Posts by alc6379

It's kind of like this...

When those popups come in, people make money off of those, kind of like ads on a website, but less scrupulous. Oddly enough, people actually do buy those things. I mean, people actually click on the "Shoot the monkey, win a prize!", and other such retardedness. All it takes is a very, very small percentage of the people who got spammed for there to be a profit.

Do you have an IP address?

Click Start, then Run, then type in WINIPCFG /ALL, and then click OK. Tell us what it says under IP Address on the system. If it's anything starting with 169.x.x.x, then yes, you probably do need to reinstall Winsock.

alot can happen in a year..

Indeed. But a question: Why is the "server" running Windows 98? Have you checked for spyware/viruses, etc? Can you ping the server?

Hi Alex,

MKLinux was running on my PowerMac 7100 back in 1992 - 96 timeframe. Long time ago. I thought it was quite good for what I was asking for... linux, connectivity to the internet via the external modem. Could compile things at home and then get them working, and then FTP them up to the school stuff and test them there.

I would not recommend it at all, unless you have some older computer around like a 7100 that you would like to work it though.

Christian

Okay... given the timeframe, I could understand why you'd have run it back then. I wish I had even been as lucky as you back then-- my 5300c even had a PCMCIA modem, so I would have been dead in the water there, too. :(

umm...it says you only have 690 posts... :-|

Yup... and notice I'm no admin? :D

I LOVE the US, (here in Middle Tennessee it's just so beautiful!) but I would like to visit three places:

Ireland- the land of my ancestors, my Clann has a castle there
Japan- Beautiful countryside, awesome looking cities, seemingly cool nightlife.
South Korea- Again, beautiful countryside. EVERY person I've ever met from South Korea (I've met LOTS of them) are very cool. For some reason, South Korea seems similar in feel to Tennessee-- the food, the people, and the landscape.

Move some files?

What files/folders are the largest? If you've installed programs, and those are the big space hogs, you might want to consider uninstalling those programs and reinstalling them, but specifying to install them to C: in some other directory. If just big files are taking up the space, just move them over! Otherwise, you'll have to repartition, or use a tool like Partition Magic to resize your partitions.

Really, there's not much you can do.

Honestly, I recommend a stick. A BIG stick. If your boyfriend is downloading porn, then there are other issues aside from the computer that you need to contend with. You could block every porn site that you could find, but he could definitely find more. That's just how things go.

The more effective thing to do would be to say, "We need to have a talk". Tell him that you cannot tolerate your significant other looking at porn. If you're not comfortable with it, tell him. If he does not respect your wishes, he does not respect you. If that's the case, he might not deserve being with you.

I know this is a technical forum, but not all answers to problems are technical.

Hello,

YDL worked fine for me on the Mac. I had it on my Powerbook G3, and on a Workgroup Server. I like OS X better than Linux on a server, but YDL was very nice on the older hardware.

I also ran MKLinux on my Powermac 7100, but that is out of production, and no longer supported. YDL doesn't work with NuBus (remember that?) computers.

Enjoy!

Christian

Honestly, I wouldn't ever fool with running Linux on a NuBus machine. Virtually NOTHING is supported, as the NuBus isn't very well supported, if at all, on the PPC platform. I got Debian running on a Powerbook 5300c using the MkLinux booter, and then by swapping out kernel boot images, and that was a pain, only to find out that I was going to get nowhere on the system, as the PCMCIA NIC was built on a PCMCIA to NuBus bridge, which is not supported in any form or fashion by the Linux kernel.

How many posts to earn that neat title YOU have, ccsgal? (just kidding hehehe)

As I'm reading, 3,197 ;)

How do I make a greeting a named constant rather than a literal constant?

cford,

Welcome to TechTalkForums. In the future, please name your thread something meaningful. "HEELLLPPPP!!!! Due Tomorrow 9-14-04" doesn't tell us anything about what you need. "Making a named constant", or something similar would have been more appropriate.

:rolleyes:Program for more than a couple days before you start teaching.

Hey now. Be nice.

If there's something wrong with what he's posted, wouldn't it be more helpful to point out what's the problem/.

I found this link, which you could use to do the decimal to hex number.

But, I'd imagine somewhere there's bound to be some kind of library function that could do this for you... Have you searched Google for it yet?

Does it happen if you press on the palmrest of the machine?

It may in fact be a hardware problem... Sometimes laptop palmrests can interfere with the pointing devices integrated into the unit.

Well, if you've already done what the sticky thread says, then it would be appropriate to post an HJT log. Go ahead and do that, and we'll see what else comes of it.

Also, did you see WinFavorites anywhere in your Add/Remove programs control panel? If so, try uninstalling it.

It's probably not a bug... Maybe your config is messed up. When did this start happening?

My personal preference is Debian. I'm a really big fan of all of my systems running the same, if not similar OSes, and Debian runs on as many platforms as NetBSD. Not only that, but it's got thousands of packages available through apt

Well... I've gone and done it... I've got a Gmail account now.

SPAM AWAY, GUYS!

alc6379@gmail.com

Thanks!

I couldn't find anything about .apy, but I did find the .pyd. Apparently, the .pyd is the same thing as a .dll file. If you know about programming, you could almost compare them to using an include statement in a program. When you compile a Python script (ie, to make a distributable binary), those .pyd files are created, most likely including functions you've imported from other .py files in one of your own programs, or the standard library.

If the functions you've seen aren't defined in the script itself, then it was probably imported from another Python file. All you'll have to do is read the import statements, and find which imported file had that function. I'm not incredibly good at Python yet, so there may be some way to use the Python interpreter itself to determine where that function came from. You might want to check www.python.org documentation, or ask one of their mailing lists, for more information about that.

What have you written on it so far? Please post code that you've written, and ask specifically what you need help on. We're not here to do assignments for you.

I thought terists be'd spelt with two "r"s.....

;)

Oh... so one "r" isn't good enough fer ya? Where you from, thinking all sepeerier?

eyes Dave suspiciously...

...You're just going to have to get more RAM. I've never seen any machine's motherboard, including Dells, be able to accept ECC memory by using a BIOS upgrade. Your best bet would be just to return the memory, if possible, and exchange it for non-ECC memory. Or, sell the ECC and buy non-ECC.

www.kernel.org

...that should have information on the mailing lists associated with kernel development. Additionally, there are two great books to pick up: Understanding the Linux Kernel, and Linux Device Drivers, both published by O'Reilly.

What OS are the machines running?

How old is the system?

I've taken recent (<3 years old) systems and booted them from a USB pen drive. Those pen drives are what the computer industry wants to supplant floppies, I think.

Thank you kindly, I get it!!
This is a great community

Ummm....what is a tidbit?
lol

A "tidbit" is not really a technical term-- it's just some little morsel of information that someone has imparted to you.

Why dont you just change the computer name on one computer.

Yeah, mikeandike22 is right on this one. If you're going to use the two systems on the same network, then you need to name them something different. Otherwise, you will get duplicate computer errors.

Did you read the post at the top of the Security Forum, or the link at the bottom of my sig, about bridge.dll? Check that out, and see what happens.

Yeah... try removing the data and then reformatting the drive.

You could have some issues with something other than IE.

Have you tried accessing the web using some other browser, like Firefox? Give that a shot-- download another browser from another machine onto CD, and then install it, and try to get on the web. Let us know what happens then.

so what should i do? it's all fun talking about how i shouldn't have put in the hijackthis log....but my problem still exists

The other users are right about not posting HJT logs in forums other than the Security forum. The only reason you should post a log is because you suspect spyware. Spyware problems and IE problems almost go hand in hand. Additionally, removal of certain types of spyware can lead to your inability to connect to the Internet. That, would be considered a consequence of having spyware on your system, and that would be handled in the Security forum.

Try some information in this link:
http://www.dbforums.com/t717306.html

Go to StartMenu->Run; when the prompt comes up type: msconfig then click OK. The System configuration utility will come up. Click on the startup tab.From this point you can control what programs will begin on startup. Simply uncheck whichever command line has windows messager(WM) in it. It should be GWMDMMSG, But I am not sure. Never mess with any files that have the word "system" or "system32" in them. However, none of this is any help if you are running MSN Messenger. MSN works with WM using NET passport, therefore when MSN starts so does WM.
NOTE: If u disable MSN Messenger Msn will not let u sign in. Best of luck!!

I believe that in MSCONFIG, it's named "msmsgs", like DuncanIdaho mentioned. If you rename msmsgs.exe, you might then end up with an annoying "Cannot find MSMSGS.exe" type of error at startup.

...Then it's not really "raw". Do you have any data on it right now?

Try running CHKDSK from within Windows, perhaps using the Command Prompt. Let it finish running, and see what happens.

If you don't have any data on it, you might just be able to reformat the drive...

Seriously, it's illegal.

There are plenty of websites out there that could teach you this-- try a Google search or something. Let's not allow this board to become a place that purveys that information.

C'mon, guys-- let's be considerate, here!

If you use a link, post and say that you did! If not at least just to thank hexstar!

Since this post is in the Geek's Lounge, even anonymous posting is allowed...

I don't know if I'd put the stipulation on a Gmail invite that you have to have X number of posts on someone else's forum.

Don't you think that would just increase the amount of spam on the board?

hey, could you try out spysweeper, see if it works well at removing spyware

heres the url: http://www.webroot.com/wb/downloads/index.php

i think its great that ure doin all of this to help out the common person who dosnt know anything about spyware removal

Cool... That's one I'm adding to the list.

Just so everybody knows, I'm kind of in a state of flux over this project. My work schedule's gotten busy, and my spare time is slipping away. I'm still working on this project, but it's getting back-burner'ed for now.

Seriously now. We're not a place to help you shirk your responsibilities. If you didn't want to do the work, why did you get into a programming class?

I know under XP you can install IIS and run an FTP server for that. Try poking around in the Add/Remove programs control panel under Add/Remove Windows components. There may be something of interest there.

Well! I know where $14.50+s/h of my next paycheck is going!

ya i know but the kid theat had me sign up said i needed to know some dos too. did you wall read a book on unix b4 you started??

You don't need to know DOS at all to use freeshell. It's just a shell account on a UNIX box (NetBSD, if I'm not mistaken). If you pay for a freeshell account, you get an email address there, and access to it through ssh and telnet. I think you even get some webspace or something...

If you'd like to pick up some books, there are some good ones: UNIX in a Nutshell, UNIX for Dummies, Learning the UNIX Operating system, you name it. There are plenty of free resources out there if you do some searching. UNIX/Linux/BSD isn't really hard, just different. If you have the proper guides, it will be a snap to learn.

What are your system specs? What kind of sound card do you have?

If you get your nose into enough places, you'll pick up free hardware. Heck, you can even pick up 200mhz-300mhz boxes for cheap at thrift stores. I wouldn't pay more than $40 for it, though.

[IMG]http://www.errorwear.com/errorimages/splash-bsod.jpg[/IMG]got bsod? :D

You know, I'd actually buy one of those shirts if they made 'em.

What kind of passwords are you wanting to create? What are you wanting to use the passwords for?

Also, Visual Basic and Visual C++ are two different programs. I'm assuming you mean Visual C++?

Seriously. We don't do homework problems for you. If you have a question about the assignment, ask it, but don't ask us to fix the entire program for you.

Besides, giving someone a deadline on a free help forum is kind of rude, anyways...

*drool...*

That's all I can say.

All gone now! Those things don't last long, do they? What's the biggest attraction people find for wanting them? Is it the novelty value, do you think, or the 'prestige' of having one?

Probably both novelty and the whole "ME TOO!" factor.

Cool, thanks again, hexstar!

But to other forum members-- please do us all a favor. If you use one of the links, please post and state that you did, so others don't waste their time trying to get to an already-used link.

Awesome, that's good to know. I think another site was stevewrestling.com, or something. None of those popups were porn, were they?

What is it about wrestling sites that do this?