chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Good call hooknc. I think that's what he's going for. Can you confirm this Chipsncoke?

I have to say that the file definition is extemely poorly structured. You can tell your professor I said that.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

The compiler needs to know what something is before it will let you reference it. Just as you have to declare a variable before you use it, you must declare a function before you use it.

Imagine the code as a conversation. What if you are receiving directions on how to get somewhere, and the person giving directions told you to take a left turn at a place that you've never heard of, let's call it Johnson's Emporium. You'd be a bit confused, and you'd end up getting lost since you don't know what to look for. Now imagine that the person told you ahead of time that Johnson's Emporium was 5 miles down the road from where you are now. You'd be able to find where you need to go at that point since you know what to look for.

Some compilers allow you to use undefined variables and functions. When they see something used that they don't know about, they go looking for a definition for it. C compilers don't work that way, they need to know what to expect. By using a function declaration, you are essentially telling the compiler that there will be a function by that name and that you will define it later on.

Why would you need to use a declaration you may ask. Why not just put all the function definitions about your main function? The answer is simple. Imagine a scenario where you have two functions, and each …

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

You have asked about Notepad and Word twice now, but you not at all clear about what you want. Notepad and Word are completely different types of software. Notepad is just a basic text editor that doesn't support any type of text formatting. Word is a full-featured (*cough* bloated) text editor that supports the creation of advanced documents.

Now if you are asking about how the programs work programmatically, no one here will be able to answer that. In order to know how they work internally, you'd have to be familiar with the source. No one that works for Microsoft and has worked with the source for these programs will divulge the programs' internal operations on a public board.

Do you want to know how to write your own text editor similar to Notepad or Word?

You really must be more verbose about what you want. You need to ask us specific questions like "How do I make a text editor?" or "Are there any easy to use code modules that I can use to ease the creation of a text editor?"

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Have you tried running all the scans from Safe Mode?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Can you try running a different browser, like Firefox, and seeing if that makes any difference?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

It's quite possible that the physical connectors for your drive have worked loose. If that's the case, the laptop will have to be opened up.

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chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Try removing the battery and diconnecting the power supply. Leave the laptop like this for a couple of minutes. If the battery was charged, put just the battery in and try to boot the laptop. If that fails, remove the battery, plug it in to the power supply, and try to boot it up.

Let me know if this helped at all.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

The boards marketing name is MSI K8N NEO3-F. You can find it here on NewEgg.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

If you think it may be a software conflict, send an email to all the users indicating the mail system will be down for however long you think it will take to diagnose, shut off the mail server and go from there. One thing I've discovered in my time as a mail admin is that people would rather experience an hour of downtime that they knew about than ten minutes of downtime that they didn't know about, so fixing the problem as quickly as possible without any further unexpected downtimes is the best way to approach the problem. Since the mail server will be off, there won't be a risk of unscanned emails getting through.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Go to the guide that I have linked to in the bottom of my sig. Follow the optimize guide which will find and fix most any problem that your computer might have due to badly behaving software.

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Do any of your other internet programs (instant messengers, email client, etc) work?

You might want to try a more comprehensive set of scans. Microsoft AS and Norton won't catch everything (actually, there is much that both of those miss). Go to the link at the bottom of my sig and run through the first two steps. This will perform a very thorough scan of your system and will find almost any problem software that could be on your computer.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

How many different types of files have you tried this with?
Have you tried files from different sites or is it always the same site?
Is size a factor? Does it work properly with small files but not large files?
What kind of connection do you have?
Have you tried using a different browser, such as Firefox?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I have the same problem if I am wirelesly connected at my office. However when I conect at the airport through the wirreless hotspot there I can access all sites with the same laptop. The microsoft support thing did not work for me . I cannot aces any of the support sites anyway

Can you access any sites at all or just that you can't access specific ones?

  • If you can only access certain sites, have you tried scanning your system for viruses/spyware? If not, use the link in the bottom of my sig to do a thorough system cleaning. Also, are you certain that your office doesn't block access to certain sites?
  • If you can't access any sites, are you sure that you are connecting to your office's wireless network correctly?
chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Can you load up your BIOS configuration during boot? If so, can you find a page that shows the current temperatures in your system? If you find some temperature readings, post them here.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I'm not fully understanding what's happening. Can you work me through the process?

How did you previously save merged files?
When you work through the same steps as before, does it give you an error now?
You say that you can save audio or vidoe, but not both. How do you save one or the other?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Bring up a run dialog and run "taskmgr.exe". Does Task Manager come up or does it give you an error?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Try running the following:

sfc /scannow

I found that it's supposed to repair/replace system files. Maybe that will help you out.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I don't know what you are asking for. Can you clarify?

Can you show an example of what you are trying to do and what problem you are having with getting it to work?

It also helps if you ask specific questions.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Can you show us an example of what you are wanting?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Did you try resetting your CMOS settings?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

If you want to repair the unit, I would recommend sending it into Sony and letting them fix it professionally. Doing otherwise might cost you a bundle and still leave you with a busted laptop.

If the laptop doesn't have warrenty coverage or they won't cover the damage under the warrenty (I can't imagine that they would consider that covered damage), it would probably cost more than a new system to repair it. I would recommend that you just use the busted laptop as a desktop system by attaching a monitor and other peripherals to it and purchase a laptop to replace the broken system.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

As for setting up your speaker system, did you connect the mic port on the speakers to the mic port on the sound card?

What kind of soundcard are you using?
What does the microphone plug on the tower connect to inside the system?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

The solution that was offered is the correct solution for this problem (if you have your hardware and BIOS set correctly). Did you boot from the setup CD with the disk in and hit the appropriate key when it asked for a SATA driver disk?
Are you sure that you got the appropriate driver?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I think you may need to start with a fresh JRE. The first thing that you need to do is go through "Add/Remove Programs" and remove all versions of Sun's JRE. Next, go to this page, search the page for "Microsoft Java Virtual Machine" (in order to find the right section of the page), follow the instructions on how to remove Microsoft's JRE, and then follow the instructions to install Sun's JRE.

Let me know if this addresses your issue.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Go into the registry and remove the following keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NvCplDaemon
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NvMediaCenter
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\nwiz

That should fix your problem up, but the real issue is that your video driver should probably be updated.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

There isn't anything to do in order to enable it unless you had accidently disabled it (which it would seem that you haven't). What websites are you having problems with?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I'd have to do some research on the specifics, but you can lock down Windows machines to only allow certain programs to run under specific users. If you wanted to take the time learning how to do it, you could use Windows to do all the restrictions for you.

This document seems like a good place to start. By using the Group Policy Editor, you can restrict access to certain core Windows functions. From there, you should be able to find out how to really tighten down the machine to almost be an AOL browser appliance.

I just found the major key to getting what you want. This page will explain how to prevent a user from running any programs other than the listed ones. Be very careful with this. What you will want to do is have an administrator user that you can use so you can access everything and have another user that represents your brother's access that has the restrictions applied to it. If you apply the restrictions to the main account and you mess up, you could have a messy clean up on your hands. You will also want to make sure that your brother's account is not in the Administrators group.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

You will have to input the key on each of the clients in order for them to connect to the reconfigured router. The ease of this process all depends on how nice your software is to you. Most software will simply pop up a dialog box asking for the key when trying to reconnect.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Please clarify your problem a bit more.

When you say "start up in Java", are you talking about pages that have Java applets embedded in them?
What exactly do you mean by "kicked off websites"? Does your browser suddenly close? Does the browser give you an error? Does the page just refuse to load?
Are you using Microsoft's JRE or Sun's?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Click the Start button, select "Run...", type "cmd", and click "OK".

After the command prompt loads, type "ipconfig /renew" (without quotes), and press the Enter key. The program may take a few seconds or a few minutes to run. You'll know that it is done when you see a new prompt waiting for input.

At that point, right-click the top part of the window, click "Edit", click "Select All", and then repeat the last steps but click "Copy" instead. After you have copied the text in the window, paste it in your reply. Please put all the copied text inside of code tags ([code]copied text
[/code]
) so that I can read it.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

What is it that is giving you this message?
Is this a message after POST (while still on the black screen)?
Is this a message that Windows setup tells you?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

By mentioning boosting, you are bringing up a seperate issue which is getting more range out of your current wireless devices. I'll assume that you are still talking about adding more coverage areas rather than "tweaking" your current coverage.

How far out of the wireless coverage area is the area that your wanting to add wireless coverage to? There's only so much distance you can cover with conventional products without using creative homebrew solutions.

For example:

  • If you have a large property with a main home and a secondary home, barn, shop, or other structure that you want to offer wireless coverage to, and the two structures are next to one another, there are many possible solutions.
  • If you have two structures that are separated by a few hundred meters or more, it will be a lot harder to merge these into one network. It's still possible, but it's not easy or relatively cheap.
chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Please don't post the same issue multiple times. Post it once in the right spot.

You say that IE isn't working. Are any other internet-using programs (instant messenger, email client, online game, etc) able to connect?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Technically, you are still pirating if you are installing 98 multiple times and using it as a base for an upgrade path. The upgrade products are to upgrade legitimate copies of Windows.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Since you have some type of spyware infection, use the guide linked to in the bottom of my sig to run through a series of cleaners that can remove most types of malware off of your system. Let me know if this takes care of your problem.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I'm going to guess that you recently upgraded to SP2. That's Window's new Security Center letting you know that it doesn't like how you do things. You can load up Security Center by double-clicking the shield in your system tray or by going to Control Panel\Security Center. You can get rid of the annoying alerts by clicking the link on the left side of the Security Center that says "Change the way Security Center alerts me".

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Welcome to the really crappy world of administrating a Windows server. I really don't know the best way to fix your problem since the Server lines of Windows always want to be "special cases" and not work like everything else. There's a very comprehensive guide linked to from the bottom of my sig that might give you access to some tools that you haven't tried yet. I'd recommend that you start there.

As for finding software conflicts, I'd recommend trial and error. Try removing one of the suspect software packages and seeing if it fixes the problem. Keep trying with different packages until you have found the problem or have found that it's not the issue.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I don't understand what your question is.

Do you need help with creating an object structure that can handle data of that sort?
Do you need help with how to read the file?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Let's look at the response when requesting this page:

HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:06:26 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Location: section/frontpage/index.asp
Content-Length: 148
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDACTBSRRB=FALIOKOCIJNCLJAPOONLFLCF; path=/
Cache-control: private

<head><title>Object moved</title></head>
<body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a HREF="section/frontpage/index.asp">here</a>.</body>

The header indicates a response code of 302. 302 responses include a "Location" directive that indicates where the actual response can be found at (if properly formatted that is). As you can see from the response, the Location is specified as "section/frontpage/index.asp". All you need to do is request that page from the same domain in order to get the information you want.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

I'm not too familiar with graphics in C++, but I can see that you need to clarify a bit more. Are you talking about generating a text graph, a image file, or displaying a window with an image in it?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Maybe Gort knows better, but it would seem to me that your RAM had worked its way out a bit. This can happen due to jarring the laptop or from heat moving the RAM in small amounts over time. Removing the battery and the power supply ensured that you wouldn't run the risk of shorting out something while you were working inside the system. Removing and reseating the RAM allowed for the pins to make contact again.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Hey Shane. I played WoW for a while, but my favorite MMO has to be EVE: Online. Like you, I decided to stay away from MMOs for sanity's sake. I also play Counter Strike :).

See you around.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Are you able to get Explorer to load by going into Safe Mode?

Have you checked to see if Explorer is currently running in the "Processes" tab? If it's in there, end the process, and try running Explorer again.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

Mapping just makes it easy to refer to a network share and doesn't actually do anything to the network share. It's basically synonymous with a file shortcut; it doesn't change the file, but makes a "pointer" to it for easier access. I mount shares all the time. They are very helpful to use. Unmounting a file share is easy as well, just right-click the share in File Explorer and select "Disconnect".

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

If you want to use Autologon for your new account, read Microsoft's guide on the topic.

I would recommend disabling the old account until you are absolutely sure you don't want it anymore. You can disable an account by loading the Computer Management Console, expanding "System Tools\Local Users and Groups\Users", right-clicking the user you wish to disable, selecting "Properties", and checking the "Account is disabled" checkbox.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

You've got the right idea, and you are really close. Try moving the start of the "do" block to before requesting the ISDN number but after printing the title. After you fix up your loop, we can work on the totals if you need help with that.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

So... You put your homework assignment directly in the thread, say "please", and we're supposed to do your homework for you? I don't think so. At least read the problem, find what you don't understand, and ask thoughtful questions about it. Such as: "I can't figure out how to read input. Can someone show me how to read user input from a command line?", "How do I sort records from Z to A?", or even "I haven't done a single bit of homework for this class yet, so I have no idea where to even start. Can someone point me to some good tutorials so I can learn how to write and compile C programs?"

Any of those types of questions would not only help us know what you are having problems with, but it allows us to actually help you rather than just giving you your entire assignment.

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

What type of speaker system is it?
Did you plug in the microphone cord on the speaker set into the microphone plug on your soundcard?
If you have a microphone plug on your case somewhere, have you tried that one?
Have you unmuted and raised the volume in the Volume Control?

chrisbliss18 26 Posting Shark

There's no question that you should get a refund if there's no screen. Resellers always try to charge around $1500 for a new screen (irregardless of how old the laptop is), and used ones that aren't damaged are very hard to come by for a decent price.

As for Windows being unable to run on any type of external harddrives, yes, that is exactly what I am saying. Unless the harddrive is plugged into that harddrive connection inside the laptop, you cannot run Windows from it.

If I were you, I'd just start building systems from scratch. You can build a new computer for around $500 that will have better specs than those used models. If you get really good at shopping around for deals and know good places to get decent monitors cheap, you can build whole systems for $300-$400 easily. This gives you enough room to buy legit copies of Windows. Since, if you are going to sell these systems, you really don't want to sell pirated versions of Windows. Doing so rips your customers off and makes you a target for litigation.

Of course I'm talking about building mini-tower type systems. If you are wanting to do laptops, there's just no way to be profitable in building/selling laptops without price gouging unless you are a very large company that builds systems.