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Hi all, Ian from Kent, England, UK. Hope you're all well and the hamthrax is bypassing your zone. Me? I'm an old timer, started in the days of valve computing, then designing 'computers' out of tansistors, then ASIC design, then, woo! - CPUs!! Done a bit of most things, jack …

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Whats up everyone? I have seen a lot of good things and learned alot from the Daniweb community over the years but never became a member. I am sure that we can guess I am in to computer's, but there is alot more to me than that. I am a …

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I have a laptop with XP on it but the LAN socket is not working. My wife has a new laptop with Vista on it and I've been trying to set up the above range extender on it without any luck. Using the CD and the setup wizard, the search …

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Hello all, I have a desktop that runs windows. I'm thinking about making a partition that run mac os. I wonder if the there will be hardware compatibility problem? How do I determine if it will be incompatible? thank you :D

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I have lots of hardware for sale, all working, and in excellent condition. Here's a partial list: iMac G3, original Bondi Blue. 168 MB ram, running OS X, with Office X Mac G3 biege, CD rom, zip, drive, A/V panel, 384 MB ram, 2 hardrives, Firewire A couple of PCs …

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:-/ Hardware performance becomes increasingly high. Software performance seems to decrease, because developers (who are not necesarily programmers) believe that the hardware is so powerful that it will carry out any task. :| On some of the "geeks forums" every child can advise you to update your computer, buy some …

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DaniWeb Home > Forums RSS Forums RSS Hardware and Software Please support our Hardware and Software advertiser: Programming Forums Our Hardware and Software forum category encompasses topics related to end-user computer technical support troubleshooting, tips and tweaks. Please be sure to always post in the appropriate sub-forum and do not …

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This is chatting program using etherframe packet. I finished crc, gui , making packet and sending packet. but I can't implement stop and wait timeout resend... I can't implement it.. can anybody help me? import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.border.*; import java.io.*; import java.net.*; public class ChatJin implements …

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I have two networks in my home. The setups are as follows. 1st network (N1) cable modem#1 --- router --- various pc's, xbox, security cameras. 2nd Network(N2) cable modem #2 --- firewall --- 24 port switch --- various pc's and mac's My question is, How can I connect these two …

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Hi folks, I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm about to start teaching a course in Operating Systems Theory. I'll have to cover from the basics (What's an OS, some history, hardware basics, etc) to the more complex and interesting stuff (threads, processes, memory management, deadlocks, …

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I started working with computers in the late ‘60s doing hardware design. I built computers by designing the circuit boards using clock chips, XOR gates and AND gates etc.! I hired out the silkscreen creation, but otherwise did all the other work. After completing my BA requirements at UCSD, I …

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I'm really hoping someone can help me on this, I may have overlooked some info somewhere doing numerous searches in the past week, but what I'm trying to do is quite simple. I have a handheld inventory device (circa early 90's but still in prolific use in the industry) that …

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Hi All. I thought it best to introduce myself before I start posting so those involved might know me better for who I am. My name is Mark (D5reno), and as some of the quick ones out there may guess, I am from Reno (NV, there are others) where I …

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My PC ( windows Xp 2002 version) and my External Hard drive are brand new ( about 2 months old) and the external hard drive ( this one [url]http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=290760&sourceid=2012[/url] ) It told me on the package that I could use it on my Mac aswell as my PC, it works …

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I am a Tech Provider-subcontractor who receives work orders for national consumer products warranty repairs on Computers, laptops, Servers, Printers, Point-of-Sale Kiosks electronics such as Digital Photo Printers, Credit Card Readers, Scanners, etc. For commercial and residential customers. Usually, the work order instructions are pretty cut and clear, giving the …

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So, I have a Macbook and one day for absolutely no reason it would not load the OS (Gray screen with question mark in the center). So I loaded via OS CD and I come to find that the hard drive (60GB) is dead. I called their support line, product …

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Hi, I recently (Nov '06) moved over to an iMac from a Dell pc. The switch was good as newer OS's and hardware was needed. I am a newsletter editor for two separate organizations and a secretary & historian for another. I do a lot of word processing and record …

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I am trying to hook up a home network so I can accomplish the following tasks with all the computers in the house: 1. I would like to go online (I currently have a Motorola cable modem that is hooked up to a wireless Netgear router) 2. I have two …

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A day back Microsoft announced Silverlight 1.0 final release for Mac and Windows. A cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. Some of its features include: * Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and …

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Ok ... other than a system reinstall (or buy a mac!) I'm stuck. Here's the situation: - I moved, kept comcast and set it up at new place - Firefox can access the web fine - IE7 gives me 403 errors for everything. - In addition, certain services like iTunes, …

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Facts; -Upgraded a[U] dlink dsl 300+ modem [/U]to a [U]netgear adsl2 dm11p modem[/U]. -Pc 1 running vista will connect fine. -Pc2 on wireless (netgear wgr614v3 ) running XP will connect but within 60 seconds they both lose their connection. I have disabled the firewall on Pc2 but it made no …

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Here are the system specs of this machine: OS 10.4.3 Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.1) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed: 2.7 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.35 GHz Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1 …

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Below are the thoughts from a computer professional who has spent the last 10 years supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux computers in a variety of network applications. By no means will this general tips section be exhaustive -- that is what a good book is all about. I am also …

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Wow. The new MEPIS release is geared a lot more toward Mac Tel users than ever before. Quote from Warren Woodford "The MEPIS CDs contain an experimental "SimplyMEPIS Assistant" for OSX that helps prepare a MacTel computer for the installation of SimplyMEPIS. And the MEPIS installer detects MacTel hardware and …

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Morning Guys, I am looking for some advice for a piece of mac audit software. At my last company we used Numara's Audit Tool, this however is fairly expensive because of support!! Have any of you folks had any experience with this kind of stuff, all i need to find …

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Greetings! Hopefully someone can help me with this problem before I see what the terminal velocity of this notebook is by throwing it off the roof of my apartment complex. Every since I purchased my Ti-book 1GHz (new) it has always been quirky when recording DVDs and CD-Roms (especially DVDs). …

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I have a spyware problem. I would appricate any help. Thank you. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:16:18 AM, on 2/3/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\TopSpeed\2.0\aoltsmon.exe C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehRecvr.exe C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehSched.exe C:\Program …

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I have a powermac dual g5. After a year of working nearly flawless it crashed. I tried to boot it but got the grey screen with the spinning gears. I've been a life long Windows user and this was my first mac. The warranty had just ran out and I …

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Hi, I have an eMac 1.4 ghz on which someone had installed a PC3200 Ram chip in, instead of a PC2700. This caused constant crashes/software problems/freezes. Once I had discovered the rogue chip had been installed, I removed it, and decided to erase the machine & rebuild it from the …

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OK, heres the problem. I have the imac g4. For some reason, I must have downloaded a pretty bad virus, my mac won't start up. All it shows is the blink "?/mac os9 icon." I did the option restart, and the hard drive won't show up. I put in the …

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Today, when I inserted a new DVD-R into my superdrive, it wouldn't mount. It had been working fine an hour before. There is no problem with CDs, new or previously written to, or DVD-ROMs or DVD-R with data on them. After trying repairing permissions, using MacJanitor, and trying new DVD-R …

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Ok I have 2 macs. One was given to me so I gave it to my brother. It is a powermac g4 455mhz, 40gig HD, 256 RAM and dvd rom reader. It currently has both OS9 version 9.2 (I think) and OSX version 10.2.2 on it. I am trying to …

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Hello everyone. I recently picked up a legal copy of OS X Tiger for x86 from the official Apple open source website. I am going to attempt to install it on an AMD Athlon based PC with 256 MB RAM and no SSE support. I will then attempt to grab …

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well :) Ok, questions... I finally found a new hosting company that I want to sign up with & now there seems to be problems with them understanding what I need. On my current hosting company I can store my manuals & …

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Hey everybody, I originally posted to the Web Browsers forum, since I have a major problem with IE not accessing the web. I can't do Windows Update, and any apps which require IE also cannot access the web. However, Firefox and Netscape both work fine, and I can update other …

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Hi to everyone! I have Mac OSx Powe Book G4 Version 10.3.9. My problem is that it goes to sleep ramdonly all the time. Sometimes it takes times to do it but when it starts to do it, it goes to sleep every 3 seconds, and sometimes it stopes. I …

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I've already posted this somewhere else...I'm a little unsure cause I'm freaking out. My cd drive just lost it's mind and spat out my vcd then locked itself. I'm currently in Ghana and don't know where to go to fix a mac. Can anyone help me? I'm gonna go out …

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hi there, i purchased this imac g5 dec 2005 and it worked perfectly for 4 month. Machine Name: iMac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac8,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 2 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot …

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Hello there. I have a g4 PB a XP laptop, and linksys wireless router and the following problem. just purchased an HP Laserjet 3015 all in one. thought it would be nice to use a wireless print server. got the airport express. both computers played music thru it with no …

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Hi all, Introducing myself -- I have a background in Mac database programming, which migrated slowly (ughh) to Windows Access and then SQL stuff. So I can make a living at that sort of thing, but am now tinkering around with RedHat Linux 7.3 on an old IBM laptop. I …

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The old forum structure for TechTalk was: Windows Mac Linux Networking Hardware I have reordered this into: Windows Linux Mac Hardware Networking Two reasons: (1) Server logs showed there are many more linux users than mac users who visit DaniWeb. (2) Generally speaking, pc hardware is a more common topic …

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You guys probably think I'm nuts, but I am considering doing a massive *condensing* of ALL forums on the site. I think that having so many forums and subforums levels deep just is so incredibly confusing and overwhelming to new visitors. What I am proposing is getting rid of all …

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Hi to everyone! I have Mac OSx Powe Book G4 Version 10.3.9. My problem is that it goes to sleep ramdonly all the time. Sometimes it takes times to do it but when it starts to do it, it goes to sleep every 3 seconds, and sometimes it stopes. I …

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Hi, I have a problem with my powerbook G4 (12 inch). MacOS 10.3 will not boot. I used the cd included with the mac to check the hardware. Everything seems fine. On the other hand the disk utility program found many problems that it could not solve. I thus tried …

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[b][Moderator's note: post split from [url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33918.html"]this thread[/url]] [/b]Hi DMR, I have the same problem with the Hacktool.Rootkit virus, and tried to follow the directions you had provided in this thread but was unable to find the "Lockx.exe" file. Would you please view my startup log below, and advise on how …

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I am new to this forum and I would like to first say hi. I am Daniel Meyers, 21, sacramento california. I have been a heavy pc users since I was in 3rd grade. But Mac's offer a great deal more in terms of thier video editing and overall stabuility. …

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I've done a google search for how to install this, and none of the methods seem to work. I've tried installling it the normal way and $ linux32 sh et-linux-2.55.x86.run which didn't work also. Anyone out there get this running on a 64 bit linux OS that can help me? …

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Currently, I have a Mac G4 and a PC hardwired to my wireless router which is connected to the cable modem. I am looking to move the Mac to a different room and connecting to the router wirelessly but keeping the PC hardwired. I'm a bit confused as to the …

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Ok, First off, I need to shoot myself for not creating a backup of my HD when upgrading to Tiger. I never had problems until now. Oh well... Okay, here's my issue: I successfully installed Tiger onto my G4 Mac. It has all the required hardware/software for the upgrades, and …

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I have a Netgear WGR614 wireless router and a Slipstream 5100 DSL Modem. The problem is that the wireless connection drops about 2 times a day, and it just alltogether stops broadcasting. I then have to go to configuration for the router, change something, and then it works fine. I'm …

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