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Is there an option to disable ACPI during boot (like "noacpi")? I know that would seem lame for a laptop, but if it doesn't support ACPI properly then you might get away with simple APM.

You could *possibly* have some interference on the same channel, so you might want to switch channels on the router if it happens again. In addition, upgrading the firmware on the router might help in the future.

Novell deserves every bad thing that happens to them as punishment for releasing Novell 5. That release is why I switched to Windows NT to begin with. Well, that and their abysmal support and general poor treatment of customers. All it took was a little competition (NDS vs. AD) in combination with their poor attitude to dethrone them. Think this will repeat for any other companies?

Using kismet, if you sit there long enough you will get a valid IP off of the network. So, changing the IP means nothing. @goku2100, I don't understand your response about the invalid line. You can type in whatever you want, and then "cloak" the access point. All this does is keep the access point from broadcasting the SSID to make it easier for clients to find it. However, while it isn't being freely broadcasted it *can* be found when a client negotiates its connection with the WAP. If someone is sniffing the connection, it will pick up the name of it (however, by then it will probably have the MAC, which is first, and then the IP of the WAP). If you can, switch to WPA as soon as possible to protect yourself. In addition, if using preshared key, use a minimum of 20 characters for the key. The newest thing is to guess the keys used in WPA-PSK rather than directly breaking the encryption. If you use a strong key (>20 characters with mixed case and symbols) you should be set.

PC Games get hacked, cheated, and most of the time need patches. In addition, they are rarely optimized for what *you* have, and you need to buy hardware that costs more than the whole console would to make it really enjoyable. I used to be a big PC fan, but after playing the XBox for a while it's much nicer to kick back with a big screen TV in the living room. One cool thing about PC based games is that you can get cooler controllers, and FPS games are best played with the keyboard and mouse (although the SpaceOrb was even better, but like most great things it died out).

The SSID is used to associate the client to the network. Broadcasting the SSID is not necessary, however, because the client can be told in advance what the SSID is. In addition, when the client goes to connect to a WiFi network, the SSID negotiation is in clear text. This keeps the WiFi encryption from blocking the SSID handling, and therefore keeping the association from happening.

Gentoo, then Debian and some Debian-based distros. I use SuSE in testing because once user here in particular is used to it. In addition, I use OS X 10.3 (yeah, BSD-based but close enough) for testing. Right now I am trying to get alternate OSs to integrate with our Active Directory environment, and possibly setting up alternate Kerberos realms to test trusts with. This has led me to play with a lot of distros lately.

Nice to see that this thread is still alive.

However, unlearning something you are used to can be more difficult than learning something you have never used. For a clean and simple Linux, I usually recommend something Debian-based, such as Xandros, Knoppix, Libranet, or even Debian itself (surprise). Getting Debian installed takes a little bit of work upfront, but maintaining is is so much easier. Another thing that can help would be using VMWare on your XP box and using Linux within that. Then, over time, you might run Linux as the host and have VMWare running XP within it.

Imagine that...

Nah, I can't think of anybody that cares about that game anymore. I remember installing it on XP with a GF4 and it worked fine. I also got my SpaceOrb controller working with an app from Birdman's page. I don't know if anybody has the old patches though.

I can't remember the last time I tried getting a modem to work in Linux, but give this site a shot: http://linmodems.org/

I was able to Forsaken to run in XP without issue, but it was a while ago. I might have used compatibility levels to launch it. Install Forsaken, right click on the game executable, and select Properties. You can the use the compatibility tab to launch the app as a Windows 98 OS. This might work with your other games too.

That's pretty cool.

We deal with items and personnel from multiple countries, and I was wondering if someone knew of a good cost-of-living calculator (and possibly salary charts) for the UK, Germany, and Italy. It would be nice to understand what typical salaries are and how they translate to the US market. I saw an article on a Vodafone night vision adapter, and thought I would see what wireless plans in the UK cost. Well, they seem quite high when compared to US plans, and the UK and Europe are all using GSM while our carriers use different technologies and phones.

That was the adapter, but it was on news.com.com I think. I thought the phone itself was cool and got to thinking about what it would cost to own a phone in the UK (I just got another phone a few days ago, this time from Sprint). Thanks for the link, I don't know why I couldn't find one from them. I found their calculator for moving around in the US but not internationally.

Cool, and make sure to set your TS encryption levels as you'll have them in production during your evaluation.

Actually, this is something I have been looking into recently. I haven't had any clips in a while that I couldn't play on base systems, so this hasn't been an issue. When I was heavily using Linux, the distributions I used (Google and Debian) had builds of applications with all of the common codecs already. The last batch I used was the Gordian Knot one, but that was a few years ago. Again, after seeing the K-Lite one (isn't that the one with all of the bride.mu banner ads? ) I got the strong impression of spyware being involved. When I recently saw the link at MajorGeeks, I wondered if they didn't have spyware at all but I am still not sure.

Can you try a different port and see what happens? Also, was it connected to a system where someone assigned it a drive letter that is fighting with what you currently have (such as a box with no E drive had E assigned to the key, but on your system you already have an E drive and the key is fighting with it)?

I was under the impression that those mega-packs install spyware as well, and have avoided them for a long time now.

Remotedesktop (www.remotedesktop.org) is a beautiful thing. However, there was an older implementation that couldn't deal with the default behaviors of TS or encryption on that site. When I started using Gentoo, the ebuild for it there worked perfectly fine. I am assuming that the build on the site and available in most distros is updated and shouldn't have any issues. As for licensing, I am under the impression that if using Admin mode, client licensing is not an issue. However, when in application mode you will need a licensing server. The big change from Windows 2000 Server to Windows Server 2003 was that Windows 2000 and XP clients no longer have "built-in" cals, and you will have to buy them separately. Since it's possible to connect using NT4 and 9x clients with the web-based ActiveX control, I would assume that using application mode licensing would permit Linux clients to be used in place of/addition to Windows boxes that are not 2000/XP.

Actually, there are many people (even in Microsoft) that are running server editions on their laptops. I used to run server on my laptop, as it provides many functions that XP does not have (such as running more than one website at once, or using full blown RRAS). It was nice to be able to throw my laptop into a network and get whatever I needed running at that moment (such as routing) like I used to with Linux. Also, while you bring up clustering as a difference, there are other differences that can make someone want to use it as well. The cluster service is a good one though, since you could possibly be testing (or just learning how to cluster) and regular server edition only supports NLB. Most test classes (like the one I'm taking) start with active/passive clustering that you only get in Enterprise Edition and higher. Oh, and if you want to test PKI and certificate generation/distribution, you're out of luck with the regular edition as well. Now, having written all of this, I would have to agree that a great many copies of these might be pirated. But, for those that are not pirating, my suggestion is to get a ton more RAM and run Virtual Server 2005 for industrial grade testing, and Virtual PC for limited/basic testing. I have a cluster of 3 nodes plus a DC running on my server at home for my class, and we run (on average) 10 VMs per box at work for our AD testing.

If you use the newer RDP client, simply append the port number to the IP/FQDN of the box. www.mydomain.com:3390 Assuming you have 3390 pointing to your other system, you would be able to contact it. The client-side directions are for the older client, and no longer needed/valid.

Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888266