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- MAME - Where to find game specific button combos?
- There are a variety of games I have in MAME32, but for some of them I have no clue what the button combos are supposed to be. I get a rudimentary understanding by using the TAB key to see which buttons go to player 1 or 2. But I need...
- Tags: Games, gralfus, MAME, game
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Experiences with Altiris?
- My company is moving towards a program suite called Altiris, which does asset management inventories PCs and software over the network and incorporates Carbon Copy for doing remote control of computers. It seems to be rather unstable crashes a lot making it useless and frustrating, but I'm not sure if...
- Tags: Carbon Copy, atiris, asset mgmt, gralfus, Altiris Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-06
- web hosting provider
- I am about to switch providers, due to dismal service with my current provider (forest.net support has been unresponsive for a week). Has anyone here tried Yahoo as a provider? I've seen scattered reports pro and con on newsgroups. I don't use FrontPage, and that seems to be the primary...
- Tags: SFTP Support, SSH, website provider, hosting, gralfus, off-topic, webhost, Web hosting
- Discussion threads 2006-07-07
- Word to the wise if you quit in a huff
- Seems to hinge upon decision to quitThe whole case seems to hinge on the deletions happening after his authorization to use the laptop ceased. "the court held that Citrin's authorization to access the laptop terminated when he decided to quit IAC in violation of his employment contract and destroyed incriminating...
- Tags: gralfus, law, quitting, cfaa, career, Microsoft Word, deletion, laptop computer, Citrin
- Discussion threads 2006-04-17
- Hosting CD images
- I am looking for feedback on ways to host CD images cheaply. I currently am sending out apx 20 sets of 4 CDs per month, sometimes internationally. This amounts to about $40 US, plus the packaging and labeling, and my time. For a non-profit, that is significant. I'd like to...
- Tags: iso, DVD, servers, cost, images, hosting, web hosting, gralfus, hardware, CD, MP3
- Discussion threads 2006-03-13
- Comcast invisible share?
- Last night I was purusing my event viewer and found an entry that was curious. It was complaining that a share named COMCAST could not be mounted because the folder didn't exist anymore. I checked my shares in Computer Management and it was not listed, so I went to the...
- Tags: Rootkits, Comcast Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- another rootkit, this time from DVD
- http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1926917,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594or http://tinyurl.com/mwqyfMr. and Mrs. Smith DVD apparently carries a rootkit, though not considered as useful to malicious hijacking.How do we know??How can we know that this hasn't been haapeningbefore Sony?? I've seen some strange things andI don't put it past any studio of employingrot-kits and the like to help...
- Tags: gralfus, security, rootkit, off-topic, DVD
- Discussion threads 2006-02-21
- Sideways harddrives only in BTX?
- When I first saw the BTX form factor, I thought, "Now there is a good idea, mounting the hard drives sideways." with the connector portion facing the side of the box instead of towards the back.One problem I've always faced when working on PCs is that the hard drives are...
- Tags: ATX, hard drive, Enermax
- Discussion threads 2005-11-02
- Why Nerds Are Unpopular
- Why Nerds Are Unpopularhttp://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.htmlI thought this article was well written and hit many of the issues common to life in public school. My favorite quote from the article is "Kids are sent off to spend six years memorizing meaningless facts in a world ruled by a caste of giants...
- Tags: gralfus
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- CPU maxed recently
- I have 2 Windows 2000 Pro PCs that are experiencing maxed out CPU in the past week. My PC would max out every time the antivirus tried to do an update. The 2nd PC maxes out and basically locks up when defrag is started. I did some Windows Update installs...
- Tags: CPU, gralfus, Microsoft Windows 2000, Norton Co., PC, SP4, Win2K SP4, windows
- Q&A 2005-08-07
- Sudden limit on # of email addresses
- I apologize up front for the lack of detail, the PC is in another state, so I'm troubleshooting without seeing the error messages.I'm working on a friend's computer who recently had XP installed. He has been able to send emails to about 100 people at a time (newsletter, not spam)....
- Tags: e-mail, e-mail address, gralfus, Internet Service Provider, safe mode, windows
- Q&A 2005-08-01
- Yeah, what's up?
- My OLD discussion on philly wi-fi city net was only 18 posts and is hanging around on hot. While Max's disucssion on on health care costs (226 posts) isn't on the list!What's with this?define hota hot discussion is usually started by one entrythat sets half of us reading one thing...
- Tags: gralfus, hot discussions, Miscellaneous, newsletter, off-topic, TR IS
- Discussion threads 2005-06-10
- Favorite Sci-Fi Films
- Favorite Sci-Fi FilmsMost of these are the old ones that the Sci-Fi channel won't show (in favor of their own tripe like "Python", "Anaconda", "Python vs Anaconda", etc.), but many of us grew up with. I'm sure there are some I've overlooked.Most of these are available on Amazon.War of the...
- Tags: films, gralfus, monsters, movie, movies, off-topic, sci-fi, science fiction
- Discussion threads 2005-06-01
- TR Discussion listing oddity
- When I go to the list of new discussions (1-40), I don't see the Friday Yuk or the "To the Citizens of America" discussion. However, if I click on the link at the bottom to see All New discussions, they appear in that list. Whats up?
- Tags: gralfus
- Discussion threads 2005-04-22
- Wireless dialup modem?
- Is there such a thing as a dialup modem that sits attached to the phone line, and is connected to via wireless? I had a guy ask me about this because he wants to use his laptop wirelessly, but only has dialup internet. I hadn't seen this and didn't find...
- Tags: dial-up, gralfus, modem, networking, telephone, wireless, wireless modem
- Discussion threads 2005-04-05
- UUE file format information
- Can someone provide me with a link to how a UUE file is laid out? I'm not looking for converters, but information on how a UUE file is formatted and why. For example, I see "begin 644 filename.ext" but other times the number is 666 or 600. I want to...
- Tags: UUE
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
- Use power supply w/o mobo?
- I want to use a PC power supply in a CD copier I am building, but it seems to not put out any power unless a motherboard is connected. If there a way to bypass this "feature"? All I need it to do is supply power to 9 CD drives....
- Tags: gralfus, hardware, motherboard, power supply
- Q&A 2005-03-20
- Hub labels?
- I have tried CD/DVD hub labels in the past, but quit because I couldn't find a way to get them on consistently straight. Do any of you who use them have a good method?PrintingHave you considered using printable disks?Re: Hub labelsTry the CD Stomper, by Avery. I think I...
- Tags: CD, CD Stomper, gralfus, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- Verifying user for password changes
- How do you go about verifying that the user on the other end of the phone is who he/she claims to be? Because of HIPAA compliance, we are currently redrafting our policy and are trying to balance expediency with security. We can't have people sitting around idle until we can...
- Tags: gralfus, password, security, voicemail
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
- Thicknet still used?
- Does anyone know of thicknet still in existence, not for new installs? I'm still seeing questions on it in certain network cert self-tests. I can't imagine that it would still be around, except to show students "how things used to be".A place I worked at six years agoin the UK...
- Tags: oldER
- Discussion threads 2005-02-24
