Hey,

Does anybody know of a way to generate a random number without using srand(time(NULL)). I need it for a program I'm writing.

srand(time(NULL)) is seeding it based on the computer's clock,...

Hey,

Whenever I try to boot windows 7, it bluescreens with stop 0xED (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE). I installed the drive in my xp machine and whenever I try to access it I get a "disk is not...

I might add you. I'm pretty fluent, but you never know, I might learn something.

seen both of those. I can't use an ad-hoc as my computer doesn't have bluetooth

that's the problem.... they don't. The Wi-Fi and the 3G networks are kept separate. I can connect the computer to the 3G internet, but I don't have a mobile internet plan, so i need to connect it to...

ok I was a bit unclear then. what I want to do is connect my computer to my wireless network. but as the computer doesn't have a wireless adapter, I can't. my phone does have an inbuilt wireless...

hi,

How am I able to share a wi-fi connection through a Windows Mobile 6 device to my computer running Windows 7 x64 via USB. I have tried and failed for days on end.

Does anyone have any idea...

OK. I just made some major progress in figuring out what they are.

The game has 3 music settings. Mono, Stereo and Swapped Stereo
Mono has 1 channel, hence the 11c; Stereo has 2 channels, hence...

perhaps there a decryption key or something similar stored in the executable that reads them or another game file. should i post upload it? worst comes to worst, Ill attempt dissasemble the program...

ok, see the attached zip archive. please note that there are more files, but to keep file size low I have only included 1 set.

It can be downloaded from:...

No luck. I tried ZIP, RAR, ACE, 7z, ISO (pointless I know) and about 3 or 4 others

Hi,

A friend recently gave me a bunch of compressed (not illegal) music files, which I have absolutely no idea how to open or decompress. Each file seems to be in 3 parts/files with a pattern in...

thanks guys. Ancient Dragon's solution solved it.

EDIT: I mucked up the thread title. It should be "Convert Custom type 'String' to std::string"

Hi,

How would I be able to convert a custom type 'String' to a std::string? Just that the function...

nope still nothin.

ive done both of them. the problem is still there. and i have recognised a new symptom. My Office Groove 2007 cant see any online contacts and cant connect to the public directory.

I have already run Malware bytes and it finds nothing Also it is unable to update because of the same problem

I recently got a Lenovo x200 Tablet PC with vista business preinstalled. It was working fine for a while but then some problems started appearing.

First of all I can't download any torrents on...

i would do that but ive got a lot of data on the hard drive, which i need to keep. otherwise i would.

its not that. its the actual hard drive. it says its 7gb when its actually 30gb. And the flash memory is fine i've compared the checksum to the original

Because I wanted to be able to play doom and not to use itunes on my ipod.

Hey,

Yesterday my 30GB iPod video stopped working. Because I hate using iTunes, i Decided to put rockbox onto it.
I had rockbox installed and working properly, but all of a sudden it wont boot...

is nobody going to help. I really need to do this.

hey,

I have a program that uses a certain algorithm to decrypt dll files from the game, half-life. but once i have decrypted them, the game crashed whenever i try to start it with the un-encrypted...

ok never mind guys i figured it out. thanks for your help anyway.

Hey,

I am having a really weird problem with my OpenGL Program. When I compile it in Debug mode and run it through Visual Studio 6, it works fine, but when I run it from windows, it works fine...

i figured it out. it was avast! thanks for your help anyway.

also i forgot to add this. I have tried the Winsock fix, and all netsh commands and none of them worked. I might have to reinstall windows it this problem cant be fixed. Any ideas?

Hi,

I recently bought a Netgear RangeMax WPN824 v2 wireless router. I set everything up and it was working fine, but when I booted up my computer the next day, it my computer wouldn't connect. My...

Hey,

I have created a small application that has music playing when you run it. currently the mp3 file being played is external to the application. I have included the file in a resource script...

thanks, ill check those out.

I am writing a launcher program for some software. How can I get the value from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Argonaut Software\Croc2\1.00\InstallPath and store it as a string?

Thanks in advance.

You don't -- console programs do not have resources so its not possible to change an icon that doesn't exist.


That's not strictly true. If you have Microsoft Visual c++ (I use version 6), you...

Help! I can't get in to Access 2007.
It's not a database password, but an password for Access itself. I can't even create a blank database. All it does is prompt me for a username and password. I've...

It's a personal home account. But anyway, I fixed it. Corrupt Security Descriptor.

Hi. I am trying to make a program that will launch restricted user-specified programs at my school. How would I make the system() function below make use of the two variables in it.
I've tried &&...

I've tried that it didn't work. Thanks anyway. Every account I try to access the old account in says Access is denied. But i've modified the built-in admin account to access everything in Local...

Every time I log in to my account "vs49688", I have none of my files or settings. I checked in the Documents and Settings Folder and there is a "vs49688.001" as well as a "vs49688 " folder in there....

Yippee. Thanks vmanes. It was just what i wanted it to do. All I had to do was edit so it would work inside a switch. Thank You So much

Oops. I am getting this error: "error C2601: 'sleep' : local function definitions are illegal"

Here is the code im using

void sleep( clock_t wait )
{
clock_t goal;
goal = wait + clock();...