Posts by alc6379

What exactly is the parser error you're getting?

Please post as many error messages as possible, but be sure to strip out business-specific information. I'm certain someone here can help you out, given more information.

Nope. It cannot.

I just tried it-- I have access to both localized versions. I installed the Chinese version, and used the English one. It does not because Microsoft considers those two seperate products, even though only the languages are different.

What does the Blue screen say, exactly? Usually those things have error codes on them.

Have you scanned for spyware on this system? That's pretty funky. Are you running any firewalls, or download accelerators?

You could try a place like DriveSavers. They're pricey, but if you need the data that badly, it's worth it.

Other than that, you're probably out of luck. It pays to verify the data after it's been burnt, even if it takes a little longer. I even verified one today, and by the time I got it to my workplace, it was bum. Go figure.

Sounds like a bad motherboard. That's usually what a flashing amber light on the power button indicates with those systems.

I doubt hitting Delete did anything for you. But, they did do something valid.

Holding the power button in for 10-12 seconds is called clearing the "flea power". Even when in an off state, systems still have power going through them. By clearing the flea power, you remove that energy. If a static charge built up, or a capacitor simply needed to be discharged, that will do the trick.

Check this out:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ntoskrnl&btnG=Search

Rule #1: Always start with a Google search.
Rule #2: Always post the EXACT error message you're getting. Otherwise, we can't provide accurate assistance.

It might not be compatible with your motherboard. Despite what they say, not all AGP cards work with all motherboards.

You might want to consider upgrading your BIOS. If all else fails, you can sell that card (it's a decent card, truth be told), and get the same version of the card you previously had, and know works.

Hi there,

You get what you pay for. Don't pirate. Windows shouldn't cost 75 cents. You should legally consider reformatting and installing the original OS that came with the system.

Not only is piracy illegal, but it's against forum policy to assist with a pirated OS. Further, who knows where that copy came from? Someone could have modified it to mess with your data.

If someone's dishonest enough to pirate software, what makes you think they're not dishonest enough to use your machine as a spam zombie, or worse?

Thread closed due to discussion of piracy.

Since you've isolated the behavior to be outside of any specific OS, and you've swapped every piece of hardware but the mobo, I think that's your culprit. Might try pulling the clear CMOS jumper, just to be safe.

All peripherals were disconnected? Have you also tried installing with NO PCI cards inserted, just the AGP card and one stick of RAM? If so, I'd concur with the assertion of a bad motherboard.

What little I know, your Python code looks correct. But, why the "start" part of command.com?

I know you can't really spawn new programs in DOS, but other than that it looks ok. It looks like you just use the write() method to provide input to whatever program, and that program has to accept input from stdin. I would imagine that's where your errors are coming from-- not from Python, but from the actual program that you're using os.popen() on.

I'm not exactly sure what "configured wrong" means, but I'm pretty sure it didn't involve anything regarding Fox news, and responding to flamebait associated with it.

I'm here because I still like to help. I work 10 hours a day getting paid to do this stuff, but for some dumb reason ;) I still end up here, doing it for free.

Maybe I'm here because I need a life? :p

Why is everyone so interested in beta software, anyways?

I have to deal with people going, "OMFG this software sucks-- it crashes, it's buggy!" and it's BETA software. Wouldn't you rather sit tight, wait for the finished product to come out, and then make your decisions?

I've beta tested some of the latest Vista releases. My experience was none too pleasurable. But, I keep in mind it's still a BETA release. Things are going to change!

Unless you're in a field where you'll be required to support a product as soon as it launches, there's not really any reason to be running a beta version of a commercial product. Otherwise, most folks are just running it for the "cool, I'm running it before everyone else" factor.

That can definitely happen. Does moving the screen make any difference?

Chances are, the screen has gone bad in some fashion or another. You might want to contact your manufacturer for warranty service, or a spare. If your system is older, you might have to hit up eBay for a suitable replacement screen.

I like Dells.

I'm sorry, and I've discussed this before. Why is it when you had the choice to buy additional warranty service, and you chose not to, all of a sudden you're up in arms because the product went bad, and even though you had a chance, you didn't get a warranty.

Don't complain about that. The computer company gave you the opportunity to get more warranty coverage. If you want to talk about how a laptop performs, fine. Talk about how good or bad the battery life is. Try talking about a machine's price vs features ratio. Talk about the quality of the screen. What happens to a machine outside of its warranty is irrelevant, especially if you just picked the default warranty coverage. 90% of hardware failures occur in the 2-4 year range of a system, and that's the range most manufacturers offer extended warranties for.

I know people that spend $500 on systems and they last for ages. Then, others buy the latest, greatest $3,000 system and then have it go bottoms-up on them within a year. Electronics is a crap-shoot, and the only thing that you can depend on is that parts fail.

I don't care what kind of system you get, there's always going to be someone with a horror story. I know of people that curse Alienware every time they hit the Enter key. HP, Toshiba, and IBM/Lenovo are no different. Everyone can say something "sucks" -- how many …

I'm going to have to agree with Jim on this one. You really should look into setting up sudo for something like this.

If you know the user that's going to run it, and you know the username ahead of time, then you can set up the appropriate permissions in /etc/sudoers, and not have to worry about a password at all.

Sorry.

We don't do your homework for you here on this forum. Please post some code, and we'll help troubleshoot it. We will not write your code for you.

One thing I noticed, too, was that you are using = instead of == . = can assign values to a variable, whereas == checks for equality.

That might have something to do with it, too...

Why should we do your work for you?

This should be simple-- pick a topic that interests you, and do the research you've admitted you hate doing on it.

I can tell you that if you're chosing the IT field as your profession, you're only going to do more of what you hate-- research. Not a single day goes by that I don't have to research something that I've never encountered until that particular instant I'm working on it.

Let's not let this get off-topic. I'm going to close this thread before it gets too out of hand.

Some advice: Please keep ALL discussion on a single topic in one thread, and please don't spam the forum with all of your homework assignments.

Are you using a crossover cable, or a straight through? Some systems can't use a straight cable hooked to another PC.

After reading all this, I think you should consider a short course on networking and administration. From what I am gathering, you are too far behind the knowledge curve to pick up the details via a forum. I applaud the people who are here helping you, but there comes a time and place where a formal course can help you tremendously.

...Hence my original suggestion.

I think all of us could throw out links left and right on this one, and still not paint a complete picture. And, it's beyond the scope of a forum to provide a complete, bare-metal primer on building one specific network.

WOW!

Who opened up a 4 YEAR OLD THREAD?!?!?!

GEE WHIZ!

You'll probably want to pick up a data recovery tool.

One that I use is called "R Studio". I once formatted a drive unintentionally, and managed to use this tool to recover every bit of my data.

Either that, or you could utilize a company like DriveSavers to get your data back. They're pricey, but if they can't get your data back, no one can.

What is the exact error message that you're getting when you attempt to connect to your scanner?

It's probably a WinModem. That's a little different to configure under Linux. Check out this website, see if it helps any:

http://www.linmodems.org/

Someone might already have set up your modem, and there could be some help here.

Have you set this server up as a gateway, or anything? You mentioned all of those services, but have you installed routing on it?

You should be fine with that, using the defaults. You can't really upgrade your processor on that machine, so you are really going to be stuck with the experience you get, good or bad. But, it shouldn't be too bad.

Truth be told, I submit that he/she'd be bored period with the Java class, simply because they probably can glean how to do things, if they have picked up PHP or Javascript.

PHP isn't just a web programming language, you know. If I were you, I'd stick with what you're learning already, and just wait for your Java class to start.

Blah.

Forgot there was a whole forum devoted to this. My bad! :D

Closing this thread.

DO NOT post anything else like this. If I find it, I'll ban you. This type of stuff is ignorant.

Secondly, it shouldn't work on a properly secured network. The "tip" you put here is a really easy way of getting yourself suspended, or worse, expelled.

Please don't start spamming this forum. This was gone over in another forum:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143386&highlight=debianhelp

Not saying that your content isn't good, or anything, but usually links to HOWTOs like these are after someone has asked for them.

Did you actually tell Nero "Burn Image file to CD"?

i didn't know thats how a ping was done, thanks.

i went through the tutorial and it really helped me see how easy it was to assign an ip address. please clear up DNS servers and DHCP servers.

where is the DNS server? is it something i have to set on the network or is it something on the internet a LAN accesses when passing information across the internet? i'm lost, even after i went here:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DNS.html

A DNS server address is usually provided by your ISP. In most situations, it's automatically assigned through DHCP, just like an IP address and default gateway.

the same for DHCP servers. is it a work station i have to assign as a server on/for my network (i.e. LAN) or is it something i am suppose to access through the internet? i went here to understand DHCP a little better:

http://www.dhcp-handbook.com/dhcp_faq.html#widxx

It all depends, really. I thought I had outlined that in a previous post. A DHCP server can be any number of machines-- in a large network, it's a machine running some Network OS, like Linux or Windows Server 2003, and one of the system's primary functions would be to give out the IP addressing, and related information. On a small (ie, home, small business/org) network, it's usually going to be router you install that gives out the IP addresses. In certain circumstances, like if you used Windows Internet Connection Sharing, it could very well be …

actually if i insert the cd againwill the grub be installed for ever or each time i have to insert the cd for booting linux?and the link u gave is not working !!! Please help.

Actually click the link, rather than copy it.

Once you've done this procedure, you shouldn't have to install it again, unless it gets overwritten.

That's by design.

You should never log in remotely as root directly. If your password were the slightest bit insecure, you could be open to a brute-force password attack, and your whole system can be compromised.

As an alternative, add your user to the wheel group. That allows you to use the su command to gain root priviledges. Either that, or study up on the sudo command, which gives a finer-grained control on who can do what, and with what priviledges.

Have you installed a window manager at all?

You probably need to install one. Just like you went into the x11 directory, cd into the /usr/ports/x11-wm directory, and build a window manager there.

If you're using startx, make a file called .xinitrc in your home directory. At the very least, it should contain:

#sample .xinitrc file. 

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

where I've put exec /usr/bin/fluxbox, you'd put the path to your newly installed window manager. Be sure to run chmod +x on the file, to make it executable.

In so many words, you'll have to boot to a Linux recovery CD. Most of the time, the first disc of a multi disc set is bootable, and can do this.

Check out this link:
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html

How big of a virtual disk did you allocate for your Red Hat installation?

Once you know the IP Addresses of the systems, you can use the PING command from a command prompt. Just type in

ping ipaddress

Where ipaddress is the IP Address of a system. If you get REPLY FROM: 4 times, you are "talking" to the other system, in the simplest sense.

Here's the HOWTO, as promised:
http://home.comcast.net/~alc6379/helpdocs/ipadd_1.htm

Hope it helps you, or anyone else. I set it up as a clickable walkthrough, so it should be pretty easy to follow.

okay im trying to learn how to do that, check out what i found

http://www.7up1.com/files/How_To_Network_Computers_Together.htm

"To assign a private IP address for a simple network

1.open the Network dialog box.
2. Select the TCP/IP Ethernet adapter from the list titled The following network components are installed.
3. Click Properties.
4. To assign an automatic IP address, click Obtain an IP address automatically.
5. To assign a static IP address, click Specify an IP address, and then type in the IP address and . "

^^^I couldn't find the "Network Dialog" box. what is and what does a TCP/IP Ethernet adapter do? what does bullet 5 mean? I thought computers got their ip addresses from the NIC and that's how the network/hub would recognize the computer on the network. isn't that called a "mask" or something?...also, look at bullet no. 2 (below):

Depending on the OS, Network properties can be accessed a number of ways.The link you provided told you how to do it:

You can also open the Network dialog box by clicking Start, pointing to Settings, clicking Control Panel, and clicking Network

Bullet 5 doesn't apply to most people. You have two types of IP addresses-- static and dynamic. Dynamic ones are assigned by a DHCP server (usually the router in a small network, or a standalone server in a larger network). Static IP addresses can be used in the absence of a DHCP server, or when you …

That's really a tall order for a home type of server.

Normally, in an Enterprise environment, all of that is done by proxy servers. For Server 2003, that would mean ISA server. For the spam, that would be a feature of Exchange Server.

In your case, you'd probably spend your time more fruitfully on examining some kind of solution like Norton Internet Security that filters all of that stuff out on the client. For a small setup like yours, that provides the best protection, and it's still reasonable to configure.

OMG Alex, please don't do that when I'm drinking coffee- it came right out of my nose and spewed all over my keyboard!!! [img]http://www.stevewolfonline.com/Downloads/DMR/Visuals/jesterlaugh.gif[/img]

Oh crud- now my keyboard is acting funky.... :mrgreen:

HAHAH...

Did you try hitting the NumLock key? :D

Why can't you boot to the CD-R drive on the IDE channel?

You've got Virtumonde.

Check out the instructions provided in this thread:
http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/Topic190082-29-1.aspx

If that doesn't help, someone else here might be able to help you out. Other than that, you could end up reinstalling Windows.

NO...

You don't have a virus. Your numlock key is turned on. Notice how those same keys are actually labelled with numbers on them, in a different color?

Usually, there's a key to toggle that behaviour. Like, find the key labelled "NUMLOCK" in a different color. Then, hit your Fn key and the NUMLOCK key at the same time. Things should be back to normal for you.

Keep in mind, there's absolutely no virus, to my knowledge, that remaps your keyboard like this.

Launching just means double clicking it.

Are you sure that OE version was right for your Mac? I'd be surprised that Microsoft would still offer anything for pre OS X systems.

Try using it once more, and then go back and change your password via the Control Panel. You'll have to make a new password reset disk, but I'd like to see what happens if you try that.

okay i went the first link and i have questions about the basic network diagram

if i have:

1. 3 computers running windows xp
2. NICs in all
3. Ethernet cables
4. a hub

and connect all 3 computers to the hub. What do i have to do make one of those computers control the other two? like have administrative privileges. because thats where it all starts right?

That's still getting a bit ahead of yourself. Learn to get the machines connected, and get them IP addresses. If you want to share files, you don't need to remotely access the other two.

If you've gotten that configured, you can use this as a resource for remote access:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/northrup_03may16.mspx

Your requirements are still vague, though-- "talking to each other" can mean a number of different things, depending on the situation, and who you're asking.

It's kind of like saying "How do I run an office?" You could mean, "How do I hire/fire people?", or "How do I order paper for the copiers?", or "What's the best way to set up a lunch schedule for the employees?"