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Well, I run OpenBSD myself - and that works flawlessly on my aged system (Duron 700MHz). There's a ton of documentation in the OpenBSD FAQ on exactly how to set up DHCP (comes installed but disabled by default), as well as setting up named for caching. I also use the system as my...

As a network security specialist, I hate to say it, but the real world of IT security for "people like you" is that you get what you pay for. If you're not willing or able to dedicate at least one person full-time for securing your network and keeping on top of threats, you're not going to have...

Let's see - go on a trip, write it off as a training expense, drink lots of kegs of Guinness, and help deploy a network. What's not to like? Now if only I could persuade others to see it like that ;) I vote for DC as the east-coast meeting ground - it's right in the middle of the east...

The point is that ISP X pays a lot of money for bandwidth, peering agreements, and everything else that goes into getting an ISP off the ground. And sure, they give all users Y amount of bandwidth (5Mbit/sec download, whatever) - but part of the bandwidth calculation is the amount of users...

If there's ever one in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area, let me know and I'd be interested.

I agree with you completely. It's exactly the reason why MSFT has come down so hard on rogue torrents containing Service Packs or other hotfixes. If things go wrong with those installs, they get blaimed - even if the service packs were rebuilt chock full of viruses by malicious users and then...

Actually, OpenBSD has supported this forever as well ;) What the original poster has noticed was that - on finishing the install - OpenBSD asks if you want to set the default I/O device to the serial port (because by default the serial console is disabled). It's a neat idea, especially if...

First, make sure you have simple file sharing disabled, so you can get the full permissions suite. What you need to do is right click on the folder and go to properties, Security, Advanced, Ownership. Select your user (or just the Administrators group) and take ownership of the folder and...

Bad memory. Download memtest86, burn to a CD, and run - it should tell you which RAM sticks are bad. The only times that I've ever seen Windows fail during install giving those sorts of errors (line X of file Y is invalid) is when I have bad RAM on the machine. After that, you should be...

640KB/sec download, 80KB/sec upload assuming maximum theoretical throughput. In reality, you'll probably get close to these numbers, shouldn't be significantly slower - maybe 620 or 630KB/sec down and 75KB/sec up.

ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew This may change your IP address, but if it doesn't, do this: ipconfig /all Look for the section on DHCP lease length - and then keep your NIC unplugged for that period of time ;)

This is a massively open-ended question. It depends what you want to do with your firewall, just simple rule-based blocking such as "If connection to port X, drop it", etc. - or more complex ones like deep packet inspection to drop packets with certain payloads (such as those with the Code Red...

Also, regarding dumpchk opening and then flashing closed - try running it from a command prompt and see if that fixes the problem. I'd wager it's meant to be used from the console and so you need to pass it options, etc.

It sounds like a driver problem to me. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your motherboard, IDE controller, network card, and anything/everything else you think might possibly be related.

You wouldn't neccesarily want it be your default drive, but it'd make for a good storage drive. And 480Mbit/sec is certainly fast enough to stream all kinds of media off. I just use a server in the corner of my room for file storage and regularily stream movies and music off it (and that only...

Just to chip in: AMD Duron 700MHz, 384MB PC133 RAM, OpenBSD 3.5 I'll try it out with iperf later - I've heard good things about using it to test network speeds.

When a process is created, it is allocated memory that is "its" memory. It's not allowed to touch any other memory in RAM. If it does, the operating system's kernel terminates the process with a segmentation fault/general protection fault and so you get that error. Why does this happen...

You can download Cygwin that lets you emulate a lot of Linux-y software in Windows, and Ethereal has a Windows binary out on their website. So yes.

Not sure if this is related, but it looks like the WinMX network got turned off.

The password isn't *exactly* sent in the clear. In the older protocol (TOC) they XORed it with a known value (tictock if memory serves?). I'm not exactly sure how OSCAR sends the password, but I know it's not complete cleartext - there's at least mild obfuscation going on.

Well, there isn't a built-in capability in Windows to do exactly that. However, if you're using XP Professional, here's what you can do: Create a guest account and set the permissions on the account such that it does not have write access anywhere on the harddrive except for the account's...

We'll help - if you give more information. For instance, exactly what programs are you trying to use, what ports do they run on, and they used to function as expected and now they do not. How do they not function as expected? What error messages do they give? Are you sure the servers you're...

Except a backhoe :D

Short answer: yes it is possible. Medium answer: yes it is possible, but not for Joe-Random-Internet-User. Longer: It needs to be someone sitting in the path between you and the AIM servers (or the AIM server and whoever you're talking to), so that they can run a packet sniffer (such as...

Spybot search&destroy, Microsoft Antispyware, Lavasoft AdAware -- try one, two, or all three - can't hurt.

I assume you're running an internal webserver and are having the issue of people typing "domain.com" instead of "www.domain.com" and complaining "hey, the website is down?" I can't think of anything easy, except perhaps a redirection rule on a firewall so any traffic destined for port 80 on...

So when you right click on a link and select "Open in new window" nothing happens? (Request for further information) Have you scanned for spyware/etc.? (Obligatory suggestion)

Certain types of malware will be negated - but others will always exist. The most secure OSes are the ones that are least usable to the general public. For instance, if you look up some of the old (70s, 80s, early 90s) government trusted/secure operating system initiatives (the sort of secure...

My first thought was that one (or more) of the machines were compromised and rootkits installed and now being run as FTP servers or just DOS zombies. I'd say unplug every single computer from the network except for a *known good* machine, and rerun the bandwidth test. Also, what kind of...

Click the box and then hit S or + on your keyboard to spawn nodes. I was very confused at first too :)

Fair enough :) Last time I tried to slipstream a Windows CD, it was probably years ago and I didn't go any farther than looking at the MSFT documenation on "do this" - I'll have to look into that.

One thing to remember about repair installs is that you'll need to reapply service packs and other updates, as a lot of the files fixed by service packs/hotfixes are restored to the original (buggy, vulnerable) state by the original XP disk. You can get around this by slipstreaming all of the...

The easiest way I can think of to build a network like that would be: [192.168.1.1] Cable modem/Router [192.168.1.x] Main network, with family computers, etc. [192.168.1.y | 192.168.2.1] A second router, for your "private" network [192.168.2.x] Private network computers This way...

The problem that you will most likely encounter is that your larger/largest files will not be able to be defragmented, while the smaller files will defragment without any complications. The reason you need so much free space is so that the utility can move large file fragments to free space...

I'm not entirely sure how Linux's DHCP server works, but you should be able to tell it a specific interface to advertise out of - and as long as you aren't advertising out of the internet-facing link, you shouldn't have any problems. Also, of course, you can use the firewall to block that...

I think this thread has gone pretty far off topic - how about giving it a rest?

Honestly, I think you've summed up most options, and Simple#3 is the best by far. It's never a good idea (for a whole host of ideas) to have two different corporate entities sharing the same local area network. You get into crazy stuff like liability, expenses, etc. Easier to just tell them...

So... if I get this right, the satellite office is connected through a leased line back to corporate HQ, so a traceroute would show something like: desktop PC foo satellite router corporate router corporate firewall internet-at-large If this is the case, then there's no way to pull it...

That's really not a good excuse, to be honest. If you're trying to run a webserver - and make sure it's secure - you'll need to hire a server administrator with security experience to maintain the machine. As said above, security is not a checklist (do A, then B, then C, then system is...

I'm assuming you have Windows on the primary harddrive? You should be able to install it just fine and configure a boot loader (such as grub) to know about both operating systems (Windows on primary, Linux on secondary).