Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: software, linux, microsoft, google

Time Warner and software giant Microsoft are understood to have held talks earlier this year on how the two firms could work more closely together.

Analysts believe Microsoft is keen to buy part of AOL and merge it with its own internet business.
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My position - if this happens it will mark the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it. AOL is already known for it's restrictive practises, combining this with Microsofts proprietry "standards" and monopolistic practises the net will be reduced to a microsoft only zone with linux/mac users unable to access a lot of content due to DRM restrictions. Microsoft would also use this position to force companies like google out of its way, making their sites incompatible with the AOL/Microsoft internet portal.
Discuss.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/834047.html

Date: 12/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Here is what I want to do. I have a 4gb thumbdrive I want to copy .iso files to it and be able to pick which one I want to boot off of.

Any ideas would help.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/833482.html

Date: 12/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

Just visit http://www.pose-the-boss.com to see a brilliant idea

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/833146.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: asp

Hi all,

I have an ASP question.
I read in a book I can install a server on my computer, using IIS. After numerous tries to interact with that server (I'm shipping data from client page to server page), I keep getting 500 Internal server error.
I have WinXP Pro, and I read somewhere servers can't be installed on XP. Is that true? Help!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/832302.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: php, html, asp, java

Anyone know of a way I can have a page that generates links of the contents of the folder? and yes i know if i dont create an index page it will automaticaly generate a templated page with links of the names of the items. The reason that wont due is i need the links to open to a blank target page if i do that to the template then all the folders with no indexs will have the popup window *blank target*

Oh yeah to make this worse the only languages I can due this in are Java ASP HTML maybe if im lucky DHTML; if this is super easy to do in PHP i will try to get them to install support for it on the server but i doubt it =(

oh and ill throw in a few bucks if you can get me through this quick =D

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/832059.html

Date: 12/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

Just a word to the wise, don't use a dash in your computer name for the network in WinME. You will scratch your head wondering why the ICS enabled machine can get the net, but none of the others can. =) Now why they design a system that allows invalid ID's to be used in the first place... oh wait it's Miscreantsoft. Nevermind.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/831499.html

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

i was just wondering if anyone had a problem Playing Leisure Suit
Larry... the lastest one

i remember before i had this problem and someone in this
sit had helped me through it
but it wont even start
i get a black screen like its GONNA but then sayd for
some reason LSL has to shut down, would i like to send an error report...

like i said i fixed it before but maybe you guys can
help me since i seem to have lost my memory and i
cant remember where i put it

thanks in advance

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/831349.html

Date: 12/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

I need someone with a paid account to help me create a syndication for make magizine.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/831191.html

Date: 12/07/05     Keywords: web

Does anyone own or have used this IPAq?

I am curious about GPRS web surfing. Is it similar to EVDO capability? Can I surf webpages on this device via the cellular network?

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/830429.html

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

How do I edit Mozilla Thunderbird so that by default when I respond to an e-mail it will start at the top of the message, and not the bottom? I've tried looking all through the options and I can't find it. But I know that in a previous version I was able to change this..

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/829980.html

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

How hard is it to use layers in Photoshop Elements 4?

If this is not permitted in here, pleasse tell me to delete?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/829547.html

Date: 12/06/05     Keywords: asp

Greetings all!

Upgrading My PC.

It's a frankenputer of sorts, and has been slowly upgraded, with adding a SATA drive, DVD drives, new RAM, etc. Now it's time for a new chip, although I come to understand Socket A's are pretty much dead...so, I'm looking at what is left.

My Mobo is this:
A7N8X-E Deluxe
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=13&l3=56&model=217&modelmenu=1

RAM:
GeIL Value Dual Channel PC3200 400MHz DDR
http://geilusa.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=36

My mobo appears to handle Socket A for AMD Duron / AMD Athlon / Athlon XP 3200+ Processors, maxing out at 400Mhz FSB.

I currently have a 1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon w/ 128kb primary memory cache and a 256kb secondary memory cache.

Also, the chipset is Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 and Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce2 MCP-T

Any thoughts on what CPU may work?

Thanks!

(x-posted)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/829289.html

Date: 12/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

FFS, I turn my back for a few hours, and all hell breaks loose.

For new posters: Read the userinfo. Read it. Actually pass your eyes over every word, and absorb them into your brain. Follow the advice there. Follow it. Actually take the steps described, and do them. If you don't you'll be called a loser and a timewaster, and with good cause. If you're called a loser, the best way to prove them right is to react like a loser. Take your licks, take the solution offered to your problem, and move on.

For existing members: If you feel someone has earned the right to be called a loser or a timewaster, please feel free to do so. However, don't let it develop into a flamewar or a pissing match. It's really okay to let someone else show the world what a dillhole they are, without having to have the last word. I'll be continuing to delete posts that develop into squabbling, so your remarks, however smart and witty, will be sadly lost to the ages.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/828977.html

Date: 12/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

I just bought an Espson C86 Printer and I may have fucked it up already. You nkow that paper guide slider thing that is on the left hand side? Somehow it got moved all the way over to the right annd I cannot get it to go back. Does anyone have any ideas? I would be FOREVER grateful.

Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/828169.html

Date: 12/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

I got my photoshop Elements Disc(k) in the mail today. That is all that came is the disc in it's tiny little sleeve. No instructions, no booklets, NADA. Could I have possibly gotten ripped off, or an illegal copy, or something?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/828083.html

Date: 12/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Whenever i try to watch any quick time format video I get nothing but a green screen and it slows down my computer. I have read that it is because of SP2 and I have also read that it is a missing video codec. Which is it? and how do I fix it?

Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/827618.html

Date: 12/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

In the next version of MS Office, commands that are grayed out will have a tooltip explaining why, and how to ungray them. Also, tooltips will have a link to the relevant usage section of the help file.

Most of the other UI changes are going to take a familiar product and make it screamingly unfamiliar (no more menu, for instance: it's all toolbars), but the enhanced tooltips feel like they're going to be really good and useful features.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/827160.html

Date: 12/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Does anyone know of a really well supported wireless access point?
I installed a netgear rangemax access point (the one with the cool lights) at a clients conference room. Most people can connect to it fine, but they had a fairly important person come in who couldn't access it due to incompatibilty problems (he had a dell laptop with onboard wireless, plus netgear are known for rubbish wep implementation). I solved the problem temporarily by turning off wep encryption, then he could access it fine.
This is a fairly important client, so I need a really well supported access point that works with as many wireless cards as possible.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/827047.html

Date: 12/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

specs: iBook G4, 1.2 GHz, 768 mb RAM, Tiger, CD burner/DVD reader

tried: restarting, zapping PRAM, burning a CD (does work), repairing permissions, deleting Finder's preferences, different brands

ok. my laptop will no longer recognize blank CDs either in Finder or on the desktop. iTunes recognizes them sometimes, and will open. it does see ones that are burned (by either Mac or PC). sometimes it will just sit there, sometimes it ejects the blank disk.

i looked back through the MacOSX community, and one person did post about this, and that's where i got the idea to zap PRAM, repair persmissions, and trash preferences. however, it doesn't give a solution that worked for that poster. and none of those ideas fixed my problem.

cross posted in appleworld, ibook, macosx, computergeeks, ubergeeks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/826633.html

Date: 11/29/05     Keywords: ebay

I won photoshop elements 4 in an ebay auction. I paid just a bit over $50 for it. Did I overpay, or underpay? Just curious on your thoughts.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/826531.html