Ron_Jeremy

RH9 user here. I have my Outlook contacts & Win2K favorites stored on a floppy. I just went thru 45 minutes of torture importing my contacts one at a time into the mail client that is bundled with RH9 (Evolution). My contacts were stored as individual vcf's & as a single .wab file, but no matter what I tried I could not import in one step & had to repeat the import process dozens of times. Now I'd like to import my 600+ IE bookmarks into Mozilla. On the floppy they are stored as url's (in the Favorites folder). When I go to Manage Bookmarks in Mozilla, I can only import files with the following extensions: .html, .htm, shtml, & xhtml. How can I import all my IE Favorites into Mozilla in one step? Thanks in advance

Vermyn, thank you so much! Your suggestion worked perfectly. YOU DA MAN! To avoid this dilemma in the future, is there a way I could have done my Outlook contacts differently too?

After plugging in my new USR External 5686 modem, I didn't see the "Found New Hardware" wizard as I booted into Win2K. Checking Device Manager, it showed up as a "Standard Modem". Is this normal? I didn't use the USR CDROM that came with it since I saw no Win2K drivers on it anyway. It works fine by the way. When I connect, it shows me connected at 115.2K. How is this possible? If I change the modem "speed" to 57600 in its properties, then my connection speed is listed as 57K when I connect. I understand dial-up has a max of around 53K, so is the speed (i.e., the 115.2K figure) quoted inside the Windows connection balloon useless?

I am running .Net 2003 Ent Server RC2 & just downloaded/installed Nvidia's 41.09 drivers. In the Advanced > Adapter subsections of Windows Display Properties, there is no provision to adjust the OpenGl/D3D settings that I'm used to seeing. Can anyone else confirm this with their setup?

Quote: I dont understand why people are putting a Server grade OS on their desktop PCs to "Play Counter-Strike", I could understand wanting to test active directory on a home network or something like that. Let me re-repeat for you: Quote: Cuz me wants to play Counter-Strike This is my regular pc, not a server by any means. I just threw .Net on for the hell of it. It's my comp & I'll do what I want. It was really just a basic question. If you still don't understand, I'm more than happy to re-type the above bold fonts real s-l-o-w. Quote: Well considering that 2003 has more features disabled than XP has enabled, the extra services don't really apply..... I noticed that It has considerably fewer default services than Win2K Server too.

Scenario: I am trying to help a local law firm with a backup problem they are facing. There is 16 pc's (1 per lawyer) connected via a couple of switches. The pc's are Windows based, & range from '95 to XP. All this leads to a soho router connected to a cable modem. The network is a peer-to-peer design without any "dedicated server" so to speak. Most, if not all pc's (i.e., users) are single entities. What I mean is there is hardly any file sharing taking place, & no one really cares what's on the other guys pc. Problem: The head honcho is worried about backups, or the complexity of doing such a thing over a 16 pc non-centralized network. Almost all data needed to be backed up is either Word or Wordperfect documents, so the total backup size will be minimal. Requirement: Since the firm is most content with the configuration & performance of the current network, only minimal changes to the current status quo will be entertained. So, doing something like reconfiguring to a server based network is not an option. The backup must be as "painless" as possible (i.e., easy as hell). They will look at adding hardware to the current network. Scenarios like adding another pc to act solely as a "backup server", where data could be copied to every night & also backed up to CD, may be of interest. My Solution: Have all users save files to a central folder on their local disk (like "My Documents", or "Backup", etc, etc). I figure this http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/external/personal_storage_5000/index.htm device maybe all they need. They could back it up to CD every week too. I'm not familiar with the product, so I don't know if the software can backup certain specified directories, or if it only does entire partitions. Can anyone shed their experiences? This would be simple & not disrupt the status quo. I would connect it to the boss's pc, leaving him with the responsibility of "pushing the button" at the end of every day. Am I over simplifying a more complex problem, or am I on the right track?

Adam & Jerry, thx for your replies. I need to get one thing outa the way first: will the external Maxtor drive do the trick? It does seem the simplest ("push one button") after all. Or will this device not do exactly what I need? In a nutshell: >There's very little file sharing going on between pc's. Everyones pc is basically "private". >Data to be backed up on each pc will be in a shared folder (each persons "My Documents", for example). >Most data is text documents >Simplest backup device/software/strategy is needed for the end of the work day. I basically want to take the 16 shared "My Documents" folders from the pc's & back them up to a central device. This would be either a stand alone "Backup pc", or preferrably a device like Maxtors External 5000 series products if it can do such a thing.

My constant fiddling has left me in a bind I have 2 pc's with brand new 1 hour old installs of Win2K Pro & .Net Ent Server. They are both connected to each other via a simple 4-port switch. They are both in the same Workgroup, & both have multiple folders shared. The 2 boxes have only their respective admin accounts created during installation. I have renamed this account to "ron" on both pc's. Passwords have yet to be implemented. Up until my fiddling with security policies, both pc's could transfer files between themselves without issue. Now, both pc's can still see each other in Network Neighborhood, but I cannot connect to the .Net pc. I get an error stating "\\Server is not accessible. Logon failure: user account restriction.". Trying \\192.168.1.104 leads me to the exact same error prompt. However, from the .Net box I can connect to the Win2K box just fine thru Network Neighborhood. I dunno what I may have (mis)configured, but can anyone lend me a hand?

Jasbo, that worked! Thank you!!! Kinda strange though, since I was able to access either pc before, & neither had any password. I don't know what setting I changed to make this happen. Hmmm, I wonder if renaming the admin accounts had anything to do with this?

Quote: I know this might sound like a silly question (not my first, definitely won't be the last!), but why would you want to tweak video settings on a server OS?! Rgds AndyF 'Cuz me wants to play Counter-Strike This is my regular pc, not a server by any means. I just threw .Net on for the hell of it.

I'm building a PC strictly to have some fun with a friend's video camera, & to fool around in programs like Photoshop. I have 2 simple questions 1: ATI's AIW 8500 or Matrox's Marvel G450 eTV? 2: Pentium 4 2.4B (Intel PE chipset) or AMD XP2400 (nForce2 chipset)? Regarding the video cards, I have had terrible "luck" with ATI's past drivers. Also, I know absolutely nothing about this, or any other Matrox card (it was heavily recommended by a few of my friends). But, I will entertain all suggestions. The winner gets a small part (no pun intended) in da movie So, wat ya'll gotta say?

My Plantronics headphones w/mic finally gave up on me. I was about to buy an identical replacement, when a friend gave me a listen to his Sennheiser headphones. Well, I'm in love with the Sennheisers, but still need to find a good quality microphone. Are USB mic's any good? How do they work, since the box clearly states "No sound card required"? Where is the sound coming from? Would I be better off buying a mic with a "conventional" plug that goes directly into my Audigy? Thanks to all in advance for any help offered

I started my pc, & walked away from it. 'Bout 20 mins later, I returned to logon. Anyway, when I pressed "ctrl-alt-del" to logon to Win2K Pro, nothing happened. The logon prompt thingy just disappeared, & there was only the blue colour of the desktop screen (not BSOD). I tried to ctrl-alt-del again to bring up the logon prompt, but nothing. I was forced to turn off the comp. Anyway, when I restarted I knew something was fishy. I noticed the onboard SCSI controller took much longer to scan the bus. After finally detecting my (only) disk, it follows up with this: "Searching for boot on SCSI.....not found". I used the SCSI disk utilites & verified the disk without issue. The installation of Win2K Pro is about 2 days old, done from a fresh install. I have tried 3 different U160 cables without success. I have no clue how or why this happened, but I'm willing to listen to any ideas. Here are relevant system specs: Supermicro P6SBU w/onboard Adaptec U2 SCSI PIII 600 2 x 256 Micron 2-2-2 Registered ECC Quantum Atlas 10KII 18GB. SCSI ID #0. Firmware DDD6. Attached to onboard U2/LVD controller

Alec, I just removed the drive from the pc, & had it lying in my hand with the cables connected to it. It works now!?!? I discovered that the way I had the cable(s) folded inside the case was putting too much tension on the connector. So, when I moved the case back to its normal position, the cable worked its way off the drive ever so slightly. This happened with the other 2 cables too since I had them both pre-folded exactly the same way (I'm a neat freak, hehe). So, I left a lil extra cable-slack & all is good. Me so wee todd id.

Yeah, I'm real confused about these USB headphones & mics too

The scenario: Win2K on a single SCSI disk (ID#0). I added a 2nd disk (ID#3), installed Redhat 8 on it & used the system in a dual boot configuration without any problem. If I physically remove the disk with Redhat on it, my system does not boot into Windows. It completes the PCI device listing screen, then pauses, & "Grub" is listed at the bottom of the screen. It will not boot past this point. The only way I can boot into Windows is to re-insert the Linux disk back into the SCSI chain. I'm thinking of formatting the Redhat disk (either in Win2K Disk Management, or from the SCSI adapter), but am afraid it may leave me with an inaccessible Windows disk. Here is what the boot.ini looks like: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect What to do?

I got it solved. I just booted from a win98 boot floppy & ran fdisk /mbr as suggested by one of the members on the StorageReview forums. Worked like a charm. Thanks to all that took time & thought regarding my problem

I've been trying to setup a HP 5P SCSI scanner on a friends pc without success & haven't been this frustrated in a very long time. His 5P originally came with it's own cable & ISA SCSI adapter (a weird triangular/wedge shaped PCB). Since he bought a new pc without ISA slots, I've been trying to connect it to my Adaptec 2940UW. The original cable was 50-pin to 50-pin, but he bought a new external SCSI cable that is 50-pin to 68-pin (to connect to wide external connector on the 2940UW). The cable he bought is supposedly for our situation here. Anyway, the machine boots just fine with the 2940UW installed. But, if I connect the scanner, it won't finish booting. It gets stuck on the "Press ctrl+A to access scsi utility" line & will not proceed until it has timed out (failed to scan the SCSI bus) 3 times. Then it continues into Windows (which doesn't know the scanner exists, of course). If I do choose to go into the 2940UW's BIOS options & scan the SCSI bus, it takes a very long time to begin, then scans the first few ID#'s (3 I think) but hangs on the next one & says it "Timed out". I am aware that HP doesn't officially support the 5P SCSI scanner in WinXP, but feel this isn't an issue at the moment since we obviously have hardware problems. Can I assume the scanner is a terminated device? Or do I have to put a terminator into the second free 50-pin connector? My friend says a termintor was never needed before (with original cable/adapter). Can anyone throw me a bone here?

Here ya go. It's copied directly out of Outlook Express, so my initial email is on the bottom, with replies reading upwards. I'm off to the pub! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! :D:D:D Mr. Arthur Pappas, I read your e-mail. Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. We are aware of the market opportunity. From a business perspective, we are not at the stage where we can target the masses yet. Like all leading edge technologies, it is starting out a bit expensive and somewhat exclusive. After time we will have problems ironed out (bootability, capacity, price) and have some sales success within our initial target market. We are working hard to reach our potential. Thanks for taking the time to really think about our product. -J Chris, Thank you for replying so promptly. I won't be able to wait till Q3/Q4 of this year. So it looks like I will be stock piling DIMMs & continue to use your fabulous RamDrive. As for the proposed pricing of a bootable version; in my opinion the current Rocket Drive is less than an ideal alternative to "regular" disks simply because it's non-bootable. It should have been bootable from the beginning. I truly feel this is a glaring omission, & believe a bootable version will merely be seen by the industry as "getting it right the second time around", so to speak. Saying that, I wouldn't pay any premium for the bootable version, & would expect the current offering to take substantial price cuts. I also feel you would've had much greater market penetration if the major marketing/advertising push for the Rocket Drive was without memory installed, since many online vendors today are selling 512MB modules for next to nothing (i.e., a lot less than the populated Rocket Drives sold by Cenatek). Imagine me bragging up my (hypothetical) system to friends: Pentium 4 (or AMD equivalent) @ xxx GHz 512 MB (or more) of whatever memory Blah Blah video/sound card 2 x 4 GB CENATEK Rocket Drive stripe set for OS, intensive programs, pagefile, temp files/cookies, etc Bla Bla "conventional" hard disk for data/storage Etc, etc Chris,I really feel Cenatek missed the boat at targeting the correct (i.e., most profitable) end user. I mean it's all fine & dandy trying to sell these things to Sys admins (on strict budgets) that overlook multi-thousand dollar servers. But if Cenatek were my company, Rocket Drives would be marketed to the same people you see spending untold thousands sooping up their Honda Civics & other import cars > our youth! The possibilities for market dominance for a product without peer is mind boggling. With careful planning, & more importantly affordable pricing, Cenatek could steal headlines from new video cards or cpu's at every major online tech site on the Internet. Just imagine visiting www.tomshardware.com & the main article is covering the new bootable 16 GB (16 x 1 GB DIMMs) Cenatek Rocket Drive. I mean, many people have video cards that are well beyond the requiremnts of games being played today anyway. Heck, at work I sell 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 machines all day long to grand mothers that want to save their recipes & send email. When the performance freak comes in & asks for upgrade advice because his pc "doesn't feel fast anymore", I have nothing to offer him. He already has a 2.8GHz P4, GF4 video & U160 SCSI disks. The true bottleneck in his system (i.e., the hard drives), are as fast as he can buy. Nobody in their right mind will pay thousands for a Rocket Drive in a home pc. My dream? Easy! Cenatek rethinks their philosophy regarding the Rocket Drive. This leads to a very small product line consisting of only 2 models: · CENATEK SR-71 (or some other name more market attuned) · unpopulated · 4 GB max · Bootable · RAID friendly · User friendly · $US300 - $US400 (at the most) · CENATEK PROFFESSIONAL: · optionally populated · as above with higher capacities & pricing Find a chair at just about any lan party & all you hear is "what ya got under the hood" conversation. Cenatek could take more than its own share of consumer IT spending habits. Just think of the possibilities................. Cheers, Arthur Pappas P.S. I would like to forward our conversation to the Cenatek CEO/President. How would I do so? I'm interested in hearing a more "business minded" perspective. By the way, do you have any Canadian resellers? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Lym" <clym@cenatek.com> To: <XXX@XXX> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: RE: Sales Inquiry -- 11/23/02 - 2:04 AM > Arthur, > > We're working on a bootable version, which should be > available sometime in 2003. Probably the latter half, > Q3 or Q4. We're also looking at going with PCIX but > that will be even later than that. What price point would > you pay for a bootable version in our current PCI form > factor? > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: XXX@XXX [mailto:XXX@XXX] > > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:05 AM > > To: sales@cenatek.com > > Subject: Sales Inquiry -- 11/23/02 - 2:04 AM > > > > > > > > +-----------------------+ > > | Cenatek Sales Inquiry | > > +-----------------------+ > > Date: 11/23/02 - Time: 2:04 AM > > - > > Name: Mr. Arthur Pappas > > > > Title: > > Phone: (XXX)XXX-XXXX > > E-Mail: XXX@XXX > > - > > Product: Rocket Drive > > Type of Question: Sales > > - > > Industry: Retail/Consumer Goods > > > > Application Use: File servers > > > > OS: Windows 2000 > > > > Hardware: Engineering Workstation > > - > > Performance Issues: > > Question/Comment: I am very interested in your > > produst & have considered purchasing your Rocket Drive for > > quite a while. But, the current design makes it useless to > > me. I require a bootable version, & that is also 64bit/66MHz > > (or PCI-X). > > > > Will such a device become a reality, or shall I just forget > > it? If indeed it is being developed by Cenatek, when can I > > expect it to be available? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Mr. Arthur Pappas Jason Caulkins CTO CENATEK HIGH Speed Storage Solutions 3118 Seminole Drive Redding, CA 96001 530-222-5359 jcaulkins@cenatek.com www.cenatek.com

Alec, I've had some correspondance with Chris Lym at Cenatek during the past month. He has hinted as to what is coming down the pipe regarding the future of RocketDrive. Would you like a read? If so, I'll just copy it into this thread.

Must be 256MB sticks. Got any?

A friend of mine has a Linksys wireless router w/4 port switch. He currently doesn't have an Internet connection, & uses the router as a DHCP server for his Compaq desktop pc & his Viewsonic Tablet PC. The wireless option is currently not used by any pc. When I plug his desktop into the switch, the 100Mb light doesn't light; Windows Me device manager tells me the nic is a Intel 10/100 device. I thought that maybe the cable was the problem, so I switched cables with the tablet but the same thing happens (i.e., the tablet is again correctly recognised at 100Mb, while the desktop continues to be shown as having a 10Mb connection). I tried reloading the divers (& TCP/IP), but the issue persists. If I attempt to force the nic to run at 100Mb instead of "auto sense", WinMe refuses to boot normally & goes into safe mode. Thoughts?

Quote: Only question is really on my end, is HOW fast is that wireless router capable of sending/receiving/routing information? APK I dunno yet Alec. I will check it out nexttime I'm up at my friends house & try some file transfers using the wireless nic in his Tablet & the router.

Alec, et al. Thanks for taking the time & looking at my post. I don't know where all the discussion of cable modems has come from because like I said in my post there is NO Internet connection. The only device talking to the 2 nics is the 4 port 10/100 switch built into the router. Like I said before, Willy over at the StorageReview forums linked me to this discussion that basically concluded the onboard nic built into my friends Presario is a piece of garbage. I'm going to take the easy route & just put in a real nic

Hmmm, looks like this nic (onboard a Presario) is really only a 10Mb device, regardless of how Device Manager sees it (10/100). Willy, over at the storage review forums seems to have it all cleared up for me. thanks to all that tried to help or took the time to look