Uncle Toxie

It's not a question of whether or not you're paranoid, it's if your paranoid ENOUGH.

Very nice!

Very nice Tom! I am looking forward to seeing how the machine will run with XP.

I just have to ask, what was the point? I've never heard of the show, so I'm not sure what the premise is. Did they really think that something would NOT happen, I mean c'mon, it's Alabama. Sorry for my ignorance if it's obvious, just curious.

The guys over at Binrev actually have (or had, I dunno) a show just for user submitted content. Problem is, people stopped submitting if I remember correctly.

Thanks for this, I am trying to talk my boss into letting me go now. :-)

I am dual booting with XP now, I am pretty close to letting Vista go till SP1. It's just so damn pretty. Who knows, after a few months in the wild and some patches, it may be all good. My biggest complaint is still the fact that it won't work with Samba.

I wonder if Droops will be bringing his wife .

Congratulations to you, becoming a Dad has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I was a few years older than you when my son was born and he can run the old man down pretty fast :D . Be in the room when she is born, it will change your life.

That's what I used when my box was soft-modded, I love it. One day I need to look into popping a bigger hard drive in. It still amazes me that 120GB drive fills up so fast.

Very cool, thanks Famicoman

I'm going to have to play my resurrect a dead thread card rather than start a new one. I am fighting to get more centralized management going on the network at work. The problem that I have here is that I have no experience using WMI and very very limited GPO and vb scripting experience, by limited I should say worthless. I have been told that there will be very little money spent on any type of management software so if it more than a couple hundred bucks I am screwed. The point that I am trying to get to here is, what is a good resource to start using WMI? Let me reiterate that I have never used it before and would not know it if it walked up and kicked me in the coin purse. I need something to help me start from the ground up. If it helps at all I am looking at about 30 to 40 workstations all running XP at 2 sites connected via VPN on Sonicwall TZ170's. I have 3 servers 2 2000 servers doing AD duty and 1 2003 file server. Any information here would be much appreciated!

Thanks for the links kickarse! Samba being able to access my shares was going to be a definite deal breaker as far as switching to Vista was concerned, I will try the fix when I get home tonight. Either way I need to get motivated and get the stuff off my PC and onto something the whole network can use.........

I pulled down ultimate (64 bit version) when it was released to MSDN, I dual boot it now (with XP). It's okay, I did notice that when I installed WoW it was noticeably faster than when I installed it on XP. I have all the Aero Glass stuff turned on and it runs smooth for me. I am still trying to find ways to tweak certain things, a lot of things that I know how to get to in XP are either harder to get to or I haven't found them yet. It annoys the hell out of me when it asks you for permission to run certain programs, but doesn't ask for a root password. It still defaults to admin user rather than creating a root user and then creating an "everyday use" account. Other little things that I can't think of right off the top of my head that are mostly issues with getting used to it. I still haven't made the decision as to when and if I am going to switch to it. I guess technically I have since I have forced myself to do everything in it but my trusty XP (stop laughing) is still there. Oh yeah, I just remembered, somebody broke Samba. I stream stuff off my machine to my XBox and it stopped working when I installed Vista. I figured that I just needed to get off my lazy ass and set up a user (rather than using the guest account, I'm a bad boy) No matter what settings I used or security tweaks I tried I could not get access. I jumped on Google and found several forums of people with the same issue, turns out that Vista doesn't work with Samba. I sure hope someone gets this fixed soon because I can see a lot of people with NAS devices getting seriously pissed off when they suddenly can't get access. If I think of anything else I'll probably think about posting it and then forget. By-product of getting old.

Well when my boss calls in sick and I have finished all the projects that I have for the week, things like this start to float through my head. I was more curious than worried, in fact I would say that my worry level was zero. Thanks for the information howr, I'll look into that.

I'm not worried about the network itself, that works fine, I'm not even sure why in the hell I mentioned it. :) I was concerned with possible lag from pulling the data off of a USB drive to the network device. I really need to learn to organize my thoughts before asking a question.

I was curious, does anyone think that there would be a noticeable difference when streaming from different sources. Specifically; a USB 2.0 external drive hooked into a Linksys NSLU2 versus off of a dedicated server. Right now I stream media through my XBox from either my PC, or a server. I have considered ditching the server and freeing up my PC all together by installing an NSLU2 with a large external drive. My concern is that streaming from the external device causing skipping or stuttering. The network uses 10/100 (can't recall off the top of my head if the XBox is 10/100 or just 10) and I am not opposed to segmenting if needed.

I have an older Dell Axim, rock solid. I have also heard good things about HP/Compaq. I'm getting some serious deja vu here.............

I went to the site and read the "about" section. Looks like that was the point, when they say Hack they weren't talking "haxoring the gibson" they were a couple of hacks on public access television. There seems to be a new renaissance of sorts for cable access folks who are posting their shows online now. I look at like I look at bell-bottom pants, they sucked the first time around, they still suck now.

Mini-Me made a mega-haul this year (as always). My wife and I normally take it easy on gifts for each other since we get what we want all year, so we just get a stocking with odds and ends. I got the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie and some stuff to play with at my desk. Plus we got a few hours alone while Mini-Me played next door! Good times.

That was great man! Merry Christmas and stuff to everyone!

As if there were not enough staples of my childhood being ass-raped. Wargames was the movie that made me the geek that I am today. I can only hope that this doesn't suck ass, please Movie Gods; let this movie not suck too bad.

I can't remember what I did yesterday, much less 2005. Damn I'm old.

Quinlan Vos FTW.

Your not cynical Darren, your just an admin. It doesn't help that you put out Hak.5 each month, your saturated in tech man.