Posts by Killer_Typo

awesome, thank you very much! i will look into that immediately!

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Howdy there all again. I have been working in C# for some time and think i am ready to graduate to a real language that can actually work hand in hand with memory managment :P

so my first venture is to write a piece of software that will open a file and allow me to make edits to it (it will be an xml file that contains information for my customers)

My current problem is that i do not know how to open a file for reading.

i have no problem calling the file reading ability of C++!! but it is very confusing to me at best. This was easily done in C# but then again im not supprised, my dad calls that language a sissy language :lol: (he's been programming since pascal and fortran! punchcards for the win)

so basically ive looked online at some tutorials but im not quite sure what to do.

i just want to open the file for reading and read through it line by line parsing out the input from the file looking for certain strings of text that need to be edited.

im not worried about the former part, im just interested in learning out to open files for reading!

thanks to all that can help, if any more information is needed just say so!

howdy all, im just looking for some good websites that list all of the controls in C# that list the various ways of interacting with a MySQL database through C# through a website.

While i normally use PHP for this type of thing i would like to expand my horizons. My reasoning is that i am working on a help ticket system for a customer and we are either going to go with PHP or C#. being that i am fluent in both its just a matter of picking a language that is best supported in doing the job!

any help or support would be greatly appreciated!

~mike

you load the whole file and parse through it every time someone submits a word?
wouldn't it be better to load the list once when the program starts up?

im still working on some things, and smarter algorithms to handle letter assignments.

though it may seem like a lot though, to load it each time, i have noticed no impact on game performance :D

This is a simple little word boggle game for those of you that would like to see something interesting.

It is not very complex nor is it all to intelligent.

The game is that you basically select letters on a game board to try and make words, only letters that are above and to the side are accepted (basically all touching minus the angles).

The game uses a text reader to read an external text file with over 170k english/uk words loaded into it and also loads an external alphabet file that is designed around the most common letters, these files can both be tweaked to add words or letters that you feel would make the game more playable.

The graphics for the game are also included.

The game has some pretty neat stuff going on within it and is over 1.5k lines of code so i will refrain from posting all of it here.

you can get the game at
http://www.privacymaker.com/PWS/Word%20Boggle.zip

some snips from the code::

this snippet of code loads the external text file and allows me to read the text file into a string and split it into an array.
I then use a foreach loop to itterate through and determin if the word is a valid word.

if it is the answer is submitted.

public string answerSubmit(string answer)
{
 
//make lowercase for the list
answer = answer.ToLower(); …

got to thinking that i couldnt find a way to find the intersect of a string and array nor could i find a quick way to do an array / array.

i searched a bit on google and didnt really find anything that showed me something like

Array.Intersect(array a, array b)

so i wrote my own :)

i hope this helps someone out there. even if there is a faster way it is nice to discover how things were/are done.

array vs string intersect.

public static string Intersect(string[] arrayA,string intersectObject)
{
int arrayALength = arrayA.Length;
int count = 0,
maxCount = arrayALength;
string strOutput = "";
//this is only going to find one intersection. thats all i really give a hoot about
while(count >= 0 && count < maxCount)
{
if(arrayA[count] == null)
{
//if it finds a null value
arrayA[count] = "";//insert a blank space
}
if(arrayA[count].Equals(intersectObject))
{
//if it finds an intersection
strOutput = intersectObject;
}
count++;
}
//return the results
if(strOutput != intersectObject)
{
strOutput = "false";
}
return strOutput;
}

array vs array intersect

public static string[] arrayIntersect(string[] arrayA, string[] arrayB)//returns ONLY the first found strings in common between array A and array B
{
//count the length of both arrays
int intArrayA = arrayA.Length,
intArrayB = arrayB.Length;
//Find Max array size if all vallues from shortest match all the values from the biggest
int intMaxOutput = 0;
string[] longArray, shortArray;
if (intArrayA >= intArrayB)
{
intMaxOutput …

To change the innerHTML of an element, you need to use the (wait for it) "innerHTML" property of that element.

<html>
<body>
 
<a href="#" onclick="this.innerHTML='<strong>You changed me</strong>';"><em>Change from emphasized to strong.</em></a>
 
</body>
</html>

This also avoids using the out-of-date document.write() or document.writeLn() methods.

thank you very much, i am going to try this.

a few sites suggested using innertext and i had figured that was what was causing it.

man i hate javascript. I really want to get better at it but i dont really know where to start with it.

anyone know of any good javascript editors with intellisense?

thanks though i am going to test this out right now! :)

I am working on a website right now and have come to a halt. I need my clients to be able to click on a piece of text like

<a onClick="funciton to change text">Webby Stuffy</a>

and i need it to change the text within a table to something else.

I have found scripts that do this fine but they change the text as static text. like if i wrote:

<a href="http://www.google.com>Visit Google</a>

it would input the text into the field as just that.

it would not update the new field with the new html and so any formatting comes out as plain text.

any help in solving this issue would be great as it would lessen page load time on the user and save me tons of time designing my webpages :P

Learn several languages. You may want to learn one language that runs on more than just Microsoft platform.

you can build your programs to run on any platform i believe, but i do believe that can add hassle to it.

not only that, but the programs have to be running on a system with .net platform installed!

Remember, companies hiring programmers want 'excellent oral and written communication skills', so I suggest learning the English language (or whatever is most appropriate) before going into the debate of C# vs. VB.

In response to your question, though:
Version 1: You want to know which language will get you more money if you use it professionally.

Answer:
You should know both, or have programming fundamentals such that you can adapt readily to either. Coding isn't just syntax, it's concepts that are often shared between languages. If you know what you want to be doing, you can probably find a way to do it in any language.

Version 2:
How can you earn more money in C# or VB?
Answer:
Practice, Practice, Practice.

Good luck.

absolutly agree with this.

I htink be versatile in many languages and understanding the concepts of a language is super important. being able to take what you learn in one language and use it on another is probably one of the single most important skills you can have.

In my time i started on on C, it was a little above me at the time (i was about 12) so i later moved to HTML, having the basics of C behind me i was able to attatch meaning behind tags, now that ive used HTML on almost a daily basis i have moved to other languages like PHP a scripting language with many of the same functions …

Hey, i was wondering if there was a way to do a custom error check. Such as if a user inputs anything other than a number then i would like it to output an error message. short of having to type in every letter and symbol on the keyboard is there a quick and efficient way of doing this?

i know like in php if you run a bad query or something doesnt go quite as planned you can do a

or die mysql_error()

or something to that effect.

just wondering if there was the same for C #

here is what i am talking about:

//clear the various boxes
lstNetAdd.Items.Clear();
txtCIDR.Text = "";
txtSubNetShown.Text = "";
txtBitsBorrow.Text = "";
 
//pull the value into the variable
double dblSubnetsNeeded, dblBitsToBorrow, dblNET4; 
dblSubnetsNeeded = Double.Parse(txtSubnetsNeeded.Text); 
//if they only need one subnet what to do
if (dblSubnetsNeeded <= 1 || dblSubnetsNeeded >= 256)
{
	//Value to high or too low
	MessageBox.Show("Please Enter a Value Betweeen 2 and 255", "Error: Value Range", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
}
//what to do if they want more than one
else
{
	//determin number of bits to borrow
	dblBitsToBorrow = Math.Log(dblSubnetsNeeded)/Math.Log(2);
	//Declare Variables to Handle left over bits
	decimal decBitsToBorrow = Convert.ToDecimal(dblBitsToBorrow),
	 decBitsLeftOver;
	//Mod out the decimal
	decBitsLeftOver = (decBitsToBorrow % 1);
 
	//if there are decimal places
	if (decBitsLeftOver > 0)
	{
	 //remove the decimal places, incriment the bits by one and then convert for display
	 decBitsToBorrow = decBitsToBorrow - decBitsLeftOver;
	 decBitsToBorrow += …

Photoshop is probably the best graphics editor in the market, but not necessarily the best one for the web.

I personally think the best graphics editor for the web is Fireworks. I have both and I use Photoshop for complex stuff and for off-line stuff, but when it comes to web graphics Fireworks has a clear edge in speed, easy of use and features.

>>which program would you all suggest to be best for designing web pages?
I hate to beat on a dead horse, but the best way to go about a web page is to do it by hand. However, few people can actually code a site by hand and end up with something good.

I usually start my designs in Fireworks, just to see how I want the site to look like. Then I code it by hand and export some of the images. The result is a site that looks like what has been designed in the graphics program but has all the functionality one would expect from a webpage.

this man knows hip hop and truly hits the mark on the head.

or why not just loop through it and send it to each user individually, as most spam catchers dont really like BCC's

but otherwise BCC is the only way

this would be the best way. to have a list of the emails in a database and then itterate through the database like while count is less than or equals to the number of emails in the database. email the current count (value stored in the database) something to that effect.

im working on my code and now i need to know how to remove an array element, i am having such a hard time working through and finding this information.

so far i have no problem doing the math on the array. but now when i go to remove the element

math(count).Remove i get an error, it is looking for more arguments after the remove statement and actually tries to append () to the end of remove. i just want it to remove the value at the current count so that when i have it itterate through the array i dont have empty array strings.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

ok that is complex. you will have to first break the string into an array but different to your example. if they entered 55+5*4^3 you would need to have an array such as...
array(0) = 55
array(1) = +
array(2) = 5
array(3) = *
array(4) = 4
array(5) = ^
array(6) = 3

Then you will have to keep traversing the array looking for the math rules in prioriy order probably in a reverse traverse (ie array 6 to array 0). in the order ^ * / - + etc.
so starting with ^ you would traverse the array until you found the first instance. This would tell you it was at index 5. You would then have to take the numbers at index 4 and 6 and perform the math on them. Then you would have to delete the values at 4, 5, and 6 and then insert the new result at index 4.

Then keep going until all the ^ have been completed. Then repeat for the next operator (*) and keep going. You should eventually have an array with just 1 item in it which will be your result.

Hope im clearer this time :) Though it is a totally different explanation than last time too :)

did an awesome job and was exactly what i was thinking of doing.

now just to figure out how to implement that yup yup

i want a smart calculator though

i want my user to be able to enter

5+5x4^3 and have it evaluate it correctly

4^3 then do 5 times that answer then add 5.

i think you might have lost me somewhere in the explination.

nobody :(

How's it going everybody. Need some help writing a calculator in VB.NET

Right now i have it written so that when a user clicks on a number (ie the number one) it writes it to a text box. no problem.

but what i need to do is be able to store that information into an array that i can iterate through so that i can do the math on the number.

so if a user enters "5" "+" "6" "x" "7" "="

it will store the information into an array as

myarray(5, "plus")
myarray(6, "times")
myarray(7, "equals")

'where the symbol following the number will create the key for 'the number

now i need to iterate it through it like this

if the key = "times" then do somthing like

do current arrayval * next arrayval

store the answer into array as

myarray(45, equals) 'i do this because the key for the 7 was equals, since the times was used in the previous step

now it needs to do this

if current ArrayValKey = "plus"

do

current arrayval + nextarrayval

store the answer to array as

myarray(50, "equals")

then do

if ArrayValKey = equals

then ArrayValKey = answerbox.Text

does anyone have any insight or examples that i may look at??

I think there is a big future, my father is a programmer for living and what they need is actual experienced people. you have to be better than the rest, who cares about saturation, if you are good you will get by.

Which is the better method? GET or POST?

I particularly like POST because you don't see information being passed in the address...

thats a hard question because it depends on the information being passed and the ammount of it.

I prefer post because that is what i learned with. but i have much possitive feedback from get too. but for those that wish to build a form to pass things such as passwords, POST is the way to go because it is not passed through the addressbar.

so i guess there's no real solution to the "posessed" mouse eh??

try swapping a different mouse for awhile. see if it still happens. to me, it really sounds like an issue with the mouse hardware. because i cant think of anything that would cause that in windows. unless the windows mouse driver was busted..but then what would you do...i dont think you can redownload that.

read this tutorial that i wrote. It uses PHP/MySQL/HTML-Forms to pass data to another page to run queries on it.

You could probably read through that and get the general idea of how to use forms and such.

That is a php.ini setting

So you have two choices...

One increase the execution time.. or two... set a counter in there to count to 10.. if you reach 10 before output conside rthe host down or say timeout or something
but just break out of the program.

I would start by lengthening the execution time, only because it may be taking time to ping the host. write to file, then read the file. If lets say you extend the time to sixty seconds, and it still fails out because its still running the execution, then you may need to put in a break, or try pining somthing other than the entered IP to make sure that your script is working.

Try pinging somthing like www.google.com or ping the loopback address 127.0.0.1 If you still run into execution time errors for known working pings then it somthing in the script.

but certainly its a great idea to input a break after x ammount of time, because if you have to wait longer than thirty seconds to simply do a ping of a host and see if its good; you're better of opening up the DOS prompt and typing ping "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (where xxx is the corresponding IP)

so what happened????

:lol:

he probably swapped the mouse out and it fixed it, or he downloaded the drivers for the mouse and that fixed it. If it was optical not much more you can do than clean the lense by opening up the mouse, but i would never recomend to do that.

I've had that blue screen many times before, in case your were interested, it says "the system was shut down to prevent damage" Normally the result of bad drivers/hardware or just XP's quirkyness. Seeing how you can't do anything right now, I would recommend that you flash your bios. You can do this by removing the bios battery for about 5 minutes (it's the silver watch battery on your motherboard). After this is done, see what you can do. If your bios is severely corrupted, you may have to send it in to your motherboard manufacturer to get it repaired.
NOTE: sometimes flashing bios makes it so windows will not boot! (but seeing your issues, I don't think that's a big deal.

by removing the battery from the mobo that does NOT flash the BIOS..

Removing the batteries clears the CMOS which is were all of the BIOS's settings are stored. Flashing the BIOS is a totally different thing. (and its not the bios battery its the CMOS battery).

Flashing the BIOS is totally different. That means to LOAD a new firmware (software built into hardware) driver onto the BIOS chip thus clearing out the current BIOS and replacing it with a new version, which is not recomended unless it will fix an issue that relates DIRECTLY to the problem at hand.

Clearing the CMOS will never make a computer not boot, it will simply ask you to load the defaults.

…

Boot Disks as in the 6 floppy disks that you can download for XP SP2 from Microsoft.
The root of the problem is that my computer hangs when booting from the hard disk, the last known message being 'Verifying DMI Data Pool'. A number of websites suggested that the data pool could have been corrupted, and one of the options to restore the PC to its original state, was to re-boot from the floopy disks; at the command prompt type 'sys c:' and this would transfer the neccessary system file to my PC.
So, I have the boot floppies now, but am unable to load Win Xp from the floppy disks.

Thanks

more than likely a bad floppy disk. Try using a windows XP cd and see if that will boot. using the boot CD is much faster and more efficient than using the 6 floppy disks.

you can also play music and video, internet, messaging, ... in Linux. Linux have a great desktop very user fredly. Linux is no more only for run servers.
and is more secure just because there is much less virus that runs on linux.

did you even read what i said about the viruses and such? its not more secure, it just has a smaller user base so the number of viruses are thus alot smaller.

its still plain and obvious that linux is more for the tech oriented people that are looking to do things that most dont.

and its still very obvious that linux was not made for games as it has almost no games out for it, and the only way to get a storebought brand name game to play is with the use of a windows emulator.

hi there friends,

just recently (last month or so) my mouse has been acting up on me....earlier tonight...and several other occasions...

i was browsing forums and BAM my mouse pointer goes haywire without my moving it...it opens up the start menu, task manager, everything...it's crazy...i dont' know what it is...i'm running "avast" antivirus right now...my HJT log looks clean from what i know....no adware or spyware on my pc...i've done thorough scans...

maybe i need a new mouse???

thanks

Lee

if its going around and opening things on its own without your free will...your machine might be possessed...j/k j/k

try disconnecting from the internet for day....use your computer...see if the mouse goes crazy...maybe someones gotten in from the outside and they are messing with you who knows...but it sounds strange...........

did someone install drunken mouse on your computer without tellling you? my friend did that to his sister and she freaked because every now and then it owuld zig zag around while she was using it.

i just want to state that anyone who sais that linux is by far more secure, has no idea what they are saying. Security in any operating system is a myth. there are by far more windows users than linux, so people spend more time trying to crack through windows because they can affect a larger target group. One thing about hackers (and i use that term loosely) is that they (again this is a generalization and not a everyone is this way) want to be known in that everyone is worried about some new virus, but they dont know WHO or HOW its getting around. if someone launched a massive linux virus...well the public wouldnt care because of how little it would affect....

it would be like...blow up small building in remote town in the middle of nowhere, or blow up a large building in the middle of a large city.

The fact of the matter is, that if any one "hacker" sat down and spent time at an OS, they could crack and abuse the hell out of it, but the reason they pick windows is because they know it will get more attention, and there is already a larger group of people working against windows because most of the good virus writers understand what i am talking about.

About the nobody cares about the Send an Error Report...in actuallity microsoft dedicates time to reading those and finding out what happend and how …

go back to the bios and load default setting instead of optimal

do what he said. im guessing in loading the optimal settings it probably set somthing in the bios that is not compatible with your current OS.

I'm not sure, but i am going to take a guess that by loading the optimal settings it detects all hardware and sets the bios to what it thinks would be good settings for them without regard to conflicts it could create........but since i never touch settings like that in bios without completley reading the mobo manual i dont know.

it would be quicker to pull the harddrive from one machine and slave it in the other computer and copy the files via window explorer

true, but not all have the skill to do that, and running a peer to peer via a cable may seem easier to some. also if both computers have internet access he wouldnt even need the crossover cable...to each his own.

they are correct, messenger spams, and are considered illegal. disable your messenger service and they will go away (not to be confused with your MSN messenger chat service)

Hi,
I am having troubles booting up my pc. I have tried to run in safe mode and I wait a few minutes and then finally something happens, I see a blue screen quickly with writing, I couldn't tell you what it said, and then the computer restarts itself. I choose start in safe mode with networking and still the same result. I try to load windows xp from a last good known configuration, but still the same end result, my pc restarts itself. I try starting windows normally, and it actually makes it to the loading windows screen, but then reboots itself. I tried running a win xp bootdisk and it comes up with an error saying "file \biosinfo.inf could not be loaded".
The error code is 4096. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
Can anyone please help me.
Thankyou

boot disk as in a windows XP CD, or boot disk as in the 4 or so CD's you can make for an emergancy boot of windows XP for the recovery console?

Hi All,
I'm currently stuck: after trying to install a new video driver (which didn't work), I, ahem, disabled default VGA driver (VGAENB or something?). After I rebooted, I got exactly what you'd expect to happen:
computer works, but no picture. (I know it works, because hitting the 'off' button on my keyboard results in an orderly shutdown.)

No harm done: just use Safe Mode or VGA mode, right?

Wrong: while I do get the menu screen to select the different modes, the results is always the same: after selection the mode and hitting enter to continue booting, I get a blank screen. I seems as if all video drivers are disabled now, even the safe mode one. :-(

Some guidance about how to resolve this problem would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

well it sounds like you might have done just that, but what gets me is that when you start up your machine it displays in VGA mode, and when it shows the Windows XP logo that is also in VGA mode, so for it to just go blank......hrmm i am going to look into this...worse case scenario...you fried your vid card (happend to me once) best case scenario....you didnt....and you just need to reinstall the drivers.

i would recommend just trying a new video card right know...who knows maybe it will work....(hopefully someone thats had more experience dealing with this problem will chirp in).

sounds like the …

I have used a copy of BullGuard internet security and manged to remove 20 out of 30 items found when running a scan. The PC still runs fairly slow and was wondering if there is any way to get rid of the remainig 10. I have used Norton before on it and other spyware removals . Any help would be grateful.
Al

check out

Viruses, Spyware, & other Nasties for help with removing the rest of the items.

then head over to

Windows tips 'n' tweaks. to keep your machine running nice and smoothly

I have a Cat5 crossover cable. I am using Xp on both pc's. I am trying to transfer my music files to the new computer.

ok, since your using a cat-5 this shouldnt be that hard.

Firstly, you must make sure that each computer is in the same workgroup:

Rightmouse click on My Computer>Properties>Computer Name::and now check the workgroup to see what it is called and check to make sure that its the same on the other machine. if not, click on rename, and simply rename the workgroup and restart the computer.

secondly,did you buy or make you own crossover cable? (it makes no difference, but it helps to know later if there is a need for trouble shooting)

finally, do these machines already have access to the internet, because you are going to need to install some protocols, that wont need to be installed if the machines are already connected to the internet.

The protocols you need to install are:

Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.
Client for Microsoft Networks

those will need to be installed on both machines so that they can locate and find eachother.

you will need to specify IP's and gateways for each machine after you connect them via the CAT-5 cable.

Machine 1:

IP Address: 192.168.10.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.000
Default Gateway: <<let this value default to whatever it chooses>>

thx 4 reply. However, the problem is the ac 97' audio that is causing the problem. But i cannot disable the onboard soud in the bios. there is no facility. all i get is: file-main-exit. I have tried several different disks also external cd and still same prob. I can install corp ok but i cannot use be cause of the wpa.dbl file that checks activation. Not that i would juse anyway. but what i don't understand is why i get an option throughout the install to not install unsigned components. I need some way to disable the hadware either during setup or pre-setup. There must be a way. TIA

thats very odd that you cannot disable onboard audio...that should be a requirement to be able to do because some people decide to purchase their own sound...

wait i just visited compaqs' site...its a laptop..so thats why it cant be disabled, because you cant disable onboard sound on alaptop because you cant replace the sound card...try contacting compaq and explaining that you bought a copy of windows XP for your lap top and it wont install becuase of the onboard audio drivers, and tell them that you are really pissed and will make sure that you and all your friends family and relatives will never use them unless they can fix..by either sending you CD's to reinstall the OS (sometimes companies will send you the cd's to reset your laptop or PC back to the day you …

Thanks Killer Typo...that's pretty much what I thought, but I wasn't sure. I went to the web site suggested and ran their scan, they say that they will get back to me within a couple of days with their results, I figure at least I'll know what shape "they" consider my BIOS to be in. If they find something and then want money to fix it...well, you know what I'm not going to do. But just for kicks and grins I'll post their findings here.

they said they did a scan to see if you needed to update your BIOS? never heard of anyone doing that...sounds almost like a scam. I would recomend just going to your motherboards manufacturers website and looking up the latest bios and what its for (sometimes its only for certain machines with certain hardware to fix incompatibilities). and then decide if you need it.

I'm working on a Win2M machine, 400MHz, 138l megs RAM.

For some reason it won't see a new HD (80 megs), but putting it in another machine it's recognized and seen. I haven't a clue; ideas anyone?
Thanks,
BuddyB

Check these things:

Pins on the back: is it set to:

Master
Slave
Cable Select
32GB Clip
No Pins at all?

Next:
Check to see if the ribbon cable has been properly connected, make sure it is not upside down, if it is correct. try swapping it for another one

Next:
Check the BIOS. use the auto find HDD(hard disk drive) feature to see if it detects it. there could be a problem with the mobo itself(ive had this happen before. actually just recently one of my serial ports on my mobo burned out...no clue how) so it isnt detecting it (when doing the auto-detect, check to see if it even finds the landing zone, if its all blank, then something isnt plugged in correctly, but if it gets a landing zone, then it see's somthing but it just doesnt know what it is)

More often than not its a bios thing that you need to check, sometimes you forget to set it to autodetect, and its set to not installed so it doesnt look for anything (very common mistake)

I have a problem when I select properties of files option, when selected the computer lock's up . I can still use the mouse and after pressing the ALT-CTRL-DEL buttons a few times I get control of the computer again.

try letting the computer sit, it may not have locked up, it may instead just be using alot of resources; so it seems like it's locked up when its not. i know for my computer, sometimes when i clear the cookies, everything freezes up for a bit but then i regain controll of the computer after its done. (but thats only for those times when i dont clear the cookies in a really long time!)

also, what are your computer specs...if you have a slower computer, this can even further it...so can small ammounts of memory because if it runs out of memory to run with it will switch to HDD space for memory which is rediculously slow.

I'm trying to transfer files from my old pc to my new pc. Both use XP. I have a crossover cable. I need a site to go to that has step by step instructions if possible. Thanxs

crossover cables via nullmodem..ahhh lots of fun!!

Are you doing this via the Serial port, the Printer Port or using a CAT-5 cable that you crossed over?

this sort of changes how things are done in the setup, also what OS are you using. I have alot of detailed information on how to do this, i just need the specifics to do it and i will be able to give you all the help that you need.

Hello everyone.
Can anyone help me to fix a error message "I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request. I did try the MSN
website and the existing message was it was the providers fault.. I used
to watch streaming video with no problem, but the past few weeks, this
error has come up.. I even notified the websites, but nothing resolved..
Any thoughts..
Much thanks,\
Llana :

I'm confused are you saying this is the fault of the website? it sounds more like a corruption in WMP...if this is happening at a lot of different sites then it is most likely a corruption on your part and you may need to redownload windows media player from www.microsoft.com and see if reinstaling it helps you at all.

or you can click here for the windows media player 9 series page.

I was poking around my computer with Everest and found a suggestion that I should upgrade my BIOS, it even provided me with a link for the web site. Is there any danger in upgrading the BIOS, and how would this enhance my computer?

From experience and being told...:
Never upgrade the BIOS unless there is a problem that it will fix.

Its called Flashing the BIOS with the latest Firmware. (software built into hardware).

The only reason to flash your bios is if there is a problem with your current BIOS...your BIOS goes MIA...or the update will fix an issue with compatability...read into the update and what changes are made and decide if its what you need...

the last guy that i talked to that updated his firmware lost the use of his USB because somthing went wrong....

i need detailed information about win 2k 's memory managament unit
i searched on google but was unable to find any info.
in particular i want to know 2k kernel' s policy for swapping pages from the memory ie on what basics does the kernel decide which page is to be swapped if a page fault occurs

can anyone help me.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=167857&redir=1

this what you were sort of looking for?

Hi

I am trying to install xp pro on a preasrio 700 (724EA). However, when it gets to installing devices it gets to a certain point and stops with the message: stop:0x0000007e: sysaudio.sys. Never gets past this point. I figured that the audio hardware is causing this but cannot disable in the shit compaq bios. A friend of mine, as an exercise, loaned me a copy of XP Pro corp, and this installed ok although i couldn't use becasue of the licence. It was just meant to see if it did the same error. One thing i noticed about corp, was that it gave you the option to not install unsigned hardware, which i beleive is causing my problem. Does anyone know if XP Pro has this facility at setup stage? Any help would be appreciated. TIA

well i have installed both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro (non corp) and i have never seen an option to not install unassigned hardware. though i have run into errors similar to yours (ie stop error during the installation) that were due to a bad disk.

See if you can obtain another copy of windows (the one that didnt work) borrow it from a friend or somthing of the sort, so that you can try with a working copy. I know that the copy i have is very picky about the computer its on, and the cd drive its in. ive tried installing it before on my old computer and …

I want to be able to go around my house and play on my high quality desktop pc using my old laptop. I want to see the same on my laptop screen as I see on my desktop screen and be able to control the mouse and keyboard. I have heard about the remote desktop connection thing but dont know how to make it work :?: . My laptop is connected to my PC wirelessly (connected by the fast internet cable thing, its blue).

I would really appreciate it if you could explain to me step by step how to do it!!!

Thanks in advance :mrgreen: ,
Zac

My email address is zacaltman@gmail.com

you need to enable remote desktop assistance on the computer you want to connect to and then using your lap top connect remotely to your PC using your log on username password for the PC...the only problem is that you wont be able to play your high quality PC from your laptop like you think.

One: Its Limited to the speed of the network connection in the house and any current traffic on the line (if someones downloading something big...might as well screw it)
Two: Unless your laptop has a highquality vid card you wont be able to play anything highquality video wise.

From my experience with RDC (remote desktop connection) and other various remote programs, they are choppy and only worth it if you plan on running a server, because then …

You'll need to indicate what sort of computing tasks you wish to perform on the system in order that worthwhile advice can be given.

In the absence of such information, I can only advise that $400 spent on upgrading that system is money spent for the sake of spending money, and would be better used as savings toward your next PC.

into hardcore gaming basicly...

and i need some direction. my current PC specs are:

Windows XP Pro
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz HT
1024 MB Kingston PC 2700(i think)
P5P800 Mobo (asus)
Maxtor 160GB HDD
nVidia GeForce 6800

I have a total of 400 dollars i'm willing to dedicate to an upgrade; currently i'm thinking of just upgrading the RAM to a higher speed or more of it.

but i cant really think of what to do with it from there.

i was given 1200 for grad and have 860 left (spent most of my money on clothes for school *going to be attending heald*) and want to dedicate 400 to upgrading my PC or at least doing something with it.......

I would take a different approach. I would GENERATE the CSS from values stored in a database. Allow the users to modify these values, not by editing the CSS, which most users won't be skilled enough to do, but rather by presenting a standard data-entry form.

If you want to avoid server-side coding, then you could do something similar with cookies .

yeah, i see that, and that was deffinately an option for me, but i wanted to make something that could work in real time so that people would be able to see it as they did it, without having to wait untill the end to see if it worked or not. because honestly, people want results fast, and i see that as the best way, to let them do it in real time and decide if that's the look they want or not.