... Desktop Computer Issues

• Crazy virus eats hardware

Okay, so I think i got a crazy virus that eats hardware. I've posted up about it on a couple of other forums, and it's stumped everyone. It...

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• Whats wrong with Vista

I thought this might make interesting conversation. I'm not sure how true all of it is, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me. What's wrong with...

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• VM question regarding licensing of the OS....

I'm hoping someone has some experience with this... What is the story with running XP on a VM For example ... I don't have my XP install on any other machine and I install it on a VM ... I'm legal I presume. I copy said VM ... copy ... paste .. and hey presto I've technically got two machines running XP .. ? I may only run one instance of this VM at any one time but is it legal to have the copy ? or to run one or the other ? I run two VMs of the XP machine ... is this legal ? ... Its technically only on the one hardware machine so ... I guess I probably should read more through VMware site My trial for VMware runs out in 3 days so I'm just trying to figure out all my options :)

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• Coding on a mac ... how to :D

As the title says ... pretty much ... are there any best practices for coding on a mac ? In the past on a PC I was used to the editors and their ways of things. Now I'm just finding things different. For example I work on multiple projects where would be best to store them ? In the past I set a folder c:Projects and worked from within there with all my projects located there. It worked pretty well I set that up as the root for my webserver ... then when moving across to linux based systems it worked pretty well. I've installed Xampp on this machine (obviously I couldn't exactly install wampserver any more :D ) and it now means my root web folder is located at /Applications/Xampp/htdocs I guess I'm just really thinking out loud as I really just want to get up and running properly (or as properly as possible) as quickly as possible I've gone with Komodo editor as my editor of choice for the moment though from the other thread on editors it would appear I should give textmate a once over as well. Cheers, James

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• Download Windows XP

Does anyone know where I can download the installation files for Windows XP? I purchased two licences from Sudentoptions.com a few months back but I no longer have the installation CDs. Just wondering if there is a legit site where I can download XP from? (no torrents)

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• NAS drive

This is all new to me butttttt ..... I bought a sexy NAS drive (QNAP 209 Pro) and have it hooked up to my Router and configured and working fine. I want to enable the FTP service and allow remote login but I am on a dynamic IP address and the device IP address changes every day. It looks like the NAS supports DDNS using the dyndns.com service and this would remedy the IP address problem. I can see where in the NAS countrol panel this option is BUT I have also found the DDNS and dyndns.com options in the Router's control panel too. So I'm wondering which would be best to enter my dyndns settings into. Again - all new to me so I may be getting my terms mixed up :eek: Cheers!

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• Mobile Broadband under LINUX

I was surprised to find out how easy it is to establish a broadband internet connection using the Three Data Modem under LINUX. Despite the fact that Three denies support for Linux the hardware operates fine on Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Gentoo Linux systems. A detailed information sheet can be found at: http://kerry-linux.ie/broadband/three-datamodem.pdf And the software used to get the connection started is here: http://kerry-linux.ie/broadband/three.tar I hope this makes life easier for many of us living in remote areas and those being on the move from time to time. Regards RON

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