Posts by jbennet

Look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356

Modify the method to be like this

protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // TODO: Add your drawing code here
            Color backgroundColor;
            backgroundColor = new Color(0, 0, 0);
            GraphicsDevice.Clear(backgroundColor);
            base.Draw(gameTime);
        }

The error was exactly correct. you were trying to use backgroundColor's clear method before it has been declared (Color backgroundColor or initialised ( backgroundColor = new Color)

It doesnt work if they have different HALs. Swapping between machines which support APM and those that dont, or between SMP machines and non-smp machines, for example. If they use compatible HALs then it should be fine.

I dont think it will even get that far if its booting off a SATA Optical drive.

The same problem exists in vista (only solved by SP1 or hotfix integration)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928253

Hope it helps!

Probably not. This thread is 5 years old.

It wont boot on that machine. XP doesnt like SATA, especially SATA optical drives. Try slipstreaming his chipset drivers into the cd image using Nlite, then it *should* work. Alternatively, you may have some success by changing it to IDE Emulation mode in the BIOS.

Maybe it's bacause you have to much dust in your hard drive or maybe you got a virus.

Use the system restore:
you can find it in your start menu and click "All Programs"
then click on "accessories" then "System tools" the you'll find it at the bottom.

This thread is from 2003/4. Thats pre-SP2. Which means its almost certainly the blaster worm.

The MS deployment tools like look into WAIK can make customised images (With windows vista and above windows installs are comprised of a copressed image, and some scripts which run in the installers WinPE environment). Ive used this to make network deployment images including software and settings we want.

But as a realistic backup tool, use Norton Ghost to image your disk, or if you font want to shell out, then maybe an opensource tool like Clonezilla?

Yes. They are two entirely different things. You dont buy a copy of some software, you buy a license to use it as per those terms. With a printer, you do buy the actual thing.

Exactly like with Satellite TV. You sign a contract (analgous to an EULA) which allows you to use thier service as per that agreement. You do not own the box they provide you with nor the services it provides, just the rights to use it as per the agreement. Exactly the same as with software.

if i was going to spend that much on a pehnom i would get a core2 instead.....

Yes, look into WAIK, and Sysprep. Also Norton Ghost.

Yep, agreed. I just wanted to see how things panned out .thread locked.

Perhaps there is room for a method to allow people to donate on a one off basis

I suppose you could also dig up her home address on the internet and send it there. That is a little bit more creepy but also more personal

A few years ago i was very nearly going to air-mail a cheque to her, never happened though.

Basically the registry stores data for users programs and the OS. Everything from options, to file associations. In comparison, UNIX-like systems use text-files instead of one centralized registry.

Generally, programs should tidy up after themselves, but often they dont. Most "registry cleaners" are a scam and just break things. The only one ive had any success with is CCleaner's registry cleaning function. Its not too invasive, but ive never had any adverse affects from it.

Hi Will but surely one should not have to select "subscribed Feeds" to connect with one's threads?

Not all threads are subscribed, and you can auto-subscribe to whole forums. That page also includes subscribed stories and other nonthread material.

Should be possible, because this site supports russian-type characters, and runs on mysql?.

Yep, the reason not all processors (annoyingly the core-duo in my laptop cant but the old P4 in my desktop can....) support the "mode" is because they have H/W virtualisation support. This is also required for Hyper-V on windows server (which i guess is what MS based xp mode off of?)

CInt casts a string to an integer. e.g.

Dim answer As Integer
answer =  CInt(TextBox1.Text) + CInt(TextBox2.Text)

Will add two strings (the data in the textboxes) and store the result in an integer variable called answer.

Look at:
http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/vb-net-general-discussion/30421-what-purpose-cint.html

Yes, crunchie is correct. You can use any card with the PCI Express socket, you just cant do SLI on an AMD motherbaord, or crossfire on an Nvidia one. Ive got an geforce on an intel chipset myself.

And its not stupid question, indeed, its a very common one.

Cast with the "CInt" function

. Here is a good example to play a video using DirectX - .

You can also play video in a 3d space using the XNA framework if you want to do some fanciness

UAC does more than just prompt. Its behind IE's protected mode and needs-only elevation. That means that e.g IE will be sandboxed and run under the lowest privileged user account rights, and e.g apps will only be installed elevated if they request it.

Ask your brother for it. Thats a BIOS (power on) password.

Are you using ClearType?

javascript and CSS here, its not Ie6 friendfly though.

Same thing happened to me. About a week ago they released an update for the WU agent on vista and it seems to have broken it.

Seems like a wierd issue though. I just did a clean install on another box a few days ago and have not had any issues at all.

shut down computer ,next time i turned it on it had issues and did a system restore ,so im now using microsoft drivers again ,will try it for a few days and update again to see what happens

Wierd. I had the opposite - for me the MS drivers it insisted on installing always BSODed me whereas the NV ones were fine,.

If you cant get the suite to install, just unzip it with 7zip, and point the HW wizard to search for new drivers there.

Related question...I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 which I found has a Mobility Radeon™ X1300 video card (based on the service tag). According to every source that I've found on the matter, including the Dell and Windows 7 websites themselves, the 1XXX series is no longer supported

Did you even bother to look on the ATI site? The Win7 drivers are right here... took me like 3 seconds to find them!

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-32.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=&lang=English&rev=9.9&ostype=Windows%207%20Beta%20-%2032-Bit%20Edition

Exactly the same as if you were deploying an internet site.

Get the server and install and configure IIS on it (Read: Use the configuration wizard to reduce your possible attack surface to just the minimum required to your needs and then dont forget to PATCH IT! - also you may get database engine etc as well if needed).

Then deploy to server from visual studio using the deployment wizard. Make sure you have the correct credentials to do this remotely (READ: If using FTP you must remember to patch IIS as there is an exploit going around atm)

Ensure that the DNS is configured properley so the clients can reach the server by its friendly name e.g http://server1 ... if that server is in your active directory then it should be already.

Enjoy

Its just perosnal preference. I normally use -H to get it in the SI (metric) units because thats what HDD manufacturers use when labelling thier own hardware so it makes comparison between actual capacity and stated capacity easier.

I know its 1024 MB = 1GB

Sort of. Thats *technically* correct as its 8 bits in a byte. RAM manufacturers use this binary definition when labelling the capacity of thier products (the opposite of HD manufacturers).

The IEEE support the SI definition of 1000 per gb and proposed that the 1024 definition be referred to as a "Gibibyte" instead.

Have you tried clearing your cache? Because I can see the 'Flag Bad post' link...

I dont have a flag bad post link on that either

and what's up with the giant "quick reply" button?

Dani made them bigger early this morning (its 10am now for me), also adjusted the print/email/subscribe buttons.

You must get bored *a lot* :P

Yep, im a nighthawk. Sleep in the afternoon instead of the night so i can be up when guys over the pound are coming back from work.

Is there anything I can do that would really make a difference? I have already un installed the programs that I installed and don't use, the only programs left now to remove are the default programs that I never use and the only one I can see is evolution so that wont make much difference

Go to a terminal and type

df -H

for me please (case sensitive) and post the results here. Will give a breakdown in megs/gigs/percentages of what partitions and drives have what amount of free and used space.

You can also get tools to save space by deleting old log files and caches etc.... look up a tool called bleachbit. Works in a similar way to "ccleaner" on windows.

P.S Bear in mind that of your drive, a section (usually double your installed RAM) will be allocated as a swapfile.

default programs that I never use and the only one I can see is evolution

Keep evolution. Its a great email client and a lot of gnome apps rely on it.

yeah ! I installed the 90 day trial win7 for corprates on my Dell demention 450 with a 2.8 Xeon cpu and 1.5 gig ram and it ran really good on that

Yeah mine is a Dell d5150 / e510 - P4 3ghz (64 bit, sadly no HW virt, so no Hyper-V or XP mode) . Got Win7 Ult and 2008 R2 standard on it (both are 64 bit versions) - Upgraded from the 1gb to 3gb of ram because i needed games and i do 3d modelling (has an geforce 8600 512mb vid card ) Runs very well indeed.

The Nvidia drivers for win7 are good.

P.S. Upgrading from Server 2003 which i had before (32 bit and not R2) to 2008 (R2 - 64b only) was a huge pain. No option for inplace upgrade. For some reason 2008 R2 seemed much faster than Win7, even when you added the desktop role (which adds aero, games, media player, etc...)

Upgrading from XP pro x64 (which i had before) to Win7 ult/64 was also not possible.

MS should have worked harder to get a good in-place upgrade method sortted out IMHO.

This is from 2004!

Is 13.3 about normal for a desktop system?

Fairly okay.

Ad fresh install of ubuntu is ~3-3.5 gb and its about double that for fedora or similar

When im bored I go on Daniweb ,of course!

Yep, probably best to lock this thread now.

Yeah i got Win7 via MSDNAA it runs well on my P4 too

i can get into his computer with. I want to change my pay rate.

Please, keep it legal.

keyword - *generally*, i guess you get the special treatment

Yeah, we generally let people do it once, youll need an admin (happygeek usually does them) to do it for you though.

Should be fine. I used to be proliant_fan (Reason i joined was help with setting up a compaq proliant 1600 server) and then i changed it to my name - James Bennet (jbennet).

Oh, dear me.
"Deel"? "Soundcard"?

Yeah that was a typo. now fixed. meant to type service tag (dont quite know how that happened lol)

yep, just google for "dell support". Click drivers and downloads, and enter your service tag. Download your video driver there (make sure you get the correct one, there may be 2 or 3, if you havent got an add-in card, it will be the intel one)

An admin will need to do it. And you can only generally change it once.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103

You can have diskless rehdat clients, but system-config-netboot is broken in RHEL 5. On ubuntu you could use LTSP (i know that using that its possible to have diskless edubuntu clients)

that my onboard GRAPHICS memory

Your onboard graphics memory IS your normal memory. Thats because its an integrated chipset.

Integrated video solutions dont have any discrete memory of thier own. It steals its memory from your main RAM. If you are using a lot of that for your applications, there is less to use for graphics and vice versa. All that option in the BIOS does is tell it up to what amount it is allowed to steal.