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  1. I really really would recommend spiceworks. The interface is very nice and I had a much easier time setting it up compared to Zenoss. If you really don't want ads then you can pay $20 a month ($220 a year) to get rid of em (the ads aren't very intrusive though), since its for work I'm sure you can find $220 somewhere.

  2. I current have 3 1TB hard drives in a raid 5 configuration. I am wondering if it is possible to expand my raid volume with another 1TB hard drive without having the recreate my volume. I have the Intel ICH10R controller and Intel does say that Capacity expansion is not supported by it but I saw a forum post that said this can be done (they didn't say how).

    Any ideas? Gonna be a paid to find a place to backup almost 2TB of data.

  3. If you are already in your 3rd or 4th year don't bother switching out, it will just be a waste of time and money.

    Also you say mechanical engineering isn't really hands on, well I'm not sure how many years you've been in college but if you just started it could be just your core classes, you won't get deep into anything the first year of college.

    Also I don't think IT is what you are looking for, that really isn't taking apart things and building stuff either (at least that is what i think, correct me if I'm wrong). You might be looking more into Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, probably Electrical Engineering that's more focused on creating electrical circuits and stuff like that. Computer Engineering is more chip design and they also create software and firmware for chips so you need to like programing.

  4. Honestly the ceramic based thermal paste that comes with the cpu cooler will be fine. Unless you plan on overclocking the stock fan and thermal paste that comes with intel cpus will be fine. And if you do plan on overclocking the stock thermal paste that comes with aftermarket coolers will be fine also. It is more effective if you keep the air around your computer cool. Also cpu are built very resilient and all now have safety measures to prevent overheating.

    But if you insist on getting thermal paste why not bling out your pc with some IC Diamond 7 carat :P. No seriously carbon has very good thermal conductivity.

  5. Actually looking into it wmp can't play video from capture cards. I'm sure ATI has software though, I know they have Catalyst Media Center for their TV tuners, not sure if it works with your card but give it a shot. Also maybe you can try Sapphire technical support.

    Its called ATI Multimedia Center now i guess, this link is for window XP, not sure what OS you have but you can find it under the driver section for x1900 on amd's website.

    http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/mmc9-16.aspx

  6. I don't see the point of using matroska, I mean i guess it would be nice since it is "open source" but its just another file they have to host and there is very limited support for matroska outside of computers. And theres really no advantage of choosing mkv over mp4. mp4 also supports multiple audio/video streams and subtitles. Plus you can stream mp4 files.

  7. 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

    If you have vista or XP media center edititon, windows media center should be able to see it. Not sure mabye Windows Media Player too.

  8. hi we wrote a script in AutoIT that shuts down computers in a config file. and also a gui to make the comfig file more friendly with AD. i would give it to you but the guy who wrote it will not give it out (doesnt really believe in free software :)).

    another thing you might want to look at is the GUI for shutdown.exe. to access it just start --> run, and its "shutdown -i" i think

    The main issue is not really how to shut the computers down but is how to deploy it. Like I said i've been using Altiris Deployment Solution to deploy the shutdown.exe command to all the computers at night. The problem i've been having with that is that everytime when WOL doesn't work the next time a user turns on the computer the shutdown.exe script will run and they don't have the privileges to stop it. I guess ill probably just schedule it as a task on each computer.

  9. Current I do nightly shutdowns buy using shutdown.exe and deploy it though Altiris. Is there a better way to do this? It becomes a problem when a computer does not WOL correctly and when you turn the computer on the shutdown scripts runs and normal users do not have the privilege to disable it. I was thinking of scheduling a task locally on the computer but I just want to see if you guys have any other ideas.

  10. Reflux,

    I got an email from Todd Hooper the CEO and founder of Napera about some things. They watched the episode and loved it.

    I'll be doing a followup and some clarification on the Indigo beta product and switch in the next episode.

    Thanks as always for watching!

    Matt

    Cool, I'll be waiting for 5x02.

  11. Some of my quota entries on my smb server keeps giving my entries with "[Account Information Unavailable]" under name and a weird number under login name "S-x-x-xx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx" the Xs being numbers.

    Some of these accounts say they take up quite a bit of disk space. Is it safe to delete their entries?

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