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by sarlen
August 25, 2007, 3:45 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: My Windows Media Center Vista Experience
Replies: 1
Views: 479

My Windows Media Center Vista Experience

I wanted to try Vista for my Multi Media PC. I had seen the Vista Media Center interface in the store and was pretty impressed so I picked up Vista Premium at Wal-Mart. My intention is to eventually have a HTPC to sit in my entertainment center but for now I’m content to set it up on my spare PC to ...
by sarlen
August 24, 2007, 11:10 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium
Replies: 7
Views: 1335

Re: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium

Well the first question would be is there a way to reset the admin password. We had a contractor put the unit in and since they have dried up and were out the admin password. Not sure what permission level I currently have, I can change just about everything but when I try to change the prefix from ...
by sarlen
August 23, 2007, 6:49 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium
Replies: 7
Views: 1335

Re: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium

Funny you mention that, I have an Avaya IP Office in our Chicago location. I generally have fewer issues with that then the Nortel's at our home office but...I do have a few questions on the Avaya if you know anything about the IP Office series.
by sarlen
August 23, 2007, 5:19 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium
Replies: 7
Views: 1335

Re: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium

bada bump!

No PBX admins? The diverse crowd we have here and not a single one?
by sarlen
August 10, 2007, 6:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For kwon!
Replies: 5
Views: 632

Re: For kwon!

Account suspended is what I get when I clickie the link.. What was it?
by sarlen
August 10, 2007, 3:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy Birthday Cid!
Replies: 14
Views: 1659

Re: Happy Birthday Cid!

Fuck you Cid
by sarlen
July 16, 2007, 5:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I need help getting a Digital Camera.
Replies: 18
Views: 1835

Re: I need help getting a Digital Camera.

I use the Olympus FE-210, I see however its off the shelf and the FE-230 replaced it. For a budget camera it works very well for what I use it for. Granted the only action it sees is kids birthdays, holiday photo type stuff. Plan on buying a media card for it, with the built in memory you can get 4 ...
by sarlen
June 14, 2007, 1:25 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: External HDD Case
Replies: 20
Views: 3066

Re: External HDD Case

All of the IT staff here uses http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822154152

Compact design, and durability is what has sold me on these. I have had mine for over a year, carry it with me all the time and had zero issues with it.
by sarlen
May 17, 2007, 10:29 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Tracing email
Replies: 8
Views: 1098

yes it is possible but...it takes a court order to get the owner of the IP for a specific time frame. In the header of the yahoo email is the persons IP address, do a who is on it and that will lead you to the provider. From there you will have to convince the provider to give up the persons info fo...
by sarlen
April 12, 2007, 1:52 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium
Replies: 7
Views: 1335

Nortel Option 51/61/11 and Symposium

Does anyone here work on/with the Nortel Option 51/61/11 switches? or work with the Symposium ACD servers?
by sarlen
April 11, 2007, 3:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Then ban Me you fucking Pussy
Replies: 404
Views: 38720

I love this thread, we need to find a topic that pisses this many people off every week so we can get back to the old days of the 20 page posts that made it so easy to make it through the work day.
by sarlen
March 31, 2007, 7:20 pm
Forum: World of Warcraft
Topic: Realms, Characters, Guilds
Replies: 44
Views: 12858

Sarlen - 70 Dranny Shaman
QD server


and 10 other servers...
by sarlen
March 31, 2007, 3:19 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Uhhh...Rape?
Replies: 10
Views: 811

Uhhh...Rape?

I love this story.. http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/30/texas.manslaughter.ap/index.html Caught in the act with her lover, Tracy Denise Roberson -- thinking quickly, if not clearly -- cried rape, authorities say. Her husband pulled a gun and killed the other man with a shot to the head. On Thursday, a...
by sarlen
March 30, 2007, 3:51 am
Forum: Sports
Topic: Bowling!
Replies: 22
Views: 3146

What ball are you using, how fast do you throw it and where do you stand and what arrow do you use as your mark? Wow, so much activity on this thread after it was dead for a week. I bought an Ebonite Tornado reactive resin ball that's fingertip drilled with inserts. The holes are lined up to throw ...
by sarlen
March 14, 2007, 2:17 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: FTP administration question
Replies: 12
Views: 1768

Should be able to setup a general folder and just apply the proper permissions for the users. You would think so, when you do it that way it will still list all the other FTP folders which is what im trying to avoid. Ah, I see. I can see all of the available folders on drives I have access to, but ...
by sarlen
March 14, 2007, 2:03 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: FTP administration question
Replies: 12
Views: 1768

Deward wrote:Should be able to setup a general folder and just apply the proper permissions for the users.
You would think so, when you do it that way it will still list all the other FTP folders which is what im trying to avoid.
by sarlen
March 14, 2007, 1:01 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: FTP administration question
Replies: 12
Views: 1768

Animalor wrote:Do you want to do this in conjunction with the individual storage space or is that getting ripped out for this common location setup?
These accounts wouldn't have individual space, just the shared area.
by sarlen
March 14, 2007, 12:32 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: FTP administration question
Replies: 12
Views: 1768

gahh! sorry, IIS6 on 03 server
by sarlen
March 14, 2007, 12:16 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: FTP administration question
Replies: 12
Views: 1768

FTP administration question

I have an FTP server at work with over a hundred users/shares. Up to this point it’s always been very straightforward, the user name matches the share name and when they log in all they can see is their folder. Now I have been asked to make a single share for multiple users and they don’t want them ...
by sarlen
February 2, 2007, 12:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dogs
Replies: 67
Views: 7991

This is Seth. He is a German short hair that was professionally trained to bird hunt/point. His hunting partner, a female short hair, was far more interesting to him then the birds so the original owner retired him after his first year hunting, although I was not in the market for a dog at the time ...
by sarlen
January 22, 2007, 8:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Stupid computer user re-education tool
Replies: 30
Views: 3804

Hesten wrote: Lotus Notes is a sucky program

Amen
by sarlen
January 15, 2007, 5:45 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Notebook Purchase Thoughts? - ASUS G1-AK008M
Replies: 11
Views: 1768

Have you priced out the Dell Inspirons? Not necessarly the XPS as I think that will add about a grand but I think you can get the M1710 or whatever with a similar card for about the same price. Same with the D620's from Dell. You can get pretty close to the same specs for about the same price. The ...
by sarlen
December 29, 2006, 3:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I know we have a pictures section BUT... ! (FF)
Replies: 13
Views: 1588

Only pic I have on this PC of me. Its a group shot of (from left to right) ME, Cidvicious, Aaeamdar, and Bangador. This was taken at a PE get together a few years ago.

Image
by sarlen
December 27, 2006, 4:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 2006 Deadpool
Replies: 39
Views: 13271

Re: 2006 Deadpool

Dregor Thule wrote: Gerald Ford
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/27/ ... index.html


Good call Dregor, he finally keeled over after the close call early this year..
by sarlen
December 20, 2006, 3:33 pm
Forum: World of Warcraft
Topic: TBC Opening Cinematic @ '06 VGA's
Replies: 32
Views: 9589

If there is one thing Blizzard does perfect every time its trailers. I quit WoW months ago but just watching the trailer I feel like I am being sucked back in.
by sarlen
December 8, 2006, 9:01 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Hosed on my DSL bill!
Replies: 7
Views: 984

Hosed on my DSL bill!

So I was finally tired of everything I do on line coming to a halt if someone else in the house opens a web site or listens to streaming music so I called the provider to get my connection upped from 256k to 768k. After the phone tree from hell I get to talk to a rep and after I ask to have it bumpe...
by sarlen
November 13, 2006, 2:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Questions about company owned vehicles
Replies: 14
Views: 1258

I just went threw all of our policies and all of our partent company policies and apparently we dont have any "official" policy on use of cars or the jets which is pretty surprising. In the past however when I was issued a company car (pos Ford Explorer) sky was the limit and the company p...
by sarlen
November 13, 2006, 2:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Questions about company owned vehicles
Replies: 14
Views: 1258

both vehicles are leased under the company name, with the boss being the principle on the lease. The vehicles are also covered under the company insurance. He's allowing the vehicles to be used for personal use as well, and the lease offers mileage up to 10,000 per car, per year. What he wants to k...
by sarlen
November 3, 2006, 10:35 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Backing up DVD's
Replies: 8
Views: 845

to both AVI and an ISO so I can burn it back to DVD in the future.
by sarlen
November 2, 2006, 1:49 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Backing up DVD's
Replies: 8
Views: 845

Backing up DVD's

I need to back up some of my DVD's and looking for a good tutorial on how to. Anyone recomend a site or program for doing this?
by sarlen
October 28, 2006, 3:00 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: MP3 organization issues
Replies: 3
Views: 620

MP3 organization issues

So I have a hair over 16000 songs in my collection and frankly it has become a real mess. Many of the tags are messed up and the file structure is really bad, hundreds of duplicate folders and songs. I tried to manually go in and move things around but after 4ish hours I haven’t even made a dent in ...
by sarlen
October 15, 2006, 4:34 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Erasing Hard Drive Data
Replies: 10
Views: 1682

Where I work we from time to time are asked by the legal department to recover anything that may or may not be on a persons hard drive. I can say with 100% confidence even a format and repartition does not remove the old data. We have recovered files from machines that have been formatted, and a rei...
by sarlen
October 12, 2006, 9:54 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Wal Mart and Target are not happy
Replies: 5
Views: 709

Its interesting to see the stance the big guys are taking on this issue, if they dont belly up to the bar and start an online service of their own they will be left in the dust. I work for a media company myself and I can tell you us and everyone like us are working on plans to offer our movie and m...
by sarlen
October 5, 2006, 3:16 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Alleged 'Unfixable' Exploit in Firefox
Replies: 3
Views: 741

Update to the original article..


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03 ... y_exploit/

basically, therre is a small crash bug in Firefox but the original info that it was able to execute code was false.
by sarlen
October 3, 2006, 9:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What's an acceptable work week?
Replies: 20
Views: 1753

40 to 45 on salary is fine, much more then that on to regular of a basis they need to compinsate a bit more.
by sarlen
October 3, 2006, 9:20 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Alleged 'Unfixable' Exploit in Firefox
Replies: 3
Views: 741

Alleged 'Unfixable' Exploit in Firefox

Looks like someone came up with a big one this time. Hopefully Mozilla can get this patched this week if indeed it is true.


http://www.betanews.com/article/Alleged ... 1159803553
by sarlen
October 2, 2006, 1:55 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: ‘We would have shot him more...’
Replies: 49
Views: 5941

I laughed a bit when I herd about the 60+ shots? Not like it really mattered past the second or third shot, the rest were just for good measure.
by sarlen
October 1, 2006, 3:35 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: High Capacity thumb drives
Replies: 1
Views: 608

High Capacity thumb drives

The place I work recently bought a few of us new thumb drives. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7734801&st=matsunichi&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1140393352226 I picked them up in a BestBuy in Chicago on a clearence rack for 79.99. Although this is the first "thum...
by sarlen
October 1, 2006, 3:16 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: G15 Keyboard
Replies: 13
Views: 2072

So I ended up getting it from newegg. My first impressions are mixed. pros: 1. G Keys are on the left side, being left handed its a very natural feel. 2. Pretty easy to record macro's for WoW including movement 3. The LCD is a nice looking toy (wish it did more) 4. super big into doing everything in...
by sarlen
October 1, 2006, 3:05 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: uTorrent issue?
Replies: 23
Views: 2851

uTorrent issue?

Anyone using the utorrent client having any issues with it resetting your connection? Seems after about 30ish min my internet connection stops working and can only be reserected by resetting the modem and router. I looked thru the faq and help for utorrent but no dice.
by sarlen
September 30, 2006, 7:36 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: MSU radio host melt down
Replies: 17
Views: 2094

I would be surprised if this guy gets to ever talk on the radio again..Funny as hell though, and true.
by sarlen
September 28, 2006, 10:59 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: G15 Keyboard
Replies: 13
Views: 2072

Winnow wrote:
There's also a G11 keyboard which is the G15 q/out the LCD:

Ya I saw that but I'm kinda all about the cool toys..
by sarlen
September 28, 2006, 6:15 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: G15 Keyboard
Replies: 13
Views: 2072

G15 Keyboard

I am on the verge of buying the Logitech G15 keyboard and was hoping to get some opinions from the VV crew. I did read a few posts that came up in the search about the G15 but no one has gone into much detail.
by sarlen
September 26, 2006, 10:58 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: My new car!
Replies: 12
Views: 3489

The instrumentation makes my panties moist!
by sarlen
September 24, 2006, 12:24 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Unbox/ITV
Replies: 0
Views: 455

Unbox/ITV

http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=16261631 Has anyone used these services? I dont have a video Ipod but looking at a movie/TV show download service for playback on my PC. I also noticed several other sites that offer movie downloads but none of them looked very reputable, any suggestions for other ...
by sarlen
September 21, 2006, 9:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Salary ranges
Replies: 6
Views: 1315

Salary ranges

My leet google skills have let me down, I cant find a site that has a free salary by region comparison. Anyone know a good site for finding the average pay for a specific job in a specific location? Basically Im looking to see if moving to a big city for the money they are offering is worth it.
by sarlen
September 16, 2006, 2:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Assholes
Replies: 26
Views: 2947

Re: Assholes

So, tonight I went to a house party in Iowa City. I parked in a nearby apartment parking lot with multiple open spaces. When I go to leave I found my truck thankfully. However, I found my truck with both side mirrors busted off. I'll go further, one was pushed towards the hood as it was broken off ...
by sarlen
September 13, 2006, 2:02 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Dude, where the f*ck is my Dell?
Replies: 12
Views: 1290

You're gonna wish you had built your own. We use DELLs at the office here and frankly I would never want one for home use. The graphics cards on them usually suck. In addition, the cases are so small that you can rule out doing any internal upgrades. It's not some crappy home or office computer. It...
by sarlen
August 30, 2006, 5:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Slogan Generator
Replies: 31
Views: 4964

Thank Sarlen It's Friday

Daddy or Sarlen?


No idea what to even say about those....
by sarlen
August 30, 2006, 5:26 pm
Forum: Retards
Topic: Racist Joke thread
Replies: 44
Views: 54001

Zamtuk wrote:thats like eqvault old =(

I'm terrible with jokes :(