Uhhh, okay give me the punchline. What do you call a Taliban style government?

You really think that our special ops would be able to effectively swoop into Pakistan, destroy their nukes, and get...

We best pray Musharif doesn't lose Pakistan... otherwise we might see the Taliban take control of a fully functional nuclear stockpile.

That would not bode well for neither us or the pakistani's.

While I love a good bash bush pile on, I hought we were discussing the virtues of dictatorships and democracies?

I would gander a guess that your American Government book is wrong. How can anarchy be a dictatorship. Anarchy has no governing person or body, so how could it be a dictatorship? A dictatorship is...

Thanks for the response.

That's what's driving me nuts is that these machines DO have all the same specs. They're 4 identical machines. Same processor, same memory, system board, etc.

It...

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html

Download that file and run it. I'd be willing to bet it fixes your issue.

If your machines shutting down at random, it could be an overheating or overworked processor. It could be a dying powersupply. Could be a dying mobo. Check the event viewer logs and see if you have...

So, since the US government treats corporations as people now, would you not say that we could be living in a corporate dictatorship? Or since more than one corporation is pulling the strings of our...

Also, if you ask a liberal what is wrong with this country you'll get a thousand different answers before they start blaming the conservatives for things.

Ask the conservatives whats wrong with...

Right. The difference between the two parties is summed up nicely when checking out the Romneys most recent spot on tv compared to Obama's.

In the spot, Romney berates the the republicans for...

Interesting article. I guess we're all supposed to feel sorry for Rush now, because he's oh so often attacked by those evil liberals and femnazi's.

Sorry, but Rush is justifiably attacked. From...

This is exactly why terrestrial radio is a dying entity. The sooner they go the better.

I find it amazing the judge didn't wipe his behind with the paper the lawsuit was filed on.

Agreed. His documentaries are all over youtube.

I used to think he was a conspiracy nut but after watching I couple of his documentaries I changed my tune.

Okay, I'm hoping this will be an easy one. Currently, when you peruse the global directory for an address, the user list is sorted by first names, which drives me nuts. What I mean is, in Outlook,...

I'd imagine it could also be DNS poisoning, in which case you'll probably have to call your ISP and have them straighten it out.

I suppose we'd all have to reevaluate what a dictatorship is. Currently, the US is run as a corporate dictatorship. The Cons and democrats are really just two heads on the same dragon. It's been this...

Or you could download a program like SpinRite, boot from a floppy, and run an extensive check on your drive. Like chkdsk, it will repair many a problem on the disk.

Well, here's the thing. I took an image of the AMD machine and it's that image I was trying to push out to the other AMD machines. I wasn't trying to push out an Intel image to AMD machines.

In...

HA! Now that's funny. Glad someone still has a sense of humor in this country.

What you have in this country is a bunch of politicians that not only "infight" but they try and keep us split....
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Okay, so find me a country, any half democratic country, where infighting isn't an issue. You wanna tell me it's not an issue in the US, which is rather far from being a socialist country? Or how...

Howdy. That's not true at all. If you look around the world, there are plenty of socialist countries that arn't totalitarian. Just look at Sweden, France, Belarus, Venezuela....

There's even far...

I'm currently in the process of imagine a bunch of new Lenovo 3000 J series desktops which have the AMD Athlon 64 processor and a gig of memory.

We only received 4 of the Lenovo's with the AMD...

Yeah, it can be a pain if you don't know the administrators username/password.

If you have the Windows 2000 disk you can reinstall windows. This will solve your problem. You could also go the...

Would you like some cheese with that whine? :)

You shouldn't have to mess with any of your routers settings and it shouldn't make a difference if your ISP is using dynamic IP addressing. Pretty...

If the sleeve that the XP disk is sitting in has the serial number printed on it you can cross reference it with the one thats installed on your machine. To find out what serial number corresponds...

Yeah, while I've heard plenty of tales of hard drives crapping out(dealt with two this week at work), I've never heard of one shorting out or giving off a burnt odor.

Most likely it was either...

Not to nitpick or anything but the actual city of LA has only around 3 million people with the total population of LA county reaching around 10 million. Now thats just LA county. The greater LA metro...

To give you a simple answer, yes, admins use 2003 to "control" the network, much of which is done through the Group Policy editor.

The following will give you a little introduction to Group...

You really need to offer up a little more information.

What kind of network are you on?

Is it a small home network?

Is it an actual domain?

Are you trying to access a share on a server...

Well, I came up with the following....

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,47526,00.asp#

There's plenty of other sniffers out there. Didn't come across any freeware though...

Yes, we are running DHCP.

Actually what I did to fix this, which was a lot simpler than I though it would be, was this...

I didn't even have to mess with anything on the server side. All I had...

Heya guys....

I need to add two machines to our domain. They're going to be streaming audio from two radio stations. The data is going to be uploaded to Liquid Compass, who is the company that...

Told ya it was an obscure glitch. Those of the worst kind.

Or you could always by a low end hardware firewall. Nearly all have the ability to block whatever ports you would like blocked. I came across a cheap(er) Netgear on CDW's site for around $60. You...

Okay, this problem has been frustrating me now for the last two weeks.

I got a small side job at an office. Theoretically, it was supposed to be rather simple. This guy wanted me to add an older...

If its overheating thats causing your problem, why would you need to upgrade your power supply? You know how many watts it is?

If its your processor thats overheating you might want to invest in...

Have you tried System Restore?

Newt 2.0 (http://www.komododigital.com/)

This is an awsome little network auditing tool. Its free for networks with 10 machines or less attached to it.

It will detect any and every machine...

Comcast tech support are a bunch of half wits. I had similar problems, dropped connections, slow speeds, etc, and the phone support had me exchange the modem several times. Finally someone came out...

We use Veritas here at my work, but we back up to a tape drive. You could try mapping a drive on the server to your desktop and then try choosing to back up to that drive. Not sure if it would work...