Re: [H] AMD advice

2005-03-18 Thread Harry McGregor
Well, Are you looking A64 / Sempron socket 754 or AXP/Sempron Socket A. Really cheap option (socket A) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-138-241depa=1 Here is a nice set for Socket A, and cheap. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=13-152-045DEPA=1

Re: [H] 32bit PCI card in 64 bit slot?

2005-04-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Ok, Since none of the collective have really given you the true straight up answer, here it is. It is NOT the 32bit vs 64Bit that is an issue. The issue is one of speed and voltage. PCI v2.2 exists in the following forms (this does not include PCI-X or PCI-E) 32bit 33MHz 5 Volt (this is the

Re: [H] Wirless network

2005-05-20 Thread Harry McGregor
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:16 -0700, Mark wrote: My Daughter's new home is in the wiring stage and I was wondering if I'm thinking correctly when it comes to wireless off an existing wired network. They are going to have broadband available at every RJ45 jack in the house thru a router and

Re: [H] Wirless network

2005-05-24 Thread Harry McGregor
, and the likely hood of a 2.5GigE coming out that can do Cat6 and not Cat5E is rather low. For Coax, I use RG6-Quad Shield, which is good stuff, and not that bad cost per foot. Harry Harry McGregor wrote: Personally, I would spec 4-5 spots for APs at ceiling height

Re: [H] SFF PC (Shuttle?)

2005-06-01 Thread Harry McGregor
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 11:32 -0500, Gary Udstrand wrote: It is time to replace my PC at home. Is this a good setup or should I consider something else? Shuttle SN25P AMD 3700+ San Diego It's just me, but I would go with a throw away chip, and wait for the X2 to be a good price. The system

Re: [H] SFF PC (Shuttle?)

2005-06-01 Thread Harry McGregor
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:12 -0300, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:59 PM 01/06/2005, Harry McGregor wrote: It's only $150 (OEM 3000+) vs $340 (Retail 3700+) In 4-6 months pop out the 3000+ and put in a 4200+ or higher X2. My understanding is that unless you have software that takes

Re: [H] Birds in my UPS!

2005-06-08 Thread Harry McGregor
Battery life is dependant on environment. I find here in Tucson you can normally get 3-4 years, but sometimes it's as low as 2 years. Take a look at www.batterymart.com for replacements at a good price. Harry On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:03 -0400, dsinc wrote: Have an APC 1KVA

Re: [H] Strange Sunday Monday loss of signal

2005-06-14 Thread Harry McGregor
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:22 -0700, Winterlight wrote: At 08:30 AM 6/14/2005, you wrote: this is no help but my modem does the same thing, just not predictable. It comes back on it's own or instantly if I reboot the modem which leads me to think my problem is my modem. fp Last night my

Re: [H] FTTP

2005-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
If you can, keep them from removing your copper. If they remove it, you are stuck verizon, and only verizon, none of the CLECs can come in on Verizon's fiber. Harry On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 18:06 -0500, GM wrote: The construction crew is outside now putting in Verizon's

Re: [H] Gigabit Network Speeds

2005-07-13 Thread Harry McGregor
explanation of why Gbit runs so slow, relative to it's specifications. At this point, I have just accepted it. GB networks appear to be vapor ware. -- Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Education Foundation

Re: [H] Open Source Heretic

2005-07-14 Thread Harry McGregor
Ok, I was going to try and stay out of this, but... On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:33 -0400, Ben Ruset wrote: Find me a Linux server that lets me configure things like DHCP and Dynamic DNS in a GUI window. Microsoft lets me do that. Dynamic DNS is a kludge, and ugly one at that. The workstation

Re: [H] Open Source Heretic

2005-07-14 Thread Harry McGregor
Yep, sorry about the typo. http://www.bacula.org/ Harry On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:13 -0500, W. D. wrote: At 13:07 7/14/2005, Harry McGregor, wrote: Now we run baclua, and just... Bacula? http://www.Google.com/search?q=Bacula Start Here to Find It Fast!™ - http

RE: [H] Good College student laptops

2005-07-25 Thread Harry McGregor
security precautions. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Education Foundation

Re: [H] New PC locks up and blue screens all the time

2005-08-05 Thread Harry McGregor
that the monitor profile would cause such an issue, or even that an overheated drive would cause the PC to lock up and/or blue screen. Any ideas? Where should I start? * *-- -Gary -- Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Education Foundation

RE: [H] cable speed difference ?

2005-08-22 Thread Harry McGregor
I was having that issue with Cox in Tucson, and just picked up a Dlink Docsis 2.0 cable modem. No problems at all since the upgrade. It was $60, and then a $30 MIR on NewEgg. Harry On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 16:34 -0700, FORC5 wrote: I suspect this is my problem too, also

Re: [H] Partition Type for RAID

2005-08-28 Thread Harry McGregor
Boot up knoppix run cfdisk /dev/sda (presume a 3ware or lsi raid card) Set partition type to 0c (Win9x LBA) Write and quit cfdisk mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 this will make a fat32 file system on the large drive. reboot system, and windows can read it. Harry On Sun,

Re: [H] DVI out ?

2005-09-05 Thread Harry McGregor
My guess is to get a Cheaper DVI cable, get one that is DVI single link instead of DVI Dual Link. Single link does not have as many pins. Also some DVI connectors are DVI-I (universal), and some are DVI-D (digital only). DVI-I has 4 pins around the large flat pin, DVI-D does not.

Re: [H] Toshiba questions

2005-09-14 Thread Harry McGregor
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:37 -0400, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 10:56 AM 9/14/2005, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Now it's my understanding if a head is dragging, then a)it keeps dragging, and b)no software is going to recover the damaged data. I've also never heard of current laptops with

RE: [H] Label dvd discs

2005-09-14 Thread Harry McGregor
To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Label dvd discs Anyone use those dvd discs that you can flip over and label by burning your label to the top of it? How is the overall quality of those dvd's? -- Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Education Foundation

Re: [H] any reason to go AMD 64 yet?

2005-09-26 Thread Harry McGregor
: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 -- Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Education Foundation

Re: [H] Long ethernet runs

2005-10-11 Thread Harry McGregor
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:10 -0300, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: My understanding is the maximum run for ethernet is 100 metres (328 feet.) Can this be extended by putting a switch or hub every 100 metres? If not, is there a booster of some sort one can use? Technically the spec is: 3

Re: [H] Net slow today?

2005-10-17 Thread Harry McGregor
Even with non-text emails, the bandwidth usage of email really is not that big on the grand scheme of things. With transit prices as low as they are (as long as you are buying real bandwidth, comercial stuff, in large pipes), in the $10-50/mbit, it really is not that bad. I have seen a lot of

Re: [H] Network Printer

2005-11-01 Thread Harry McGregor
I would just get a small USB printserver. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833164111 Or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833156025 Harry On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:07 -0500, Rob Finger HWG wrote: Anyone recommend a good network

Re: [H] Stressing a GPU

2005-11-03 Thread Harry McGregor
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to troubleshoot an issue with my rig for a few days now. I am starting to lean towards it being my 7800GT dying :( Have run Prime95 for over 24 hours (on both cores) and its fine. Yet games crash intermitently

Re: [H] cell to land line

2005-12-12 Thread Harry McGregor
Well, if you like Linux, and you can get a bluetooth phone (check supported list), you could setup an Asterisk server with Bluetooth, and pair the phone up, and take incoming calls via the cell phone, and even record voice mail, or forward them out via an ITSP to another phone, etc. Another

Re: [H] ATA has come a LOOOOOOONG way

2005-12-22 Thread Harry McGregor
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:25 -0500, Pat Robertson wrote: Just had the pleasure of experiencing what it was like to have an IDE system in 1993. My cable modem was crapping out and it messed up a bunch of downloads to the point that the rar files (from a massive 1080P feed sample) had enough

Re: Cable Modems was Re: [H] ATA has come a LOOOOOOONG way

2005-12-22 Thread Harry McGregor
Cost of real bandwidth in large amounts has been dropping like a rock. You can get Transit (ie default route) for less than $15/mbit, sometimes as low as $8-10/mbit if you are in a good location. I know of several places I can get a full Gigabit Ethernet link, expecting to run it at 95% capacity

Re: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation

2005-12-28 Thread Harry McGregor
For Video editing? I would strongly suggest looking at a Mac. 17 iMac G5 1.5GB Ram 250GB HD Final Cut express HD software $1873 (without Final Cut, $1574) You can later add a second monitor for dual display. Harry On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 11:02 -0800, Mesdaq, Ali wrote: Guys

RE: [H] 1400-1500 Workstation

2005-12-28 Thread Harry McGregor
the trade off of applications is too great for the gain in the video editing area. But I am thinking about a Mac for a daily surfer machine just to play around with it and get used to it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor

RE: [H] Verizon DSL

2006-01-08 Thread Harry McGregor
I had tons of problems with my BEFCMU10 for a while, and then picked up a Dlink Docsis 2.0 modem off of newegg.com with a rebate, and the problems went away. The cable companies (cox in my case) must have done an upgrade that caused problems with some of the older modems. Look on Newegg, find a

Re: [H] Graphics in emails

2006-01-10 Thread Harry McGregor
My recommendation if he wants it to look the same, is to output it to a PDF and attach, or put the PDF on a website and link to it in the email. Even HTML email is not WYSIWYG, and you can't make it WYSIWYG. Especially with so many differnt browsers and email clients, and rendering engines. You

Re: [H] DSL Broadband Connection: Need username and password forNetAccess?

2006-01-14 Thread Harry McGregor
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:44 -0500, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Harry McGregor wrote: Disable DHCP on the wireless router Plug wireless route into other router via one of the LAN ports (leave the WAN/Internet port on the wireless router disconnected). Use the uplink port

Re: [H] PCI Compatability

2006-01-25 Thread Harry McGregor
PCI-X is 64 bit PCI, with a data rate of 100/133/266/533MHz, and is backwards compatible all the way down to 32bit 33MHz (but it must be 3.3volt. All 64bit/66Mhz cards are 3.3volt. Putting this card in a PCI-X slot will cause the bus to slow down to 66MHz, most server boards have several PCI-X

Re: [H] PCI Compatability

2006-01-25 Thread Harry McGregor
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 14:25 -0500, Ben Ruset wrote: This is a 1U HP Opteron box, so there is only 1 PCI-X slot. I don't know if there are any internal devices on the MB that share the same bus. What model of HP Opteron is it? I am guessing that it has two PCI-X buses, as that is what the AMD

RE: [H] Blocking AOL IM....

2006-03-14 Thread Harry McGregor
The way I have done it in the past is to transparent proxy http and https, and then block all traffic from the workstation in question. Harry On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 22:20 -0600, Chris Reeves wrote: Get a piece of software that has specific controls to do it. AIM will start to

Re: [H] GIS mapping software

2006-03-16 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, I think I am probably the most qualified to comment on this out of the group... I work with the University of Arizona, but I am detached and support a group of U. S. Geological Survey researchers. The main package we use is ESRI ArcMap/ArcInfo. The absolute most important item is RAM. Our

Re: [H] GIS mapping software

2006-03-16 Thread Harry McGregor
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:37 -0400, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 02:54 PM 16/03/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: I think I am probably the most qualified to comment on this out of the group... I work with the University of Arizona, but I am detached and support a group of U. S. Geological Survey

Re: [H] Cable modems....

2006-03-28 Thread Harry McGregor
Stan Zaske wrote: Do you have any model numbers? This is the one that I have. Been very happy with it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16825112104 Harry

Re: [H] Buffalo Terastation

2006-04-18 Thread Harry McGregor
They seem intersting. I have not fired it up yet, but I have one here at the office for a special project. under $800 for a 4x250GB version, (750GB in RAID5). They run embedded linux. I will post more once we fire it up. Harry Gary Udstrand wrote: Being a

Re: [H] Linux imaging

2006-04-18 Thread Harry McGregor
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Winterlight wrote: What program can image and restore Linux partitions? You had a couple of responces for actual partition imaging, so I'll go on a slightly different vein. If you were just going for backup, or transfer of a linux system to

Re: [H] Linux imaging

2006-04-18 Thread Harry McGregor
Ben Ruset wrote: Tar isn't really cloning. :) For Linux it sure is, you don't have any nasty things like a registry to get in your way. Fresh format file system is always cleaner than a partition or sector image. Using Mcat (multicast cat) (Master) #!/bin/sh mount /dev/hda3 /mnt cd /mnt tar

Re: [H] Linux imaging

2006-04-18 Thread Harry McGregor
Ben Ruset wrote: Tar is taking files out of a compressed (well, if it's gzipped) archive and recreating them on your system. :) Imaging is doing a sector by sector copy, archival, compression, and sector by sector restore on another machine. Not necessarily. Ghost under Fat32/NTFS does not do

Re: [H] Linux and RAID question

2006-04-20 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Is it best practice with Linux (specifically SUSE 8.2) to do RAIDing in the OS rather than in hardware? Is it real hardware, or cheap POS on the motherboard crap hardware? If it's real (high end promise, 3ware, LSI, etc), then use hardware, it will show up as a

Re: [H] PC security class...

2006-05-03 Thread Harry McGregor
Winterlight wrote: At 11:45 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote: Hours? Not even. I don't buy that, I haven't seen anything that supports the notion that spoofing a MAC address is perfunctory. WEP, yes but let's take a step back. The best defense is to hide in plain sight. Turn off broadcasting. You

Re: [H] Adding an antenna to wireless router

2006-05-03 Thread Harry McGregor
Wireless network equipment, per FCC rules does NOT use standard connectors. The two common odd ball connectors used (incorrectly referred to here as standard) are RP-TNC and RP-SMA, reverse polarity SMA and reverse polarity TNC. The genders are kinda off vs the normal version of the SMA and

Re: [H] PC security class...

2006-05-03 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 04:20 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: Personally for my home stuff, I use WEP and treat it like a little padlock on a shed door. You know that by breaking the lock you are breaking and entering, and not just trespassing. The wardriver/cracker will just

Re: [H] Adding an antenna to wireless router

2006-05-03 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 04:37 PM 03/05/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: The two common odd ball connectors used (incorrectly referred to here as standard) are RP-TNC and RP-SMA, reverse polarity SMA and reverse polarity TNC. The genders are kinda off vs the normal version of the SMA

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-20 Thread Harry McGregor
IIRC, you might be able to hit escape key during it, another one might be tab. Can you enter the so called bios (dell really does not have anything that compaires to real motherboar's config options, of course). What about F12 on boot up? Harry Thane

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Time for a simple POST Card? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAIDcpc=SCHsrm=0 Harry Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:31 PM 21/06/2006, FORC5 wrote: I could clear the Dell screen on my laptop in the bios FWIW Unfortunately, I can't get into the BIOS. It

Re: [H] Dell boot up problem

2006-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 05:13 PM 21/06/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: Time for a simple POST Card? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-TECHAIDcpc=SCHsrm=0 It's a laptop, so I can't use my POST card. Well, it was worth a shot. I took the thing apart: It has two Hynix DIMMs

Re: [H] Laptops with goofy PCIEX slot

2006-07-03 Thread Harry McGregor
http://www.evdoinfo.com/Events/CTIA_2006/Novatel_USB_870_EVDO_Modem_20060407720/ Harry Ben Ruset wrote: We have the same problem at my office. End user went out and bought an EVDO card from Verizon and can't use it in his work laptop because they have PCI-EX slots, and (as of a

Re: [H] XP No OS found

2006-07-04 Thread Harry McGregor
fdisk /mbr ? Harry Thane Sherrington wrote: I have an XP Pro machine that has stopped booting. HD tests fine, and there's a Windows folder, and the boot.ini appears right, but it won't boot. Any ideas what I can try? T

Re: [H] XP No OS found

2006-07-04 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:33 PM 04/07/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: fdisk /mbr ? I've gone to the recovery console and done the following: fixmbr fixboot Hmm, what is the exact error message No OS Found from the bios? Is it trying to boot the right drive. I had a serve recently

Re: [H] Testing for an internet connection..

2006-07-06 Thread Harry McGregor
What kind of internet connection is it, and what is the hand over to the customr. Is it ADSL, Cable, or ethernet hand over. Does the customer have to provide a router or DSL modem or cable modem? Once you have this nailed down, something should be doable in this budget.

[H] Strange windows XP GeForce 6150 X2 3800+ issue

2006-07-08 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, I have a system I build a while ago with an Geforce 6150 based motherboard (Asus). We have 4GB of ECC Unbuffered memory from Kingston in the system. Under Linux, it picks up all 4GB (32 bit kernel, PAE). Windows XP SP2, fresh install, will only see 1.9GB of memory. Any ideas on how

Re: [H] Dell laptop DVD-RW

2006-07-26 Thread Harry McGregor
Here are two you might want to look at, I don't know if they will fit the C840 http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?productid=1585 http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?productid=1645 Harry warpmedia wrote: Well my Pioneer DVR-K12RA gave up the ghost

Re: [H] setting up LAN side of T1 ?

2006-07-31 Thread Harry McGregor
It's very dependant on how they are handing over the T1. This is my guess of what they are doing, but I can't be certain. Adtran has equipment that does an Ethernet hand over, which is my guess of what they are using. They also probably are not routing, but briding the T1 (this is what Time

Re: [H] Oh, how I miss the KeyLock

2006-08-12 Thread Harry McGregor
Problem is then she has to get up and type it in, or else she gives the kids the password... I personally think the physical key idea is good. Instead of cutting the case, put the key in a drive blank panel. Put it between the power button and the motherboard. This of course would only keep

Re: [H] Recovery of Hd w/o partition?

2006-08-18 Thread Harry McGregor
I have used a program under linux called gpart. Not great if you think you have physical issues with the drive, but wonderful it it's just a trashed partition table. Another trick is to boot up with another, much large drive, and DD the first drive to a file on the large drive, and then use

Re: [H] machine update plans

2006-08-25 Thread Harry McGregor
Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Greg Sevart wrote: If the University isn't using Open Office already, then it's time they start (or look at another, more forward thinking, university.) Most of the universities around here are standardizing on Open Office (and I'm in Canada, which is about five

Re: [H] machine update plans

2006-08-25 Thread Harry McGregor
. Harry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:02 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] machine update plans Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Greg Sevart wrote

Re: [H] machine update plans

2006-08-27 Thread Harry McGregor
dhs wrote: Thane, Richard, Chris, Greg, Anthony, Harry, et. al. Thanks for all your discussion. Yes, confirmed "flash drive" with nephew. It appears that the current W98SE is not dealing with the current flash drive. I suspect that this machines OS has not been kept up to date

Re: [H] USB to Parallel for dongles

2006-09-08 Thread Harry McGregor
We tried a belkin port replicator USB to LPT setup, and it failed. We could not get our esri keys to work with it. Wound up trading in our keys for USB keys. Which software is it? Generally you can contact the vendor, and work out an exchange for the USB version of the hardware key. We

Re: [H] USB to Parallel for dongles

2006-09-08 Thread Harry McGregor
Thane Sherrington wrote: At 01:18 PM 08/09/2006, Harry McGregor wrote: We tried a belkin port replicator USB to LPT setup, and it failed. We could not get our esri keys to work with it. Wound up trading in our keys for USB keys. Which software is it? Generally you can contact the vendor

Re: [H] External HDD recommendations

2006-09-11 Thread Harry McGregor
I disagree with this... I tend to like the no-fan external HD setups, as long as they are a direct contact aluminum case. I have over a half dozen deployed without issues, including one attached to a co-loed server to data backups (remote backups to the drive from outside the co-lo). 64F in

Re: [H] Video problem on XP reinstall.

2006-10-09 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, If she and you both have a high speed internet connection, I would recommend using a install less VNC server setup, and having her connect back to a listening client. http://sc.uvnc.com/ I have set this up for users here at my office, they download it, and it connects back to a terminal

Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions

2006-10-11 Thread Harry McGregor
RLS wrote: Just did my first Linux based install using Unbuntu. It is pretty graphical and I am surprised by all of the native applications types available from the get go. Question 1 I installed the 64 bit version. Can I install Linux64 bit drivers for the motherboard, netcard etc?

Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions

2006-10-11 Thread Harry McGregor
Rick Glazier wrote: How about QuickBooks? That is not Linux... (But some Macs...) It's not free, but Crossover Linux and Crossover Mac (Intel), should support Quickbooks, but you would want to try it first. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

Re: [H] mem question

2006-10-27 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi Duncan, EDO dimms came in two versions, both 168Pin. You could have 3/3.3 volt, and 5 volt EDO dimms. Finding EDO dimms over 64MB can be hard, and over 128 MB without being registered ECC (both must be supported by the chipset). Most chipsets of that time could only address 64mbit

Re: [H] XP Pro/Home shared printer...

2006-11-06 Thread Harry McGregor
Options: Enable the guest account on the XP Pro box Set perms on the printer to give Everyone access to it. Harry Bobby Heid wrote: Hey all, I have an XP Pro box with a shared printer on it. I can install the printer on the Home boxes in which it requires a

Re: [H] -OT- anyone with spare SCA drives ?

2006-11-09 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, What size are you looking for? 1 or 1.6, how many GB, and does it have to be LVD or can it be SE? Harry CW wrote: Ok, I rarely do this but: I have a non-for-profit that has a bit of a disaster. They have a server that's crippled at the moment that

Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend

2006-11-27 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, This board is Socket 754, and can't do Dual Core (maybe a mobile dual core, but I doubt the bios would like it). You can either go S939 or AM2, 939 he can keep his 1GB of current memory, AM2 he would need new memory. Does he currently have a video card, or is he using the onboard video.

Re: [H] Most powerful CPU for socket 754?

2006-12-07 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, The Cheapest upgrade would be an A64 3000+ OEM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103605 While I like the idea of adding memory, it is not worth it on this board, no reason to by PC3200 right now. If a memory upgrade is needed, go with an AM2 board/chip/memory set,

Re: [H] Most powerful CPU for socket 754?

2006-12-07 Thread Harry McGregor
the AM2 upgrade but my budget is about $250. Will the A64 3000+ be significantly faster than Sempron 2800? Anyone know with the BIOS upgrade what the fastest proc is this board will support? - Original Message - From: Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware

Re: [H] Most powerful CPU for socket 754?

2006-12-08 Thread Harry McGregor
the 3700+ dropped into the current Gigabyte board? - Original Message - From: Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [H] Most powerful CPU for socket 754? With an upgraded bios, it can go up

Re: [H] dell PSU ?

2006-12-19 Thread Harry McGregor
These guys tend to have Dell OEM replacement parts: http://www.centrix-intl.com/ Harry Wayne Johnson wrote: At 03:00 PM 12/19/2006, Tim Lider typed: Take a look at this place. http://www.pcpower.com/products/power_supplies/selector/dell.htm Thanks for the URL as I'll

Re: [H] PATA (and maybe SATA) to USB and/or Firewire connector...

2007-01-03 Thread Harry McGregor
Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, It seems like I am always having to hook up someone's HD to my system to image it or pull data off of it. I am tired of opening my case up, disconnecting one of my drives, and hooking theirs up. What I am looking for is some type of PATA/SATA to USB converter that

Re: [H] How to figure out RAM

2007-01-10 Thread Harry McGregor
Not quite, you can have unbuffered ECC. Modern ECC can be done with Parity memory and a proper memory controller. I use Unbuffered ECC (Kingston) in a lot of my A64 workstation builds, as it's not much more expensive than non-ECC and it helps with even more system and data integrity. Most

Re: [H] Open Office for OSX question

2007-01-13 Thread Harry McGregor
Grab NeoOffice, it's Aqua native. Harry Brian Weeden wrote: I am new to OO and just installed it on a MacBook today. I followed the instructions to install X11 off the setup CD first. It seems that OO runs just fine but I have a couple questions. 1) When it launches it

Re: [H] I think I found the solution to my HTPC storage problem

2007-02-22 Thread Harry McGregor
As far as commercial off the shelf SAN devices go, the Apple SANs are by far some of the cheapest. They were not quite cheap enough for us, so we built our own storage servers. 3U supermicro server chassis 15 hot swap sata drives (750GB, of course) Cheap HighPoint raid card (not using the raid

Re: [H] Evil or....

2007-05-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Hayes Elkins wrote: Low sulfur diesel is available right now. What you are probably thinking of is the blue-tec line of diesel engine cars coming out in model year 08. Mercedes Benz 220 and VW Jetta, to name a few. What's great about these engines is more horsepower and torque per liter yet

Re: [H] -N- MicroITX.. sweet

2007-06-08 Thread Harry McGregor
CW wrote: Sweet. I don't know how this supports data storage, but this concept ROCKS. Anymore I find almost all I give a crap about is email/web/office apps, and super fast doesn't mean squat.. but size is something that intrigues me. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40132

Re: [H] Source for socket A XP3200 ?

2007-06-20 Thread Harry McGregor
Do your boards use DDR memory (any speed)? For the price you will pay for the XP3200, you might be better off with a cheap S939 or S754 board/chip combo. The Sempron S754 should beat an XP3200+ nicely, and the Opteron 146 should wipe the floor with it. All of these sets are retail chips. Both

Re: [H] Need some Linux help

2007-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi Brian, Try editing your grub menu and telling it to boot only to a bash prompt, with init=/bin/bash at the end of the line Then run mount to see what you have for drives, whatever is your root fs (/) do: mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdaX / Then edit your files in /etc to fix your typo then:

Re: [H] Need some Linux help

2007-06-21 Thread Harry McGregor
Brian Weeden wrote: Wow - that seems like a lot for a linux noob like me. :) So if I hit c at the grub menu I get a limited bash shell. How do I edit the grub menu from there? Instead of c do e for edit, and then e for edit on the kernel line, and then b for boot after you are done.

Re: [H] MAC to PC

2007-07-11 Thread Harry McGregor
Winterlight wrote: I am giving a modern P4 Compaq computer to a friend of mine who still uses a 10 year old Apple MAC. Need to know exactly which 10 year old mac, and what version of MacOS it is running Click on the apple, go to about this Macintosh. Some 10 year old apples could have USB

Re: [H] MAC to PC

2007-07-11 Thread Harry McGregor
Winterlight wrote: Need to know exactly which 10 year old mac, and what version of MacOS it is running I called and got the model number Power PC Macintosh Performa 6400/200. The OS will have to wait until I can be there. That model would have to be at least OS 7.5, as that was the

Re: [H] Laptop optical drives

2007-11-14 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, Not all, but many maybe even most are standard now. I tend to pick them up from centrix-intl.com Harry Thane Sherrington wrote: Are all laptop optical drives interchangable? I know they have different plastic bezels, but if can I move the drive itself from one bezel to

Re: [H] IP KVM switches

2007-11-15 Thread Harry McGregor
We are using a Cyclades IP KVM. I like that the box itself is runing linux, I don't like that the management interface requires Active X Harry Thane Sherrington wrote: Has anyone used a KVM switch that is controllable via TCP/IP? I have a group of 14 computers

Re: [H] Newegg like

2008-01-04 Thread Harry McGregor
Winterlight wrote: At 03:15 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote: If you are paying the use tax as you should for your out-of-state purchases does it make much difference? ;) http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqusetax.htm What are you kidding me... for a consumer retail purchase. You would have hell of a

Re: [H] Roaming Access to Printers

2008-01-16 Thread Harry McGregor
If these are reasonably high end printers, and they can put a dedicated computer next to each printer, you could use a pay for print system, like www.goprint.com to direct the jobs properly, etc. Harry j maccraw wrote: So the FollowMe concept would be print to

Re: [H] Truecrypt 5.0 now does system (boot) drive encryption and works with OSX

2008-02-06 Thread Harry McGregor
IMHO if you care enough about your data to use whole disk encryption, you care enough about your data to setup an encrypted backup, such as ssh secured dirvish, or Bacula over local network, or even over a vpn. Even a laptop can be backed up well while on net using Bacula. We have several

Re: [H] Gateway address?

2008-02-18 Thread Harry McGregor
DHSinclair wrote: Is there any difference in performance whether I use my: a) isp's default gateway address, or, Well, performance will be zero... If you have a localnet route (based on IP and subnet address), and you give a default gateway that is outside of your localnet, your computer

Re: [H] Old Router still works!

2008-02-19 Thread Harry McGregor
FORC5 wrote: FWIW my old 314 is alive and well in a friends house. good solid, no extra feature router. Still running a FVS318 8 port myself with a spare in the pile along with a newer 4 port RP614 someone just gave me who went WIFY Wish I could goto 1000 base with all the crap on my server.

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

2008-02-28 Thread Harry McGregor
You are correct, socket A and Socket 754 are totally different, one is using HT, and the other EV6 for it's bus. If you are looking for a cheap S754 chip, take a look here: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SDA3000AI02BX-Ncpc=SCH

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

2008-02-28 Thread Harry McGregor
What is the exact model Toshiba. My guess is Toshiba direct, the part is ~$600-700 range. Harry Harvey Best wrote: Thanks all, I figured as much. My lap top is down with a bad motherboard, at least according to the local repair shop, and my desktop (the 754) is

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

2008-02-28 Thread Harry McGregor
Harvey Best wrote: Its a Toshiba Satellite PSM40V-07001. The shop was saying 500 for part and 250-300 install. That is probably about right. Based on the specs of the laptop, I don't think I would consider putting $500 into it. Take a look at this laptop:

Re: [H] Admittedly, I bought 200..

2008-02-29 Thread Harry McGregor
Chris Reeves wrote: Maybe I wiped them out. But, it SEEMED like a good deal ;) So what are you going to do with $1500 worth of motherboards? Harry Now just to see if it ships. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186116

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

2008-02-29 Thread Harry McGregor
Well, on paper this one specs out. I have a couple on order for a few spare boxes, but I don't have them on hand: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=480W-PWR-BLKcat=PWRcpc=PWRbsc * *Power Specifications:* * +3.3V, 32.0A * +5V, 36.0A * +12V, 16.0A * -12V, 0.6A * -5V,

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

2008-03-01 Thread Harry McGregor
j maccraw wrote: You vouce for them as reputable brands Harry? I know there are units out there just can't find the brands I know are good still selling ATX 1.3 units. I have this one on order for a few small/cheap builds reusing older parts, etc. I can probably let you know what I

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