Posts by chrisbliss18

You haven't given us enough information.

Do you know anything about Pascal?
Are you able to make most of the program, but are stuck on a specific issue?
What is the full description of what this program is supposed to do?
Do you expect us to write all of it so you don't have to do your homework?

Never mind. Forward all comments to this thread.

What does this have to do with Shell Scripting?

If you want information about System Restore in Windows XP, read this guide.

Use Regular Expressions. Once you learn how to use those, you can learn how to do matching for any pattern.

I don't understand your code at all. Why are you running a loop to check every record in the table for the value in the cookie? Why don't you just execute a query that checks for the existence of the value you are looking for and save yourself a lot of execution time and headaches?

To turn on the guest account, open up User Accounts from the Control Panel, select the Guest Account, and make sure that it is turned on.

SimpleJohn said to access the share through \\computer-name\share-name not http://computer-name/share-name. There is a very big difference between the two.

Your auto-logon feature is turned off and your password is blank, that's why it is the way it is. Use this guide to turn on auto-logon.

Very nice guides. Thanks cj2600.

You can message me if you'd like. I'm a web developer that primarly codes in Perl.

Here's a simple bit of code I put together:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $query = new CGI;

my %vars;

foreach my $key (sort {$a <=> $b} $query->param())
{
	$vars{$key} = $query->param($key);
}

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

if(open(FILE, ">>testFile.txt"))
{
	print FILE "$vars{'data'}<br>";
	close(FILE);
	
	print "Success";
}
else
{
	print "Fail";
}

exit;

This code assumes that you are wanting the information from the field named "data" saved in the file.

Is there a reason why you need this specific version?

Only the ones related to WMP. That is to say, your media files won't go anywhere.

In order to do RAID through SATA, the interface bus must support RAID. This means that you need to get a SATA PCMCIA card that has a RAID chip. I was unable to find any that met this criteria.

As far as extreme performance goes, I can't imagine that you could get extreme performance by first going through the PCI bus, then through the PCMCIA bus, then through the bus on the PCMCIA card, then through the drive. I was unable to find any benchmarks, but I would believe that the sustained data rates through an IDE channel would be higher than through PCMCIA.

Laptops are designed for ease of use over performance. If you are wanting insane performance, custom build yourself an ATX machine with all the bells, whistles, and tricked outness. It definately sounds like you have money to blow on this concept, so I don't know why you would try to pimp out a laptop rather than just building a high-performance desktop that would offer superior flexability and performance at a lower cost and level of frustration.

I went to the Kingston site and found your model listed in the options. You can see their recommendations here.

It would seem that your system needs a special type of RAM since the specs aren't even listed and there are only two options. I did look up info on the RAM and found that they are PC3200 RAM modules.

Let's run a couple of commands to rule out some possibilities. Restart your machine in Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r". Reboot your machine when that has finished. When Windows finishes loading up, run "sfc /scannow". See if running these makes any difference on your system's performance.

I am very curious about your mentioning of time. How come it always happens at 1:50pm? I'm trying to find out if there is anything specific about 1:50pm.

If you start up your machine at 8am, does this problem not start occuring until exactly 1:50pm?

If you start up your machine one hour earlier than you normally do, does your machine start having problems at 12:50pm, or does it still occur at 1:50pm?

Since it starts at around 1:50pm, it seems like there comes a time when it stops. Does the problem go away after the machine has been off for a while? Does the freezing problem stop at a certain time?

Please answer as many questions as you can. The more of my questions you answer, the quicker I can help you find the problem.

Seems like the power supply on the monitor might be bad. This is actually a fairly common source of CRT failure. If it's still under warrenty, get the monitor replaced.

Explain what you mean by "undoing the settings for the primary drive". There isn't really a primary drive, which is why your error message doesn't make any sense. There is a primary IDE channel (totally unrelated to USB) that has the ability to handle two drives (a master and a slave), but there isn't a primary drive.

If your system isn't able to find the harddrive, it's possible that a cable came loose or the drive is damaged. I'd recommend calling your computer manufacturer's tech support line and seeing what they say since repairing a laptop yourself will void your warrenty and cal easily leave you with a totally broken machine.

If you are connecting the drive through USB, the external drive isn't your problem. The system sees drives connected through USB differently than ones connected to an IDE or SATA channel.

Are you wanting a Perl script or a PHP script? This is the PHP forum. If you want Perl assistance, go here.

I'm sorry if I come off rude. I'm just giving you the facts so that you may resolve your situation as quickly as possible. A link to your thread may be helpful to someone who reads this thread. Anyone that is able to offer assistance, see this thread that contains the HJT log.

I'm nowhere near as good as some of these guys on fixing problems, so I defer to their superior abilities until I can understand situations as well as they can. Running some scans on your own while you wait may not be a bad idea however. There is a very good guide here that will run you through an array of scans and fixes. You may be thinking that you've run all of that before, but it is actually very beneficial to go through the guide top to bottom and follow all of its advice.

I'm inclined to think that your problem isn't due to a virus or other malware infection. It's very rarely that malware is the sole reason for crashes. If I were you, run "sfc /scannow" to make sure that the the core Windows files are not corrupted. After you run that scan, restart the computer in Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r" to ensure that the drive doesn't have any corrupt data or sectors. If this doesn't fix the problem, you may have hardware issues, which are harder to diagnose.

Are you able to play the file in Media Player?
Do any files autoplay?

If you are wanting immediate assistance and money is on the line, pay a consultant. This is a free forum that attempts to help everyone, but the people who are best able to help you with your problems do not have unlimited time or resources. If you want the best answers and not just random guesses, you have to wait for the people that are able to help you or pay consultants for their time and attention.

Can you describe what problems you are having?

Be patient. People will help you when they can. Also, don't make junk threads (this is an example of a junk thread BTW).

A browser basically does nothing but download files and render their contents. The web pages you go to are either html files or generated content that looks like an html file. In order for the browser to render the images on the page, it has to download GIF, JPEG, and other similarly encoded files.

There are products that you can use on a network gateway that can prevent access to files that meet certain criteria, but this requires a lot of work and sometimes additional expenses for equipment and software.

Some of the broadband routers have the modem built-in. If your friend already has a modem that has a network jack on it, all he needs is a standard broadband router.

My experience with wireless routers is limited, so I don't know of a specific router to recommend. I don't recommend that you get a D-Link router however. I have worked with a few different wireless D-Link routers, and they have all been terrible (their firmware always seems to have major problems). I had really good experiences with wired Linksys routers, but that doesn't say anything about their wireless products.

I agree with CM. Getting a laptop at around $1000 will provide you with everything you need to do homework, while still providing decent performance for some older or less processor and GPU intensive games.

You can easily spend more than $2000 on a laptop that can run today's games. I think that a gaming laptop is a waste however since you can't upgrade them.

For $2000 you can buy yourself a nice school laptop that will be lightweight, offer a really good battery life, and have decent performance in addition to a decent desktop system that you can use for gaming. In the end, you'd end up spending the same amount, but you'd have two computers each of which are better suited for their different tasks and, and you'd have the ability to easily upgrade the gaming machine.

I'm an AMD fan.

The video is a streaming video and cannot just be saved to your harddrive. There are tools out there that you can use to record an entire stream, but these don't always work very well and often times bypass the media owner's copyright. Most streaming-only files are set up that way to prevent people from saving their own copy.

As I said before, I think the drive is damaged.

Did you try going to ATI's website and downloading the driver for your card?

Did you check the link that I supplied (check my last post)? It details the different ways to access the Recovery Console.

Please refer to this duplicate thread on this topic and disregard this thread.

I have a couple of ideas for you to try.

Load the Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r". This will scan your harddrive and fix any file and disk errors. Doing this first helps to ensure that any fixes done later will be done in good areas on the harddrive.

If the system is still having problems, load up the system in Safe Mode and run "sfc /scannow". This will make sure that all your system files are as they should be.

Update the thread and let us know if this took care of your problem or not.

P.S. It's better only post a subject once. Since this topic is in two different areas, you'll have people that are giving different sets of instructions that may confuse you.

The My Documents folder (and all other user-specific folders) can only be accessed by that user on that machine (unless you configure roaming user profiles which are a pain to setup and maintain or if you seriously mangle the built-in file access permissions for those folders). If you want to access those files, put them in a non-user-specific folder.

What are the errors you are getting?

Darkfire, there are many ways to load up the Recovery Console. I'd recommend only leaving the XP Home drive connected and trying to load the Recovery Console by using the XP Home CD.

I would like to know why you are dual booting Home and Pro. There are very minor differences between these two OSes if you don't run IIS. I'd recommend just sticking with one OS, XP Pro. Is there a specific reason why you need access to Pro and Home from the same machine?

Sounds like her drive has some bad sectors. Restart the machine in Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r".

I don't know where you can get just the chips. The best idea I can come up with is using a Bluetooth USB key to interface with. They are fairly inexpensive, and you could interface with it directly from the USB port.

sunando, the problem is that you have asked way too many questions at once. You just post a bunch of information and then expect that we are going to interpret all your actual questions and answer them.

For example, I see the following topics in your post:

• Information about how to hook up and configure multiple drives of both PATA types and SATA types to a specific motherboard.
• How to configure the BIOS to properly handle drives of different types.
• How to handle multibooting operating systems from different drives.
• The definitions and differences between primary, secondary, master, and slave.
• How operating systems are able to share drive data from other OS's partitions and how to configure them to do so.
• Smart strategies on how to add additional storage and how to select the format that the drive should be in.
• Backup strategies and how to implement them.
• Handling partitions that have crashed OSes on them.
• Reparing broken partitions and preventing OS crashes.

On top of all of this, you request that the responder creates a simple, step-by-step guide just for you so that you aren't confused. You also request additional information that the responder may feel is related to the subjects.

I often respond to single-subject questions with multiple paragraphs of data that can take up to anywhere from fifteen minutes to many hours to think about, research, and post so that I ensure that I have given the person quality information that I have …

If he bought the harddrive retail, it would have come with a disk that can mirror the information from the old drive to the new drive. If his didn't come with a disk, he may be able to get the same software by downloading it from the new harddrive's manufacturer's website. There are other ways such as using Norton Ghost, but these solutions usually entail spending money and learning complex software.

Even if he successfully "ghosts" the image from the old drive to the new drive, Windows may want to be reinstalled. XP has this nasty habit of needing to be reinstalled if any major changes were made to the hardware. Best of luck.

kained... There aren't any firmware updates for that router yet. There aren't any available. This means that there aren't any to find.

Kwokez, UBCD is very easy to use. All you need to do is burn the CD, reboot so that the CD will be the boot drive, let the program load, select the program you want to use, and follow the instructions.

There are many ways this could have happened. It is very possible that Windows was attempting to fix the problem for you, and, since you cancelled the chkdsk, it was left in an unusable state. You can try to repair the partition with GetDataBack.

If the manufacturer's site doesn't list any new firmware, which it doesn't, then there isn't a new firmware version yet.

Are you saying that your drive can't read any DVDs or that it won't play DVD movies?

Laptop harddrives can handle quite a lot. I used to ride my bike with a running laptop inside it. I think I was the first person with a 4GB portable MP3 player. Oh... The laptop kept running for years after using it in this way.

It's quite likely that the memory bus got damaged when the RAM chip blew. This means that you will need to get a new motherboard. Depending on what type of motherboard that you are wanting, typical prices range from $50-$150.

Try running "sfc /scannow".

I don't believe that you can have Flash force to be a certain size. What you need to do is put the Flash inside an element that you can set to a certain size. The best way to do this is to set the height and width elements of the object tag that you are using to add the Flash file to the site.

You will need a SELECT statement and an UPDATE statement.

The SELECT will be something like "SELECT DISTINCT id FROM table2". In the code, loop through all the results and in each iteration, execute "UPDATE table1 SET member='Y' WHERE id='$idFromSelectResult'".

If you are going to specify a doctype, validate by the doctype. Check the results of validating your page here.

You have quite a number of errors. Fix the errors, then compare the differences between the two browsers.