Posts by kc0arf

Hello,

To be honest, I would consider purchasing a true Powerbook instead of an iBook for your situation. You said you wanted to do heavy graphics on your computer, and a full Powerbook has better innards (faster cache, faster motherboard speed) than the iBook that you will notice while performing larger image manipulation.

Also, the iBook and Powerbook both have video out. On the iBook, you have true video mirroring, meaning what you see on the LCD of the laptop is what will come out the extended port. On the PowerBook, however, you can do either mirroring, or have a second desktop. Having a second monitor is priceless for large working documents.

You will probably find Photoshop and other software at much reduced cost once you reach the university. I would plan on making the purchase there, as college students often get the best deals on hardware and software combinations. If you can, go to the college before you start your term, and see what kind of academic discounts you can find.

If you were just going to do word processing, and spreadsheets and such, a normal iBook would be fine. But with your plans, you should aim higher and faster.

Christian

Hello,

I do not see a particular gain to have color specific areas. I do however feel that colored text needs to remain functional in the new stiyle.

Christian

Hello DCC,

I suppose that you have the technical data in front of you to make the claim "what a load". If you have read (and understood) the NTIA's report. You have also gone to the ARRL site, and have seen and heard the interference reports. It is rather convincing.

Your cell phones and broadcast frequencies will work next to BPL because it is on the other side of the spectrum, and not in the interference areas. Your cell phone operates anywhere from 800 - 900 MHz -- very far away from 5 - 80 MHz where the BPL technology operates. So you wouldn't recognize it.

As for the Dutch train comms system... are they high speed - high bandwith connections, or a serial-like interface of slow to moderate speed and bandwidth? I bet you the signals are not comparable.

It may be illuminating for you to discover that many Amateur radio stations that use HF have antennas about 50 - 100 ft. off the ground -- not tremendously high when you compare with TV towers that are usually 500 - 1000 feet up -- and these home HF antennas can reach overseas rather easily. So your train rails, if they operate at a similar height and power, may be expected to do the same.

Finally, as far as BPL cooking your brain, the tests done by the FCC and other groups indicate that radiation at a higher frequency tends to be absorbed more by …

Hello,

I have several desktops. When I am doing serious color work with a scanner and Photoshop, I do an all-grey background. When I am logged in as root or administrator, it is a bright yellow. Annoying-- yes, but then again I want to remind myself that I am in as God, and to be honest, it is not often at all! If I have to access my servers over modem or vnc, it is also grey.

My primary linux one is the one with the planet, and my primary Mac one is the Enterprise. The Windows desktop has the one with the dolphin.

Christian

Hello,

BPL is a hamrful technology, as it causes destructive radio interference along the frequencies it operates. This interference propogates to other areas due to the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum to far away areas.

I blogged an article concerning this topic here at daniweb:

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry331.html

Christian

Hello,

You *can* use the disks, but that would be illegal, unless you purchased Apple's family pack licensing to allow the disks legal permission to be used on more than one computer. If not, then Apple expects you to use the disks only one one computer. Think of it this way: if you did not purchase a volume license arrangement, then one set of disks per computer.

As for what to do....

I would save all my data off, and then format the drive clean, and then install the new OS. This gets rid of old settings and perhaps hidden conversion issues. Yes, a number of people do the upgrade, and it works for them, but think of upgrade time as cleaning out all the old non-used programs, and as a fresh start to computing. Then, after you install the OS, re-install your software.

Going the clean way will take you longer in the short term, but should prevent problems developing down the road.

Christian

Hello,

It is possible that you have a permissions problem, a profile problem, or perhaps you have too many things in the task bar.

Create a different account under OSX, and login. Set the magnification and behavior just like you did on the first account. See if the new account has the same problem or not.

If the problem goes away, you have a profile issue with the first account. If the problem is still present, then it is a deeper issue.

Hope that helps,

Christian

Hello,

I doubt the 2003 server is causing the issue, unless you are now authenticating against it. If that is the case, then you very well could have something networking going on. Won't know for sure unless you sniff it.

I would look at the registry settings to see if there are services opening that you do not need. Did something sneak in under your radar? Things love to hide out in the Run... and Run Services... part of the registry where the startup things go.

Christian

Hello,

I have moved your thread into the proper forum. You may wish to move up one level, and read the various readmes associated with viruses and spyware.

I like using adaware from Lavasoft when dealing with these problems, but there are other solutions.

Christian

Hello,

You might want to explain what OS you are working with, and what environment you are compiling your program in. While I am not that big into programming, I can tell here that you have not provided nearly enough information for the people with skills to even start helping you.

Thanks,

Christian

Hello,

I too would replace the drive. Computer mechanicals are easy to replace... if the defective drive scratches up your data CD-ROMS, the problem could easily get out of control.

Christian

Hello,

I just answered a post from you concerning your upgrade and having a problem with disk images. Now that I hear about a "slew of problems", I am more convinced than ever that a backup and a re-install from a formatted clean hard drive is the next step.

Christian

Hello,

When you made the upgrade, did you go through an upgrade process, or do a clean install? It is possible that you clobbered something when going through the upgrade options. You may find a lot more success if you do clean installs. Yes, it takes more work, but you also get rid of the hidden issues that can creep onto a computer over the years it is used, such as old fonts, or scraps of a program that you used in the past, and have long since forgotten.

What I would do is backup all the data, and then boot from the 10.4 CD-ROM, and do a clean install, and wipe the drive clean before the install, and then re-install your applications. Yes, it is a lot of work, but it will restore you to a known point -- fresh install, no bugs, no older software / shareware, and from there you can work well.

Christian

Hello,

Instead of deleting the post, could we ask you to please type up what you did to fix the problem, so that the next person can give it a try to solve their issue?

Thanks.

Christian

Hello,

I removed your email address, because it is DaniWeb policy to keep all of the discussions here on the forum.

As for your problem, I would suggest that it is hardware related too. Then again, if dodgy = illegal software, you best go find a proper license key and remain legal.

You also mentioned backups... I make mine 3 times a week. You should keep your backup practice even if you do find the answer to this problem.

Christian

Hello,

Here are some thoughts on the discussion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512
Also do a search on the "Flying Speghtti Monster" inside Google.

Note, these links are not intended for younger audiences.

Christian

Hello,

Pagemaker has long been out of development... the new program going after Quark is Adobe Indesign.

Quark has some major problems, and the support lines are long and confusing. If I was starting over, I would be looking seriously at Indesign. Quark has some major problems running in a network environment, and the company does not appear interested in repairing the software. Don't believe me? Go look at the forums at quark.com and see for yourself.

Christian

Hello,

Working in a IT department at a hospital, I got to wear surgical gear -- we called them Bunny suits, and as my shoes are too big for the foot things, I had to wear hairnets around my shoes.

I agree with jwenting that you should pull the drives and move the data to new ones. While you might be able to clean them up and work with them on your own, I also agree that the computer that has been sitting in grief and misery should just be let go -- it is not as if you could go out there and powerwash the motherboards. Well, you probably could do that, but introduce problems. I am wondering if the RAM would be recoverable though.

Good luck with all this.

Christian

Hello,

The problem I had with 290 was the different types of groups involving inter-domain activities. The exam book on 290 did not go much into inter-domain relationships, and I suffered a bit on the exam, but still passed it on my first run too.

I also found it very handy to install a sample set of servers, and have them work with each other. Next time around, I will make 2 domains, and have them interact and see how things fare.

Good Job on your success!

Christian

Hello,

By box, I am referring to the data on the hard drives. I also hold the opinion that household devices should be secured. It is possible that had you not been a local administrator, that the buggings would not have happened, and you could have saved the $140.

Christian

Hello,

Computers are tools. One does not ask a screwdriver if it wants to be a hammer today.

Take a look at what you do for computing, and go from there. Maybe run a game on it, or use as a print server. Maybe put linux on it and learn about that OS.

Christian

Hello,

Fetch has been used and adored by many.

Mac OS X? OS 7-9?

Christian

Hello,

There should be some sort of selection to boot from the CD-ROM, unless the computer is too old, and in that case you don't want to run XP on it anyway.

Check the BIOS again, looking for CD-ROM, or it could even be something like IDE-1

On an IDE chain,

IDE-0 is usually the Primary Master, usually a hard drive
IDE-1 is usually the Primary Slave, usually a CD-ROM
IDE-2 would be the Sec Master
IDE-3 would be the Sec Slave

It is also possible that the XP media you have is not bootable, especially if it is not legit. No, I am not accusing, it is just possible.

Christian

Hello Bill,

Your description of what you are trying to do is weak; that is why we cannot understand what you are saying.

Windows Will --
* Work with any internal installed Hard drive. IDE or SATA or SCSI, as long as all of the driver requirements are satisfied

Windows WON'T
* Boot and function from a CD-ROM. It requires write access for temp files,and you cannot write to a CD-ROM, and CD-ROM RW's aren't supported
* Boot from any device in the USB tree. This means thumb drives, USB external hard drives, or laptops pretending to be hard drives in some emulation mode (Macs can do this!)
* Boot from a Firewire device
* Boot from a Floppy Disk

Hello,

Windows 2000 and XP are operating systems that seek authentication before allowing a user to continue. This is a security model, and it is used to isolate users from each other. It also allows different users to customize their machines in their own personal way. Linux and Mac OS X have a similar user model.

If your friend remembers the Administrator information (username / password), then that account can be used to reset passwords. If there are any other administrators enabled on that machine, those accounts can also reset passwords. This is why it is really dangerous programming model to almost require users to be local administrators -- there are packages out there that insist that the local user must be a local administrator.

If not, there are tools out there to crack the password, and if that is what you intend on doing, you may research it elsewhere -- we do not discuss those particulars at DaniWeb.

I would suggest that if your friend does not remember the passwords, that you re-format the box and start over. I do not think Windows Repair changes the password file.

And as a side note to you... unless you have the physical security of a vault, I would not enable auto-login. UNless you have nothing of value on the box. It is a sure invitation to problems.

Christian

Hello,

Perhaps if you explained clearly what your issue is, you may see more assistance.

Christian

Hello,

ChrisBliss18 is talking about reserving addresses inside of DHCP, and that is the way to go for what you are trying to do.

Christian

Hello,

I get paid to fix Windows. I come home to my Mac / Linux computers, and really enjoy them. OS X rocks. Linux is very capable too. No Billyware in the house.

Friends don't let Friends do Windows.

Hello,

In order to work with this, we need more information. Does the computer that works with Windows Explorer the same computer as the FTP server is on, or are you making an FTP connection through windows, and that is working?

Also need to know if any firewalls are involved. And what kind of server the FTP server is.

Christian

Hello,

If I were you, I would take the System Disks, and rebuild the computer from ground zero. Format and re-build. Yes, you will loose any special software that the previous owner had on it, but more importantly, you will clean out any problems or debris he had on the computer too.

I always zap the out-of-box installation and make my own. I also partition the disk to protect from corrupted system volumes, but that is an advanced step.

Christian

Hello,

With Fedora Core 4 out there, I would suggest that you work with it. My Fedora Core 3 stuff worked just great.

You might have bad media -- the software should be prompting you on where to install the software (partitioning) and making software selection choices. That should happen well before you reboot.

Christian

Hello,

Windows Update for HARDWARE DRIVERS is not your friend. NVidia is unstable enough; you do not need Friend of Bill to make it any worse. I say that nVidia is unstable because in the CAD world, I have seen their drivers cause problems to our environment, and ATI wins all arguments in my book.

I am glad to see that you have AVG antivirus running, and am also noting that you have a spyware checker in there too.

You are running Windows XP, and while I am not good enough to tell if it is Home or not (guessing not!), you should have access to the system logs.

Right click on My Computer, and choose Manage. Then expand the little + symbols, and find the System Logs. Open up the Application logs and the System Logs. See if there is anything out of whack in the logs. You might be able to track errors that way.

You can also see if it is a device driver causing a problem. Boot the computer into Safe Mode, and let it run around for a while, and see if the lockup happens. If Safe Mode works for you for an extended period of time, you are looking at a driver issue.

You did leave a link to the motherboard, and it is a product of the ASUS corporation that I have not managed to successfully ever navigate for the right drivers for all the devices. You …

Hello,

An Airport card is basically 802.11(b), and an Airport Extreme is 802.11(g). As long as the Airport can do the basic wireless, you will be alright. You might not have the latest encryption available, but it should work.

Your Airport card should work with any base station out there... the Apple base station, or the Linksys wireless routers, or the Buffalo Tech ones, or the Netgear.

My Powerbook G3 will not use an Airport card... I use an Orinoco card with a Buffalo Tech wireless router. I have WPA (I think) encryption working just fine.

What I would do is the following:

* Purchase a wireless router. Either the Apple Extreme Basestation, or a competing product, such as the Netgear, Linksys, or Buffalo Tech unit. I personally do not like Linksys due to RF interference their boxes like to generate. If you get the Apple Extreme basestation, it only has one lan port on it, so you might need to add a switch if you are going to have more than one hardwired computer.

* Use the system profiler on your laptop to see if there is an Airport card in there.

* Wire the cable modem to your WAN port on the device you purchased above.

* Wire the desktop to your LAN port, or into a hub connected to the LAN port. Be sure that the cable connecting the LAN port goes to an "uplink" port, or use a …

Hello,

FrontPig doesn't compare to Dreamweaver. That is like saying a Pinto compares to a Semi Truck.

I would have said something like Adobe GoLive. My earlier pages were done with GoLive, and they looked nice.

Christian

Hello Blaine,

It might not be that easy. It depends on how the firewire interfaced with the hard drive inside the hard drive's box. If it is IDE, you may have a chance. If it is SATA, then maybe not.

You will need to tell us a little but more about which PowerMac G4 you have, and what the interface of the hard drive is.

Christian

Hello,

Please remember that we are discussing antivirus tools here on a Linux platform -- AVG and McAfee do not run on Linux (unless something has changed very recently!). I do like the ClamAV product.

It is also important to scan Linux systems because they are servers, and it is possible to store a Windoze virus on your linux server. The virus won't activate and run on the linux box, but if a Windoze machine attaches to your server, the virus could be transferred over.

Christian

Hello,

It all really depends on what your environmental demands are. Are you going to ask the Novell server to be a DHCP server too, and have it assign addresses? You will also need to bind TCP/IP to the server's network cards. Once that is done, you will need to check your workstations to see if TCP/IP is installed, and then configure them to either have static addresses, or to talk to the DHCP server.

What is your master plan? You are talking of a big change here.

Christian

Hello,

You do not need a router if they are on the same subnet. One switch will do, with connections to each of the computers. Configure the 98 boxes on the same subnet and you will be done. Don't forget to enable file sharing, and grant proper permissions.

Routers work if you are going from one subnet to another. There is no reason for one here.

Christian

Hello,

Ah. So you have a USB connection going on, and not strict ethernet. OK. Does your computer have an ethernet card? It would look like a FAT telephone connection socket. Bigger then telephone.

Christian

Hello Bob,

I am not sure what happened either. I have not see what you are experiencing, so cannot relate. You might need to go back to the manufacturers of the printers, and re-download their drivers. I would also open the Disk Utility, and repair the permissions, and see if that does it for you.

You can also try to make a new account under OS X, and see if printing works for you there. If that is the case, then there is something messed up in your personal profile.

Take care, and hope all is well.

Christian

Hello,

Thank you for coming back and telling us how you solved it. That was my next suggestion... to find it somewhere else and copy it over.

Christian

Hello,

I fault the Clinton administration for the 9-11 situation. His 8 years in office, with distractions to interns and the like, caused him to shy away from serious foreign policy issues, along with corporate troubles here at home.

Clinton had the chance to take care of Osama several times, and ignored it. Yet, Clinton's agnst for the military can be directly shown with his careless deployment of troops to Somalia, and the horrible tradegy of Mogodishu. Pardon my spelling -- my atlas is not here. Clinton weakened our intelligence forces, and annoyed our allies. His buddies in the UN compromised various missions overseas. He was a rotten leader; I am glad he is gone.

Bush may have been given bad intelligence about the WMD's. It is possible that the missles are buried in the sand, or out at sea somewhere. Saddam could have moved them out of the country.

As we are there, we are now having to nationbuild. This is going to take some time. It took time for Germany to rebuild after World War II (it could have been worse -- Hitler wanted his own troops to completely destroy the national infrastructure, and his top brass refused to carry out the order). It took Japan time to recover after World War II. We are talking years here, yet these efforts do not seem to be spoken about in our history books. There is no such thing as a war, and then a sudden …

Hello Jill,

It is possible that you might be able to use Virtual PC to run a Windows on your Mac, and work with the files that way. I did a search on the file format, and it doesn't seem like there is a converter available. Perhaps your source of the files can send them to you in a different format, like a .jpg or perhaps a .png that is more universal, and that your Mac can work with.

Christian

Hi,

I use Emacs and gcc on my linux boxen when coding. Although, I have managed to forget how to write a makefile. I'll have to re-visit my notes on that one.

Christian

Hello,

Open up disk utilities, and do a permissions scan on your hard drives. It is possible that your permissions are out - of - whack, preventing you from using the program. You can also do a disk repair while you are there.

Let us know how it works.

Christian

Hello,

I am closing this thread.

There are legal issues here, including the reverse engineering of the software. You might even need to do some nibble editing and other methods. Whenever the source code is not available, you run a very serious risk of making things unstable.

Granted, it could be fun, but if you want to work on the company's game, you best contact them directly.

Christian

Hello,

Are these printers accessed via a network, or are they directly connected via USB / Firewire? I am wondering if something changed on your network connection which could cause the problem.

Christian

Hello,

Is the internet connection made directly to the family computer? If so, you will need to plug the internet connection from the Roger's device to the wireless router, and then connect using another wire, the router to the family computer. You will then need to see if your wireless works.

There is a good chance that your wireless is working properly, but from the sound of it, your installation is lacking the wireless router from being on the internet.

CABLE MODEM --> WIRELESS ROUTER ---------------->  Family Computer
			  |--------------> Wireless computer

Hello,

I have gone through the posts here, and drawn a network diagram, and have realized that you have never clearly stated which computer is the one that is working! Since one of them is working, we will assume the following:

* The router works
* The DNS resolution on the router works
* Your connection to the internet works.

Go to the computer that is WORKING. Open a command window (Start --> Run... then type in cmd). Type in the following into the little black box:

ipconfig /all

Write down the information from the IP Address, Subnet Mask, DHCP Enabled, DNS Servers, and Default Gateway.

Next, go to a computer that IS NOT working.

Fire it up.

Go to the Device Manager. Verify for me please that there are no red X's, and no yellow !'s in the Device manager. You may have checked this before. I want you to check it again.

Open a command window.

Type in:

ipconfig /release

When it is done:

ipconfig /renew

Then, I want you to type in:

ipconfig /all

You should see DHCP Enabled: yes
You should see an IP Address similar to the one that is working.
You should see the same Subnet mask, and Same Default Gateway.
You should see the same DNS Servers.

Test it. Can you open www.foxnews.com?

Try this: http://69.93.117.133/ …

Hmm.

Somewhere in your computer's lifetime, it was told that file extensions with .sit or perhaps .hqx or perhaps .dmg should be opened in Excel. I am trying to find where you can configure how the extensions determine applications, but am at a loss for the moment.

In the meantime, you can tell Safari to save the file in a folder, and then after the download is done, go to Stuffit Expander, and manually decompress the file, and mount the disk image.

Christian