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Ah yes now the fog clears a tiny bit and this is clear. Thank you. At 13:22 08/04/2005 -0400, Ben wrote: For home use you would not need to worry about any of this stuff. It's more business level stuff where user accounts and whatnot are stored on a central server, and each PC "joins" itsel

Re: [H] speaking of OS's

Which is still worth it if you have kids or other family members and need a way to centrally control the machines. The other thing with Home at least, is that you have NO ACCESS to the security tabs to be selective about who can use a given folder or resource, Ben Ruset wrote: For home use yo

Re: [H] speaking of OS's

For home use you would not need to worry about any of this stuff. It's more business level stuff where user accounts and whatnot are stored on a central server, and each PC "joins" itself to the "domain" (the server or a group of servers) to get access to the central user database, resources on

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Okay. What does not being able to "join" a WinNT domain or Win2K/2K3 directory mean to me? This sounds like big enterprise level stuff; like, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and a whole lot of other hw structure than I use at present. Sorry for the dweeb question, but this stuff seems to moving ahead fast

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You can not join a Windows NT domain or Windows 2000/2003 directory. It will work just fine as a node on a home LAN. dsinc wrote: What does *Cannot join a domain... really mean? Like it cannot be a node on a home LAN or something? Thanks.

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com Subject: [H] speaking of OS's worked on my first MS windows media center last week, looked a lot like Pro and is cheaper. ( though not cheap enough ) was wondering what the major differences are *supposed* to be ? fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- None of the Above for Presid

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That's pretty cool. I wish I had ordered my laptop with MCE. FORC5 wrote: newegg has it with no HW purchase required for $130, My current supplier does not list it and New Egg is a couple of bucks cheaper for pro too. fp At 10:49 AM 8/3/2005, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: XP MCE *is* Pro wi

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Will not work with some popular hardware. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:45 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] speaking of OS's worked

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newegg has it with no HW purchase required for $130, My current supplier does not list it and New Egg is a couple of bucks cheaper for pro too. fp At 10:49 AM 8/3/2005, Ben Ruset Poked the stick with: XP MCE *is* Pro with the TV tuner and multimedia crap added on. I think it can only be sold bun

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t Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:50 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] speaking of OS's XP MCE *is* Pro with the TV tuner and multimedia crap added on. I think it can only be sold bundled with tuner hardware, so that likely makes up the difference in price. FORC5 wrote: wo

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At 02:58 PM 03/08/2005, Chris Reeves wrote: *laugh* I wouldn't refer to it as "multimedia crap" I've used more boxes with MCE then anything else, at good margins; it's a unique setup when configured with the right HDTV display, tuner cards.. and more and more functions keep improving it.. SIRIUS

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IL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:50 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] speaking of OS's XP MCE *is* Pro with the TV tuner and multimedia crap added on. I think it can only be sold bundled with tuner hardware, so that likely makes up the difference

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XP MCE *is* Pro with the TV tuner and multimedia crap added on. I think it can only be sold bundled with tuner hardware, so that likely makes up the difference in price. FORC5 wrote: worked on my first MS windows media center last week, looked a lot like Pro and is cheaper. ( though not cheap

[H] speaking of OS's

worked on my first MS windows media center last week, looked a lot like Pro and is cheaper. ( though not cheap enough ) was wondering what the major differences are *supposed* to be ? fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- None of the Above for President.

RE: [H] speaking of OS's

ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] speaking of OS's worked on my first MS windows media center last week, looked a lot like Pro and is cheaper. ( though not cheap eno