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How can I become anonymous online?

Buy accounts with a prepaid credit card, use Tor, what else do I need to do? Do anonymous proxy services work, or do I have to spoof a mac address too?
I’ve been away from working with computers for a long time, I’m really out of the loop. But, I can manage to follow [...]

Server availability checker?

I have a weird problem with a couple of the servers in my office. Every few days, they will become completely unresponsive for about an hour, and the HDD lights will blink away like crazy the entire time. However, they will still respond to pings — they just won’t provide any other services that they’re [...]

Anyone know what happened here?

I left my computer downloading several files via utorrent last night. They all completed fine. I also had an essay loaded via networking off my laptop, and then later closed the laptop without closing the essay.
Woke up this morning, and every five minutes or so the desktop was bleeping at me (error sound). I checked, [...]

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

help formatting external hdd to FAT32

I just bought a 500gb Verbatim external while it was with the intention of using it with my dvd player.
However, I am having a shitload of problems trying to format it to Fat32.
I tried on both vista and XP by running the cmd prompt. format /FS:FAT32 x:
and it runs to at least 85% (when [...]

when redoing a system install, always install antivirus first

dammit, hour and a half worth of work down the drain
didn’t install antivirus first…then got hit with xp antivirus - which is not an antivirus program, it just looks like one
i learned my lesson
1) antivirus + newest updates (turn on firewall first also)
2) windows updates
3) then install your software etcFunny that, I always install the [...]

Linux USB External HD ? v.Ubuntu & Kubuntu

So my friend’s computer had Vista and won’t boot now. I’m not sure what exactly is going on but figured it would be best to backup their hard drive before doing anything. I downloaded a Live ISO of Ubuntu and Kubuntu and am trying them out before going over there. In both *Nix flavors I [...]

Does anyone actually LIKE Windows Vista?

I can’t see any positives.. I recently (yesterday) got a new laptop from HP. Its a beast compared to my old computer, yet I really don’t feel like I’ve made an improvement in performance.
My old computer had Windows XP and Ubuntu Fiesty installed
2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
512 [...]

can i upgrade linux via a USB drive?

i’m new to linux.
i have a flavor installed on my PS3, and i want to be able to update / change it without having to burn CD’s over and over.
is there a way i can just throw the files from the .iso’s onto a 4GB flash drive, boot from it in linux, and then upgrade [...]

Elonex Webbook XP Drivers

Does anyone here have one of these webbooks?
My dad has got one free with his phone contract and it came with Linux and no instructions for installing XP. He has installed XP but there are no sound drivers for it, the Elonex website doesn’t come up with anything ( download link is dead ) [...]