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XP Pro 64 Bit Edition is the best client operating system I've ever used. No problems with any software or drivers with it whatsoever. Stable as heck. If I need any other OS I load it up in a VM.

I don't know how many of y'all remember me... but I've been an NTCompatible guy since about 1999. Haven't stopped by in about a year as I got more into gaming and less into OS issues. Thought I would stop by and say "hi". Surprised to see many of the same ole people still here! DosFreak and clutch... awesome! Oh yeah, and Happy New Year!

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I'm a noob to the Linux world, so I apologize for the basic question... I loaded Fedora 4, bareboned. No additional packages were installed during installation. I figured this would force me to learn a lot about how to set up a Linux system from scratch. I've been working on this for a couple days now without much progress, so I'm turning to you guys for a little help. I wanted to start off simple, install GAIM. I found out that by doing that I had to install gcc-4.0.2, gtk-2.8.7, and glib-2.9.0. It took a lot of error messages and research to figure out I needed these. However, even with these installed, I still get the following message when attempting to ./configure GAIM... *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occurred. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+ *** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is *** always available at http://www.gtk.org/. That's a little better than the message I had been getting recently, about not finding GLIB. After adding /usr/local/lib to ld.so.conf and running /sbin/ldconfig -v that seemed to go away, presenting me with the error above. Somehow I need to get GAIM understanding that yes, I do in fact have these items installed. Any help? Please reply in noob-terms so that I can understand. I'm a seasoned Windows IT guy, so some of this is rather foreign to me. Thanks!

Ok... I have some home videos I want to copy to my computer and make DVDs of. What kind of video card do I need for this...? Any recommendations?

This is certainly "off topic", but if any of you are near Springfield, Illinois, and like heavy/death metal then come check out my band, "Invocation" at Viele's Planet on April 8 at 9:00PM. We'll be playing with two other bands from Illinois, Pound for Pound and 13 1/2. http://invocation.atowndown.com

Copying all the contents from your Documents and Settings\USER folder to another user folder should keep all settings. The NTUSER.DAT file containes all your HKEY_CURRENT_USER settings, and various other files (Desktop.ini?) keep other settings like wallpapers, menu bars etc. So if you have a user "1234" with all the settings you like, copying those files to user "5678"'s folder should work. As for the strong passwords... start\run\mmc, "ok". Add the Group Policy Object editor snap-in. When it asks you what for, select "browse", then select "Default Domain Policy". Close out of everything until you're back to the snap-in. Expand the top node, then expand "Computer Configuration", then expand "Account Policies", then highlight "Password Policy". You'll notice in the right window "Password must meet complexity requirements". If you disable that, then you should be able to use whatever passwords you want. To make it take effect immediately, you should run "gpupdate" on the xp client machines. Otherwise just wait a couple minutes and it should propagate.

Greetings calvinc. Have you tried surfing the same pages with different browsers like FireFox? If you can browse the same page without problems using FireFox, then it's possibly you're the victim of a "browser hijack" spyware program. If you aren't, your IE could just be messed up. I've been to websites before where they automatically make IE fill up the whole screen and sometimes turn it a color. Nothing ticks me off more. That's the closest I can come to identifying what your problem might be. Try a different browser and post back. FYI, PC-cillin isn't really something you should rely on (in my opinion) for virus protection. Stick with something proven like Mcafee or Norton. AVG has a free antivirus client that I've heard is pretty good. Always make sure definitions for all your anti-stuffs are updated.

Answer #1 Let's assume your login name is "1234". When you log into XP/2000 a folder is created under c:\documents and settings named after your login ID. For example, c:\documents and settings\1234. If you join this machine to a domain, and you create a domain account named "1234", and log into that domain with "1234", then a folder will be created called c:\documents and settings\1234.DOMAIN. One way to get all your settings back is to log in as a local administrator on the machine and move everything from c:\documents and settings\1234 to c:\documents and settings\1234.DOMAIN. If you would like to only have the "1234" folder, then copy all the contents to a temporary folder, then delete all "1234" folders. Log into the domain with "1234", then logoff, login again as a local administrator, and copy all the temporary files into the "1234" directory. Clear as mud? Answer #2 It's always a good idea to force strong passwords on your domain. I would recommend leaving this setting in place. However, if you'd like to disable it, you can do so in Group Policy under "default domain policy". I don't remember exactly what node it's under, but it's in there. Hope this helps.

Wasn't sure if this should go under "networking" or under "hardware", but it was more of a hardware question I thought this was more appropriate. I'm going to replace my 100mbps network at home with gigabit. Basically, I was hoping to get some input on hardware. Currently, I'm considering SMC for my switches as they appear to be the only ones in my price range that support Jumbo Frames (SMC8508T). I'm not going to spend $4,000 on a Cisco router for my home office, so don't bother suggesting them :-). As for NICs, it appears that the Intel Pro/1000 is the fastest but slows down as you increast frame size. What would you guys suggest? I want everything to support Jumbo Frames. Any input is appreciated.

I'm not sure this will help any further, but my preferred way of depolying a SAV solution is to have AV servers, and AV clients. SAV Corporate Edition has always provided a fairly easy way to do this. In my situation, there is one "Primary Server". All definitions are dowloaded to my primary server daily at a specified time. It is then the responsibility of my primary server to distribute the updated definitions to its clients. I've been using this setup for about 4 years and have not once had a problem.

Thanks for the replies... I'll check out that hotfix. Thanks again...

I think I figured it out... somehow the IUSR account password that is "controlled" by windows was messed up. I created my own password and used it instead and all seems fine now. Hopefully it lasts.. --update I take it back... may not be working

Ok.. it's been 2 days and I can't figure this out. Fresh install of Windows 2003 Standard, and Exchange 2003. All is working fine except for OWA 2003. I'm certain, beyond much doubt, that it is a permissions issue with IUSR. I've proven this by assignint the Admin account as the anonymous account, and everything worked fine. Also, every request to the \ExchWeb folder is returning 401 errors. I've tried giving IUSR all kinds of access, but nothing seems to work... and yes I've tried MSoft.... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280823 That KB article describes exactly what's happening, but it did not fix the problem. Below is a screenshot...

Is there any known issues with UDP performance on Winodws XP? We have an application which downloads data from two sources, one of which uses UDP, the other TCP. The TCP portion of the download works fine but the portion downloaded via UDP slows down and eventually fails. I've been looking into QOS settings since this is related to streaming voice, but they have not worked. I've also attempted adjusting window sizes etc as per speedguide.net, but as those are specific to TCP, I do not expect them to make a difference. The TCP/UDP sources are located several hundred miles from us, and we are connected to them via two T1s. At first we thought maybe it was a network issue, but we've tried pulling the same data with NT machines and have had no problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated.