Posts by MidiMagic

Gateway computers often have a tricky little quirk which prevents installing any OS except one sold by Gateway.

You are probably overloading the input. Digital clipping sounds like loud crashing or snapping sounds superimposed on the music.

Turn it down and try again.

Check for virus or spyware.

In vb, the char$ function lets you put in codes.

LPRINT automatically puts in the CR LF, unless you put a semicolon at the end of the statement.

char$(13) is carriage return
char$(10) is line feed
char$(12) is form feed
char$(27) is escape

This sounds like one of the following:

- A power glitch or other disturbance damaged your file.

- A virus (maybe included with one of the games) infected the file.

- A Word or Windows upgrade detected a problem which already existed.

Not necessarily. The hard disk could have had magnetic, as opposed to physical damage. Reformatting fixes that (and erases everything, so back up first). Power failures often cause magnetic damage.

I can think of a few possibilities, but they are not all-inclusive:

- The files may be in a form where they must occupy contiguous disk memory. Defragmenting the USB drive may fix this.

- The file may contain a code combination which is an escape sequence for USB.

- The format (as opposed to the file) of the hard disk may have tangled links. Do a chkdsk (or equivalent) on the source disk.

Use the task manager to find out how much memory is being used by what. Ctrl-Alt-Del starts the task manager.

There are several possibilities:

1. A Windows upgrade ate up the memory. Microsoft is known for creeping featurism and memoryeatitis.

2. There is some program starting itself "for your convenience".

3. Some malicious software is worming up your memory.

4. Your program uses static allocation, and the special space you allocated is no longer available.

You can't do that. USB is serial, not parallel.

You have to use a parallel port on the computer, or you need to add a parallel port card, or a parallel/serial converter box.

Find out if something has ever remapped your keyboard (e.g. foreign language or Dvorak mapping). It may have thrown away the special mapping for the Fn key.

There are several poassibilities:

1. Stuck key on the keyboard.

2. Broken keyboard. Swap in another one and see if that fixes it.

3. The key has been accidentally reprogrammed (on a system which let you remap keys). Check for a special keyboard map setting, and change back to the standard one in Control Panel. This is the function that lets you remap for a foreign language or Dvorak keyboard.

4. You accidentally set the ctrl key as a hot key for something.

5. Some program you are running is intercepting the ctrl key for a special purpose.

6. A virus is operating, and is intercepting the ctrl key to keep you from bringing up the task manager.

The product key is tied to the disk you have. It should be on the pagkage, or on some documentation that came with it.

My question: What if you bought a computer and got no disks with it?

I don't really understand what you are trying to do.

Do people devilishly delight in driving other people crazy with moving objects????

It's not really stopping the internet. It may be stopping your connection.

Several more thoughts:

1. Your TV (in another room?) might be using other cable services which compete for bandwidth with the internet connection. A DVR in the cable box is an example.

2. The cable company might be having trouble.

3. You might have too many devices connected to the cable.

4. You could have an "illegally connected" device on the cable (such as a TV connected using the wrong kind of cable, or a very old television with leaky RF circuitry).

5. Are you exceeding your download quota? Some ISPs have limits on how much bandwidth you can use at one time.

6. Is the ISP disconnecting you for using a service they also offer as a pay TV service?

7. Is your modem too close to the monitor?

8. Your ISP may apportion download time by serially switching between customers.
Then your browser times out before it gets back to you.

9. Someone in your neighborhood might be stealing cable service.

10. The file type may be one the cable box doesn't know how to transfer, or one the cable box thinks belongs to the cable service (and thus, the TV, not the internet).

I had a failure at about the same time. It was internet-related. I don't know what went down, but two hours later, it was all back.

The first thing I would check for if it is still doing it is viruses and spyware.

It is not a matter of "bypassing". It's a matter of the information being on the registry of the computer which it is actually installed and running on.

The program needs to use its registry entries to know where to find the files it needs to run (such as images and sounds). If you installed the program on one computer, the registry entries are always on the C drive of that computer. Registry entries are never looked for on removable drives, because removable drives can't have registries.

If the registry of the computer you move the removable drive to does not contain the registry entries for the program, two things happen:

1. The program can't find its own files.

2. The program may think it is a pirated copy. It might disable itself, and then it won't run on either computer.

Note that you usually have a license to use the program on only ONE computer. That is the computer you installed it on. Attempts to do what you want to do are illegal software piracy. You could be put in jail or face a stiff fine.

That's because NTSC composite TV is limited in how much it can display at one time.

512 pixels vertical
424 pixels horizontal (848 if color is not used).

The video card MUST change to NTSC scan frequencies for the S-video output to make sense to your TV. Only HDTV sets can make sense of higher resolutions.

This effectively puts you in an original IBM CGA (color graphics adaptor) compatible display mode (which is the only display compatible with color TV). The card can add more colors than CGA had, but it can't add any resolution, because the color TV system doesn't have the resolution to be able to use it. The CGA mode uses all of the resolution a standard TV has.

Is it repeating the same install over and over?

Those instructions may be for assembly language programming or older compilers or BASIC interpreters.

The driver may automatically do the setup and font selection for you when you start Windows.

Your programming language should automatically send the carriage return and line feed for you when you print successive lines using the language. The driver makes sure the codes are the right ones.

The formfeed is the command your language uses to send the printer to a new page.

The rest will depend on what language you are writing the program in. What language are you using? The commands are different in each programming language.

Several questions:

1. Is this a computer that does not belong to you? If so, the system operator may have banned .mp3 use on the setup, to keep the big bad RIAA wolf from suing them.

2. Did you install some new player software? If so, a player which can't play .mp3 files may have grabbed the file type anyway. Or one player may have grabbed the file type, while another audio source has grabbed the driver and soundcard.

3. Check your audio mixer (or "volume control"). Someone may have turned down the slider for the playback type for .mp3 files. It could have been someone who wanted to use a site which plays annoying sound clips, without hearing the clips.

This "2 accounts" problem is created by some server masters with little minds. They don't seem to understand that husbands and wives might have the same email addresses for monetary reasons, but neeed different posting names.

It would be easier to write Congress and ask them to abolish DST. It wastes energy anyway.

It shows how greedy Microsoft is.

They want another sale, even if the old computer is being taken out of service permanently.

Copy protection should be banned.

It causes too much trouble when people have legal copies.

I see why it didn't work. The filenames had untypable characters in them.

This happened to me too, right after a Windows and IE upgrade downloaded itself.

I found myself running in a guest account instead of my usual account after the install. Logging off the guest account restored access to the folders bar.

One reason it takes programs longer to load is that they keep making programs bigger.

Puce: Grayish red violet.

My cable company just had an ad on for its broadband services with the word "fastester" in it.

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In my observation, the slowdown depended on whose ad was on the screen (or failed to be on the screen):

- When I have to wait, I look at the status bar to see what site is causing the wait. It is very rarely DaniWeb. Most of the time, it is an ad site.

- The ads with moving pictures take longer to load, and the moving picture itself slows down the rest of the load. It loads very fast right now because all of the ads are static.

- The longest delays occur when "Waiting for reply from doubleclick.net" is on the status bar. " Sometimes the ad fails to load. But the rest of the page doesn't load until after the ad either loads or fails.

This is nothing unusual about doubleclick.net. Every website I know of which allows doubleclick.net ads on its pages also has the same symptoms. I have had the trouble on garageband.com, ebay.com, and aetv.com for years (since 2000). Each time any of these sites was slow, I was waiting on doubleclick.net to reply.

But it is not always the case that doubleclick slows down the load. It happens mostly during the highest traffic periods on the web (when more requests …

Are you trying to save any kind of file to the user's computer? That is a very serious security breach, and it should not be alllowed.

For this reason, most browsers and servers do not allow it.

add align="top" to the iframe tag.

Put these styles in:

.cenimg {text-align: center;
         margin-top: 0px;
         margin-bottom: 0px;
         padding: 0px;}

.imgcen {clear: both;}

For each image to be centered, use:

<div class="cenimg">
<img src="(put url here)" class="imgcen" />
<p>Your caption here</p>
</div>

Try opening it with the "open file" entry in the File menu of Firefox.

The trouble is probably that you are addressing a path on your own computer.

I didn't know you could put a DOS/Windows path in the src attribute. Maybe the trouble is that IE allows that, but Firefox doesn't.

Subdirectories and folders normally use forward slashes in internet addressing, not backslashes.

The correct url is:

src="/webroot/images/logo.gif"

If this is windows, you somehow logged in a second time as a guest.

Use the shutdown entry on the start button to log out of the guest account.

The computer should then start up again in the administrator account.

It's supposed to do that.

Let it reboot. This is a necessary part of the install process.

Rebooting starts the system running the already installed software, so it can install later software which needs the already installed software to be running.

I'd say he did a restore instead of a backup. It copied the default file to the BIOS instead of copying the BIOS to the backup file.

As a result, the computer doesn't know what hard drive it has, so it can't access it.

There should be a utility in the BIOS to identify the hard disk. Use it.

But do NOT use a format utility - it will erase the disk.

Are you trying to transfer directly from a camera? If so, there may be timing issues between the camera sync and the internet sync.

Copy it to the hard disk first. Then upload it.

Several possibilities:

1. Is your connection speed too slow for the download. If so, the player stops until the connection can catch up. This is normal.

2. You may be waiting for one of those maddening ads to load first. Look at the status line to see what the browser is doing.

3. The server is overloaded. Too many people are trying to download something from it at the same time.

4. Your ISP is overloaded. Too many people using your internet service company are trying to download stuff at the same time.

5. Your ISP is blocking certain downloads to protect itself from the nasty old RIAA and its lawsuits.

6. Two different programs are fighting over the use of the soundcard.

It may be that the reason you aren't allowed to change display resolution is that your display card can't handle the higher resolution. If you attempt it, and the card can't do it, the display becomes unreadable, and it takes a very complicated procedure to get the computer to work again.

You formatted the hard disk, and then wonder why it won't boot?

Formatting erases the entire disk. You erased the operating system from the hard disk. It can't boot because there is nothing on the disk to boot from.

You have a totally empty computer. It's just like it was the day it came off the factory assembly line, before anyone put any software into it. The only thing it know is the BIOS settings and the boot ROM. It's like a newborn baby: It has to learn everything.

You now have to reinstall windows from your original system disks, then apply all of Microsoft's patches to bring it back to today's version.

After that, you then have to reinstall all of the other software you had from the distribution disks, or from internet downloads for the ones you downloaded.

After that, you have to rebuild your folders and copy all of your data files back onto the hard disk from your backup disks.

This printer might be a line printer. If so the character codes I mentioned above are valid.

The hard part is getting the codes into the printer with a program. Usually this is done through a printer driver. Do you have a driver for this printer?

There used to be a DOS Text Printer driver, but Microsoft, in it's infinite stupidity, seems to have removed it. For some reason, Microsoft doesn't seem to want people to use old equipment. But maybe you can find such a driver.

The alternative is using a program to write directly to the port. This requires the codes the printer actually uses, plus the character codes for the characters themselves. Often these are the ASCII or ISO chracter sets. This page has the character codes for ASCII:

http://www.asciitable.com/

Also look for the following:

1. Visiting the same infected website again (it could be one you have no reason to suspect).

2. Infected removable media which reinfect the computer whenever it is used.

3. Another computer on local net is infected.

4. An infected server or router.

5. A new file which mimics a virus and fools the scanner (I once had a .jpg file I created myself in an art program which matched a virus pattern in a McAfee program. But no other virus scanner found it. So I switched to Symantec.)

It's probably explicitly blocked from executing on school computers by a content blocker.

Do you know the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R? They are two different incompatible kinds of recordable DVDs.

Except for the newest drives, usually a drive which takes one type can't take the other.

Report:

In the last 24-hours there has been a significant lag in Daniweb speed (at least on my end) at all hours of the day (daytime, afternoon, early morning (4-6 A.M.)): loading the homepage, posting threads, replies, etc. I do not believe it is on my end; I am sending small packets via a fast line. I note that usually the slowdown coincides with the apparent loading of ad-content (indicated at lower-left status bar of browser). Sometimes the page will not load at all (404).

Thanks,
MattyD

This is the classic symptom of an oversubscribed ad server.

The server has more requests for ads coming in than it can handle. It backs up, forcing webpage readers to wait, and often causing the ad or the page to return a 404 not found error.

HTML 4.0 doesn't care.

HTML 4.01 strict does care.

And style sheets do care. They have always been case sensitive except in IE. I have seen a style not applied to a tag because the tag was uppercase and the style selector was lowercase.

I want the page to STAY PUT!

No ads popping in and out. No moving text. No objects changing size. If anything moves, it had better be demonstrating a principle.

Otherwise, I leave the page.

if the dns server is down you can go to sites you have visited before as windows saves the domain name and its corresponding IP

In that case, I should have been able to get to all of the sites, since I had them all bookmarked from visiting them just a week ago. I redid all of my bookmarks then.

Also:

1. I discovered this trouble when I lost contact with a site I was using at the time it started. If the above is true, the DNS failure should not prevent me from continuing to use a site.

2. I had visited some of the other sites which I couldn't get to just half an hour earlier. But for some of the other sites I was able to visit, I hadn't been to them since I initialized the bookmarks last week.

This is getting to be more confusing, rather than clearer.

Beware the DST II Bug one week from today!

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum13.html

None of those in that area looked right to me.

The DST II Bug is coming. It will strike on March 11 (one week from today).

On this day, all computers running operating systems other than Windows XP or Vista, or Mac OS 10, and even those systems if they are not connected to the internet, will change to DST on the wrong date. Correction: They won't change time on the correct date. Congress, in their infinite stupidity, changed the date.

In addition, the calendar functions in Outlook and Office will encode your appointments for the wrong time. This will shift your appointment times by an hour.

You will have to turn off the DST function, and then change time zones manually, to fix this. Otherwise, it will be wrong on both March 11 and April 1. There will also be two error dates in October and November.

Other things will be affected by the DST bug too:

- All VCRs and DVD recorders made before 2006 will change time on the wrong date, unless they are designed to read the time from the PBS station.

- Alarm clocks with automatic DST will change on the wrong date. But the atomic clock ones will be correct if they receive the signal at the proper time. But some of them may make the change one day late.

- Other home appliances with clocks will change on the wrong dates.

- Traffic signal systems may switch to rush-hour mode an hour late, causing traffic …