Posts by jbennet

I was unsure of whether he had a 32 or 64 bit. Goggle returned both :)

Um, no??? All Phenoms are 64 bit.

What functional level is your domain running on? Win2k/2k3? (native mode) or NT4? (mixed mode). Look it up under domains and trusts under admin tools on the DC.

I found this site whilst searching the net to uninstall Microsoft 2007... and it worked for me by the (force uninstall) method. Check it out at http://www.squidoo.com/uninstallmicrosoftoffice.

Why do that when you can use this (free) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

I used that tool to remove the Visual Stuido 2008 Beta when i baught the real one (it wouldnt uninstall but wouldnt let me install the final version either)

P.S david scaf - you have posted the exact same thing in two (old) threads. Looks like you are advertisng your own product?

It's actually in the C forum, but I will wait patiently for other responses. Thanks.

I mod Hardware/Software, WWW devel, the IT pro lounge, Business Exchange and the Introductions board. No SW devel at all.

Youll have to wait and see what the others say (i dont have powers over the c++ board)

Probably they will say no because thats what we have said in the past.

Just reference the work in your report and cite any code which was given to you.

You CAN'T make a boot image of Win2K/XP/VistaWin7 like that, you need a third party bootloader (Network Boot Program) and a third party "remote disk" driver and a 3rd party remote disk server...

Ive seen it done with Windows Embedded, but it makes sense that the full versions cant do it.

. However you have to make sure that words are unique in either language so they can form the keys.

yeah thats not going to work seeing as many english words dont actually exist in french, and many english words all mean the same thing... also some french words are long strings (e.g if you translate potato into french youll get pomme dé terre... if yoi translate that back into english youll get "apple of ground" which makes no sense.....

Do you know what a linked list and binary tree is? Pointers?

Oh right, well just configure your DHCP server for PXE/TFTP - remember to configure the DHCP paramater for boot server so they can query and recieve the IP for the TFTP server. In the MMC window for the DHCP server there is a folder for boot images.

If I have a server to play around with, is there something I must install to use server-side-scripting. I'm not that familiar with servers yet.

Speak to your web host and they can add PHP (one such server-side scripting technology) support and/or a database engine to your package for an increased monthly rate.

I did it in Java and used two binary search trees, one for english to french (with the keyfield being the english word) and another for french to english. Was pretty speedy.

else if ( delta == 0 ) // compare, don't assign!

Yeah, thats a common mistake (i think we all made that one when we were starting out) :)

Is it the original version of server 2008 or is it R2?

If its the original, use RIS, else use WDS

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766320%28WS.10%29.aspx

Really, you need to use some sort of content management system.

For that you are best using server-side-scripting technology (perhaps using a database as well, although for a small site, flat-file would do fine)

It does that sometimes, its a bug.

wrong but I thought that may be Delete doesn't delete the data in terms of zeroing it. Instead, it flags the memory as deleted. The actual memory still holds data, the memory manager just knows now that it can overwrite it with new stuff.

Yeah same for me earlier.

Glad I could help. Please mark as solved.

Its true. If you dont like it use SRWare's Iron instead.

there is a folder named BGI in the directory of Borland C++ 4.5 ,,,however i get the same problem "BGI graphics not supported under windows"--while compiling my project.....has it anything to do with my operating system ---i am using Windows Vista..??

Yes. You are using a 15 year old compiler! That compiler doesnt support windows NT.

Borland C++ 4.52 - (1995) Official support for Windows 95, OWL 2.5

Borland C++ 5.0 - (1996, Windows 95) Released in March 1996. Works on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. It does not (officially) work on Windows NT 4.0 (which was still in development at that time). 3rd party tests exhibited some problems on NT 4.0. It does not work in Windows 3.x or DOS. Despite that, it can produce either Win32, Win16 or DOS programs.

Borland C++ 5.02 - (1997) Final release of the Borland C++ IDE (subsequently replaced up by the C++Builder series), final release to support compilation to (real-mode) MS-DOS target. Windows NT 4.0 officially supported.

does anybody know of a free 64-bit capable compiler for Windows Vista?

If you are a comp/sci student you can download Visual Studio Professional (for free) off of Dreamspark - if you need a 64 bit OS you can get Server 2008 R2 off of there too.

if you are not a student, i think GCC (MinGW on windows) may be able to. Im prettysure you cant cross compile though (meaning to make 64 bit binaries, you must be running a 64 bit compiler on a 64 bit capable OS and CPU).

Well, visual studio allows you to create an installer for your program. You can make it so you bundle the framework with it, and prompt to install it if not present.

Vista has it included. So does 2003 R2.

Thanks JBennet :) good to see you are still haunting these parts!

I am newly returned too :)

Yes, if its compiled, just install the .NET framework, and run the .EXE

If its just source code, then you can build it using the Express Edition of Visual Studio

Welcome back man!

I pay £90 a week ($150 to $200 ?) (but that INCLUDES bills and service charges) for 1 bedroom (with ensuite bathroom) and a shared kitchen/living room (between five people). The UK is expensive....

For one thing, redhat 9 is very very old and not supported any more.

What version of ubuntu are you trying?

you are a guy with 15000 post with good knowledge, you must be earning good money. you can afford it.

Sadly im unemployed :(.... used to sell computer equiptment, but now i cant even work in mcdonalds... oh well .. sucks really because im a student and therefore am broke.

Anyway, back to topic... i get angry quite a lot... generally my parents annoy me.

There isnt anything like RocketDock in windows 7?

Tell him to update his system with MS update. There has been many fixes for the .NET framework on Vista x64.

Its right there at the bottom of the screen where it usually is?

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/15/windows-7-superbar-overview

what surprised me is the picture on the header of the page, more than 90 percent in the team is from india.

Yeah MS's Visual Studio team has lots of indians. I believe MS research has a big department in Hyderabad. Back when J# existed (obsolete now) that was all headed by people from there.

That being said, I'm not surprised that the whole development team is Indian; they have a MASSIVE population. And hey, there's nothing wrong with so many of them taking these tech jobs

Annoys me. Ive learnt through working with such people on projects that a significant percentage dont work well in teams, because thier education system places a very high demand on being *the* number one through your own hard work. Gets a bit annoying when the one bloke ends up rewriting all your code on his own...

Just do Save As and choose word 97/2000/xp/2003 (.doc) from the filetype dropdown box

Yeah i think you type "linux rescue" at the boot: prompt on the cd.

That will give you a console where you can chroot into your system and rerun grubinstall.

Marked as solved.

.NET 2.0 does work on 64 bit versions of windows (obviously, as 64-bit windows server systems are commonly used as ASP.NET web servers)

If its a 64 bit version of vista, .NET 2.0 is already installed out of the box. If its XP Professional/Server 2003 64-bit then make sure you download the 64 bit version of the framework from here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B44A0000-ACF8-4FA1-AFFB-40E78D788B00&displaylang=en

Qo why the heck would they be listing it as "AMD64" then

Because AMD originally designed and popularised thier 64 bit extensions to the x86 instruction set (which they actually licence from intel). Intel then licenced back the rights to the AMD64 extensions, and used it for thier own implementation.

and not simply x64 (the term most of us are more familiar with)

Thats where the problem lies. Before AMD made 64 bit desktoo computing popular "x64" was generally taken to mean Intel Itanium (now known as IA-64), a line of high end server chips whose instruction set was totally 64 bit and totally different to x86.

Indeed "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" which was for high end Itanium workstations and is a totally different product to "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" which is for 64-bit desktop CPUs by AMD an Intel.

Do you see now why AMD64 is a much easier name?
Gonna mark this as solved now

Only AMD64 support listed for VirtualBox 3.0.2

You are wrong. Starting with Version 2.1, VirtualBox supports 64-bit guest operating systems, even on a 32-bit host OS, so long as you have a 64-bit processor with hardware virtualization support (Intel VT-x and AMD-V) enabled. (as a side note, to make use of the SMP capabilities of 3.0, you need this enabled too - check your BIOS)

Interestingly, the Intel and AMD implentations of the x86-64 instruction set are mostly identical as intel lincenced it from AMD.

Virtualbox supports both AMD and Intel CPUs (which have the EMT64 extension) for 64 bit use. The fact they labelled it as amd64 doesnt mean anything, thats just a common naming convention for open source software as AMD originally popularised 64 bit desktop computing, and released the first compatible desktop CPUs as well as to stop people getting confused between x86_64 (Intel EMT64/AMD64) and the *other* (totally incompatible) Intel 64-bit architechture called Itanium.

Have in past dual boot btwn SUSE and Vista, and left the recovery partition alone... assumed Ubuntu would have the same tech involved. Another strike to Ubuntu it seems.

Im just speaking from experience, for me it was fedora that disabled the recovery shortcut on my Lenovo laptop.

as long as the recovery partition remains untouched (is usually protected anyhow), this is a non-issue!!

It is an issue because installing grub removes the option to "push f11 for recovery" when it overwrites the boot sector. Also, resizing NTFS partitions from linux is inheretly dangerous (if there is any bad blocks, it tends to bomb out and destroy the partition table) hence it is always a good idea to ensure you have actual reinstallation media.

Partitioning/Resizing drives can easily be done within Windows

Yes - the resizing and partitioning can, so long as you have vista - good point. But you will need to format them and set your point points at install time, so why not do it all in the same place?

not 100% sure if Ubuntu has the option to format the new partition (which you will need to do) before install

Yes of course, seeing as windows cant format EXT3 partitions?

VirtualBox is a free open-source alternative, but is limited to 32-bit support, so if you're running x64, you'll need to look for other alternatives.

In the new version 3 i think there may be 64 bit support. it includes a lot of new features like SMP

but is not free (unless you know where to look, but I didn't say that lol)

Please dont condone that.

But yes, i agree with the OP that trying out a few diffferent distributions in some virtualisation software is probably a good idea, …

Try downloading the K-Lite codec pack (Full edition)

Yes, easiest way is to use Ubuntu linux. Comes as a live-cd so you can try it out before installing, and it has the option to rezize your windows parition and install linux in the free space. It is also able to automagically set up and configure a bootloader (GRUB) so that at boot, you can choose between starting Vista or Linux.

One caveat though. Laptops generally have crappy recovery partitions instead of actual windows vista CDs. Dont try it if you have one of these, as you dont want to risk bricking it . Some laptops have the option to burn your own recovery CDs, if so then i reccomend this.

Hmm. Glad to help, but it still doesnt solve your peoblem.... I dont know what it could be then. Any ideas anyone?

If you have a /boot it shoulld be a a regular ext2 or ext3 primary partition, 100mb or less (50mb is enough for two kernels) and preferably the first one on the first drive (/dev/hda1)

. I want to understand the role of each package and hopefully finally I will know what is needed and what not.

If i remember rightly, as the packages get installed, it should show a description of them all.

. And I really look forward to the kernel recompilation to support it.

if its nothing overly fancy, you may be able to control it out of the box.

Finally I find that my root partition has to be created as RAID array. But swap not!

yep, swap must bea normal partition.Its just where data gets temporarialy stored when you run out of RAM, its also used for hibernation. Should be 2x your physical ram, but there is generally no need to make it more than 1gb.

used ext3 file system. (If reiserFS or ext2 is better I will use it)

Ext3 is fine. IMHO it offers the best mix of safety and speed. Reiser is kind of dead now, since Hans got sent to jail for murdering his wife...

f there is any reason to put some directories (/boot,/var for example) to separate partitions, please tell

It can simplify recovery somewhat and it also allows for strange boot configs and encryption (probably useful on a server). E.g you cant encrypt the bit where the bootloader and the kernel live, and the bootloader cant handle software raid on its own, so if you want to use either of these, you generally need a seperate /boot partition of approx ~100mb instead of one huge / parition.

Later, when everything will work, I want to remove any unnecessary package

Slackware is a pain in the ass for package management, as it on the whole lacks dependency checking.

Optionally recompile the kernel to fit exactly to my hardware.

If its a server you will probably have to do that to get UPS support working (if you own one that is)

no i didnt i dont know how to write just the image to a cd

Download a tool called DeepBurner (There is a free version - the free one is the one you want, not the pro or portable one). Install it, run it and choose "Burn ISO image". Point it at the image and click burn.

Well that sounds like bad RAM

Did you run MemTest86 like I said?

Hmm, wierd. Maybe the card is just faulty?
A 7600 can be replaced pretty cheaply (an 8600 is about the same as a 7900 and costs about £30 to £50)

Well, thats just in that config, probably more overall - Got it in 1999 - had NT4.0 on it (which i wiped for win98 as i wanted games lol)

Cost a bomb for my parents back then, but its a good machine. Thinking about upgrading it actually, its got win2k as its only got 256mb ram, but it says it can take 256mb a slot up to a max of 768 (seeing as one is broken, 512) which means i could run XP quite well on it.