Posts by alc6379

maybe this is what you're looking for:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/urlmapping.html

There are a lot of ways to do this. When are you wanting to do it? before login? After login? After the desktop appears?

Here are some links to check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/12330.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_elqj.asp

Here's one describing exactly what happens at login:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_wtlu.asp
Also, you can drop a Shortcut of the program into the StartUp folder in the Start menu. If you put it in the All Users' Start Menu, it will be there when everyone logs on.

MartyMcFly is right-- you need that disc. Can you borrow it from someone?

So long as you legitimately have a license for it, it's OK to borrow someone else's disc for a purpose like this, or even to reinstall, so long as you use your product key that came with your system.

Are you sure the taskbar is gone, and your monitor hasn't been stretched? If it's so low, and you can't click on it, that could be the case. Can you right-click on your taskbar, even? There should be an option that says, "Lock the taskbar"

Is this a standard copy of XP Pro, or an OEM version? It occurs to me that winnt.sif shouldn't be there unless someone puts it there. At least, that's what Google would indicate to me...

Hi,

I am very curious on why the software doesn't use DNS to translate the named address to an IP number. The use of hosts files is discouraged, because it is a manual update if any of the ip numbers changes.

I'd be willing to bet that there's no other way to do it-- I'll bet that Lineage is programmed to look for a server with that name, regardless of what its IP address is. Not knowing much about the game, it seems like this isn't something the game was designed to do, but you're not hurting anything by doing it.

did you run ipconfig /flushdns? That flushes the DNS cache.

Also, did you put it in this format:

206.xxx.xxx.xxx          l2authd.lineage2.com

Are you sure you've got the hostname correct in that entry? There's not much to the HOSTS file-- you need to have one, and it needs to at least have the entry for 127.0.0.1 (localhost) address.

Just an FYI: You can use a USB mouse without USB Mouse support enabled in the BIOS. I think it's a DOS thing, emulating PS/2 functionality when the BIOS recognizes there's a USB mouse.

Sounds like your monitor's dead/dying. I've had 3 of those monitors. One would do that, even in the BIOS. So, you're looking at replacing a monitor.

Please don't resurrect 2-year old threads with stuff like this-- next time, please start a new thread in the forum.

You connect your DSL modem via an Ethernet cable to the router. It looks like this:

)
Phone line  +-----+ Ethernet Cable  +--------+      ))
------------| DSL |=================| router | =*    ))) wireless
            |modem|                 |        |      ))
            +-----+                 +--------+      )

That's my poor ASCII art diagram of it, but that's how it would look.

Why not use Ghost?

You've got the best of both worlds there-- it does file-based when appropriate, and sector-based when it doesn't recognize the host computer's file system. It has excellent compression, too. Keep in mind that if we're just talking about the OS and installed programs, and no customer data, we might come in at around no more than 4-5 CDs. Ghost has the capability to burn the image straight to disc, too, so you could end up with a boot image, ala how HP makes their recovery CDs.

If you buy an enterprise/professional version of Ghost, you can put the ghost.exe executable on a floppy, use it on any computer you come across, and still be in good shape from a licensing standpoint.

When imaging Windows XP, you're always going to have to activate the product. I recommend you look over these links:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/alc6379/imaging_index.htm

Don't laugh at my horrendously bad web skills, though-- I might have taken maybe 5 minutes to make this page. Those links discuss how to use sysprep to "seal" an image after including all of the customer's settings and software. Using sysprep, you have the ability to recreate the entire "out of box experience" of getting a new computer, but you can customize it to pre-include the CD key, configure networking settings, etc. There are TONs of things that you can do with sysprep to customize the booting process. Once that initial breaking of the software "seal" …

cpu is low for priorities list. they should mainly be focusing on other things for their computer. dont get me wrong i really like apple computers but they should be focusing more on their other things such as some of things they cant match up to that microsoft has that apple doesnt. the only thing apple really has going for them is the image manipulation.

- Dave

With the exception of gaming, what exactly is the Mac lacking?

I can't think of a single category that a Mac can't compete with a PC on nowadays. Sure, you might not get completely native ports of many PC programs for the Mac, but I'm not really seeing a lack on their side of the fence.

sunandoghosh,

We're a FREE help forum-- we don't charge for the help we provide.

Moving to the Windows 2000/XP/2003 forum; it's probably more appropriate for your query.

Try these steps:

browse for /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and open it with a text editor as the root user.

Scroll down to Section "Monitor" and change HorizSync and VertRefresh to the values found in the monitor manual.

Scroll down to Section "Screen" and add the desired resolution to the "Modes". You should have something like this: Modes "1280x800""1024x768""800x600" (make sure you change all the Modes lines). Save file, restart X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

I got that from hitting Google with the terms "resolution" and XF86Config, which is the configuration file for XFree86. That should do the trick, and it works on all distributions.

was raid even available back in the cycle of windows 98?

Sure it was!

I forget exactly when it was developed, but I know it was around, going strong in 98's era. It was pretty expensive, though...

Another thing I thought of-- there wasn't any drive compression software on it, was there? If so, you're completely out of luck, I'd about be afraid...

That particular bar has been replaced in Windows XP. This is the new equivalent, attached below.

It appears that it just comes up by default. That old style bar is gone, unfortunately, regardless of which theme (classic or XP) that you pick.

stupid needs help.....I registered and signed in, but can't figure out how to post a message only respond

thaks

At the top of every forum, there's a "NEW THREAD" button. Choose your forum, and hit the NEW THREAD button in there.

Happy posting!

Wholeheartedly, YES. Paper MCSE's are that bad.

Many people can pass tests quite easily, or remember stuff that is going to be on the test. But, put them in front of a system that needs configuration, and they're lost.

I work and have gone to school with many of these people, and they're the ones that are making certifications worth less and less. If at all possible, try to learn practical application of what you're taught. Even if you don't get the certification, make DARN sure that you're ready to work in the real world.

That's kind of neat!

I've never been one to really get star-struck, but I always think it's neat to run into celebrities.

I live in Nashville, aka Music City USA, and it's not uncommon to run into "stars" here. I was in Kroger (a regional grocery chain) a few years back, and I bumped into Garth Brooks-- he was just standing there, wearing a tank top and a baseball cap. He was just like, "Oh, 'scuse me!", and I was like, "No problem... Hey! Aren't you...?" and he was like, "Yup."

I didn't ask for his autograph or anything-- we just both kind of nodded, and went about our business. I think it's cool that he makes all kinds of money, but he's still just a regular guy that goes to Kroger, without any fancy bodyguards, etc.

Right click My Computer, then click Properties. Click the Device manager tab. Is anything listed in there with an Exclamation point (!) or a question mark (?) ?

From the best of my knowledge ...no. Im not sure because the server they came off of is old and dead. is there a way to tell fromt he jumpers? Also they came off a scsi connection so isnt that a bit before RAID?

SCSI and RAID work hand-in-hand-- many servers still use SCSI RAID controllers.

If Computer Management shows there not being any partitions/filesystems on it, it's very possible that you might have pulled a drive out of a RAID volume.

Where's the system that you pulled the drive from? If we knew the motherboard or SCSI controller model on that system, we might be able to determine more from that.

If you were to try and highlight that text, does it look the same? Does it happen in multiple fonts?

To start, find a girl with the "I love love nerds" t-shirt on.

Squires, that's nowhere near a good indicator.

I personally know 5-6 really attractive geek girls, and they all wear those "I love nerds/geeks" t-shirts. But, see a nerd try to approach one of them? Be as cool/personable as they want to, but the girls still shoot them down, because they know they're cute, and they don't love nerds as much as their shirt claims for them-- they just think it's cute to associate themselves with that crowd.

It might be nice to know what forum software you're using... Moving to Building a Community...

If all you've got is a restore CD, you might be out of luck. However, some OEMS have started including the i386 directory on their hard drives, for when you need those files. Try doing a search, or look in the root of C:\, for all folders named "i386"

actually you can send mail through their out going mail ports if thats what your talking about. i use thunderbird and i set my out going smtp settings to optimum onlines (cablevisions) settings and it worked. i dont know anything about OWA but if your looking for a reliable mail client I would go with Mozilla Thunderbird. It's an amazing mail client program.

- Dave

Actually, that's not quite what he's talking about. He's running his own mail server, not client.

Unfortunately, I'm not really as up on Exchange server as I should be..

I don't have a 6600, I've got an FX5700, but I had the same thing happen. The only thing I could do to resolve it was downgrade to the older Nvidia drivers. Did the trick for me, at least.

Perhaps you should follow suit, then maybe wait for the next version to be released?

Just a word of advice:

I'm not one to contradict anyone, but my experience has been quite the opposite of frenemy's. I've always installed Windows first, then install Linux. That way, the bootloader installation for Linux can detect the Windows installation (Hopefully), and add the appropriate entries to either menu.lst (for grub) or lilo.conf (for lilo)

Was this drive part of a RAID array? That's almost what it sounds like.

I think it sounds like a hardware issue... Perhaps call Acer for a replacement keyboard?

U r say s sbout win XP but what is for 2000 PRO

Gunasekhar

It should work the same, I'm sure.

I'd have to agree with Linux-tech on this one: I used to be anti-Lindows just on principle, but IMHO there are better, more free alternatives, like Mandriva, Suse, or Fedora.

Nope. You need root priviledges. If it's not your server, get permission from the admin. It might save you some heartache, or even your job, if installing unauthorized software is against your company's IT policy.

It's UNIX. What more do you need to know?

www.sun.com has all kinds of datasheets, etc. What exactly are you planning on doing? Solaris x86 has poor support for commodity hardware, and Linux/BSD can do just about everything that you'd want Solaris to do.

Follow oalee's instructions-- they're spot on for what you're looking to do.

It's quite possible that dust has accumulated in the system. Along with what everything else suggested, I'd recommend inspecting your power supply fan, along with the processor's fan. Heat can definitely slow down a system-- I'd begin to suspect hardware since you indicated this happens outside of Windows.

Did you try re-running the Windows installer , like it said?

you might want to consider taking that hard drive out of the system, placing it another system, and retrieving the files you need off of it. Then, consider reinstalling Windows.

Have you tried booting into Safe Mode yet? Hit the Ctrl key as you boot up Windows, and it should present you with the option of Safe Mode.

I'm guessing it would be on either your Windows 98 CD, or on your ISP installation Cd. Have you tried a file search on either of those locations?

Have you disconnected all peripherals? I'd also find out what option resets the BIOS defaults on the system. It may not even hurt to consider updating the BIOS revision on the laptop to the latest version from NEC's website.

What peripherals, if any have been attached? Have you tried a system restore back to a date before this started happening? It might very well be a corrupted driver update that took place.

Also, check out this link, which details most common blue screen errors:
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

VMWare or other virtualisation software may not always be the ideal choice. For many, directly booting into the host OS is the best option, for the sake of performance.

If you run FAT32 on your Primary partition on your Primary master disk, you can install XOSL:

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

It's a really nice graphical bootloader. It installs from DOS, and once you get it installed, you configure everything directly from the interface in the bootloader. If you're looking to boot multiple OSes from multiple drives, it's nice.

Also, there are ways to get the boot.ini file in Windows 2000/XP to do this, but it's a little more cumbersome. In fact, most OS's bootloaders should allow this, even grub and lilo can do this in Linux.

If the ports are open on your work's firewall, you can connect to a VNC server at your home. However, you will need to run port forwarding on your home's router.

You'll need to look in the router's documentation on how to do this, but you basically forward port 5900 on the router to port 5900 on your VNC system's IP address. Then, things should work.

Try to get us more error messages. Maybe then we can help you out. But, I'm of the same mind as manutdrule1990: Back up your data, find your original installation media, and prepare to have Windows reinstalled. It might be your best bet, considering what all you've got going on.

There are a few of them out there. I ran across this press release from diskeeper.

http://www.executive.com/press/releases.aspx?F=2005062801.html

I'm not trying to plug this company, but Diskeeper works brilliantly. I run it on my own system at home.

I have a similar problem. When i go on the start menu and press turn off i get the turn off option and reset option but the standby option is greyed and i cannot click it. When i press shift nothing happens. This problem started occuring immediately after i reinstalled windows xp home sp2 on my dell dimension 9100. I do not know anything about power management functions and how to get into bios setup and i have no idea of correct motherboard chipest drivers for my system. I need help!

Follow Catweazle's advice. You definitely need to download chipset drivers:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R96614&formatcnt=1&fileid=125390

Are you sure it's not an Inspiron 9100? If it is, here's the chipset driver for that:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R58370&formatcnt=1&fileid=70519

Make sure it has ram! I know this sounds stupid, but I actually managed get as far as you have on a laptop with no ram.

Um...

The computer won't boot if it doesn't have RAM. Are you sure the laptop you were working with didn't have some non-user serviceable RAM, like under the keyboard?

I've never had a computer get that far without RAM, and I've literally worked on or diagnosed hundreds of systems.

What is the error code at the bottom?

It should say
STOP: 0x000000##

under Technical information. Get us that information, and we can probablt help out more. Also, let us know what peripherals are attached, and the details (type of motherboard, etc), of your hardware.

Python is my first language I am learning, other then some bash scripting. I am really enjoying it.

I am a big open source(linux) guy, so i was attracted to python for that reason. I also like the fact I can write a program that will run on both linux and windows alike(there may be some porting issues, I am still learning)

There shouldn't be too many porting issues-- Python was designed ground-up to work with any platform. Unless you start fooling around with GTK or Tk/Tcl, etc, then you'll be in good shape. Even with the previously mentioned setups, you can still make them work in Windows.