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Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction, as I'm pulling my hair out. Working on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit OS, with SQL Server 2008 R2 installed. I've setup Windows Server Backup (WSB) to backup nightly to a dedicated internal hard drive. I have SQL maintenance...

OK, here's the deal. Looking at doing a laptop mod. I'm going to be stripping the guts out of the case and remounting them. It's an older laptop and requires a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card to get the faster speed I need out of an external device. However, I don't like how the card extends out the side of...

OK, scoured Google, can't find what I need. Throwing it to you guys. If I want to mount an 80mm fan on a case, I can Google "80mm fan template", and I get tons of printable fan templates I can tape to a case to Dremmel out a hole and the correct locations for the screw holes. Does anyone...

Ok, need some help/recommendations. I've been tasked with a project at work that should be straightforward, but, somehow I've managed to garble it up. The deal: Take an in-house produced DVD, and play it back on a PC with a widescreen LCD for customers to view. The details: Dell GX620...

Looking for recommendations. My current DVD-ROM is dying, and it was a little lound anyways. (What I get for going cheap on that part.) Good time to upgrade. Anyone have any recommendations for a quiet DVD drive for an HTPC? I just need IDE, and maybe even black, but I can vinyl dye if not...

Hey all, Curious if anyone's had any issues running dual widescreen mode monitors from a single 7900 series card? The specs for the card show that it can handle 2560x1600 for a single, but I haven't found what it can handle for dual-monitor specs. Need to be able to run 2 at 1650x1080. I...

OK, gettign a Mac Mini here soon, and gonna spring for hte built-in wireless. I have a Linksys 802.11g router at home (the WRT54G model). I've read that Apple branded wireless cards and non-Apple wireless acces points have had issues in the past. I already have a WAP and don't wanna spring for...

I know that the VGA adapter for the 12" iBook can mirror the image to an external monitor, but I have a question on this. Can the iBook be powered up and mirror the display to an external monitor while the lid is closed? I'd like to use this with an external k/b, mouse and monitor, but I'd like...

OK, title says it all. Tried Microsoft.com, google, no help. Basically, if I get an e-mail with a photo attachment, and I open the attachement, it's opening with the Microsoft "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer". OK, no problem there. If I hit the print icon, it opens up the "Photo Printing...

OK, so I finally downloaded and watched an Apple trailer in 720P (Fantastic 4 from the trailer site). Damn! That's sweet! OK, so I want to show this off to some friends, (the QT 7 with the H.264 codec, let 'em drool over it), and I don't want to download 122Mb every time. I found the file in my...

Anyone who know Windows will know what I'm looking for. I need to knwo if there's a file in OS X or if I can make one for local DNS entries. Basically, I'd like to be able to manually enter IP to web name addresses for my system, so it looks locally first. Basically, it's for reeling in the...

OK people, heads up. We've all been enjoying the safe and secure browsing of Safari, and telling people that IE sucks because of Active X. Hate to say it, but those days may be over. The real problem of IE is the Active X controlls that allows anyting to be downloaded and installed off of hte...

Straight from Newegg. Month end special. No rebates. Free Fed-Ex saver shipping. 2.5 CAS, non-ECC, lifetime warranty. KINGMAX 512MB 200-Pin DDR SO-DIMM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Notebook Memory http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820155122 Not a notebook guy, but seems like a...

OK, got a DVD audio disc on order, came as a bundle with a CD I ordered. I was wondering if OS X has anything included to play DVD audio discs, (since we all have DVD players), or if there's a program to play them on the Mac? I'm hoping iTunes will just do it natively, but since I don't have any...

OK, the title says it all. I have a G5 at home with 10.3.7. I have an XP_SP2 boxen at work. I want to be able to dial up my Mac at home and controll it remotely while at work. I'm not looking for a terminal line solution, or FTP access, I'd like full GUI control. I'm versed in RDC for Wintel...

OK, so last Wednesday, I went to Best Buy and grabbed an iPod Photo 30Gb. Since then, I've also had to get an Apple iPod Photo dock, a Griffin iTrip, a firewire connector (I hate USB for data transfer), and I'm going to go out now and get a Griffin iPod cup holder for the truck. And I'm REALLY...

OK, I finally got an iPod today. (YES!) Picked up an iPod photo 30Gb. This thing is SOOOO sweet. Ok, so like I've seen these before, helped various people set up iPods and iPod minis, but they were all monochrome. The color screen ROCKS! I am SO glad I waited and got this model. OK, question...

OK, this was up on the front page of the [H] today. There's a review up about the Volari V3XT AGP card at BigBruin today. (Linky) Here's the deal though: I've seen/heard runblings about this card receintly. I've never heard of the chipset before a few months ago. The review talks about this...

Someone got some video somewhere showing how to take a Mac Mini apart. As opposed to the "iHome" scam before Macworld, this may be legit. Quality is horible, due to massive video compression, but very readable. Get it while you can, before Apple Legal pulls the plug: Linky

OK, so i've been putting together an HTPC for a while now, and I got it pretty much where I want to, hardware wise, except for the case. I got it running in a POS desktop for now. I was plannign on custom building an aluminum case for it, with the layout I wanted, but with the holiday season...

<RANT> OK, I got the Sage bundle of a Happague 250 MCE, Sage TV and the Snapstream remote. I'm REALLY disappointed with the Sage DVD playback. Quality is fine, but the way it does it sucks! Chapter skipping puts you 5 - 10 seconds AFTER the chapter marker. It doesn't recognize WS DVD's, and...

OK, so Apple released the new single processor G5 Firmware update today. Like a dumbass, I go and download it day one and install it. Now my USB chain is all fuxor'd up. Keyboard goes out, mouse quits, USB headset stops working. Grrrrrr :mad: Anyone else as stupid as me and load it yet...

OK, while I'm making a custom HTPC case, I've moved the guts of the thing into a temp case. I've started playing with it to the point that I've detached my main DVD player from my TV and use my HTPC exclusively. One thing I've noticed though: for some reason, I miss my DVD's LCD for time and...

Hey all, Need to get a USB and Firewire card, or one of each, for my G5/1.6 model. The Apple site doesn't have the specs online anymore for this model, but I think I remember that I have 3 normal PCI slots, and not the newer PCI-X slots. I ask because all of the cards I've seen for USB and...

OK, output question time. I've been hearing that the TV/S-Video output on the Hauppague 350 is really good. I was wondering, if I'm only going to use my HTPC for TV out, and almost never hook it up to a computer monitor, and I don't plan to game on it, do you think I could get away with saving...

OK, I'm going to work on a custom case here shortly. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I'm looking to get a removable motherboard tray to mount in the case. Every search I do for a tray returns EVERY single CASE with a seperate tray availible, and I cannot find just the tray for sale. I've...

OK, so I'm drooling over the newly announced X800 and 6800 cards. However, I have a small delima... I have a G5 and an Apple Studio display. Normally, I'd get an AGP card with Mac drivers and go, but, since PCI-X is supposed to be better than AGP, and I need an ADC connector, I seem to be...

OK, so I'm running 10.3.3, and I like using Sherlock to find out the times and places close-by for movies. But every damn time I click on the movie to get the times, Sherlock starts downloading the movie trailer. I didn't even ask it to. I checked in Sherlock's preferences, to see if I could...

OK, so I have a bezel that I'm going to die here soon. Before that though, I would like to move some switches and LED holders around. I was planning on using bondo to re-mount the components when I was done. I know vinyl die is recommended for re-coloring the plastic bezel, but will it work or...

OK, some back ground. I got a manager here at work (read family member of the owner) who wanted to hook up his new 40Gb 3rd Gen iPod to the work computer because he was "to busy at home" to rip his CD's to his iPod there. (Must be nice....) So, after a FW PCI card and an 80Gb HDD install, I got...

Got a friend who just got an older Mac, (Performa 6214CD). He's got OS 8.0 on there. He wants to run iTunes on it. I'm thinking he could run ver 2.0 of iTunes, but I can't find it for download on Apple's site, current version only. Is there a download availible from Apple.com for older...

OK, need some info/opinions. I have FCE 1.0. Works good for me. FCE 2.0 is out, and I can upgrade for cheap. But my question is, why? Other than the fact that FCE 2.0 was announced, I don't see anything breathtaking that would make me want to go out and rob a CompUSSR to get a copy, aside...