Posts by alc6379

In Internet Options, did you specify any specific domains and IP ranges to not use the proxy, in addition to Local web pages? That may make a difference.

In the LAN options, there's an Advanced button that allows you to add in such exceptions. It's probably just what you're looking for.

Sorry for not seeing this post earlier, but...

TightVNC is just as it says, TIGHT. I use it on my *nix machines. I still use RealVNC on my Windows machines, because the User client accepts incoming connections, allowing me to have user-initated sessions that work across their firewalls :cool: I didn't see that option in TightVNC, though I didn't look very hard. Other than that, TightVNC works really well-- I've never had any reliability issues with it (never had any with RealVNC either, but obviously YMMV).

I have done the same but I'm having problems with Access not working as its saying I'm out of Memory. All the other office programs run under XP Pro, but not Access and I don't no why?

More than likely because of some security configuration. Database programs are usually pretty finnicky, and can give you such problems.

I know it's pricey, but from a security standpoint, you guys should really upgrade to Office 2003. One of these days, you'll get a Word or Excel file that has some nasty macro in it, and you'll wish you'd have followed the advice I'm suggesting to you now...

Why FTP them back and forth? Why not just run the Home Networking Wizard and be done with it? That way, you'd look in My Network Places, and your shares would be there.

When you're talking about XP Home, or ME, installing an FTP daemon on either will be a kludge. I'm going to move this thread over to the Networking forum, where it will get more attention, because this is more involved than just installing a particular program.

Put the names between quotation marks

Spot-on advice.

Just to clarify, if you had a file named december sales report.xls, you would enter it as:

"december sales report.xls"

Note the quotation marks-- it tells the interpreter that everything in between the quotes is one item.

Can't you just rename them once you've finished downloading them?

Have you considered using another method for your survey, such as

www.surveymonkey.com?

Outlook's methods are fairly limited unless you wanted to delve into options such as actually building forms, and using VBA to program behind them. But, that's a bit out of scope for this form-- perhaps someone in the VBA forum might be able to provide some pointers on that.

Do you have any other discs in your drives? Where did you get your installation disc?

A Server 2003 installation runs almost exactly like an XP installation. You shouldn't have the phenomena described here when booting from an "official" Windows disc.

Have you tried disabling Norton, to see if that was the issue? I remember when I used NIS '04, it used to End Program on ccApp every time I shut down the system.

Do you suspect spyware of any kind? It's not unusual for a process to take up 100% CPU time at any given moment, nor is it unusual to have that much commit charge. It's not unusual for explorer to take up that much memory, either. My box, with 1.5GB of RAM looks like this:

Explorer: 37,284k
Commit Charge: 338M/2923M
...and if I open a program, CPU usage will spike to 100%, briefly.

So, you're right at a normal load, I'd reckon. My system runs fine with those numbers. Is something happening? Is the machine running slowly?

Shouldn't be.

Have you tried just restarting?

If you can, post EXACTLY what your error messages are-- write them down if you must. That will help us further in figuring out your issue.

have you checked out X10?

www.x10.com

The site layout is god-awful, but they do that type of stuff.

You might want to consider reseating all of the cards in your system, to ensure they're in right. If all else fails, it could very well be that the machinery inside your hard drive was jostled. If that's the case, you might need to contact a data recovery company, if your data is that important.

I guess this just underscores the importance of timely backups, eh?

Not being familiar with that particular piece of software, you might be left formatting your drive. Those software programs aren't really known for allowing easy access to your files-- after all, they are designed to prevent access.

Have you tried posting your HiJackThis log in our virus forum? Perhaps someone there would be of more assistance.

That could be any number of things. Have you poked around in Add/Remove programs? Have you installed any photo editing software, or a new scanner recently?

That sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the video card. I wouldn't say that's an issue with Windows XP, itself. Have you reseated the card, or swapped it with one you know that works?

What kind of errors are found, exactly? Also, where are they found?

You can't really "make" an XP Home installation disc-- Why did they refuse to give you a disc, exactly? If your PC has a Windows XP Product key on a sticker, affixed to your system, you could use a disc belonging to someone else-- it just has to be an XP Home disc.

Are you sure you're sorting them right? I have the same thing happen to me on my systems.

Well the tape backup will be fine for keeping backups of data, and restoring against a software problem, and it is unlikely that a new server would actually breakdown, so you most likely will never need that second server.

It's just risk management. If the business begins to rely upon the server, then it would be good to have a second, incase the primary server has any problems. If he can't afford a second, then it is a case of running with that risk, albeit a fairly small risk. he should just keep an eye on how dependant the business becomes of the server, and keep track of the risk associated with not having a backup if it goes wrong. It all depends on the business anyway, and how they do business.

The worse that would happen, is downtime for the period that the server is fixed. As long as they plan for what they would do whilst that service is not present, it would be ok.

Of course, you could get the best of both worlds-- RAID1 or RAID 5 with hotswappable drives, tape backups, dual NICs, redundant PSUs, ECC RAM, etc. About the only thing that could take you out is a motherboard failure-- with the new Dual Core Xeon chips, you could probably even lose a CPU core and still be OK. It's more expensive than 1 "plain old" server, but if reliability is important, you can get that, even in a single server, it just costs …

Hi there,

Thanks for the information. However, I went ahead and removed the actual IP address from your quote, so others will not click on it, and fall victim to the ploy.

Since you have an IP address, you might want to consider calling the police. I'm sure they might be interested in having the IP address of a site like that.

Thanks a bunch. Yea since my Dad's business is not very big, probably only going to be about 10-15 employees in the near future, he did not need something to powerful. It is going to be sweet.

Heck, if that's the case, an 1800 might be over kill. One of my consultants runs a Poweredge 800 with a 3.2ghz Xeon, 2GB RAM, and that is almost over kill for 10-15 users.

Closing thread.

The only reason why you're not banned right now is because your other threads weren't spam. If you post more links like these, I will ban your account.

There was a gold mining article in the paper i read a couple of days ago. It is crazy how people do that.

Crazy doesn't begin to describe it. I know in WoW a lot of people "ninja loot" epic/expensive items from corpses, basically robbing it from the person who deserves it.

I will say this much-- at least in my game of choice, Guild Wars, you can just get loads of money by farming, which doesn't "harm" anyone in-game, or hinder their experience.

They're OK servers.

You certainly won't be using one of these for an entire enterprise operation, but if you need a server with good service capability, and you're cost-conscious, then it's pretty good.

Looking at the 1800's specs, it can be pretty beefy, though. Max 12GB RAM, up to 2 Dual Core Xeon processors, and RAID capability. That's pretty good-- I've worked a good bit with that particular chassis, and it's pretty solid-- good cooling, and it's pretty easy to work in. I'd say it's a fair bit more attractive than the SC series of servers. Not that those are bad, but they're fairly entry-level compared to the rest of the lineup.

Well...

How better to control a medium then by simply banning it?

People will adapt-- they'll build tunnels, use proxies, etc. They'll do it just like they do any other blocked content, if they really want to. Just watch-- China, or a Chinese interest, will develop an exclusive to China VOIP solution.

Wait until they start rolling out IPv9. Things will get REALLY fun then...

perhaps you need to use " " instead of ' ' quotes?

Man.

Not only is buying and selling gold in-game lame, but so is spamming a forum about doing it.

I'm not going to delete the thread, though-- I think it's a great discussion. I just edited out the naughty bits, ie, the contact info/web links.

I believe that is called cheating.

Further discussion of this type of behaviour will result in your username being banned here. As it is, this thread has been closed.

Just add a PATH variable into your script:

PATH=$PATH:/my_script1dir:/my_script2dir

That way, you don't have to worry about using things like ./ and ../ -- just call them by their name, and if they're in the search paths that you specified, then you'll be in good shape.

Why not just download a tool like wget, or similar, that's designed to automate recursive FTP mirroring?

You might want to check if there's something suitable in this list:

http://www.usinglinux.org/ftp/

Wouldn't it be best to just run that as a cron job?

You do karate? Boxing with UFC rules is more fun ;)

Tae Kwon Do, not Karate. There's a difference :) I'm not really picky about that, though, until someone else gets picky. Heck, even Koreans sometimes call Tae Kwon Do "Korean Karate".

I don't get too much into the UFC/NHB stuff myself, I'm just not into that high of a danger level in a competition setting. Matter of fact, I don't even really care for sparring, or tournaments. I do it because it keeps me fit and keeps my skills sharp, but I've never been in a sparring match where it's "legal" to kick someone's knee, dislocate it, then jam your finger in their eye.

That's real Tae Kwon Do. Heck, that's real any martial art. Most practitioners get caught up with what they do in class day-in, day-out, and get stuck in the mindset that a fight is just a more intense sparring match. But, there's much more at stake, and it should be treated as such.

Export compliance laws might have an impact here. Acer does have branches all over the world, but you'll have to contact them to check out what their policies are.

I don't know what it is, but I just felt like trying it out whatever it was. And I don't bash MS like the ignorant linux users. I love MS and what they do. I also have beta releases of VC++.NET, VB.NET, and J#. If you don't like beta releases, then don't use them. Simple.

I agree with you.

The thing is, though, a lot of people like to find stuff to gripe about. Matter of fact, I probably looked like one of those people with my initial post :)

That's my gripe, I guess. I was just pointing out the fact that a lot of people dismiss a final product based on the beta they had a poor experience with. And, I'm not just talking about Microsoft, either-- I see this all the time when people want to be "first" to use a Linux distro, though it's beta, and then say the distribution sucks, though the devs made it imminently clear that something will mess up.

What exactly is the program you're running, and what is the error you're getting?

If you can give the exact statements you're using, maybe we could provide some more help.

If creating an object like you demonstrated causes no issue, why not just run with it that way?

Skype is active anywhere you have a decent Internet connection. You don't have to buy a "pack", you just need a PC with a microphone and speakers. To use it in that manner, it's completely free.

What brought about that silly rant?

Good question. I didn't entirely consider it a "rant", nor did I consider it silly.

What is the point of running beta software if you have no real reason to do so? Is that not a valid question? All the same, I guess it really doesn't matter all that much-- it just irks me how a large subset of beta software users are willing to swear off using a product because they had a bad time with the pre-release stuff.

Work on that black belt, Alex! :)

Man, with work, I'm wondering when it's ever going to happen.

I pull 4 10 hour days, and I could only go to class 2 days a week. With the type of classes we have, that's just enough to hurt yourself... :(

server_crash:

I tell you what, let's continue this discussion in PMs. I'm more than willing to discuss this further, but this particular thread probably isn't the place for it. Keep in mind, though, I'm not speaking as a Dell employee in this regard-- I speak as a computer professional who's worked with my fair share of machines, in both software and hardware contexts.

My point is this, with regards to this thread: When I say "be objective", I mean discuss the features of a unit. You had a bad experience with a company, so natuarlly Discuss the pros and cons of a particular system, or why you really like that machine. I don't care what company is in vogue to hate, let's just not turn this thread into a bash-fest on one company or another.

Is it normal for a computer to go bad in a couple of months???? We've had all kinds of computers and Dell simply is the worst and their their tech support is terrible. I shouldn't have to buy an extended warranty for my computer to last 1.5 years, but if you get a Dell you better be ready to spend an extra 5000 on warranties. All it is is paying for the crap before it happens, because IT WILL. So, I chose not to buy a warrranty because I shouldn't have to. They put junky parts in their computer with obvious intentions. After my laptop had a billion SERIOUS problems in less than a year, I just threw it on the shelf. Yeah, I could have bought the parts to fix it, but I'm not giving Dell another dime. Instead, I decided to build my own computer.... and you know what? For the same prices that Dell charges for their CRAP parts, you can buy the best quality out there and get 10 year to lifetime warranties. Oh, and that was without any extra cost.

What companies offer lifetime warranties? Certainly not any major computer manufacturer. That would add so much to the cost of a PC, no one would be willing to buy one.

Ok, you wanted to talk about a few things:

Terrible. It was excellent for the first few months and LITERALLY died down to where it only lasted 20 minutes. There's your good …

you want mask

mask=000 will cause the drives to be readable/writable to all users. The drives should already be mounting by default, because the "defaults" section in /etc/fstab includes that as a default.

Why not just find some different templates to use? I'm sure a good CSS tutorial will provide a really spiffy looking page. And, you can do that type of stuff in a simple text editor.

NO!

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!

DON'T DO IT!!!!

Seriously. Just reinstall. Find or borrow a drive to reinstall with. It absolutely won't work.

It's possible you have some file corruption that causes the XP Upgrade not to recognize your installation. Your only option is going to be to find an ME CD that you can use temporarily to insert in the machine when the XP installer asks to look at one.

i still got all these files man..
and half ov these are but dont no which 1z to delete coz i ov them is like 1.2gb
so thought someone can help me out here..
i can free up alot of space..lol

take a look at the picture plz

Please do us a favor-- if you want to get good help, please speak proper English.

I think antioed is right, though-- back up the files to DVD or CD, just to ensure you don't delete anything important. Log into Safe Mode as Administrator, and then delete all of the folders, except for

• Administrator
• All Users
• Default User

Once you do that, log back in with the user you normally use in Normal Mode. It will recreate your user profile, and you'll have to re-do your bookmarks, email settings, etc.

You might be well-advised to reinstall Windows, though-- no telling whether a virus or some spyware may have caused that.

Here's a reference, straight from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=289022

Yeah, save them to a folder, like My Documents, and then burn from there. Outlook Express saves attachments in a temporary folder, and you can't really depend on the files to be in there, or be readable, even, when you'll need them.

Yeah, even if you could, it's not a very good idea to do so. Additionally, MIcrosoft has never allowed a downgrade, like you can't use an "Upgrade" Windows 98 disc to install 98 onto a machine running Windows 2000.