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I know raid is a popular alterernative storage method, but I have simple questions that seem like it should be trivial to those in the know . . . . When mirroring, if the source drive goes corrupt, and a backup is created of the source drive, is data lost on the destination drive? In the...

I would like to get a portable hard drive that can transfer files between these OS's (OSX & XPPRO & Ubuntu). Does anybody know enough about the OS/Filesystems to make a recommendation? Can it be done? If so, which File system do I need to format the portable drive to?

Have you ever ripped your cd collection only to find out that you named it wrong? I have about 2 cd's worth of songs that ended up this way. Is there anything out there that will ID these files and update the filename and/or tags? I really don't want to have to do it manually.

I am strongly considering buying a rangemax 240 router from netgear, but it appears to be the there is no rangemax 240 wireless adapter for a pci slot. I know it is possible to connect a pcmcia card to a desktop, but is that a good idea? there is the NETGEAR WPNT121 which is a little...

I use XPSP2 and recently I keep getting errors with everything I download AVG 7.5 beta webroot demo WD lifeguard diagnostics for windows (to check for possible bad drive) all end up in corrupt files! I cannot open/install them! On any drive! I have a real hard time believing that some...

I am gonna get with the times and start my first raid I have XP and Asus A8N-SLI premium motherboard I am looking to get maybe 4 or 5 300+gb drives and prefer them to be perpendicular. I am looking for data safety over performance and I don't want to lose capacity. From what I...

I am looking for a way to create interective menus for my home movies. I want to place my movies on a disc and have a interactive menu pop-up so I can select the appropriate video to watch instead of using a file explorer. Should be an easy google, but I am drawing a blank on what the search...

for some reason this thread was souble posted, . . . . here is the link to the full thread

I am looking for a case to replace my wife's Tsunami case. Only requirements is cheap price with awesome airflow. weight, color, material, is of little concern.

I have tried ABC, utorrent and azureus and they all crash after a few mins. It appears to be a possible NIC driver problem, due to the fact that those never worked since I built this computer, but work fine on any other. I have tried using both the NVidia and marvel NIC's that are onboard my...

I have installed eac and flac and configured it to rip to flac but apparently I did something wrong. I think my problem lies within using EAC itself. with the mp3 and wwav buttons on the left etc. . what do I do to actually execute to make eac to rip to flac? I tried the WAV button and that...

Why is it that so many places on the web insist on using the realmediaplayer extensions and quicktime extensions? why is it that they insist on us using programs we don't want. I miss out on a lot of content becuase I refuse to use realplayer

I have an IC7-G and the fan on the NB is started rattling, anyone hear of remedy for this? Does this chipset run hot? Can I say screw the fan and let the heatsink do the work passively? I have a 2.4c @ 2.4 -No overclocking here

I try to figure out all the jargon as far as audio goes, but I am still at a loss. I was looking at audigy 2 with 192khz sampling rate and the x-fi with 96khz sampling rate. What is the sampling rate, and is the lower number better?

sounds like a silly question but I need a black & white definitive answer MediaMVP now supports divx. Now that divx is mpeg4 does this mean that mediamvp will play xvid's as well.?

gonna buy a racing wheel for games and I want to share it between a pc and a Xbox, I am not new to making cables so this is no concern and I know that xbox ports are USB with a different connector. But considering possible driver issues, should I get a pc wheel and mod to the xbox, or a xbox...

Ok this is my views on the matter. All these heatpipe heatsinks look great, talk a formidible game and blah blah blah. When the liquid on the inside vaporizes, it turns into a gas and rises to the fins to cool back into a liquid form again right? My question is, how can this be effective...

why resort to piracy?

What would you suggest the problem is if you fail to compltely boot off of a cd such as dban or WD lifeguard tools? abit ic7g 512mb 74gb raptor 40gb ide caviar 80gb ide caviar 2.4c p4 xp pro

ok I have been using outpost for a few days now and I can't seem to find the setting to allow windows update through to my box I get a page cannot be displayed error. I have even went as far as putting http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ into my trusted sites *arghhh* has anyone else had...

ok now let me get this straight . . . . Everyone here seems to agree that EAC is the way to go for ripping our own cds, but to make them flac, I need to rip them to wav and then use a flac front-end? I hope I am wrong here cuz mp3 takes less steps. Please correct me one way or the other

Ther desktop I am using seems to be reqiuring me to use DHCP. I am behind a router (linksys), XPPro SP1, onboard LAN (IC7-G), and double-checked the subnet and first 3 groups in IP to make sure they match. Now running under a dynamic ip works, but I have a tendency to opt for the more...

ok i don't know what info is pertinent so I will throw some thoughts out at you GENTOO Problem : No network (no network = no emerge) when booting up with grub I get an error /sbin/dhcpcd /sbin/rc file or directory does not exist error line109 it looks like resolv.conf was...

ok here is the deal I want to make my vaio laptop run a higher resolutionin linux (currently 1024x768 but capable of 1400x1050) my understanding is if I manually enter frequencies of the lcd on the PCG-GRT260G then I can force it to go into a higher resolution. I did call up my buddy google...

[/URL][/IMG] or bigger image here http://img57.exs.cx/img57/3568/silverado2b5en.jpg Ok I know that photoshop can do anything so can anyone tell me how to remove the grass from behind the window? I kinda like the reflections being there of the trees but the grass really gets to...

Can anyone explain to me exectly what is adabas d and how it works? This does come with StarOffice Yes, I have googled it and maybe I am being braindead- but I have not found a complete and concise answer yet.

ok I am working on a dell webpc for a friend, it has a celery 500mhz 3 usb's no -ps2 no ethernet no floppy. any recommendations on how to reinstall win98? I thought about booting from a usb floppym but the Bios does not support a "boot from" anything but IDE HDD, cdrom, and...

do you need apple's airport hardware to hook up wirelessly? Or, can you use the basic wireless router/access point?

I am running a perfectly legitimate and legal version of XPPro. but the one thing I can't stand is the "You have reached the limit on the number of times you can activate this software" message. I have reached the point where I have to call MS for the second time to reset my number...

I have a sony Vaio <7 month old PCG-GRT260G 16.1" Sony X-brite screen 2.8 P4 80GB HDD 512mb RAM 64mb Go5600 video integrated wireless DVD-RW/CD-RW (hotswappable) TV-Card w/ remote 4 year transferable ext Warranty from Circuit City (Accidental dropping included) Briefcase style...

I am running XMS PC-3200 2x256 on my IC7-G on slots 1 and 3 now to get full benefit from dual channel, do I have to have the same memory in slots 2 and 4 as I have 1 and 3? or can a play around with brands/speeds/capacities as long as 2 and 4 match and 1 and 3 match?

I am using fedora Core 2 on my laptop and tried installing samba off of the disks, but I cannot figure out where linux installs programs to - what is the linux version of program files in windows ?? Does Linux use *.exe files to open applications or some other type of file?

I am in the market for an MP# player and I want to know everyones opinion. I want to work out with it so HDD versions like iPod are not in the running I am looking for flash memory 256mb + FM Tuner Arm band quality of sound battery life Also I am still stuck in a mp3 frame of...

How do I set up my home network to ask for passwords when sharing certain folders? can some be passworded and others not?

I have a sony Vaio <1 month old PCG-GRT260G 16.1" Sony X-brite screen 2.8 P4 80GB HDD 512mb RAM 64mb Go5600 video integrated wireless DVD-RW/CD-RW (hotswappable) TV-Card w/ remote 4 year tranferable ext Warranty from Circuit City (Accidental dropping included) Briefcase style...

What 's you favorite water cooler out there? I am going to go with the H2O what do you think of the koolance exos?

I am running SuSE 9.0 on my laptop but my display is kinda out of whack. *run level3 looks fine at boot up *KDE looks fine *logoff KDE back to command line with no GUI--> screwed up screwed up meaning the display exceeds the screen size such as a second monitor should be there. There...