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so i live and work in worcester, England. My job as e-Business Officer is to keep everything working without spending any money. outside of work i mainly spend time administering my home network. i am a geek and proud of it. have fun! spikes

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yes yes, count me on that poll, i love anime although i dont have enough time to watch much of it. from classics like arkira right to pokemon, the style and naivety of the art work is just so cool. i think one of my favourites has to be 'blood, …

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Hey Amber, i'm sure you've seen plenty already but i just wanted to add some things in for you. your up againsed one hell of a problem and your gona have to realise that you cannot change a person, sure you may seam to for a year maybe two but …

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Hi, Cant remember the technical details for this but it is very dificault to use your laptop screen as your desktop monator. basicaly the screens have no hardware built in to handle a strait vga input. all of the techincal stuff is on the laptop main board. having seid that …

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as an aulturnative to what is causing the noise, the fan may not be running fast it may be broken. it's quite common for the attachment between the fan and the motor to come lose, this means the when the computer starts the motor spins fast and the fan spins …

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how much do i use my pc? well pc's in genaral. i get up and go to work, fix pc's and servers all day. i come home and switch on my computers and play with my servers then i go to bed laptop on one side my girl on the …

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Hey All, It seems that when ever i install redhat, i get to the firewall section and tell it 'no firewall' but every time without fail i login and there it is firewall set to 'high'. can anyone help me disable this thing, whenever i use the gui security program …

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dont know about 'kptarcher' but i would'nt mind gettin a run down on the process. i'was tryin to sort somthing like this out awhile back but gave up coz it got to complicated, for the time i had availible. also where do i get a copy of smartdrv? cheers spikes

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I've had this before, you will most likly need to clear the cmos, so do the battery thing. but you may have nvram cmos in which case you will need to clear this while the machine is on. check out the mobo manuel for your pc for instruction on how …

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Hi All, Can anyone out there give me some tips or urls on setting up and administering microsoft exchange. i've recently change my anti virus software and seam to be getting a lot of virus activity and missing mail, unfortuneatly i know barely anything about exchange, so i dont know …

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Hi All, have any of you come accross this issue. when login in to a windows 2000 domain, controled by active directory (server 2000) i get the following msg: "the system could not log you on to this domain because the systems computer account in its primary domain is missing …

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Hi All, anyone got any tips for improving the look of a site? i'm pretty new to web dev and the code side of things is not a problem, but the graphic side of things is not going well. i'm just not that creative i guess. any tips or sits …

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Hi, for some reasion when i reply to a mail in outlook the font color is red rather than the ussual blue. anyone know how to get the font color back to blue as default? many thanks,

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Hi All, I'm trying to find an easyer way to update the database on my webserver. currently i open ten excell spreedsheets and refresh each one of them individualy, the sheets are linked to an external database, then i save each one as a .csv file. next i upload each …

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Hi All, Does anyone know where i can get the compaq smartstart software from, its for a compaq proliant 1600 server with a smart 2dh array controler? cheers spikes

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hi, can anyone help me out with disk cloning? i've never really used it before and i'm getting a bit lost. i have a system with an ata133 HDD. i have just installed a new scsi system. so what i want to do is copy everything from my c:\ drive …

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Name: andy Nickname: spikes, netcyber Height: 5'11'' Weight: skinny Hair: Brown Eyes: blue Location: Worcester England Age: 26 (oh! I

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Hey, I've been running fedora for a cople of weeks now just to have a look at it. and although i havent pushed it to take over from my RH8 severs it looks and feels exactly like RH8, and to be honist i recon that it will perform much the …

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Hi All, Just hearing more stories about these radio frequency ID tags, personally i dont like the sound of them. I can see the advantage for the manufacturer and how combating theft may bring down the prices on what we buy. But i don

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just another quick 2 cents worth, i run an intranet webserver for 50 people useing php script. the platform is a pII 400 90Mb ram, running redhat 8.0 with apache. just pointing out hardware wise, if your only catering for a few people it doesnt take much. and its been …

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hi, i've looked through just about every webpage out their on this topic and i just cant get it to work. have any of you got apache and tomcat working together through mod_jk? i'm trying to get this working on windows 2000 (desktop), using apache2 and tomcat 5.5. its loading …

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Hi, i have recently created a logon script for a department where i work, weird thing is it wont run. the script is sitting in netlogon on the AD controler with all of the other scripts. before this script each person had there own script named after the user id, …

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Hi All, i have setup vnc on my fedora linux box, but after a bit of looking around i can see that to vnc the gnome desktop i need to switch off the gnome desktop on the host machine. problem is when i drop to init 3 to kill the …

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Hi All, anyone have a bright idea for me. i have one linux box attached to an UPS system. when the battery is low it tells the linux box to shutdown. is there a way that i can get this box to signal other linux boxes to shutdown as well? …

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Hi All, anyone out there have any experiance with embedded linux? i'm looking into embedding on to a standard main board so i dont need a hard disk. if not any usfull urls would be cool spikes

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Hi All, has anyone managed install fedora on a scsi drive useing the adaptec aha-2940uw card? i have tryed booting with noprobe an dd but it will just hang on the aic7xxx driver or fail to find any disks. any ideas spikes

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Hi, Using the inbuilt windows/veritas backup system you will be able to backup to a file, map the network drive or use the local exturnal drive which ever you deside. to be honest i dont know how usfull this will be as i dont really use it. i presume that …

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Hi All, I'm haveing some problems with my perl code. the script is for a mail filtering program called mimedefang, the code is the main filter. the fist bit of code is used to filter out mail based on the subject line. sub filter_begin () { my($msgSubject, $hfile) = @_; …

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Hi, i have just tryed to install fedora core 1 on an old server box, 2x pII300 | 1Gb | symbios scsi 53c876e. problem is when the install gets to lookup the scsi device (at install) it displays the correct device but then just hangs. can anyone give me some …

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Hi All, Can anyone help me out with my sendmail config? the problem i have is that when i telnet to port 25 the output states that it is localhost.localdomain. but the box its self is named in all the right places and in the sendmail.mc/cf files there is an …

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Hi All, my redhat 8.0 box froze up yesterday leaving me no chose but to powerdown. now it wont boot. it getts going but then starts doing file system checks and drops me in to a recovery shell so i can run fsck and e2fsck. is there a way i …

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Hi All, Any of you know when we're likly to see fedora core 2 on release. i know its in beta at the moment. spikes

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Hi All, Is it posable to use apache as a web forwarder? what i want to do is have a linux box in the dmz that will relay mail and web requests in to the LAN mail to the exchange and web on to a box with apache. if this …

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Hi All, I'm try to setup mimedefang on fedora core 1 using sendmail, the problem is that i do not have much experiance of rebuilding software, which this processs requires. so the process goes- unpack the sendmail source (no-probs) create and change a config file (yep) build the source #sh …

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unplug all other drives in the system except the FDD and the HDD that you want to format. then make sure that the HDD is eather jumpered to 'master' or un-jumpered this usual fixes the "no fixed disk found" with fdisk. not allways but it usualy works for me if …

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Hi All, i have put 128Mb sdram in to my pc but it only registars as 64Mb, i have tryed with other memory sticks and its always halfed. has anyone seen this problem before? from what i can see its the mboard/bios and not the memory any ideas? spikes

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Hi All, I have just orderd my new internet connection and i am rdy to get everything setup. on my network will be a mail gateway (linux) and webserver (linux) an active directory DC and a few client machines. so my questions are: do i ask my isp to hold …

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just wondering? (i know i'm piggy backing) but would any one recomend using a linux box settup as a firewall only with only a local login? or is it still better to use a solid box of tricks like a watchgaurd or a sonicwall? spikes

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Hi All, i want to relay mail through my fedora box on to my exchange server. i'm useing sendmail 8.12.10, perviously there would have been a relay-domains file in /etc/maill, but it does not seem to be there. even though in the .cf there is an entrey for /etc/mail/relay-domains. anyhow …

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Hey, sounds like a virus to me, but dont worry its more than likely not on your system. the virus has infected someones system out there on the net, its sending email to whoever its feels like and forgeing your address as the sender, that way you'll get all the …

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Hi All, Do any of you know how to switch on the 'tracking tab' in the sent items folder of outlook 2002/xp. i have read receipts coming back to me but they are not being passed to the origanal message in the sent items folder, this means that when i …

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Hi All, when i run ./configure it checks for cc and gcc then says error: no acceptable cc found in $path. now i understand that cc and gcc are compilers and i belive that gcc should be on the system somewhere, but how do i put it in the $path? …

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Hi All, Stupid question for ya, when networking windows machines you can enter a domain or a workgroup, is the any way i can put a workgroup name into mac os9. as i am trying to link my windows pc in with the mac to provide file shares. ps. I …

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all you have to do is drop the redhat disk into the drive, make sure the drive is bootable, and your away. then just follow the graphical install, it really quite informative. when you come the partishoning the HDD use 'disk druid'. you will see hda (which is your c …

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just a quick tip, when you change the mobo and this situation arises, windows starts to load and then reboots. clear the cmos boot up, and enter the bios. adjust the settings to what you want then put the xp/2000 disk in the drive and reboot(i know your is not …

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Hi All, i have just started to look into picking up a bit of c++. i've been having a search about on the net for some tutorials and web links to help me learn but so far i havent really found much. can anyone out there drop me some links …

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real vnc is about 250Kb and has a very simple setup. if its just that your users maybe a little slow on the uptake (i know mine are) then you should be able to email the program and a text file to tell them what to do. if your looking …

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Hi All, i have an AD win2k network with two redhat 8 boxes to run the intranet. all the win2k boxes can access the redhat boxes through samba, the problem i have is that a new machine running xp pro cant get in to samba. when i type in the …

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Hi All, Can any one give me some info on aultering the menu in redhat/fedora it would just be nice to hit the menu button and see only a few things that then expanded to ferther menus of stuff, i hate to say it but a bit like the windows …

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