adamvjackson

On a side note, the registration is open for Office 11 Beta 2... While I'm not sure if I can post the username and password here, they're readily available.

Glad I could help!

Thank you...

Ok, first, in your folder options, do you have the option set to view hidden/system files? I would enable that, first. Second, you will need an .inf file, as that includes the installation information for windows to install the driver. Have you had a chance to check out http://www.driverguide.com yet? That's where I get most of my drivers, that are either unsupported or unavailable from the OEM.

For the record, I consider myself a decent tech, but even so, I need to run my ideas and thoerys past others, that's helps me learn, and perhaps others, too. I really hope you grow up, and learn some respect and manners, Butternuts. Oh, and no, I do not choose to 'hide' per say behind an alias. Please, either be respectful or leave.

I've never actually recieved an email based virus, ever.

On a completely unrelated sidenote, can any of the mods tell me approx. how much bandwidth is used daily?

I've noticed that if you leave the pop-up window open (usually Smart Certify here) that you will not get more pop-ups... Hope I'm not cheating Phillip out of any money with that tip?!

Yes, I do buy my operating systems. I am a network administrator, and because of that position, I am obligated to two things: 1. Be aware of software licensing and reprocessions of compliance failure 2. The need to be familiar with the most common software I would be lying if I said that I have never downloaded software which I was not entitled to do so, however, if I personally find the software to be useful, I will purchase a copy/license. Also, if the software does not meet my needs, it is removed immediately. This is a fine line that I walk, and I know that it is in the gray area, there's no denying that.

Quote: I've been thinking of springing for a copy of HD Manager from Paragon, but it's kinda expensive (although comes with a lot of cool stuff like being able to read ext2 and ext3 partitions natively in Windows 2K/XP, convert dynamic->basic non-destructively, resize clusters, boot manager, etc). The new PartitionMagic 8 can read Ext2/3 partitions in Win32 as well...

I believe there was a thread about this subject about a month ago, and the recommended program was 3Com Network Supervisor, which is either free or has a 30/45 day demo... I'll have to check when I get home. Anyway, a search on the 3Com site might turn it up.

Quote: MS went back and said... "ok, here is what we did wrong, lets optimize this and take it to the next level". I thought that was the general idea behind service packs?! Well, bugfixes, at least.

It's my opinion that regardless of what 'other' software you have on your pc, you should at least have the OS be legit. Explain to me why, Ali, that Windows 2000/XP is not worth the price to legally obtain?

Quote: HL - QUAKE1 engine Actually Half-Life used a heavily-modded Quake 2 engine, FYI.

Lindows (n): (1) A plague upon the Linux community.

Quote: the problem comes when you take your computer to a computer shop and ask the service guy to reinstall windows. Yes, yes indeed.

Here's my credit to XP, which I've said all along. If you have to purchase a new OS, get XP only because it will be supported longer than 2k. There.

On my 'To Buy' list... But then again, it was even before I saw the leak... On a completely unrelated side note, also on my 'To Buy' list is a 4GHz processor and a Geforce5..

Ok, so do you think that was really John Carmack? I'm not so sure myself.

Quote: could you use a spam killer like Ad-Aware to stop it or this is something? Doubtful, as Ad-Aware would see this as normal. Best bet is to disable the messenger service, unless your network requires it to be enabled.

Quote: For some reason i hate partition magic. it seems to mess things up easily. I personally have used both PartitionMagic and DriveImage for work, and personal uses. I think that currently there's no better program, except perhaps Norton Ghost. In all the uses that I've had with versions 6-8 of PartitionMagic, I've never had any problems. In fact, it's actually helped solve problems that other partitioning utilities caused. Not sure exactly what problems you've been having, perhaps you could post the errors?

Well, S3 is not the best anyway. However, Asus, with any Intel chipset 8xx is just fine. Not bad, not great for gaming, but not bad at all.

Well, if you must have MSCONFIG in 2000, you can download the XP version, it works fine. However, I really don't see the benefit of it, if you're vell seasoned with regedit.

What doesn't work about it? I had no problems installing and running the demo here...

I had heard about this exploit a while back, but to be honest, this is the first I've seen of it, how interesting.