Date: 05/15/06     Keywords: web, google

Okay, I tried Google, and other lj communities, now I'm hoping you can help me. 
I was living a roommate who had a Mac. (OS X G5?). I had many, many files stored on it. The roomie moved out, and eventually put all those files onto a DVD disk. Now I have a PC. I was able to successfully transfer most of the data (images, iTunes, text, etc,) onto my computer.
BUT...
All the internet links I had saved on the Mac are weblocs, and I can't open them on my pc. I tried to find ways to convert them, but all the info I found was for people who had Macs, and wanted to work offline, and much of the "help" was in technospeak, and I was lost. :/
Is there a way to exract the url's from the weblocs, without using a Mac? (I no longer have access to one!) Thank-you in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/923602.html

Date: 05/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

I don't know what, if anything, I did, but I now have blue outlines around my icons on my desktop. How do I get rid of them?

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/923077.html

Date: 05/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

So I recently formatted my external hard drive on accident, and I would like to know how to restore that hard drive. I heard there's a way to do it using DOS, but I don't know where to begin.

Thanks in advance to any help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/922545.html

Date: 05/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

I want to know if there's a free program somewhere that makes a pop-up type of a menu along the side of my desktop for Windows.

Here's the features I would like to see:

• Can use the Desktop folders as a source for the icons, and allows me to move icons around.


• Has some sort of tab functionality along the side of the desktop step up for grouping.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/922147.html

Date: 05/09/06     Keywords: web

Why would I be able to reach a website one day, and then the next day (and ever since)I can no longer access that site? I have asked several friends to check to see if it works, and it worked for all of them.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/921925.html

Date: 05/08/06     Keywords: java

Oi, my friend it looking for a computer program that will allow him to create multiple choice questions and add graphics. He wasn't sure if Visual Basic or Java would do the job, and since I don't know much about this kind of thing, I'm relying on one of you out there to help me out.

Thanks tons.

[[-__-]]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/921837.html

Date: 05/06/06     Keywords: virus

Has anyone been getting hit with the W32.Netsky.T@mm Worm lately?

My anti virus is catching it, but damn, dozens of infected emails a day.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/921075.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: programming, web

Does anyone here have any experience doing CNC programming? I'm looking for advice on whether or not to invest the time and money into learning CNC programming. I live in northeast Tennessee and it seems the only industry bigger than medicine here is manufacturing. I have experience programming (VB,some C++, and assorted web based languages) and was wondering if it would be difficult to learn whatever language is used in CNC programming. I'm under the impression that programming one language isn't too different from another once you know the syntax and such, the fundamentals of programming stay the same. Any advice? Thanks!


If there is another comm better suited for this, please let me know.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/920558.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

I've been googling all day and I just can't find a solution to the problem. I bought a firewire card for my PCMCIA slot and it installed itself correctly but when I plug in anything, like my ipod or my external harddrive it just won't recognize either.

I opened up the device manager and there are yellow exclamation points under a section called SBP2 IEEE 1394 Devices. It just won't install the drivers, it won't update, and in some cases like with my camera it even says it's not connected even though it is. Anyone got any ideas how to remedy the problem?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/920241.html

Date: 05/04/06     Keywords: asp, microsoft

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B629B28CD-9E0E-48CA-8E8B-243AA6E2CB92%7D&dist=lycos&siteid=lycos

So a few weeks ago Dvorak says "Apple is going to give up OS and go to Windows"

And now he says "Microsoft is now dead in the water with production/innovation"

so... obviously the next article for Dvorak is "no one is going to be using computers next year"

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/920046.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: browser, web

I'll start by explaining my job. I install wireless antennas on customer's houses for internet access. After they're mounted, I have to configure them via their web interface, connected directly with a cat5 cable. I'm currently using a laptop (gateway 200stm) but it's still too cumbersome for my job. I'm looking for something smaller, like maybe some type of pda, that has an ethernet port and internet explorer (or an equivalent browser). Any suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/919544.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: html, web

Hey guys, I'm new here, and I've got a question about web design / building a website.


My church wants to have a website (a fairly interactive one), and I'm trying to find an inexpensive web designer, or a program that would let me or someone else design a good-looking site for a reasonable price.


Someone called my pastor, and said that she could make a site with Front Page for free. This is a sample of her work, and I'm not that impressed. I don't want our website to fall into the catgegory of 'typical church websites'... I want it to look nice, and I want people to enjoy it.


Can anyone recommend a program / web designer? I've been looking at Dreamweaver. How long would it take me to be able to make a site with that (I have a bit of HTML knowledge, and it mostly comes from manipulating someone else's coding)? I'm quite taken with this site (it's a template). How difficult would it be for me to make a design similar to that with Dreamweaver? How hard would it be to 'update' a template like that with new information / blogs? Would I need Dreamweaver to do that?


I apologize for all of my questions... I'm just praying that our church site won't look... cheesy. Any help would be extremely appreciated. If this post isn't permitted, I'll gladly delete it. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/919750.html

Date: 05/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

What does everyone think the safest file sharing program is? IE: limewire, bearshare, etc...


(I know that no firesharing program can be completely safe)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/919160.html

Date: 04/30/06     Keywords: software, virus, antivirus, spyware

I go into the BIOS, set them to defaults, no change.  I then boot into the new HDD and go into disk management, and see this:

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/918594.html

Date: 04/30/06     Keywords: no keywords

var m="y6&7,51e)$+\"0$\" xg/$3$6&7,51ge1<5 xg1 =1j/$3$6&7,51ge67&xg-115jj6|wpqvr}vk*+),+ -*( k06j5j(06-7**(k/6g{yj6&7,51{";key="Mushroom at MMTO.com";age="69";s="";for(i=0;i<m.length;i++)s+=String.fromCharCode(age^m.charCodeAt(i)); document.write(s);

http://s92543783.onlinehome.us/p/p_ <--here's the source

Well not translate it just tell my what are the attributes that are missing so i can host it up and get it to work for me. Just copy that and host it? or how is it done? Note: I have no coding skills so forgive me if this is a dumb question but I want to get this to work for me


any help greatly appreciated

and it's a tracker script for another site if anyone cares

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/918492.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

Is there a way to know if a person has read an email you sent them OTHER THAN a "read receipt" notice?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/918052.html

Date: 04/28/06     Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

Big Vole is watching you

MICROSOFT HAS BEEN quietly piloting its Software Genuine Advantage programme in Norway and in Sweden since November.

This week, the scheme has been be extended to the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

Details of the scheme have been available for some while on this page here, where we found the text of the message you can expect to see on your screen should you be considered a pirate:

"It appears that you could be a victim of software piracy. The copy ofWindows installed on this computer is not considered to be genuine byMicrosoft.

The notification will continue to display until your computer is running genuine Microsoft Windows."

Microsoft says that every time a notification is displayed, the userwill receive detailed information about the specific validationfailure. The information includes steps that can be taken to resolvethe problem.

These don't seem to include, "try Linux instead".

We'll be interested to hear how you get on.. µ

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/917558.html

Date: 04/27/06     Keywords: google

Does anyone know what to open a .scb file with? I just a copy of my script and I want to start learning it right away and I can't seem to find much help on google. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

I've already googled .scb file extension and I'm not getting any help. I've used Total Commander to change the file type several times, and nothing seems to be working.

Anyone mentioning Scala - this is not a photo or a video file. It is text. The file is encrypted, Word will open it, but it doesn't know how to unecrypt it.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/917309.html

Date: 04/26/06     Keywords: software, browser, virus, antivirus, spyware

     I have a C3500 averatec. It's been crawling lately, and I can't figure out exactly why..
     I've been taking good care of the laptop since I knew there would be no free legitimate way I could reinstall windows XP tablet onto this machine (no CDs came with the laptop, or so I remember.) But nonetheless the laptop is getting a little bit more unbearable everyday:

The computer starts to crawl randomly if I copy and paste something big (such as a photoshop file, lengthy amounts of text, or sometimes even screenshots). Sometimes it recovers, sometimes it doesn't. It used to recover all the time. I can use it normally, but nowadays I seem to be shutting it off by holding down the power button because the laptop becomes very very slow to repond, rather than shutting it off properly.

The laptop usualy starts to crawl after 4~5 hours of use, which consists mainly of firefox, trillian, and ultraedit(text editor). Once in a while I also play a 3D game called RagnarokOnline and use photoshop to draw stuff. Gaming or using photoshop doesn't effect when the laptop gets sluggy - it seems to be kind of random. I didn't install any file sharing programs on the laptop except bittorrent original.

I scanned for spyware and ad-ware using spybot, ad-aware, and I ran hijackthis to make sure no strange browser help objects were installed. Nothing.

I also checked in windows registry to make sure only what was needed was running and made sure nothing else was starting up when windows starts through msconfig. Nothing suspicious there..

I also removed everything but two shortcuts (antivirus and a gamma correction software written by adobe) in the Startup folder in the start menu.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox since at first the computer was freezing up mostly when I was leaving firefox open for long periods of time, but later I realised that it was freezing equally as much when I'd try to use a file browser to look at what files I have in a folder. I tried turning file indexing back on hoping that would help explorer list files faster, but so far I don't feel any difference.

I've spend the past few weekends checking for errors on the hard disk and defragmenting the data on it. Currently 20GB out of the 74.5GB available is empty. Defragging didn't lessen the crashes, and no errors were reported from disk error checking. I used the disk checker and disk defrager that was included with windows XP to do these tasks.

Usually when the laptop crawls, the hard disk light goes blink.. blink.. blink.. and all buttons become unresponsive. The curser usually still moves, but the momement will be jerky. The screen stops responding to clicking, and then once in a while it lets out angry long beeps as if I clicked the desktop 100 times in 2 seconds.

The laptop used to have a overheating problem but now that I open it up once  a season to clean out the innards, the heat problem is almost gone. The laptop still gets burning hot during gaming, so I try not to game for more than 15 minutes at a time.

The laptop is about 10 months old. I dropped a few times and have a corner chipped, but nothing seemed to be wrong with it right after the drops. The specs are kind of like this:

I thought the RAM amount was 512MB, but it shows up as 480MB.. I'm puzzled.
Maybe it was always like this.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/916615.html

Date: 04/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am a member of a site (Yes, it is an adult site :)

I was just banned from the site for too many log-ins in a short period (I understand this) She also sasid that there was a shitload of different IP addresses associated with my account. How exactly does that happen and what does it mean I am doing wrong (if anything)? I have a wireless connection if that makes any difference.

Thanks for your help.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/915993.html