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I'm looking to get a first computer for my kid. He's about to start kindergarten (amazing how early they need computers) and I want him to have one for him and his little brother to grow up with. I'm even thinking about a cheap netbook or laptop, but I have a bias towards desktops. Any...

Hey, old timer here who hasn't been on [H] in ages. I'm looking to build my first full system in ages and I'm out of the loop. I've given myself a crash course over the past few days, but I'm close to pulling the trigger. What did I miss? 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming...

Here is the deal, I need to build a report on employees IM usage, how much is business versus personal is the primary question. I'm looking around for some sort of tool I can get to sniff and log IM's from a system which gets mirrored traffic from our proxy. Since this is short term until we...

We run Nessus for internal vulnerability (CVE) scans and it works great, except the reporting leaves much to be desired. After every scan I have to spend a few days massaging the data down into a format that has a quick overview for executives plus the relevent information for the server team...

Am I going crazy? OK, don't answer that. I'm on my second week in a new job as a security analyst in a medium sized company. This is my first full-time security position so I have much to learn, but my six years as a server/network admin give me a good start. So on instructions of my...

Does anyone have any experience with Microsofts' LCS? It seems to be a bit overkill just to get Enterprise IM...does it work well? Our environment is all 2000/XP workstations, AD2003, 98% of all servers are 2000/2003 (the exception is a few Netware and one AS/400). Our network manager has a...

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Oblivion has me really wanting a new video card. It is beating the holy hell out of my 9800pro. I've been out of the video card scene for a few years and I'm not sure how great the difference is between the 6600GT and the 6800. Here's what I have now... AMD 3200+ 1GB PC3200 ATI 9800pro...

I started to see requests for the GIAC certs in job postings, so I looked it up (http://www.giac.org/). I already visit SANS (http://isc.sans.org/) daily, so I'm familiar with them but not with their cert program. At first glance it looks like it might have some great information and I was...

Anyone ever use a Wireless USB laptop adapter? My step-father bought a Dell laptop (B130) and they didn't know to get the built in wireless. So I came over with e pcmcia wireless card and the damn laptop has an ExpressCard slot, but no pcmcia slot. Damnit Dell. You put a slot in that has...

Bioware rocks. Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR...all excellent. How is Jade Empire? I'm very tempted, although I've never played a rts on the xbox before.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/servicepack/default.mspx Has anyone had enough guts to try this out yet? We are going to begin to evaluate it, but I have to wait for a test server to come available.

Does anyone know of a good way to remove users from the local admin group on their computer remotely and in mass? We have about 250 Windows 2000 computers that were set up incorrectly and each user is in the local admin group of their machine. Rather than touching each system, I was wondering...

Computers in my company is having trouble getting to msn.com, it loads a text-only page. All of the links (Money, Entertainment, etc) do work, it is just the main page that is a problem. I am just wondering if we have a T1/DNS issue or is it something others are seeing.

I've been getting errors for a few weeks now trying to get to Gone Gold . Did the site shut down? That would be a serious shame if it did. Rich has been through alot, but it was always a great site.

I think this is still in the rumor mill, but it sure is cool as hell.

I'm curious to hear what people think. I've been toying with getting it.

Check out this cover art: That is INGAME art. Now it could very well be like Morrowind where it won't be able to be played at its highest settings for 2 years after release, but still it is damn impressive. Looks like another 2 months I'm going to lose.

If anyone knows anyone, would one of you please recommend a network wiring company in the Tampa area? One of our divisions has a department which is moving to the building next door and we need to get quotes for running cable between the two buildings, probably fiber, and it may include running...

OK, we are moving to a win2003 file server from an netware 5 server. Playing around at this point, we found something that is throwing me. We are using disk quotas, which I understand is done on a volume basis. The problem is that many files are in shared folders and we would rather not have...

http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?c=1&AID=21895&u=0 Most likely, this was written by Brad Wardell of Stardock/GalCiv. It is a great article on what is wrong with PC games and how to improve the experience.

I am and I'm addicted. Most of my characters are on Guardian, my primary is Healbot A733 an empathy/radiation level 19 defender. I enjoy the support role, being the enabler that allows the tanker/scrapper/blaster to do the heavy work. But I also have Cool Commander a level 12 ice/ice...

OK, this is obvious, but I want to know if there is any other way. I am trying to block users from running Yahoo messenger (and msn and aol and...) so I want to block the login server (scs.msg.yahoo.com). I have it blocked using SurfControl, but that isn't reliable (crappy software). As an...

Hey folks, I'm wondering what you guys use for rackmounted kvms/consoles. We generally use the Compaq ones like this: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=575045 with a Compaq 8-port server switch, but those are back ordered and I need something within a week. Has anyone used...

How do you guys manage passwords in an enterprise environment? We currently set the passwords for all users, keeping them in a password protected spreadsheet and changing them manually every 6-12 months. This has become very cumbersome and we want to move to a more automatic system where users...

Here's the scenario: A series of small offices connected by 56k frame relay lines to the corporate office. 2 to 3 computers/users per office. We want to look into having the remote users run Office 2003 through a thin client, but I don't know which to use, Win2k3 Terminal Services or Citrix...

To get out of this rut of just one network problem posted after another, how about an actual topic of conversation? What is your preferred choice of securing wireless traffic? Let's assume an enterprise environment, with a healthy budget. The traffic needs to be able to support say 40 users...

This would seriously disturb me, so I hope that it isn't true. http://www.ferrago.com/story/3393 Not that MS hasn't been involved in some good/great games, but Bioware puts out just outstanding games. Baldur's Gate was great. BG2 even better. I didn't get a chance to play Icewind...

I am trying to order some new tapes for these old Compaq 20/40GB DLT drives we have, but I am having a tough time figuring out what media to use. Some media is marked 20/40, but much of it is marked "uncompressed 20, 35, 40GB; compressed 40, 70, 80GB." It is still Type IV, but I don't know...

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/two-headed-ogre.shtml Maybe the best April Fool's joke of the day.

Ok, first off let me say that this isn't my fault. I just got pulled into an issue where a server (win2k server) is taking 9 hours to do a full backup because it takes so long to pull the 50GB of data off of it...much longer than it should. The server holds data for Arris, a CAD program, and...

http://www.fatmangames.com/News/NewsViewer.asp?newsid=1119 I have to say, reading this got me very geek'ed up for this game.

We have an old OLD DOS program that I am trying to keep running on Win2k (replacing it over the next 12 months or so isn't an option right now for budget reasons). The problem is that when it is launched, it pegs the cpu at 100% utilization (Task Manager > ntvdm) for the entier time and other...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13704 By the way, to all of you who posted that this was obviously just a PR ploy to cover up for another delay, I think the Federal Bureau of Investigations disagrees.

I do some side work for a small company which is looking to host their email with an offside company. We already have a registered domain, so we just need the hosting for about 10-15 mailboxes. Are their any companies (www.everyone.net, vmailpro.com, etc) that I should look into or avoid...

For me it has to be BF1942/Desert Combat, although KOTOR has certainly taken up the last 10 days of my life completely.