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I wouldn't mind if mind if my torrents went at that speed. But it does look like someone else is going to have a visit from Mr. MPAA.

Solaris runs fine on any hardware, however its not a replacement for Linux or BSD, mainly because it is basically Linux. Also its footprint is far too large >5GB now and in my mind is pretty redundant.

Basically an Ink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW

RW discs use ink to store the data, which is set in different places depending on whether the lasers writes a 1 to that 'sector'.

Thats because you shouldn't download them. Mr. MPAA now has your IP address and is coming to find you...

Getting my xmas and birthday present for the next 8 years next week. A shiny new MacBook Pro. :D

Check the jumper pin configuration on the hard drive, most SATA2 hdd come running at SATA150 rather than SATA300 so they will work in any SATA port. Just check any installation instructions you got with it of the manufacturers website to how yours is configured and you'll be fine.

The liecense for OSX forbids it, so technically its illegal. Go the other way and buy a Apple and put Linux and Windows on it.

Most instant messaging runs through a server so you usually need to intiate a file transfer to determine their IP address. E-mail depends on what serving software is used so is unreliable again.

Firstly, i point to my post answering your question about Bittorrent. Secondly I warn you not to breach the DMCA agreement, we don't want Hak5 taken away from us. So we shall keep DVD ripping to non-US servers.

Google, Wikipeida, so many places with excellent information, on demand and instant. And you choose a forum so you can wait and get flamed. What has the world come to?

It won't unless windows thinks that the two screens are one. I know when I last looked ATi's dual screen tool doesn't do this but nVidias does. Blame Microsoft if anyone.

Microsoft released a utility to "lock-down" windows machines, it was designed for use with public computers like in libaries or internet cafes. I haven't gotten around to playing with it yet and I don't know whether it works with home but that should probably be your first port of call.

MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo 2GB of 667MHz DDRII 160GB HDD x1600 with 256MB of RAM Desktop 2.0GHz Athlon 64 3200+ 1GB of 400MHz DDR (2-2-2-5 timings) 6600GT with 128MB of RAM 2x 320GB 7200.10 HDD 2x 200GB DiamondMax 10 HDD I'm not going to bother putting my sever specs down here because I will be here till christmas.

theres a list on the forums somewhere, do a search. if found it should probably be submitted to the wiki.

Nothing special there, although I really don't understand what you were going on about the nmap with the gateway. The gateway has nothing to do with with doing any network enumaration really. It all sounds a bit odd really, if you wanted a secure public ap then vlans would be the way to go with each computer getting an individual one.

Basically to do it properly you have to have an ISP that supports Bonding, that way you have one IP and your ISP will sort out spliting the information up and sending it to you, all your router does is re-assemble it and forward it, hardly and different than a normal router. You can do it without proper line bonding but your router needs to be more sophisticated to maximize usage. This set up appeals to me more anyway as I can have a dedicated line for servers and the other for home use, so my servers always have priority on a line.

Waste of money in my opinion. Really the only secure wlan is one which requires a VPN connection to the network in question. Other than that any public hot spot wlan can't be secure because the features needed to make it secure are two time consuming to set up for the public to come and use it. A good captive portal and radius sever will stop people 99.9% of people from stealing the internet, but if its not in your T&C that you cannot be held responsible for loss of security then you are an idiot.

I had a router which would die when using bittorrent until it had a firmware upgrade. Most odd.

If IP Cop is any good then you should be able to set it up to forward all data for the second public IP address to a computer on your home network or DMZ. I know Monowall does this so I don't see why not IP Cop shouldn't.

I have a raid card which runs the full length of a midi ATX case, it has to be used with clips at the end otherwise it hangs down.

I've seen the image of Tux used on a packet of knitting needles before but this beats it by a mile. Nothing like that here sadly.

Why on earth would I want to put myself through using that piece of crap?

Pro has Remote Desktop server and other things like that, so you can't change Home to Pro with some simple registry changes. Apparantly Vista will ship all on one disk, and at any time you will be able to pay some more to upgrade to a better version. That'll be open to a lot of hacks.

No, you can mismatch GPUs. eg. 7600GT with a 7900GT.