Date: 01/23/07     Keywords: web

A friend of mine's d/l speed is shot to hell when she tries downloading much of anything off a webpage (like an audio or video file). Perplexed, I gave her connection a speed test and it came out with the same results as mine (about .50 seconds). Now, I have tried to download the same thing, from the same site and my speed is normal. I've checked her CPU usage and that's at around 32% or maybe a little lower at times. Web pages load normally, but whenever she tries to download content from them, it's just total nonsense. I opened up GetRight and loaded the url of the download into there and it won't let her d/l saying it's "Anti-leech protected". But what puzzles me is that I had no problem doing the exact same thing on my end. I checked the settings and I made sure that they were exactly the same as mine and it still refuses to allow her to d/l doing anything other than letting it load in quicktime on the site, or right clicking the available link and downloading it that way. Everything is being done through Firefox and I switched over to Internet Explorer out of desperation for ideas and that is acting the same way. I've also tried downloading directly and through GetRight while getting a file she wanted off DivShare (I uploaded it hoping that one of the options would work), and it's still the same problem... very slow, and "Anti-leech protected". I am stumped. Does anyone have a solution or explaination or anything?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1026697.html

Date: 01/22/07     Keywords: software, web, linux

From: Bryan Kearney @ Red Hat
(where I also work - hiring like mad, looking hard for qualified people)

Folks... we are hiring a bunch of folks to work in the IT group at Red Hat. Great company, good culture, and lots of cool technologies (GWT, JBoss, Messaging, Web Services, etc). If you know folks who are looking, can you point them at http://www.redhat.com/careers ?

Thanks!

-- bk

Company: Red Hat
Job Title: Application Software Engineer
Description: Red Hat wants you to join the team that is delivering new on-line applications for the global Red Hat community. Utilizing experience with managing and deploying applications and Linux systems you will help the GIT organization continually deploy and upgrade application assets for internal and external customers. The ideal candidate will have experience system administration, software development and build systems, as well as exposure to multiple scripting languages.

You will be responsible for defining release processes which govern the entire external and internal application suite. You will work with development teams and production operations teams to organize, plan, and execute application deployments to global web sites. You will identify gaps in existing tooling, and be responsible for filling these gaps with either custom code or existing open source solutions. You will work with team members locally and overseas to provide 24x7 coverage for application support. You will need to juggle priorities across multiple "most important" projects and bring to bear the good judgment you have developed during at least 2 years of related experience.

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1026297.html

Date: 01/22/07     Keywords: html

I always said antec was the suckest power, now somebody else noticed it as well.


http://www.behardware.com/news/8550/power-supply-failure-rate.html

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1026045.html

Date: 01/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hi all. I recently had to do quite a bit of work to get my server back online,
and I at that time thought I needed to temporarily connect the drive to my
Optiplex GX110 to reinstall Lilo. And stupid me, forgot that I could have just
used boot floppies and eliminated about half the work I did in swapping the
drive in and out about 2 or 3 times. Anyway, right now I am stuck with a desktop
machine that refuses to boot. According to a sighted acquaintance of mine who
read the screen to me, about half the screen is full of "l070707." This doesn't
seem to be boot-device specific, since I found that even booting from floppy
produced the same result. At first I thought it could be the riser board that
wasn't fully seated, so I removed and fully reseated it into the slot on the
board. The only thing that seems peculiar to me in that regard is that in the
low-profile case that this system is housed in, the cage seems to be somewhat
loosely seated in its slot; might this have anything to do with why I get this
weird error? My guess is probably not, since this didn't seem to fully fix the
problem. I also find that once in a while, I can get the system to boot from
floppy; however, it still refuses to boot from HD. Anyone have any ideas what
the root cause of this could be? I asked the guy who was reading me the screen
as to the sequence of events were before the l07's came up, and he told me that
it went straight from the Dell logo to that. I'm not sure if that has any
significance, however I thought I'd include it. Thanks in advance for any
insight into this.
Edit:
I seemed to have fixed it by reinstalling Lilo into the MBR, just as I had to do on my server. However, that error itself is still quite curious, since I haven't been able to turn up any info
on it thus far.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1025731.html

Date: 01/20/07     Keywords: software

I've been able to print off my printer before, but now the button on it is flashing, and in the "Printer and Faxes" window, it says my printer is offline. I have an HP Deskjet 3915. I went through all the HP Troubleshooting and it was unable to figure out what the issue was. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the software. I've turned the computer off, unplugged everything, waited, and replugged...didn't work. I've right clicked the printer icon and it says "use printer offline"...which confuses me b/c I thought if my printer was offline it would say "use printer online"....but Under the icon it says "Offline" instead of "Ready". Actually it says "Ready" when I turned my computer on, but once I go to print, it switches to "Offline". I'm at lost on what to do now. Any suggestions? Thanks so much in advance for your help

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1025437.html

Date: 01/19/07     Keywords: google

Ok so I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer, I am currently trying to make my computer "kid-safe" so when the kids come to visit they can use my computer, unfortunately if they go to google and hit a particular letter they will see my previous searches, something I would much rather they didn't. I have gone to Internet Options and deleted the cookies and Temporary Internet Files, but these searches are still coming up in Google.
How do I make it so the Google page is like new, fresh and without those previous searches coming up in the search bar?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1024813.html

Date: 01/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am pretty much computer dumb. Are the two things I mentioned in the subject line harmful or harmless? I went to MSCONFIG and then to start up and saw them. Looked them up and it said they were both dangerous. I unchecked them. Did I do anything to help, or hurt, my computers performance?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1024646.html

Date: 01/18/07     Keywords: linux

hello fellow geeks. i've been venturing into linux lately and messing with several distros, i seem to like mandriva the best. i like it because it has this clean looking but snazzy GUI and lots of awesome effects like the jelly effects when you move the windows around (they seem to move like jello/flubber/what have you ;)) and the neat cube effect of moving between the virtual desks. my question to you all is, if this is what impresses me and what i think is neat are there other distros out there that i should take a gander at? especially livecd ones.

thanks oh so much.
:]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1024458.html

Date: 01/18/07     Keywords: html

Hi all. Does anyone know where I could download a textual version of the Z5500
manual? I have the print version; however, that doesn't do any good in my case.
I also don't have a scanner, unfortunately. I've been googling, however that
hasn't turned up anything yet. So if someone could either tell me where I could
find an HTML/whatever version, or is perhaps willing to scan there's and provide
a download link, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1024027.html

Date: 01/17/07     Keywords: software, web

I need to find if there exists software for live videocasting. That is, software that simulates/replaces the mixing board that a small television station might have. The ability to switch between the feed from a webcam (or even a bunch of good cameras that find their way into the computer, so, perhaps, three USB webcams), multiple AVI or MPEG videos queued and ready to play, audio sources, etc.

Does such a beast exist? Anyone?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1023897.html

Date: 01/17/07     Keywords: web

Hello.(:

For the past five days or so, the ONE website that hasn't been loading on my computer is Deviantart. Now, I frequently use this site, and why it's suddenly shunning me, I have no idea. But it's driving me mad. Everytime I attempt to visit this site, I get your average "this page cannot be displayed" error. I've had friends visit the site, and they all say it works perfectly for them.

I'm running on Internet Explorer 7.0(and Netscape, which it also won't work in), and I'm pretty sure I've tried everything. I've deleted cookies and temporary internet files. I've even tried resetting the brower. The site isn't blocked either as far as I can tell. I'm not sure, but is it possible that I've had my IP address banned for some reason? If so, is there any way to verify this? I don't know much about the workings of computers, so....I'd much appreciate any suggestions.(:

Help?XD Thanks very much.

[Crossposted to a number of places]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1023653.html

Date: 01/16/07     Keywords: virus, web

greetings!

i am a former arabic student that would really like to practice her arabic by watching a certain lebanese channel that, while it luckily has a webtv option on its website, is for SOME REASON not accessible to the us. its definitely not for political reasons, as this is the entertainment/bullshitty/rich-youth channel, very superficial and known for it. i believe its because the channel is available int he us with direct tv-- so maybe there's a non competition thing.

while direct tv is expensive, the webtv option at the channel's website is cheap and convenient! but as soon as they register my ip as coming from the us, the programs don't get through.

is there any way around this? i thought of some proxy thing but i haven't had success in finding something good. either it doesnt work or its too slow. is there anyway to just disguise hte isp? any reliable and non virusy programs? if its a proxy, i guess it needs to be a fast connection, cause it has to allow for streaming video.

any ideas are very welcome! thanks so much for your time and thought energy!

best,

lisa

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1023456.html

Date: 01/15/07     Keywords: mysql, software, database, sql, web, linux, microsoft

I'm trying to find something that will do approximately what Microsoft Project does, without actually being Microsoft Project ... Things I'd be looking for (ordered approximately from most important, to least important...):

Date: 01/15/07     Keywords: spyware, google

hey guys,

There are a few programs that I see in the Add/Remove Programs window that I cannot remove. They are not all sneaky spyware. One of them is a game I had deleted from the Program Files without officially uninstalling. So, when I tried uninstalling it now, it gave me two kinds of warnings: 1) cannot find the installation log 2)no change after uninstaller is finished. When I reboot and look into the Add/Remove, the program is still there. However, a Google Desktop Search showed me there are no folders associated with these programs anywhere on the computer.

I'm not an expert on operating systems but starting with these symptoms I figured that this is a problem with the system registry. A phantom DLL is haunting my computer, and to eradicate this phantom I must find the associated DLL files and delete them. But, as I said I'm not an expert--and without Scooby Doo on my side I can't go ghost hunting--so there can be something I'm overlooking.

btw, I Googled this before coming here and didn't find a good suggestion other than using HijackThis to stamp out the adware-like apps, which is not very useful to me. What are your thoughts on this? Has it happened to any of you?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1022777.html

Date: 01/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

So my Zen Touch finally crapped out on me after being dropped onto cement for the third time, so I figured it was finally time to jump on the ipod bandwagon.

I got a 60Gb iPod Photo. I use MediaMonkey to sync. (iTunes is crap. Really.)

When I plug in, it pops up a tooltip that says that I could plug it into a USB 2.0 port for faster speed. This is odd because I have it plugged into a USB port that is part of my (brand new) motherboard. No other devices (mouse, keyboard, camera dock, usb hub) complain about not being plugged into a USB 2.0 port.

After that pops up, it locks up my whole system. After crashing explorer.exe and restarting MediaMonkey, I'm able to transfer songs just fine (slowly though).

Help?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1022298.html

Date: 01/12/07     Keywords: security

I was listening to Security Now today, and I didn't get a chance to read this earlier. Quite a fascinating read if I do
say so myself. Me personally? Besides my not using Vista, I will attempt to persuade everyone I can think of to not use it. The key to getting rid of AACS, and for the content producers to
stop dictating hardware designs for their sheer benefit, is for the masses to vote with their dollars. I am speaking imo; however, I'm sure that most of you out there will agree...Thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1022049.html

Date: 01/12/07     Keywords: microsoft

Tired of struggling with Microsoft Spy++?
Other utilities are supposed to be better, yet they're still not good enough?

We wrote Voyeur, a new spying tool which may be worth your attention.
It shows messages, lets you modify window styles and much more.

Anyway, find out more and download Voyeur at:
http://www.imagos.ru/mihon

This is a beta, so we need testers!
If you like our utility, please help us make it better.

Please let us know what you think of it (both praise and criticism are welcome).

(For now, Win98 is not supported, we're still testing it.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1021947.html

Date: 01/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Are there any FREE sites out there that you can use that lock children out of certain sites and such?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1021462.html

Date: 01/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hello everyone,

I sent my dad to pick up a Core 2 Duo for me (because he works really close to the place I ordered it from), but when he brought it home, I noticed it had a small black scuff mark on the heat spreader. The package is still sealed and everything... I'm just wondering if I should return it? Or is this something common that occurs. It doesn't look like a scratch, just a black mark.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1021437.html

Date: 01/11/07     Keywords: html, java, web

Ok. Let's say that I am a complete dummy w/ absolutely no knowledge of computer languages whatsoever. My question is: what can I create when I do master one? I know that some are created to make 'web applications,' like Java, and others are meant for algorithms. So assuming that the computer is, in itself, a means to end, what would be the logical end to the experience of working with a computer language preferrably something meant for algorithims and/or doesn't have a web-based purpose like Java or HTML.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1021140.html