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stingwray

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  1. I dislike Maxtor now that I have had 2 duff 200GB drives from them. Next time i think I will go for Seagate and get a nice 5 year warrenty.

    In the meantime I recommend Spinrite, its a bit on the pricey side but it is an excellent program.

  2. I love that image hack for the windows logon box. It makes networks look really professional if you put the corperate logo there. Whenever I do it for a customer that is the thing they always notice of all the things that I have done.

  3. Running Fraps with a dual-core CPU is fine, one core encodes the video and the other runs the game.

    It also depends on how high you want to settings and the capture, UT2003/04 can be capture very well on Fraps with a single core CPU but something like UT GOYTE can't. Its because original UT is basically all done by the CPU and not the GFX unlike the newer version. This makes capturing CPU intensive games more difficult.

  4. If they were charging for it then hopefull you would be getting some other things with it.

    I can remember a friend when he bought his first copy of linux (Suse Pro because home as more expensive). It came with a nice manuel and other things, not just the CDs.

    People do just sell the CDs though for quiet a bit of money. At the linux world expo a set of sets for a distro was usually £5. But then you are paying for them downloading it, checking the download, burning it to CD or DVD and then checking the data on the disc. So you know you have got a copy with no mistakes on.

    Plus also buying the discs from the organisation also supports them and shows them that you like their work.

  5. There is DesktopBSD and PCBSD, which are fine for people who don't want to use Windows and arn't very technical. FreeBSD takes a bit more work but I think is a better OS. It has has been around for a long time and its rock solid.

  6. If you are planning to use OpenBSD as a desktop then I wouldn't recommend it as much, for a desktop then FreeBSD is betteer. OpenBSD is a bit too hardcore and is much better being a firewall/router/gateway type appliance, as a server.

  7. Most distros have a network install. You are most likely to find them in the same place as the ISOs, mainly because some of them are now CDs. Some still do floppies, but burning 1 CD rather than 5 is good.

    OpenBSD is mainly downloaded from the net because they charge for the CDs as a way of making some money to keep the project going. OpenBSD would be a good thing to look into for replacing 2003.

    The machine doesn't have to boot from lan, the network install discs/floppies, carry the installer and drivers for network cards so you can set them up on the network. You'll just need to check that your network card is supported (most are), and then have the details for the network, so IP, subnet, gateway IP.

    I don't know of a complete idiots guide but most distro will have documentation on how to perform an network install. Its not had as once the setup can find the files on the internet then its like a normal install.

  8. if you like Linux then I would recommend you try a BSD as well.

    FreeBSD is excellent all rounder, and OpenBSD is excellent for routers/gateways/servers.

  9. Try a different GFX Card if you have one available.

    Try Windows or a different Distro of Linux to see if the hardware does work correctly and it is a MythTV problem.

    If you send stuff back and it works fine then they will probably charge you for it.

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