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I'm currently using mIRC but I change when I get bored. I was using Hydra for some time because it has some good sound support. When I used to just sit on one or two channels I used Xchat, but I like mIRCs windowed approach for multiple channels. For quite a long time I used irssi in screen. I occaisonally use gaim if other clients aren't available (the implementation isn't all that bad really).

#binrev is no where near as busy, nor full of as many noobs, as #hak5, last time I checked. I agree with moonlit. Spam makes my computer beep fast...;)

Same, all versions of Antispyware/Defender detect TightVNC as a backdoor. I assume that the vnchooks.dll etc. are sometimes used in combination with genuine trojan backdoors, and so it unfortunately also flags up genuine installations. I've lost VNC a couple of times because Antispyware/Defender has pwned me... ¬_¬

I'm sure someone here apart from me has the Debugging tools for Windows (aka WinDbg et al) for debugging crash dumps... Evidently no one who saw this thread! ;) If they are/were seemingly random then it's usually RAM, in which case a reformat wouldn't help you. However if the same error + culprit file were coming up, then it could potentially be a software/driver issue :).

Bah, got beaten to it. Using archive.org to host a podcast is enough to make you buy a domain. Seriously, I had nothing but problems with it.

I had some issues when I tried to update IE7, but that's about it. Ended up having to reformat as it screwed with some critical Windows stuff. Practically wouldn't let me in. Probably could've run SFC, but it needed a reformat ;)

Is Fbill that one percent? ;)

QFT ;) I don't use Google Video much. Or, come to think of it, YouTube. So I don't care either way. Whatever happens I think Google will do something cool to mark their influence.

Yeah Cooper that doesn't sound good at all. 6gbps full-duplex on a 48 port switch?!

If you've never organised something similar before, then start off smaller. The only LANs I've ever done are 6 people or so (though I reckon I could do 10). There's a lot of things to consider, the website linux4eva gave is an awesome one. The main issue is power, and keeping everything organised. LANs take a lot of consideration to scale up. The more people you have, the harder, but more importantit is, to keep things organised 8) .

For £50 you are really going to get nothing. 3 Logitech desktop microphones, which will have mini-jacks on the end, so maybe a combining adapter to bring that into one computer? Or a bunch of adaptors to make them 1/4", then into a mixer that isn't really a mixer (ie. not made by Mackie, Yamaha, tapco or whatever), something a bit like this. For £50 you're not going to sound that great. http://www.podcastrigs.com/ is a good site. But you're looking below the entry level, but it might have some ideas.

I've seen loads of Illegal Operations and BSODs at airports. Not to mention broken screens where an image has burnt in on them ;)

Definitely go for the 2MB Cache AMDs. But as VaKo says, you might want to go Intel right now, as they outperform AMD. Check out http://tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html. Always handy.

Yeah....

Completely turning of DEP is a bit of a security risk. I can't understand why it would pick up on RealPlayer? That suggests that RealPlayer is buffer overflowing (as I believe that is what DEP protects against to some extent). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention

Glad to be of help ;)

Nice one. I was thinking along those lines but I was at school so couldn't check it out. *stalks Moonlit* ;)

I noticed as I (rarely) browsed the "new topics since your last visit" that I could see some posts that apparently "Don't exist". Their forum ID is 18. I know what 15, 16 and 17 are. But 18? I'm assuming it's an admin thing ("Vako's Crazy List of Forum Tasks" gave it away ;)). I just thought you guys would like to know. I can't read the posts for obvious reasons (I'm not an admin), so it's not too much of a big deal. Just don't write anything sensitive in the subject lines! Sorry if someone's already mention this. Here's a screeny:

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm has plenty of instructions for removing thermal paste and applying it. I've used IPA with a bit of old ripped shirt, that worked quite well. Looking at those instructions, last time I applied thermal paste I did it wrong :oops: , oh well, it still works it's just probably not quite thick enough.

Isn't it 0-255, or does 0/255 work too? This of course will only work if that is the IP range the network is on. So you are going to want to check the IP address you are given (if the network is using DHCP), and then scan in that range (based on the subnet mask).

You're going to want someone to run WinDbg on that crash dump I think. :)

yea, that's the wierd thing because it uses a seperate power cable which draws from the AC power, not the computer's power supply. I haven't had a chance to try the hard drive by placing it internally yet I wierd thing that i've observed. If you leave it for a very long time without accessing any data it will be ok until you access data again, the moment that happens it dies again. Really wierd. Otherwise it dies after about 10 mins of work, requiring to be plugged in again. In that case maybe the external enclosures power "system" is faulty (someone's probably already said that ). I'd definitely recommend trying it internally, that'll help rule out the hard drive. :)

With specifications like that, you're really going to be underusing it just to run FreeNAS. I would agree with Stingwray on this that if you take the time to install a Linux distro (or FreeBSD, I'm just using Linux as an example here) in my opinion it will be more rewarding, and also you have the flexibility to run other things on it. Also it probably (drivers permitting) solves your wireless problem. But then I'd also agree with Vako, if you've got a bunch of stuff on NTFS you're in for a lot of time converting that for Linux, or working with developing NTFS drivers (which is risky if you don't want to lose the data). I haven't got any experience with Windows Server 200-whatever so I don't know how frustrating access right issues are (though I can imagine). Maybe I should get myself a copy and experiment. :P

I'll just add that I had to use ezflash recently on a friends motherboard (it was reporting a uCode error because it didn't understand the Core Duo E6700), and it's easy as pie :D BIOS flashing at it's easiest methinks.

The fact that other USB devices are exhibiting similar failure also suggests to me power or something up with the USB on your computer. Try using a powered hub to get those other devices working, or use a PCI-USB card to test for USB issues (I think doing that solves any that are on the motherboard, correct me if I'm wrong).