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I found an ancient OEM version of Age of empires II and its expansion pack on a windows ME cd yesterday. Does anyone still play it? wanna have some mp matches?

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How would I go about maing my own linux distro for me and my friends (students)? Are there any good tutorials?

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Ok ive got a pci-x radeon x600 and im running a 2 monitor setup (1x vga and 1x vga with converter into the dvi port) I have an old rage3d pro can i install this second gfx card in order to use 3 monitors?

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Ok i have 2 machines These both have NICS and 3x 2 gig hdd each - these have 64mb or ram each too and are a mmx and a p2 Basically i want to be able to go into windows and see one samba share which spans all these drives …

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Ok if anyone ahs problems with vista beta or dvd images like FC5 and cant be bothred to buy alcohol 120 then use Slax Creator to mount the image as adrive then poitn VPC to it

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Ok, mods feel free to move this as its a mix of windows/software/linux/networking Ok i have a debian server running in Virtual PC - basically, can i minimie virtual pc to the tray or something so my server can be running, but not get in the way

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Ok i need the user to be asked for a number by an inputbox (Using VB 6) and have this number checked. If its prime i want them to be told via msgnox , if not i want them to be given another attempt Any ideas?

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I have a Windows Mobile 2003 PDA Good condition, just one scratch on the case (barely noticeable) Inlcudes cradle, leather pouch, also 128mb SD card, 4x 64 mb CF cards and some headphones as well as a cd with Toshibas Wirelss Projector Utility, whatever that ATI powerpoint type software is, …

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I was googling for "apt-get broke" [my machine] using the google toolbar in ie7 and now the desktop shortcut reads apt-get broke which is reallly wierd. How can i change it back? screenshots availbale if u dont believe it. Reackon i should tel the beta people?

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OMFG Media player 11 says my pocketpc 2003 device is "too old to sync" but activesync 4.2 (newest has no problem) what i wanna know is, before i shell out for Vista: a) will sync centre be on all versions (home,pro etc...) or will i need the more expensive version …

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I need a distro for an x86. It must come on 1cd or have a netinstall and it must have a decent package manager and gnome Any reccomendations? P.S My machine hates debian and redhat derivitives

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Im 16 and after i leave 6th form college (Im in the first of 2 years) i wanna get into ICT but i dunno if im mathsy enough I have B at internediate maths GSCE I have B at Higher ICT GCSE I am studying Computing (ict with more programming …

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XP cant do domain controller etc.... and home has no passwords or ACLs so how about a windows port of samba? It would basically turn an xp home machine into a 2k3 server

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Guess what this means in english: CLUE: Its a stanza froma a poem (its not in the correct lines) [COLOR=maroon]Ayta seemes ohnaelye yeahstaeredeahye Ay ewsede taoh beeelayevee taeheree weahs naohtaehaynaje ewnadeere meye skaayna ohfe elayjeehta. Ayfe yeohew siewta mee Ay siohewelde sehaynae.[/COLOR] [COLOR=maroon]Beewta naohwe weehena Ay feahelel ewponaah taehe saydeweahelkas …

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Ok, ive done lfs before bu tnever used raedhat that much. Can i get all the RHEL srpm's and errata then just build them into a chroot environment/ How?

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FOREWARD: moderators, please read what i am saying before you yell "piracy is bad" at me......... My windows 98 media was destroyed but i still have all the COA and keys etc..... Would it be legal for me to procure a pirated version of 98 and use my (legally acquired) …

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I have a server, 64mb RAM, 233mhz PII with 3x 2.1GB hdd's, cdrom drive and LAN card. Can anyone reccomend a distro which will be suitable for turning this machine into a file server (SMB or FTP) for my network. It must have a GUI - although this doesnt nececirally …

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i have pocketputty and can ssh into my server. How can i get an x session?

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Ok, im 16 and in the UK. We have NTL 1mb Broadband and i have a router and an old server which has apache running on it (FC4). The server and broadband are slow (266mhz and 1mb) but it will at max have 2 or 3 people visting it each …

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BSD broke my thinkpad. I have searched and apparently when the machine starts up the bios looks for a hibernate partition (which happens to be similar to the bsd filesystem) so it hangs. I cant tell it to boot from the cd instead and then use a livecd to kill …

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I AM POSTING IN BOTH THE ADD IN CARD AND GRAPHOCS FORUMS FEEL FREE TO MOVE/DELETE THE WRONG ONE (SORRY MODERATORS!) [IMG]http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/images/icons/icon1.gif[/IMG] [B]Old PCI card and XP HELP ME?[/B] I have an old WinTV card out of an ME machine. I think it was baught about 2000. I dont know …

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Does ATX mean tower, Midi ATX mean half tower and Mini ATX mean a cube?

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I AM POSTING IN BOTH THE ADD IN CARD AND GRAPHOCS FORUMS FEEL FREE TO MOVE/DELETE THE WRONG ONE (SORRY MODERATORS!) [IMG]http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/board/images/icons/icon1.gif[/IMG] [B]Old PCI card and XP HELP ME?[/B] I have an old WinTV card out of an ME machine. I think it was baught about 2000. I dont know …

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I have been offered an old mac - a desktop version one where its built all into the screen (im new to macs) and have been told it was the top version of the PowerPC model. I have been told £800 for it, all the stuff and OSX tiger cd's …

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How can i put DVD movies onto my SD card so i can play them using Windows Media Player Mobile

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Ok i have a pc which supports PXE and RPL booting and I have 1 machine to use as a server. They are both connected to my router which acts as a DHCP server (although i can put them on thier own network using croossover if that is easier) How …

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Ok i have a home network of XP PRO XP HOME UBUNTU WIN 98 WIN 95 WIN 95 NT 3.51 Would it be upgrading the 98/95/3.1 machines to NT4? and the XP home to Pro as i want better security and want to work on a domain. They wont run …

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Ok in the EULA it says the licence is like permission to use the software, It does not mean that you own it. I have a copy of XP home upgrade and a laptop which once had windows 98 (now no cd) - but the certificate of authenticity and serial …

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Ok i got a new dell pc. Win XP Disc Management tells me i have: 63MB filesystem type FAT (EISA COFIGURATION ) 145.95gb filesystem type NTFS (System) 3.00gb filesystem type FAT32 (unknown) I think this is as i can push Ctrl-F11 during bootup to recover my XP However, I want …

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I have an old system with RH5 - yes Red Hat 5! on it. Would it be possible to use Up2Date to upgrade it to basicallly what is FC4 in terms of packages. I have no CD/DVD or Floppy drive so it must be downloaded from the existing system.

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A friend of mine wishes to buy an easy to use, general purpouse wireless PDA and I have pointed out the RX1950. I am wanting to buy it off of the HP UK website but she will be using it in spain. Does it come with an international adapter or …

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I just baught a toshiba E750 new with Windows 2003 and for £115. is this a good deal. I know it got bad reviews and is a bit old now but I find it a solid PDA. But many are calling for an SE upgrade. What benefits would 2003 SE …

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I am a novice linux user (I am 15). I have run mandrake, fedora core and suse in the past because i liked thier configuration tools but now I am using slackware. I know how to install programs using RPM but how do you install .tgz or .tar.gz files ? …

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How can I make my own linux distro? Im 16 and a relative noob to this. I usually run Mandriva/Fedora/PCLINUX/Slackware. However, I managed a basic gentoo install and know my way around tools like vi, the shell and gcc and thaught how great would it be to make a new …

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I have an R30 thinkpad win 98 pentium 3 1000mhz model with 128 ram. I know I have a trident cyberblade card but does anyone know what model as I need the correct driver? I have tried thier website and it offers no help.

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My Faves are X.org, XDM and WindowMaker - simple yet productive. Personally XFeree86 is to old, KDM too flashy and ICEWM is just horrible. GNOME is good as its like the mac or WIN2K in that its simple, sleek and fast. Its also good for people with disabilities. KDE has …

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Hello, I have an oldish P3 IBM Thinkpad R30 with 128 of RAM (But 8mb is shared with the graphics card). It came with M$ Windows 98 and I would like to install linux onto t. I have some linux experience, mainly on older network servers. However, I am dubious …

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This is the legacy section but there isnt an area so ok. Does anyone here know how to network windows 3.1?

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Right, I have a dual PII 266mhz each Compaq Proliant 1600r Rackmount Server with 512mb of ram, IDE CD, 2gb IDE HDD, and 3 2gb SCSI HDD'S. Should I install GRUB for fedora on had1 or sda1. The IDE HDD is new by the way. I know the server is …

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I have an old compaq proliant 1600r rackmount server with 512mb of RAM and a Pentium two - three hundred odd MHz... Anyway, I baught a second P2 CPU of equal power , already on the server - specific CPU board off of ebay and took out the blank board …

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I have an oldish machine but it runs fedora (just). However, i got a new but old HDD so I could install more packages and decided just to reinstall. My rig is a server with 3 scsi drives (2gb each) and a 2gb IDE HDD. (new). I am installing from …

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Those proliant 1600 hdd drive at 2.1 gig each - can you buy them anywhere still as it wont take a standard IDE one and other SCSI drives dont fit into the rails.

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