was/am hoping to get through this by jst having my original 550 true power fixed. I think it is silly to say that...
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    is something wrong with my house or do i have the worst luck with PSUs??

    A few years ago my 20 pin atx fortron 350w PSU melted into the motherboard connector. Surprisingly it still worked (!) it just had charred black plastic everywhere. I kept using it until it kept getting more burned and then torched the motherboard. I bought a new motherboard/cpu/ram combo on...
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    can you recommend a PTZ webcam?

    Wow, that AXIS 213 is sweet! However it's like $1400 :( I will keep an eye out for them though, you know, should someone offer to sell me one for 10 cents on the dollar :D
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    can you recommend a PTZ webcam?

    I want a camera that I can hook up to my network that will allow remote control viewing of whatever is in front of the camera. I want to be able to pan tilt and zoom the camera via web software remotely. It does not have to be super quality but I need it to be able to zoom and to check things...
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    microsoft networking with two networks

    I put the router PC in the DMZ and addressed setup all of the shares using IPs. It works but does not allow browsing. Oh well :D
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    microsoft networking with two networks

    That is a clever way to do it, although a bit costly :-) Thanks for the suggestion it may be what I end up going with if I can't get it any other way.
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    microsoft networking with two networks

    The reason for doing this is very simple. We have a lot of extra staff in the summer and no ports in the laboratory where we can setup computers (the location of the other computers where the router is, is full). We need to offer them internet access and felt the best way was with wireless. I...
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    microsoft networking with two networks

    We have 3 computers at work and they are set up with static ip addresses that are internet accessible (not intranet addresses when ipconfig is run). I recently added a wireless router to one of them and it now accesses the internet through that router. I cloned the mac address of its network...
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    Wireless AND ethernet capability in laptop card?

    I need a card that has a jack for ethernet and that has wireless capability. The two networks do not have to be active at the same time. My mom's laptop network jack is broken (I think...) and she also wants wireless but she doesn't have the PCMCIA / USB slots to give up to give her both in...
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    Form Submission Problems in XP (probably not the browser)

    Hi, Here's my problem: certain websites won't work when I press a submit button on a form . For example, I can go to paypal and log in and try to pay someone but when I click send money, no go. Another example, trying to catch up on some American Airlines AAdvantage miles, I can fill in all...
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    Hot D-Link DI-614+ Wireless Router for $14.86 AR at Office Depot is back!

    this is the crappiest piece of technology ive ever owned and im including used toothbrushes... good god. i can literally spit on the router from where i stand in the hallway with virtually no signal. ive upgraded the firmware, ive called tech support, ive played with the channels... we have no...
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    Hot D-Link DI-614+ Wireless Router for $14.86 AR at Office Depot is back!

    it appears that they are out of stock on the east coast (NY/MA). i never understand why they won't just mail it to me from one warehouse that is farther away but has it in stock... i'll foot the shipping. still in stock in san diego though. good deal to those that get it.
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    The Rap Appreciation Thread (For all your Rap Haters!)

    hiphop is my main listening taste... never really liked cannibus but the anthem from lyricists lounge is great. i also dig people under the stairs, masta ace, and a bunch of others. i wouldnt expect too many anandtechers to be in line with this but i definitely recognize hiphop along with all...
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    Atkins Advantage Bars

    Many people pseudo-referenced the new england journal of medicine. As a regular reader of this publication, I know there is an issue dedicated to diets such as Atkins. There is even an article in that issue looking at the methods used to perform these studies. Anyways I think it came out in...
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    Can PnP/New Hardware Function be Disabled?

    I don't know if this will help but you can turn pnp OS off in your bios probably or turn off plug n play via your mother board or bios directly. Maybe downloading the latest drivers for your printer will do it... alternatively, you could drop that lame OS and go hardcore linux style :) <---...
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    What are the best Engineering Schools in the US?

    Umm, no. :) Caltech is by far the hardest to get into in California. Go to MIT if you want cut throat (although freshman year is all pass/fail). Go to Caltech if you want nice weather, ugly girls and cooperative learning. Come to Cornell if you want to have a good program, crummy weather...
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    low-freq EM pulse in carlsbad, california

    I live in Carlsbad :) Seen Ocean's Eleven? That has a low frequency EM pulse similar to the one you're talking about (but yours is on a much lower scale). Broken Arrow has one too (following a nuclear blast). I don't know much about what non-EMP bombs can produce a powerful enough pulse to...
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    P2P filesharing for Linux

    I use Limewire on linux... there is a better version that you pay for but I'm not sure the differences. Limewire is adequate at best (based on the gnutella network). I can find some mp3s that I'm looking for and lots of porn is available but I'd much rather use Morpheus. There used to be a...
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    *nixers, please give us a few words about your *nix of choice.

    I use Slackware. Not really 8.0 anymore after my updates, not quite 8.1 either. But anyways. I don't really have much to say that hasn't already been said other than I may check out gentoo as a few slack users have mentioned some good words about it. The real reason I wanted to post was to...
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    Question about linux distros and how they handle software installs

    I think that if you're going to run linux you probably have dealt with windows and for one reason or another are delving into the world of open source software to realize its benefits. You most likely believe that linux is complicated and is going to take some getting used to before you convert...
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    Converting files from .bat to .exe Thanks :)

    Are you sure she didn't just rename it? I don't think you can just openly convert an exe to a bat as bats cannot interface with memory/registers/system calls like exes can, unless you have a system specifically designed for that purpose (meaning tons of support libraries/separate programs that...
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    Dating stuff, Confusing

    Not exactly. Matter is changed from one form to another, as Evadman said. So when you date something (using radiocarbon dating for example) you are not dating the intrinsic components of matter, but rather, dating them as a whole to create something (in one said instance, a rock). You can't...
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    Warcraft III in Linux with wine(x)

    Bah, I don't know what I did but the chump finally works. I just uninstalled every single thing wine related and then reinstalled the latest cvs by those instructions and ran warcraft 3 (the full windows executable name) and it worked... go figure! Looks damn good and damn fast!!
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    Warcraft III in Linux with wine(x)

    Has anyone gotten the can't find directx error while trying to run warcraft in Linux? I've got slackware running 2.4.19rc1 with 256mb ram on a 1.4 ghz athlon and I've recompiled winex from cvs using all the commands from these instructions but every time I run the game (after it successfully...
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    Linux - win4lin, usb 2.0

    Yeah, hunks fail, etc. I haven't manually gone through and applied the patch line by line for the sake of time. Hopefully the 2.4.19 kernel will be out soon.
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    Tell me why your OS is Better? And a poll of our current OS of Choice.... (Warning RANTS inside)

    That's it, huh? :D I'm sure people with coding skillz and a general knowledge of computers can appreciate the fact that what linux is doing is really really hard. There *IS* gaming support in linux. I can play some of my favorite games under winex with comparable/better x-windows performance...
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    Linux - win4lin, usb 2.0

    Has anyone successfully patched in the win4lin 2.4.18 patch into a 2.4.19-pre/rc kernel? I need usb 2.0 support (which appears to be only functional in 2.4.19+) and win4lin support. Any suggestions or similar encounters?
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    3 cops and an ambulance

    A brush fire by my house required that plus some fire engines. Fortunately I distracted them when I rear ended a car 10 feet away from them. Playing Britney Spears and all :D Ah to be 17 again.
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    The SAT is changing!!

    Or 1560 at that. If anyone wants my advice, if you plan to do post-undergraduate work, go to a moderate school like a good in-state (if you live in CA or TX or somewhere cool) school and do really well instead of going to an ivy and doing worse than you would have elsewhere. I'm in the ivy...
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    How much total HD space do you have?

    1x60gb IBM 7200 1x40gb IBM 7200 2x80gb MAXTOR 7200 striped raid -------- 260gb locally available raw linux file server storage. :)
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    packet forwarding, dual NICs, linux, a little of everything :-)

    I know there has to be a way to do this because it's the basis of broadband networking, I just don't know how to do it. What I want to do is setup two NICs (10mbps) in my PC. One will go to my network and the other will go to a hub that splits another network connection between my PC (primary)...
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    AD19xx soundcard support in linux.. grr.

    I looked but didn't see any readily available solutions (e.g. OSS or ALSA) but you can try modifying the drivers for the other chipset and playing around with it. Maybe the company will give you overtime :)
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    usb 2.0 under linux with cdrecord and iomega predator 24x10x40

    Bah, I got it. Damn xcdroast :-P
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    usb 2.0 under linux with cdrecord and iomega predator 24x10x40

    Every time I use cdrecord it writes at 4x for CDRW or 6x for CDR, indicating that it is still using the usb 1.1 standard. This, however, seems contradictory to what /proc/bus/usb/devices says: T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 1 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=...
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    Just installed Linux for the first time

    Having gone through similar troubles, I can recommend a few things in addition to the others' recommendations: 1) check your swap setup 2) can't decide between gnome/kde? choose the one that superficially pleases you but keep the libraries installed for the other one so you can run...