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Netgear WGR614v7 Router I have three computers wi-fi networked via the Netgear router: a laptop, a Mac Mini, and a XBox 360. About 30% of the time, when I wake my laptop up, it's been dropped from the network. The only thing that seems to allow it to connect again is if I unplug the power from...

Mental Ray standalone will run on Linux, but I'm not sure how that works when you need to render a Max scene. The way most people usually set up a farm for Max, you'd need Backburner Server and the 3ds Max executable to run. They both reference Windows DLLs. Backburner Manager needs to be...

We're really small. We have an IT guy, but he's contracted and only comes around when we absolutely need him...like if something breaks. I'm going to get what I need a lot sooner if I'm able to just take care of it myself somehow. So I need to VPN into the server from my home machine, then once...

I want to be able to do remote desktop into a machine at work, from home. Yesterday at work I got on the machine I want to connect to and I went to ipchicken.com to determine what the IP for that machine was. I'm talking about the IP given by the ISP, not the local (or LAN) IP. I'm trying to...