AndyFair

Originally posted by tool_462: Quote: I planned on shelling out the extra $80-90 for the Samsung, but buying two Ultra 512mb is cheaper than one stick of Samsung. Just checked on Crucial, and they're charging $91 for 512Mb. I've never, ever had any problems with Crucial (I buy all my memory from there as they're always so reliable) - so for a little more than the price of a stick of Samsung, you'd be able to buy 2 512Mb sticks from Crucial, and be safe in the knowledge that they'll work perfectly. Personally, I'd go down this route, and then see if you can't sell your existing Samsung stick on e-bay or somewhere. Rgds AndyF

The easiest way is to go to Crucial and use their tool to find the right kind of memory by system/model or motherboard. Rgds AndyF

The second figure used when quoting capacities on tape drives are assuming that all files stored on the tape can be compressed to the same level (i.e. 50% reduction in size, meaning you can store twice as much data) - but this assumption rarely stands up to daily use - if you're backing up files that are already compressed, you won't get anywhere near this level of compression. With 73Gb of disk space to back up, I don't think this will fit on a 36/72 tape. Also with tape compression, the act of compressing the data is undertaken by the tape drive itself - or the backup software, now I come to think of it, I'm unsure which! - but either way, there shouldn't be any need to compress the data before backing up. The other thing to bear in mind is future system growth - OK, you have 73Gb now, but is that going to stay at 73Gb for the forseeable future? Have you done any long-term capacity planning? Personally, I would go for the 80/160 now, because it will allow room for growth, and avoid having to buy another tape drive a couple of years down the line... Rgds AndyF

Bear in mind though, that some PC manufacturers (Compaq especially) use this hidden partition for system use, and deleting this partition may make your PC FUBAR...caveat emptor! Rgds AndyF

Assuming she's running Win2k or XP, go to Computer Management (Start->Programs->Administrative Tools, or Start->Run->compmgmt.msc) Under the storage section, choose "Disk Management" - that will show you whether your sister has two separate hard drives or one drive that's been partitioned. Hope this helps Rgds AndyF

Originally posted by Waffler: Quote: Good to see lots of new members though. Unfortunately there seems to be a spate of people who register, reply to posts that are 2 years old and then disappear into the ether, never to be seen again... Ah, well. I suppose it keeps them off the streets! AndyF

Digital TV cards are not widely supported yet - the only TV software that works with DVB so far is ShowShifter - a free trial version is available from the website. You will also find that some movie editing software doesn't recognise MPEG files produced from a DVB card - this is because the MPEG stream used by DVB varies slightly in format from standard DVD MPEGs. Trawl through the ShowShifter forums and you'll find some suggestions on the best apps to use. Hope this helps Rgds AndyF

I would run things like memtest, Sandra, and leave it running for a while doing one of the burn-in tests for a couple of hours. You may also want to try a burn-in with the power pack unpugged, to see whether the battery is fubar'ed or not. Rgds AndyF

Unless the virus is a boot-block virus (unlikely these days), formatting your hard drive during Windows install (make sure you select full format, not quick format) should wipe everything on your hard drive enough to get rid of the virus. There are only 2 ways the virus could return: either the CD with Windows is infected (only possible if you're using a pirated or a slipstreamed verion of Windows), or the virus is getting in through a broadband connection. The easiest way to get round option 2 is to turn off your broadband connection while you install Windows, and make sure that you don't re-connect it until a virus checker has been installed. Just out of interest, what virus do you have, and what do the virus checkers report? (i.e. how do you know you've got a virus, and why do you say you can't get rid of it?) Hope this helps, Rgds AndyF

Originally posted by GAMaus: Quote: [...]Hope i could help! Probably not after 3 years, no...

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Found this one just by Googling. Don't know how accurate it is, but there is a section about where their data comes from. I can tell you, being a local an' all, that the UK is a very expensive place to live - I think we have something the third highest CoL in the world, after Japan and Switzerland! The cost of petrol is currently somewhere around 82pence per litre (which is something like $5-6 per gallon). House prices vary, depending on where you live, but expect to pay £300k+ for a 2/3-bed house in the London area. Starting salaries for a University graduate are currently around the gbp£20k region. If you let me know what kind of info you need, I can do some digging for you (for the UK at least) Hope this helps, Rgds AndyF

Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: P.S.=> Didn't we discuss this VERY THING in the other forums not TOO long ago, about "Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds" tune & this one also...? apk You know, as I was typing my reply, I had a real blast of déjà vu. Must be a very popular off-topic song... AndyF

Are you talking about the thing with all the wires, or the person standing in front of it In WW2, computers weren't the machines, they were the people who did all the number crunching. Rgds AndyF

Quote: Originally posted by Alec§taar: (But not the original by the Beatles as much as the Elton John redo of it, circa iirc, around 1974 or so?) I'm sorry Alex, but nobody did a better cover of Lucy than William Shatner...got to be heard to be believed Rgds AndyF

If you're trying to put the 2 operating systems on the same disk, that won't work - you'll need to separate the disk into 2 different partitions - or get another disk and put NT on that. Install Win98 into the first partition, then install NT into the second partition. As part of the install, NT should recognise the presence of Win98, and install the necessary dual boot bits onto the Win98 partition. Hope this helps Rgds AndyF

Originally posted by felix: Quote: I can think of a few ways - Forget birthday Leave bra, two sizes two small, in car Say her sister has nice ass/breasts/legs Leave toilet seat up Leave wet towels on floor Make pass at her mother Ask mates over when she asks to watch a special movie Wow! Felix, are you speaking from personal experience? 8)

Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: NOTE - FELIX!!! "Shame on you man" - you didn't check to see if the field was blank/null!!! As far as I'm aware, if the field type is set to "number", the field values default to 0 not to NULL, so you shouldn't need check for NULL fields. Rgds AndyF

Well, it all depends on how much you're willing to spend, and how much of that 73Gb you class as "essential" data. Rgds AndyF

Has anyone else noticed a recent trend of new people with only a couple of posts to their name answering threads that are months or years old? Strange. AndyF

Have you also tried installing to a smaller partition rather than the whole drive? Rgds AndyF

Adding Blackberry support to Exchange costs an extra $1000 (from Blackberry's own site), plus $250 per license if you have more than 5 Blackberry users. I couldn't say anything about how easy this is to install and manage, nor whether it runs on SBS. Overall, I would say that it's easier to bring Exchange in-house now, when the company is small, rather than a couple of years down the line, when the number of users has grown - less work from your viewpoint At the moment, RAID might be considered a bit of overkill at this stage - but I would say it's more like future-proofing your system! One processor might be enough now, but you might want to consider a dual-capable machine so that you can upgrade later on. Dell also offer a free second processor on some machines. As far as a tape drive goes, "should probably" doesn't cut it - it should be "definitely must"! If only because it will save your head if something fails later on. One caveat with backups though - make sure you test them regularly. I've heard far too many tales of people who assumed the backups were working fine because the software never returned errors, only to find that the tapes couldn't be read in another tape drive. In situations where companies lose data because of bad backup management, the first person whose head will roll will be the person who is responsible for those backups... What you really need to do is look at where the company is now, and where the company is planning to be in 5 years, and spec your kit accordingly - either over spec now and build in future proofing and redundancy, or spec to your current requirements now and make sure that you can easily add extra capacity or machines as and when the need arises. Rgds AndyF

I would say for a company that size, investing in 2k3 server would definitely be the way to go. Depending on how quickly you expect the company to grow, you might want to look at Small Business Server 2003 as a lower cost alternative to 2k3 Server + Exchange Server - but there is a user limit for this version (I think it's something like 75). See this link for more info. The advantage of SBS is that it comes with Exchange as part of the package, and is full of wizards to help the "less technical" (no insult intended) manager. RADIUS is part of IAS in Server 2003 (see this link), but I'm not sure about the SBS version. [EDIT] Just checked - IAS is included with SBS, so you should be OK.[/EDIT] Given a large enough machine (in terms of disk space), it's more than feasible to run Exchange on the same machine - RADIUS and file/print serving doesn't really stress a machine that much. If you're getting a T1 link, I would also consider investing in a hardware firewall, don't let the server do the job for you. If you've got any other questions, let us know and we'll try to help! Rgds AndyF

Which bit don't you understand? Let us know, and we'll see if we can help. Rgds AndyF

erm...have you tried the Dell website. This page, for example? Rgds AndyF