Posts by Pim

When unpacking a file foobar2000 has lots of trouble playing music (or when searching the harddrive, or while doing a virus-scan). This is strange because the cpu-load is only about 20%. Giving foobar2000 a higher priority does not make a difference. Also explorer seems to react much more slowly.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Hello,

I have been wanting to buy an external hard drive for some time now. I'm now wondering which one I should take. I'm looking for one with 1.5-2TB of storage capacity.

Now what I think is weird is this: For a LaCie 2TB drive I have to pay 219€ if I order it from their site. If i now go to the site of a third party hard ware seller I see 124€ for
a Western Digital WDBAAU0020HBK.

I've been googling a bit for reviews but that doesn't really give good results. Why is there such a big difference in price? Is it just the exterior of the drive, or are also data transfer and reliability different? And is it worth the extra money?

Thanks,

Pim

Well it seems that the program SpeedFan is causing the problems. When I disable it the disruptions are gone.

Hello,

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    enum BOOL {foo, bar};
    enum BOOL bFlag;
    return 0;
}

When I compile this and run it AntiVir claims it's the TR/Eplx.IMG-WMF.bfg trojan. Isn't that weird?

I am using Windows XP home (which is a 32 bit edition of windows). Reinstalling the operating system, or a different windows operating system is not a solution at all. The problem wasn't there at first, and now it is there, so there must have been some mutation which caused the problem to occur.

I'd like to ask you to stop fighting with each other and help me troubleshoot the problem.

Another thing: as I posted before I found out that the problem isn't necessarily a sound card problem:

Well I did some closer examination of my system. The sound interruptions are not fixed and they aren't really sound interruptions at all. In fact the entire system freezes for just a few moments. What I managed to figure out was that there are some spikes in the CPU-usage when the hick-ups happen: two things called DPCs and Interrupts give a spike.

Disabling the indexing service didn't help and nor did reversing to Windows XP SP2.

The sound card I have is a Audigy LS card.

Well I did some closer examination of my system. The sound interruptions are not fixed and they aren't really sound interruptions at all. In fact the entire system freezes for just a few moments. What I managed to figure out was that there are some spikes in the CPU-usage when the hick-ups happen: two things called DPCs and Interrupts give a spike.

Disabling the indexing service didn't help and nor did reversing to Windows XP SP2.

Well I found the problem: it was the microsoft indexing service. I disabled indexing for all harddrives, and then I opened services.msc and disabled the indexing service.

Hello,

I have some trouble when playing sound files with Windows Media Player or Media Monkey. When I play music there are very short interruptions. What could be causing this?

My system has 4GB RAM, an Athlon X2 and Soundblaster Audigy soundcard. It runs Windows XP

Thank you.

Very nice. The only thing is that the a:hover colour doesn't work in combination with the colour of the list.

Hello,

I'm looking to buy a new harddrive. I was considering this one.

What do you think of it, or do you have any other reccomendations for a fast, silent 1TB drive?

Pim

I don't see how we can advise viron on specifics unless we know the PC spec. If viron has a high PC spec it can take the graphics load; if he has a low PC spec, then he's limited in what he can achieve and all we know is that he has DX10 at his disposal.

I do agree with you Suspishio, only the poster didn't ask for that. I think we must assume that he is aware of other factors, since he asked specifically for information about graphics cards. If that isn't enough, the poster should have done more research, and asked his question in a different way.

I'm planning to buy a decent directX10 graphics card for my PC. But I'm confused which one would be the most effective?? I mean both in terms of Price and performance. I have budget around $100 to $150.

Assuming that you yourself have done some research concerning the rest of the system, I still advice you to have a close look at some HD3850 cards.

I will assume you are looking for a budget card, and not for the best possible graphics.

Most reviews I have read, state that the ATI HD 3850 delivers good graphics, for a modest price. Depending on which model you buy, you should be able to stay well in budget.

I reccomend buying a 256mb version, as the 512mb only provides slightly higher FPS, at a higher cost, especially if you set the game's resolution to 1280x1024. If however, you plan to set a higher resolution (e.g. when you want to play with high resolution wide-screen), you might want to look for a different chip alltogether.

Hello,

I'm having problems with my videocard, which aren't solved by updating the BIOS. I wish to know how I go about, or where I could find information about flashing the BIOS of the card.

Please don't give replies as:"If you don't know, don't do it."

Thank You,

Pim

Another few questions. When the system is idle, the core temperatures are about 44°C, and when fully loaded, compressing a huge folder and running prime95 the temperature is about 66°C. Are these acceptable/normal values?

Hello,

I've installed a new Zalman CNPS7000C-AlCu on my cpu. I was wondering what the maximum temperature is that the processor is supposed to operate under.

I found this page. It lists 55° C - 72°C.

How should I read that? That is different per individual processor? Or is this a temperature range? And what if it runs at a higher temperature? Will the lifespan be reduced a lot?

In short: I'm not sure how to interprent this data. Could someone explain?

Thank You,

Pim

The text shouldn't be on the right of the page, it should be on the right of the image.

Okay well I modified the design. I've got a new problem with the float property now: I want to make an image float to the left, with a box with text in in on the right. In IE this works fine, Firefox however insists on placing the banaan.jpg over the box. Is this fixable?

CSS:

div.box /* Zorgt voor het textvak in het midden. Zoek naar div bij w3schools. */
{
color: green;
margin: 5px;
border: 1px solid black;
width: 400px;
height: 510px; 
float: none;
}

body
{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

img.onder
{
margin: 5px,5px,5px,5px;
float: left;
}


p.text
{
margin: 5px;
}

The HTML code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Ding</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style2.css">
</head>
<body>

<img class="onder" src="banaan.jpg">

<div class="box">
<p class="text">
Hier komt de tekst.
</p>
</div>


</body>
</html>

Thank you.

Hello,

This is the css:

ul
{
float: left; 			/*Het plaatje van de persoon*/
position: fixed;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top: 2px;
}

li
{
float: top;
postion: fixed;
margin left: 20px;
margin-top: 5px;
list-style: none;
}

p
{
margin left: 5px;
}

body
{
background-color: #66FF66;
}

And the HTML:

<html>
<head>
<title>Ding</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://opacity.atspace.com/style2.css">
</head>
<body>

<li>
<img src="http://www.carmelemmen.nl/img/logoCarmelEmmen.gif" width="200" heigth="150" >
<img src="http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images17/NorthernInuitDogFreya14wks.JPG" width="200" heigth="150" >
<img src="http://www.shoarns.com/Unknown%20bird%20-%20Cincinnatti%20Zoo%20-%20D%20Byrd.jpg" width="200" 

heigth="150" >
</li>

<ul>
<img src="http://www.zefhemel.com/upload/2008/02/funny-cat.jpg" width="200" heigth="150">
</ul>
<p>
Text
Text
</p>
</body>
</html>

The <u>l items are supposed to float left, and the <li> items are supposed to float to the top, with text in the middle.

In Internet Explorer, this way I can achieve this result, in Firefox I can't. Even though in the CSS file I put the

float: left;

in the ul, the text will be on the left, and not the image.

What would be the way to fix this?

If you have another suggestion to make some images float left and the others up, it is very welcome.

Thank you.

Hello,

I'd like to use a .bat file to ping a server. I've tried:

ping www.google.com

And some variations, but then it just keeps repeating all the time.

Thank you.

I suggest you look up which motherboard is in that laptop. You might find a standard password to bypass the secuirity.

Hello,

How can I use yum to force the installation of a certain package, but without breaking the dependencies of the newer package?

Thank you,

Pim

Well I emailed tech support and I got it working. I've made a tutorial, including the neccesary files. Any suggestions etc are welcome:
===============================================
Making your MS-7310 boot with 2x two Gigabytes of memory inserted.

(The first section is for creating a bootable usb disk.)

===Section 1===
1. Download Unetbootin from http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
2. Insert a USB drive and run the program. Click "== Select Distribution ==" and select FreeDOS
3. At the bottom select your USB-drive and click OK.

===Section 2===
4. Copy the included files to the USB drive. I suggest you put them in a folder called "bios". (You could also put the files on a floppy disk if you prefer)

===Section 3===
5. With the USB drive inserted, reboot your pc (you could also use a floppy, search the internet for this).
6. At booting press del to enter setup, and make sure that your pc is set to boot from USB first!
I. Advanced BIOS Features
II. Boot sequence
III. Removable Drives
IV. 1st Drive USB
V. 1st Boot device should be USB drive now.

7. Save and exit setup. The pc will now reboot.

===Section 4===
(IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, THIS IS THE TIME TO STOP)

8. Assuming you have just completed step 6, the pc will now boot from your USB drive.
9. Select "FreeDOS Live …

You're right there. I've emailed MSI tech-support, hopefully they can clear it up.

Hello,

I'm looking for a database program, akin to EMDB or similar, that can search a folder and add all complete films, and all fragments to the database.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You.

jermaghs07, as I said the memory works perfectly in any combination with my old memory. The OS is not of importance here, since the system won't even boot.

You're right about the OS. (2^32)/(1024)^3 = 4, meaning you can only adress 4 gb of memory with a 32bit OS, minus your video card and other hardware that slobbers up hardware adresses.

I'm actually still looking for a good solution since: I'm now missing 1gig, the memory is running at 667mhz instead of 800mhz, and I'm losing some performance due to different memory sizes in each bank.

Thank You.

The OS is not of importance, the system simply refuses to boot with the 4gigs inserted. Where did you find that it had to be 4x 1gig?

Hello,

I' ve bought 2x 2GB of DDR2 at 800mhz for my MS-7310. The problem is that it will work in any combination with my old 1GB modules running at 667mhz, but both 2 gigabyte modules together won' t work. The bios version is 1.7 (not the latest).

Does anyone know what to do?

Thank you.

Hello,

I'm looking for a program that can organise my files. I imagine this being done by name, and by giving them labels.

Let me give an example. I've got the serie 'Rome' on my harddrive. I could put this into a folder called 'series' and in a sub directory called 'historic'.

Let's say I've also got a serie of history documentaries on my harddrive.

Now both files are of the type 'serie' and of the sub-type 'historic', but one is of the type 'fictonal' and the other of the type 'documentary'.

This would force me to put both in yet another sub-folder.

All of this is, although a bit tedious, managable by putting them in seperate folders.

Now imagine one of my favourite actors is in the serie 'Rome'. As it happens, this actor is also in 'NCIS'.

NCIS and Rome now have one two things in common: they both feature the same actor and they are both series. They do not, however, belong to the sub-class 'Historic'. So I can't put NCIS into the 'Historic' sub-folder.

Using shortcuts to files, or having copies of all files does not seem a reasonable solution to me here.

Could somebody reccommend me a program, which will allow me to have all files in one directory, and can label each file so that I can easily find the one I'm looking for?

Thank You,

Pim

Hello,

What would be the best way to burn photos to a cd, and then be able to play the cd on a dvd player? I don't want to buy any software for doing that.

Thank You,

Pim

Hello,

I've started coding in C. It is quite fun to do, but it's also complicated. This makes it quite hard to start with. I also understand that it is not really possible to make, for instance, a small game with it. (Of course, you can make text based ones, but otherwise it looks as if I'd have to start modding the Quake 2 source or something like that).

Which language would be better to start with, with which you can create simple games and other programs and is well documented? Or is it perhaps better to continue with C?

Thank You,

Piim

To fix it do the following:
Start Photoshop.
Go to organise pictures.
Click edit.
Click preferences.
Click 'camera or cardreader'
Untick the box that allowes you to start it automatically.
Click ok.

Hello,

I've recently installed Photoshop 5.0 The problem is that it auto-installes Adobe photodownloader. I've tried shutting it off the following way: Start, Run, msconfig and denying it to boot there. The problem is that it is back on the next time I boot Windows. How can I kill it so that it doesn't auto-start with windows?

Thanks.

Well thanks for your help!
I found the following to solve my problem (for anyone who might have the same problem):
CSS:

/*Het middenboxje plus de achtergrond.*/
div.transbox
{
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0px 0px;
margin-top: 25px;
background-color: #CCFFFF;
border: 1px solid black;
opacity:1.00; 			/*lagere waardes zijn doorzichtig*/
margin-left: 240px; 		/*anders lopen deze en de links door elkaar*/
}


div.transbox p
{
color:#66CC33;
margin: 30px;
}

body
{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

				/*Code voor het menu links.*/
ul
{
float: left; 			/*Hij blijft links hangen*/
position: fixed;
margin-left: 20px;
}

li
{
width: 160px;
heigth: 20px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #64acd8;
margin-top: 3px;
list-style: none;		 /*Er zullen geen gekke dingetjes voor de onderdelen van de lijst geplaatst worden*/
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 110%;
cursor: default;
}


#links a
{
text-decoration: none;
color:#66CC33;
margin-left: 5px; 		/*houdt de tekst van de link net iets van het randje van de li border (om de link)*/
cursor: default;
}

#links a:hover
{
color:#CC0044;
}

HTML:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://opacity.atspace.com/style.css"/> 
</head>
<body>
<div id="links">
<ul>
<li><a href="">Link1</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link2</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link3</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="transbox">
<p>
Text goes here.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Thanks again.

Would you mind explaining why this will fix it, and what it does? Because it doesn't work.

Pim

I'm not very familiar with CSS yet, so I see that my code isn't optimal.

Now I've just found, it doesn't work in IE either.

The opacity is 1.0 because I don't know whether I like it or not. I might change the value later, therefore it is 1.0 now.

The HTML is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://opacity.atspace.com/style.css"/> 
</head>
<body>
<div id="links">
<ul>
<li><a href="">Link1</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link2</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link3</a></li>
<li><a href="">Link4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="transbox">
<p>
Text goes here.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I'm using the following code:

/*Het middenboxje plus de achtergrond.*/
div.transbox
{
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
margin: 0px 0px;
margin-top: 25px;
background-color: #CCFFFF;
border: 1px solid black;
opacity:1.00; /*lagere waardes zijn doorzichtig*/
margin-left: 240px; /*anders lopen deze en de links door elkaar*/
}


div.transbox p
{
color:#66CC33;
margin: 30px;
}

body
{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

/*Code voor het menu links.*/
ul
{
float: left; /*Hij blijft links hangen*/
position: fixed;
margin-left: 20px;
}

li
{
width: 160px;
heigth: 20px;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-color: #64acd8;
margin-top: 3px;
list-style: none; /*Er zullen geen gekke dingetjes voor de onderdelen van de lijst geplaatst worden*/
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 110%;
cursor: default;
}


#links a
{
text-decoration: none;
color:#66CC33;
margin-left: 5px; /*houdt de tekst van de link net iets van het randje van de li border (om de link)*/
cursor: default;
}

#links a:hover
{
color:#CC0044;
cursor: default;
}
#links a:active
{
text-decoration: none;
color:#66CC33;
}
#links a:visited
{
text-decoration: none;
color:#66CC33;
}

The problem is that the links are supposed to light up red when the use puts his mouse over them. This only works in IE for some reason. Anybody knows what's causing this?

Thank You,

Pim

What does it matter wheater I use:

p.center
{
text-align: center;
}

And HTML:

<p class="center">
Text.
</p>

Or I use:

#paragraphs p
{
text-align: center;
}

And then HTML:

<div id="paragraphs">
<p>
Text.
</p>
</div>

Could somebody explain please?

Thank You.

I'm using the following css:

hr /*hr tag wordt hier opgemaakt, color werkt alleen met IE*/
{
width: 25%;
color: #CC00CC;
}

This, however, only works in IE. I assume this means that color is not an offically supported W3C property. Now I'd like to know how I can make this work in firefox too.

Could anyone explain?

Thank You,

Pim

It works indeed. Thanks!

I've got the following css:

a:hover {background-color:#ff3300};
#links a
{
 
color: #FFFFFF;
 
background-color: #CC00CC;

width:6em;

heigth:6em;

padding:0.2em 1.5em;


  
}

body {background-color: #000000};

The problem is that I want the hover to work, just as what is in #links a. The problem is, it seems, is that they are not compatible with each other; the one I put on top works, the other doesn't. How can I solve this?

Thank You.

(Anohter quick question: what would be a good way to make everything float to the left?)

Well thanks for your advice. I'm not going for a widescreen because not that many games support it. I've got my eyes on the Samsung 931C now. I think that screen is rather good.

Hello,

I'd like to replace my current 17" CRT screen with a nice 19" TFT screen. I'm going to use it for both gaming and for office applications. What screen would you reccomend? I'm looking for a screen with a maximum price of around 300 euros (about 440$).

I thought the LG L1953TR 19" TFT would be a nice screen.

Thank You,

Pim

When I boot my PC, it will take very long before it continues to boot from the bootscreen (which shows a picture of my motherboard type). It will then continue to boot, reboot and boot normally then.

The thing is that when it arrived, it did that too, but was testing many components. I thought this was a simple bios thing, so I selected use optimal settings in the bios configuration screen.

My motherboard is a MSI MS-7310.

Does anyone know what might be it?

Thank You.

The problem is that this program crashes:

program Arrays;
 
var
   a: array[1..5] of Integer;
   i, j, tmp: Integer;
 
begin
   a[1] := 23;
   a[2] := 45;
   a[3] := 12;
   a[4] := 56;
   a[5] := 34;
   for i := 1 to 4 do
      for j := i to 5
         if a[j] > a[j + 1] then
            begin
               tmp := a[j];
               a[j] := a[j + 1];
               a[j + 1] := tmp;
            end;
end.

I can't figure out what's wrong with it, it's in the tutorial that way exactly. I've been trying to get it right for a while but I just can't make it work. I'm using the latest Free Pascal compiler. The tutorial can be found here.

Thank You.

It is a bit of me, and a bit of the tutorial. I used ( (bracket), but I should have used { (curly bracket). Couldn't see that very clearly in the tutorial.

Thanks for checking this post anyway.

Hello,

I'm very new to Pascal, just wrote 'Hello World', so just a silly question. In the tutorial I'm following now, it said you can put a comment at the top of your program, but in my case, the compiler then crashes (Free Pascal, latest version). Is it me, the compiler, the language or the tutorial?

Thank You.

Well this is it:
http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/details.html?artno=SEEV10&showTechData=true

Okay thanks, the pc I posted a link to has Vista with it. Will I run into any trouble with Vista, running my old programs on it? (I use office QuArK, and video games).

Take a look here.

What this is actually saying is that, the 7 series does not support directX 10, but that the 7900 card is better for gaming than the 8500 card (and even a bit better/faster than the 8600 card)?

Why am I asking? Well, I'm planning on buying a new pc system 900 euros for the pc, without any perpherals. This is the pc I'm talking about. It seems quite okay, except for the videocard which I probably will have to upgrade to be able to play new games using DirectX 10 (am I correct there?).

So, any advice on this pc? Seems like a fair system to me.

Well thank you for your explanation. It is working now, but maybe you could explain something weird to me:
This is the HTML I now have:

<html>
<head>
<title>Gallery</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="stijl.css">

</head>

<body>
  <div style="margin-left: 0em; margin-top: 1em" id="links">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="">Links</a></li>
    <li><a href="">About me</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Gallery</a></li>
    <li><a href="">Others</a></li>
   </ul>
  </div>

<div class="left">
<div class="img">
<a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
</a>
</div>

<div class="img">
<a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
</a>
</div>

<div class="img">
<a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
</a>
</div>

<div class="img">
<a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
<img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l59/Staphyl/QuakeII.png">
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>


</body>
</html>

And this the CSS:

body
{
background-color: #000000
}
ul
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type:none;
vertical-align:text-top;
align: left;
}
#links a 
{
text-decoration:none;
color:white;
width: 150px;
display: block;
background-color:purple;
padding: 0em 0em;
border-right:none;
}


#links a:hover
{
background-color:#ff3300;
} 

div.img img
{
width: auto;
heigth: auto;
display:inline;
float:left;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0em 0em;

}

div.img
{
width: auto;
heigth: auto;
padding: 0em 0em;
float:left;
margin: 4px;
}

The problem is, that I'd like to resize all images on my webpage, but when I change the width: auto; into width: 60%, my images will be displayed above each other rather than next to each other in a neat order. Is it possible to do this? If not then why not? Should I then manually set every image it's size? That would be very un-css wouldn't it?