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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 9th, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 1,400
Posted By John A
>Yes he may get involved with various projects, but they still do not prove much.
Any competent employer will realize it doesn't take much to become a contributor of a project, and will want to know...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 8th, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 1,400
Posted By John A
>With certification you will stand out in the crowd of other graduates...
I doubt it.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 26th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 7,323
Posted By John A
Or better yet, why don't they just ban sex. It's the root of their problem, and would eliminate STDs once and for all. Not to mention an effective curbing of overpopulation...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 20th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 546
Posted By John A
Yeah, that is odd. Why did Microsoft create XP when there was nothing wrong with Windows 98? :icon_rolleyes:
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 13th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 1,301
Posted By John A
Actually, text editors are completely unnecessary. Who needs an editor when you're equipped with 'cat' and some perfectly good redirection operators?

localhost:~ $ cat > textfile
the most...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 13th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 687
Posted By John A
You're referring to the compiler bootstrapping process, which is a sort of chicken and egg scenario. The gist of it is that early compilers/assemblers were written in machine code in a very basic...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 25th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 570
Posted By John A
Try installing mplayerplug-in.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 19th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 840
Posted By John A
>Do you use any anti-virus software
Nope.

>Do you find it to be effective in protecting your system from the countless viruses
>spreading via Internet?
I primarily use Unix or Unix-like...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 4th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,763
Posted By John A
Drag and drop the mplayer file, not the video file.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 4th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,763
Posted By John A
Open Terminal from /Applications/Utilities. Drag and drop the 'mplayer' file that you showed in your first screenshot from its location in the Finder onto the terminal window. The path of the mplayer...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 3rd, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 1,763
Posted By John A
rtsp streams can't be directly downloaded through a Mac web browser. There are various programs that can do it, probably one of the best free ones that can do it is the Unix mplayer binary. Once...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 8th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 565
Posted By John A
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 7th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,126
Posted By John A
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 3rd, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,640
Posted By John A
Yes, I'm sorry, I meant Personal File Sharing. Can you at least get a ping between the two machines? On one of the machines, open Terminal from Applications/Utilities. At the prompt, type
ping -c 10...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 31st, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,640
Posted By John A
>will any of this mess up my 2 PC connections on the router?
I doubt it.

Another option is to transfer the files over WiFi. On the PowerBook, click on the wireless icon in the menubar, and create...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 31st, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,640
Posted By John A
>Yes...is it possible to link the PB and iB via ethernet???
You bet. Get yourself a crossover Ethernet cable (straight-through might work as well) and hook them up to each other.

Next, on the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 31st, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,640
Posted By John A
Your Ethernet card works on the PowerBook, does it not?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 29th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 1,244
Posted By John A
Technical support questions should be directed to one of the specific subforums within Tech Talk. Judging by your topic title, you should post your question in Windows Software...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 19th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 782
Posted By John A
Try looking up "file synchronization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization)".
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 18th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 877
Posted By John A
Since you're fairly new to this process, I'd recommend putting most of your data on a single ext3 filesystem. ext3 has proven itself to be extremely reliable, and a single partition will give you...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 15th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 552
Posted By John A
At the moment, the nameservers assigned to that domain seem to be unable to provide any kind of DNS records.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 13th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 888
Posted By John A
Try sending a ping on the broadcast address. The broadcast address is typically the first 3 octets of your IPv4 address, the last octet being 255. So if your IP address is 192.168.1.100, your...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 11th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 397
Posted By John A
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread139577.html

Closed.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 5th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 3,878
Posted By John A
http://www.gtk.org/
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 5th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 656
Posted By John A
It depends. Viruses usually don't carry weight, however, Trojans are usually a few ounces each.

Oh, and by the way, I do hope you're not running Windows Vista:...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 4th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,596
Posted By John A
Why in the world are you using an ancient dinosaur like Red Hat 9 -- either get yourself a current version of Fedora Core, or ditch Red Hat altogether. The kernel is probably too old to support the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 27th, 2008
Replies: 3
Solved: sale test
Views: 1,162
Posted By John A
sedo.com seems to be a fairly popular place for auctioning domains and sites. eBay also works.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 26th, 2008
Replies: 3
Solved: sale test
Views: 1,162
Posted By John A
Auction the domain name and/or the website (if there is any).
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,163
Posted By John A
In that case, you want to modify the timestamp_timeout value in the /etc/sudoers file. Open up the sudoers file with
$ sudo visudo
enter your password, then look in the file for a line that starts...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 1,163
Posted By John A
No. If you want to authenticate to the root user (or any user for that matter), you have to use su.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 24th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,452
Posted By John A
You can't run them natively inside Mac OS X, however, there's several options. You can run it in a virtual environment, such as VMWare or Parallels. This will allow you to run Windows within the Mac...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 702
Posted By John A
>.Org. net and .edu are readily recognized by most people, and would, of course,
>be inappropriate for commercial businesses.
That's not what I said. The fact is, TLDs are going to be registered...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 702
Posted By John A
The fact is that nearly half of all website domains are registered under the .com TLD. And if you were to ask most people what '.com' means, I bet most wouldn't be able to tell you that 'com' stands...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 702
Posted By John A
>I use bookmarks and favorites to avoid having to remember domains.
That's beside the point. If remembering names wasn't important, DNS wouldn't exist and the Internet would operate solely on IP...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 702
Posted By John A
Ever had trouble remembering if that website ended in .com, .net, or .org? Well, your troubles just got a whole lot worse.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm

"We're running out...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 28th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 675
Posted By John A
This whole black thing is very silly because it's only been proven that black saves some energy on CRT displays (and some have noted that in LCD monitors it could actually require more energy). It's...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 25th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,492
Posted By John A
Well, you could always install Windows in a virtual machine. :P

But if an operating system is causing more problems than it's fixing, it's probably not right for you. Oh well. What you learned...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 23rd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 724
Posted By John A
You're getting the quote character confused with the backtick character. If you run
echo `expr 2 + 3`
you'll get the expected output.

Alternatively, you can also use $(command) as well, which...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 2nd, 2008
Replies: 12
Views: 1,233
Posted By John A
>Im not self advertising I was getting some help in the marketing sector which people
>have been very helpful with which is what the forum is for isn't it.
No and no. Asking for business...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 1st, 2008
Replies: 12
Views: 1,233
Posted By John A
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