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Here is the slide set from my networking class. It provides a good explanation of how IP addresses work, and the ideas behind classless and classful addressing schemes. http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/teaching/fall2001/ccn2001-slides5a.pdf AlecStar, these ip's (10.* 192.* etc) are considered non-routable because they are reserved for internal lan use. For example, lets say that you used 216.239.* ip ranges behind your router. If you wanted to go to google, its address (216.239.53.99) falls into the same class as your internal network and you would never get there because your router would believe 216... was an internal address. To prevent this, these "non-routable" ip addresses were set aside. By using them on your internal network, you can be guranteed that no host on the internet will have an ip address in your internal range.

anyone have a problem where they cant d/l windowsupdates. as soon as i try to dl/install them, they dont d/l and i get an error saying that win-updates failed, and to email ms. anyone seen this?

unfortunatly, win2k doesnt have single user mode like linux, but you can reset the pw. info is here: http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html basically, this boot disc loads linux, mounts the ntfs drive, and can insert an updated password into the SAM file. Ultrix

does anyone know what version of directx comes with sp3. 8.1b i hope.

One cant judge drivers based on framerate alone. Ive been programming an opengl win32 program for the past few months. When it came time to put the finishing touches on, i found out that ONLY the nvidia 28.32 and higher drivers supported the opengl extensions that i was using. So, just a word of advice, nust because new drivers perform slower, they might support newer things (like wgl_nv_render_texture) in my case. read the nvidia documentation about rendering to textures, they say that only 28.xx and higher support the extensions required. Ultrix

just thought i would say that i dont like the new banner on the left of the page. Ultrix

Last xmas, i bought 2 sticks of generic 128mb pc133 ram for my vp6. It worked fine for 3 weeks, and all of a sudden i started getting random bluescreens. They mostly dealt with corrupt files and the such. After searching forums and such i found out that the ram was my problem. So i got 1 stick of crucial 256mb and no more bluescreens.But i have never heard of crucial ha ving problems, thats why i bought it.

I agree, performance will be the same. 1 512mb stick will take up one less slot leaving room for expansion. However, it is cheaper to get 2 sticks of 256 than one of 512. So do u want to spend less, or spend more and leave room for upgrades in the future???

You guys are paranoid idiots. If you take the total system ram, subtract the amount used for the system cache, u get the available. Available is just what is free and not in use. That is why everytime you run msinfo32 u get a different number. If you press ctrl-alt-del and go to task manager, change to the performance tab and look at the physical memory box. It lists total, available, and system cache, and believe it or not, system cache + available = total :-) Ultrix

It basically said that the devilsown release was cracked and that this new group has released a true final corp that is untouched by anyone after it came out of microsoft. They also claim it runs "smoother". I was skeptical and had someone do a CDCheck to compare the devilsown iso with this new iso, and evedently, every file checked out. There were the exact number of files, and they were all exactly the same in content and size. So I'm not really worried. Ultrix

I have a wintv theater and this is my experience. I used the old 220 wdm drivers that didnt support the wintv and they worked fine. The feature that was lacking was controlling the onboard audio decoder (it decodes dolby pro logic so its special). The video however worked fine. Under audio options, there was no advanced tab to configure the prologic. So, when i changed channels, the audio would flake out. However, I was using a vcr as my tuner, running a rca line for video and plugging the vcr's audio right into my soundcard, bypassing the broken audio support. These new drivers do have the advanced audio button to configure the dolby prologic and i have had no audio glitches like before, so i am gonna say they offically support the wintv-theater. Ultrix

The simple answer: mixing will work in your case. The technical answer: the PCxxx rating of ram is the speed it is guranteed to operate at. PC66 ram rould run at 66mhz, PC100 will run at 100mhz and 66mhz, and PC133 will run at 133, 100, and 66mhz. The speed of your ram is determined by your front side bus speed. Therefore, if you are running 100mhz fsb (which i think you are because you had pc100 in there origionally), when you added the stick of pc133, it is running at pc100 speed. SO in theory you should see ZERO performance by swapping out the pc100 for the pc133. However, there are other ram specifications that make ram faster and thats the CAS rating. CAS2 ram will run faster than CAS3 ram, because it takes 2ns to do a ram refresh, not 3ns. (dram's design is nice in that it takes one transistor and one cap for each bit one wishes to write. however the with a cap, this requires the storage modules to be recharged, if you write a 1 or 0 to a bit in the ram and dont recharge it, the data disapears as the cap looses charge. The CAS rating is how long it takes for the refresh. (and some other timing issues too). Basically, 2ns is faster than 3ns so cas2 ram is faster. If your pc100 is cas3, and you replace it with your pc133, run it at 100mhz fsb and cas2 setting, it will be slightly faster. The bset thing to do is use a much ram as you can, and tweak the cas settings till you find a stable one (try 2, if it doesnt work, go back to 3). But if all your ram is rated at cas2, make sure thats what you are running, you will benefit. The other thing you can do to get more speed is this: Your kt133 chipset runs 133mhz fsb. If you can unlock your 1ghz athlon, drop the multiplier down to 7.5, and run it at 133mhz fsb. The net processor clock speed change will be zero, but the bandwidth to the processor will be 33% larger. This will force your ram to run at 133mhz also, giving you more ram bandwidth. However, your existing pc100 ram might not run at 133mhz. But the overall increace in bandwidth will result in faster performance. In my opinion, the best thing to do is run 133mhz fsb with 256mb of ram. If you can't, put as much pc100 as you can into your system and run it the way it is. It will work just fine. Hope i didnt confuse you too much Ultrix

Here is something else you can try, its called "DScaler". Its a tv viewing application that has a built in line doubler and a bunch of deinterlacing filters, along with noise reduction and some other filters. All i have to say is WOW. It makes standard tv look like a digital tv, and on a copmuter monitor it really shines. Im running the latest build of Dscaler (3.20) and the older versions of the WDM drivers on hauppauges page (the ones before the new ones that were posted yesterday. IM in the USA so im running NTSC (WinTv Theater). In the hardware setup i selected "Standard BT878" as the chip and "Phillips NTSC" as the tuner. Do a channel scan and be amazed. There is no remote support but if you are clever you can rewrite the ini file from the ir32.exe installation to get the hauppauge remote to run dscaler (i havnt gotten time to do it, but ive had the remote running winamp). if you have any knowledge of computers you could probably figure it out, it is very straightforward. Dscaler can be found here: http://deinterlace.sourceforge.com check out some of the screen shots, its preety amazing. Ultrix

Im running a VP6 and this is what you have to do: Make sure you have the latest bios (im running yt (its a beta but works great). you can get it from www.vp6-board.com then go into bios and make sure to Set MPS Spec. to 1.1 (its in advanced options i believe). When you run winxp setup, when it says "press f6 for third party drivers" press f5, in a minute a little menu will come up and allow you to select what kind of computer you have, select "MPS Multiprocessor". DO NOT select ACPI Multi as WinXP will NOT work. This is a known problem on the VP6 that MS has yet to fix. Now that your are running MPS multi with MPS spec 1.1, let xp install. Next, after you can log into it, go to device manager and view the properties on the raid controller. you should notice that the driver was provided by MS, not highpoint. You have to check update driver, select it from a list, and use the driver 1.0.3b (i think thats the right version, its the one that came with my mobo). If you dont force winxp to take the driver it won't. After you update it, check back the driver info to make sure it took. With this driver i have no problems in winxp Ultrix.

if you arn't using your raid controller, disable it. otherwilse you need to make sure the winxp drivers are updated. WinXP ships with raid drivers for the HPT370, but they are slow and caused me problems with my sound (slowdowns when reading the hd's). if you go into device manager and view driver info on the raid controller, you will most likely see it is made by MS. They were also sneaky and to update a driver, if it doesnt detect a digital signature, it wont automatically install it. You have to select the advanced route, and dont tell it to detect your hardware, you have to manually select the inf and select the hardware from the list. Im using raid drivers 1.0.3b on my VP6 with no problems.