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  1. skattrd

    Firewall/router/Torrent client

    Cheers Illusion, I've got a copy of Ubuntu somewhere. I suppose the first thing is to install it and see if I an get the modem to work. I've done a bit of digging around on the net and it appears that the drivers for my adsl modem were written in SUSE, so that will prob be my fall-back if I...
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    Firewall/router/Torrent client

    Newbie warning: I know virtually nothing about linux. I've been running an ipcop box as a router/firewall for a few weeks now and would like to run a torrent client on it. I don't think this is possible for ipcop (please correct me if I'm wrong) so I'm thinking about installing a linux distro...
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    Ipcop/smoothwall, physical or VM

    I was thinking the same sort of thing with physical vs virtual ... less complicated as the wires/NIC's are real. Maybe I'll start real and play with vm as well, see how I get on with both. Is pfsense straightforward for windows person?
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    Ipcop/smoothwall, physical or VM

    I'm going to be setting up a home network and am unsure which way to go. I was going to run smoothwall on an old p3 box I've got. This would be connected to a switch for the internal network and either a router/modem or old Speedtouch 330 usb modem on the "red" side. Now I'm not sure if theres...
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    Mobile Graphics cards

    Have you looked at the Zepto laptops, I've decided on one of the 14" ones as they come with the 8600
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    Upgrade or wait?

    Cheers it looks like I'll wait a bit. Do you think its worth waiting for DDR3 as I see Nvidias c/set for that should be released in January.
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    Upgrade or wait?

    I've currently got an AMD skt939 DDR pc I'm thinking about upgrading, is it worth doing now or is there something around the corner to wait for? If I was to upgrade now could someone please spec me SLi mobo/cpu/RAM for £250-300. I would not be overclocking as this is a silent media/gaming pc...
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    Quick which TV question:

    Ok, as I'm sure you're aware there are a few codes flying around for discounts at a high st retailer and I need a new TV so have got it down to these 2: Samsung LE32R73BD Panasonic TX32LXD60 They both come in @ just over £600, so which is best for HTPC use - not dvd/xbox or anything else...
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    Hpt Rocketraid 1640 issues

    I have a Highpoint rocketraid 1640 and it appears to have lost the array. I had 4x 300GB drives in a 900GB RAID5 array and on reboot this morning the array is broken. All the drives are there connected and working but at startup (on the cards bios screen) drives 1+4 show in the first array...
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    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    Just submitted 100k or so, tis working ... wink wink ;)
  11. skattrd

    Time to borg and start Boinc!

    http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/ You should have an account created automagically as you were running classic before May You can set it in general preferences but it will ignore it and connect whenever it wants - persoanlly I unplug the modem :rolleyes: You don't want too big a cache as...
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    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    Works on my monitor fine: 1600x1200 85hz ..... don't like the game though .... I'm gonna look for galaxians instead :cheesey grin:
  13. skattrd

    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    Don't tell anyone, but I just crept into 9th as well
  14. skattrd

    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    Wel kom, now at least you can spam for the team :D
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    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    We need to get some of the major spammers to sign up for this ..... Has anyone been pimping in GD? that place still scares me
  16. skattrd

    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    sp2 installed here and everythings ok ..... except I'm not working so no typing much atm ....
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    Do we want to beat the Germans or what????

    Ok then i'm bored today, so signed up, I won't contribute much, but what the hey ...
  18. skattrd

    Watercooling and Phase Change stuff

    FAO Orifice: links to the following guides appear to be dead: Growse's Guide GideonTech GTA's guide
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    How old are you? Are you old and wrinkled, or young and tender? Vote here!

    I'm erm 32 althoguh I act much younger, and I've got a feeling this is the old farts corner of OcUK as well
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