Posts by jbennet

that is a sound idea but they lost there network connection ,any ideas how they will getto windows updates !

using a flash drive or cd duh

vista has problems with some nvidia chipset network controllers , so i assume xp does too. check MS update for hotfixes (use custom not express)

Intel G965 Chipset latest driver & GMA X3000 graphic
1.5 GB DDR 2 533 Mhz RAM
Intel Pentium D dual Core 2.66 GHZ

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and can i play this at a resolution of 1024 x 708? and can i play it in the highest graphics?

no way - maybe it will run on the very lowest settings (like 640x480) - the original counterstrike from like ~2000 runs on medium on most intel chips so i seriosuly doubt source would run at all

secondly, no more FPS is better

if its under 20 fps it will look jerky, 30-50 fps is better and over 50fps is best, as most peoples eyes cant detect much over that so it appears very smooth.

buy a graphic card if you want to play games

bad bad bad

dont run the home versions of vista in a virtual machine - its against microsofts licence agreemenent to run the home versions in this way and if they find out then your product key will be blacklisted

4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system.

89 is not normal. Power off immediately to avoid damage.

use nlite (i think vlite is the vista version?) to slipstream the chipset drivers (sata controller) into a new OS image.

I did that to get XP to work with my SCSI RAID. before i needed to hit F(6?) and use floppies

the temps are ok

facebook seems to hate english people. our school system is different and if i choose to be not at school then it says i must be 18

windows doesnt like being out on another pc. Its an antipiracy measure. Generally after putting it in a different pc, or a motherboard upgrade, it will need a full or repair reinstall.

and 64mb ram is NOT enough for it to run well.

my laptop has 128mb / 600mhz and runs xp fairly ok , with tweaking e.g turning off unnecessary services, effects, themes

256 is better though.

yeah clean out the dust

do a google for maplin electronics

clean out dust, replace thermal paste (ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING), install adaditional fans

they work fine

i work in a shop selling computer h/w and electronic kits/components and custmers regularly use usb/serial converter cables to program small microprocessor boards etc... so they shold work fine

I would like the community to advice as to which compiler is the most popular and if it can be used with .net so that once I develop an application I would like to to be portable to different platforms.

.NET only works on windows and you need to use Visual Studio for it

And (at least by what I see now) his code does start with randomize.

sorry, i didnt read it properley ;)

i dont know about pascal but in VB you use the Rnd() function to generate random numbers, but it always seems to generate the same ones. In VB to make it more random you have to add Randomize() at the start of your code.

maybe the same thing happens in pascal?

you need to find out what motherboard you have and get the audio drivers from the manufacturers site

what make and model is your pc

no problem

i have marked this as solved :)

welcome

i reccomend "Visual Basic 2005 Step By Step" my microsoft press, you can get it off amazon and it has lots of code samples and expalins changes between VB6 and .NET, has a section on basic ADO.NET using VB and MS access too

quite hard

if the laptop isnt expensive (not like a sony or something) or its older than 2/3 years, then its probably cheaper to get a new one

no IIS on XP home either

I use abyss web server (the free edition) for ASP.NET, works well

please dont use this site for illegal activity. If there blocked then its for a reason

ram and hdd are fairly standardish , you will need a mobo from the exact same laptop (check ebay, i got a new motherboard for my ibm laptop by buying an laptop of the same sort off ebay with no screen and a damaged case and gutting it for the motherboard

type startx

Welcome to daniweb!

welcome!

marked as solved

do as i said first might help

but the computer isn't even that old, maybe 3 years?

You need to slipstream Sp2 and all updates onto the OEm disk (which im guessing is XP RTM) as there is updates for big disks.

Use Nlite for it.

can you not right click the mapped drive and choose disconnect?

control panel -> (classic view) -> network connections

right click on the network card and choose properties. Select TCP/IP from the list and choose properties. Make sure everything is set to DHCP then reboot.

dont know but if theres any problems you can always just select your normal kernel from GRUB

yes, should do

I play a first person shooter across the internet, and i hist my own server for it sometimes so my friends and I can play together (i have a fixed IP as im on cable) and all i do is configure my router to fotrward the port to my PCs internal Ip on my home network, and then tell my friends my public IP

Dont have a clue about DNS and stuff though

yeah.

the best way to get efficiency is to google for benchmarks - specifically those using programs called PCMark and SysMark - they give results based on simulating day to day office tasks

the core2s cache is the main winner though.

The core2 also has A LOT of overclocking potential too (if you are into that sort of thing) - can go to 3ghz or 4 ghzish

its not like in the pentium days. Speed is not evetything, its efficiency. My ~1.2ghz core2duo outperforms my 3ghz pentium 4 (not HT version).

the intel one is slower than the AMD one but i think it has more cache. The difference between a chip with 1mb and 2mb or cache is significant (think celeron vs pentium)

yeah spybot is generally fine, only bit you need to be careful with is the registry scanner (system internals)

intel

I have a intel core2duo and an amd X2 - both are within the same price range and taget market of home desktop / light gaming (these two cpus are usually the options on dell desktops) and the Core2 totally annihilates the X2 in both benchmarks and real life performance

i have informed Dani of this thanks :)

:)

should run perfectly then

if you had less than a gig i was going to warn you that the livecd mode may seem sluggish but with 2gb it will be able to load the whole CD into ram so it should run at at a similar speed to an installed system.

Google "ubuntu restricted formats" to get media codecs etc... set up

yeah ubuntu is a livecd (it runs in ram) - you can boot the whole OS from the cd and try it out before installing - the icon for the installer is on the desktop.

I used it to shrink my XP partition and create a linux partition in the free space made.

512 of ram is reccomended. You want version 7 by the way (gusty gibbon) not version 6 (long term service edition) as it has better multimedia and driver support.

yeah you can get ubuntu to either shrink the xp partition, or take over the whole disk. It can all be done from the ubuntu cd.

The problem of it complaining that the cd is older is because the cd is probably sp1 or the original xp, and the installed system is probably sp2. You can integrate sp2 into the disk and make a new one using a slipstreaming tool called "nlite".

whats the problem with the product key?

go to this site and either let it scan your PC, or choose your make and model from a list.

It will tell you what ram you need, how much your pc can take, how much it has already, and whether it needs to be installed in pairs. You can buy from them too.

http://www.crucial.com/

I doubt that game will run on your pc though. It is 1gb ram minimum and it needs a really good grahics card

do a google for "configure samba"

samba is the linux/windows filesharing service.

you can modify users/groups with a gui. Should be under settings -> system. If not then its downloadable, probably called something like gnome-users

visudo decrypts and recrypts the file when opened/saved rather than just editing it as text

it sounds to me like you corrupted the sudoer file. You ONLY EVER edit the sudoers file with the visudo command, NEVER vi, gedit or nano etc...

most likely is that someone is using your userid to send mail thorugh your mail server. Unless your outgoing server has password protection you cant stop this (most ISP servers DONT)

vista can gain a 60% speed boost by tuning off unnecessary services, applying tweaks and using the classic theme. By this method its possible to get it running quite well on 512

You might have a virus thats sending out emails from your PC or more likely, someone is spoofing your email address (easy to do if the smtp mail server is unsecured - thats how spam emails can sometimes appear to originate from legitimate companies)