Posts by kc0arf

Hello,

You might find a tool that will recover a partition-wipe as long as you have not saved any new data to the drive. Otherwise, it is very difficult to recover that sort of material, because re-partitioning is designed to clearly prepare the disk for the new environment / conditions that you set it up for.

I would be looking to restore from backups.

If you do get the data back from a partition tool, save it off onto another device, and when you are done recovering, reformat it to clean up any residue.

Christian

Hello,

Is there something about the password that could be different, such as is your caps lock on or not?

Do you have any other accounts on the machine, such as another administrator account, or did you enable the root account? If so, you can get into the machine from there, and do some password management on the original account.

Let us know,

Christian

Hello,

Yep. When you boot the 2003 disk, you will get a listing of the partitions somewhere in the install process. Make sure you select the right partition. For cleanliness, you might want to delete the small partition first, and then install 2003 again in a new cleanly formatted partition.

Christian

Hello,

Just a note to advise something... this is why physical security is important on servers... because tools like the one you just referred people to are very dangerous in the wrong hands, and they are only effective if you can boot the machine with the tool and it's own OS. Physical security prevents people from doing what you are proposing.

Christian

Hello,

I would argue that if you have a 24 x 7 connection, you do need a personal firewall, especially to prevent access to file sharing on the Windows computer. If you are dialing up, and then disconnecting after checking your mail or whatnot, then your risk is smaller due to your slow access speed, a random IP number, and that you are not online nearly as long.

Those of you who dialup all day though should have a firewall.

If ZoneAlarm will not allow you to do what you need to do, then the installation could be corrupted, or the program is not designed to let what you want to work execute properly. Perhaps a re-installation of the program will take care of the problem for you.

Christian

Hi,

Please do not request members contact you directly off the forum... the forum is here to help everyone involved, and the answers should be documented here for the next guy.

Also, profanity has no place on the forum either, especially followed by requests for help. Doesn't make much sense, does it?

Christian

Hi,

Welcome to DaniWeb.

As a rule, we do not do the assignment for you; rather we take your posted code, and help you solve the remaining challenges. We will also help you out with syntax errors, and logic problems. But we won't code it from scratch for you.

Christian

Hello,

Wow. That is going to be a challenge, considering the age of the program language, and that you need to write it to work for DOS.

I would do some google searches on how to access an ethernet/IP connection under DOS, and if they give you C++ sample code, translate that into Pascal.

Christian

Hello,

I am not sure how to do this with Office / Excel. You can try OpenOffice / NeoOffice J, and see if that export will solve the problem.

Otherwise, see if VMS will support another input format, such as CSV.

Christian

Hello,

I am trying to get Dani to start cooking at home more too. We did do a DaniWeb Cookbook a few months ago where people shared their treats on the site. I don't know if she has put on an apron yet and got cooking or not.

She does live in New York, so I am sure there are plenty of things to do at all hours.

Christian

Hello,

I am closing this thread because it has fallen into name calling and assumption making.

Christian

Hello,

Wow. What an elequent post!

The Mac 512KE. That computer has seen it's day. I wonder if it is still operating for you. 68000 processor running at 8 MHz, I think. 512 MB RAM. Double Sided disks. I think that is before the SCSI hard drive, so your hard drive was a fast serial solution. Don't worry about speed though... with only 512 MB of RAM, you were running a system < System 6, and Excel could fit on a floppy. Maybe you had the dual floppy option instead, and kept your system disk on one, and the programs on the other.

Your computer existed before 32 bit Color Quickdraw, so you even had a hard time with greyshades. If anything, picture printouts looked like older newsprint.

You are making me want to go wire up my Apple IIc and remind myself of other days.

Christian

Hello,

On your PC at work, what program opens and shows the file properly? That would be the first part to see if we can find a Mac OS solution for you.

For example, does the PC open up Word? Pixelpaint? A web browser?

Thanks,

Christian

Hello,

This thread has unfortunately become clouded with different types of problems attached to the same thread, perhaps caused by the same problem: XP SP2. Perhaps they are not.

Geucimer: You may be onto something here. I am seeing more passive ftp approaches, especially with the rise of firewalls. Typically FTP wants to pick a random port to fire the data back on, and a firewall can block that. Passive FTP manages the ports differently, making the transaction firewall happy.

BrotherPayne: I like running a firewall "upstream" from the client computers I use, so that if the firewall is compromised, I have yet another layer of security between the internet and me. The internet is an evil place: worms and attacks are all over the place... I can show you logs of continual access attemps on my systems. I run a linux server between my desktops and the internet, and that linux box is the firewall. Not everyone desires that solution, however. I would suggest a wireless router box if you want a "store solution", or if you have a business, you will need something stronger such as a PIX unit. Or a linux server. In all of these cases, however, some skill is required (aside from the store-solution) to configure and manage. But that keeps the software off of each local machine, consuming memory, and CPU time.

zalakes: Yup. XP SP2 with firewall on will even prevent domain administrators from doing certain things to a …

Hello,

To help you along, we would need to know what kind of OS you are working with, and what steps you have done to try and complete the mission.

Be aware that doing NNTP involves a lot of network traffic, and you may be in violation of your ISP. I support a discussion on how to implement a server, however, and we can look at the legalities later.

Christian

Hello,

I believe the Antivirus is causing the problem.

SAVRT(02) + 0000686D

Could be Symantec Antivirus Real Time, and the numbers could be a memory address where it is crashing.

Remove Antivirus, and then shutdown. Turn the computer back on. If the error goes away, you have found the problem. Try re-installing, or try a different AV solution. Do not run your computer long without it.

Christian

Hello,

The instructions depend on your OS, but the big 3 (Mac, Linux, Windoze) all support what you wish to do.

You will need to define one of the computers as a "server" and the other as a client. I would not make both of them servers and both of them clients, as you can quickly loose track of where you put your stuff, and the goal to successful file management is to BACKUP your data regularly, and be able to find things.

Once you determine what relationship each computer will have, you will need to enable file and print sharing on that computer, and then tell the other computer about the shares.

Christian

Hello,

I think 10.4 comes on DVD. I am not sure. I have not thought of upgrading just yet.

What are the specifications of your current computer?

Christian

Hello,

Depends what Today is :)

On Friday, I spent a nice day with my wife. We were both off from work, and we made a couple meals together, and shared a bottle of wine, and really just had a nice time.

On Saturday, My wife and I went shopping to work on some of the items off of our registry, and we picked up some gifts for some expecting friends, and we went and roasted marshmellows with her brothers and sisters in a campground. I also worked with a group of radio people who setup an 802.11(b) link that went about 30 miles.

On Sunday, we went to church, and then went to a baseball game with friends, and then we went out to dinner and had a most excellent time.

Having a great weekend. Thanks for asking.

Christian

Hello,

Welcome to DaniWeb. Unfortunately, you posted in the wrong section to have this question answered properly... you are in our Intro section, and we do not do tech support here. I will move this question to the proper category.

I will assume this involves Windows 2000/XP.

I would also scan your computer with AdAware from LavaSoft as a start.

Christian

Hello,

So is the problem figured out?

My FC3 does have fdisk available to me... I do not have FC4 installed on anything yet. You might need to install a package to get the needed utility. You can look on rpmfind.net for the fdisk package, and it will tell you what package it is a part of (perhaps diskutil?)

Thanks.

Christian

Hello,

At work, pushing the envelope with AutoCAD and SolidWorks installations, we have found that nVidia drivers are unstable / weird in comparison to the ATI drivers. It really has me thinking for my next computer....

I am like you... have Mac OS X for my desktop workstation, and use Linux for other things, and for server operations. I think the two systems really make a nice computing environment.

Christian

Hello,

I believe you need to do a DC Promo in there somewhere too, because if you have emulation turned on for the Primary Domain Controller (things that older Windows wants to know about), you need to do the promo thing to migrate the catalog server, and any PDC emulation.

There are also software packages available to assist in your migration.

Christian

Hello,

I have a feeling that when you deleted the old drivers, you removed a shared component, and that is causing the problem.

Might be a smart move to start over. It is possible to work with the video drivers from Safe Mode, but your computer might be too corrupt to do that.

Christian

Hello,

I am not certain if you can upgrade basic to dynamic disks, and keep the data intact. My gut feeling says no, and I would not attempt to do such a thing without backups.

You did say you had backups, right?

Converting the disks to a RAID, even in software, will disrupt the information on them. Why? Because of how a RAID behaves, by definition.

The logical partition on RAID 0 systems become useless if one of the disks fails. The disks will be fine hardware wise, but the logical partitions will be corrupted upon failure.

Christian

HI,

You got hit with spyware. I would checkout AdAware by Lavasoft.

Christian

Hi,

I am wondering if you carry a cell phone with you or a wireless phone, or perhaps always use some electronic gadget where you are at. It is possible your connection is being affected by outside sources. I have been in a place where the connection was great, the IP address was working fine, but a guys cell phone knocked the connection apart. The D-LINK software said we were connected, and all was working, yet we could not get anywhere due to the interference.

Christian

Hello,

To be honest, I would avoid it if it came from Microsoft. And if you do not know what we are talking about, perhaps you might want to ask for a clarification on the topic before offering advice.

Christian

Hello,

Perhaps your environment has what is called a profiler. When I was doing coding, I would run it through from time to time to see how long the system stayed within the functions.

Christian

Hello,

It sounds nice and propriatary. Just be careful, as you can shock yourself on that Monitor, even if it is not plugged in. The tubes and capacitors there can store quite a charge, months or years. Beware.

Personally, I would leave it alone.

CHristian

Hello,

Check to see if you have some sort of rule / filter operating within the Outlook program. It is possible to setup rules to manage emails within the program itself.

Christian

Hello,

There are tools available to the moderators and super mods to manage the postings. We have various policies on WHY a post should be managed, but to answer your question in an efficient manner, we have a little menu that we work with to do what we need to do.

Christian

Hello,

Harry Potter -- I really enjoyed these. Adults can have fun with them too!
The Lord of the Rings
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Tom' Clancy's multi-volume novels
Star Trek Novel: My Enemy, My Ally

While we are here, might as well say my favorite Comic: Bloom County / Outland / Opus

Hello,

Defining your account on the box as a normal user, and stopping the use of everything as a local administrator. That is the first problem. But be aware that a lot of your materials will not work, because of the flawed Microsoft Security Model.

Of course, that assumes that you are running Windows 2000 or later. If you are still living in 98 or 95 or 3.1, you are a local administrator anyway, and the above will not matter to you.

Christian

Hello,

It might need to have DSRepair run on the volumes.

You might also need to examine how the UPS is installed and configured... if there are errors, it sounds like the shutdown was not cleanly executed. Did the UPS fail? You mentioned 2 minutes... that is not long for a UPS. Is it properly sized?

Check to make sure that the disks are physically alright. See if the RAID (do you have one) is properly configured and initialized. Check to see if any IDE drives are properly recognized. This info will fly up during the boot up, of course.

I like the idea of copying vrepair and the namespace nlm's to the boot partion. Never tried that trick before. Thank you on that one.

Christian

Hi,

I would be concerned. Your computer is telling you a message... it doesn't like the heat.

There are a couple things at work here... the CPU Fan is not being told to spin, or the CPU fan is unable to spin.

Check the BIOS settings to see if you have a always-on setting. See if turning that on triggers speed in the CPU fan. I for one have never been a fan of thermo-control. If there is a fan there, power it and spin it.

If those options do not work, turn the box off and physically spin the fan with your finger. Is it smooth? Is there gunk in there preventing rotation? Is there power to the fan?

If you are not comfortable going into your machine, I would take it in and have it looked at before you melt it down.

Christian

Hello,

You do have an older Mac... thinking that it is not one of the trayless models of the newer era (ones that you slide the disk into a slot).

A Mac running pre X will not be able to use the CD-ROM with the extensions off... it is possible that you disabled the CD-ROM extension, and/or the support extensions (one was called High-Sierra, another was ISO 9660, and I think there were one or two other support extensions).

There are a couple things you can do.

* Turn the Mac on and hold down the C button and slide in the System CD-ROM before the computer starts loading. This should enable the computer to boot with the system CD, and it will test if your computer can read the disk or not. If you do not hear the disk spinning in the drive, then there is a hardware problem.

* When the disk is in there, and turning, do you hear a grinding / scraping noise? If so, we have an alignment problem.

You can also get into the OS, and look for the System Profiler application. If you cannot find it, go to the internet, and see if you can find some software called TechTool Pro. You might also search for other system-identification programs, and download them. I remember using TechTool Pro though.

Anyways, Check to see if the computer can find the CD-ROM. It will most likely be a SCSI …

Hello,

One may ask why you have not backed up your data before performing a major operation on your computer. Then again, why don't you have backups in the firstplace? That was your first mistake. I will bet you will not make it again, especially if you have to lose it.

It sounds like GenToo took up the first partition of the drive, and Windows is the second or third partition. Couple of ideas:

1) Boot with DOS and if you need to, get the widget to access NTFS partitions. You might be able to get to the Windows partition. You might also be able to get a network connection. If you can, copy your data off to a server, and edit the boot.ini file to find the proper partition. As homework, do a search on how to read and work with the boot.ini file. If you have NTFS, you may need to pay $$ for the widget to write to the NTFS partition.

2) You can try to re-install GenToo, being mindful where your Windows partition is, and trying hard to not over-write it.

3) You can take your hard drive over to another computer, and try to access it as a slave to another master. If IDE, make sure you set the jumpers accordingly, and you might have to go into the BIOS and make sure it is recognized and enabled. Edit the boot.ini file, and also use this as a means to …

Hello,

The network design is also going to depend on your internal needs, and a sense of reliability. Wireless needs more than just line-of-sight... if you are in a busy community where other people have wireless, you could be subject to a lot of interference. You also need to design security into the system, or your materials will be transmitted in the clear or under a weak key, and your possible corporate secrets could be exposed.

If this is a company, and you have the strong desire to do it RIGHT, then you would fiber-optic the connection. Matter of fact, you would run another pipe a significant distance away from the first pipe, in the event some digger disrupts the connection.

Of course, if this is a home network, and you want to connect your buddy or something, the cost scales are quite different indeed.

Christian

Hello,

It is possible that there are power problems. Do you have frequent brown-outs in your place? Do you see the lights dimming here and there for a moment, or perhaps a flicker, and then the computer acts up? You might need a UPS to clean up that problem.

You can also check the system logs to see if any new reports exist in the logs. Perhaps you have some service knocking the system down.

Christian

Hi,

I would back the computer back to Windows 2000. XP requires more RAM, more speed, it is a larger OS, and it demands space to operate. If it was my box, I would have more RAM in it. And Windows is not the only OS that has expanded in this light... so has Mac OS X and Linux... today's OS requires more RAM.

I am thinking that you should do a clean install of XP. Backup the data, and then format the drive and re-install XP nice and cleanly.

Christian

Hello,

You might wish to re-think having a partition that large. Imagine all the things you could loose if something goes wrong on it. Plus, try to back that size of media onto something else.

Unless you are digitizing video, or have a large set of projects that consume huge amounts of data, I would suggest you partition it down into more managable sizes, to help protect your data. Remember that partitioning will *not* protect you from a hardware crash of the drive, but it will allow you to format a troublesome partition without disturbing the other volumes.

Christian

Hello,

I think you need to do more than just install Win98. Not certain if Win 98 will edit the Windows 2000 boot.ini file so that the second device shows up properly in the boot loader menu. If not, you may have to add it manually.

Christian

Yup.

Hit the up arrow, and you will see it. Or, at least in Fedora Core 3, I can type in HISTORY (lower case) and it will send out a bunch of them.

Christian

Hello,

I thought I saw something about copy-inhibit settings on a server share. Part of the file attibutes that Windows uses. But that would not help having the media in front of you on your local machine.

People will find a way to copy things, even if they are not supposed to.

Christian

Hello,

Our setup at work involves using the NIC card to access the VPN, and we have unchecked the box that asks us to make the dialup connection first. You simply put in the IP number of the company's device into the box, and we also setup DNS and WINS of the corporate network, to help eliminate any name resolution errors.

Christian

Hello,

Apple does use RISC processors, and that helps in the instruction of code, whereas Intel uses more of a CISC design. RISC = Reduced Instruction, CISC = Complex instruction.

They are referring to the micro-code that the CPU uses to do things. A RISC chip has more instructions that are easier to execute than a CISC chip.

I have been out of the hardware examination thing for a while now, and am not sure if Intel has made more pipelines and caching, but am sure they have been moving right along now to keep performance moving.

Christian

Hello,

His computer is booting, and then somewhere in the boot sequence, it is telling the computer to re-boot and reboot again. Into a loop. Usually, when choosing safe mode, the computer comes up to a position that you can repair it. It appears that the computer's OS has been compromised beyond that point.

Time to hand your son the install disks and have him rebuild the machine. It might *MIGHT* be possible for him to repair the configuration using the install disks, but if that option fails, you will need to format, and make a clean system.

This may also help instruct your son (don't know what age he is, but he was old enough to read) about installing software that is of unknown quality and purpose. A lot of games and other "cool" things are great fronts for malicious code beneath them.

Christian

Hello,

I use a program called Adium that allows me to do AIM and Yahoo and MSN and others. It is just like gaim under Linux and Windows. Getting Gaim to work under Mac OS X can be a pain in the rump... go with Adium.

Enjoy your new mac,

Christian

Hi,

It is unfortunate that some things can get just too old to work properly. You might need an old computer to run older things after all. The people with Windows computers see the same thing.

Christian