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ace_ventura

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  1. does anyone know if there is a way to remove the "Buy Music" button when you are playing a song in windows mediacenter. If already found an application that would hide the "Strips" like "Sports" and "Extras" but i cant seem to find any way to remove that darn Buy Music button. Thanks.
  2. yeah thats what i thought too but where in those players do you go, in mediaplayer i did a file open, etc, and i looked around there no place that has that sort of an option, so i dunno, maybe it just doesn't work and ill have to get a video capture device, i was just hoping to be able to get that to work so i didn't have to.
  3. lol sorry, im not that bad of a forum user as the post would have let you think, i was searching and i couldn't really find anything that i liked, and was just curious if anyone here had any idea.
  4. I am looking for a 802.11n router that has the best performance at the longest range, i dont care about 802.11g or b and would like gig eth. is there one that can do 100mbps threw a wall or are they all close and line of site that do 100mbps? Thanks.
  5. is there any software i can quick download so i can tell if its at least working then i can narrow it down to orb if thats the case
  6. it is a VIVO card and i would like to use it with orb. it shows up as a webcam under orb but it doesnt seem to work.
  7. no it is not an all in wonder card, but it did come with the dongle that has composite and s-video in and outs
  8. my graphics card (sapphire x1900xt) came with a few dongles one is component out and the other is composite/s-video in and out, ive used the component before so i know that works but i decided i would like to use the video input so i can output my dvr and watch it threw orb however im not sure how i can view the video feed on my pc. Does anyone have any ideas?
  9. in which case if i virtualized my fs then i would run into the disk issues situation described earlier
  10. i plan to put 2008x64 on it, and i will do the separate disk thing as well
  11. the only thing thats a downer but i guess not to big of a deal, is that if i need to apply patches to the FS everything else must go down, thats why i originally had thought to do a FS in a VM, but making the host OS the FS does seem to alleviate the issues i may have with a virtual disk as described above in a few scenarios
  12. so far i gather this is how i should set this up: Old PC: PDC New Server Build: 2x250 RAID1--For Host OS: 2008x64 4x750 RAID5--For VMs and FS Data Quad Core 8Gb RAM ---------------------- Host OS 2008x64 as FS w/data on RAID5 software: VMware Server BDC VM on RAID5 WWW VM on RAID5 VPN VM on RAID5 PCI raid card for RAID5? mobo RAID1 for Host OS? Other Hardware: 2TB NAS esata prefered or USB (for backing up RAID1 and RAID5) all of the OS's will be joined to the PDC's Domain this is for a small network so i dont think i will need the extra nics, the mobo will have 2 nics built in but if its better let me know and ill throw in however many PCI NICs i should get
  13. i looked into and thought about doing Hyper-V but i know vmware and use it at work so thats why i was leaning vmware
  14. what i was planning for virtual machines were a pdc (primary domain controller srv08), fs, www and vpn server and i was planning on building this myself but if its cheaper with your option i may do that instead so if this is the case, i would want to have my file server part of the domain which would be running as a vm, so i dont know how well that would work. actually i do have a few spare older computers if you were to suggest using a bdc like what you have and just run a pdc on an older box
  15. what i want to do is build a computer that will host multiple virtual servers so im looking at getting a quad core cpu with 8GB of ram, i would also like this box to have lots of disk space for the VMs that is also redundant so i have a lesser chance of loosing data, so for this im thinking 4x 750GB drives in a RAID 5. Now what i have planned so far is to have server 2003 be the host OS for the box, then install VMware server and create away. One of these virtual servers will be a file server that i would like to be fast, i would like to see at least 100 MB/s transfer rates in the vista file copy dialog box, now i know thats not accurate or a great measurement but if its going to read that fast it should be plenty fast in actuality as well, and yes my network is gbit and yes i do know it will depend on the speed of the other computer transferring the file to and from, i just want the server to be capable of 100 MB/s of faster (my desktop has a raptor raid 0 array so that should hit 100 MB/s anyways) My plan is ~500GB for VM space and the rest ~1.7TB or so to File server space (4x750 RAID 5= ~2.2TB), so i would have 2 partitions: 1 500GB and the other the rest of the array so ~1.7TB. So the easy part is i will create for example 4 VM boot drives on the 500 GB partition now one of those VMs will be the file server. The dilemma is how i create the FS data drive, because i dont want to create a virtual drive that will expand automatically since that will lower performance and there could be a big ass 1TB file on this partition and i dont know how well that would play with vmware and or windows, and it would take a really long time to create a fixed size large 1.5TB virtual drive to mount as the 4th Virtual FS data drive, plus if i needed to expand it for more space it would take a very long time plus there's a greater chance of data loss if the virtual drive becomes corrupt in the midst of expanding the virtual hard disk so that leaves this other option that i have come across which is to use a physical disk in vmware which sounds like what i would need however i would think that the large left over partition ~1.7TB should be unmounted on the host os, in my case server 2003, that i will use for this pc because i wouldnt think it would work very well to have 2 OS's having access to 1 partition at the same time, so ok, now if i were to use a physical disk using the left over partition and i unmounted that partition in the host os and all is well i can store files on it using the virtual file server, but if i were to shut down all VMs and remount the partition i would be using for the virtual FS would i see the data on the disk? i dont think i would if i can remember correctly from a previous test which can make it more difficult to get access to data should something happen therefore i would also want to have a NAS for backup and setup a backup program on the host os that will backup the boot VM's and setup a backup app on the FS to backup all the data on the FS data partition all to a NAS of equal size to my 2.2TB raid array just for cushion. But heres another scenario, what if i want to resize the partition on my raid array so i can have more space, so heres what i would do; boot to G-Parted and resize the partition so i may have 250GB for VMs and then 1.95TB for FS data, now when i restart the vms i dont think vmware is going to like that, so i could loose data. so i guess whats the best way to set this all up for speed and data redundancy, if i got another computer and built a SAN out of it, that may work, but thats extra cost that im trying to keep low
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