Date: 06/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Alright, so I have a question. Snagged a router the other day for $5 from a dude who had no clue what it was (I should feel bad but, alas I do not hehehe). I already have myself a good wireless router so I thought

'Hey! maybe I can use this to put internet in my theater room! Keen gear!'

Is this possible? I am not as good as I would like to be with wireless networking, hence this post. Yes, both routers do wifi.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/701549.html

Date: 06/05/05     Keywords: google

For anybody with Dell motherboard diagnostic light knowledge:

Short and sweet story on my Dell, After lightning storm, the computer would turn on, but would not perform a POST on the system, and thus wouldnt boot my system. I noted the following diagnostic light code, and pulled my hard drives of the machine so hopefully they wouldn't be damaged anymore than they have

A-green
B-yellow
C-grn
D-grn

I've been in the Dell knowledge base, and it made no mention on what that code meant. I did a couple of googles, but I didnt see anything relating to the above code.

To note, the night before I lost the PC, the system rebooted, and BIOS gave me a "missing primary partition error" (or something to that effect, I was groggy and couldn't read the lines straight, nor remember them clearly if I did read them correctly) It gave me the option to continue hitting f1, did so, and the computer booted normaly.

And to that note too, I switched out hard drives, just to make sure it's not attributed to a fried disk, still no post (if you really think about it, a fried hard drive shouldnt really interfer with starting of the post test, unless that my prior training was wrong...)

I'm not a complete pc guru, nor am I an idiot. I don't care that some of the readers like or hate Dell. For right now this is my primary system, and I am basically broke, so please no caustic comments or responses. Let me just ask my question, and hopefully someone with greater resources could help me.


Thanks for any assistants given.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/701147.html

Date: 06/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I need a new desktop, perferably once I can customize. I currently am using a Toshiba Satellite 65A (Laptop) I was wondering where's the best place to buy PCs online. I plan using it for non-graphic intense games (like Dota) and photomanipulation. I was considering ibuypower.com. Anyone know if they're good? iBuypower aside, anyone know of any really good models?

Considering I'm in college, cheap = good.
Thanks Everyone :D

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/699748.html

Date: 06/03/05     Keywords: virus, spyware

The other day I downloaded some new fonts to use in the business card I am creating, but when I went to install the fonts in the Fonts folder in my Control Panel it wouldn't let me. What I mean is, normally I would open up Control Panel > Fonts > File >Install New Font, but the option to install wasn't there. I tried just dropping the fonts in the folder, but that didn't work either.

Does anyone have any idea as to what might be going on and how to fix it? Perhaps a virus? I ran my AVG Anti-Virus and came up with nothing though, so I'm not sure if that's it. I also ran my Scan Spyware just to be on the safe side and still nothing. Any ideas? I'm using Windows 98 by the way.

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/699352.html

Date: 06/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Hey guys... Ive found something that may help me with my CD burning problems. It has something to do with something called IMAPI.

If you do the following:

Click Run>MSCONFIG>SERVICES

there should be a box that says "IMAPI CD BURNING COM SERVICE" that should be listed as RUNNING. Mine says STOPPED. Is there way to go in and change it?

I have never gone into that area of MSCONFIG before.

I wish I could remember the site I found that on, but don't remember :(

If it makes a difference, I am using XP HOME.

Thanks and sorry for all the posts about this issue.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/698483.html

Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: microsoft

Alright, so my harddrive died a painful death. I had to reformat, clean install. Now I have to deal with some new 'verify your windows install' crap by registering it over the internet or over the phone? WTF? Am I just a lucky SOB and never saw this screen before? Can someone PLEASE tell me how I get just get RID of this stupid request? I REALLY don't want to deal with Microsoft, even if they are down the street.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/698107.html

Date: 05/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

Well It's way beyond the price range I previously suggested, but I think I've found my gadget. The Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000. I've been looking and loving what features it has. I think I'd be better off with the c1000 (lacking the 4g microdrive) because I dont think I would use that much space, and besides I can just add a cf card. So what do you think?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/697850.html

Date: 05/30/05     Keywords: web

So lately I've been boring myself looking for some new handheld gadget to mess with. I've looked at the HP Jornadas and NEC Mobilepro handhelds, but feel they're just too outdated to be any fun. I'm looking for some small device that at least has WiFi for web browsing, and maybe a keyboard or support for one. Also I would  like to keep my price range close to $100. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/697594.html

Date: 05/29/05     Keywords: no keywords

Hey all... another error message problem while trying to user NERO to burn BRAND NEW CD-RW's... Any thoughts?


I put a BRAND NEW CD-RW disc in my CD burning drive and I get the following message.... WHY???? Do I need to do something to the disc before I can use it?

Here is the message:

the recorder does not support this type of media
please insert a correct medium to write to

Medium required for the compilation CD-R/RW

Medium type in recorder:Empty

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/696988.html

Date: 05/28/05     Keywords: security

Anyone out there ever have to set a shared folder to be accessible from the internet?

I believe this is possible, and I have a client that for various reasons needs this.

How do i got about doing this for win2k or 2k3? What firewall ports are involved?

And yes, I am fully aware of the security problems with this ;)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/696426.html

Date: 05/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

Why does it say that I need to put in a CD-RW disc in my CD-RW drive when I KNOW there is one in there?

WTF is going on?

Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/696282.html

Date: 05/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

A co-worker was emptying his recycle bin (WinXP) yesterday and got a BSOD. I know, nothing new, but there was somthing about it...

So, I present you with...

It seems the original was not good enough for Bill, so he remastered it to be more with the times...

BSOD: Letterbox Edition



X-Posted in my journal.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/695714.html

Date: 05/26/05     Keywords: web

Hello I'm new here.I'm very laidback and funny, i love dancing and cheerleading, clubbing, drinking, anything that involves listening to music!!I love scary movies!!


Clickhere to see my favorite website

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/694407.html

Date: 05/26/05     Keywords: web

Hi,

been up all night trying to install an app for some uni work called YAKS (Yet Another Kephera Simulator)...



My problem is make - in the makefile it looks for the termio.h file and that just fucks everything up 'cos termio.h has been made obsolete by Apple ages ago. I looked on the Apple website and it said that it had been replaced by a termios.h file, but I can't find any such file.
Any ideas on how to work around this?

I'm also having some problems with variadic macros, but have found a temporary workaround re. this, although if anyone else have experienced problems with these VA_ARGS during make then any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Will be x-posted to several other mac/unix related journals, I apologise for this, but I don't really know where the right place for this question is.

Thank you in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/694080.html

Date: 05/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

who makes the best laptops? by good i mean reliable, i am going to off to college soon and I am going to need a laptop that wont give me problems

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/693913.html

Date: 05/25/05     Keywords: google

Hi everyone.

Does anyone know where I could find a trial version of Norton Utilities (for Windows)? I need it so I can complete a comparison exercise.

If anyone can provide an active working link to download the file from, I will be very thankful. I am having no luck with Google. :(

Cheers,

-- Tom.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/693349.html

Date: 05/22/05     Keywords: programming, java, web

I'm interested in learning a programming language, and have been recommended to start with everything from Visual BASIC to Java to even just jumping right into C++. What I want to do is write a program where I can inpute information taken from the NASA website regarding star coordinates, velocities, etc., and be able to enter the information into the program and have the program compute the necessary calculations to yield the result that I want (rather than having to do the calculations by hand). What progamming language would you suggest for such a task as this?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/691642.html

Date: 05/21/05     Keywords: software, web, linux

has anyone had any experience with building raid-based file servers in linux?
I'm building one over the summer for my new student house next year, to provide storage for music, films, software etc.
I need at least 500gb of storage, preferably more, with some sort of redundancy. I have an old P2-500 with 128mb of ram sitting about, would this be adequate for about 6 users?
I was thinking of going down the RAID-5 path, as it provides redundancy, and a good ratio of disks to storage capacity.
I'm considering a software-based raid controller card such as this as they are much cheaper than a hardware-based raid card such as this.
Obviously the hardware based card would be faster, but I'm not so bothered about that, I'm more concerned with driver stability and compatability with my os of choice(gentoo)

Also, I assume I would have to run samba on this server to provide access for the llama's im living with next year who run windows.
Has anyone got any tips on securing samba, as I have heard it is fairly insecure, I could block internet access from the firewall, but I would like to run a web server on this box as well, would this be advisable, or would you advise running the web server on a seperate machine?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/690839.html

Date: 05/21/05     Keywords: browser

that I don't know the answer to. I use Firefox as my main browser. Whenever I reply to someones LJ comment and post it, it opens up a new window in IE. How do I get that to open in Firefox?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/690480.html

Date: 05/21/05     Keywords: php, web

Where the hell has the free version of AVG gone? I've been poking around http://www.grisoft.com/ for a full 15 minutes now, and I keep going in circles.

Never bloody mind. I found it. http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

Boy, do I feel like a dork now...

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/690357.html