As others have posted, this is a non-issue. It's like all distros that I'm aware of, do not include the ability to play MP3s (royalty issues) and the great thing about that is I get to decide which...

CentOS has a beta available.

I run Vista on VMware Workstation 2.5.2 and ESX 3.0, and recently moved to Workstation 6 beta (much better!).

Give it at least 1Gb of RAM-2Gb is better, make sure that your host is at least...

20 users... I have several customers that have 15 to 30 users that use me for only two or three hours a week-and sometimes less and most of that is via remote access so if you are getting 20 hours...

Regarding email for kids, I disagree-as a parent, my kids know that email-just like the email at your work-is not private and neither is IM or any other on-line communication. In fact, judges have...

I don't know how long the N series has been around, but I was pointed to the N series in 2003 when I complained to a Dell rep that I did not want a PC with any OS on it as I have plenty of OS...

Ghost will allow you to create images of your whole drive and/or its partitions and save them to files on a remote or local file system. Once the disk is restored or a new one is installed you can...

I always think that a programmer should know what's under the hood. I think that starting with Assembly and then moving up is something that new programmers should always do. It means that you have a...

Born in California, escaped from there to settle back to where my roots are, in the beautiful South, Georgia to be specific, where the Deans have been since the late 1700s...Mostly Irish and English...

It showed up on my MSDN and Partner Action Pack downloads on 11/8 so the only ones that will have to wait are the retail customers. I have it running in a VM using VMware Workstation and it runs...

"People who are filthy rich like that have an obligation to use their welth for the betterment of mankind. "

It is good that the wealthy do give to so many charities as well as hospital buildings...

Now that your system is running again, plan for the future. Download Bart's PE XP boot ISO image and burn on CD. This will allow you to boot with it and access your files, take a snapshot of the disk...

Not to sound harsh, but I am still amazed at how many folks-even technical people who *should* know better-who do not back up their data and systems! This is computing 101. And there's no excuse....

EISA...wow, I still have my old Prosigna and Proliant systems that are EISA based, but I haven't tried to install anything on them in several years so I feel for you but you don't *have* to use...

From the VMware guest OS installation guide:
http://pubs.vmware.com/guestnotes/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

Windows 98
Support
This guest operating system is supported on the following...

I'm not sure being like Windows is a good thing at all so anything that tries to emulate it is not what I would consider a good thing, but that's my take on OSes. I think you can get lost in all the...

"Lol no "proliant linux" would imply it would run on a compaq prolinat server which is kinda hard to configure and hates linux."

Not to give others the wrong impression about Proliant servers and...

If you the most painless way to go about it, go to vmware.com, download the free VMware Server. Install on your Windows system. Choose whichever distro you want or pick several to try. Create a...

I agree with joeprogrammer, any Linux will do. Since I live and work in the Red Hat world, and since Red Hat is an industry standard, many times I recommend a free binary compatible RHEL version such...

Yes, helloooo, can you say Linux? As if there is only two operating systems in the OS wars. In fact, for corporate users, it has been a Windows vs. Linux war, not Windows vs. Mac, especially in the...

The big question is: what's wrong with them charging for it? I mean I'm not an MS fan at all but thoise in charge of running the company answer to the owners-which are the stockholders-not the...

I think the Windows (Microsoft) dominance is more related to it being included (forced on us?) on every x86 computer sold for the last 20 years and less on anything else. Certainly before the NT 5...

Actually, when it comes to systems, I'm right just about all the time. That's what experience gives you. Dang, I'm right about being right! As far as opinions goes, yep, everyone's got one, and it's...

its the best operating system out there

Can you qualify this? Best how? What metrics or decision matrix did you use to determine this? Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Microsoft, just...

That is such a ridiculous post that it must be a tongue-in-cheek post. Anyone who makes blanket statements like this and believes them should not work in IT for sure and shows a severe lack of...

I agree with that since with all RAID levels you are striping the data. The more physical spindles the better performance, the faster the spindles the faster disk access. Of course with UltraATA...

I got into consulting because I got tired of the junk going on in most corporations. So I put my resume out on the boards and put the word out in the user groups I attended. I have a lot of years in...

Now, the hard disks do play an important role in the server, however a SATA RAID can perform the same, (or better) as a typical SCSI drive, with very little decrease in performance from the SCSI...

I don't know if things have changed for you since you posted this last month but like anything else, you need to keep at it. It can take some time even if you have experience. The last time I was...

Ah, that's why I love being a consultant now. You are a captialized asset for the duration of the project. Your word is gold and you command respect because you are an expert with a capital E!...

No C++ knowledge needed, that's for sure-unless you are trying to become a programmer that works in C++, then you just might need to know it :-).

A good starting point is to get a used Intel...

You really need vendor and vendor neutral certificates to really get ahead in today's IT market. Certificates + experience seem to matter more, at least in my recent (successful) job search. It is...

Once again, the government goes after the mechanism rather than the ones doing what is illegal (just like guns and cold medicine). Why stop at the search engine? Why not hold the telecommunications...

A pagefile is not absolutely necessary although some applications may not work correctly if it can't page anything. I think Java is one of them. So whatever you put in is fine and usually 1.5 times...

Once you turn it on, how does it turn off? Does it go into hibernate or stand by mode? and what do you have it do when the lid closed? I ask because I had a Dell Latitude C series that would do that...

Pagefile is the system's swap space. Windows uses a swap file to swap pages of memory to disk. It does this when physical memory is low and for pages that have not been referenced for a certain...

Also, have you tried booting to Safe Mode [F8]? I'd first pull my data off the system before going much further by either copying to another hard drive or network share. You also can try a system...

This problem can be caused by a damaged pagefile or bad sector that the pagefile is mapped to or faulty RAM module. Try removing the pagefile, rebooting and then creating a new one. Also, have your...

if you remove the memory, all you will get is a bunch of beeps...not sure how that will test anything other than post.

Does safe mode work? Lock ups can occur for many reasons, especially in the Win9x code base. If safe mode works, you can try disabling devices one at a time and see what happens. You either have a...