Posts by jbennet

dont buy one from the USA or abroad. Buy UK only as thier tellies are not PAL like our ones are

thinkpads are easy to take aPART - DO NOT DISMANTLE THE SCREEN UNLESS YOU HQAVE TO - you cant get them back again easialy - if you cant find the final screws there under the rubber feet and possibly the fn key

i got a PIII R30 Thinkpad and notice the pins that hold the sodimm ram in and the modem port are a bit bent, seemingly they cant take much force e.g plugging ethernet into teh modem port

simplest way is to take a cable from the speaker port into the mic port and record

that doesnt work anymore. XP knows somehow (maybe it counts the seconds and saves it to the registry?)

Its illegal anyhow......

make the database in MS access thats the easiest

do you mean the annoying critical system error bar than comes down from the top of the screen?

My friend had the same problem

ok im not a linux guru so i cant tell you how to do this but i can point you in the right direction - i think a bin files are bash shell scripts (you need to execute it in a certain way and it will install/download it all for you)

yeah, my dell came with bloat like aol, realplayer, macaffe, sonic and a whole host of crap.

Luckily it came with the option to burn a full standard SP2 XP home cd so i did that and reinstalled, killing the recovery partition and all its bundled rubbbish and installed my own drivers and streamlined system

is viewpoint manager spyware?
viewpoint media player came preinstalled on my dell...

ive made a good vb text editor with encryption program using XOR (you enter a passphrase to open the document)

if you want the code you can have it. might be able to translate it into c or something

no you misunderstand me it has NO spyware and the reson its free is as it open-source.

version 2.0 takes less than 250mb on your HDD once installed with all options

http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html

This is where you can order the newest version on CD or download it yourself

most weeks (but not all time) PCW or PCPlus Magazines have it on the coverdisks

i dont think the disks are free but you can definately order them from the openoffice webiste http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom

not possible. mac programs dont install on pc's period

Do you mean the NT style welcome screen?
Or maybe hes using windowblinds?

93mb isnt a lot if you have broaband

P.S if you have dialup, Openoffice is often available on PC related magazines coverdiscs.

by the way the 2.0 version is buggy, use the newest 1.x version

it can open all your existing word, powerpoint and excel files

no spyware whatsoever (its opensource) and its free

I use it. Its great

what one is a prescott?

I have a P4 HT (My PC is circa 2005) and works fine (but my XP came with SP2 to start with though)

see: http://cquirke.mvps.org/sp2intel.htm

the actual core code (the way you do loops, iteration statements and set properties and functions etc....) is the same in VB4 as it is in VBA, only real differences are in advanced stuff like databases, api programming etc..

.NET is great for embedded devices
I use .NET PRO for programming pocketpcs

by the way i sucessfully upgraded a project straight from VB4 to .NET 2005 last night - it did it fine

what VB2005 do you have?
Full or express?

I recoommend Visual Basic Step By Step (Microsott Press) - I have the 2003 version and its an excellent book for getting started in VB - goes all the way from Windows Forms to OOP to GDI+ to ADO databases and ASP its a really great book (my 2003 version (£90) came with VB2003 standard edition which was worth like 100 quid) if you can get a similar deal for VB2005 i reccomend (you can get the book on its own of course)

no its not sorry
4 is way too old (i think its 16 bit actually!!1) as 5 came out in 1996

I know VB6 could open VB4 and you can definately upgrade VB6 to .NET so i think it should be possible. Theres no harm in trying it with something like VB.NET Express first (theres an option not to write over your old files when upgrading)

Ohhhhh i wondered why laods of threads said mrgreen with a colon at each end, turns out its the bbcode for this smiley here -> :mrgreen: . for some reason i just see the text not the smiley when im on my PDA

what is this MR-green stuff?
what does it mean

fast moving air increases the static risk but even then, i regualry vacum my compaq proliant server and my Dell Dimesnion Desktop and never had any problems but ATTEMPT THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

its easy to do so long as you dont run into jumper problems

DO NOT SCREW ALL THE WAY INTO THE DRIVES SIDES - ONLY SCREW ENOUGH TO HOLD IT STEADY AND LET THE CASE CLOSE, IF YOU GO TOO FAR IT WILL BREAK SOME DRIVES (Most wont, just be aware)

90% of the time it should be fine. You want an "IDE" writer (sometimes called PATA) - there are a few SATA ones out there but DONT buy them there for newer motherboards

I got my DVD writer for £22 and just stuck it in my dads pc (mid 2002 - used to have ME) and it worked fine after installing the drivers.

Have you dont it before?

There are things called "jumpers" - yoy can have 2 devices on each cable but the jumpers must be set so one is "master" and one is "slave". NEVER put a dvd/cdrom on the same cable as a HDD it will make it go SLOWWWWWW (and you shouldnt have HDD's as slaves)

On atis website there is a utility to completely wipe all trace of ATI drivers from your system use that in safemode then reboot

if you dont update windows media rouge websites can infedct you through it if you play media from them

hmmm

how do you become a mod?
there should be like tryouts, id be interested

you need to mount it (give it a drive letter and tell xp what type it is) through control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> volume management

any idea what exactly is wrong ?

i had an old hp lazer circa 1989 expired on me and i got parts for it ok bu twas told some things, there are third party parts, others they are no parts at all

e.g if the circiut board goes your screwed ut you may be able, for example to find a comaptible drum

never used a mac really but i know some nec pc drives wear out very quickly when burning dvdrs at high speed

i did this once in C++

i just made race classes e.g human/drwarf/elf each with different properties. Worked well, less than 8 pages of code can make a good engine

It will save you alot fo time if ou learn .txt file I/O and get the engine to read the text from thier for the mission e.g standard encounter but the x's (from text file) change e.g

you find yourself in x - it is x and you see an x

were not gonna do ur homework for you

for my gcse i made a shop in vb.net ASP and SQL - kinda like dabs and that took me under a week

shop?
school / hospital?

lol i think thier making a D (im not joking)

lol that phising filter told me a part of debian.org was suspicious lol

Some types of ram it has to (DDR?)
Sodimms (laptopa) dont as my tp has 384 - 1x 128 and 1x256

Go on crucialmemory.com and run the wizard it will tell u whether it needs to be in matched pairs or not

They say it shouldnt make a difference but putting the biggest and fastest RAM in the 1st slot does

greaphics card is nackered, try a new one

Cups?

Hit ctrl + alt + del and click performance. See how much swap ur using while running battlefield.

If you run out of ram it uses swap which is slower as its hard disk (mechanical) rather than RAM (speed of light)

Each meg of ram will improve performance and loading times to some extent (mainly its due to connection speed)

but after you have enough ram to keep most of the game out of swap there is a really sharp increase in performance,

i got 1gig of generic dell and an x600 it played bf2 fine. I later upgraded 1.5 then 2 . theres not that much difference for 512mb more but for a gig more theres a big diff. Generic ram does me fine no need for corsair in my opinion

Some oems make it a specific one which is unchangeable kinda like a virus

You use display settings for the desktop extension and the fn key combo to have it on LCD, CRT or both.

You can also change the startup monitor under the BIOS so you can have it start up with say, CRT only, meaning you can hide your laptop away and just have a monitor, usb keyboard and mouse on the desk

Only ever done this on 98 (old tp) but you can make it so u can drag something off one monitor onto the other