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Well, I wanted to get one or the other. I tried both out in an OSX VM. They both ship with BLOAT. Vmware Fusion has stupid Mcafee in the menu. Even if I get the lite version, there is Mcafee in the menu and I cannot stand that. I absolutely hate Mcafee and every time I see "Mcafee", my blood...

Hey guys, I'm having issues connecting to published remoteapps. I have a DC set up. I have set up the RD Connection Broker, the RD Web Access and RD Virtualization Host. I have created a Windows 8.1 Enterprise VM and have sysprepped it. Now, I've published say the calculator program and I can...

I have several hosts (for fun at home) on which I run multiple VMs ranging from Windows to Linux derivatives. Since it has become cumbersome to manage permissions, I figured I would go ahead and setup a Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2. I have successfully setup Windows 2012 R2 as a PDC and...

Well, I had a hell of a time trying to get my Cyberpower 1350PFCLCD UPS to work with my two ESXI hosts. My first ESXI host runs Pfsense and all the other network security goodies and hosts the VCenter appliance. My second ESXI host runs all my VMs for massive storage, download clients...

This took me a while to find. All matter of Google foo was fruitless. However, I was able to connect some dots from Supermicro's FAQ for a different motherboard. So, this is to save anyone else who may need this some time. To get SR-IOV working with ESXI 5.1 and 5.5, you need to have an...

Well, as the title says, I'm officially pissed off. I own a Macbook Pro with the retina screen. It has been great since I bought in October of 2012. It was great until this weekend. I tried to use the iSight camera for a quick Facetime session with friends and family. Lo and behold, the camera...

No, this post isn't about religion. Rather, it is about one of the largest hard drive manufacturers and their line of NAS ceritified drives. I am talking about Western Digital. Long story short, I have 4 WD RED Drives. Two 3 TB, one 2 TB, and one 1 TB. Three were bought from Amazon between...

Hey guys, I have a ZFS all-in-one setup with OpenIndiana. I have created a zpool with 2 vdevs and have created a dataset. The dataset is shared via NFS to Linux and via SMB to Windows and Mac OSX. I can modify and delete any thing created by Mac OSX and Windows on all three operating...

So, I took a plunge with making a media/file server for use while I'm at campus. I wanted something I could keep running nearly 24/7 and that I could setup to download my shows and record things on schedule. Well, I'm not nearly done setting everything up yet, but so far...IT ROCKS! Specs...

Hey guys! So, as the title says, I am new to ZFS. Over the past couple of days, I've been reading up on everything ZFS and am pretty comfortable with setting everything up (at least in my mind). I plan to use Open Solaris. I don't want to use existing hardware and am going to buy everything...

Hey guys. I bought an HG281D from Costco. It's the 28" that's actually 27.5". Anyone, the first one I bought made a hissing noise and whenever the screen flickered off to on, it made a popping sound. I ended up returning the first one and ordered another one to try my luck again. Anyway, it...

Hey guys. This is the system I put together. CPU: AMD Phenom 9750 2.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W 65nm Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX All Solid Capacitor AMD Motherboard Memory: A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2...

Hey guys. So, I'm in the process of putting together a new rig for my dad. It's going to be his first quad-core. He does quite a bit of programming and will be using Windows Server 2008 as his new OS. What we have already: -500-Watt PSU -Case -all the drives we'll ever need What...

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Hey guys. I'm in college right now and well, I tend to watch a lot of shows. Problem is that I want to watch shows while lying in bed. Unfortunately, due to space restrictions in my dorm room, my bed is elevated and my desk is right underneath the bed. I do have a laptop, G1S to be exact, and I...

Hey guys. I am unable to start Vista's defrag by going to the properties>tools for my harddrives. I cannot use the version with the gui, but I can run the command line version through command prompt. Anyone know how I can get defrag running again through the tools menu? Thanks! :)

Hey guys. I was wondering how powerful a card I would need for some non-professional video editing. For example: Adding transitions and menus to home movies. Merging clips together. Doing some touchups to pictures and some video. Any recommendations on a decent card that would be adequate for...

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0 GHz AM2 -- $63.50 Memory: Corsair XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 -- $38.99 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 -- $74.99 Video Card: Chaintech Geforce 8400GS 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCIe x16 -- $54.99 - $20 rebate = $34.99 Total before rebates: $258.35...

Hey guys. I have an A8V Deluxe motherboard. I want to buy an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Manchester (its $40 at newegg) so I can get a bit more life out of it. Will this processor work with my motherboard? The asus support site only shows info about X2 from 3800+ and above. I could not find...

Hey guys. I have Vista Ultimate x86 and I want to remove a program from the "Open with" programs list. This is the little list popup that you get when you right-click a shortcut/program and select "open with" and then go to "Choose default". Anyone know how to remove a program from the list...

Hey guys. I'm lookign for a tv tuner for my laptop. Express Card or USB 2.0 compatible tuners are fine. Please provide your experience with whatever tuner you recommend. Thank you!

Hey guys. I'll be going to Target early this Thursday and saw that they have this: Western Digital Elements 500GB external hard drive for $87.99. Model: WDE1U5000 Anyone use one of these before? How is it performance wise? I ask because I could not find legitimate reviews. Thanks...

Hey guys. I'm in need of an external hard drive or enclosure. I prefer it to be eSATA and also prefer the internal interface to be SATA. I've been looking and looking, but seem to only find USB 2.0 or firewire 400 externals/enclosures recently reviewed and decently priced. I will use this...

Hi. On the main HardOCP page and on every forum page, there is an advertisement at the top that is below the HardForum tm logo. This ad appears as a white box and is causing IE7 and Firefox to never finish loading the page. The progress bar moves to the end, but never finishes. I am not using...

Since I'm getting an ASUS G1S, I was first going to get the Audigy2 ZS notebook card, but its PCMCIA. So, I've decided to go for the X-fi Notebook express card. Unfortunately, from all the pictures I've seen, the card has a mic in and a speaker out on it. I want to get 5.1 headphones. How do I...

How are the Ear Force AK-R8 headphones? Planning to get them for a laptop.

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Hi guys! I'm about to receive a Compal IFL90 and I'd like to get a nice gaming mouse. Any recommendations? Thanks!