Date: 10/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

How do I check how much RAM i have in my computer? I used to know, but it slipped my mind. I have Windows XP.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/789551.html

Date: 10/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have a tower system with which I'm quite happy. I need to get myself about a TB of fast RAID, but the tower is full, and I'm not prepared to pull the 6 disks already in there and replace them with more capacity.

Am I thinking an external HD array with a fast SCSI card? Put in 4 500GB Maxtors and do RAID 1 or RAID 5? Or is RAID 0+1 a decent solution these days?

This is for a photo editing system, so I'll regularly be opening and closing 100MB files. As such, network-attached storage isn't really an option.

Are there any non-SCSI raid cards that support external arrays, or is SCSI pretty-much the only way to go these days? For the price, I'd prefer to use SATA, but I can't seem to find any SATA raid controllers that support external drives. Maybe just upgrade the tower to a huge tower with more room for drives?

Opinions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/789344.html

Date: 10/05/05     Keywords: virus, antivirus

I've been trying to ween away from Symantec products systematically. I find AVG to be a great antivirus program. But now i am looking for a hard drive diagnostic tool that does what NDD does. In particular, checks filesystems and such while the machine is loaded into windows. (I use DFT for pure hardware hard drive diagnostics).

Any suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/789101.html

Date: 10/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I dont know too much about Macs and i'm using a powerbook with os x (10.3.9). i want to put scheme on it. would i use the FreeBSD version?
thanks in advance for any help.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/788625.html

Date: 10/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I'm trying to find some c# jpeg manipulation code.

Specifically, I have a bitmap that I draw and then encode into a jpeg in a memory stream. As such, I have a byte array representing the jpeg.

What I need to do is then set specific pixels to specific values.

I need to do this because when setting them before encoding, the codec changes the pixel values during compression. This is expected and is no issue, but once that's all done, I'd like to set a few pixels to specific values before emitting the byte array through the response stream.

Code, as such:

bmPhoto is a bitmap, saved to imgStream.

  System.IO.Stream imgStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();

  bmPhoto.Save(imgStream, ici, ep);

  imgStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

  byte[] bA = new byte[imgStream.Length];

  imgStream.Read(bA, 0, (int)imgStream.Length);

  // MANIPULATE! I have bA[] as the array of bytes. 
  // I need code here to set, for example, the pixel
  // at 2,2 to a value of (40,50,60) 
  // (color as (R,G,B), of course.

  Response.OutputStream.Write(bA, 0, (int)imgStream.Length);

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/788408.html

Date: 10/03/05     Keywords: software, web

Hi,
I've been looking for hardware, that probably comes with software, to create what you draw manually through a "pen/pad" interface into a computer program. I haven't had luck at search engines because I get all kinds of random results because I can't put into two words or less what I'm looking for. I went physically to a store & they were like:"Oh we just sold our last one the other week, check back later", but didn't give me any specifics, and I went to their online store & didn't find any. I've seen the Logitech® io2™ Digital Writing System, but even on the Curcuit City website it gets a over 3.4 overall rating.

I just feel like I need to open my eyes to what's out there before I start spending money, because I know there has to be more products out there than what I'm finding. My birthday is in two weeks and I may get it then...that is if I can find it! Please help me communicate clearer to the correct name of this product, and more importantly, if you know any products, please recommend them.

Thank you!
PS: My goal is to draw with it, not the "notetaking" part.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/788007.html

Date: 10/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

What's some of the betters converters when working with mp3 files?

I want to take certain WAV. WMA and present MP3's and convert them to hopefully more quality mp3's.

Right now I use mp3 audio mixer 2.4.

It's gets the job done, but even on the highest quality setting the song lacks "oompfh"


So what can I use to get better sounds out of my mp3's?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/787001.html

Date: 10/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

I want to play my video game while still connected to the internet. It tells me that there is not enough memory to load the game. It mentions something about increasing the size of the vitual memory in my computer. How do I do that?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/786549.html

Date: 09/30/05     Keywords: software

Ok, I'm a little frustrated right now.

I just bought aSony NW-DH3 and I'm trying to upload some songs on to the unit.
The wonderful software that came with it (Sonic Stage) tries to upload my Aphex Twin songs gets about 22% then encounters and error and shuts down. Also while sampling the songs it uploaded off my computer (on sonic software player) all of the songs sound very low in quality and some have replaced bass noise with an annoying standard sound, rather than the intended beat,noise whatever.

What the hell is going on here?

Do I have to use this software to upload my songs? Is there another way? A better way?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/785921.html

Date: 09/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

To change the resolution that the bios operates in? Also the WinXP Startup logo. I have a Gateway Solo 3450 and it runs the bios and startup screen in 800x600 resolution, and it looks like crap. I'll probably not be able to change the res of the Bios because that's in the chip, but then how could I change the startup screen res? Thanks in advance~

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/785745.html

Date: 09/29/05     Keywords: linux, google

Google doesn't seem to be being very helpful, though I'm still looking.

The deal is: I have a drive where the boot sector seems to have gone bad. Attempting to access the only partition on the drive with Windows XP leads to the claim that the drive isn't formatted. According to the version of testdisk provided with Knoppix 3.7, the partition data is intact, but the boot sector does not have the magic number 0xAA55. As far as I can discern from Google, this is a Bad Thing.

My plan right now is to get another drive, create the same sized partition on it, and then dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hdd1, which as far as I can tell should clone the contents of the partition onto the partition on the other drive, where that second drive ought to have a good boot sector (which that dd wont include).

However, I'm thinking that if I can just dump a new boot sector onto the drive, and use Linux fdisk to put the partition size data back in place, I ought to be able to get away with it without spending a chunk of my afternoon waiting for data to copy.

I suspect there's also a way to do it with testdisk, but I can't find simple instructions for that program -- yet. I will keep looking, though.

Any suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/785373.html

Date: 09/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

What RBL's is everyone using on their mail servers these days?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/784922.html

Date: 09/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

Is there any way to make IE connect through proxy with password authorization?
I just don't see where to input login/password in its proxy settings.


P.S. Installing local proxy and use it as buffer isn't really good idea.

Crossposted.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/784837.html

Date: 09/29/05     Keywords: java

Hi, (To anyone familiar with Java)
I've just started Java at Uni and we've been given this exercise to complete. Having never had any real experience in Java, this problem is really starting to annoy me. The script is under the cut...



import java.util.Scanner;


public class FirstProgram {

  pulbic static void main(String [] args)
 
  {
     System.out.println("Welcome to the number adding program.");
     System.out.println("Enter two whole numbers, seperated by a space:");

     Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     int n1 = input.nextInt();
     int n2 = input.nextInt();
     int sum = n1 + n2;

     System.out.println("The sum of those two numbers is" + sum);
  }
;
  }

I'm using DrJava and whenever I try to compile it tells me:

1 error found:
File: /home/cserv1_a/ug/jhs5rsi/SE15/ex1/FirstProgram.java  [line: 6]
Error: expected

Not sure where to start. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/784404.html

Date: 09/28/05     Keywords: virus, web, yahoo, google

My AVG has a scheduled scan to run at 8am every morning, it did that today and ding'ed to let me know that I had a virus. There was a trojan horse Dropper.Generic.AGX in C:/Program Files/AIM/backup/uninstall.exe —i deleted the .exe (I can just re-dl AIM again if I need the uninstaller) and just wanted to know if a.) i definately got rid of the infection and b) if anyone knew of what the virus is. ive googled, came up dry, and this is rather odd since I never get virus'. not since the sasser when I installed back in June.


any help is appreciated.



eta; ive noticed notepad.exe is running slow, when that program never does. its too small to run slow. in any case, ive noticed that for two days and figured it'd stop once i stopped downloading a torrent. never did stop lagging. dont know if that has anything to do with it.

eta ii;


Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:45:21 PM, on 9/28/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Sygate\SPF\smc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YPager.exe
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem\wmiapsrv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe
C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Photoshop.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\holla\Desktop\HijackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SmcService] C:\PROGRA~1\Sygate\SPF\smc.exe -startgui
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_CC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe /STARTUP
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_EMC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O9 - Extra button: AIM - {AC9E2541-2814-11d5-BC6D-00B0D0A1DE45} - C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
O9 - Extra button: Related - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links - {c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a} - C:\WINDOWS\web\related.htm
O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\YPager.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\YPager.exe
O16 - DPF: {04E214E5-63AF-4236-83C6-A7ADCBF9BD02} (HouseCall Control) - http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan60.cab
O16 - DPF: {B38870E4-7ECB-40DA-8C6A-595F0A5519FF} (MsnMessengerSetupDownloadControl Class) - http://messenger.msn.com/download/MsnMessengerSetupDownloader.cab
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Alert Manager Server (Avg7Alrt) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
O23 - Service: AVG7 Update Service (Avg7UpdSvc) - GRISOFT, s.r.o. - C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Sygate Personal Firewall (SmcService) - Sygate Technologies, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Sygate\SPF\smc.exe
O23 - Service: VPNonDemand - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\VPN.exe (file missing)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/783983.html

Date: 09/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

I love this. My teacher comes up with the CRAZIEST analogies to explain Operating Systems. On the subject of hybrid threading he said (along the lines of):


3. work sharing
* chores analogy – give your chores to your lazy neighbor that is sitting on his porch (shirtless) doing nothing but scaring little children.
4. work stealing
* apples analogy – poor people with no apples but with knives run around stabbing people with bundles of apples so they can eat too.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/783838.html

Date: 09/27/05     Keywords: web

Oh damn. I hate this. Of ALL the people who bought a Viewsonic VA702b from newegg (and left a review,) I'm the only one who gets a stuck pixel. It's on yellow, and is, of course, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F**KING SCREEN. It's no problem when I'm surfing the web or something text-based, but movies or games will not be fun. I can't return the monitor because it's only warranted through viewsonic, and they wont do a damn because it has to be 8 or more pixel anomalies.

I've tried the psp pixel fixer movie that's been around for a while, and left it on ALL night, but to no avail.

Anyone have suggestions on how I can fix this??? Thank you so much in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/783476.html

Date: 09/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have an older computer that I had built 3 years ago. This is what it has:
Athlon XP 2600
Abit NF7-S v1.0
160gb Western Digital EIDE
standard cd/dvd rom and cd-rw
250W PSU
Kingston PC2700 DDR

One day it would stop going through POST, it would get to the point right before it detects all IDE drives and such and it just stops beforeh and and hangs in infinite. After fooling around with various devices inside the computer, I got it to pass that point but then it would say "CPU is Unworkable." Ok wonderful, so therefore I took out the processor, wiped it clean of thermal compound. No signs of damage. I reapplied some high quality thermal compound and now when I boot up, the screen doesnt even respond. I was going to re-reseat the processor but I dont want to do that for nothing, the compound isnt cheap. Should I treat this is as a motherboard issue or a CPU issue? Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/782722.html

Date: 09/26/05     Keywords: php, ebay

I can't download the trials of ANY Macromedia product from the company page. Getright keeps saying the files don't exist on the server. Every other site I've found just links back to macromedia.com. Where can I find a mirror of those trials?

And just for amusement, I found this Goooogle ad on a page about a PHP editor:
Wysiwyg Editor Sale
New and used Wysiwyg Editor Check out the deals now!
www.eBay.com

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/782175.html

Date: 09/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

  Well folks, I need some help. I've been doing some looking around for either a wallet-friendly portable bluetooth keyboard, or an IR keyboard for my ASUS MyPal A716. I need something so I can take some notes on it for college (instead of a laptop.) The only problem is, the IR is on the side of the unit. This makes some keyboard with an arm on top a little useless. If you know of one, or recommend one, it'd be awesome.

  Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/781972.html