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I've got a friend who's having issues with XP being sluggish. All her programs run fine, but only after having been opened once. In other words, the first instance of any program she runs is being very sluggish. Simple Explorer tasks like moving a file take much longer than usual, running a...

I need to pick up Perl quickly for a new job. Basically i need to be able to use it to query network information about different machines/servers on a network, then play with the data some. Does anyone know a good book (or online tutorial) for this? I'm mainly interested in the network/server...

does anyone know of a GPS system that'll work with a tungsten e, and has U.S maps? I found one by Kirrio, but it seems to only have EU and UK maps. Useless for someone in SoCal. I found a GPS receiver on eBay that's compatible with...

Hey, Are there any good PVR's that output mpeg4? I want to use mpeg4 to save space, but if its possible, i'd like to avoid having to record in mpeg2 and then convert to mpeg4. Can the Hauppage PVR500 encode directly to mpeg4? If not, what's a good card that can do so? thanks

Is it possible to modify a user's account so that they can't write anything to the desktop or the My Documents folder and its subfolders? We want to have the users at my company write all their documents to a network drive, and lock access to the local machines. I've tried making the folders...

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~agevorki/worklog.htm This is my time-killer for winter break. Basically its gonna be a really slick version of the good ol' Chieftec Dragon, with the front panel completely smooth and everything painted black. I want it to be extremely quiet. What you see there is like...

Hey guys, Right now I'm running on a Shuttle SB62g2. Specs are: 2.0ghz p4 (on 400mhz bus) 512mb Crucial pc2100(2 sticks that wont do dual channel together) radeon 9000 (enough for now, i only play ET anyway) 80gig Seagate Baraccuda 4 ata - 7200rpm and 2mb cache(ol' reliable) The...

Ok, time for me to clear out a lot of old "inventory," so to speak. I need the cash (college is expensive man... sheeeesh). So here's the list. All items are known to be working, I can do a quick test on most of the stuff at request, also pics are available at request. Please do not PM me, all...

i've got a nice little p3 machine i'd like to adapt for use as a htpc. It's a 650mhz p3 with 256mb sdram on a generic motherboard. With a nice PCI AIW card, say like an ati 7500, will this machine have enough power to run a htpc setup? thanks

I've got an old machine i'm trying to resurrect for home server duties. It's got an athlon 1200, ati 9000, and 256mb ram running on an epox 8k7a with two hdd's. The problem is that it seems like the IDE controller is a bit flakey. Neither primary or secondary channels work with the two hard...

I have a home network running through a Dell router, my PC is attached with cat5 and my laptop using 802.11b. It seems that every time i try to use my laptop on another network(i.e school), i come home and my home network is hosed. I have to run the new network wizard and set up a new...

I'm looking for a really small machine for my next mod. Basically I'm thinking of something like the Via Epia series in terms of size, maybe smaller. Does it exist? It doesnt have to have all that much functionality, (decent)onboard sound is pretty much the only requirement I have, in addition...

What's the absolut best defrag util out there? i've been using the windows one till now but i dont know if i like it so much, it doesnt seem to move data about efficiently enough. Seems like there's still too much space between data(in the analysis window representation that it shows you)...

I just picked up a Plextor 8x dvd burner. Great little drive, but I'd like to put it in an external enclosure so I can use it on all of my machines. I also dont want it to be used for reading, to reduce wear and tear(right now its the only drive in my Shuttle, so i'd like to get it out of...

i just reinstalled an OS on an Abit nv7-133R machine with onboard Nvidida Nforce sound. I installed the inified drivers from Abit's website, as well as from Nvidia's website, and still can't get the sound to work. It ius set to "auto" in the BIOS. Is there something i'm missing? there is no...

I want to defrag my C drive (WinXP install and a few drivers/programs), but the windows util wont defrag some files. I'm guessing this is because those files are in use by the OS and it wont allow the defrag util to move them around. I would map the drive on my network and do it from my laptop...