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    I added my boss' username and password to my server at work so he could use the shared printer. I wanted to remain the only person who can actually login to that machine to use it, so I set the security policy to deny local logon to "users" (I login w/ administrator).

     

    Anyway, while I was doing that, the menu hung for a bit and crashed. Went back in and the setting stuck, so I thought all was well and rebooted. When I attempted to login, the system very nicely informed me that Administrator no longer has the ability to logon locally! D'oh!

     

    Is there a way to fix this? I have access to WinTernals, but have never used it; could it help?

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    Onboard sound sucks. Very CPU intensive. I built a PIII 866 for my dad, and with the AC '97 audio, the sound in even simple games would stutter. Disabled it and threw in a SB Live, and all is well.

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    The older 95/98 machines have Mcafee 4.0, and they have the worst problems. Some of the newer 98 and 2000 machines have 5.0, and that's slightly better. The 2000 lab machines got the 4.51 corporate, and that one actually works halfway decent.

     

    Unfortunately, I'm not in charge of what software gets installed where... I just fix it when it breaks.

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    I'm a fan of Norton Antivirus Corporate, but I also use AVG Pro on some machines at work. Good program, but the interface is kinda clunky. It's a pretty simple install/uninstall and isn't as likely to have its installation broken as Norton (although Norton has helpful support links on their page for when this happens.)

     

    Avoid Mcafee like the plague! We have a $60,000 site license for it at work, and it's on every machine (except the ones in my office, we have Norton and AVG laugh ) Program is so bloated, Mcafee defaults it to only scan EXE, COM, and DLL extensions by default to prevent bogging down the system. It always misses stuff, then the user does a manual scan and finds dozens of viruses. Try to clean it and Mcafee says "unable to clean infected file... leaving alone." Doesn't quarantine it or anything! It's also a nightmare to uninstall. Registry keys and DLL's left all over the place.

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    Yes, NTFS kicks butt. It uses a binary search method that can find basically any file in 7 tries max.

     

    There are several tweaks you can do to disable the logging features of NTFS to make it quicker, but it's plenty quick as it is.

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    I have done this in Windows 2000, but never in NT4.

     

    I have an NT server with 3 network cards in it; 1 tokenring, 1 ethernet connected out to the internet, and 1 ethernet hooked into the uplink on a switch. I have a linux box with an ethernet card that's plugged into the switch.

     

    I want to be able to share the Token Ring connection and forward some ports to the linux box. How do I go about this in NT?

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    I run 2k, and it's an excellent game platform. Sure, XP may get you 20 more FPS in Quake III, but can you really tell the difference between 159 and 179fps? wink 2k can be just as fast if you disable unnecessary services and apply all the updates.

     

    XP is just to dumbed down. 2000 has a nice clean interface. XP looks like a child's Playskool toy. 2k has a very useful help system. XP is geared towards end users (ie: Is it plugged in? Are you sure? Really? 100% sure???) XP also has a ton of useless crap like system rollback which just chews up space on your hard drive.

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    I'd set it up on one of the unused machines at work. Worst thing that could happen is networking complains about it and we tell them "OK, we'll make it not do that anymore."

     

    That's why I want to find something with a free trial; just to see if it works.

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    I'd like to set up a tunnel out of this heavily firewalled school network. Anonymizer.com looks like it has a decent service, anybody use it? Or maybe suggest a similar company that offers a free trial period to test it out?

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    Yes, System Shock 2 was probably the best atmosphere game ever! Play it at midnight in a darkened room, frantically running around, desperately scrapping up ammunition... it was a blast!

     

    It just needs better graphics and a new "everyone's dead" story and bam, you got a great sequal!

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    We tested XP on one of our IBM machines at work. Lasted about 3 weeks before it pissed people off so badly that I formatted it and put 2k back on. PIII with an Intel chipset. S3 Savage4 vid card. Damn thing would BSOD if you let the screensaver come on and the monitor power saver kick in. It was pissy with every anti-virus program (even the versions "for XP") except AVG. NetBeui support was very flaky. The start menu would sometimes lag for 10-seconds or so between highlighting an object and the sub-window expanding; many other issues. Put 2k back on it and it's rock solid again.

     

    As far as the stability of Via chipsets, when my system was brand new, I had random AGP related lockups w/ my Tyan board. Then Via released service pack 4.25a and it's been 100% reliable since.

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    I definately want one! The displacement mapping feature looks like it will be HUGE! CPU only has to calculate a simple framework for the 3D world. Then the graphics card takes the displacement map and generates all the triangles to complete the object, greatly reducing CPU usage and AGP bandwidth. The 16x edge anti-alaisling feature is another big plus.

     

    The only thing that I can see which might hurt the card is lack of memory bandwidth saving tricks like current Nvidia and ATI cards use. How much of an issue that will be with dual 256-bit data channels and 20 GB/s of bandwidth is up in the air right now ;(

     

    Free case of virtual beer to anybody that sends me a sample card laugh

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    Well, considering how badly they did on Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I don't have high hopes for Doom III. They let you run around at 300mph, the implementation of weapons sucked, every area was set up to be an ambush, the AI sucked, you couldn't even think about trying to be stealthy, etc etc etc. Medal of Honor shows how a WWII shooter can be done right; I kept wanting to play it. I lost interest in RTCW during the hokey "monsters in the crypt" spiel...

     

    The original Doom was cool because of the various environments. Doom II started that stupid "everything brown" trend at ID.

     

    It will however, push current graphics to their limits and replace Quake III as the "my $599 graphics card gets me 193.43 fps in the QIII bench!"

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    Creative's Audigy drivers work fine, but only if you install things in the right order.

     

    1. Install O/S

    2. Install Audigy software/drivers from CD

    3. Reboot

    4. Apply official Audigy patch

    5. Reboot

     

    Sound card now works. If you try installing creative drivers on top of other updates such as DirectX 8.x and such, it'll crap out during install.

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