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Catsmeat
Good work. I've spent some time considering how I'm going to set-up my computers for next term. I'll be taking a PC and two laptops, as well as an additional LCD monitor for my HP laptop. I may install Windows 7 on each and see how well it works. Superfluous, yes, but fun.

Cool. I was thinking of bringing more computers but there's hardly enough space in the car as it is and it would just distract me from actually doing some work once in a while. :o:

Zhen Lin
... so you have Windows Server running on some PC at home? :-| Seems a bit overkill... (then again, I use WPA Enterprise for Wi-Fi in my house, so.)

Yeah, Windows 2000 Server is running on a PC in the garage. By the way, is WPA secure or did I hear a while back that it had been cracked?

thefish_uk
Hmm, I am slightly scared for your electricity bill! I don't see why you need this kind of setup at home as with that many computers surely everyone effectively has at least one each?

There's five of us at home and everyone has one main desktop PC each. Then my parents and I all have laptops as well. Beyond that there's the dedicated server, a couple of computers to run my dad's hi-fi system (one controller and one player), one to run the CCTV, and probably more that I've forgotten. The setup is useful for sharing the main laser printer, as well as common storage space (a couple of RAID-5 arrays, at 1.0TB and 1.5TB), and the internet connections. :smile: Luckily I'm not aware of what the electricity bill is, since we also have at least 4 TVs and a motorised treadmill...
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I was also thinking of that electricity bill :p: I often pay about £50 a term for mine simply because I insist on using proper lighting in my room, and tend to stay awake using stuff for about 30% longer than other students. I probably spend more time in as well, being an arts student.
Catsmeat
I've got this image in my head of Neo's bedroom from the original Matrix ...

:hahaha:
Have fun with that :p:
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thefish_uk
Isn't one of the great things about Windows 7 HomeGroups supposed to be that you can merge music, photos etc stored across several computers into a single library? So as far as the user experience goes, everything on the network appears to be brought together in a single place without the need for a central server.


Doesn't sound like a great idea...either you have to keep all the computers running or have part of the library inaccessible (if the files are left distributed), or it makes a duplicate of the library for storage on every machine, which is then presumably gonna eat a huge amount of space and annoyingly slow down the computers and the network as it tries to keep itself up to date (imagine you add a multi-gigabyte DVD rip to one PC, and then it immediately has to be copied across to all the others on the network - cue a huge crash/slowdown).
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Melz0r
Depends what you think of it. If you think it was worth reading, then it's mine. If you think it's a load of ********, then it's totally not mine *runs away*


I was enjoying it :smile: Doomed lovers and incest...
Sodding QANS codes, discount codes, and all the rest. Two hours of staring at this database, a big headache, no lunch. Grr. Will probably go home in 15 mins or so, as I worked through my lunch break.
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FadeToBlackout
Sodding QANS codes, discount codes, and all the rest. Two hours of staring at this database, a big headache, no lunch. Grr. Will probably go home in 15 mins or so, as I worked through my lunch break.
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alex_hk90
Yeah, Windows 2000 Server is running on a PC in the garage. By the way, is WPA secure or did I hear a while back that it had been cracked?


A bruteforce attack has been demonstrated against WPA-PSK (a.k.a. Personal). WPA2 with the CCMP algorithm is supposedly secure. Since you have Windows Server, perhaps you should consider using WPA Enterprise. Not sure which editions of Windows Server have the Internet Authentication Service though. (I use Linux. :p:)

There's five of us at home and everyone has one main desktop PC each. Then my parents and I all have laptops as well. Beyond that there's the dedicated server, a couple of computers to run my dad's hi-fi system (one controller and one player), one to run the CCTV, and probably more that I've forgotten.


Two computers for one hi-fi system seems... redundant. Why not one? And internet connections? :-|

I would like to have a media centre PC in the house... but due to some oversight, the floor the TV room is on doesn't have any wired Ethernet, so file transfer would be slow... ah well. My parents don't like spending on technology anyway.
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Zhen Lin
A bruteforce attack has been demonstrated against WPA-PSK (a.k.a. Personal). WPA2 with the CCMP algorithm is supposedly secure. Since you have Windows Server, perhaps you should consider using WPA Enterprise. Not sure which editions of Windows Server have the Internet Authentication Service though. (I use Linux. :p:)
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Do you happen to have a link explaining the details? I thought that while it was theoretically possible it still required an enormous amount of captured data, making it impractical for all but the most criminal endeavours.
Tom
Doesn't sound like a great idea...either you have to keep all the computers running or have part of the library inaccessible (if the files are left distributed), or it makes a duplicate of the library for storage on every machine, which is then presumably gonna eat a huge amount of space and annoyingly slow down the computers and the network as it tries to keep itself up to date (imagine you add a multi-gigabyte DVD rip to one PC, and then it immediately has to be copied across to all the others on the network - cue a huge crash/slowdown).

I am guessing that it'd be the former and would depend on leaving the computers on, perhaps with local caching of stuff as you access it (which may or may not allow offline viewing), and with a setting that lets you set how much local disk space to eat up doing this. There might even be a way to select a whole load of stuff in the library that's stored on other computers and ask it specifically to cache it to yours for offline viewing. That's how I'd design such a system anyway - the second scenario would be pretty easy to set up in Windows XP using Synctoy.
Tom
I was enjoying it :smile: Doomed lovers and incest...


They're really good. I was thinking I might get bored of them after a while, what with so many failed relationships ending in death or incestuous affairs etc etc. But no. You hit the first book without any of that and it's suddenly really boring and uninviting all of a sudden. (The Tristan's in English even. ;D)
Chess Piece Face
]I'd like to start hiking and I'm hoping to get some walking boots. From this, the Hi-Tec Altitude IV look like the kind of thing that I'm looking for (basic and affordable, but of a good standard), but given that there's a strong hiking contingent on CamChat, I was just wondering whether any of you had any advice or recommendations. :smile:


Hah. My walking boots were previously dictated by price and now by whatever fits. I eventually found some in Cambridge, in the shop up that street with the buildings in it by Sainsbury's. Mine are Scarpa and so far (I've only walked in them for a little over a week, but including a few long walks) I've been very happy with them. I've always had leather boots, as goretex doesn't really let the moisture out from what I've heard, and anything else is too expensive and not readily available. Leather is higher maintenance, you have to proof them regularly and make sure that you store them at the appropriate temperature and so on.

Craghyrax
I was also thinking of that electricity bill :p: I often pay about £50 a term for mine simply because I insist on using proper lighting in my room, and tend to stay awake using stuff for about 30% longer than other students. I probably spend more time in as well, being an arts student.


When you say "proper lighting" do you mean those ridiculously inefficient fairy lights or have you bought some proper lights? :dry:

Got back from CUCB tour today. Got to be the most variable holiday I've ever been on. Overall decent though.
Zhen Lin
A bruteforce attack has been demonstrated against WPA-PSK (a.k.a. Personal). WPA2 with the CCMP algorithm is supposedly secure.

Ah OK, I thought I saw some WPA tools on BackTrack, so I guess they were for WPA-PSK as opposed to WPA2.

Zhen Lin
Since you have Windows Server, perhaps you should consider using WPA Enterprise. Not sure which editions of Windows Server have the Internet Authentication Service though. (I use Linux. :p:)

Most of our network is cabled rather than wireless, and for that we're stuck with WEP as one of the routers is very old and doesn't like WPA. Similarly WEP is the only thing that the PSPs, PS3 and Wii will also consistently work with (well, excluding no security obviously :p:).

Zhen Lin
Two computers for one hi-fi system seems... redundant. Why not one?

There's one PC that does the actual playing, which is in a hi-fi style box and doesn't have a screen or any input devices. Then there's a laptop that controls that PC. The separation is to prevent any possible interference to the audio playing via unnecessary graphics and/or interface processes.

Zhen Lin
And internet connections? :-|

We have a main internet connection, and then a free (or very cheap) one from Sky that comes with the digital TV as a backup. Though I often switch onto that one if I want to do something without interruptions (i.e. online gaming :biggrin:).

Zhen Lin
I would like to have a media centre PC in the house... but due to some oversight, the floor the TV room is on doesn't have any wired Ethernet, so file transfer would be slow... ah well. My parents don't like spending on technology anyway.

That's the difference here - technology takes precedence over, say, holidays or new cars. :o: Not that I complain. :nah:
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Tom
I was enjoying it :smile: Doomed lovers and incest...


MML in a nutshell :smile: And glad you like it.
Anyone who can help me demystify the lecture list wins my love and admiration :love:

I can't find my english lectures :cry:
Athena
There's an online lecture list? I'd like to see that, in Oxford there were always lots of interesting 5pm seminars for the lab monkeys.

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/special/01/

here, it's in a special code though from what I can tell.

What do C and S stand for?
I'm wondering if I can learn old english/New Testament greek just by going to lectures...

I doubt I can (obviously I would read as well)
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mwiko
My husband is on tv! :woo:
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I'm sure they run courses in Old English.

I'm feeling terrible and inadequate and like I'm going to fail, already. Help, please.
leala4628
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/special/01/

here, it's in a special code though from what I can tell.

What do C and S stand for?


At a guess
L = lecture
C = class
S = seminar
Bah. I'm not feeling particularly cheerful at the moment. My personal life is a nightmare at the moment, which I won't go into, plus I'm back from my last trip of the holidays, I have to start the work that apparently has taken some people weeks of continuous effort, my room is so cluttered that I'm doubtful that I shall ever be able to clear it and to cap it off I find myself profoundly uninspired not only by this year's lectures but also the Part IIA ones.

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