Posts by chrisbliss18

You will want to reconfigure the router from a computer that is pysically attached to it. When you change the security settings and add a WEP key, the router will reboot, and you will be unable to connect to it until you have your settings on the computer updated. I would recommend that you have one computer connected with cables, and another computer connected wirelessly at the same area that you are working in. Turn on the router encryption, create a key, restart the router, and then reconfigure all the wireless clients. This way, if you mess up, you are still connected to the router.

What program are you trying to use?

I haven't done this myself, so I'm not sure if Windows will throw a tantrum or not. If you want to go the safe route, create a new user for yourself, add the new user to the Administrators group, and start using that user. Once you log in with your new user, access the old user's files through the "C:\Documents and Settings" folder. You'll probably want to copy these files over into your new user's areas. You could disable the old user account so that it doesn't show up on the login screen, and then delete the old account when you feel that you don't need it anymore.

I don't know what platform you are using, but doing an update of this type is easy on the Linux systems that I work with. I simply copy over all the files from the current database and replace the old database files with them. As soon as the data is replaced and a new query hits the system, the new data is already there. This makes quick backups and restores a breeze. I simple create a backup folder, copy all the files there, make my tests, and restore the data in seconds if an unexpected event corrupted the data.

I only find using the dumps to be helpful if I'm porting to different databasing systems (from mySQL to MSSQL for example).

This question reeks of homework problem. Since that's the case, I'll make you think about it. What you need to do is create a list of all the possible substrings, count up duplicate occurances of substrings, and then filter out the substrings that were only duplicated twice.

Are you creating the PersonInfo class definition in the same file as the rest of your program? If you are, you need to define the PersonInfo class as static.

You don't necessarily need to make a max function, you could actually use a define like the following:

#define MAX(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))

You could always just use better variable naming conventions. Using "x" for the name of every variable doesn't help you, and it doesn't help anybody looking at your code.

I can see two different options: using an Access Point or using a Repeater. Either option will create another "hotspot" for your wireless network. The Access Point method would require running a cable from your current, wired network out to where you want to place your Access Point. A Repeater is basically an Access Point that connects to a wireless network and "repeats" the signal, thus increasing the range of the network without needing to be physically connected to it.

Each method has its pros and cons. The Access Point doesn't need to be able to connect to the current wireless network, but it does need to connect to the network with wires. The converse is true of the Repeater.

For more information about either device, just ask.

As for using another router, it is possible. Many routers support a "repeater mode", but you will want to check with the vendor to make sure that it will be compatible with your network. Some routers will only repeat a signal from an identical router.

I've been hanging around for a few days now and have yet to make an introduction.

I've been working with computers for a long time now. Programming was my first major computer hobby. Then I started to use computers for gaming and multimedia applications. Eventually, I would do everything on my computer. It was, and still is, my media player, my television (LCD w/ TV-tuner :)), my stereo, my newspaper, and my library all rolled into one.

Fortunately, all my time on computers was not wasted as I now have a very good job as the Technology Director (fancy name for Sys Admin, programmer, and all around software/hardware guy rolled into one) of a small web-site development company.

I consider myself to have a very well-rounded knowledge of computers, but I know that there is still so much more that I have to learn. I came to this site in the hopes of sharing what I know, learning what I don't know, and helping others learn in the process.

Thanks for creating such a great site Dani.

This document details many different shutdown issues (including your own) and offers different solutions. Give the tips there a try and let us know if it fixes your problem.

I'll be as brief as possible so there isn't any room for confusion.

No matter what type of adapter you use, if you connect a harddrive through USB, you cannot install and run Windows off of it. Windows simply will not allow this. Many very skilled people have tried to do it and have failed. It won't work... Period.

If you want to install a major operating system to that laptop, you have to purchase a laptop harddrive that is compatible with your system.

I have a feeling that you are going eBay crazy (based upon your numerous posts dealing with different hardware that you acquired from eBay) and are buying everything that you think looks like a good value without any idea of how much it will cost to turn into a functioning system. Unfortunately, you cannot take a barebones laptop and turn it into a functioning Windows system without substantial investment. My recommendation would be, if you want to continue purchasing things off of eBay like you have been doing, do your research first, and then make your bid.

Is your computer overheating? Try using SpeedFan. Post your temps after you run the program.

Java is not purely OOP. It has primitives. (But still a good post, thanks.)

Good point. I hinted at it with my "... was developed to be ...", but I was not explicit. Sun decided that it would be too hard a transition to force a pure OOP model, so they broke some of the OOP rules to aid in luring C coders.

Which line did it have a problem with?

That means that you got the wrong file. You need to ensure that you are getting the driver that exactly matches the hardware.

My experience with light pens is very limited, but if I were to chose between being able to move a pointer across two screens with a flick of the wrist or having to move my entire arm while supporting the weight of it with my shoulder, I'd chose the flick of the wrist.

The evolution the light pen is a digital tablet. Digital tablets, combine the tactile sensation of light pens with the ease of use of a mouse.

Can you elaborate a bit more?

What type of speaker setup are you trying to use with this card?
Do any sounds play or is it pure static?
Does this static happen when your computer first starts booting or is it only after Windows has loaded/starts loading?
What happens if you uninstall the driver, reboot, let Windows install whatever it wants, and reboot?

This is an old question, but it deserves an answer. I hope you are still interested LiBOC.

All Broadband routers use Dynamic NAT. Very few users will ever use Static NAT, but Static NAT features are available on most routers. The Static NAT feature can be seen in the DMZ settings for your router. Putting a computer in the DMZ will remove it from behind the Dynamic NAT wall and will expose all of this computer's ports to the WAN connection. This could be useful for running servers in, but I still prefer to keep server systems behind the Dynamic NAT wall.

Everything on wireless connections can be sniffed. If you have WEP, WPA, or some other encryption running on the connection, the person trying to hijack into the network would have to decifer the security key first (possible given the right software, patience, and a bit of "right place/right time"). If your security is based soley on encryption and they crack the key, they're in. If you also have a layer of MAC-address authentication, they would have to sniff that out of the traffic. I haven't read of anyone sniffing a MAC-address, but I'm sure if they are able to sniff and assemble keys, they can do the same with MAC-addresses. If they get the MAC-address, they can also connect, but it would probably create problems since two machines would be trying to use the same credentials at the same time.

If you only use MAC-address based authentication, it would be easier to break into in comparison to encryption with MAC.

I have no idea if its easier to sniff MAC addresses or WEP. The fact is that all forms of wireless security have large holes that can be exploited if the person trying to break in is diligent enough.

Shane, it's a "legit" program, but a quick search will show that the software is loaded with advertising. It's how they pay the bills.

What client are you using? I use Azureus, so that's what I'm used to describing, but the issue is the same irregardless of the client.

The problem is that the BT client is using as much upload as it possibly can. ADSL lines have a problem where the download speed of the connection will slow to a crawl if the upload speed is pushed too far. What you need to do is find out how much total upload speed your connection can support and limit the BT client to less than that amount.

For example, my connection is capable of 512kbits/s (64kBytes/s). Since there is always overhead on a connection, I can't just let Azureus take 64kBytes/s upload speed. Furthermore, there are three other people that may be playing online games, surfing the web, or using BT clients of their own that share the connection. Since I'm the main user of BT (and since I control the router :), I let my Azureus have a max upload of 20mBytes/s. All of the other clients are set to a max of 5mBytes/s. This means that, if all the clients are running at the same time, a total of 35mBytes/s is being used just for BT. The remaining bandwidth will still be enough to surf or play games, so the numbers work out well.

The rule of thumb that I use is to never let the cumulative BT client upload max pass 70% of the connection's total upload abilities.

Routers have built-in firewalls. Firewalls block all port traffic for all ports that aren't necessary for basic activities. DC++ needs a port to be "forwarded" to the machine that it is running on and needs to be setup to listen to that specific port in order to operate. Use this guide to learn how to properly set everything up.

Tundi - I'm glad for you that your problem is solved. However, I've always used a router and my problem remains.

Considering that your 98 machine can access the internet (since your weather program works just fine), your problem is most likely software related. Have you tried running antivirus scans or antispyware programs?

That software loads both pop-ups and pop-behinds. It's part of the software. If you don't want them, use different software.

Run through the cleanup guide in the bottom of my sig. This should fix just about any spyware/virus issues that you have. After you have run through the guide, post if you are having any more issues or not.

You need to change the name of the computer on the workgroup. Each computer needs it's own unique name. This document will help you change the name. After you have picked a unique name for that system, reboot and see if you get that message again.

Try to see if you can manually load the shell. When you run a program, try to run "explorer.exe". Let me know if you get the shell to load that way.

Are you having problems interfacing the webcam to the computer? If so, this is where you want to be. Please elaborate if it's an installation problem, if it's related to the software, or if it's you're receiving errors.

However, it sounds like you are asking a programming question on how to interface with a webcam in order to write recognition software. If this is the case, you are in the wrong area since this forum is about hardware troubleshooting rather than programming. If your question is programming-based, you'd want to start by posting a more detailed question in the appropriate sub-forum of the Software Dev forum. I don't know if anyone there is familiar with such specific topics.

If you are looking for a source of more information on the topic, look at generation5. It's a site that is all about Artificial Intelligence research, theories, and programming. This field also includes Machine Vision.

The clicking or clacking sounds that ShaneMcP was refering to are the sounds that the harddrives usually make as they are being read when Windows starts up. Do you hear these sounds at all? If you leave the system on, do you ever hear the Windows startup sound? Set up everything as if you were actually going to use the computer (speakers on, volume up, monitor on, etc), turn on the machine, and ignore the lack of the display. Do you hear what you usually hear when the machine boots up?

If you don't hear the usual sounds (the beep from the system speaker during POST, the harddrives being read, the Windows startup sound), that could mean that your machine isn't actually working and that the non-functioning display is just a symptom rather than the actual problem.

Do you hear your system beep or the harddrives being accessed? If you leave it on long enough (with the speakers on and volume up), do you hear the Windows startup music?

If you hear any of that, your system is working fine other than the video stuff. If you don't, your issues may lie elsewhere (such as faulty RAM).

You mention that your card is SLI-ready. Is your motherboard an SLI board as well? If so, are you plugging your card into the correct slot?

I can't imagine that this is the issue but are you using the primary monitor connection on the card (of the two, one is the primary).

I'd like to see this site that says that. Either they don't know anything about DVD burners or its very old information. Do you have a link?

Follow the cleanup guide linked to in the bottom of my sig. This has been shown to be effective against that software. Steps 1 and 2 are the most crucial for your situation, but continuing down the list can help ensure that your system is secure and running at its best.

It was just a quick google away.

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Try turning off Auto-play. After you turn it off, see if you can insert a disk and browse its contents. If you can, try running whatever it is you are trying to run. It's possible that you have some badly behaving software that is causing the issue.

Try scanning all your partitions from the Recovery Console.

You will want to execute the following command for each partition:

chkdsk [drive] /r

For example:

chkdsk c: /r

This will scan all your drives for file system errors or bad sectors. It is possible that, for one reason or another, your partition got corrupted.

Your system/graphics card might be overheating. Overheating can cause the array of symptoms that you've seen. If you don't have any means of tracking your temperatures, you can try SpeedFan. If you find out your system temps, post them here.

It's also possible that you just have some crap junking up your system. You can use the link at the bottom of my sig to clean up your system. After you get your system cleaned up, you will probably want to upgrade to SP2. If you don't want to go through all of that, you might just want to backup what you want, format, and reinstall. It's unfortunate, but there are times when Windows just needs to be reinstalled.

This sounds like some type of homework question that you have to answer. I'm going to rely on the old saying "Give a man fish and he will eat for a day... teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime".

This is the internet. Almost anything you'd like to know that can be known is out there if you take the time to look for it. If you are learning programming, which I assume you are, you need to learn how to search quickly, efficiently, and effectively.

Google is your best friend. Learn how to use it and use it well. A properly worded Google search will give you exactly what you want to know in a matter of seconds.

Need to know the definition or history of something? Check the Wikipedia. Try searching for procedural programming and object-oriented programming in the Wiki. I guarantee that you will find a lot of helpful information and useful links on both topics there.

Think about this situation as similar to keeping running totals. Create another variable that will store the complete file. After each read, append the read in data to the variable.

Next time, put your code in the code block.

Yay... I helped a guy with a homework assignment. Read my orignial post, then read Rashakil Fol's post above mine, and then think about the problem. We gave you the answer, you just need to piece it together. Since it is a homework assignment, you should have to think about it a bit.

Java is a great language. If I were to chose between programming in Java or C++ (while ignoring what the final product has to be), I would chose Java. I just like the programming model and structure better. However, Java is a completely different programming model than C++ and not every programmer fully understands it (every Java professor I had used it like C++ while obeying Java's rules). Furthermore, C++ programs easily compile to machine code while Java programs can't without special compilers.

C++ has many nuances and difficulties that are very hard to understand and work with, but you don't have to use these hard-to-understand-concepts until you are ready for them. Whereas you might have 30 "what's this" type questions in order to fully understand a simple "Hello, world!" Java program, you will only have about 3-5 similar questions with a simple "Hello, world!" C++ program. Knowing that you can more easily develop your understanding of C++ with small, incremental building blocks than you can in Java, I'd have a hard time recommending Java as a starting language over C++.

It is interesting to me that so many universities use Java as a starting language. The only reasoning that I can come up with for this is that Computer Scientists see Object-Oriented Programming as the future and want to ensure that the new programmers learn to think in OOP-based designs before they start thinking in procedural-based designs.

FYI: C++ is …

All current DVD-Rs also burn CD-Rs.

If you are still unsure, check the package/specs. It will indicate all the media that it is capable of burning.

Why would you want your fan to stop? If it stopped, your processor would fry.

It's possible that the switch went bad. You can test this by removing the power switch cable from the motherboard and placing a flathead screwdriver on the two pins that the switch was on. Be careful that you only touch those two pins and nothing else.

It's possible that you have RAM problems. If you have more than one RAM module in your system, try removing different modules and seeing if you can boot. If you can boot with one of them removed, you've found the bad module.

It's also possible that your CPU is overheating. If this is the case and you test too much, you run the risk of frying your CPU.

Have you tried calling Dell Tech Support yet?

Look at the back of the power supply and try to find the power switch (a rocker switch that has a vertical bar for on and a circle for off). If the switch is off, turn it on and try to boot the machine. If the switch is on, turn it off for about a minute, turn it back on, and then try to boot the machine.

If this doesn't fix the problem, it's possible that your power supply is shot. There are a number of other possibilities, but without being there, it's very hard to diagnose the problem.

You seem to have succeeded considering that you just posted one. Welcome to site.

You will be hard pressed to find help here (this is for introductions, not tech support). Try Tech Talk. If you put your thread in an area relevant to your problem, you will get more attention and better help.

Considering that the message reads, "The display driver for ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS seems to be responsible for the system instability", I would start by upgrading your driver to the latest version. You can find your driver on ATI's website.

Try that out and see if it helps at all.

This speaks of very poor design. It would make sense to use PHP to modify/maintain .htaccess files, but it doesn't make sense to use .htaccess files as a storage place for PHP user logins. If you like the concept of using a file, rather than a database, to store username/password combos, why don't you just put a plain-text file outside of the web-accessible directory structure and authenticate off of that?

Now if you are talking about using PHP to grant HTTP Authentication using the .htaccess file and bypassing the typical login pop-up, that is another question altogether. I don't think it is possible, but I will look. I still think it would be better design to stay away from the HTTP Authentication model completely if you don't really want to use it.

You might want to read this PHP-Based User Authentication guide for beginners for some ideas.