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    Has anyone been able to sucessfully pre-order online?

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20007758-260.html I've been trying since about 10am EST with no luck - always times out when trying to pull up the ATT info on my upgrade eligibility. ATT has fucked over apple so many times - they can't even sell pre-orders because ATT can't get its servers...
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    Noctua or other slient fans...

    I dropped the 300 bones on a SSD to replace a raptor that....after a couple years of using it the army of ants moving the hd heads finally got to me. Now that they are no longer making noise the fans are now the noise culprit :P I already have a 120 MM noctua on my TRUE heatsink....but now...
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    Office 2k10

    Anyone get an invite? And if so, how is it? Just wondering as i spend the majority of my day in outlook....:rolleyes:
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    FS: Asus P5E, Q6600, 4GB Corsair

    $$Price Drop $$ Looking to part out the mobo/memory/proc to subsidize the i7 Upgrade I'm willing to part out stuff, but ideally I'd like it to all go to one place to keep shipping to a minimum. All prices are shipped. I can also add insurance if desired. ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX...
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    Tethering on IPhone 3G....

    So i loaded up the working profile to enable tethering and bam simple usb connection into the Win 7 laptop and its working like a champ. Now haha what are the odds that ATT catches on that its not normal iphone safari browser usage beyond the fact that my user agent now now reads mozilla :D...
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    [FS] : ASUS Eee PC 4G w/ 1GB of RAM

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220244 Bought this back when netbooks first became cool....has served great on business trips. Currently has Ubuntu EEE PC edition loaded up. Have orignal sleeve. $150.00 Shipped 160 w/ 8 GB SDHC card included...
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    Virtual Box: Host Vista x64 Guest: Windows 7 Sound?

    Anyone else get sound working using virtual box on a vista x64 ultimate host with a windows 7 guest? Googled it for a bit and tried fiddling with a bunch of the setting but to no avail. :rolleyes:
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    Vista crashes = check your drivers.

    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-vista-capable-lawsuit-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.html figures. 95% of all vista issues are caused by drivers.:rolleyes:
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    Virtualization: Guest system pegging the CPU on a decent server

    Host system: Server 2003 x64 quad xenon 5355 @ 2.66ghz 16gb Ram VMWare Server....unfortunately *not* esx server... aka "The Beast" Guest: Server 2003 32bit SE 2GB Ram Here is the issue: I'm trying to set up a quasi-QA environment to test out some of our new software...
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    Virtualization Issues: 100% CPU usage on guest system

    Host system: Server 2003 x64 quad xenon 5355 @ 2.66ghz 16gb Ram VMWare Server....unfortunately *not* esx server... aka "The Beast" Guest: Server 2003 32bit SE 2GB Ram Here is the issue: I'm trying to set up a quasi-QA environment to test out some of our new software...
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    Server 2008 and SQL 2008

    How can I get the SQL DB Engine service to run as a local\system account? Do I need to add a certain role or feature or change a permission setting somewhere? Cheers
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    THE SP1 Poll

    Every post I read about SP1 has someone moaning about it failing on them. Personally I installed it fine...even with a circuit breaker going out in the middle of the install and powering down my whole system. Did SP1 Installation work for you? Yes Or No. If the majority is yes...lets...
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    Server 2008

    Just got the whole server 2008 pitch and MS exec back slapping that is a "hero's happen here" event today.... Does anyone else besides the people they had give testimonials actually have it in prod yet? Some of the features they showed off made my mouth water....I'm tempted to switch all...
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    DST fix woes

    We have automatic updates using SUS on our domain. However, the problem we are having is a majority of our XP clients are set to download updates automatically and ask when to install them. The majority of the user base ignores the yellow shield, and on others the updates only appear to want...
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    Windows experience index...

    I know the whole score is bunk and not really inidcative of pc performance...but its saying my lowest subscore is my processor with a 4.9 with a 939 X2 4600+ What are other peoples processors/scores on other vista rigs? and could I bump that up a little with an opty?
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    Vista compatible my foot. Digital download locker escapades.

    So I figured I'd give the "digital download locker" a go. (Microsoft's software download service). I had run the compatibility checker previously and everything checked out with a few warnings about various software that may need my attention. All my hardware was deemed kosher. Cool. entered the...
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    HP SCSI LTO Drive

    We already have a disk-to-disk back-up san in place, but we are across a wan connection so we are installing an additional SCSI LTO tape drive....this scsi chain needs to be terminated like any other, correct? The drive is an external HP Storageworks 460 Ultrium LTO 2 connected to a HP U320...
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    DNS poisoning

    Anyone else had any experience with preventing or blocking it? Our DNS servers got hit this morning and google along with alot of other tech related sites were suddenly linking to googlelink.com. Frustrating to say the least. Flushing the DNS cache on the clients and servers cleared up the...
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    undelete to prevent user stupidity

    Are there any products that someone could recommend for Server 2003 that act as a fail safe for user stupidity/provide an option to collect all deleted files? We have a 24 hour daily back up to a Tivoli server, but that only provides 24 hour coverage...so if you work for 6 hours, save your...
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    FF 2.0 Crashing like nobodies business

    I've been running FF 2.0 since Tuesday and its been crashing almost reliably on the hour. :mad: Anyone else having similar issues with it just bonking on certain pages and then when you go back to the same page its fine?
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    ludite bosses or project managers

    I've been a network admin for a state government agency for about a year now and whenever it comes to hardware and software management it seems like any situation that gets more technical in a sense that you have to know more than what the accronyms and buzzwords mean they go off on tangents...
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    Windows Server 2003 *appliance edition*

    Does anybody have any experience with OS? In particular on an IOMEGA 200d NAS. The web interface is pretty and all but it seems to be going slooooow as anything and won't let me add domain users as admins for some reason. Any ideas? I've switched back and forth between DHCP and Static to...
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    Exchange and AD

    Is there a way to take a group in AD and use that group to create a distribution list in exchange? I have a group of all the employees in our department (700+), each account in AD also has a mailbox in exchange, can I use this group somehow to create the DL instead of entering individuals. dx2
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    Data Retention

    Just Read this: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6078229.html?part=rss&tag=6078229&subj=news and not once does the article mention who foots the bill? Overhead in administration and hardware costs would drive the price of highspeed internet access even higher? Could some of the proposals...
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    Blackberry's as a NA....blessing or curse?

    I just got a blackberry 7130e for work....I was just wondering what some other peoples experiences with them have been. Access to e-mail regardless of computer availability seems to be nice, but being able to recieve notice about circuit failures and servers going down on the weekend seems like...
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    ipcop vs smoothwall

    I'm putting together a box to use as a router/firewall because I've gotten sick of my linksys befsr41v3 taking a dump everytime I let one big torrent, let alone a couple, get goin good. I've installed and used ipcop along with a few of its mods like url filter, it seems to support more nics...
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    Installing multiple printer drivers on PC's for deployment

    Here's the deal....we have a desktop deployment of roughly 50 pc's on the horizon and are in the process of building an image for them. We have standardized to two network printers and some smaller HP laserjets for certain individuals' offices. What is the best way to install the drivers for...
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    AD and local profiles

    Is there any way that local profiles established on an XP machine can imported to their respective domain profiles which have the same username once a computer joins a windows 2003 domain?
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    Windows Server 2003/AD/Group Policy Help

    Anyone know of some good tutorials on setting up Active directory in a purely 2003/XP environment and implementing group policy objects? dx2
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    East Coast/ New England LANs

    Anyone know of any besides the East Coast Massacre? specifically in the connecticut/ mass achusetts area I've been wanting to go to one for a while and can't since I've gradauted college....no more easy setups in the common rooms/gyms
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    Weirdest place you've had to install or maintain a network? *with pics*

    Recently I've gotten a new job deploying and maintaining networks in a state prison system. If you thought working in a corporate environment was bad...think again... Just wondering what were some others wierdest/hardest places to administer a network? Oh and heres a pic of the new digital...
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    Holiday Technolust....w/ pics if you want :)

    So what is everyone giving the fam or themselves technology wise this holiday season? Myself? I gave myself an upgrade to an Athlon 64 system :)...dual core by new years you say? heck, why not? :p a few snapshots:
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    Thin client environments

    I've been doing a little research on thin client environments. In particular has anybody had any good/bad/otherwise experiences with citrix or neoware? I'm just trying to get a basic grasp of the whole lots of servers with puny workstations concept. Thanks -dx2
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    Free BSD 6.0 Install

    Im working my way through an install of Free BSD 6.0 on a IBM Thinkpad T23...anyt tips or suggestions to make the install go any smoother and will it pick up all my drivers out of the gate? thanks dx2
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    Reasonable prices?

    What would be a reasonable price to "reimage" a machine? (ie wipe off all the trojans/adware/spyware) Reimage including databackup and a reinstall of the os and drivers. Data backup being a loose sense of the term and including just music, photos, documents, email, and favorites, and just...
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    ubuntu and mounting an NTFS filesystem

    I plugged my external drive with all my media into my kubuntu box because I want to stream my mp3s using gnump3d to work... The default directory for the gnump3d is /var/music and I've switched it to /media/sda1 but it doesn't like and has trouble listing all the media files... is there...
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    Lots of Windows gurus...any linux help out there here?

    There seem to be a ton of windows gurus that post here....any body had any experience setting up kubuntu....ive been goin through a couple of the different versions(hoary and breezy) and none of the repositories seem to work perfectly outside of the big stuff ie apache and php which is cool, but...
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    Apple care worth the extra few bucks?

    I'm looking into getting one of the new ibooks and i've had to repair a bunch of the older ones at work lately....what a nightmare just to replace a hd on those g3 ibooks. I know most warranties on consumer electronics (ie the shit they do everything but force down you're throat at places like...
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    Short DST Test...

    Just a shot in the dark but, If a drive fails this "industry standard" or so I read, is it as good as dead or could a format and reinstall of xp help? its a dell laptop thats doing it and the diagnostics prog that came with it always fails this test and now it wont boot xp after I've run...
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