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    Reccomend me external DNS hosting service

    Can anyone reccomend good, reliable external DNS hosted services? I've always used GoDaddy in the past, but I've heard complaints about their DNS reliability, so I certainly don't want my university relying on them with that said.
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    Good cable testing equipment

    Was wondering what everyone else uses for testing cables (specifically ethernet)? Toning, wiring, breaks, length, etc.
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    E-mail archiving

    I'm wondering what others use for e-mail archiving/compliance? I work for a small university with a few thousand students and two exchange servers.
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    Windows Storage Server 2003 & NIC teaming?

    Anyone know if it's possible to team NIC's in Windows Storage Server 2003? I've never used that OS so I don't know what's possible with that. I'm looking at purchasing an HP DL380 Storage Server for an entry-level SAN.
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    Disaster recovery

    I work for a small university and our current disaster procedure is a bit... outdated. I was wondering what other companies, for example, do you have an offsite vault for back-ups, rent rackspace for backup servers, etc. Just a general overview of what other companies do.
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    Mac Mini $499 after $100 mail-in rebate

    I don't know if this was previously mentioned, but Micro Center has a $100 mail-in rebate on the 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac Mini's... more info at http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0246088 (scroll to the bottom and click popup rebate). $50 more or so off than Apple's...
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    crackdown - another agent needs assistance?

    I keep seeing this message pop up. I assume it's the co-op online play, but what do you do to initiate it when this message pops up? Hit start or something?
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    Turning on Xbox 360

    I just got an Xbox 360... is it normal having to push the power button more than once to turn it on? For example, when turning the console on, I push the button once. The power button on the console is lit green, but the circle ring around the power button is not lit. Push the button again to...
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    anti-spam server software (or appliance)

    Anybody have any anti-spam server software reccomendations? Windows or appliance-based preferred...
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    Managed wireless networking

    I'm looking for business-class managed wireless access points (about a dozen) that can integrate with a wireless management switch. The wireless access points would need to be able to function as stand-alone units until there's enough budget to implement a wireless management switch with...
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    easycgi a good host?

    I work for a small university that is slowly growing, and unfortunately we're severely limited on bandwidth. We've been contemplating about moving our web server to an offsite host to relieve bandwidth and for disaster recovery purposes, and out of the dozens of reviews and hosts I've looked at...
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    PHP removing date from a string

    Hello, Say for example I have a string like "Nov 9 10:00:00 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." How would I remove the date entry "Nov 9 10:00:00" from the string without reverting to a function that will just like... remove the first fourteen characters? Thanks.
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    Hybridge Graphic System - Nvidia GeForce Go 7400

    I'm looking at replacing my ultra-portable with another Sony ultraportable (maybe SZ), but I'm looking for something with a little more juice without being excessively large. However, the SZ series has the following graphic card: Hybrid Graphic System - NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7400 with...
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    Simple multiplayer games reccomendations

    Can anyone reccomend some good simple multiplayer games? My friend and I have laptops which isn't exactly up to snuff for Quake 4, but we'd like to play some multiplayer games. So far we've been playing Ages of Empires 2. Thanks. Edit: I should add, we're not really fans of Starcraft...sorry!
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    Citrix Presentation Server help determining config

    I need to bring up a new Citrix Presentation Server because our old one is acting flakey... however, nobody remembers how the old server was configured in terms of where the hell the IMA database is stored... either through MS Access or through MS SQL. No MF20.mdb exists when I look in...
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    server build - disk system

    What are the pro's and con's of using a RAID controller to set up logical disks, or OS partitioning, to separate the OS / data after a server build? Do logical disks provide better performance in the end? edit: I think i should have posted this in the hard-drive forum
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    limit file types copied onto a network share

    Anybody know of a way to limit the types of files allowed in a folder or volume? For example... I have a network share.. and I don't want people uploading mp3 files to it. Would that be possible in a Windows Server environment? Thanks.
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    Patch management strategy

    I just started a new job at a company and my first task is to revise their patch management strategy... I'm wondering what you guys out there do. Since Microsoft comes out with Security Updates on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, do you apply them to staging servers, and then apply them to...
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    Essential Windows Mobile software

    I just bought a T-Mobile MDA "smartphone" running Windows Mobile and I'm looking for some cool software... tweaks/hacks/games that you would reccomend. Doesn't have to be free.
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    Oblivion alchemy recipies

    Anyone have any secret recipes they'd like to share for Oblivion? Prefferably poison-type of potions? :D
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    Great Plains?

    Anyone know how to add a new user to Great Plains version 8?
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    DACL browser of some sort?

    Anyone know of a file-browsing utility that can give me like, a tree-like structure of users/permissions assigned to folders?
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    Acronis Snap Deploy... anyone use it?

    Anyone use Acronis Snap Deploy in their company and can tell me a little about it and its licensing? I'm demo-ing and so far I like it opposed to Symantec Ghost Enterprise.
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    VPN Dillema

    I'm the stages of VPN implementation in my company with ISA Server 2004, and I have a few remote users that are not members of my domain... what would you reccomend? 1. Make a subordinate CA accessible to them -or- 2. Allow both PPTP and L2TP, so they can log in, get issued a...
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    ISA Server 2004 deployment

    Would you reccomend ISA Server 2004 be a member server or a standalone server?
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    Best way to backup mysql

    What's the best way to back up all mysql databases? Mysqldump? What commands would you use?
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    Anyone ever use ADmit Mac?

    I have this software called "ADmit Mac" for active directory needs in my network. I'm in the process of decomissioning an old domain controller, but whenever I power it down, the G5 computer running ADMit Mac isn't able function anymore... my guess is that there's a configuration file somewhere...
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    php parsing string for urls to spit out html urls

    Anyone know of an easy way for php to take a string of text, with say, a url like http://www.yahoo.com, and format the output so it automatically adds <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">....</a>? edit: I notice Vbulletin automatically does this... hmm...
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    php + mysqli help

    I just started using mysqli, but I've been getting the following error: Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /....com/post.inc.php on line 26 If I move what's in my "test" function out, everything works fine... seems like something is up with the scope of...
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    Pureftpd doesn't accept connections behind NAT

    I have pureftpd set up on my box (it has its own static IP), but when I go to connect, everything authenticates fine, but then I get the following error when connecting... COMMAND:> REST 0 350 Restarting at 0 COMMAND:> PBSZ 0 200 PBSZ=0 COMMAND:> PROT P 534 Fallback to [C] COMMAND:>...
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    Norton Ghost boot disk with multiple NIC drivers?

    Anyone know how to do this? Its disk-wizard can create a floppy with a single NIC driver... but I'd like to have multiple drivers on the disk for when I work on different machines. Thanks.
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    PCI Express question

    Is a PCIe 8x card (Areca SATA controller for those wondering) compatible with a PCIe 16x slot? Thanks.
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    Comcast - semi-static IP?

    Anyone else with Comcast have the same IP for say, oh, the last year? I've been with Comcast for two years, and my IP address changed only when I swapped routers. I mean, seriously, I can release my IP and wait an entire day and I'll pick up the same IP once I reconnect.. sure, that means it's...
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    I'm porting a Thawte certificate into IIS

    I recently had a web server crash, and it had a website with SSL configured. The only place I can retrieve its certificate is from thawte.com, but when I import it, the event viewer says it was imported incorrectly... is it possible that I'm SOL because I no longer have the private key?
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    default umask for certain users

    Is there a way to have newly created files/folders set to a ch 775 only for certain users when they log in? I'm running on FreeBSD.
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    CSS help

    I'm making a hoempage and my navbar consts of pixel-width corners (left corner, right corner, both have a set width). Now, I need to add a liquid div in-between these two corners, so the nav bar will take up like, 75% of the screen. I'm noticing liquid divs don't play nice with static divs...
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    Fatal1ty wins championship tournament

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/11/23/game.tournament.ap/index.html Uh oh, I can tell everyone will get riled up over this. ;)
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    .htaccess Options not working!

    I just installed FreeBSD 6.0, and when I create a subdirectory and stick .htaccess in it, and have Options Indexes set in it, I get the following error: /usr/local/www/data/images/.htaccess: Option Indexes not allowed here My httpd.conf has the following: <Directory...
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    freebie network monitor utilities

    Anyone know any good freeware network monitoring utilities for Windows? SNMP, etc?
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