Posts by UrbanKhoja

The main problem is that if people really want to get round whatever security measures you've put in place - they will. People have far more knowledge about various systems now than they did just a couple of years ago, need to email a report but it wont let you upload a file from an external source?

Someone in the office will always know how to get round it. Sure you could order a batch of shiny new base units with no USB ports. But they'll still have an internet connection, so you're pretty much back to square one.

Before any internal data theft occurs; someone somewhere believes they can do it. That's what companies need to work on - eliminating that thought. Once people believe they can; they'll most certainly try.

Hello,

I know this is over reported and pretty much common knowledge amongst most circles (most of whom frequently orbit Daniweb) but I've decided to revisit an age old issue.
The problem of some versions of Vista not reading or display 4GB or RAM isn't a new exactly a new one, so why is it still causing so many issues?

You'll be hard pressed to find an IT forum that hasn't got an article of some kind on this. If it has been going on this long why might you ask - has a practical solution been found or why weren't retailers better prepared?

A daft basis for a blog entry most of you will no doubt say but bare with me on this one; I recently came across some items on a few of our e-commerce sites while at work. They all have 4GB RAM, they're all 32 Bit and none of the ones displayed will actually be able to use all 4GB they're loaded with.

With this being such a well known and documented problem why are buyers still purchasing vast quantities of products that won't meet their specifications? Maybe to try and keep good relations with suppliers and maintain those bulk discounts or perhaps because they simply don't know.

This issue wasn't conceived overnight; it has been 'in the oven' for a fair while. And is partially down to a mathematical issue of 32 Bit systems. This is nothing new, but …

They've clearly been working on the batteries then, as most of the recent releases will run for 24hrs if flash based and 12 hrs if HDD based. Although this greatly depends on how it's used and enviromental factors.

Dazza :cool:

Don't give our already trigger happy Mp's a bandwagon to clamber onto; they'll have it passed through and rates drawn up before the day's out! lol

No malware or any other nastys, but it did sulk a bit before I promptly rediscovered Google. May get a T-Shirt made after this, "If in doubt - Google it!" haha

Dazza :cool:

Hello!

Since installing the shiny new Vista first service pack; I had been getting some problems browsing - although I hadn't actually changed anything apart from installed SP1.
It was mainly websites that were running on flash or those that used ActiveX controls that seemed to be having problems loading.

So decided to roll back the settings on IE, this to didn't come without it's own problems but did solve the ones listed above; but unleashed a new one. DEP; my understanding is that MS have been using DEP in Windows since Server 2003 - not sure why I've only just come across it.

Never before have I seen an error message from it or had any problems with it for that matter. Until today that is...once I navigated to a website I got the 'Internet Explorer has stopped responding' after a few of these I noticed a little dialog box in the bottom left hand corner - explaining that it had been closed by Windows DEP (Data Execution Prevention).

Great I thought - now how do I stop it?

Well there's the problem, MS obviously didn't design DEP to be turned off. In fact the options for it; well there's two of them: to enable DEP for all windows processes apart from ones you chose, or only the main ones. Not a mention of how to stop the blasted thing!

So after contemplating launching my laptop through an open window (my only …

Figures released earlier by ComScore reveal that Google's web-search market share dipped Janurary to Feburay overall; even though the US share was up slightly.

Google's lions share of the search world still sits at 62.8% though; down from 63.1% in Janurary. The number of searches going through Google is also declining - in Janurary Google users carried out around 6.14 billion searches, Feburarys figure is down slightly to 5.86 billion.

"We are continuing to see deceleration in growth in web search," said Jefferies & Co analyst Youssef Squali. "Google's month-over-month five percent decline is a little surprising, but all the major web-search names were down."

But they are however up year-on-year, in February 2007 Google had a world wide market share of around 58.5% compared with 62.8% last month.

Although it doesn't just seem to be Google - Yahoo is also on an equally rocky road; with their shares down 2.1% to $27.07 or £13.64.

But with a string of new products in the pipe line things could start to look up for the web giant; especially where Android is concerned - with heavy interest from the public and healthy reveiws it could just be Googles PR silver lining.

And with a strong mobile front; Google has little reason to currently get worried - with iPhone users alone making around 50 times the web searches than users of standard mobiles.

This is partly believe to be due to the recent update to the …

We all know technology is moving at an unprecedented pace, but it takes todays anoucement of a new range of camera from one particular brand to realise just how much.
Especially when you think it wasn't that long ago that we were still using 35mm film or the Kodak Advantix (what ever happened to that?!?).

We are now moving towards an age of 'everything digital', where we expect nothing less than our household appliances and everyday gadgets to be smart, intelligent and litterally ready for anything. And where if it isn't Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or has some smart party trick - it's just not worth having.

Which is why there are a few manufacturers tripping over themselves to roll out what they believe is the next big thing - HD cameras! But with an exception; the majority up to now have used a HDD which although gives them copious amounts of storage (generally speaking)but they were power hungry and weren't fans of shocks or rough terrian - typically the sort treatment you would expose your camera to.

But flash however; is a different animal altogther - firslty it's far more energy efficent that HDD, ever wonder how the new nano acheives a stunning 24hr battery life? Flash storage, the same reason the iTouch can boast decent battery life even with a big screen. Second - it has no moving parts so it often called 'solid state storage'. It's far more likely to surive a shock or rough …

Yes I used the standalone version as it wasn't on MS update when I checked; the update version will be smaller as it doesn't support five languages like the stand alone version.

Evening everyone!

As most of you will proberbly already be aware that the first service pack for MS Vista is looming. Although the final version won't be available on MS update until proberbly next month - it is available as a download (roughly about 450Mb) direct from MS.

I decided to go all out and install it on my laptop earlier on, and during the setup it asked me to make sure that I had at least 7.5Gb of free space for the service pack. (Not exactly sure why it requested so much?) The install was pretty much painless although it did take a while and obviously restarted numerous times.

My system seemed to boot a bit quicker after the install, although I've noticed it does slow to a crawl frequently now. I tried to update my Vista experience score just before writing this; and the screen is still loading - something I never had trouble with before.

Although it was only released this week it has been available to manufacturers since early February. As mentioned above; it asked me to check that I had 7.5Gb of free space for the install - so was a little surprised to find that instead of me having less space (as you would typically expect when installing a service pack) I had 3Gb more?!?

Not quite sure why yet; but no doubt someone is bound to know. I'm just hoping that some bright spark at MS has solved …

Doesn't surprise me at all; how many of the people that complied that original report spend their days on MySpace & Facebook do you reckon? If no one was going on it then employers wouldn't causing was it is effectively a rugby scrum to ban them all! lol

Dazza :cool:

Isn't it British Broadcasting Corporation?

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I'm not sure whether it's the company just re-allocating stock; but there is a recall coming up for the touch - just the 16GB I think.

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Wow - Perhaps we should re-name Bill 'Mr Current Affairs'? lol

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If my memory serves me correctly; there was a story recently where garments worn by celebritys - when hit with high volumes of bright & short bursts light, i.e camera flashes. Can appear to be translucent instead of opaque. The level of translucency depends entirely on the garment. Think it was on Discovery channel few years ago as well.

Dazza :cool:

A few of Casio's new Exilm cameras have had Youtube support for a while now.

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Can they really pull it off though?
They're talking about rebranding an entire company.

Davey,

The Gmail spam; is that actually from Gmail itself or its users? As I don't recall ever seeing spam from Gmail lol

Dazza :cool:

I'm pretty sure that Lexmark have been doing this for some time now, when you receive a new Lexmark toner cartridge it'll include a UPS Waybill returns lable in order to send your old one back for recyling. Quite simply put the old one in the box, call UPS - they collect it - done!

It's nice Epson are taking the incitive to lower their carbon footprint but they really should
be clearer with the facts.

Most larger organisations are coupling this with a MPS sytem, (Managed print service) so that toner is only ever order when it's needed - saving wasted toner, wasted orders and wasted money. This also allows supplys managers to check track of what is going where and how much of it.

Dazza :cool:

Although i've met the rep's for both, and had various training with the two units, the Samsung Blu-Ray player can't compete with the Toshiba HD DVD. Its main selling point though would be Vs the Playstation 3, especially for all those die-hard eco warriors. To play a standard Blu-Ray DVD the ps3 needs about 371 watts of power (according to samsung, that's the same as leaving a 3kw kettle on for 6 minutes) whereas the Samsung Blu-Ray player only needs 71 watts to play the same DVD. It won't do much to hide the fact that the sales in Blu-Ray are ever decreasing and there's a lot at stack here, no product could get this far without serious investment.

Dazza :cool:

I'm under the impression that the Mac OS is based around UNIX, naturally this should make Macs more reliable and in theory - more secure than typical Windows based systems. Heck hackers are saying that even Linux is more secure than Vista now!

The vast majority of computer users would be able to quickly adapt to no having a right mouse button although I admit this would be tedious and annoying at first. The reason why you won't find many geeky games titles released for Mac would proberbly be because that's not really what it's designed for; a Mac is more at home in a design studio, art center etc.

The second quarter of 2007 brought reported Mac sales of 1,517,000 units over the 3 month period; now it is of course perfectly possible that Jbennet's views of the Mac are correct and the approx. 1.5 million customers (that's roughly 376 in the time it took you to write your junior essay) per quarter are all in fact wrong?

And although the average year-on-year increase in sales for the PC industry was around 11% for 2007, Mac was 36%. However the jury is still out on whether there was any basis for such a one sided knock against Mac without so much as a mention of Vista?

The only thing better than a rant with poor grammar and spelling with little basis is a biased one.

Dazza :cool:

I'm affraid I'll have to second Ehreval here, you purchased your system around December 2005 you believe? Vista wasn't released officially until the end of January 2007.
I've nothing against upgrading an older machine - heck we've all done it, but we can't complain when it all goes wrong.

MS did provide sufficent tools to check your system before you did an upgrade, although there have been problems with AERO; most of the problems have focused around Intel's 915 graphics (many of you will already know the alledged scandel here).

As for the power supply unit; it's not uncommon for Dell or any other brand to use smaller power supplys in lower end kit - just the way it is I'm affraid.

And the case? Well you mention that you were angered at the fact you wanted to use an ATX case but it's built around a BTX; Dell have done nothing wrong here as it's clearly stated as BTX - sorry!

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_5150?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb

Dazza :cool:

4). That's because XP used MS Activesync, Vista uses Windows Mobility Center I believe, works fine with my PDA & my SPV M700.

Also Office 2003 seems to be working fine on mine and systems I've built for people since - odd huh.

6). Mine is set up the same way; have home premium upgrade installed.

Dazza :cool:

After almost 7 months of use, and helping way to many customers with way to many issues, i've decided vista is not at all worth all the hype, i'm lucky enough to be running it on a fairly good spec media laptop, but if i watch TV fullscreen i get the blue screen of death, if it sleeps it won't wake up, it's now faster to walk to google than to surf there! overall, if i hadn't of got it so cheap there's no way i'd of bought it.

Dazza :cool:

On Thursday I went to Oxfordshire for a training day on the much anticipated Windows Vista. Firstly the appearance of Windows Vista has many improvements and enhancements over XP, with the outstanding graphics and of course Windows Aero, you've found what Microsoft like to call `the Vista experience`.

The sku's:

There are currently four vista sku's; home, home premium, business and ultimate. There are 10 main features in Vista, but not all the sku's have all the features, so which one is best?

Home, comes with; Windows Defender & Windows firewall as well as instant search and Enternet Explorer 7.

Home premium, all features of home plus; Windows Aero & 3d flip, mobility center and tablet pc support, Windows meeting space, Windows Media Center, compatible with the xBox 360.

Business, comes with; Windows Defender & firewall, instant search & Internet Explorer 7, Windows Aero & 3d flip, mobility center and tablet pc support, Windows meeting space, advanced backup features, business networking and remote desktop.

Ultimate, as you've probably already guessed, is the ultimate Vista sku, therefore comes with everything I've mentioned so far as well as Windows bitlocker drive encryption with TPM (Trusted Platform Module).

I did mention the xBox 360, when used with a suitable Vista machine it is possible to stream media wirelessly throughout your home, when you also consider the BBC is working on a Vista website for Vista users to be able to stream their favorite programmes such as …

it concerns me the shear number of patch's ms release and to how many pubically know holes, i know mac is used by significantly fewer people, but i dont think i have ever read about a security flaw, or a criticle hole found, or urgent patch for a mac in zdnet or cnet?

now the wga cracks me up as well :lol: i buy new acer laptop (supposed to be top of the range - yer right ha) power it up, `updates required` - within the first 5 mins, then suprise suprise `this is not a genuine version of windows` well in which case whats the official looking sticker on the bottom with my license key? if its not for proving windows is genuine what is if for? suppose you could always collect them, and cover your walls with them, or spread a little sunshine and send them back to mr ms himself, along with wga.

now im not sure what they class as `fake` windows, as i cant really see a couple of school kids in their dads potting shed with a laptop writting there own version of xp during there lunch hour, now all you need is a license key and a disk (obviously obtained from a legitimate source :lol: ) then you have `genuine` windows, and yet somehow new pcs from respected manufacterers arent, i was told that its the way the os is put onto the machine, as certain methods can disrupt the way …

Another (related) topic may be, if there is any way to tweak basic settings for a Wireless NIC that would improve reception in fringe or border regions of a router. My nic is also a Linksys: WMP54G .
I've got a laptop with another Linksys pci card I want to setup and fire up to test if my NIC in the pc is just bad/broken antenna or something. b/c I USED to get an excellent signal here.

Evening,

With regards to the former, I'm not sure of that exact model but only a few routers will do what you're asking. As mostly they're designed to send data and provide an AP not connect to one.

Belkin do a number of products in a reasonable price range that may do it, something like a Belkin Gaming Adaptor with a higher gain aerial attached.

Onto the latter issue, a standard 54G wireless card isn't ideal for what you're using it with. A MIMO or even N card would be far superior, even though it's probably only a G router the better adaptor would still boost your receiving power somewhat.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Dazza :cool:

awesome thanks a ton, i will try it tonight and let you know!

Evening,

What is the issue that you're currently having? As an ATX reset is only really used to trouble shoot power issues.

Dazza :cool:

Now it is actually the 4th July (Well here at least anyway); happy 4th July everyone!

It's not actually the 4th July here yet and isn't a major thing here; however Happy 4th July / Independance Day to those that do celebrate it!

Dazza :cool:

Hmm I'm still putting my money on HDD, if it powers up then shuts down it would suggest that it was looking for a boot device but was unable to locate one.

You would get the same issue if your HDD cable had come loose, you also said that you get the same issue regardless if the HDD is connected or not?

Is there anyway you can try another HDD? Or do a HDD check in the BIOS?

Sadly not in the UK, they'll quite literally abuse you for calling any form of tech support - on there for more than an hour and you'll be needing the IMF to bail you out :-)

If by HDD is refering to my Hard drive, then yes I did unplug it and try to boot. still did not work. However i did not try to boot with another hard drive.
Nathan

If it's doing the same thing regardless of whether the hard disk is connected or not it may be worth trying a different one. Are you able to open up the bios?

As you can run a disk check from there and that would help us locate the issue.

You typically only use the Virgin / NTL SMTP if you're using their email service. i.e Anne.Example@ntlworld.com would use smtp.ntlworld.com or smtp.virgin.com

Now you've got a Warwick POP3 account there so I'm assuming this is a uni email address? In which case you'll need to set the SMTP as the correct outgoing address.

You get the same issue if the HDD is unplugged? Have you tried a different HDD?

Hello!

A family friend recently installed a Dell AIO printer onto a Vista Home Basic machine. The machine is 3GB RAM with an AMD Phenom triple core processor.

The printer was working fine until the other day it just stopped printing. The Dell software says the printer is offline but Windows is saying the printer is ready?

Then in event viewer it lists an issue with the print spooler?
This isn't an issue I've come accross before so just wondering if I reinstall it all for them will it work okay or will it require a bit more TLC?

Regards,

Dazza

(There should be a log from event viewer attached to this)

Evening,

Apologies if I've read that wrong; but if you already have a LAN connection to the computer rooms, will you gain any benefit from investing in another cable from the server downstairs?

If you currently have a working switch or hub in that room you should be able to install a couple of wireless AP's there without the need to aditional cabling from the main server.

You mentioned that you currently have 15 computers running; are you using any network / user management software with these?

It may be worth looking at Ranger, it's a product of Sentinel who do a far bit for the education side of things. http://www.rangersuite.com/

With regards to what hardware to use; this depends a lot on budget as well as usage. You'll need to work out exactly how many computers you'll be running, will you have user accounts with central storage etc? Have you considered printing? There's a bit more to it than just running Cat5 around the place.

Hope this helps,

Dazza :cool:

So when you navigate to the IP listed in Ipconfig nothing is displayed?

Dazza :cool:

Looks like the file system differs slightly with the different variants of iPod, the above didn't work at all on my touch but fine on a friend's nano.

Should you have the same issue there's free software available on t'internet that should allow you to back-up all the music on your ipod then transfer it to iTunes.

One issue I've found with doing this is that most of them will only copy music not the video etc.

Hope this helps,

Dazza :cool:

is this program free to download anywhere?

Yes, there are a few options open to you regarding free software for this purpose. I personally, use Logmein which seems to work fine. I've only ever tried using over Windows based systems so it may be worth having a quick peruse of their website to check Mac support.

'Go To my pc' is another one, although rumoured to be not quite as secure during remote sessions as Logmein. Both of the aforementioned are free and should work fine, however both will require an active internet connection over you Lan.

This is a pain not matter how many times you do it; if the songs originated from a CD then it's likely they will contain a DRM of some kind or will require a license to play it.

Typically Media Player will automatically connect online and obtain it for you, however this will depend a lot on enviomental factors such as browser & version of Media Player etc.

Dazza :cool:

Hi all
This information given was really helpful to the persons who use Vista or are about to use it.So they can manage it very easily.
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psusane
www.getinforum.com

Thanks and welcome to Daniweb!

Although a few of us may have already known about that it's still good to share knowledge that we've picked up; someone mentioned XP? Didn't XP Pro have a similar option? Although I admit it didn't give you quite as much to play with as the Vista version.

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Hi i was wondering if there was any way for me to remotely access another computer on my LAN connection, and view the screen graphically instead of in a terminal? I am running Vista Home Basic, and i would be trying to access a Mac. Is there a way to do this?

The easiest way to do that over a different OS would probably be a piece of software such as Logmein, although for that to work you would need to have an internet connection available on your LAN.

Most of the software available such as the aforementioned one should support Mac fine.

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I'm purchasing a laptop at the end of next month, and I want to be able to install 32-bit Vista on it. Currently, I'm looking at a Toshiba Satellite M60 laptop with the following specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)

Ram: 1024MB (512MBx2) 533MHz PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM

Video: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 SE PCI-E x16 with 128MB DDR SDRAM

Hard Drive: 60GB HDD (5400rpm)

Are these specs high enough to be able to run Vista, or do I need to go higher? I've read the article on this site about this, but I don't know enough about hardware to really have a firm grasp of what I'm going to need (the above is mostly copy-and-paste).

I would also like to run Aero Glass at a 1680 x 1050 resolution. I understand that this is probably an unrealistic expectation, but I thought I'd ask in case it is possible: Would this video card make this possible? If not, is there a laptop video card currently available that could?

Keep in mind that I don't need resources left for the following things:

- DVDs - I will not be playing DVDs on this laptop
- Music - I will most likely not be listening to music, and definately won't be trying to play visualizations
- Games - I may play some simple 3d games like neverball, but I'd be turning off the glass for this. Definately no modern professional games.

I will, however, …

Hello!

Probably a rather simple one (and I'm far too tired to be able to bear thought to it!), when you have a wireless home network made of Windows based devices; If one of those has a USB printer attached you're able to generally share that to all devices providing the attached computer is powered up.

Now if the attached computer was in fact a Mac, would it still work? The Windows devices sharing it would be XP Home & Vista Home Premium and Windows 7.

I can barely stay awake at present, so I apologise If it didn't really make much sense but I'm hoping someone will have the answer :-)

Dazza :cool:

Did like the last few lines,

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It didn't do anything??

Guy - Fireworks
(Was thinking along the lines of Guy Fawkes here)

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Sounds like you've had some fun! Glad it's all sorted.

Regards,

Dazza :cool:

I was actually looking at buying a 64 Bit version of vista, when I clicked to purchase it displayed that page.

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