Recent content by MajorHertz

For an office, i would go with an open source alternative on a cheap computer, like i mentioned earlier. If money is tight, you can get a $200 computer or pick up something at a yard sale, install linux (free), install squid proxy (free), and install dan's guardian (free). You now have a free...

Well, as much as a machine with 265 MB RAM can ;) Glad I can help.

I would test each individually to be 100% certain. I recently did this on one of my machines and it looked worse than that. I don't remember a lot about how memtest86 works (if it shows error by dimm) but running each stick individually will definitely show you whats up. I believe these tests...

Memtest86 - Download Page Has iso for CD-ROM and floppy. Both free. Spinrite: GRC | SpinRite Overview   $80ish i think. Could do a scandisk (set to do next boot) or check out sites like bootdisk.com to get other utilities. The trick here is to do all these tests outside of Windows to...

Second thought: to eliminate some possible causes, did you do an upgrade to Vista or clean install? If clean, this could remove possibility of virus or spyware. It could also be a driver problem but since it showed the same on two different OSs, this is less likely. I would say most likely...

Download a program like Memtest86, burn it to an ISO, reboot and run the tool. Its not pretty but if you see lots of red, you definitely know its bad ram. Could also be hard drive related. A tool like SpinRite (not free) will check the hard drive in the same fashion. There are some free...

Yea, you can plug a wireless router into the upstairs apartment and get a powerful antenna to hook up to it, depending on the construction of the building. If it is all brick or metal studs, you will have issue. Wood should be less of a problem. Go with a G router and a big antenna to try it...

Motion to carry... Motion passed. But seriously, plug it in, let DHCP handle it, youre fine. You shouldnt have to configure at all since you arent connecting to the internet and only have four machines. Just put all 4 machines in the four ports (not uplink/WAN) and youre gold. Routers tend to...

Now with the full story, its not as big of an issue since you are just making the wire to the power switch longer. I had the vision you are sitting upstairs in a house, you ran a wire through your air ducts downstairs to your other computer and tapped into the power button wires. In this...

I fixed a machine like this. I ended up having to wipe it because of all the spyware and junk on there. You can try to go in the back way by going to the login screen, pressing control+alt+delete twice and typing in "administrator" as user and no password. This was a security threat known to...

I wanted to write "vi" and leave it at that but minimum post length is 5 chars. So... vi

Well, you have to run a wire from the machine to your desk. I dont know your setup there but that may be a pain. Also there is the risk of fire, electrical shock (either to you or the mobo), etc. All not real issues, i suppose, but I'll say less elegant. And the way I read the link, that...

WOL should work if the computer is off, not just sleeping. However you do need to be on the same subnet. Just toggle on in the BIOS and windows. Your other option is a device like this... I dont have the generic one, but this is at least what I'm talking about: dataprobe iboot--Dataprobe iBoot...

The linux command would be scp. For example syntax, scp username@homeserver:/path/file.ext ./ This does a secure copy over ssh. It logs in to the remote machine with 'username' at your computer (homeserver) to get the file (file.ext in the /path directory) and copies it to where ever you are...

Software can be installed like netnanny or cybercop to prevent applications from being used like that. It also has a lot of other features as well. Those are not free, however. Your other option is to block it at the router, preventing that sort of traffic out. This depends on the type of...