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What is the manufacturer and model of your router? What version of Windows are you using? After some quick searching, it seems that you may not be able to get this to work while behind a router without either reducing security on your system or doing some really nasty configuration …

Who told you that it was a timing problem? Tech support? If so, I wouldn't trust them anymore than I would a bum on the street. Test your memory, this will tell you if everything is fine with your system. Burn a copy of [url=http://www.memtest86.com/]Memtest86[/url] (it's free) and test your …

Hey guys. I need some serious help with a problem that is seriously driving me nuts. If you don't care about my setup, skip down to the problem to see what I want help with. [b][u]The Setup[/u][/b] Here are the basics. I live in a two-story townhome apartment. There are …

Here's some code that I threw together. I wasn't sure exactly what you wanted to do with the information, so I had it print the non-connected information to the screen while ignoring the connected information. This should allow the code to be very easily adaptable to what you want to …

Try running "sfc /scannow".

A quick way to format the drive is to right-click My Computer and select Manage. Select Disk Management under the Storage section on the left of the Computer Management console. Find the new drive on the right pane, right-click it, and select "Format...". From there, it's up to you on …

Is your girlfriend unable to get broadband? There are many places that you can get DSL for as cheap as $14/month. This would give her a better connection, not tie up the phone line, and allow her to use a wireless router for her connection.

What purpose would having multiple internal speakers serve? The internal speakers barely do anything as is (other than beep on POST). I would think that adding more than one internal speaker would be anything but pimp.

The amount of remote connections you can make to a machine depends on the licensing of your OS. Standard licenses allow up to two concurrent connections. Many of the basic server licenses allow ten. There are enterprise licenses that allow even more than that however, but they cost a pretty …

Please clarify what you mean when you say that it turns off. Does the monitor go into standby mode or does it completely power down? Once it's "turned off", how do you get it to turn on again?

The [url=http://ultimatebootcd.com/]Ultimate Boot CD[/url] allows you to reset the Administrator's password to whatever you'd like it to be. Simply download and burn the ISO, reboot your machine to boot from the CD, and run the [url=http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html]Offline NT Password & Registry Editor[/url] to reset the password.

Are you trying to duplicate all settings from the old laptop, including the ones in TCP/IP Properties? If so, that shouldn't be necessary. Just set your connection to obtain the IP address and DNS server addresses automatically. After you make that change, run "ipconfig /renew" to get a new TCP/IP …

Sounds like overheating to me. My laptop did this to me, but a good cleaning addressed the problem quite nicely. Take a can of air and thoroughly blow out all the intake and exhaust ports.

I have a similar router (WRT54GS v4) and have been very happy with it. All networking devices have their quirks, you just have to learn what ones your device has and how to fix it or work around it. If you are looking for more info about your router, you …

They still work. Are you clicking the links (this works) or copying and pasting them (this doesn't work)?

It's possible that it just needs to be fully reset. Take the battery out and unplug the power adapter. Let the laptop sit like this for a few minutes. Connect just the power adapter and try to run the computer. If that doesn't work, disconnect the power adapter, insert the …

It certainly is possible to use Perl to serve up pages in that environment. [url=http://activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/]ActivePerl[/url] makes doing this much easier.

Is your monitor a CRT or an LCD? How old is the monitor?

petercoti, can you please start being more verbose? Please use full, descriptive subjects and put complete questions so we don't have to interpret what you are wanting. We don't mind helping you, but you have to help us help you.

I was really excited when I read the initial press releases about Vista. It was going to patch some of the glaring flaws in XP, add some great new features and functionality, include new scripting abilities, and simplify making advanced configuration changes. It was to be to XP what Windows …

If you want to write code that you are afraid will damage the system you are working on, use a virtual machine. You can install and run many different Operating Systems from within Windows using [url=http://www.vmware.com/]vmWare[/url]. I often use a virtual machine to execute code that may damage the host …

I went to the [url=http://kingston.com]Kingston[/url] site and found your model listed in the options. You can see their recommendations [url=http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=22095&mfr=Sony&model=VAIO+VGC&Sys=22095-Sony-VAIO+VGC-RB30&distributor=0&submit1=Search]here[/url]. It would seem that your system needs a special type of RAM since the specs aren't even listed and there are only two options. I did look up info on …

Download the zip file that is attached in my post. You will find a file named "xp_taskbar_desktop_fixall.vbs" inside the zip archive. After you unzip this file, double-click on it to execute it. Windows might warn you that a script is trying to run. Allow it to run and follow the …

The best advice I can give is to start reading the information that the code package includes. Most tarballed (.tar.gz packages) code packages include an INSTALL file in the base folder. You should start by reading that, it will tell you how the developer intended the software to be installed. …

What operating system are you using? Did you install the software for the player on your system? Did it work at one time and has stopped working or has it never worked?

This post goes in conjunction with my [url=http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread41955.html]post in your other thread[/url]. I work as a web developer and maintain our servers as part of my job. I maintain one in-house Linux server and five remote Linux servers, so I know a few things about why Linux is great and …

Do you have a number of different USB connection locations on your machine? If so, where are they? Which ones are you using to connect your devices to? Does connecting these devices to different ports result in the same message?

You're going in the wrong direction and are just headed for more problems. The RPM that you downloaded isn't a compiled package, it is a package that includes the source. You can compile the RPM using "rpmbuild --rebuild [filename]" in order to generate a RPM file that you can install …

[list][*]What do you mean by "limited connectivity"? [*]Why are you setting it up this way? [*]Why not just use a router?[/list]

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You're asking many basic questions that can be fixed by just searching around. When I searched for "alternic" in [url=http://google.com]Google[/url], the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNIC]second result[/url] had information saying that Eugene Kashpureff was arrested for fraud in 1997 resulting in AlterNIC going dead. Searching the web for this basic type of information is …

It's very hard to understand what you want. If possible, please try separating your statements into sentences by using periods as appropriate. I think I understand a little bit, but I'm not sure. You think you need to upgrade your graphics card because it isn't performing very well while you …

The easiest way to fix this is to load up Microsoft Window's [url=http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314058]Recovery Console[/url] and run the following command:[code]chkdsk /r[/code]After the process finishes, restart the computer. If this doesn't work, more in-depth measures may be necessary. You can follow the instructions [url=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545]here[/url] to do a more thorough fix.

[QUOTE=klutometis]Would you mind making it available? We'd be extremely grateful.[/QUOTE] Since Windows is copyrighted, we can't share the file. However, you can find it in the Windows installer disk I386 folder.

lagspike, Why do you have two routers? Furthermore, why are your broadcasting a wireless signal in addition to the wireless signal being broadcast by one of your routers? It sounds like you have an unnecessarily convoluted setup. Unless you have a very good reason for needing your current setup, take …

Do you have the DSL modem and router properly connected? Run a CAT5 cable from the modem to the WAN connection on the router. Do you have your username and password for your DSL connection? You must select PPPoE as the connection type in the router configuration and use that …

Do you know exactly which processor you have? i.e. What model and speed your chip rated for. My best guess is that your BIOS changed the bus-speed or CPU-multiplier. I'm sure those words sound foreign, so I'll briefly explain. The speed your processor runs at is produced by multiplying the …

When you are facing problems like this, it is very helpful if you start with the simplest setup and build up from there. That way, you can more readily find out where your problem is. I recommend taking the router completely out of the loop for the time being. Connect …

The information that you provide is nowhere near adequate to make good suggestions on what your friend's problem is. The system is fairly old, so if your friend is trying to run the latest games and programs, it will be quite slow. You really must provide more information. Did the …

If you let me know exactly what model of laptop you have, I can give you more concrete information, but I do know a bit from what you've told us. Depending on what type of BIOS you have, - . . . beep code refers to bad memory, bad video …

Is this a new drive that you've added or is it a drive that previously had a working partition and no longer appears as a drive in Windows?

All you need to do is add the location of your javac program to the path variable of your computer. That way, you can execute javac from anywhere. Using this method, all you need to do is change to your project folder and execute "javac file.java". To add a location …

Burn yourself a copy of the [url=http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/]Ultimate Boot CD[/url]. Boot your system using that disk and use the [url=http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html]Offline NT pw & reg-editor[/url] program on the disk to reset the Administrator password. I've used this tool myself, so I know that it works. Make sure you read the instructions thoroughly …

So you have a dynamic-ip domain name... Do you have anything else? Do you know anything about how a web page is built or how web servers work? I take it from your posts in the IP changing thread that you know a few things about dynamic IPs, but I …

Depends on who is providing the DSL, what speed package they got, how long the cable that is servicing them is from the main switch, whether they configured everything correctly, and the quality of their internal wiring and the wire used to connect to the modem. As you can see, …

What do you mean by "can't open the HD"? Do you mean that it shows up as unformatted? Does it give you an error when trying to access the data?

Are you wanting to add a password to your Windows login so that Windows asks you for a password or are you wanting to add a password to your BIOS so that your system won't even startup without the password?

You mention that you like to play the latest games. Sorry to say, but your machine was not designed to run the latest games. At best, it was developed to do mostly non-graphically intensive productivity applications and older games or ones that don't rely so heavily on the GPU. So …

Did you try reinstalling the drivers for the network adapter?

I assume that you are refering to the load averages that are reported on a Linux system. If so, the load average represents the average number of processes that are requesting CPU cycles (i.e. processes that are not in a wait state or dead) over the last minute, five minutes, …