Posts by alc6379

You probably don't want to do that, anyways.

How much space are we talking here? I know that Dell uses a very small (under 50MB) partition for diagnostics and utilities, but I don't know how big HP's partition is.

Knowing how HP likes to work, I wouldn't delete the partition. More than likely, that's an image of your system's factory-fresh installation on it; delete that, and you might not be able to restore your system when Windows XP tanks out on you.

Generally ISPs put some kind of limit on the size of the files that you can send/recieve email with. The reason for this is two-fold: firstly, it conserves space on the mail server so new mails can be retrieved. secondly, it helps to prevent email from being used as a primary means of file transfer, especially for things like warez and other illegitimate files, since they are usually rather large.

Here are some suggestions. Try having the person send only one picture per email. If they are sending one picture, have them compress them using something like WinZip before sending them. If it's still too big to be sent via email, then they are taking some FREAKING HUGE pictures. They need to reconsider how they're taking those pictures, and maybe size them down with a photo editor after taking them. Either that, or they need to set up some kind of free webhost like tripod or Geocities, and just email you links to the files they want you to see.

What kind of files are you trying to download? Windows Updates?

Check this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=822798

Why not post what you've got going on, or post a link to your code?

I'm sure there might be people here willing to help, but it might entice them to help if you provide us a description of your project, and some code snippets that you've provided.

What type of CPU cooler is it? It sounds like the thing isn't installed right.

If you want to talk about noise, look at my setup. I've got a Vantec Tornado 92mm fan sitting on top of a Swiftech MCX-462-V heatsink. That's LOUD at 56 decibels and 5000RPM. But, I've that fan and two more Tornados attached to the side of my case, too. Without a fan controller, I'd probably be deaf right now.

Can you find where the vibration is actually sourced to? Like I said before, it could be that the heatsink isn't fully attached to the CPU socket, or, gasp at the thought, maybe your CPU socket's not attached to the motherboard correctly...

In the case of a Dell system with that type of configuration: Don't screw with it. Those systems have been engineered so that they won't burn up or anything.

Did you upgrade the video card in that system? As it stands right now, there's not going to be much you'll be able to do in terms of upgrading the cooling on that system. About the best thing you can do to it is install one of those PCI exhaust fans that they have out now, and honestly, I'm not sure how well those things do.

If that is the video card that came in the box, I wouldn't worry too much about the temperature of it. The only thing I'd say is, don't touch it if you don't want to get burned! If that is an upgraded video card, I'd personally rethink having upgraded the graphics on that box. OEM/Brand name boxes really are meant to be used as appliances, and not really have something like the video card upgraded...

What type of Dell system is it, anyways?

Check out this uptime.exe utility available from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/downloads/uptime.mspx

Great links, thanks, Jon!

Hi ,
Thank you but can u explain for me : how can i configure samba in my rh 9(not in my smb.conf file)
Please make it easy to understand .I'm a beginner

Configuring samba through smb.conf is not difficult. Just because it is a text file and you have to familiarize yourself with that file's format does not mean that it is difficult. On nearly every UNIX variant that runs Samba, the smb.conf file is heavily commented, so you know what *every* thing they've written in there is supposed to do. There are, in fact, real-world examples for everything you'd probably want to do when initially setting up your Samba server.

You could use SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool), but I'll tell you this: I've never gotten anywhere with that tool. It's not very flexible, and a lot of times the changes you implement in SWAT don't actually happen. In the end, you more end up "fixing" the changes in smb.conf made by SWAT, so much so that you should have just directly edited smb.conf in the first place.

Do yourself a favor: Learn to directly edit smb.conf. It's more flexible, you can edit things *just* like you need them to be, and in the end, you won't have your hands tied when you encounter a system that does not have SWAT, and perhaps could not install it for whatever reason, it won't be some kind of alien experience to figure out what's going on …

Yeah, try typing ping 192.168.0.55

rs232 is for serial transmission, think like an old serial mouse or something. You're probably going to me more concerned with the Ethernet Standard, IEEE 802.3.

100baseTX Ethernet should not be longer than 100 meter (328 ft) from the concentrator (hub, switch, other port, etc). Any longer than that, and you might end up getting signal degradation.

...That's if you're talking about an Ethernet connection. Now, if you're talking about coaxial TV cable, which, because it's shielded, can travel a bit farther. The exact ranges, I don't know of, but I can tell you that it's significantly farther than Ethernet's Unshielded Twisted Pair.

Which one are we talking about? Is the Coax/CATV cable drop coming into your house, or is an Ethernet cable coming into your place?

Personally, I use PuTTY for Windows to connect to all of my Linux boxes. You just open the program, and type in the IP address of the server, and it should go.

As for your second request, there are loads of Samba tutorials out there for your perusal. You don't need samba to use SSH, but if you do a Google search for "samba tutorial", you should find some results that will suit you.

Have you thought of anything yet?

I mean, there are loads of things you can do. What type of stuff interests you when using Linux?

I suggest taking a task you do regularly and automating it. Or, maybe try writing a Linux distro's init scripts from scratch-- that would be a doozie!

It doesn't really make any sense at all to me, even Linux have nice tools to set up LILO, and works pretty well and without much hassles and hurdles.

To add more to it, the reason why it's so painless is because Linux was designed from the get-go to coexist with other operating systems. I doubt there will ever be a day that Microsoft will do this-- they don't really want to make it easy for you to boot any other OS on a computer running Microsoft Windows. Ask Be, Inc. and the OEMs who tried to load BeOS and Windows from the factory...

If you installed the program in 98, it's going to be tough to have it run in XP.

Reason being, you have to install certain files into XP's registry in order for things to work right. More than likely, that's what's going on here.

What error are you getting?

Hi Paynekiller! Welcome to TechTalk!

I just moderate this forum, so I wouldn't be able to help troubleshoot your code, but could you surround your code with [ code] and [ /code] tags? Like this:

Soldier *first=NULL,l1;
int choice;
while(1)
{
cout<<"-> [1] Insert Soldier \n-> [2] View Soldiers \n-> [3] Exit\n";
cin>>choice;

switch (choice)
{
case 1:
first=l1.Sort(first);
break;
case 2:
l1.Show(first);
break;
case 3:
exit(0);

It makes your code easier to read, and you can keep all of the indentation and the formatting that makes the code readible.

Concatenating is "joining" strings together. Like having "cat" and "nip". Concatenating those strings together would yield you "catnip"

Sukhbir,

Please stop naming your posts "Ambiguous Part #". It doesn't say anything about what your thread's topic is.

Moving forward, future threads named "Ambiguous Part #" are going to be locked without any warning.

Well, you're probably going to have to reinstall, then.

What has happened is that your XP install has written its own boot blocks to the DOS/ME partition. When you do as you've done, the MBR now looks to NTLDR for the files. NTLDR is usually in C:\ , regardless of what partition you installed XP on.

Personally, I'd just go back and do it "right", anyways. As it stands now, you'll probably want to redo your install, so you can ensure that the XP bootloader correctly picks up your ME install, and you don't have to fool with boot.ini anymore.

Try this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545

it tells you how to restore your registry hive keys.

If you actually erased your hard drive and reinstalled Windows, but you're still getting this error, you've probably got a bad hard drive. :(

I merged your two threads together, so all of your responses will be in one. In the future, stick to one forum or the other when asking a question. If it's in the wrong forum, one of us mods will move it for you :)

I the case of the 2350, pull your 128MB stick of memory, and get two 256MB sticks. That system's only got 2 DDR slots.

Just to put this out there though- I did perform my Windows installs in the recommended "oldest to newest" order.

Indeed. This I cannot stress highly enough. Even if the original poster fixes this issue with boot.ini, it's always the best practice to go oldest to newest, or to at least go "9x-est to NT-est" ;)

Try this Google search for the error:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22HARDWARE+MONITOR+FOUND+AN+ERROR%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&output=search

Did you enter the "POWER SETUP MENU" for more details? More than likely, that's in the BIOS, and it might tell you what's up.

I edited the topic of your post so it is more relevant to your question.

Titles like "Help Me!!!" don't tell us what your problem is. In the future, please choose a more descriptive thread title. :)

If you need to remove all previous restore points, simply turn of System Restore, then turn it back on.

Right click on My Computer, choose properties. Click on the System Restore tab. There should be a box that says "Disable System Restore". Check that, then accept any warning messages that pop up. Restart, then re-enable System restore. All previous restore points will be deleted.

Dave's right about the disk(0) side of things under XP. I've got a little more to add, though:

In Windows Me/9x based OSes, it's started using DOS, as those "OSes" really aren't OSes-- they're just GUIs for DOS. To start ME, the line:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows ME"

should actually be changed to:

C:\="Windows ME"

The reason for this is because loading to C:\ uses the bootblocks located there, so DOS can load up Windows ME. That should enable you to multiboot Windows ME and XP. So, your file would look like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Windows ME"

Let us know if that works for you.

Meh. Installing Win2k on 30 computers in one week is no big deal. If you have all of the appropriate Product Keys and everything, you could format all of the hard drives and copy the i386 folder off of the Windows 2000 CD to each system's hard drive. Then, you could install from there. Get one install cooking, move to the other, get it going, move to the other, wash, rinse. repeat. You could get a good bunch of them running in one day going that route. A cloner would probably take just as long, anyways...

Like I said, if this is an assignment, work on it some yourself, and if you get stuck, post the code you've written so far, and ask if we can help troubleshoot your already written code.

We don't do your homework for you-- we help you figure out your problems. Many of us here (not including me, though) are excellent programmers, but we're not willing to help unless you're willing to help yourself first.

I'm sure there are a number of programs that can tunnel things over unblocked ports to subvert firewalls, but...

Coming from the standpoint of a part-time network administrator, and one who has had people try to sneak into my home network, I will tell you not to do it. If you have a legitmate reason to access these streams, ask your network adminstrator to punch a hole in the firewall.

More than likely, streaming is blocked by the proxy/firewall because they don't want you doing it. If you're trying to do something that they don't want you to do, you're probably violating their corporate/company IT policy by trying to do so. Most places, like the places I've worked in, consider this grounds for heavy disciplinary action, up to termination.

Look at it like this: it's not the job of your company's network admin to let you use their WORK bandwidth to stream music. Every byte that you suck down their pipe is one less byte that could have been used for a VoIP call to a customer, or one more form submission from a customer on your eCommerce site. You're not making them any money by listening to streaming music on their pipe; you're costing them money, especially if they pay by the MB for their bandwidth. Not only that, but with the exploits that you can embed in most multimedia streams, I wouldn't let anyone in my company stream ANYTHING. Every last one of those services …

First of all, make sure Internet Explorer 6 is installed on your computer. When you go to the sites that have Japanese text, you should have been presented at some point or another to install a Japanese Language pack. I got this straight from IE's help files:

To correctly display Web pages encoded in any language

Most Web pages contain information that tells the browser what language encoding (the language and character set) to use.

If the page does not include that information, and you have the Language Encoding Auto-Select feature on, Internet Explorer can usually determine the appropriate language encoding.

To turn Auto-Select on

On the View menu in Internet Explorer, point to Encoding, and then make sure Auto-Select has a check mark. If it doesn't, select it.
If you are prompted to download language support components, click Download.

If Auto-Select cannot determine the correct language encoding, and you know what language encoding it should be, you can manually select it.

To select the language encoding for a Web page

On the View menu, point to Encoding, point to More, and then click the appropriate language.
If you are prompted to download language support components, click Download.

Notes

If the Auto-Select feature or a specific language pack is not installed on your computer, Internet Explorer prompts you to download the files as needed.
Adding languages does not guarantee that your computer has a font that can display Web pages in your preferred languages. To be …

Its not a a BIOS password he said it is a HDD password look here
-->http://www.soft32.com/download_25507.html This is just one of the thousands available.

That's just impossible. There has to be *some* way to be able to reformat this drive.

Trust me, if you can get the disk in a system, you can reformat it. I know of debug commands you can enter in DOS that will wipe out the drive. Heck, using the UNIX dd command correctly can simply write all 0's to the drive, effectively wiping out anything on the drive. This doesn't just reformat it-- it wipes out the partition table itself. That should do it for you, and you should be able to reuse that drive afterwards.

You can purchase quite inexpensive Fan controller units which are used to alter the speed of up to 8 fans. They can be obtained to fit a 3.5" or 5.25" drive bay, use one molex connector for all fans, and are the best choice to use.

You'll have to find a vendor near where you live, of course, but here's an example from my own local vendor:

http://www.pccasegear.com.au/prod647.htm

If at all possible, avoid running case fans off motherboard connectors, because the power in your motherboard is best left for vid card, RAM etc.

I concur.

Not only should you avoid running case fans off of the motherboard connectors because you need that power for the CPU, RAM, and vid card, etc, but some higher power fans draw more current than you should be pushing across your motherboard. Personally, I like fans like the Vantec Tornado. Granted, it's loud as a hair dryer, but it's got a 4-pin molex connector for power, but it's got the 3-pin header so you can still use the motherboard header for fan speed monitoring.

One of my favorite stores for PC cooling stuff is http://www.sidewindercomputers.com . They have pretty decent prices, and all of the stuff I've bought from them (rounded cables, thumbscrews, fans, fan guards) have been great. I'm thinking of eventually picking up some Artic Silver from them soon, as I'm going to be building a new box eventually, and I plan to redo the thermal paste …

Try swapping the cable ends on the motherboard-- a lot of times, that can determine what letter the floppy drive has.

If that doesn't work, look for a BIOS option that says "Floppy drive swap", or something like that. I don't know what possible reason you'd need this option, but a lot of motherboard manufacturers put this option in there. If it's set to YES, change it to NO, and vice-versa.

Maybe this google search will help you out. Apparently, other people are having issues with it as well in Mandrake 10:

http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22AD+1816%22

Have you written any code yourself?

We don't do people's homework for them. If you want our help, you need to show some effort, show us what you've written, and somebody here might be able to provide some assistance then.

tried nmap?

www.insecure.org

Sukhbir:

Can you please stop naming your threads "Ambiguous part #", and start naming them with a title that indicates what you're asking?

One of the keys to getting responses to your posts is to post a relevant topic to your question. "Ambiguous part #" is, well, ambiguous.

This isn't a homework project, is it?

Have you done anything on the code yet? If so, please post what you've done so far.

We don't do your homework here for you. If you don't show effort on your part, this post might get closed/deleted.

Try this... it seems to help with IE shutting down.

Right click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop, and choose properties. When that comes up, Click on the Advanced Tab. Uncheck the option that says "Enable third party browser extensions (requires restart)", then click OK. It should allow IE to run okay.

If that fixes it, then you've probably got spyware. I'd suggest following this action up by running Spybot and Adaware.

128Mb of RAM is nowhere near enough for Windows XP. 256Mb should be the minimum, and it doesn't really start to run well until you have 384Mb or 512Mb.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I worked for a lady that had a Dimension 4300 with 128MB of RAM running XP. That thing ran like a dog, and she was always badmouthing Dell because of it. After I found out that the machine only had 128MB, I yanked out that stick and put in 2x256MB sticks in there. Booted it up, and lo and behold-- the thing ran great! Then she loved Dell!

hehe...

I don't claim to be an Intel Expert, but isn't Hyperthreading special because the chip has dual execution units, so there's two execution units feeding data to the core, thus making the system seem like a dual system?

hrm... is this laptop drive removable?

I'd try reseating it. If reseating it doesn't help, your drive is most likely bad.

Can you boot a DOS disk with it?

I'd still just reinstall Windows on them both. They don't sound like any hardware's broken on them-- why get rid of them? I almost guarantee that if you reinstall 98, both of those machines will be running like new...

Okay, let me start by saying that I used to work for Micky D's and he is right... Everything is smaller now than ever b4.
All the lawsuits and the movie (Super Size Me) have made a dent on the McDonalds Corp. I think that they deserve it. I mean sure, it is a great place to take the kids to get thri fave meal, and it is okay to to there when you have the craving (I do on occasion), but I mean, to go there for a meal that looks like someone scraped it off the floor and served it on a seseme seed bun. I remember seeing people come in all day long, breakfast, lunch AND dinner, that was their main source of food. (YUCK!)

They need to have a warning sighn as you walk in:

CAUTION: FOOD MAY CAUSE HEART ATTACKS, STROKE AND ATRIFICIAL INSIMINATION.
Or better yet:

SPILL YOUR COFFE? TOO FAT TO WALK TRHOUGH THE DOOR? TOUGH! WE'RE BROKE.

I have seen some nasty stuff in my life, but nothing like working in a McDonalds.

...Glad to have feedback from a former employee. I'm sure every fast food worker could tell some horror stories. Surprisingly, I don't have any tales of disgustingness from my stints at Pizza Hut and a Pretzel joint that I worked at!.

But my whole issue is one of free will. After discussing my gripe with some of my coworkers, a valid point was raised. The government …

What kind of error messages do you get? When you say it can't boot, do you see anything?

Okay... let me start by saying that I never really did like McDonalds in the first place, but when you have a craving, you just do. I heard about this on the news a while back, but I didn't think it was going to happen for a while.

Employee: MMMRRRcome to McDonalds... can I have your mmmmmmddr? (I assume she said order, but the speaker was fuzzy)

Me: Yeah, I'll take a number 3 with Super Size fries.

Employee: Um Sir.... we don't MMMMMMMffrrr SSSSPPR SZZZ Fries anym *pop*

Me: Okay. Then I'll go for a large frie, then. Can I still get a Super Size Sprite, then?

Employee: Um Sir... We don't FIIIIZZZZZ ffer that either.

Me: Fine. Give me a large Sprite, too. my wife wants a large Dr. Pepper.

Employee: That'll be $5.90. FZZT around.

After sitting in line for about 10 minutes, we get to the window. For starters, there's a big sign saying "SAUCES ARE .15 CENTS EXTRA" taped to the window. I happen to look past the sign, deciding that I don't really need ketchup, but I see something else. The biggest cup they have, their "large", is now the size of the average "small" you'd see at a quickie mart. To boot, their quarter pounder was about the size of a quarter, and their "large" fry was only half full. Seeing that I was about to blow $6 on all of this, I asked for …

Hrm...

Doesn't look like you have an avatar to me!

Well... do you mean one of those machines is going to be replaced, or it's a box that you're going to replace the machine with?

Heck, either one of those would probably run just fine if you did an OS reinstall on it. Pick either one of those, reformat the hard drive, and reinstall Windows on it. Or heck, what's wrong with the old computer? Might an OS reinstall solve the problems on that one?

Not too shabby...

Is that without the monitor?