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I need someone to help me. I’m usually very good at troubleshooting my systems, but this one has me stumped and I’ve been working on it for a long time. The last thing I want to do is reformat my hard drive and start clean, which seems silly since I …
Hello, Recently a popup arrived saying that virus doctor was scanning. After immediately closing the screen, I installed MBAM and updated and scanned my computer. The initial scan yielded one registry hack. I deleted it and restarted my computer. Then, I did a full scan which yielded nothing. I am …
I have a Netgear Prosafe GS108 8-port gigabit switch which I've been using at home for a couple of years without problems. It's uplinked to my main switch in another room, and has 5 devices connected to it (Tivo, Media Centre PC, IP Camera, Wireless Router, Slingbox). A few days …
Hi, i've had problems with my broadband connection since moving into my new house at the start of the year. I could write an essay on this but will try to keep it brief: ISP is Plusnet Connection speed at best of times is very slow - 0.5mbps. I live …
I am working on a PC trying to install a wireless USB. the Ethernet Card is installed and is working properly, so it says. When I type "ipconfig", it states that the Media is Disonnected. How the heck do I change the status of that?
[B]Here is the story.[/B] I haven't work with macs for a while due to financial reasons, but I'm happily (or so I thought) back now to a mac environment. I have a Macbook 13" (which is my old Computer) and a Macbook pro 15" (my new one). They are both …
Hi guys/girls, Im looking for a internet cafe software & also a voip billing software. I found cyber cafe pro to be a good choice BUT it has no wifi spot options! I also need a billing software for VOIP telephones that support a sip devices. I thought id ask …
I am using a Belkin 7230 wireless router and I have Vista on my laptop. I can only connect with local only access. I have tried uninstalling, re-installing, even got a replacement router on the chance it was a problem with the router. I have excellent signal, I just can't …
Hey I have a Netgear Wireless Adapter and sometimes it can't connect to the internet for a few hours, because it says I need to do some sign up with my ISP, yet when this happens it takes me to the sign up page but it can't ever load the …
My buddy was over earlier today showing me how to setup QoS on my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread77893.html#"]Linksys WRT54G[/URL] Wireless Router and somehow disabled the wireless interface to the router. Unfortunately I found this out after my roommate started his afternoon long campaign on the Xbox, and the settings we changed earlier gave …
i have a laptop with windows vista home premium and it worked perfectly well on the internet using Asus wireless router until one day my norton internet security expired and eventually my network connections indicated local access only.i uninstalled norton and installed AVG8.5 but still the problem persisted.i went on …
hello For the last couple of days every time i click on Internet Explorer i get a window that says - to help protect your computer Windows has closed this program.- Internet Explorer. Can you please help me? I have copied a file from rapidshare a could of days ago …
hi guys, just want an insight from you guys..recently i just installed two network card in a workstation..one dhcp and one static ip..all seems to work fine.. but how to check whether the internet connection is using DHCP or using the Static connection.. is there a way to check? or …
Can anyone help me with this problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 and it seems that the wireless card has somehow got switched off, it worked ok one day and the next day it didn't! I've tried contacting Dell but my warranty has just ended so they won't help …
[COLOR="Red"]Can any one help me debug this?vista system crashing and hear is the mini dump txt.... dell inspiron 531..warranty finished :(:'( [/COLOR] Opened log file 'c:/debuglog.txt' 1: kd> .sympath srv*c:/symbols*[url]http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols[/url] Symbol search path is: srv*c:/symbols*[url]http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols[/url] 1: kd> .reload;!analyze -v;r;kv;lmnt;logclose;q Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ ................. Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded …
I have a strange network problem with a new HP Elitebook (laptop). The machine runs WinXP sp2 and is configurated the same as an older Asus laptop. Both (the HP and Asus) are in the workgroup LAPTOPS. The server is Slackware Linux 12.1 with samba up and running. All desktop …
Hi all, Hope you can help. Thanks. I want to set up a network where: 1. a single host computer gets wireless internet connection from a office wireless access point. 2. the host computer broadcasts the wireless internet connection. 3. client computers can log on to the broadcasted wireless internet …
Hey folks. After a recent system scan using Avast (fully updated) I got a message saying that this file could not be scanned because it is a 'decompression bomb': C:\Program Files\Nero 7\Nero BackItUp\BackItUp_ImageTool\root.img\root.img I tried deleting/moving the file (in Avast) but it would not allow me to do this and …
You have to give Sony credit, they are really trying new strategies to wrestle eBook marketshare from the Amazon Kindle. This month [URL="http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/computer_peripheral/e_book/release/41492.html"]they announced several new editions [/URL]of the Sony Reader, including the brand new Reader Daily Edition, which should be in stores in time for the holiday shopping season. …
[URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] is looking more and more likely to be releasing a tablet computer either later this year or early next. I won't bore you with all the references online, there are too many. So, purely from my head, here is my wish list for what the device will actually be …
There are two things you can be sure of about the annual Las Vegas Black Hat security conference: nobody will use the free wifi as they are all too [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19935/53/"]worried about being hacked[/URL], and someone will demonstrate an exploit that will scare the living bejesus out of you. The latter …
To be honest, these days it takes a new iPhone or maybe the latest Android-powered beast to get my smartphone pulse racing even if BlackBerry is the top of the smartphone pops in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4324.html"]raw number terms[/URL]. So news of a new BlackBerry, the Curve 8520 which was also know as …
I've[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4290.html"] speculated in the past[/URL] that nothing could keep Google from moving Android from a phone to a computer. After all a phone is just a hand-held computer, so it should come as no surprise that [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html"]Google officially announced[/URL] yesterday that it was getting in the computer operating system business …
This just has to be one of the best pieces of news ever - there is agreement for a standard for mobile phones. It's really as simple as that. Here's the story, [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_8124000/8124293.stm"]on the BBC's junior site[/URL], would you believe. I just can't work out why it has to be …
Twitter was all a-twitter overnight (UK time) about the iPhone version 3.0 software upgrade. It was falling over, people weren't able to download, it was agony and then it wasn't working apparently. I hope you don't enjoy reading that sort of stuff. I'm not able to write it, you see; …
As usual Apple put on quite a show at the [URL="http://developer.apple.com/WWDC/"]WWDC 09 Keynote[/URL] on Monday, but what struck me was the undercurrent of derision for its exclusive carrier AT&T. Tucked in among the [URL="http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217800153"]big announcements[/URL] of faster, cheaper Mac Books, $29 Snow Leopard upgrades, the long rumored $99 iPhone and …
Have you bought a [URL="http://www.amazon.com"]Kindle[/URL] or Kindle 2 yet? Don't--at least not until you check out the [URL="http://www.coolreaders.com"]COOL-ER[/URL] ebook reader. It's about the same size and weight of a Kindle--so what makes it so much [I]cooler[/I] than the Kindle? It could be your choice of eight cool colors, its magical …
Some people are complaining that the company hoping to map the availability of broadband Internet is too closely tied to the same major telecommunications and cable companies that stand to benefit from the more than $7 billion in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known …
The Google Android OS is coming to the Acer Aspire ONE netbook, and sooner than you might imagine. As a happy ONE owner myself, and a keen observer of all things Android, the news that it could be as soon as Q3 this year really pleases me. Jim Wong, President …
"Universal service" should encompass broadband Internet access in the same way that it originally encompassed telephone access, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission to Congress. The [URL="http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291012A1.pdf"]report[/URL], [I]Bringing Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy[/I], is written by Michael Copps, acting chairman of …
A [URL="http://sev.prnewswire.com/airlines-aviation/20090522/DA2167522052009-1.html"]study[/URL] conducted by American Airlines and Hewlett-Packard has found that frequent flyers would rather geek than eat, with more than 47 percent saying that airport wireless access was an important amenity, compared to about 18 percent who said food was. The purpose of the study was to help promote …
I've been reading about VNUNet's choice of the top ten most disappointing technologies - stuff that really didn't deliver. I'm sitting here typing with a wireless keyboard and mouse talking to my Mac by Bluetooth stunned that they chose Bluetooth as one of them, and enough Linux addicts have Tweeted …
Ever wondered why your WiFi doesn't work as well as you expected, especially if you live in a highly populated part of town? The obvious, and oft-repeated, answer is that all those WiFi networks trying to work in the same vicinity just end up causing network edge congestion and that …
According to the latest report from The NPD Group, US consumer sales of the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4076.html"]BlackBerry[/URL] Curve have outstripped those of the [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24653/1231/"]Apple iPhone[/URL] in the first quarter of 2009. It says that an aggressive buy-one-get-one-free promotion from Verizon Wireless has helped in no little part to push the Curve into …
The cheap Netbooks you see advertised at discount stores might not turn out to be so cheap after all. If you see a Netbook advertised at $100 or less, beware--it will end up costing you many times the regular price of $275-$400 USD. As I predicted in my post, "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4188.html"]Branded …
Looks like Google could be in deep water, along with the Open Handset Alliance and some 40 or so companies, over an apparent trademark infringement. Now you might think that there had been some pretty heavyweight due diligence before Google and the OHA determined to call the open source mobile …
Last evening, my friend [URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow"]Jason Perlow[/URL], IM'd me and told me to go to this [URL="http://download.cnet.com/Presto/3000-2094_4-10910300.html?tag=mncol"]link[/URL] and download a program called [URL="http://www.prestomypc.com"]Presto[/URL]. He had just returned from some "green" IT show in New York City and apparently had seen, or heard about, this Presto thing--a new Linux operating system that …
Word emerged this week that Apple was in talks with Verizon and everyone assumed it was it about the iPhone, but buried at the end of a BusinessWeek article, [URL="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc20090429_594307.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech"]AT&T's iPhone Dilemma[/URL], is an interesting nugget: [QUOTE]Apple has also shown Verizon a larger, more computer-like device dubbed by one person …
The Android is about to take the leap from the cell phone to the netbook, and much like the first Android-powered cell phone, the first iteration is a bit of head-shaker. Instead of a dazzling showcase, it's underpowered and small, and although it has some interesting qualities, cost is going …
If you recall, on April 11, I wrote "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4227.html"]Linux Store Open for Business: A Fantastic Voyage[/URL]," where I told you that I wanted a Netbook for my anniversary. I also described my fantasy computer store where you select your computer, OS, other options and walk out happy. I had a …
The embattled WiMAX communications standard is taking another hit as WiMAX vendor Clearwire Communications is the recipient of a class-action lawsuit by users contending that its service is [URL="http://clearwiresucks.com/blog/"]slow and unreliable.[/URL] While the lawsuit is not about Clearwire's WiMAX service specifically, [URL="http://newsroom.clearwire.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=214419&p=irol-overview"]Clearwire[/URL] is the main company providing WiMAX services in …
I opened up Google Reader this morning and found major rumors from our favorite corporate rivals Apple and Microsoft. For Apple it is the oft cited iTablet. For Microsoft, it's a supposed iPod Touch clone. I try not to give too much credence to rumors (as I wrote in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3626.html"]It's …
The [URL="http://www.bluetooth.com"]Bluetooth Special Interest Group[/URL] has confirmed that Bluetooth 3.0 will be released on April 21st. The Bluetooth 3.0 specs are expected to allow users to see much faster speeds when used in conjunction with 802.11n Wi-Fi while we await the arrival proper ultra-wideband technology. Still, the faster link speeds …
The US Army has successfully finished field testing the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical. Better known as WIN-T for short, a $10 billion secure and mobile broadband communications network for the modern army soldier in battlefield situations. The 4th Brigade tests have been putting WIN-T through its paces, linking together …
For the better part of this decade Apple has created some amazing products from the Mac Book to the iPod to the iPhone. They've had an enormous technological and cultural impact, but even with all of these accomplishments, the meteoric rise of the App store is simply astonishing. They went …
With the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3625.html"]success[/URL] of the iPhone App Store and Microsoft wanting a [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20349/53/"]piece of the action[/URL] it was only a matter of time before RIM got into the [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21310/53/"]online application storefront[/URL] game. With the BlackBerry App World online store launching later this month, [URL="http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/application_storefront"]submissions are now being accepted[/URL] from developers …
Having already been accused of [URL="http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23321/1231/"]killing common sense[/URL] with some bizarre App Store [URL="http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/02/10/apple-bans-bouncing-barack-and-trouserless-bill/"]listing decisions[/URL], now it seems that an Apple sans Steve Jobs could be treading the path towards total market madness. Apple is displaying all the signs of losing the plot: announcing a raft of new desktops just …
Oh, the poor beleaguered BlackBerry Storm. It just can't catch a break. Mobile phone company Orange delayed its launch in the UK last year because of undisclosed "[URL="http://mobiletechaddicts.com/2008/10/09/orange-internal-statement-on-blackberry-bold-quality-issues/"]software issues[/URL]." The Bold's much anticipated arrival in the U.S. [URL="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/the_blackberry_5.html;jsessionid=QK2ZU3QQNUR2QQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN"]got bumped back[/URL] nearly six months. Now sales of one of Research In …
Few things are more cringe-inducing than admitting to your boss that you lost your company-issued laptop. No matter how careful you are about securing your computer, sometimes all it takes is a second for it to vanish in a crowded airport or bus. To increase the chances of getting your …
Are small company software stocks – especially medical technology companies -- a safe, even profitable, haven for investors these days? Could be – especially if you’re looking to forego higher-risk plays like oil and financials – that your focus should be on smaller med tech companies, one institutional investor advises. …
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