Recent content by Neodude1123201

ReactOS Has been around for alteast for 10 years and from the looks of things hasn't progressed anywhere. The more mainstream distro's have more of a chance of "Replacing Windows" than this project I'm afraid.

I'm guessing you are looking for free backup software? I use Cloudberry free which can backup your PC (File level) to anything from a Ext. HDD to AWS S3. https://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/introducing-cloudberry-backup-freeware-version/ Another option could be EaseUS but I havn't used it for...

First time I've logged on in years, H...h...hi...g...guys Are any of the old timers still around? Brookfield? Thelis? LHUser? Celegorm? Lowndsey? Root? I Havn't been here proper since David Linden owned the forums. Edit; Just realised my sig is atleast 8 years old!

Noted - I've never had an issue with it BUT I've only ever used it on fresh drives :lol:

You should be able to use any HDD with a mac, you just need to make sure it's the correct interface and size for the machine.

What have you got on the 900gb partition? If you are happy to backup everything from the 900gb partition onto the external drive, you can use a tool such as Gparted you can delete that partition and then extend the 75gb partition.

Another to check would be in Playback Devices (Right click on the speaker icon in the toolbar), go into your default device and go to enhancements, try ticking the disable box and see if that makes a difference.

Your motherboard may be in AHCI Mode, Try booting up with it in IDE Mode. You can change the disk mode inside the BIOS. If that works, you can do this in windows to allow for AHCI Mode, as you will get better disk performance. Once you have made the change you can put the disk mode back to AHCI...

Thanks guys! Since I left ages ago I've gotten married, got a job back in the IT sector, etc , etc... Safe to say ALOT has changed, but I hope to stick around for a while. Who is the admin nowadays? Is Dave still around?

Hmm. Long time no see. How is everyone :lol:

Hmmm. That option completely slipped my mind! My only concern with building a NAS myself is I need something to be completely silent. Can you get a PSU with Passive cooling?

I've currently got a DNS-323 with 2x Seagate barracuda drives (1tb) in a RAID1 Array and i'm looking to upgrade to something that has: Raid Support Gigabit Ethernet Torrent Client Plays nicely with XBMC I Was thinking a Synology DS212J but I havn't heard of the brand much, any other suggestions?

I agree with this thread. For the year I was working with hardware my setup at home (hardware wise) was pretty pathetic. Now that i'm doing software/website work I've gone back into tinkering with things. Regardless, I still enjoy my work quite a bit!

So i'm going to take the leap and run my existing rig with a cooling setup. I Want it to cool my CPU and GPU. Can anyone recommend an out of the box kit OR am I going to have to put together something custom? This is all VERY new to me so a complete noob here :lol:

Anyone here invest in the stock market? I Have $500 Spare and why the hell not (Well, Aslong as it would be worthwhile..)!