Date: 01/10/07     Keywords: linux

Has anyone heard of or know of a command line script I could execute in XP's command line to connect to my wireless network, bypassing Zero Config?

I can do it easily in linux, but I've never seen anything similar in dos.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1020801.html

Date: 01/10/07     Keywords: php

I think these guys are crazy, and they're kind of cheating...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=119592

...and what's with the guy who stuck his computer in a fridge?

I do my benches with windows closed during the winter, and with the case covers closed (You know, normal working environment?) The lowest sustained idle air-cooled temperature (i.e. not jumping around) I got on the CPU was 5C.

Whatever. As long as it's harmless fun.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1020524.html

Date: 01/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

I stumbled across this article while trying to find benchmark figures:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/170

I didn't know that 2D video enhancement features are not enabled by default on Geforce 6 and 7 cards, and I've had one of those cards for quite a while now.

So if you actually care about that, go read the article.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1020388.html

Date: 01/07/07     Keywords: web

Someone gave a ticked-off response to the computer build pics that I posted. It was in a forum that's not as active as this one so I didn't think it would cause any uproar there either (that forum had no rules listed in the userinfo). I was not-exactly-cordially asked to show what I can do and not what I can buy. I'm posting this just in case someone here was equally bothered by the photos of my computer.

The following is the clarification response I gave.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1020107.html

Date: 01/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hi. I was looking for a computer language similar to Ruby from Japan. I really liked that language as it was simple and easy to understand. Can anyone help? I really didn't know wherelse to ask.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1019874.html

Date: 01/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

I've got a bit of a problem with my four-year-old computer.
My second hard drive (the 120-gig data drive) is randomly spinning down and back up while the machine is on. I believe this to be a serious fault, indicating that it's about to fail for good, so I've turned the machine off and will be keeping it off until I've found a way to fix this problem or I've got another computer to put the drive in so I can off-load my gigabytes of music, pictures, TV shows, and nonsense.

If any of you guys have had this happen before and can suggest a temporary stopgap so that I can keep on using my system, please let me know. I've heard about putting a drive in the freezer to cool it down and shrink the platters, but I'm not sure that would work since this seems to be a problem with the mechanisms that move the platters and not the platters themselves.

Cross-posted to:
veazey21, computergeeks, compgeekz

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1019486.html

Date: 01/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

I'm building out a new music production PC, and want to use hardware RAID 5 with SATA drives.

What's the price/performance point?

Adaptec 2420 PCI-E with four 400G SATA drives? Or is that the middle-of-the-road solution?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1019227.html

Date: 01/04/07     Keywords: html

http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#4into8

"...Even if the motherboard works with a 4 pin 12 volt cable, you are still only providing half of the current carrying capacity which would be provided by an 8 pin EPS cable. That can overheat both the motherboard connector and 4 pin cable. Scorched or melted connectors can be a result."

I just plugged the 4pin into the 8pin. Looks like I'll have to get one of those expensive EPS 12V supplies before I could do any overclocking. Pbbt. In the meantime I'm getting a 4-8 converter cable to temporarilly stem the voltage drop.

I guess I'm lucky that nothing melted so far.

(I know that "dual core CPU" as in "two cores on a single die" could probably be counted as one CPU instead of two, but I'm not going to take chances with this expensive thing)

Blah, heading further into overbudget territory. I wish MB/CPU manufacturers could make a bigger deal out of EPS by printing (in BIG CAPITALIZED LETTERS) "USE EPS 12V SUPPLY OR THINGS COULD MELT ON YOU"

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1018773.html

Date: 01/02/07     Keywords: php, software, web, microsoft

Hi, I'm looking for some commercial software, more specifically, a calendar that can be hosted on a webserver, accessed and edited by multiple users, give the admin different control levels, and have a ton of room for customization. I'm doing web development for a non profit organization.

Here is the problem, everything that I've provided and shown my boss is either 1. not *pretty* or professional looking enough or 2. not what he needs (canned software that can't be customized enough to fit his organization's needs.

I've tried to tell him that other than having a small company develop the program entirely from scratch, there is not really anything else we can really do.

The closest thing I've come to his approval is the calendar available at http://www.mhsoftware.com, but he doesn't like the day view mode of the calendar.

I've told him instead of shelling out all kinds of cash for software to be developed specifically for him we instead could use certain elements of the calendar and the rest could be php scripts containing forms, tables, etc. Well he still has me looking so what I want to know is, has anyone seen a commercially available calendar application that can be hosted on the web and have a ton of room for customization?
Cost doesn't seem to be an issue either.

The example he gave me of what he wishes it to be like is his calender on...AOL. :(

The biggest problem is this is an exact copy of the email I get from this organizations office when I presented them with a letter similar to this.

"I THINK WE SHOULD GO WITH THE MICROSOFT - I FEEL SURE IT WOULD MEET OUR NEEDS FOR THE TIME BEING."

That was the email I got...wow. I'll call MS right up and have them get to work on the application...It's becoming a real problem trying to get them to understand anything.

Thanks for any help x-posted to a few other places.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1018291.html

Date: 01/02/07     Keywords: linux, google

I can't believe the number of hoops I have to jump through in order to even get an internet connection working on a Kubuntu distribution. Right now I don't have it working even though I've been working on a solution all day

It looks like I'm hardly the only one having problems with this- FAR from it

http://www.google.com/search?q=marvell+gigabit+lan+ubuntu&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

...and this is not even counting getting the graphics card to work right. That's for later!

I don't have any more excess energy to deal with this crap today... I'm just going to install Vista 64-bit RC2 in another partition and be done with it

This is the reason why so many people aren't on Linux yet. At least LAST time I had an internet connection when trying Ubuntu on my older notebook. This is utterly ridiculous. Worst comes to worst I'll just format the partition Kubuntu is installed on into NTFS again and call it a day.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1017603.html

Date: 12/31/06     Keywords: linux

Could some of you tell me which Linux distribution you're using and explain why you're using it instead of the other ones. Also, if you've switched distributions in the past, please also make some comparisons.

I'm thinking of Kubuntu, since I've used KDE at work before and Ubuntu is good for relative freshies.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1017487.html

Date: 12/31/06     Keywords: software

i am in need of some good video editing software. i am sick of having to use like 4 programs to do what i want! i have a digital camera that takes video in .mov format. i need to edit that down (cut off the ends) and maybe lighten the gamma a little sometimes, and convert that into a usable .flv file that's relatively small, like youtube does. i have found that if i uploaded the .mov file directly to youtube, the sound and picture are off so i don't want that.

i installed a flash movie player on my site and i downloaded all the stuff i had previously uploaded to youtube and each file (about 3 minutes) was less than 10mb. whenever i try to use a program to convert to .flv (i have tried a number: riva, winmpgconvert, supersomething) it either doesn't let me edit the file (ie cut off the beginning and end) or the output is huge (50mb or more) or both. sooooooooooooo i would like software that can do all this for me!

sorry if this is confusing! thanks for your help in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1017231.html

Date: 12/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

I get a hex code of 5A and 94 in the lower right corner of my BIOS splash where it states press F2 to enter setup. Thats the SATA buffer and keyboard buffer respectivly. Now The thing is that is IF I can get the Bios screen to boot, usually my monitor is showing CHECK SIGNAL CABLE. I currently have 1GB of PNY memory, 1.8v like the boards specs state. 160GB Hard drive is hooked into one of the 6 SATA ports, I have tried them all and with none plugged in. 400W Power Supply. Any suggestions or ways of being able to get this running?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1016845.html

Date: 12/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

What is a good program to download .RAR files with? Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1016783.html

Date: 12/29/06     Keywords: programming, html, java, web

i am in love with www.wefeelfine.org, and ever since i fell in love with it i've thought it would make a spectacular screensaver, but i can't seem to figure out a feasible way to do so

there are several programs that allow you to use a website as a screensaver but the problem is that once the site is loaded java says something along the lines of "please click on this applet to focus" - which means that nothing displays and the purpose is defeated

does anybody have any ideas of how to get around this? or how i could get some sort of wefeelfine.org screensaver?

the author wishes for the same thing:

Unfortunately, the "please click here to focus" is a property of a java applet and not something we programmed in.
Sorry about that!
Sep


On 12/29/06, Jamie Martin wrote:
Thanks for your quick response!

Is there a way for the code to be modified to remove the "please click
here to focus" part? To where it just automatically goes into the
Movements?

You have wefeelfine_pc.html and I assume wefeelfine_mac.html, it could be
wefeelfine_noclick.html or something like that?

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:19:23 -0700, Sep Kamvar wrote:

> Hi Jamie,
>
> I'd love it if somebody were to make a screensaver.
> One way to do this is to, write a script that each day downloads the
> montages:
> the pattern is:
> http://www.wefeelfine.org/data/images/2006/12/05/*montage.jpg
>
> And then make a screensaver that cycles through the montages that have
> been
> downloaded. As far as I know, there are screensavers that will take a
> group
> of images and will make a screensaver that cycles through them.
>
> Let me know if you end up making one. I'd love one for myself :)
>
> Sep
>
> On 12/28/06, Jamie Martin wrote:
>>
>> This would be an amazing amazing screensaver, has there been anybody
>> who's
>> tried to do that?
>>
>> I have a program that will use a URL as a screensaver but when I put in
>> http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine_pc.html it doesn't work because it
>> says "please click to activate this control" within the applet.
>>
>> Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks. :)

so yes, if you or and of your programming friends have any ideas tha'd be cool.

otherwise go enjoy www.wefeelfine.org, it's neat

edit: submitted to digg, if you wouldn't mind digging this, i think maybe we could get help with that kind of exposure, thanks! :]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1016395.html

Date: 12/29/06     Keywords: software, web

If I'm on a networked mac---I live on the campus where I work and my computer is plugged into the school's network---can others see what I'm doing on my computer? I don't have to log in to my computer, but I do have to log into the web. Would spying on me require installing software on my computer? If so, is there any way of figuring out whether or not I have that software on my laptop?

Do you think certain websites would set off some sort of alarm with the IT office---or streaming videos or the like?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me with this!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1015857.html

Date: 12/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

Has this ever happened to you? You click open a program and you wait and wait and wait and after a while you click again, and again. But the program doesn't start. Then you call up the taskbar to see what the heck is happening and you see in the processes tab it seems hundreds of versions of the program are sucking up your computer's memory (one process for each time you clicked the shortcut) but in the application tab there is nil--nada, zilch. Program just doesn't start.

Usually what I do at this point is reboot the computer and hope that the problem resolves by itself. And if it doesn't, I reinstall the application. But seeing as I'm a member of this community of smart people, I figured I'd ask if anyone has seen this before or knows why it is happening. If I can understand what causes the glitch, then I can perhaps take steps to avoid it next time.

Oh, ps, my operating system is Windows XP.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1015600.html

Date: 12/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

I have an Olympus D-370 digital camera. I have an Epson Stylus C86 printer. I want to be able to put the dates of the pictures I print out onto the picture itself. How do I do that? Do I need to have an Epson digicam to go along with my Epson printer? Thanks for any help

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1015471.html

Date: 12/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=2&artpage=1643&articID=414

It's only air-cooling but it still looks insane

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1015120.html

Date: 12/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

Okay, so for Christmas my father built me a computer, he does this. haha.
And Everything on the computer is fine and all, but for some reason it keeps freezing up after I've been on it for awhile. Like it completely freezes and I have no choice but to press the on/off button to turn it off and I heard that's not good for the computer so it sucks that I keep having to do so.

My question to you guys is, what should I do? Should I let him restore it or something? This sucks so bad! :(

thank-you so much in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1014855.html