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Data Backup(RAID): Build new system or Raid card

Ok, itunes fucked up my music again. I have backed up all my music but all my ratings and etc are gone. So I am done with the nvidia raid that I have previously used. So I have two options. I’ll be reusing my 2 320gb hd
Build a seperate system, run windows server or linux [...]

So is my graphics card knackered?

think it probably is but just to confirm..
when I try and load a video my screen goes blank on/off and the CPU hits 100% usage. If I leave the video running the blank screens become more occurent until the PC hangs/reboots.
pretty similar to this guy really
but my PC doesn’t need a better PSU [...]

Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes

An unpatched PC is likely to last just four minutes on the internet before been attacked and compromised.
The time it takes for a PC to get itself owned varies by operating system and what activities a user engages in – but even allowing for this, putting an unpatched Windows PC directly onto the [...]

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 [...]

I just reinstalled windows xp just to find out i have less space

My laptop has a 60gig hardrive (52 in ntfs terms). So I decided to reinstall XP, thus deleting everything because my laptop’s performance was shitty at best. I was getting highly variable fps on old games.
So anyways, everything went fine, but now I just realized my computer has 36 gigs of free space. Where did [...]

Cannot connect to WPA, WPA2 network

I have a DWL G510 adapter and I am trying to connect to a WPA or WPA2 encrypted connection I setup on my router WRT54G router. I can however connect to the network when I setup the protection as WEP.
The operating system is XP SP2. Anyone have any idea what I can do to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Asus G50 vs Sager NP8660 notebooks

I’m leaning towards the Sager. Better card (9800M GT vs 9700M GT), better looks (elegant Sager vs. boy-racer Asus), DDR3 memory……..but spec’d out the way I want it, it’s $2300.
The Asus is cheaper at around $1700.
My limit’s $2500 and hopefully I’ll have my current laptop sold (someone’s interested — $800) so that should [...]