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Originally posted by iccarus:
I wandered around the AV section of the hardware store this afternoon, and actually found most of what I'd need to set this up. How hard is to actually create new cables with a crimping tool?

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How you go about this all depends on what your end goal is. If you are having this installed for you the main cost will be in labor. As far as cabling types, Cat 5 is good for connections up to 100Mbps, Cat 5e and Cat 6 are good for connections up to 1Gbps, and Cat 6e or Cat 7 are good for connections up to 10Gbps. If you want to do things once and be easily set for many years I would run Cat 5e or better. At work we're running all Cat6E or 7 (just call it 10G cable). You'll need to match your cable ratings to the jack ratings if you want to keep a guarantee that your connections will work up to a given speed.

It's not very hard to learn how to make cables, but you may not make the connections well enough that the cables keep their ratings for higher speeds. If all you're doing is 100Mbps then you can easily do it yourself, but a good crimping tool costs about $100 and it might not be worth the cost.

Also, despite what you say, you are building a LAN. It's still a Local Area Network, albeit a very small one.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
I prefer the stability of just being able to plug the desktop in directly, without having to worry about USB issues. I also get a far better connection with my XBOX physically wired to the internet than I do with a wireless adapter. We do currently have a wireless router for some devices, with 3 items physically wired in (2 PC, 1 360) as well.

I wandered around the AV section of the hardware store this afternoon, and actually found most of what I'd need to set this up. How hard is to actually create new cables with a crimping tool?

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If you're just wanting a few cables, just buy them. The investment is only worth it if you're doing a lot of cabling. Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy, but particularly if you're starting out, the cost of the cable, ends, crimper and tester (a virtual necessity for new cablemakers) makes it a poor choice, particularly when adding on the extra time and frustration to get your first few cables done.

Are you still intending to put wall jacks in? If so, keep in mind that you'll need a termination point for them all to come back to. Quick, easy and cheap way would be to just end them all directly at a switch or hub (probably an 8-port or so) tied straight into your network connection, assuming that the network connection device (cable modem, DSL modem, etc.) is also a router. From the sound of your current setup, I assume that is the case.

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Right now we have a DSL modem running into a standard LinkSys wireless router with 4 ports on the back. I basically want about the same setup, with the wire just ending in wall jacks. It just looks nicer than having cables coming out of the wall.

Also, can I use a switch then to further expand the ports on my router? So basically:

Modem -> router -> switch -> ethernet cables

@psrex: Thanks for the clarification on the cable types. I'll probably go with CAT 5e so I'm good for a while. I don't think anything above 100mb is available here right now, but I'm sure 1GB will be the standard sooner than later. If I do this though, will I still be able to use our current ISP? I'm assuming that's where the "up to" comes in.

If you end up using wall jacks, as nder said, you'll need to run all of these wall jacks back to some point. You'll likely want to terminate these jacks at a patch panel (rather than punch down blocks). Search for "ethernet patch panel" if you don't know what this is. You'll then have to connect each port on the patch panel to a port on your local switch. To trace the full path you'll get:

computer ethernet port -> cat 5e (or better) cable -> wall jack -> cat 5e (or better) cable in the wall -> rj-45 patch panel (rated for cat 5e or better) -> cat 5e (or better) cable to switch -> switch port

I'm using 32 bit Windows Vista Ultimate

Bugcode USB driver
0x000000Fe 0x0000006 0x871d6a28 0x43787254 0x00000000

Thanks.

Ug, crashed again, this time.
IRQL_NOT_Less_or_Equal
0x0000000A 0x1cb66b7D 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x82568ff9

nother one

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Originally posted by oneofchaos:
My old Dell computer is in need of usage. We could not hook it up properly. We took out the harddrive, it works fine. The power supply works fine. The computer boots up and detects no harddrive. It is set to master instead of slave. help?

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I would swap out the hard drive.

How old is it? If it's a pentium 3 or older it might have something to do with a hard drive jumper.

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Originally posted by Battle_of_Twits:
Can anyone recommend a good LCD screen cleaner?

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I use these:

http://www.amazon.com/Flents-Clear-Pre-moistened-Cleansing-Tissues/dp/B0019D8MMA

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Originally posted by Pringlesman:
I've been getting blue screens of death latley. I'm not sure of the cause, and they appear at random. I get a couple of different error messages, but this is the first one i've written down. I'll edit in with the others the next time they pop up.

I'm using 32 bit Windows Vista Ultimate

Bugcode USB driver
0x000000Fe 0x0000006 0x871d6a28 0x43787254 0x00000000

Thanks.

Ug, crashed again, this time.
IRQL_NOT_Less_or_Equal
0x0000000A 0x1cb66b7D 0x00000002 0x00000001 0x82568ff9

nother one

bad pool header
0x00000019 0x00000020 0x87146928 0x87147428 0x19602886

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Could actually be a power supply problem. When power supplies go out of spec, they cause all kinds of random errors.

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Originally posted by Ml490:
Any one have/know where I could find a relatively small (16-64gig) 2.5inch Hard Drive for relatively cheap?

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Newegg. Shouldn't cost you more than $50.

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
Guys, I've been having issues recently.

When I boot in safe mode my computer is fine; however, when I boot in normal mode, after a few things load, I get a blue screen telling me that the computer had to do a memory dump and that if the problem persists to see the network admin. The error code it gives is as such:

STOP: 0x0000008E (0x0000005, 0xAE6FDB5F, 0xABC6D808, 0x00000000)

Any idea how to fix it? Safe mode doesn't allow me to use my net, so I would have to bring anything I download to the computer from the school's internet via my USB drive.

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Originally posted by TheMidnightBomber:
You could use a powerpoint to dvd conversion software...

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I have in row D on each page the cmc of each card. On my master list I use the following formula to try to tell me how many white spells cost 1.

=COUNTIF(white.d2:d100,"1")

White is the name of the page, d is the row with converted mana cost, and 1 should be the range.

but I keep getting the error message

Err:508

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Originally posted by BoltBait:
Could actually be a power supply problem. When power supplies go out of spec, they cause all kinds of random errors.

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Originally posted by PlasteredDragon:
I'm seeking a recommendation for DVD-slideshow software. I produce photo CD's for my clients right now, but I'd like to produce photo DVD's as well (since that requires no computer for the client to enjoy). All the ones I've seen advertised are remarkably simplistic--I'd like to (for example) be able to display two (or more) images at once, perhaps overlapping, and move them around on the screen in time with the background track. But all the slideshow software seems to be stuck in the paradigm of slide -> transition -> slide -> transition rather than allowing me to be a little more creative with what happens on screen. Does anyone have any recommendations for DVD burning software which does this, or am I dreaming?

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Originally posted by Pringlesman:
I'm trying to use excel to keep trach of the cmc averages of my cube.

I have in row D on each page the cmc of each card. On my master list I use the following formula to try to tell me how many white spells cost 1.

=COUNTIF(white.d2:d100,"1")

White is the name of the page, d is the row with converted mana cost, and 1 should be the range.

but I keep getting the error message

Err:508

What am I doing wrong?

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Try either

=COUNTIF(white!D2:white!D100,"1")

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Originally posted by Cariboo Legend:
I use ProShow Gold for all my customer DVD shows.
Easy to use, powerful, and cheap

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I am working on a problem with a network of about 10 computers (Win 2k/Win XP mixed) printing to a Business Laserjet via a jetdirect box on a static IP on the network. The computers are mapped to the printer via Server Properties/Dedicated port to the IP address of the jetdirect.

Printing is taking sometimes up to 6 hours. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening?

In the past this same printer has been shared over a domain and worked fine. (Domain server died, no license for the win2k server they had been using...so I moved them to workgroup).

[10:17:07 PM] lad: The heading is:
[10:17:17 PM] lad: Default Search Engine Protection
[10:17:49 PM] lad: An unknown application is trying to change your default search engine.
[10:18:34 PM] lad: changing these settings controls the way internet explorer treats search queries
[10:18:40 PM] lad: What would you like to do?

He ran a check for virus' and spyware, it came up nothing.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jazaray

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Originally posted by Cariboo Legend:
Anyone know anything about HP JetDirects?

I am working on a problem with a network of about 10 computers (Win 2k/Win XP mixed) printing to a Business Laserjet via a jetdirect box on a static IP on the network. The computers are mapped to the printer via Server Properties/Dedicated port to the IP address of the jetdirect.

Printing is taking sometimes up to 6 hours. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening?

In the past this same printer has been shared over a domain and worked fine. (Domain server died, no license for the win2k server they had been using...so I moved them to workgroup).

Help!

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