stingwray
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That should be fine for running nearly any version of Linux.
If your new to linux (which it sounds like you are as you are asking this question) then look at Ubuntu. It is simply the best distro to start off with and for detecting hardware etc. I haven't found anything better.
While 384MB of RAM is not loads its certainly a decent amount as I still see some laptops being sold with 256MB!
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Not FreeNAS.
Look into the different linux/bsd distros and decide which one you like the best on what it specialises in and then choose that one.
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I'll second trying Omega drivers, I've had similar problems with ATi 9200 Mobile. ATi really need to work on their drivers esp for laptops.
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ComputerShopper magazine here in the UK does those sort of labs testing with software.
Personally I find Spybot does the job fine and regular formats and re-installs of my windows computers.
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UT GOYTE is played so its not just limited to the fancy games. Any PC built in the last 10 years can play that!
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Anything more than 320GB HDD become un-economical unless you are limited for space, like 1U racks or SFF.
320GB HDD costs about £62.50 now, were a 500GB costs about £130. Its easy to see that the 2x 320GB HDDs would be better value. Also has added benefits of if left un-raided then if one drive dies you'll only loose half of your data.
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Linux support for NTFS is getting better but I know the feeling of not being able to move my stuff about.
If your willing to risk it (i say this as NTFS support is final yet) then buy a cheap ~20GB hard drive to add and put linux on there, then you can also trial it by leaving 2k3 on the NTFS partitions.
I'm not saying 2k3 is a bad server OS, microsoft can do somethings very well, however it is slightly unaffordable to most people for home use. This is simply were linux/bsd wins hands down.
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All I can say is that try and find someone nearby that you can test mobo+cpu out with if that link doesn't help.
The voice feature on Asus motherboards gets very annoying as it stops booting to play the voice so it adds on to the boot length.
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Take the time to install and set up a linux distro of your choice for the job with Samba shares, you'll recieve much better transfers rates this way as FreeNAS is painfully slow in comparison.
You'll also find that you'll have better hardware support as FreeNAS is fairly limited due to its size.
Also that machine your talking about would be wasted on FreeNAS, running a full distro will give you the oppotunity to run other services from it such as DNS, DHCP, HTTP etc.
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Looking good, I'm liking the blue.
I think its always fun to install everything you want from scratch, you don't repeat errors that you did last time.
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Do you have any firewalls about or other obstacles?
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You'll need to turn the computer into a wireless access point for multiple machine to connect, you also need to check whether your wlan card is happy being put into AP mode, otherwise you will have lots of problems.
I think Linux/BSD would be best with this, although tutorial I have not got.
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Perhaps if your question made more sense then we would be able to give you a better answer.
Simple solution, install ubuntu if you like it. Live CDs are really only for trying out the OS and for fixing OSs installed on a computer that are broken.
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Its easy to make a decent media player. Just allow it to play as many formats as possible with and without DRM.
Then its up to the content provider to justify the use of DRM.
But adding DRM to un-DRMed music is a bit over the top.
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Check out the other topics about School networks on the forum.
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Now that the trial has finished you have a couple of options:
1) Buy the software because you liked it and need to use it.
2) Find alternative software because you didn't like it and didn't use it.
Sorry, but there isn't another option.
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If your lazy then you shouldn't run an e-mail server.
You'll probably end up contributing to the billions of bits of spam out there and get your domain/IP blackholed (hopefully not intentionally).
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Wait and get the Beta edition of VMware server when it becomes available for the Mac, install it and create a VMware machine to do all your surfing from.
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Theres been some bluetooth viruses and other things about but because phones are rarely similar in their OS and Windows Mobile isn't very common people haven't taken the time to go into it.
Exploits are about to use and people use them, however those people generally arn't the very technical kind.
I recommend anyone to dump Windows Mobile anyway, go linux on your Windows Mobile device, you won't regret it.
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It also inspires competition, hopefully now AMD will speed up their development of their next architecture which will whip the Core 2's ass.
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bvlaar, for ubuntu check out the program 'Automatix' it'll give you a long list of programs, codecs and other things to select from and install them all at once for you. Can certainly recommend it to someone new.
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'yast -i' is quite good/useful