Posts by alc6379

Is this a Dell laptop? If so, you can contact them and they'll give you a password to unlock it if you can offer them sufficient proof that you are, in fact, the owner of this laptop. This may be true with other makes as well, but Dell is the only one I know for sure.

True as this is, Dell's not going to be able to get past an Administrator password. It's key to know exactly what password we're talking about here.

It appears you've got the about:blank hijack that's been going around. Check some solutions out here:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=7507

some other users and mods have come up with great results. The first post, in fact, helped me personally.

Okay, okay... I was an idiot and didn't see that. Well, I did, I saw it AFTER the fact that I had posted.

Sorry for the trouble.

Meh.

No trouble. I was more interested as to whether or not the thread helped.

Nifty, huh? :D

In fact, it was added just today to the sticky post at the top!

Are you running this as root, but logged in as a normal user?

If so, you might want to try entering

xhost +localhost

as a regular user, then try running it. What that command does is allows other users on the system (root, in this instance) to connect to your running X server. It's just one example of when root isn't as all-powerful as everyone wants you to think....

I'm sorry, Windows ME was an abhorration that never should have been created.

The only complaints I have about it aren't that tangible. For one thing, how is it that you can reinstall it, and it can crash before installing ANYTHING? I mean ANYTHING-- no drivers, nothing. That's the mark of a crappy OS when there's no hardware failure.

Second: Why couldn't they have just improved 98-- it was FINE for what it was! I think all they were trying to do was milk another nickel and dime from the 9x codebase. They added a 2000-ish icon set, and prettyed things up a little, just to make it look more "updated for the new millenium". Any system that can run ME will run 98, if not better.

Also, inexplicably, 98 drivers don't often work, and a lot of times there aren't any ME-native drivers for certain devices. This is odd, because from what I was told, there weren't supposed to have been any major changes from the way 98 and ME handles device drivers.

It's SLOW. That newly added GUI overhead makes your system a little slower. I've seen a clean reinstalled ME system's boot time improve more than 1 minute by installing 98 on it.

...All this, and the fact that it was built upon a somewhat unstable codebase to begin with. The 9x series of Windows OS could barf for no good reason sometimes, and it wasn't oriented at all towards security, making …

alc6379,
Hi and thank you for the link. It's been quite awhile since I last posted and I'd just like to thank you. However my problem hasnt been solved. I went to the pestpatrol detection and removal section of that page and it doesnt say anything; just that pest patrol removes it. Is there any chance you could provide me with another source for help?

Thanks again alc6379

Yeah... sorry about that... Pest Patrol's site used to have the explicit information about removing that file. I updated the thread with a different link.

Thanks for pointing it out, though!

This link might provide you with some information as to why eAcceleration is bad. It's not spyware, in that it doesn't collect much identifying information, but it is adware in that it pushes popups through to you.

Did you read the bridge.dll thread at the top of this forum? It contains links for resolving bridge.dll error messages.

Check out This thread

forum search is your friend... ;)

have you simply tried opening it in notepad?

A google search didn't turn up anything, that's all I know. You might just want to read it, and see if it relates to anything you might find relevant.

So, what has your friend done so far with his project?

This sounds like homework. We don't do homework for people; we help people with what they're working on. Please post some code they've done on their own.

Is this a tutorial or something? Or do you need help doing this?

If you need help with it, show us what you've done so far. We don't simply give out homework help without the poster showing some effort.

Design and write a C++ program for the problem given below. Apply the rules of good programming style by making your program modular, and using parameters and local variables in subprograms or functions. Add comments where necessary for each function. Use meaningful variable names. Your program should be user friendly.

A grade 12 class wrote a test in information technology which counted 50 marks. Their teacher wants to find out how many pupils got a mark between 0 and 49 percent (i.e. how many pupils failed), and how many got a mark of 50 percent and more (i.e. how many pupils passed the test). He also wants to determine the average mark of those who failed and the average mark of those who passed. Your task is to write a C++ program to do this. The marks should be entered until -999 is typed in and at the end the two totals calculated as well as the two averages have to displayed.
Your program should make use of the following 3 functions to solve the problem:

readInput( ): In this function, the end-user(teacher) should be prompted for a mark to be entered. After the mark has been captured it should be send back to the calling function, namely main( )

calculateTotals( ): Calculates the totals up to that point. In this function the mark that has just been read in, must be investigated to see which totals should be updated. It will be necessary to update two totals every …

hahahahahahaaaa!!

I'm still curious about where that 'Marsupial moderator' tag was dreamt up from. Until I find out, I'm really unsure whether he's a Rabbit-eared Bandicoot, a Hairy-nosed Wombat or a Fat-tailed Dunnart!

:D

[img]http://teatreehollow.com/gallery/Oz_Animals/Bilby_or_Rabbit-eared_Bandicoot.jpg[/img]

If you notice, his avatar's a wombat. I suspect that he uses his marsupial pouch to snatch up bad forum members and nurse them into becoming good ones... ;)

Read some of the earlier threads on removal of bridge.dll - looks pretty complicated to a novice like me. /QUOTE]

Moved to Security forum.

It's not complicated if you've got directions-- that's why we posted the directions, because that's exactly what we'd tell you to do.

If you have a particular question about a step in the instructions, why not just ask for clarification?

So this is during the text-based portion? Do you always get that same filename? If that's the case, I'd definitely say it's a bad CD. If you get a different filename every try, it could either be a bad CD drive, bad cables, or even bad memory.

Heck, they probably won't just charge you a fee for support. They'll probably try to sell you a new copy of Windows 98 ;)

It could be any number of things... What type of software do you have installed? Do you use p2p software? How long ago did this start happening?

Give us some more information, and we'll see what we can do for you.

Do you have a wireless router?

If you do, you have to plug the DSL modem into the router, and then the laptop should get access wirelessly. It wouldn't matter then if the Local Area Connection is unplugged, as you're not using that connection. Don't remove the driver though-- it's not interfering.

What part do you get this message? Is it during the Graphical portion of the install, or during the Text-based pre install stage?

If it's happening during the Graphical stage, then I'd suggest reformatting and trying again. If it's during the text-based portion, you've probably got a bad cd.

if you have time to note down any tips for me, on changing the firewall settings useing the command line, that would rock!

cheers,

spikes

I'll see what I can do there. I'm running RHEL AS 3 at my house, which is based off of Red Hat 9. I'll try to see if I can make heads or tails of the command-line firewall configuration on it tonight...

You can try GKrellm. It's a pretty popular system monitor tool.

www.gkrellm.net

It could just be I'm a stick in the mud, Dani... You should see how irritated I get when people move stuff around on my desk! ;)

What you'll probably want to do is make a copy of the file available as a BinHex (*.hqx) format for Mac users. They can then download the file, then decompress it using Stuffit Expander, and then view the file.

That's one of the old nuances to a Mac, I don't know if it applies to OS X systems. The files are stored in two "forks"-- a resource fork and a data fork. To a non-Mac system, this looks often like two files. For any files you want to send to a Mac, you might want to BinHex it using Stuffit, just so all of the file's attributes are preserved.

I dunno, puckdropper. I own more pre OS X Macs than I can count on my fingers, and I must say that using OS X is, for some unspeakable reason to me, "cooler" than the other Mac OS versions. Don't get me wrong-- I love System 7.1, 8.6, and 9.1, but the first time I booted OS X.2, I looked down and thought, "Man, is that drool on the floor!?!?!"

If I had the choice between running OS X and an earlier version, I'd probably jump for OS X, too.

Personally, I think I'd go with ASUS.

I've got a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board. I like it okay enough, but I have some gripes with it. For starters, it's got jumpers for setting the mulitplier and FSB speed. In this day and age, that's a little funky, IMHO. There's not a CMOS jumper on it-- you have to pull the battery on it to clear the BIOS settings. And finally, it doesn't adhere to AMD spec for the processor socket-- I've got a Swiftech MCX-462V CPU cooler on my Barton 2500, and I had to nudge over a capacitor to ensure a proper fit. The board performs well enough, and it has plenty of features (serial ATA RAID, firewire, USB2.0, 6-channel sound, supports DDR400, up to XP 3200+ chip), but it's those little things that irk you when you're working inside of your case.

The last ASUS board I owned I LOVED. It was an A7V-133C. That board was a WORKHORSE. I had it paired with 512MB PC133, and an Athlon 1.4Ghz t-bird. That thing was my first box I was ever completely happy with, I didn't cut corners anywhere with it. I ended up selling it, and it's still running perfectly, last I heard. If their current boards are anything like that board, I'd definitely go with an ASUS. Matter of fact, I think that the next box I build will be based off of an ASUS board...

Oh... I see what you did now... I knew something was different-- I just couldn't tell exactly what!

It doesn't bug me or anything, I just wanted to comment on it, for the sake of feedback. :)

I don't know much about VB, but if it's like any other language, there's probably some kind of library that would allow you to do so. That library probably is some mixture of C and ASM, for which functions in VB could be bound to. Have you checked MSDN's website for it? They may have information about something like that.
Knowing Windows, you may not have direct access to the hardware under an NT-based OS, but there may be some interface to the Hardware Abstraction Layer, so you might be able to generically access hardware in the system that way.

wow... for not being a programmer, I can throw out the gibberish like 'em eh? ;) Take my advice with a grain of salt-- it may not be entirely correct since I'm more of an armchair programmer

Dani,

I just noticed the change in the layout of the forum view. I just wanted to put in my two cents...

Overall, I liked the way that the forum looked before. I didn't pay enough attention to it, but it felt like the thread view was more organized by having divisions in between the thread topic, the icons, and the other information. Maybe I'll just have to get used to it or something, but now I find it hard to tell what's going on, for some reason, as each thread doesn't feel distinct from the other.

I'm not knocking you or anything, just giving my opinion on things :)

Have you updated the drivers on your USB cable modem? Have you upgraded the BIOS on your system?

What type of computer is this?

THANKS ALC !! you've been a great help... yeah it kinda went woosh but im gonna be checking out the link. I'll report back to tell everyone how it went

Great! Please let us know!

I've got a USB keyboard, and my computer is right next to my wife's desk. If I could get this up and running, both my wife and I could use the same box!

Why switch the firewall off? I haven't used Fedora in some time, but I have some suggestions:

• Log out of your Gnome desktop, and don't drop to runlevel 3. That way your Gnome desktop isn't locked up.
• Add the ports that VNC uses to your list of allowed ports in the firewall. That way, you don't ever have to worry about it again. VNC display number 0 is port 5900, display 1 is 5901, etc.

One of the things you could try is running redhat-config-securitylevel in the GUI, and just disable your firewall. If you don't have any vital services running, then you don't have to really worry about the security implications of not having a firewall. I personally barely have a firewall, if you could say that. But, I get by because my gateway server has every port closed except for SSH and FTP, and I've set up access control lists on both services, only giving access to clients I've pre-approved to connect to me.

So, I don't have a firewall doing much, but that's because I made sure to cut out unneccesary services. For instance, do you need apache running on your box? What about portmapper? Don't have any NFS shares? You can cut those out. I usually port scan my box every now and then, just to see what ports are open, then I determine if I really need any of the services that are running.

What have you got so far?

I know that bash uses $1, $2, $3, and so on as variables for command arguments. I imagine csh might be similar, if not the same. Have you tried reading the manpage on csh? It might give you some pointers on accepting command arguments.

I'm a little confused... What are you greping on 'newserver.new.new.new'?

I'm sure there's some way you could use awk or sed and create a regexp that includes the line that you're looking for, or just use grep to pull out the entire line. I'm not an expert at parsing text, but I hope my suggestion helps.

Definintely check the power connectors on the drive. Does the unit even show any lights, or does it read discs?

Also, if you're running OS 9.1 or below, and you have a CD in the drive, highlight the icon of the device in the Finder, and hit Command-Y. That would eject the drive there; I've forgotten how to do it in OS X.

Heck,

Click on Tools, then choose Internet Options. There's a Clear History button and a Delete Temporary items button right there.

Haven't been browsing naughty sites, have we? ;)

how i can remove the password to get in the laptop. gateway solo 2000 p3c
i don't remember my password

moral, start a new thread for this topic. Piggybacking on someone else's thread diverts attention from the original poster's topic, and it keeps your question from getting the attention it deserves.

I agree that an admin can almost be hands-off in responding to posts in their own forum. Mods generally understand that the admin are busy doing behind the scenes stuff, so we carry on as normal, and only bug the admin when needed.

Now, it might be worth it to consider adding an additional admin, should things get too busy for one person. Or, at least, delegate some tasks to some mods if things got too much for one admin.

Yeah, I like a little of both.

I like corporate-type forums because I'm not a big fan of colloquialism. As in, I absolutely can't stand people using chat-speak in a forum, as there's no reason for it, since users have all the time they need to compose a post.

On the other hand, I enjoy the tight-knit feel of a community. I feel that when people get used to a place, they're more apt to contributing.

I guess I'd like to have the community feel, but I don't want all of the cruft (all of the HELP ME PLZ thread topics, and all of the ppl who cn't tpye nething but abbrviations b/c their so uzed to tpying in chats ok ttyl kthxbye) that comes along with the 5cr1pt-|<1dd135 who sometimes populate such forums.

I kind of like how it's done over at justlinux.com (not a shameless plug this time!) I'd like to think we stay pretty congenial, but we take kind of a hard line on people who don't provide decent thread titles, we cut out things like swearing for the most part, and we discourage chat-speak, like "hey guyz... I gt sumting 4 u". But, the place still feels like a community, and the informaton we're able to provide is exceptional because we've managed to quell a lot of the immaturity that you'd associate with a gaming forum or something.

What type of router is it?

Regardless of whether you get it through DHCP or Static, it should work. It sounds like the router just plain won't give your system a default gateway via DHCP. As to why, who knows? At least it works statically... ;)

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Hear that? That's the sound of this thread sinking to the depths below...

Um... I don't think he meant that type of image! I think he meant a file containing the contents of a drive, not a "picture" image!

Interesting read, nonetheless!

that will work ok but if u have any warrenty on it, it prob will not count in the uk.

DAVE

Excellent point.

I know that some companies have some funny things with their warranties. You buy the thing in America, your warranty's from America, but then you have to call the local tech support for issues, who directs you back to America... wash rinse repeat.

Personally, I'd just forget the thing had a warranty if I were moving out of the country.

Have you tried running CWShredder yet?
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

i know that, but the files were meant to be renamed, thx neway alc

Cool. The only reason I pointed it out is that I ran into a guy who actually thought you made zip files that way! :p

I've successfully run Win98,2k, Slackware, Mandrake, and FreeBSD, all on the same machine.

Of course, I had 2 30GB drives in my system. I used a program called XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) to boot between the OSes, so I didn't have to fool with configuring the multitude of other bootloaders. It's a really neat bootloader to run, it's GUI, like System Commander was, so it's pretty easy to configure.

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

Just keep in mind, though, that you have to install and run it from a FAT32 partition, and the initial install has to be from DOS. I recommend either installing WinXP into a FAT32 partition, and then using either a DOS bootdisk or a FreeDOS liveCD to actually install the bootloader from.

My wife keeps hinting she wants to get me an upright bass for christmas... I'd really like one, but I'd feel guilty if she spent $1500 US on me for one!

Meanwhile, I'm happy with my modded-out Fender Jazz bass and 120W Trace Elliot studio model amp.

This isn't entirely correct. If you were interested in using Linux/BSD to do this, you most certainly could do this. For Windows, there's not a way that I'm aware of.

If you'd like to do this in Linux, check out this link:
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/

It also has references to other pages which discuss similar concepts. Basically, you could do a couple of things with it: You could run one instance of X, and have multiple ServerLayout options with it, or you could run multiple instances of X, one for each monitor.

If any of that went WHOOSH! over your head, feel free to check out the link that I provided. If you search on Google for Linux for "dual keyboard" or "multihead", or multihead+multiuser, you may come up with more results.

Have you checked out this thread?

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread7507.html