Posts by Dani

It says boot.ini failure and then it still boots? The bios is unrelated to microsoft windows. What the bios is, is a setup screen which allows you to configure certain low-level hardware options related to your processor and motherboard. To get to it, there is a specific key you have to press when your computer first turns on - it's different for every computer (usual choices are F2, F8, Del, Esc)

Regardless, on first guess I would say your Windows boot.ini file is malformed. Check out the following website to edit your boot.ini file. What I would like you to do is open up your boot.ini and copy its contents here so I can see if it's okay looking. Something else to do is to check it yourself against the sample boot.ini provided on this site:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289022

Yes, they are. I've engaged in a few e-mail chats with them awhile back.

Not that I know of :( Try checking hotscripts.com

www.linkautomate.com - I tried their free trial and it was pretty good.

DazzlinDonna beat me to the punch, but I too was about to respond to this thread saying that I don't think you're going to get a straight answer about this. For one, it's against Google's TOS for AdSense partners to disclose any information about their accounts. Second of all, Google pays an undisclosed percentage of how much they make per click from their advertisers, and this value is based on how much advertisers bid to get listed. (It's based on Google AdWords). With certain highly competitive keywords, I've seen AdWords users bid as much as $15/click, with a $0.05 minimum. Usually expect AdSense to bring you between 2 cents and a dollar per click, depending on what your site is about, and how competitive the subject on each page is. (As you know, AdSense ads are content targeted). For example, my Web Development ads perform nearly twice as well as my Tech Support ads.

Is this a laptop or LCD monitor? Does the monitor have any controls that might change the resolution? Go to Desktop Properties and then to the Settings tab, were you usually change the resolution. Click the Advanced button. On the General tab, try changing the DPI setting.

I don't believe this is possible. Outlook 2000, itself, has no knowledge of the mailbox size. Only your mail server knows this.

Take a look at sites such as http://www.dyndns.org ... they let you associate a domain or subdomain name (you.dyndns.org) to a dynamic IP.

You can play avis with programs such as mplayer. You're in Fedora, so odds are, you're using the rpm package management system. Type rpm -q mplayer to see if it's installed. If it is, type mplayer & to run it. If it's not, you will need to download it from one of the many RedHat / Fedora mirror sites.

Hey guys. I'm sorry for not replying to this thread sooner. I typed up a reply a few days ago, but I think I must have gotten sidetracked and never clicked the submit button. Duh. In any case, inscissor is completely correct. So, yeah, that's it :)

Generally, simply post that your question has been answered or resolved. Upon seeing that, a moderator will come around mark the thread as solved. :) As yours has just been.

In Safari, you can empty the cache. It's in the far left menu dropdown.

I used to use Print Screen but now my windows machine is connected to a mac usb keyboard, so there is no print screen key. So I use SnagIt now.

Not if they have an uplink port.

What is a fast write? I'm not familiar

No experience with VirtualPC but I do have experience with VMWare for linux. Is there like a virtual nic card? NAT? Does Windows XP have an IP?

The change was actually something I had discussed with Gary. The idea was that when people saw "1 week ago" as the last post time, it just feels like so long ago that they don't want to respond. However, when they see "2-02-04" it doesn't seem like so long ago anymore. What do you guys think? vB needs user-option date format! phpBB has it!

It's fixed but oh my goodness gracious http://www.techtalkforums.com has a whole lotta problems and I don't know how to fix all of them :(

Ahh, I see .... I need something else to start my list. Gotcha.

So what is the XHTML-compliant version of the li tag? To make the bullets?? ;)

You say you need it so the display doesn't turn off while watching a movie? In Windows, just disable the screen saver. Also go into power preferences and don't turn your monitor off automatically.

Sorry, I have no experience at all with that. :( I don't even know what a debugger is. Have you checked the Microsoft Knowledge Base by any chance?

Oh, you're right. I got standby confused with sleep. I never put my computer to sleep ... connecting to a LAN shouldn't make a difference. I know PCs do this, not sure about macs, but can you wake your mac up automatically when it detects a lan signal?

Sorry, I don't think I can be much help. A lot of the stuff you have loaded I know what it is. But there's a bunch of programs I've never heard of - so I wouldn't know what's hijacked and what isn't, etc. Why do you have an Earthlink popup blocker and a Google popup blocker?

This sometimes used to happen to me on my panther G5. I don't put my monitor to sleep anymore - I just turn off the monitor. This is because my mac is connected to my printer and my windows machine, and this way my win machine always has network access to the printer.

Do you run a popup blocker such as the one built into the google toolbar?

When I first got Windows 2000, this happened to me. It pissed me off for weeks until I realized how easy it was to fix. At any edge of the window, just double click. Double click again to bring it back to this "condensed" state. Believe it or not, it's supposed to be a feature ;)

Hey there. Sorry, no experience at all with prolog. All I could suggest is google :( I just had to come say hi to CompSciGuy from CompSciGal !! :)

Not that I know of (in DOS). You need something like WinXP that detects hardware, installs drivers, and mounts volumes on the fly (i.e. plug 'n' play)

Hey there Mark! Thanks for your information. Are you sure this is the case though? Usually stylesheet affect the look of the page, itself, not the default search engine for the browser, etc. It seems to me that it's more like some adware that customized the IE browser.

man this IE stuff is getting to be a real Joke thats why very few use it

I disagree. Most Windows users use IE. I am a Windows power user and I still use IE over Mozilla or Opera. (Although Opera is very nice in its own right.) I won't touch IE for the Mac though.

Thanks for the 411, vester. Never heard of that program but it looks worth a look.

I've gotta agree. Programming does encompass a lot of math. However, I still don't see why us as comp. sci. majors have to take all of these darn courses - organic chemistry, for heaven's sake, isn't really going to help us with discrete math!

Do you mean that you want all links to open up in a new window? I don't think you could set this as default - nor do I see why you'd want to? On the other hand, you can right click on any link and choose "open in new window"

I'm confused. Maybe it's because I don't really read the paper, but I've never heard of RFID tags?

Optimum Online, my provider, keeps a very close watch on bandwidth usage. They even prohibit any servers from running and are willing to cancel your account for having an ftp server.

You can always uncap your cable connection. Although, I'm still yet to master how to uncap mine, I'm working on it... any suggestions? :P

That violates the terms of service with your cable provider, doesn't it? I know at least with Optimum Online that's grounds for canceling your account.

28.8 kbps = slow dial-up modem
56.6 kbps = fast dial-up modem
dial-up cost = initial price of the modem (about $50) + $20/month for an ISP such as AOL or MSN

Broadband
-------------
DSL Line (leased line)
ISDN Line
T1 Line
Cable Modem (shared line) (the one I have is 10mbps download/1mbps upload)
I only know how much this one is cuz I pay for it. Around $35-$45 / month
T3 Line (niiiiiiice 'n' fast!)

A lot of broadband ISPs don't advertise their speeds because they don't want to be held down to any guarantees in contracts.

A DSL line (over a regular telephone line) is a leased private line to your ISP. This is different from a cable modem where you share the line with others in your neighborhood. This means that the more people in your neighborhood who sign up via the same cable company, the less bandwidth you have.

DSL LINES ARE UPGRADES TO TELEPHONE LINES
CABLE MODEMS RUN OVER STANDARD TV CABLE LINES

kbps = kilobits transferred per second (8 bits = 1 byte)
mbps = megabits transferred per second

Sorry I don't know much more. Hope this helps a bit.

I looked a bit more, and from what I have seen, this is impossible to do. It seems as if you need a USB controller to access a USB device in any way (even through a converter). Therefore, your motherboard either has to have native USB support or you need a PCI add-in USB card to access USB devices. (Apparently there are tons of USB PCI cards that you just stick into the PCI slot of a pre-USB machine (even if your motherboard doesn't support it) and you have instant USB ports).

Apparently the reason you can find converters the other way around is because virtually all motherboards can handle serial and parallel devices and it's simply the means of connection you need the converter for.

Please correct me if this is wrong? I did a whole bunch of looking and looking and it seems this is the conclusion I've come to.

What about a USB 1.1/2.0 PCI card to give your PC some usb ports? Would that work? www.siig.com seems to have lotsa converter-type things.

I looked everywhere for you and, just like you, can only find ways to connect parallel devices to USB ports on a computer!! How frustrating ... the parallel and serial ports are pretty old-fashioned nowadays though. :(

I have the same problem. I'll try that ... the thing is, won't it still not save my settings for the increased text zoom?

Less is better than more

Because we all know the *nix text viewer "more" only scrolls downwards, while the *nix text viewer "less" lets us scroll up and down, thus making less better than more.

I apologize for my ignorance but a cpu cooler is a heatsink and fan, right?

You're missing a } to end the if statement.

Make sure your whole program is enclosed in

#include<iostream.h>

int main&#40;&#41;
&#123;

     &#91; CODE GOES HERE &#93;

     return &#40;0&#41;;
&#125;

Oops! Just realized
the last line should cout << factorial
not cout << x

edited post above to fix error

What output does it give?
Try int x;
int factorial=1; on two separate lines?

int x, factorial = 1;
cout << "Enter integer&#58; ";
cin >> x;
if &#40;x > 0&#41;
&#123;
     while &#40;x > 0&#41;
     &#123;
          factorial *= x;
          x--;
     &#125;
&#125;
cout << "Factorial&#58; " << factorial;

Untested, this might work.

Of course you know there is already a link on the homepage available to members to view all topics posted since your last visit.

As well, these topics are marked orange when browsing the forums.

Unfortunately, this isn't a current feature of TechTalk. However, it isn't hard to accomplish if this is a feature you'd like to see.

The current "work-around" is to go to "Advanced Search" (located below the search textbox in the upper right of every page). Use the dropdown menu for "Search Previous" to the desired about (1 day, 1 week, etc). However, because you can't search for nothing, enter a wildcard (a single *) in the Search Author textbox. Then do a search and it'll work.

If you'd like, I could add a drop down box to the index page (or, optionally, to each individual forum) where you would select the timespan and it will perform the search for you. (The index page would perform a search on the whole board, while a dropdown box on a forum homepage would, of course, be forum specific)

I hate to clutter up all of the pages with goodies and features no one would ever use, but if you would really like to see this, it's no problem to implement. However, for the amount you'd use it, is going to Advanced Search really too much trouble?

Let me know! :)