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I have hundreds of music videos I have either downloaded or made myself using ATI TV Wonder. I have been storing these on a Seagate FreeAgent 1.5tb ext. USB drive. Space is now becoming an issue. These files are in mostly vob, mpg, mp4, mkv and avi formats. I want …

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lightspeed has blocked facebook because of school issues and i need to get on it at home for personal reasons.

When I synced on iTunes all my contacts were lost. Favorites became just numbers with no names. What happened? If any way to transfer my iPhone contacts to computer without itunes? Thanks in advance.

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My HP PC a6207c is 7 years old. Has Vista. Became very sluggish and started crashing all the time. Is only used for personal use, not business. When it crashes, a message comes on the monitor saying "monitor is going to sleep." Then it shuts down. I tried resetting to …

I'm setting up my home network right now using one base router/modem which is able to send 5 and 2.4 simultaneously. My repeater is able to do the same, however it can only connect to the base through one of them. The signal strength at the position of the repeater …

Hello, please how do i send message from my computer to the other computers on the same lan with me using windows7 with no software installed. I do this on other OS. Though, i have been told it's msg.exe, this does not seems to work with other lower OS. I …

Cek this syntax: root@ubuntu:/opt/lampp# ./lampp startmysql XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok. root@ubuntu:/opt/lampp# ./lampp status Version: XAMPP for Linux 1.8.3-3 Apache is running. MySQL is not running. ProFTPD is running. I already start mysql yet it's still unable to run. Why is it?

So, this description may be a long one... First, the HDD info: Brand: Seagate Model: ST2000DM001 Controller Board: 100664987 Rev A Capacity: 2TB A family member (who is an author) recently had their HDD fail with many chapters of their book stored within the drive. Since I'm a EE, they …

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My pc freezes on the windows start up page, I am running XP Pro, I have tried re-installing windows on another hard drive but when it gets to the first restart my pc does not restart. I have tried installing both XP Pro and 2000 pro, pc fails to restart …

I am having Acer 5920 (64bit ,intel mobile express 965 chipset family) laptop. I have been using ubuntu 8.04 64bit on it for a while.Even internet browsing makes the temprature of laptop to shoot to above 50C.I have tried configuring it a lot(using pwmconfig , gkrellm ...). But they either …

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This may be a bit more complex situation than someone wants to take on. I am not looking for the simple solution of reinstalling. There is something simple I am overlooking. The system boots to the point of selecting the OS. The only one is Windows 7. Win 7 was …

My sister and I are trying to write a book and its hard to edit via phone conversations. It would be nice to see the same screen at the same time. To view what she is doing and vice versa. Is there any way to do this being that we …

Hi, I have an Asus laptop, it's about 7 or 8 years old. The only thing wrong is that it is very very slow so I want to do a reinstall. I thought a clean install the best way to go, I did a repair a couple of years ago …

Help! I have windows xp and someone uninstalled or deleted a few microsoft programs from my pc and now i can't see any of my emails, can't compose emails, can't delete more than one at a time. Also I can't see any yahoo messenger messages, and alot of other crap …

I can't send out any mail from my hotmail account for some reason! I do get incoming mail but when I try to reply it gives me an error. Please help!!

I need to apply some code changes to a source code file I don't have access to. I write code but rely on someone else to test it for me because my old computer has trouble with VMs. Most of the changes are fixing small syntax errors, but I think …

Hey All What is the equivilant of romaing profiles in windows server for Unix/Linux? Or how would i go about storing user accounts in a centralise location on the network so regardless of what machine users log onto on the network, they have the same desktop experiance? Thanks

Win7/32/laptop: I don't know if this is the correct area or should I be in hardware. I've always understood you go in and click to remove USB hardware from the computer, and that if you don't it will eventually ruin the port, or screw up driver/software. On my wife's laptop …

Here’s the concept behind the smartpen: there are millions of pages of good old fashioned handwritten notes taken every day in business meetings and school lessons around the world. Unfortunately they remain trapped within the confines of the paper they are written upon. But what if you could easily share …

[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]How to Turn Off Automatic Updates [/color][/size][/font] [list] [*][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System. [/color][/font][/size] [*][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click Turn off automatic updating. I want to …

When I use a combination of buttons (the only one that seems to work is power and volume+) to access recovery mode, I don't see the expected android on its back with exclamation mark. Instead, the android stands up (with a spinning logo at the front) and although it says …

Is there any tool (not from system ^1) that I could put in RAM disk and on normal disk. Run both and see the outrageous speed? Some kind of tool, which will print me Read/Write in MBs? ^1 - Not from system, because I want to see how independant programs …

Hi Quick question, this is theoertical by the way. If i had 3 departments for a businesss: * Human Resources * Finance * Marketing If i had a total of 300GB of space on the netrwork, how could i allocate 100GB to each department, and ensure that one department cant …

Hi, I was recentley on my toshiba satellite pro l450d-12x laptop and it went completley dead my battery and as usal it shut off so i charged it up and tried powering up but it didnt. my battery said before it went off the it needed replacing could someone help …

internet explorer has stopped working i cant open any web pages. mozilla firefox will open the yahoo page but when i try to go to another site any site it says its untrusted i cant even check my email and i get a security warning? how do i fix this? …

I have a new windows 7 64bit machine. OS and all software already installed, running swell. But my old 32 bit xp machine has my big, monster file drive with all my music, pix etc. Can I just pop that file drive into the new box? thanks!

I locked my file with the command code below cacls "C:\Program Files (x86)\CrossTec\CrossTec Remote Control\Support" /E /P everyone:n it locked, but when i tried to unlock it by changing the last n to an f or a y, it wouldn't unlock. instead, it gave me this: NOTE: Cacls is now …

I've been lately doing some "research" about Linux. I just plainly sought what can be possibly done with `sudo su`. I came across `apt-get` function. Apparentely this is way Linux works, along with sum' file extension, that, I forgot (.deb?). But thats besides the point. Then I related `apt-get remove` …

Hello peeps, I hope you can help me with this. I have just bought a new “high capacity” battery for my gt-i900 android phone (it currently has a 1500mAh battery), a 3700mAh. Now, what should I do the first time? I was thinking to leave the battery in charge for …

Well, so I decided, to buy a laptop, cheapiest evah. And then crank it up with 32GB RAM and AMD Vishera. So if I want to put them inside. I need to (tell whether right/give comment if required please): 1. Check out compability between processor/RAM and motherboard. 2. Check out …

Hello; I tried to install Kubuntu 12 04, i have choosen the automatic installation; the latter is supposed to install Kubuntu on the free part of the partition At the end of the installation i had a message saying that the installation has crashed; and much worse my windows partition …

Hello, I have a M-Series Gateway W650i laptop that will no longer boot when the power button is pressed, nor do any of the LED indicators display, such as the laptop receiving power, when the power adaptor is plugged in. I've tried several methods to combat this issue, such as …

Hi all, So here's some background information on what we are trying to setup. We have two data centers over 40km apart and one of them runs the webserver (over 80 websites) and we use another machine on the other side to keep backups (typical cpanel backups). So I have …

Hello everyone. I will try to explain my question the best way i can, however my lack of knowledge on the subject-which is the reason for this thread- may make things confusing. I am currently working on a project for a class, which requires me to "mess around" with linux …

I am unable to write a text file from a windows PC to a folder in Unix. I am told I have no permission. I can see the unix server from network and browse to the folder but I cannot write to it. The permissions of the folder on the …

how to edit a pdf file in ADOBE READER 9 ? like adding text in boxes and putting check marks ?

I will be hosting a website on windows 7 using Apache and a java based project tracking web application called jira on Tomcat using reverse proxy method. To secure that web application and my PC what steps should I take and from where should I start?

I have a problem with my computers especially my two cpu. Some days ago they got struck by lightening. When i switch on the computers the cpu powers up normally and the monitor works 100% ok. But the problem is that the cpu does not display on the monitor. Whilst …

is there is a book or a site for advanced linux command line like manage partitions and manage users etc?

But I received this message: Registration denied, this forum runs an active policy of not allowing spammers. Please contact us via the “Contact Us” page link if you believe this is in error. I never spammed any one since it's a waste of time. My IP is not black listed …

Hi As we know we can make image of HD and Clone Hard Disks and Partitions with dd.exe(http://www.chrysocome.net/dd) but How can I re-create a bootable disk from a raw image dd format to a bootable and executable HD installation?which commands I have to use? I appreciate your help

Hi, I need to split cart and order according a Manufacturer because I need that each manufacturer has a private shipping price. The customer can buy variuous product from different manufacturer in my shop. Now I need that: 1- every manufacturer has a private shipping price. 2- split the cart …

Hi, I have one Prestashop site. I want my clients login using their facebook and pinterest accounts. It can be possible with any modules?

Hi . I have two partitions that I want to merge into one large disk. partition 1 has systems running on it while partition 2 does not have any. they are as follows: Disk /dev/sda: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 …

**Stick with me for some time, this may get pretty difficult and dizzy to understand. This isn't a bug that I want to resolve. It's rather a bug that I want understand and be able to answer "How it's possible?"** There is SMPlayer (Media Player) on internet. I watched "Seuss' …

I have a W2K system that suddenly locked. I had not noticed any slow downs or other booting problems. I shut my computer down while my cell phone was still charging thru the USB port. I don't know if that could have caused the problem to begin with. anyway, when …