Posts by alc6379

If I'm not mistaken, the beige G3 runs IDE hard drives and CD-ROM. That's really cool, IMHO, because that means you have a lot more options when it comes to upgrading the storage. Also, that means you should be able to add any off-the-shelf CD/DVD/burner to upgrade.

As for processor upgrades, you should be able to use any ZIF processor you can come across. One thing I like about this generation of Apple machines-- they're still decently expandable. I've got a PowerMac 8500, running with 400MB of RAM, and a 300mhz G3 processor. If I wanted, I think I could up this to a 1ghz G4....

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Also, as far as PCI video cards are concerned: You have to get one specifically for a Mac. A lot of times the video BIOS is engineered for a Mac. Most other PCI cards should be okay, so long as you have a MacOS driver for the device. That means that in an OS like Linux, you ideally could use most PCI NICs, and maybe some sound cards, even SCSI cards and IDE controller cards.

You may have spyware there-- a lot of times browser hijackers can cause this issue.

In the Tools menu, click on Internet Options. Go to the Advanced tab, and uncheck "Enable Third-Party browser extensions (requires restart)". Then, click OK. That may disable any nasties that could be interfering with Internet Explorer. If that helps, I suggest running SpyBot and/or AdAware.

*BSD's are also nice, however they require a LOT more knowlege than most have to function the way most of us would like. The upside to the BSD's is that you will not have to update your kernel like once every 2-4 weeks due to some new kernel expliot. at least not at this moment in time.

Another nice thing about a *BSD system is that there is usually EXCELLENT documentation on how to do many tasks most people would be interested in doing. From setting up FTP servers, configuring X, getting sound working, or even doing IP Masquerading, you should be able to use each *BSD's handbook to learn how to do so.

How are the cables connected? How is the drive jumpered?

If you're using an 80-conductor Ultra ATA cable, make sure the blue end is plugged into the motherboard. That should speed things up.

Does the BIOS even detect the hard drive? It sounds like it's not...

There probably isn't a way to do it.

When you make an mp3 CD, all you're doing is making a data disc with the mp3 files on it. As far as Nero is concerned, you could be putting Microsoft Word files on the CD. When you're putting files on there, it's generally put in alphabetical order, and it will display in whatever manner you've set Windows to display the files.

The only thing I could think of is to not only save your MP3 files to CD, but the playlist you've created as well. Then, you could open the playlist instead of the MP3 files, and they should be in the order you've specified.

try typing which gcc

Have you run the Dell Diags?

If you just reformatted, and didn't blow away the hidden partition, you can hit F12 at boot, and see if there's a "Boot to Utility Partition" option. If there is, you can run the full diagnostic suite there.

I've got an ATI 7500 64MB dual head. I'm not sure that you can do it, unless Hydravision has some features, I don't think that you can do it with an ATI card.

The only lacking tools that I see are Quicktime/Windoze Media Player abilities, and a disk optimizer for clearing fragmentation.

Incidentally, Mplayer can handle both Quicktime and .WMV files. And as far as fragmentation is concerned, you shouldn't need to-- Linux does a great job of making writes to disk in a manner that it shouldn't ever need to be defragmented-- it's not unusual to barely have 1% fragmentation in several years worth of usage. To optimize hard drive performance, look into tools like tune2fs and hdparm

Hope this helps some!

Try doing a search here on bridge.dll. This error has been pretty prevalent-- I'm sure you will find what you seek.

General consensus is that it's related to spyware. Try the suggestions listed in this thread for some help:

Helping yourself: what you can do first

moving to Security forum

Try running Spybot or Adaware.

A lot of times, virus detection tools pick up spyware as trojan horses. The only thing about it is, they don't do a lot about the "virus" that it picks up. You still need to run something to fix the issue.

http://www.google.com

If you really want to know what items to check or uncheck, you really need to do some research on your own. We really wouldn't be able to tell you everything to keep or lose. For instance, Shareaza.exe may be a potential troublespot. However, that may be something you use. If we told you to disable that, then you system may not run the way you'd expect.

You want to empower yourself, instead of just having people do the work for you. By doing the research, and finding out what you need to have in there, you can set your system up exactly the way you want/need it.

If you're having problems with that exact error message, then I suggest searching Google with that error message surrounded by quotes. For instance,

Google search for "bridge.dll"+spyware yielded 13,300 results. I'm sure one of those 13,300 posts can lead you in a good direction.

Personally, I wouldn't want someone just telling me to disable things without first knowing what was being disabled, and why it was being disabled. Now, with references such as Google and the search functions in forums like this one, you are now able to figure out what is relevant to your particular situation.

That's an awful lot of stuff in your HJT log. Instead of waiting for someone to tell you what to enable/disable, have a look at this thread:

What you can do to help yourself

An informed user is a happy user. Check out the links provided in that thread, and maybe it will give you some ideas on what to remove, or what to use to remove stuff.

Tried a forum search yet?

Bridge.dll has been discussed numerous times in this forum as well as other forums.

I suggest you empower yourself-- try the forum search here, and Google and look up the processes in your HiJackThis log. Then, you can decide for yourself what to enable and disable.

Personally, I'd just buy the For Dummies series of books.

True story: When I was 11, I actually picked up Macintosh for Dummies at a local library. I PORED over that book, and I even checked it out several more weeks. By the time I was done reading it, I was getting called in more than my middle school's computer teacher/"tech" to fix Mac problems-- troubleshooting extensions, installing new software, everything, including OS reinstalls!

Ever since then, I've picked up a For Dummies book right off the bat for a new subject I want to learn. That was 10 years ago, I haven't been disappointed since.

I think liliafan's idea works great, considering licensing issues and whatnot. Any of the Mozilla products (Navigator, Firefox, etc) would be great to modify, and you could redistribute it, assuming that you followed the terms of their licensing.

Also, not only could you rebrand the browser, but using their extensions framework, you could still create .xpi extensions that could provide additional functionality to your browser.

No... he knows what kind of data he needs to output, just not what OS to use.

I'd imagine you'd want to use anything 2000 or recent-- something that works well already with Active Directory.

I'm thinking it may be time to buy/borrow a PCI video card. Put that in, and see if you can get any boot messages.

Without rebooting? Not really.

If you're going to edit your partition table, you need to reboot anyways. What's your aversion to rebooting?

You'll probably want to reinstall Linux.

If anything, back up the files you want to keep from the Linux installation. Reinstall Linux, and then restore the files you want to keep.

The issue lies in the fact that your device configurations may be different. The system may not be able boot correctly if you just copy all of the old system over.

definitely, I couldn't give an unbiased comparison of the two.

Firstly, I LOVE Python. Secondly, I haven't really done enough with Perl or Ruby to make an educated opinion about it. I do know that you can do everything in Perl that you can do in Python-- it's just done differently.

Perl looks like somebody merged C with bash scripting, at least to me it looks like that. Python doesn't feel syntactically like any other language I've fooled with. Its indentation is part of the syntax-- nested statements require indentation. This makes code way easier to read, and it reinforces good coding habits. Other than that, I wouldn't be much help to you there...

You can get this menu by editing your boot.ini file in the root of c:. There are plenty of tutorials out there on this, let Google be your guide.

You can install the OSes in any order, just so long as you know how to edit c:\boot.ini :)

woah wait up, I just saw something else:

Chip type

DDR CL2 SDRAM

what's that mean? Does that mean it's compatible with both? If so does the 200-pin part of it mean any incompatibility issues? Thanks again guys.

Just like tommi said, if the pinouts don't match, then you can't use it. But, to elaborate a little further, DDR is SDRAM. But, the SDRAM you're using could technically be called Single Data Rate SDRAM. Double Data Rate (DDR) is essentially twice as fast as "regular" SDRAM.

It's a variation on the same technology-- a variation that renders the two types of memory incompatible.

Nope. DDR RAM is not backwards compatible with SDRAM.

Could be someones hacking you.... should check your router activity light, if your computer is idle but the activity light is blinking hard then your computer is probably being used or accessed by someone else. Happend to me once.. i reformatted my comp (it spreaded through all of my computers so i reformated all 3) and now it works great. If your computer doesnt have any good anti-virus then dont direct connect your broadband with your comp. Maybe your dad has a good anti-virus so they arnt able to hack into his comp. so that can explain why its only happening to your computer. Either you download/install good anti-virus or you reformat all comps connected to the network. Thats what I would do if ive already tried everything.

...That's kind of doubtful behind a hardware firewall. If he were directly connected to the broadband connection, sans a firewall, I would think that likely. But, the probability of someone actually getting through a linksys or similar (they keep those things pretty locked down) router is pretty slim.

Boy, this is an odd one. I think I ran into it myself, though.

There are a couple of things you need to do, I think. When you set the ip address, I think you may need to add an up statement to the command:

ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid default wepmode on wepkey 0x(key) up

Does your console say anything when you run the command? It should perk up and display something when you run the command to initialize the device. Additionally, you might want to email the freebsd-portables mailing list for suggestions-- they seem to be the major forum of discussion for Project Evil. Additionally, you could ask Bill Paul, the author of NDISulator. If you go this route, you need to do a few things:

Give a copy of your dmesg output with the card installed. Give the exact syntax command you use to load the module, and to intialize the card (eg, kldload, then ifconfig). Also, indicate exactly which version of driver you're using-- downloaded from the website, from the driver CD. If possible, attach a copy of the driver you're using. Also, indicate the exact model of the card, and which chipset it is that the card uses. Most importantly-- don't do your work in X-- do all of it at the command line, so you can get the messages that are provided.

If you provide even the most minute of details, you …

Also, if you run NTFS on the Windows XP side, be sure to run NT service Pack 4, if I'm not mistaken.

The version of NTFS that Win2k and XP use is a little bit different from NT's version. If you update to SP4, you should be able to exchange files between the two OSes.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2004-January/001005.html

This list message actually describes the process of making an NDISulator driver from the .inf and the .sys files included with your NIC driver. I actually had to do a search for it using the term "Project Evil"-- it showed right up then.

If you need any help on bridging, check out the FreeBSD handbook on bridging:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html

Does this happen in just one user, or in all users that are setup on the system?

I'd try creating a new user and see if the same phonomena occurs in the neew user account. If it doesn't, it is at least narrowed down to some user-specific setting.

I guess I should give Perl/Python another try...
Now if only it didn't take so long before being able to write something actually *useful*, I wouldn't give up so easily :)

I don't know about Perl, I'm assuming it'd be the same way, but with Python, it's SUPER easy, fun, in fact, to get up and going, and make useful programs with it. Python's syntax is such that you have to write decently clean looking code, as indentation is actually a way of dividing things up. This is unlike Perl, or even C, where you could just about omit white space to your heart's content, and make it look like a huge mess.

If you're interested, you should pick up the O'Reilly book, Learning Python. It's very short, and it gives you a good foundation that you can use and extend to checking out a book like Python Standard Library, which provides useful examples for programming with the various modules that come in the Python Distribution.

Yeah, does the system recognize the hard drive in the BIOS?

Also, when taking a portable system apart, generally you don't "split" the pieces apart by removing the bottom screws-- those usually provide access to remove the keyboard, which in turn provides access to everything else inside of the system. The motherboard is usally attached to the "bottom half" of the unit.

Which OS is this? 8? 9? X.*?

7? :confused:

Try doing a search for "bridge.dll" in the forum. This topic has been discussed a number of times.

I believe the general concensus here is that "Bridge" is related in some way or other to spyware...

Also, run chkdsk /r on the system before running fixboot.

These errors just don't occur willy-nilly. There could be some filesystem corruption-- chkdsk /r might help on that angle.

But for a simple mail forwarder like he needs, wouldn't sendmail, postfix, exim, or any other free mail daemon do the trick? He didn't say he needed any collaborative functions of Exchange.

I'm not poo-poo'ing your suggestion, TheOgre, mind you, I'm just trying to broaden his options. :)

I thought the standard action of shutdown was to wait a minute? Hence the necessity for,

shutdown -h now

under Linux/FreeBSD, or

shutdown -yg0

on some other UNIX systems.

Actually, I wouldn't even fool with a download accelerator.

If you want faster download speeds, just find a faster server to download from. I've never gotten that big of a speed increas when using an accelerator...

Hi,

No, cannot use VB, as it is an interpreted language, meaning it needs libraries (Microsoft ones) to link into the program to complete the coding.

You could, using VB6, write a small virtual environment that might have some process control and that sort of thing. Ugly.

Which, I'd imagine, you'd have to write in C or asm.

I dunno... that's kind of interesting, if you think about it-- an interpreted OS! Imagine, a system whose entire userland was comprised of interpreted scripts-- say, Python, for instance. The kernel could be a modified interpreter, which provided all of the I/O functions and process control, in addition to interpreting all of the scripts.

...I dunno... Think that'd be as slow as a dog, though?

Dell, huh? Goodness....... we have Dells at work. The entire office is filled with Dells - 26 of them to be exact. Lately three machines have had trouble and needed to have ghosting done. Seems like someone is always having a problem with one.

Perhaps it is the operator and not the machine, huh? ;-)

I've seen a lot of ads locally for e-machines. Sounds like a lot of stuff for the money, and nice rebates as well. Anybody have opinions on those?

Dell makes great hardware, especially for the price. As kc0arf mentioned, those are software issues, not hardware-- every major brand PC these days is running Windows these days, which means they are all prone to the exact same problems.

...I don't like to bad mouth other companies, but I would not go for an eMachine. They're cheap, sure, but that's about all they've got going for them. Don't expect for it to be too expandable, or last that long...

can you create an os by using visual basic 6...? its all i've got....

I don't think you could do it with VB 6.

I don't think it has the neccesary access to the low-level functions that are required to build an operating system. If it had those, you'd need to compile the code to make it work.

From what I've seen, it's best to do the kernel and base progs in C and ASM, and then to do the base GUI stuff in C++. From there, use whatever else you want to do the rest.

is it possible to set up a boot disk that installs vb runtime so you can then install the operating systeM?

Probably not. Being able to install the runtime would imply that you had an OS already installed on the system.

It is probably the blaster or sasser worm. Most likely blaster, because of the rpcss.dll message there.

Try running Stinger-- it detects and removes both viruses, along with about 40 others :)

You can't password protect folders in XP, but you can set up access permissions if you're using the NTFS filesystem.

There are loads of tutorials on the web-- try doing a Google search for Windows+file+permissions

try running CWShredder:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

Just download it, open it, close all of your browser windows, and hit the FIX button. That should clear things up for you. :)

Do you still have a service contract on that system?

If so-- call Dell-- don't screw with it anymore. Tell them what's happening, and if it is a bad hard drive, they can send you a replacement hard drive, if you're still under contract.

It's FreeBSD specific, AFAIK.

I can't really point you to a good tutorial on it-- the FreeBSD mailing lists have been pretty chatty about it, though.

Check out this Google search for NDISulator I believe I found a HOWTO on using it there, written by Bill Paul, the creator of NDISulator. If you're interested in running it, keep in mind that you want to run at least FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE, or even better, FreeBSD 5-CURRENT, for best results.

How far have you gotten so far on this?

Post a code snippet, and maybe we can give you some pointers on how to proceed. When you say you "have to", you still do kind of sound like you were assigned this task... ;)

Have you thought about FreeBSD for the router?

FreeBSD has a project called NDISulator (aka Proiject Evil) that tries to adapt Windows wireless drivers to FreeBSD. I've got an ADMtek 8211 chipset card which has no native driver, but works great with NDISulator.

How old is your monitor?

Sometimes, picture tubes just go bad... I've got a screen myself that behaves similarly. About the only thing you can do to "fix it" is to buy a new monitor.