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Keep posting your story as it develops. I am interested how it ends. Good luck with your stuff man.

I second the evil twin.

Thats the problem, how do I make an image?

To my understanding, df is used to display the amount of available disk space for filesystems. I don't see how this would be useful.

I just spent a whole day reinstalling Windows XP, installing the programs I use, and making it the way I like it. I basically just created the perfect install of XP. We all know that Windows slows down over time, and I was wondering about making a copy of the hard drive. How would I go about this? I know I need a separate disk to copy it on to but would another partition on another drive (or the same drive work)? I'm thinking (and I'm probably wrong because I have no clue about this) about shrinking the XP partition down to the minimum size needed for all the data to still be there (about 15 gigs on a 250 gig drive) creating a new partition of the same size (using GParted) and then using a Live CD (Ubuntu maybe) and issuing the DD command. I am also unsure about the command needed. I think this is what I need but again I'm probably wrong dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb and I know that hda and hdb need to be the correct names. XP is installed on a 250 gig drive and I also have a 500 gig drive as storage for my media. 1. What Live distro do you guys recommend for this particular thing? 2. Is GParted good enough to resize the partitions? 3. Is the command correct? 4. Will this work the other way to restore? Thanks Spencer

There is always Windows Home Server. I heard it was good and want to put it on a machine here soon.

This same thing gets posted twice on the same forum but in two different places. It gets shot down in one place and he is encouraged and it is told it is neat in another. Weird. The other one can be found at http://forums.hak5.org/index.php/topic,8372.0.html

XP and Firefox full time.

Bad.

I found it. http://www.jimprice.com/ascii-0-127.gif You need 28,29,30,31

I'm no Javascript expert, but I think "rkey == x" where x = the key pressed on the keyboard. EDIT: I just read your post thoroughly and this won't help you.

I think this is a good chance to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I'm leaving tomorrow morning so this is my last chance before Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody.

You say you don't want U3 but you might buy an 8gig version of the U3 you already have. I'm with VaKo. Go buy the cheapest one.

Thank you captain obvious! moonlit didn't see it so I pointed it out.

Someone drew a dick on the field.

If it is the same password he can just call his ISP and they will give it to you. I know I can never remember all the passwords for my families email (I'm the tech guy who always has to set it up) and I just phone my ISP and they give it to me.

Why would you want to recover it? Replacing it with a new one will work just as well.

I have asked myself the same question. I looked around the internet and found that most people liked smoothwall over IPCop or monowall. I have not used any of them so I have no opinion on them.

I'm with TomB. I don't know what it is but it just doesn't feel right.

Wouldn't you want to prevent them from breaking the computer instead of weekly restores. True but when they do break it, this would be an easier solution than a complete reinstall.

You could buy two hard drives, clean install windows, clone the disks, put one disk away, and when they break the computer, clone the master back onto the machine.

I guess my question is: does the BSD that FreeNAS is based on support the 48 bit LBA? I just don't want to go out and buy this stuff and find out it won't work.

Try resetting the router to factory defaults. You reset by pressing a paperclip into a small hole in the back. I have the same router and haven't had any problems.

I was thinking of putting FreeNAS on it. Would it support it?

Don't all routers have a decent firewall built into them?