HawkBoy

Hi, I'm beginning to run out of disk space on my laptop and am considering getting an external drive. I would still run apps off of my laptop HD, but would use the external space for keeping videos, pictures, and hopefully as cache for file-sharing, etc. Currently, if I have a file-sharing app on and I run another program, my HD is choked by the file-sharing app and my work app won't run that well. I was wondering, is an external HD practical for my uses? And is there any performance difference between an external enclosure and a normal external HD. I've been looking for reviews, . . . online but I can't find much (all I see is that USB2 is a lot slower than IDE). I have also search this forum, but can't find anything that answers my quesitons (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong =) ). I have both USB2 and Firewire (in case you were wondering). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I have VPN set up on an XP pro machine. Everything works fine (although it took a loooooong time for it to get that way ). The problem is that whenever I connect to the VPN, my client machine starts using the Host's internet connection instead of its own. This is a really big pain and I can't figure out how to fix it. Any thoughts? Thanks in advanced

The domain thing is the best (and only real way). The other way is to make separate user logins on the host machine (the one with the bigger HD) and have the client machines (the ones that do backup) log into different user accounts. Then you can do separate permissions for the different accounts and have access restrictions.

Hi, I have a wireless network set up with a linksys wrt54g router and a laptop with the intel pro/wireless 2100 3b built-in (I'm not completely sure). I have set it up with WEP and a shared key, but I am required by some people to make it use more advanced security. I need WPA with AES or at least WPA with TKIP (or anything else it works with). The Intel pro/wirless ... does not allow for AES. Even after upgrading to the PROset 7.1.0.0 drivers (which took over 2 hours since this is a noname laptop and Intel doesn't directly support it). I'm trying to get it working with WPA-PSK and TKIP. I set the router to use WPA with pre-shared key and TKIP and I tell the adapter the same thing. It does not connect . If I go to the router's advanced setup page and tell it to use "auto" for "authentication type" (even though its security page is set to pre-shared key) it will let me connect, but then I can connect with any password. If I change it back to "shared key", it won't let me in. I am running winXP pro SP1 on a no-name laptop. Any thoughts? It's my friend's laptop and I'm very close to smashing the screen due to frustration. HELP!!! PLEEEEEEAAAAASE!!! Thanks

are u making fun of me?

Hi, I'm going to buy a notebook soon and, from my research, I will either buy a Dell Inspiron 5150 or 8600. The only major difference between the systems (after some customizing) will be that the 5150 will have a 2.8GHz proc and a 64MB GForce FX Go and the 6800 will have a 1.6GHz proc and a 128MB Radeon 9600 pro. While gaming is not a *MAJOR* focus for me, I am waiting to play some games that will be released soon (PoP2, Sims2, . . .) and I will be doing some 3D work (3Ds MAX, maybe Maya if I have time to learn it). I'm pretty sure the 2.8GHz does offset the better vid card, but am also worried that the slower vid card might create too big of a bottle neck to recover from. Can anyone help? Or send me to a site that has done a similar benchmark? Thanks

Also, I don't really care if I have to map the folders, but I'm seeing a lot of people talking about using the lmhosts file to map the network. No one has said how this is supposed to be done, but everyone keeps saying lmhosts =). btw, why can't I edit my own posts in this forum?

Thanks a lot. I can transfer files now. My problem is, I also want to set up remote desktop through vpn, but the client can't seem to access the server through the vpn ip. I don't have to open a port for that since the data should go through VPN, right?

address by ip, what do you mean by that? Do I just use their normal internet IP? In that case, how do I know if, for example, I'm pinging them through the vpn and not just accross the net?

I had the same problem, the lates drivers (there's one on creatives site; web update something...) it fixed it form most things (it actually says it fixes the popping in its description).

Also, if this had been posted before, please tell me. I've searched both the net and this forum for hours and can't find anything

Hi, I'm trying to set up a VPN and am having some problems. I have set up the server and client and they connect fine. The problem is that neither side can see the other in the network places. They both have the same workgroup name and I've refreshed enough, but they just don't see each other. Any thoughts? The server is behind a router but has the correct port (1723) forwarded I'm not completely sure about the client (it's a friends pc for now). Does it need to forward anything (no, right?) We were both running zonealarm, but turning it off (on both sides) didn't help. Thanks in advance

Have you set mozilla as your defult browser? what do you mean "If I chose a webpage and configure the key for that, it will open up in IE6"? You set one of the keys (like Webcam) to that url? If so, you could set it to mozilla.exe "<URL>" and it will work for sure.

TomsHardware just did a long review (you can just read the conclusions). I trust them =) http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030714/index.html

Hi, Is there a way to program it to work with other programs? I would REALLY like it to work with winamp, . . .. Any thoughts?