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No problems so far.

new xfce desktop on xubuntu 6.10

Thanks iccaros

One of the reasons I like linux so much is that I can download a new distros whenever I want to try something new. One distro that I had never been able to try was Red Hat mostly because you have to buy support and I wasn't about to dish out that kind of cash just to try something out. What I realized is that you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of red hat (in my case, RHEL WS 4) which allows you to download the ISO files and have access to updates for the length of the trial. I had tried fedora before but after using red hat for a few days it's clear they have their differences. The first

Unfortunately, the remote desktop that is included with XP pro doesn't support multi-monitor setups. The newest version of remote desktop (included with windows vista) does support multi-monitors. But if you're not running vista you won't be able to use multi-monitors in a remote session.

I've been spoiled by dual monitors and now can't live without them

Ah yes, that is one limitation of RDC v5.1 (the version included w/ XP). RDC v6.0, which is included with Windows Vista, has support for multi-monitor setups. This doesn't help you very much though. If you really need to be able to see both monitors then VNC seems to be your only option.

Thanks for the link and the laugh... I had never heard of uncyclopedia before. It's a pretty neat site.

RDC uses port 3389 and no you can't use a VNC viewer (as far as I know), just the microsoft RDC client.

Microsoft makes a Mac OS X RDC client that I use often (you can find it here) and it works just as well as the windows client. The windows client is already included with every XP box so you don't have to worry about downloading a client if you're connecting from an XP box. And about it being hard to set up... how so? RDC is extremely easy to set up, especially when compared with VNC. There are no extra programs to install or anything like that. RDC is also inherently more secure since encryption is built into the RDC protocol. Encryption with a VNC connection is a little more tricky to get se

I'll throw another vote out for logmein.com but if you don't want to use them that's understandable. Just out of curiosity, is the box in question running windows xp pro? If so, you should consider using remote desktop instead of VNC. Remote desktop is built into every XP pro box and IMO works MUCH better than VNC.

Xubuntu 6.10 running on an old PII I had laying around. I'm actually pretty impressed with how well this machine is running. Gnome and KDE were always too heavy and I could never quite get used to fluxbox. Xfce seems to be the desktop of choice on this old clunker

QFT NOD32 is a great piece of software.

iTunes can do that. http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

In order for the PCs to be correctly networked, each computer needs to be connected to a regular port (not an uplink port) on the router, hub, switch, etc.

In case anyone wanted to know, the final (final as in no longer beta or RC) version of Internet Explorer 7 was released yesterday and can be downloaded here. I've been using it for the past few hours and I must say it's not a bad browser. If it had an ad-blocking feature I might even consider using it over firefox. If you don't want to download it now it should be appearing on windows update within the next few weeks.

There's really no need for five NICs on the actual router. What you need is two NICs and a simple switch: one NIC for the WAN side of the router and the other NIC connected directly to the switch which then in turn connects to your other computers.

In all seriousness the security center isn't really necessary. But if you want to enable it go to start > run > services.msc and look for an entry named "security center". Double click this entry and change the startup type to automatic and then click "start".

Thanks for the link. I've used Ghost before but I'm interested to see how this works.

yep, no problem

Did you see mission impossible III? I was a little disappointed with it, but ah well... back to the topic though. Unfortunately your options seem to be dwindling down... I think you should give a repair install a try. I've done many before and have never lost any data but that doesn't mean that data loss never happens. This site gives the rundown on a repair install if you're interested.

Do you know the error code the BSOD spit out when the card was intitially removed?

Go ahead and disable it and then see if you can boot into normal mode.

Is the card listed in the device manager in safe mode? If so, uninstall it from there and see what happens.

You may have to do a repair install of windows. Do you have an XP disc available? A repair installation basically replaces all essential windows system files but leaves installed applications intact. All updates and service packs will need to be reapplied after a repair install. It's also a good idea to back up any important documents before you do a repair install in case anything goes wrong. Since the computer isn't bootable, making a backup will be tough but could be done with a live linux distro (like knoppix) or some other bootable "CD based" operating system.