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Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wolf87: Due to memory bandwith limitation you get nothing more with a Geforce 2 Ultra than you would have with regular Geforce 2. Because of this same bandwith limitation 64 Meg ram and 32 Meg ram on a Geforce 2 give almost same performance. </font> Unless you are running high resolution (1024x768 or above), at which point the increase in local memory size helps a great deal. In addition, the higher clock rate of the RAM (from 333 on a GTS, to 400 on a GTS Pro, to 500 on an Ultra) will offset the b/w limitation. In addition, he already has 384MB of RAM, and that wouldn't help 3D acceleration anyway as much as it would help with level load times and swap file hits. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I don't know if anybody knows about this, but you can access your terminal server in Win2K with this page. Bear in mind that 3389 still has to be open/forwarded to the server, but it works well. www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/recommended/tsac ------------------ Regards, clutch

The GeForce cards kick A$$. I have used them on both my home workstations (Win2K and NT4) and my workstation at the office (Win2K). I play games and use a Solidworks (a 3D modeling CAD app). They are cheap, and you can find a version to fit your needs and wallet. I use a GeForce GTS Pro 64MB at home on my main station, while my NT box and office workstation have regular GeForce SDR 32MB cards in them. They work, and they work well. ------------------ Regards, clutch

It's a sound card. So, for A3D sound, maybe. But I don't think D3D would be an issue with this particular piece of hardware. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Win2K will work quite well on your system. Matrox has gone through a lot of effort to get their drivers certified under Win2K and WinNT for most of the CAD/CAM/3D apps on ther market. It should game pretty well, too. ------------------ Regards, clutch

What are the specs of your PC? ------------------ Regards, clutch

I don't think that a company would just upgrade 1 or 2 machines. Plus upgrade costs cover: 1. Tech time 2. New hardware/software upgrades for the OS It's easy to rack up several thousand bucks (US) just to upgrade 20-30 PCs, not including the servers. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Vampyr: You do realize Video and sound editing requires more geek power than playing stupid quake 3 right? (quake 3 runs faster on mac too!)</font> If I were stuck using an ATI Rage Pro 16MB, and a P3 450 then I guess it would be faster. As far as geek power goes, I have yet to see an enterprise network even consisting of Macs, let alone managed by one. There's far more geek power in managing a TB or so of ERP data than in editing video or sound clips. Not that you would see anything mission critical on a Mac. I wonder why that is... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Quote: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Vampyr: Lets see... focused on the gui... WRONG!!!!!!!!! Totally disregard that they went to a BSD core for MacOS X. If MacOS isn't all that stable then how come 90% (or so) of graphic artists use Macs as their main workstation and 98% of all recording artists use Macs as well (Look at LucasFilm and Skywalker ranch... 100% Mac users)</font> Simplicity. If someone already has a complicated job in graphics (or whatever), he/she may not have the patience for working with an OS that requires thought. In addition, the Motorolla processor with its short piplines was faster than the Wintel platform, up until the arrival of the PII/PIII 450s. Since then, a lot of software has still focused on the Mac, but that has been changing. As far as the BSD core, you just argued in favor for jdulmage. They seem to have gone to the BSD core to enhance performance and stability. I believe he was making a broad statement about the direction that MacOS has been on over the last 5 years. They have been relying on the hardware to carry the software, and the user base to continue being appeased by simplicity rather than performance (hence the iMac). However, due to the CPU architecture, there have not been any major improvements to the clock speed/raw performance for a while (however, that is changing at this moment), and that has stalled out the Apple/Mac platform. Haven't you noticed that the most publicly known "feature" changes of the Apple machines has been going from fruit colors to Indigo and "Flower Power"? ------------------ Regards, clutch

You could enable the guest account, just bear in mind that the security hole will be huge. If you have the NT box sitting on another network (cable/xDSL, LAN at school, etc) EVERYBODY will get access to your PC from the network without the need for authentication. If you are looking for convenience, then 5371's suggestion is the answer. ------------------ Regards, clutch

3DFX is dead. Thanks to poor management, it is dead. Will the technology live on? Yes. As far as the expense of moving to a higher transistor count, that is correct. Somehow they have to cover the cost of the new fab equipment, plus the losses in the first runs on that equipment. The ROI is inflated to cover that expense, and the cost will stay inflated due to lack of competition. nVidia canned 3DFX. Long live capitalism. In addition, Doom 3 not having an MP mode would suck. But I think I read somewhere that this was the case. And if you read it on a website, it must be true. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, I have worked with subscription based software, and I don't think that the OS will virtually run off the web. That is a lot of infrastructure to dedicate to customers getting online just to validate their OS at boot up or whatever. Plus, there will still be the vast majority of people on analog modems, so the online performance for browsing is barely acceptable as it is, let alone have an OS getting everything it *thinks* it needs. Win98 has been getting its patches in "Windows Update" for the last 3 years with no real issues. I would imagine that XP would go to a system like that. As far as performance goes, a few of the testers on the Windows XP forum seem to like it, and I imagine it will be fine. I haven't tested it, but from what I have read of the OS it will have a lot of features that I don't need (personal firewall, built-in burner software, etc). I bet it will be awesome when it comes out (you know, after SP1 or 2...), but I am not holding my breath for it. Oh, and as far as using old equipment with the newer MS OSs, I have an old Compaq Prosignia 233 here that I just put Win2K server on. It runs Exchange 5.5 *faster* in Win2K Server than it did in NT4. Something to think about.

While I couldn't care less for the eternal batch loader, or using an app to load games at various priorities, I don't think that APK is out to harm anyone. He posts stuff here because he is trying to help people. I haven't seen him go out of his way to make rude comments or anything, so it's no big deal. At least he's trying.

System Configs * W2K-1 (Main Workstation) 1. Windows 2000 Professional SP1 2. PIII 800e (8x100) 3. AOpen AX-34 Motherboard 4. 384MB PC-133 RAM (3x128MB@133MHz) 5. Hercules Prophet II GTS Pro 6. Soundblaster Live! MP3+ 7. Intel Pro/100 Management Adapter 8. IBM 25GB ATA-33 5400RPM Hard Drive 9. Samsung SD-604 5/32X DVD-ROM 10. 1.44MB Floppy Drive 11. Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron-based) .24-.25AG 12. MS Natural Pro Keyboard 13. MS Intellimouse Explorer 14. Altec Lansing ACS-33 Speakers 15. Generic Full Tower Case 16. PC Power and Cooling 350W ATX Power Supply * NT-1 (Second Workstation) 1. Windows NT 4.0 SP6a 2. Celeron 300A@450 3. ASUS P3B-F 4. 128MB PC-100 RAM (1x128MB) 5. GeForce 256 SDR 32MB 6. Soundblaster AWE64 Value 7. Intel Pro/100 Management Adapter 8. 2 Western Digital ATA-33 4.3GB Hard Drives 9. HP 9110 CD-R/CD-RW Drive 10. 1.44MB Floppy Drive 11. DigiView 17" Monitor 12. Generic Keyboard 13. MS Intellimouse 14. Inwin Clone Case * Server-1 (AD Root) 1. Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1 2. PIII 550 (5x100) 3. ASUS P3B-F 4. 640MB PC-100 RAM (2x256MB+1x128MB) 5. Intel Pro/100 Management Adapter 6. Maxtor 6GB ATA-33 5400RPM Hard Drive 7. IBM 20GB ATA-33 5400RPM Hard Drive 8. Matshita CR-586 32X CD-ROM 9. 1.44MB Floppy Drive 10. Generic 14" Monitor 11. Generic Keyboard 12. Logitech Optical Trackball 13. Generic Mid-Tower Case 14. HP 722C DeskJet Printer 15. APC USB UPS * Server-2 (Second Server for AD Replication) 1. Windows 2000 Server SP1 2. Celeron 333 3. Diamond Micronics C400 Motherboard 4. 128MB PC100 RAM (1x128MB) 5. Intel Pro/100 Management Adapter 6. Maxtor 20GB ATA-100 7200RPM Hard Drive 7. Acer 50x CD-ROM 8. 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 9. Generic 14" Monitor (sharing the one on Server-1) 10. Generic Keyboard 11. Logitech Optical Trackball (sharing the one on Server-1) 12. Enlight Case

I can only think it's the drivers. What version are you using? I had some issues with the text "crawling" when I had the 6.34 drivers, but that went away with the 6.67 drivers. But these cause some weird issues too, like sometimes I can only see the left half of the screen, while the right half is black. The console can be read across the screen, but all the 3D game modeling is subject to this half-screen thing.

I would imagine that the unit will function in a non-RAID fashion as well. So you should be able to put the hardrives on there and use them in a normal fashion.

I found this link in a book on Cisco hardware configuration. Some of you may know about this, but I thought I would put it up here for most of us that didn't. Hope it helps... http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

I tried up[censored] one of my servers at home using Win2K AS, and it had a fit. It didn't care for the change in IDE controllers, so it would give blue screens (not that it mattered, I was willing to reinstall anyway but I thought I would try it). In addition, when I did that with Win9X systems, the system always performed better with a fresh install rather than a move like that.

See my post in the networking forum.

www.net2phone.com

Hang on bud, I think I can help you out. First, on the scanner engine version, you should be using the latest superdat to get you up to 4.0.70. This will fix most of your problems. In addition, you should at LEAST have your SMS site up to SP2 (SP3 just came out, and is supposed to be really nice). SP2 fixes some memory leak issues, and SP3 fixes some issues with software inventory memory leaks and server performance issues. However, the first thing you want to do is to get the McAfee scanner engine updated.

Poledit.exe doesn't work "directly" with Windows 2000. The best way to do it would be with the "Group Policy" manager. You can add it using a blank MMC. You get a lot more functionality with this versus what the Policy Editor did for NT.

The Netgear stuff has mixed telnet/html management, while the Linksys is straight html-based. I get enough telnet stuff with the Cisco router and PIX at work, so I went the lazy way and got the Linksys. Great unit, I just wish it had Port Address Translation (PAT) for some of the services that I play with on both servers at home.

My TV doesn't have to boot up, whereas my PC does. Since I use my PC more than my TV, there isn't much of a need for it to be on as much. But I do use standby.

When I lived in Tucson, AZ we got bills that ran to $150 for our 1 bedroom apartment. The A/C ran 24/7. "But it's a DRY heat..." ------------------ Regards, clutch