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I need a guide ( i lost my manual) so I can install my front spaker and microphone connections using the internal pins. If someone could help me out I would appreciate it, especially if the guide explains how to install surround sound speakers too.

smash59 wrote:
I, too, am interested in connecting the front panel headphone and microphone jacks on my PC case to my Sound Blaster Li've 5. sound card. I looked at the pinout given in the knowledge base and it seems to indicate that there are no pins available to connect my case audio jacks. Am I missing something? I don't really want to make a crappy patch cord to plug in on the back of the computer then run in through a hole in the case to connect to the front panel leads... yuck.
Shannon
I too would like to connect to the front panel of my computer from my CB0224 SoundBlaster Li've! 5. Digital. The KB listing of model numbers leads me to believe that my card has these connectors, BUT I don't see any unlabeled connectors, except one white one with ten or eleven pins in one row.

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What it DOES do wrong here (I am no firewall expert, this is purely trial and error, so please anybody do explain!) is to give the VPN-net exactly the same address range as the internal network. And here seems to be the overall problem.
When Twintails wrote to add 192.168.3.60/27 as address range for VPN, I realized what he/she did. Writing 192.168.3.60/27 effectively narrows down the address range starting at 192.168.3.33 up to 192.168.3.62. There are millions of subnetmask calculators out on the net, give it a try e.g. here: http://www.subnet-calculator.com/
So, I looked for what range of address will actually be given out by the VPN server to VPN clients upon connections. Of course you need to make sure that this address range is NOT given out by your DHCP server.
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Next click Save (basically it should already work, but I always want to be extra sure, so I stoped and immediately thereafter started the firewall again to be 100% certain all new rules are now active.
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I have looked through MSDN and other sources to understand.
This one helped with my understanding
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Internal users
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I believe this is what i read.
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Hi GreenWasabi,
i agree this is an interesting topic to discuss,
as you can check from the article, you may check this example from the codeplex:http://claimsid.codeplex.com/
when i thinking regarding this topic, its looks like an environment with multiple of realms,
from what you understand, its correct that all the authentication is based from the provider, so for example i have a windows live ID and internal ID, then when i login windows live ID, it will be authenticated using windows live ID server.
here is the example for the webservice:
http://claimsid.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Federated%20Identity%20for%20Web%20Services&referringTitle=Home
as i know, if you using this federated, i am not quite sure that you will need to go to the provider page literally, perhaps you can check this example if we are using azure:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22309.integrating-windows-live-id-google-and-facebook-accounts-with-sharepoint-2013-white-paper.aspx
Regards,
Aries
Microsoft Online Community Support
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IMO generally most useful to help keep drives underfilled and fast (drives slow as they fill) is to manage by Reference ("referenced images") as in the workflow outline below where Master images can live anywhere.
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I feel pretty strongly that card-to-Aperture or even camera-to-Aperture handling of original images puts originals at unnecessary risk. I suggest this workflow, first using the Finder (not Aperture) to copy images from CF card to computer hard drive:
• Remove the CF card from the camera and insert it into a CF card reader. Faster readers and faster cards are preferable, and Firewire is much preferable to USB2.
• Finder-copy images from CF to a labeled folder on the intended permanent Masters location hard drive.
• Eject CF.
• Burn backup hard drive or DVD copies of the original images (optional recommended backup step).
• Eject backup hard drive(s) or DVDs (optional recommended backup step).
• From within Aperture, import images from the hard drive folder into Aperture selecting "Store files in their current location." This is called "referenced images."
• Review pix for completeness (e.g. a 500-pic shoot has 500 valid images showing).
• Reformat CF in camera, and archive DVDs of originals off site.
Note that the "eject" steps above are important in order to avoid mistakenly working on removable media.
It works equally well to allow Aperture to keep Masters in the Library itself ("managed images"), but at the cost of a rapidly growing Library size that ultimately outgrows the fast capacity of a single hard drive. The difference is that with managed images Vault backups include the Masters, while with referenced images Masters are maintained outside of Aperture and are not backed up in Vaults.
The Aperture Help Menu has more on this if you search on managed images and on referenced images.
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Greetings-
I shoot 400-600 images a day, thus I'm beginning to run out of hard drive space. I don't want to create a new vault of pictures on an external drive. I'm willing to reduce the overall size of my photos in order to create some space on my drive.
I'm at a loss how to batch resize groups of images in Aperture. It was an easy function in iPhoto.

Spuds\'n\'Surf wrote:
I don't want to skip a step, lose sharpness, image cropping/adjustments, or mess up my project/folder/album file structure in this process.
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HTH
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Any suggestions from you iPhoto powerusers? I'm at a loss.
Thanks for any advice.

I've got a 320gb hd with 35gb free, and I think it's 2gb of RAM (at work now and
can't remember exactly...)
Well that's plenty of disk space.
For metadata backups in iPhoto '09, where does that get stored?
Same as in every version of iPhoto - in the main Database file. Added metadata only gets written to the file on export.
As for Blurb, I used to have my iPhoto library on an external drive but Blurb has a functionality that opens the library from within their bookmaking software, which is great, but if the library is on an external drive it can't find it. No option to 'point' to it either. That may have changed in more recent iterations of their software, but I am not aware of that so far.
I would certainly check for an update. If they are doing this they are not using an approved API for integrating with iPhoto, and they should. The location of the Library makes not a whit of difference to any other app and shouldn't to these guys either.
Regards
TD

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