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I'm not aware that OSX comes with an Administrator disk? What sort of utilities are you looking for? A lot of stuff can be downloaded from [url="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/"]http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/[/url] If you're looking for a free download of the OS itself, then of course, that's warez, not to be discussed here. Sorry, I'm …

[b]Computer Ports: What You Should Know to Defend Yourself [/b]by Aaron Turpen of Aaronz WebWorkz The number one way a computer is exposed for nefarious uses online is by exploiting open ports on that system. Ports are names or "handles" given to various network connections your computer uses to communicate …

[b]Ask The Computer Geek[/b] By: Jeff Johnston (jeff@domynoes.net) [i][b]Q:[/b] I have received an email from Microsoft stating that there is a new security update available that fixes some security risks. The email contained the patch for me to install, should I do this right away as it advises? - John …

Sometimes I have a problem where my Kensington USB keyboard stops responding. The only way to fix this is either to reboot or to unplug and replug in the USB cable. However, keep in mind I'm not using a real Apple Pro Keyboard - it's a Kensington one. Also, Mac …

Please don't double post. Thanks. [thread]3420[/thread]

Go into the Control Panel and then to Sounds and Audio Devices. Then uncheck the box "Place volume icon in the taskbar"

What video card do you have? Do you have the latest video card drivers installed? (i.e. from ATi or NVidia) What program are you using to play video clips?

It's really dangerous to mess with your registry ... I *guess* it's okay to delete keys belonging to uninstalled software - but I would still use a Registry Cleaner program instead.

Can you show us your code so that we can see if there are any errors? A switch statement should be in the following form: [code] switch (variable) { case expression1: { statement1; break; } case expression2: { statement2; break; } ... default: { defaultstatement; } } [/code]

Never heard of it. If that just came up and your friend has absolutely no clue what N-CASE is, then type Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to the Task Manager and select End Task. You never know what the buttons or even "remind me later" do if it's a malicious program - …

Is this with a laptop monitor or a standard LCD display? Who's the manufacturer? How old is the display? Is it under warranty?

Reformatting wipes out everything in your computer so you can start fresh as if you just bought the machine. You will have to reinstall all of your software. However, it lets you start with a clean bug-free error-free system that is usually a lot faster (as computer speed deteriorates over …

Can someone please help me? I'm in desperate need of a php/MySQL based statistics tracker for Apache. It should be easy to configure and install. At the same time, provide a wide variety of information. I'm currently using Wusage but it just isn't robust enough for me. I heard good …

I currently run a G5 with two hard drives. The first is partitioned in half. Partition A is the system. Partition B is my user folder. The second is one large partition of random stuff. What I would essentially like to do is set up a RAID array without having …

Very cool. Thanks for the 411.

The first step is to make sure that you have enough room on your computer. Go into My Computer and check how many hard drives are listed. Do you know if your computer has multiple hard drives or multiple partitions? Each operating system must be on a separate hard drive …

Try placing the installation softare in the drive and restart your computer holding down the 'C' key. This should boot directly off of the CD where you could reinstall the system. I can't see how this won't load due to an operating system error because you're never really touching the …

Cool. Sorry about that ... for anyone else who's curious, the max character limit of signatures was increased from 500 to 5000.

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It should be like this: If all you want to do is change the .shtml extension to .html [code] RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ $1.html [L] [/code]

What is a fast write? I'm not familiar

This has nothing to do with your question, unfortunately. But by any chance have you tried out Fink on the Mac? It's a sudo-port of Debian which lets you run bitchX and bitchX-gtk natively in the mac

Have you tried running "checkdisk" ? In My Computer, right click on your system hard drive and choose Properties. Go to the Tools tab and click Check Now... for Error-checking. If this is a new computer, unfortunately it may have been shipped with a bad component. What company did you …

You say all this happened after rewiring? Open up your computer and make sure that everything is securely in its place. Problems like this could be due to the RAM or video card becoming a teeny bit loose, for example, simply from moving the tower around to reach behind it.

I haven't encountered this svchost error. However, I was working on the new tutorials section of TechTalk earlier when McAfee VirusScan Online popped up from my system tray informing me about the breakout of this new virus. I didn't bother downloading the latest virus definitions 'cuz I was busy programming …

I just had a very similar problem. You will need to install drivers for your RAID card. I had the problem where DOS and PartitionMagic could see my SATA hdd (connected to a Promise Raid Controller) but Windows couldn't ... problem was drivers ;) I betcha that's your problem as …

What OS? Jaguar? Panther? OS9?

Personally, I feel a Windows limited account is only a good solution for younger children on a family computer. Windows limited/admin accounts just aren't the same nor as powerful IMHO as *nix based accounts are. For example, in *nix, I am never a root user but in Windows I am …

Aside from this particular instance, does your computer ever act quirky? Does this only happen when you enter this one particular folder and never any other time? Try entering the folder in safe mode (there are other posts here on TTF of how to enter safe mode if you don't …

No experience with VirtualPC but I do have experience with VMWare for linux. Is there like a virtual nic card? NAT? Does Windows XP have an IP?

Navy Mix, try following the instructions in the link to the Microsoft knowledge base posted by Big B.

The change was actually something I had discussed with Gary. The idea was that when people saw "1 week ago" as the last post time, it just feels like so long ago that they don't want to respond. However, when they see "2-02-04" it doesn't seem like so long ago …

I'd like to set up a simple ftp server on my panther machine. Preferably I'd like to use the ftp client that comes built into OS X. However, I'd like to configure it to listen to a non-standard port (as opposed to 21) since I'm on a cable modem. What …

What operating system are you using? This could be the cause of a bad hard drive. Perhaps even a bad BIOS chip on the motherboard? What happens when you turn on your computer again? Do you get any error messages? Did this always occur or just start recently? Was there …

Two things to try. The first is to go to the View menu then choose Text Size and set it to a medium or large font. If that doesn't work, it's possible you're using a custom CSS. Go into the IE Tools menu, then to Internet Options. Under the General …

Thanks for the 411

GUIs differ (to the best of my kwowledge?) in C++ based on what operating system you're using. Linux systems, for example, can use QT, etc. Are you using Microsoft Visual C++ in Windows perhaps (on the other hand)?

I third that idea ... you'll save a lot of headaches by reformatting and doing a clean install of Windows 2000.

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Yup ... a stroll down memory lane. Old daniweb.com ... old techtalkforums.com. To answer your question, that logo was designed by Dan a.k.a. inscissor :)

Sorry, my mistake. I moved it back to the Geek's Lounge.

Which email provider do you use? It is webmail such as Hotmail that you're using with Outlook?

Hey all you guys and gals! I was just checking up on my site stats and it looks like we average about 3,000 hits per day. Now, remember, these [i]are[/i] forums, afterall, so most people do visit a few pages per visit. So it comes out to about 300 unique …

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Security-related questions should be aimed at the networking forum :)

I'm an InterNIC -> Network Solutions -> VeriSign gal ;)

Do they open correctly on a different computer? Could it be that your IE is corrupted (as we all know how easily that happens)?

Does it ever ask you where you want the file saved to? Do you ever use the browse button to select a place? Does it bring up the "save file as" dialog box? I'm going to move this thread to our Internet Explorer subforum :)

What first post?