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On any workgroup/domain installation, I setup DDNS (with acceptance of dynamic registration) on my server at the bare minimum. Sometimes, that isn't enough (depending on the client OSs) so I put WINS on as well with DNS-to-WINS query enabled. Then, all the workstations look to my servers ONLY for name registration and resolution. This also notifies the clients coming online of what servers/resources are available and where to find them. Do you have either of these setup on your server? Are you running Active Directory?

CUViper covered the first part quite well, and as for the second I can work with it. When you say "run", do you mean connect as a client or a server? As a client, I use QAD's MFG/Pro 8.6D just fine at work, but hosting the application would be a different story. ERP systems run on a database (Oracle, Progress, SQL variants, etc) AND they have their own files to run. Both of these systems require connections from the incoming clients. However, NT-based workstations are capped to 10 concurrent connections (including IIS) and this limit can be easily reached in the smallest of environments. Are you looking to host an ERP application as a test bed? If so, you are best off doing it with a server OS (Linux is VERY good at this if you can't get an NT/2K server license) and then doing a dump and restore of live data from a play/production environment so you can work with it. Also, are you including any EDI packages in this installation?

Ditto, it's not that we don't want to help, we just don't know how to help. I mean, have you tried compatiblity mode? That's about all that I can think of.

For some people, yes it can be that simple. Look at the consoles, how many games are out that are exactly the same as other old ones EXCEPT for more levels and much better graphics. There are some people that ONLY want an engrossing story line and don't care about visuals at all, and that's their choice. Some play in online RPGs that are like messageboards (like those listed here) because they find those more interesting. No big deal, no desire to bash them for not playing super-flashy action games like the ones I do (or what most of the big console games are). I am simply asking what it is you find interesting in a game. I mean, what other advances are there right now in gaming? The main pushes in technology have come in faster processing, better audio, and of course better graphics handling. There aren't any new processors coming out that claim to enhance the story line or increase the originality of the games played on it. It's easy to boil almost all of the games coming out down to another game that came out long before, but you seem to be finding something SO new and different in new games that you have a PS2 and not a Nintendo reliving the excitement of Zelda on a 13" TV.

What resolution are you running the games at? What bit depth?

Nahhh, I am actually addressing the whole line of PowerVR chips. I would like to see it work though, as it would be quite an efficient method of rendering (especially at higher resolutions). Plus, having another player in the field is always a plus.

I just picked up Aquanox, and while it's faster than the demo it still has the demo's problem of crashing to the desktop when loading levels. Has anyone else seen this? Here's what I have: WinXP Pro P3 933@1085, 1.75v (155x7, runs at 29*C at idle, and 41*C while gaming) Vantec CCK-7035D HSF ASUS CUSL2 i815 512MB Crucial CAS2 PC133 RAM WD 40GB ATA-100 HD Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive Hercules Geforce 2 Pro, 64MB (Detonator 21.81) Creative Audigy Platinum with Audigy Drive Intel Pro/100 Mgmt Adapter Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT) MS Natural Keyboard Pro MS Intellimouse Explorer The game runs really well, and I have been using only 800x600x32 right now. I have tried running it in compatibility mode for Win98/ME but the problem remains. I do have to say that this is a sweet game, except for the crashing and stuff...

You can get the demo from www.aquanox.de. Currently, there is a bug in the way certain WinXP/2K installs deal with a large number of files being open and the way Aquanox handles files during mission loads. If you PC has this problem, it will show itself in the demo as well as the full version. Just wanted to make sure you knew. As for where I got the full version at, I went to Best Buy and Circuit City but neither of them had it, so I went to EB and there it was. If you liked Descent/Forsaken and really like simpler arcade style action, then you will probably dig this. If you want to check out their forums, go here: http://62.50.36.10:8081/cgi-bin/ubb_e//ultimatebb.cgi

Quote: It sure is... LOL, I didn't realize I would hit a sore spot with Descent (I forgot you played it) in comparing it to Forsaken. Did you bother to play D3, or was it simply too much of a rehash to bother with? With it utilizing the same muddy mechanics as its predecessors but with a pig of an engine, I didn't care for it much more than the other 2 of its line. I guess this would mean that Aquanox isn't worth playing, as it's just another 6DOF game anyway. So, what do YOU consider a great game? What makes a game worth playing? What makes a game so good that you wouldn't call its players (and members of this board) "lemmings"?

Word of warning, be EXTREMELY careful when fiddling with the Gina DLL, as it is what NT will bounce netlogon calls off of. Remember that little issue with PC Anywhere 9.x where Win2K boxes would crash and reboot at the logon screen? It had to do with their implementation of a filter against the Gina DLL. A great many programs that use NT credentials to gauge usage permissions either modify the Gina DLL, or use a filter in addition to the DLL. Just thought I would pass along the warning.

Is dynamic registration enabled? Is the Netlogon service running on the DC? Have you checked the event logs on the server for any errors?

Quote: Have you been under a rock for the past decade? Played Doom? Quake 2? Duke Nukem 3D even? The notion of you being some sort of space marine fighting an alien enemy has been done to death and if Halo didn't have its great graphics and 2^255 different deathmatch modes then shallow lemmings like you wouldn't even touch it. Halo looks to me like a very mediocre game. When the PC demo arrives I'll give it a try but I don't hold out high hopes for it. If M$ want my AUD0 then they are going to have to show me more to get excited about than that. That seems like a greatly over-simplified comment on the game. Just about every game that's out can be traced back to some other game. Games are entertainment, and entertainment can be great gameplay, good graphics, fast rendering, pretty colors, large amounts of T&A (as in DoA3), or anything else that people like. I've seen many people like you say the same thing, and also complain that Q3A isn't worth getting, because it's just like Q2. Well, I liked Q1 and Q3, but hated Q2. I loved Forsaken but hated Descent 1 and 2 because of the poor graphics. Fundementally, these games are the same, but when you play them they can be quite different. These differences can be enough to make someone like one game and not care for another. Just an opinion from a "shallow lemming".

Nicely done.

...which will unfortunately go the way of the other tile-based rendering chipsets from NEC. They have a good idea, but unfortunately they are ALWAYS late in delivery. Matox had a zippy little add-in card a long time ago (and for the life of me I can't remember its name) that was similar to a Voodoo1, but a helluva lot cheaper. GLQuake ran really well on it, and it was a pretty nice card. It ran on the PowerVR chipset (grandfather of the one in the Kyro) and was fairly successful. However, they were *supposed* to get another one out for the PC, but got distracted with the Sega Dreamcast bid they made (and later won) and then focused their attention on that. Well, production issues and lackluster game production for the platform isn't doing it any justice, and delays in getting the Kyro out the door (forget the drivers, just making the damn chips was a problem ) are just bringing up old memories. NEC just can't get it together, and will probably washout on this one too.

Scratch that, it turns out they have the bug under control and it turns out to be an issue with the OS rather than the game itself. Either way, the game still kicks a$$!

I had the exact same problem, plus it would throw in gibberish as well on some of those pages that it printed out. I wound up having to take it back and got a HP 722c. This was 3 years ago and I haven't had a problem since.

I kinda figured as much, since you seem to take HTML coding more seriously than most . Once I saw that, I remembered how badly it implemented style forms and seems to need extra files for all the extra metadata that MS editors seem so fond of (thanks to FP extensions). Most people "grow out" of these editors and move on to Dreamweaver and the like. Now, trailing a bit from the original topic; I have used Dreamweaver 1-4/UD, GoLive! 5, Drumbeat 2000, Visual Interdev 6 (Visual Studio 6), FP 98-2002/Express, and some others that I can't think of right now (I think ASPEdit was one, and some other little ASP/JSP/HTML text editors) and for the life of me I cannot see the attraction to Dreamweaver. Do you use DW, Xiven? Can you clue me in as to what the attraction is? I love Flash (though I haven't been really good at it) and some of the other Macromedia stuff, but I have never really cared for Dreamweaver.

Ick, but then again I don't use embedded style sheets. I just link to external CSS files so I can control the look of the site from one location. However, lean code or not Front Page is still good for the beginner. I used Notepad and the Front Page 98 initially, and FP worked well. I used FP 2000 briefly while using Dreamweaver, but I wound up doing most of my coding in Visual Interdev because FP (and even Dreamweaver initially) would screw up my ASP coding all the time while trying to "help" me.

I ripped this from Lowtax at www.somethingawful.com, as his server has had issues (but is getting better, thanks to aroma therapy). "I recently read some of the various critical acclaims lavished upon the original Silent Hill, so this weekend I decided to purchase its sequel, appropriately named "Silent Hill 2," for the Playstation 2. After I brought the game home and unwrapped the disc, I soon discovered that it was only compatible with the Playstation 2 game system, dashing my hopes of running it on my CD player or my freezer, which was recently upgraded to have a CD player that really pissed me off fit inside of it. I returned to Best Buy so to purchase a PS2, preparing myself for the hellish inferno that I would soon walk into, a pain that would undoubtedly tear my entire central nervous system apart: that's correct, I'm of course referring to the DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN assault. You see, any Best Buy purchase over 38 cents causes them, by Congressional mandate, to batter and molest you until you eventually agree to purchase a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. The DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN is sort of like a warranty for your warranty; if the hunk of Japanese **** you bought self destructs and vaporizes your entire family within the next 10 decades, Best Buy will refund your money and let you use it to purchase the entire DVD collection of "Carrot Top: Uncut." They will also allow their trained spe[censored]ts, who are neither trained nor spe[censored]ts, repair your defective product or at least force you to stand in line for 90 minutes just so they can say that all the replacement units are sold out and the only store that has any left is 500 miles away and is closed or haunted or invisible or doesn't exist. You will then be escorted out of the store only to have the Nazi Theft Detection System begin beeping like crazy, branding you to the entire store as an evil criminal mastermind who is attempting to build an ICBM control center from Panasonic speakers. And that is in a best case scenario. As soon as I told the Best Buy Storeroom Menace I was interested in a buying Playstation 2, she immediately attacked me with the DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN and launched into the spiel which is imprinted into their DNA the moment they sign the Best Buy employment contract. Having bought a computer at Best Buy before, I had myself braced and ready. BEST BUY STOREROOM MENACE: "Would you be interested in the DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN? It's only $49.99 for 300 thousand million years of service! It protects against-" ME: (Shrewdly interrupting) "No thanks, I'm not interested." BEST BUY STOREROOM MENACE: "Oh. Well okay." Now at this point, anybody who has ever bought anything at Best Buy is thinking to themselves, "self, this can't be! This isn't how Best Buy operates! What alternate dimension were you in? They'll firebomb your parents' house before letting you escape without a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN!" There is a bright shiny gold star in store for all of you people who thought this. The Best Buy Storeroom Menace was simply softening me up for Queen Best Buy, the 19-year old acne-skulled corpse that was rotting behind the checkout desk. It was like a good cop / bad cop routine, except they were both bad cops and the question was not if, but when they would begin shoving a broken toilet plunger into my rectum. As the Best Buy Storeroom Menace passed me off to Queen Best Buy, they communicated via telepathy and she was instantly aware of my failure to purchase a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. That's when the pain started. Okay, I don't know what's going on in this picture, but I think that lady is in trouble and somebody should probably notify the authorities. QUEEN BEST BUY: "May I interest you in a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN?" ME: "No, I-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "It protects your unit against any kind of defects or damage that may occur during your entire lifetime, your children's lifetimes, and their kids' lifetimes." ME: "I'm not-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "If you were to pick up this Playstation 2 and attempt to engage in *** with it, we'd replace the unit when your bodily fluids cause various parts inside it to short circuit and spontaneously combust." ME: "Well I'm-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "Everybody is buying a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. Everybody. All the cool kids are doing it. You want to be 'cool,' don't you? You want to be accepted?" ME: "I thought-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "The Gamecube and... that Microsoft thing (her actual words) are coming up soon, and if you buy a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN then you can bring in your Playstation 2 and trade it in for one! The Gamecube is going to be 400 times more powerful than the PS2 and it will take care of your cat when you leave town!" ME: "How did you know I had a-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "Let me be honest with you. These Playstation break all the time. I had some guy come into here just the other day, yelling and screaming at us because his Playstation 2 would only play games if it was upside down (her actual words). We couldn't do anything for him because he didn't buy a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. He was stuck with a $299 wad of plastic and metal. Then he was hit by a car and killed in the parking lot. If he had a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN that would've never happened. A. Anderson of Cleveland has a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN and he just won $50,000 in the lottery! G. Johnson of Las Vegas has a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN and his wife was just elected to be the Pope! E. Franklin of Burro Heights didn't buy a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN and he just got AIDS from touching a candy bar vending machine." ME: "Who's E. Frank-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "Let me tell you the truth: we haven't sold a functioning Playstation 2 in six months. In fact, 99% of the boxes are empty or just contain a lump of rotting potatoes. Sometimes poisonous snakes spring out and kill the owner. We don't even think Playstation 2s exist. You'd be a stupid rat bastard if you didn't purchase a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. Who's your hero?" ME: "Well my hero is former Orlando Magic center Greg Kite, but-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "Greg Kite would want you to buy a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. He's bought 50 DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLANS. You want to be like Greg Kite, don't you?" ME: "Yeah, I guess, but-" QUEEN BEST BUY: (Interrupting) "Listen: we have sharpshooters positioned all around this building. There's no chance of you leaving here alive without a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. Your home address is in our computers. We'll have your place ransacked and looted by the time you cart your fat *** back home. You've got two options here, and they both involve you buying a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. Jesus died so you could get a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN. Terrorists want to destroy America because they are jealous of our freedom to purchase DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLANS. You're not a terrorist, are you? WELL ARE YOU?" At this point I just threw a handful of money at her and ran off shrieking like a violated Japanese schoolgirl. I didn't succumb to her intense pressure of purchasing a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN and her obscenely angry looks reflected this, as they melted a generous portion of the steel pole behind me. Now I don't want to be too harsh on Queen Best Buy since it's not her fault that Best Buy is run by Nazi cyborgs who force all their employees to do a DREADED BEST BUY PRODUCT REPLACEMENT PLAN hard sell on every customer. I didn't get angry at her or make her life hell because it's the Best Buy store policy and their store managers who are to blame for this pain. However, I did learn one important lesson from this experience: all electronics should be purchased online. My computer can't give me the hard sell on any product replacement plans, and if it does, I at least have the luxury of throwing it out a window and into the woods. The same can't be said about many Best Buy employees. At least that's what the judge told me." I would have put the link up to this article, but it will be cycled out by the time some of you see this and it may take a few days to make it to the archive.

File and settings transfer is more for bookmarks, email setup, My Documents, etc. rather than drivers and installed hardware. Plus, I don't think that it carries over activation. I would just reinstall it and re-run the activation. It will be FAR cleaner and much more stable. I mean, what's the point of getting such a high-end box when you are running an installation based on a machine of half its power?

Quote: Just never let a web programmer hear you say that. Have you ever looked at the junk code it creates? Bleech!! Could be worse, he *could* be using MS Word to do web pages. Also, Front Page is nice for working with MS cab files that use special functions (like showing contacts, calendar events, email, etc) to be shown in webpages. You can set all the desired parameters in the GUI rather than trying to remember them all yourself. Personally, I use Visual Interdev 6 and Adobe GoLive! 5 for my sites, but occasionally due configuration of said cab files with Front Page if I can't remember all the parameters.

That idea has failure written all over it. Due to the differing chipsets alone, you are looking at major problems and almost guaranteed BSODs at boot. You really, really don't want to do that, and you would be better off just reinstalling it fresh so it can load all the proper drivers in the beginning, and get any updates that pertain to your new system only.

Ditto. I haven't had any issues with any of my SB products.

I have seen that exact same scenario in Win2K. The stick of RAM that I had worked fine with other systems, but didn't seem to like the motherboard (ASUS P3B-F, what's not to like? ) at all and would throw up those same errors. This particular stick of RAM was from Kingston, and works fine in other systems, just not that one.

I go by clutch or Judge Mental when I play Q3 (or whatever) online.