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Like several responders here, I also refurbish old computers on my own for donation, though I *am* associated with a local non-profit. If a client wants Windows, I tell them I can only accommodate them if the system has a valid COA label attached, and I can only install the version the COA lists. Through various avenues, it's MY understanding that
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FWIW, I have been using remanufactured inkjet cartridges for about 10 years now with excellent results. I use them both at home and at our non-profit to cut costs. I DO however recommend using a reputable organization like gotink4u.com who offer better than OEM warranty on their products. I also prefer the multi-cartridge printers like Canon or Epson
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My non-profit with 30 workstations will be most likely moving to Ubuntu/Xubuntu in the next couple of years since we will not likely have the hardware resources to migrate to Vista. The hardware we DO have is all donated, and are approx 750 MHz-1 GHz systems with 256M RAM and 10-20 Gb hard drives. They *barely* can run Windows XP Pro, but would be quite
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If you are interested, there is a newsletter/tutorial for Unbuntu Linux 7.10 that has a tutorial about using Scribus starting with issue 1. You can check it out at http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-1/ Cheers, Phil Heberer
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I recently upgraded 10 computer systems from Win 2K Pro to Win XP Pro via the volume license key purchased here on Tech Soup, and you do NOT need the previous key nor the CD when doing a "clean" install. One little utility that I recommend though that will save you some grief is called AutoPatcher. It has ALL the Windows patches and updates in one file
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I'm a little late into this conversation, but I also got tired of paying for Symantec's NAV, and switched to AVG a couple of years ago. I like AVG, but there wasn't a version for my 64-bit Win-XP system, so I tried a program called Avast! from Alwil Software. It works on both my 32-bit and 64-bit systems, as well as a Linux version. I like
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Symantec is offering a good backup program here on Tech Soup that is quite reasonably priced. If you need a no-cost solution, take a look at Clark Connect 4.1 Community Edition. CC can run on on some pretty minimal computer systems that you may have laying around unused, and can be configured to backup the server and the LAN clients. It's setup
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At the non-profit where I'm the volunteer IT person, I have set up their network with a RAID 5 configuration on their server. RAID is a "redundant array of independent drives", FWIW. We have one server with 20 clients, and a total, bare-metal backup for us right now is only about 17gigs. The RAID 5 setup has three hard drives of equal size (presently
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We have a similar situation, but on a slightly larger scale. We have a computer lab with 10 computers, then our main staff of 20 client computer systems. I set up the computer lab as a workgroup called "Training", and the others are in a network domain. I have a wireless router set up with MAC address filtering/blocking, and a firewall between the router
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While not an elegant solution, you might research on eBay for similiar systems and what they have historically sold for. That's what many pawn shops do for *their* evaluations these days, FWIW. That was also a suggestion when I took a local eBay sales class on pricing items for eBay. Wish I had a better answer for you!