Posts by alc6379

Awesome! Thanks for the followup! :D

Gah! I just stumbled upon this thread! This wasn't me. Apparently I was signed onto DaniWeb on the laptop at work, and my mom posted under my name! Moms are like that ;)

Dani... c'mon... Too afraid to admit you were using ME?

is it possible to get a new motherboard with a better vid chip? i have a good connection so i can get the parts cheap

I doubt it. You'd have to get the parts from IBM. If the motherboard they're offering has a 64MB video card, and you've already got a 32MB (for instance, I don't know the exact specs), it's not even worth fooling with.

Just a note on this whole policy bit: It's only available in Windows XP Pro. Group Policy, which controls these settings in the registry, doesn't show up in XP Home. I'd agree with the possibility of a trojan, or some virus, possibly.

As to TheDelk, despite piggybacking a thread, I'll answer your question, since my answer is somewhat related. DON'T MESS WITH IT. I think not being able to adjust your Display properties is dumb, but I'm not your IT department. They might have some requirement to allow handicapped users to run at a certain resolution, I don't know. But, suffice it to say, it's not your system, and you shouldn't monkey around with how they want it set up. Even if you could make the changes you want to do, what happens if they do find out? If your IT policy is like any company I've ever worked for, you could get fired.

Check this out:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

Well, I can't find the proper settings on Messenger to setup a LAN intercommunication.Do you know exactly what to do?
Thanks.

You don't need any special software. Two people can just be signed into Messenger at the same time if you're both connected to the Internet through a router. My wife and I chat this way all the time.

Sounds like something is writing to your registry, perhaps. When did this start happening? Did you change anything recently?

At the very least, I'd try a System Restore back to a date you know when this wasn't happening.

Just to add to Christian's comments, Windows Backup works with two types of backup media: Tape drives, and any device that has a drive letter. Anything with a drive letter can include other hard drives/folders, network shares mapped to a drive letter, or CD-drives if you're running some type of software like Sonic DLA, Roxio DirectCD, or Nero's InCD. CD/DVD burning is not supported any other way, but if you didn't have those 3 software programs available, you can just take the .bkf file Backup creates and burn it to a DVD or CD.

Personally, if I need to backup my whole drive, I use Ghost over the network, or to CDs. If I just need to backup a particular set of directories, I'll use backup, and then burn the file to DVD.

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x8e

I'm hoping I can provide some insight on this. I'm not a programmer, but I'm familiar with some of these concepts.

Peer-to-peer is really the same as Client/Server, if you think about it. It's just that each host is both a client and a server. So, every interaction between the systems is a mini-client/server relationship. When you're talking a LAN party, (like say a FPS), one machine does act as a server, keeping track of all the game information. This can be evidenced by the "Host a Game" option on most LAN-able games.

So, more than likely, the information you found is perfectly valid, but you just needed to put it in the correct context to effectively use it.

Already figured this one out and sent a PM to see if I can have this thread locked or removed.

How did you fix it? It would be really nice to have solution here, for posterity's sake. Perhaps you could submit a code snippet?

Does the system ("cls") method work in windows 2k, because in my memory, "cls" is a DOS command and win 2k is not built on DOS.

It does work. The "Command Prompt", as it is called, supports a range of DOS commands. cls, for instance, is one of them.

Sorry, friend.

Demonoid is, like it or not, primarily dedicated to piracy. It's against forum rules to discuss that site's goings-on here.

Granted, but all I'm saying is that a "how would you feel" about people stealing your programs, isn't necessarily a valid point. Granted someone "borrowing" or stealing your car is a good and valid point, but there are plenty of people who write programs for people to use and modify. I'm not advocating piracy here, but keep in mind that not every programmer has a problem with people using/copying their software.

To draw a parallel to the commercial side of the "how would you feel" question posed: I, too, have written and distributed works under the GPL. Nowadays I usually do it under the BSD license, but that's a different subject. Since you release GPL code, how would you feel if you were in the situation like the PearPC guys are in right now? Someone took their code, incorporated it into their proprietary work, and now they're claiming that the simlarities are just coincidental.

Even though money is not at stake, I'm sure that would hit a nerve with you. I know it certainly does with me! Technically, that's piracy just as much as warezing a copy of XP, in my book.

Sure! IT people do it all the time!

If you can get ahold of a CD, simply copy the contents of the i386 folder to an already-formatted FAT32 hard drive. Then, you can boot to a floppy to begin the installation. You can run the command x:\i386\winnt32.exe to begin the Windows installation, where X: is the letter of the drive the i386 folder is stored on when you're booted to the DOS disk.

Keep in mind, though, that you will still need a valid CD key to do this, so you still wouldn't be able to "borrow" someone else's CD and Product Key. But still, if you've already got the key, and you're just missing the installation CD, this method will suffice for reinstalling Windows. Going even further, you could copy the i386 folder to a CD, along with any other tools you might use when building and customizing a Windows XP installation.

It's a PowerPC 8500 which in its day was the top O' the line for Macintosh. It served me well through quite a few feature films and until about a week ago it WAS my scanner station. I may look into adding a SCSI card to one of my G4s but didn't want to drop it off at the Apple store and wait a week until it gets done. Tried a USB adapter cable but it wasn't recognized on the desktop.

I'm going to contact an old friend and see if he can canabalize some of his old Mac graveyard and resurrect this machine.

I'll be honest with you-- I like the 8500, but I can't stand it, all in the same breath. It's upgradeable, and it runs like a champ. But, to upgrade the RAM, you have to take the whole flipping thing apart!

Right now, I've got an 8500 that I paid $80 for on eBay. You could probably find one for cheaper, even. I took the liberty of upgrading mine to a G3 300mhz, 400MB of RAM, and two 8GB hard drives in mine. It runs superbly-- with XPostFacto, I can even shoe-horn OS X onto that baby!

MY personal opinion, Christian ;) , is that the 85/95/86/9600 series of system is the sweet-spot as far as an older machine is concerned for your task. I personally wouldn't go for anything earlier than a 603 PPC chip in this situation. Heck, you could even slap …

Tried another player, per chance?

baboon4000:

Don't make duplicate postings on this forum. You already asked your question. If no one can answer it, we can't help you. Otherwise, you'll just have to be patient and wait for someone who knows to get to you. Keep the same topic in one thread-- next time I might not merge the threads, but instead simply close them.

Should I just select "forever", shut down the computers tonight as usual, but leave the modem and router powered, and see what I get when I power up the computers tomorrow?

Sounds like a plan. I'm on Comcast, and the lease doesn't really expire, from what I can tell. It won't hurt to give it a try...

CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP, DAVE KINDLY HELP MEOUT ALOT, BUT I NEED SOME MORE HELP ESPECIALLY ON NUMBER 6 AND 3. I NEED TO HAND THIS WORK IN TODAY, IF I DON'T THERE WILL REDUCE 20 % OUT OF THE TOTAL MARK. PLEASE

Lay off the caps, there, friend-- no need to shout. I didn't see any code posted where you attempted that yourself. We can't help if you don't show some code to troubleshoot-- we're not here to write this stuff for you...

I split this thread out of the other thread because you hijacked it, even after I advised you to post the question in another thread. Please keep seperate questions from the original poster's issue.

This may be more of a Mac issue, anyways. If it turns out that way, I'll move this thread into the Mac forum.

Check out this thread for some helpful tips. They should go very far towards getting your system back up and running:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

If you have any questions about any of the tools, or any of the "Nasties" you might find, post your questions in the Viruses, Spyware, and other Nasties forum.

Good advice, Barnamos!

I say, throw it in and see what happens! The worst that could happen (assuming you've backed your data up) is that you'd run into a problem, and have to ask us another question...

Might not be a bad idea. What disc were you booting from? You might need to make a boot floppy to get up and running.

Check the links in my signature. Also, check out our "Viruses, Spyware, and other Nasties" forum.

Most often, if your PC is inexplicably slow, spyware and viruses are at fault. Do you have any wierd stuff popping up or happening when you're online? Who is your ISP?

bash is a shell under Linux. Linux is, of course, an operating system.

Basically, it's a good idea to design an operating system in Linux because you have all of the tools available for free to use. Bash would just be the command-prompt interface that they use for this example. It's the most common command interface in Linux.

What diskette/disc are you booting from? That's not Linux-- that's DOS. I've never had a Mandrake installation look like that...

HELP! My bosses want me to install virtual pc on her computer, but when I do, it asks me to install an operating system....otherwise comes up with a black box and asks for a drive or c drive, which does not work. HELP!

This isn't the appropriate forum for your question. Please repost it in the Windows Software forum:

http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum92.html

umm thats not good...does it say that right when you turn on your computer? if check and make sure all cables on the hard drive are connected and if that doesnt work it might be a dead hard drive/erased hard drive

It sounds like he just hasn't set up any virtual drives, or installed an OSes in Virtual PC. It's not as big as it sounds, since it's all virtual...

Check this list out:

http://linux.tucows.com/image_viewers_default.html

Some of those are labelled "console" in that list, courtesy of Google.

Ncq is not for intel only. All you have to do is look at some of the n4 boards and it tells you. The problem with a certain n4 board from gigabyte was it was a n4x which is a cheaper version of n4. It does support ncq but it says it doesn't support sata ll.

Shows how long it's been since I looked at NCQ. Last time I checked, I only saw it on Intel boards. That's what I get for thinking 3-4 month old information was still relevant, eh? :confused:

You will more than likely need a driver for your system. Check this site out:

SpeedTouch DSL modem drivers

But, I would consider Christian's suggestion of simply running off of the Ethernet port. USB interfaces can be somewhat "wonky", and prone to unpredictable failures. At least, that's been my experience.

I think the most viable solution is finding an older Mac (not too old!) to do the scaning work.

How old is not too old? I have a Power Mac 8600, 400MB RAM with a 250mhz processor and a 10BT ethernet connection. I do scanning with it, and then I bump it over to my other machines to do the real work. That machine was a powerhouse in its day, and it can still hold its own for most tasks.

My details:
Connection Type: Cable
Connection Speed: 4MB up/384k down
Cost Per Month: $42/mo, unlimited
Country: US
Name Of ISP: Comcast Cablevision

http://www.hyperion.com/company/contact/salesrep.cfm

Looks like you have to contact them for pricing information. I'll bet that they can work out a package deal for you, depending on the type of setup you're running.

Can you not just save things to the 250GB drive from now on? That's what it's there for, isn't it?

The best thing to do is have a program like Alcohol 120%, Nero or Easy CD Creator that allows you to burn the .iso image. Drag-N-Drop won't work; you'll need a program that reads "other image formats" (that's what it's called, even though it's the standard). That should put you in good shape.

Check out this link. It seems to have some freeware tools for iso burning:
http://members.home.nl/lsnoek/iso.htm

It sounds like a Westel gateway of some sort. They usually act as NAT routers for the DSL connection.

Why disable the routing function, though? So long as the Modem's LAN side and the wireless router's LAN side don't use the same IP address subnet, you should be in good shape.

I'd say $75-80 is a little high for 256MB SDRAM. More like, $40-50, depending on the type that you get. Maybe that much for high-spec overclocking DDR SDRAM, but not just for plain old SDRAM...

Even if AMD is hot Intel is too have you ever heard of a heatsink or a fan? :cheesy: :twisted:

W0W DOOD! OMG U R S000000zero RITE!

Come on, man, let's be reasonable here. We've at least gotten past saying that current AMD/Intel systems suck because their 7-8 year old equivalents sucked, let's at least get to outlining why you like a certain chip, rather than ridicule others for not liking your chosen chip.

I happen to be an AMD fan myself, but that's because I'm a broke son of a gun. Personally, I don't really care that one chip will get you 5 more FPS in Doom 3, so long as it's not freezing, and there's not a pile of molten ceramic/silicon at the bottom of my case! :cheesy:

I thought that NCQ was an Intel-only thing for now...

Please don't label your thread as Urgent-- it implies that your problem is more important than others. Help is given here on a first-come, first-served basis.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#urgent

I agree with belama-- unless you really want good 5.7/7.1 sound, I'd stick with the old card. Personally, I just have a pair of 2.1 stereo speakers, and I'm just happy with my onboard sound, not being an audiophile.

There are almost always issuse trying to take a proprietary system and moving it to a clone case...

That picture looks like a fairly generic MB and aside from some mounting issuse should be ok..

I can't really tell from the picture where the mounting holes are. If they match up to where there are holes in the case, then you should be in OK shape.

Are you connected to an Exchange server?

It might be a dumb question, I know, but that feature is designed to work with an Exchange server. If you're connecting to an SMTP server, you won't be able to use it.

I can't think of a favorite song I have, neccesarily. I really like jamming out to too many songs to pick one out.

But, the guitar solos on the song "December Flower" from In Flames is pretty awesome.

Please don't label your threads as "SUPER URGENT", even if they are for you-- it's very rude.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#urgent

Personally, I'd just backup my data, and do a clean install of XP.

I've heard of success stories with upgrades, but then I've heard of failures, too. It's almost always advisable just to reformat and reinstall if you're changing OSes.

Excellent!

It would appear that not a lot of people know about Group Policy stuff here. I certainly know I, for one, am not as up on it as I'd like to be.

IANALBIPOOTV=

Sounds like it's not a techie term, but you'd be surprised how much this one comes up. "I am not a lawyer, but I play one on Television"

:cheesy:

If it's a standard ATX motherboard with the appropriate mounting holes and the right power connector pin-outs, it should be okay. The only thing you have to watch out for, though, is the CPU cooler. Sometimes, they use a special model that requires a special fan setup that your new case may not support. If that's the case, you're going to have to figure out some way to mount a replacement heatsink.