Date: 05/08/05     Keywords: web

My video card has a DVI, VGA and S-Video port. I currently use both the VGA and DVI port to extend my desktop. However, when I have an S-Video cable patched in, my secondary monitor seems to get a blue hue. Also, when I disable the TV output, the 2nd monitor is a bit blurry. This not only happens in Windows, but on the POST screen as well. Simply unplugging the S Cable seems to remedy it, but I hate the think this card can only do a main and a secondary monitor OR a TV. ATI does not seem to offer any kind of *good* support, even after an email and a trouble ticket. After not being able to resolve it, I uninstalled the old video drivers, and installed the newest ones from ATI's website (Hydravision: 3-25-000, and Catalyst: wxp-w2k-catalyst-ccc-8-121-050322a-022141c-english)

Any thoughts all? Thanks!

Below are the basic system specs.

Specs:
ASUS Mobo A7N8X-E REV 2.xx
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1011 05/20/2004
1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon
512 MB RAM
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Vid Card: RADEON 7000 SERIES : Nokia 445Xi+ , Philips 109S

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/679262.html

Date: 05/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

I'm looking to buy a new laptop for around $4,000. Can anyone make any suggestions. I know next to nothing about laptops. I was just going to buy one of those 17" powerbooks off the mac.com store. All I know is I want to be able to play my MMORPGs, and have lots of RAM....and maybe run Tiger on it. Oh, and I also want to be able to brag about it. Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/678468.html

Date: 05/06/05     Keywords: web

I am looking to register a domain, like, now. I have the webspace and everything (free server space provided by a very nice friend), and I'm wanting to register www.shifuimam.com.

Now, I have been told that places that lease domains are not as good an idea as those that sell them, but Network Solutions is $35 a year, while Aplus.net is $6 a year, and GoDaddy is $9 a year.

Do I need to worry about a leased domain, since my domain is really weird? Is Aplus.net any good, or should I just pay the extra $2 and use GoDaddy?

Plz advise - thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/678266.html

Date: 05/05/05     Keywords: google

Awhile ago I remember reading that it was possible to back up windows updates and service packs to a CD. Since I am back at College and I am on a dial-up connection I realized that I would like to do this in case of a crash so I do not have to spend the rest of my life re-downloading the updates. Also I would like to be able to do this so that i can free up Harddrive room. Is there anything special that I need to do or can I just copy C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ and C:\i386 to a cd and than that is it? I can burn them to a CD than just simply double click the exe and be good to go? If not what files do I need to put SP2 and all other updates on a CD. I did try google however I did not know enough to turn up adequate results.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/677176.html

Date: 05/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Alienware's Star Wars PCs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 03, @08:17AM from the hell-of-a-world-of-warcraft-box dept. CptnKirk writes "Alienware is now offering their high-end PCs pre-pimped with Star Wars themes. These systems have the usual assortment of configuration options. They're then additionally modded with your choice of Light Side or Dark Side themes. External decals, light kit and desktop theme. They even throw in a membership to the official Star Wars online fan club. I admit, booting the system to "what is your bidding my master", sounds appealing."

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/677047.html

Date: 05/03/05     Keywords: security, virus

I am tired of trying to figure out what in the computer industry I want to do. When I ask for advice, my profs tell me to do in computers what interests you.
So, when I ask questions about security, virus protection, why virus protection is so re-active and not pro-active, why the school seems to leave such HUGE holes open in there network ( and I see these and I have only really been "into" computers for 2 semesters, but reading for a year or so)
Case in point, networking class. My prof is lecturing on how to install a windows OS. (Snooze time) Then he gets to the admin settings, and sets the one user as admin and one user as a limited user. Ok, I think, now talk about the Admin setting you get in safe mode......waiting...waiting......next topic. GREAT, I raise my hand, and ask.
"No we set that already"
No you didnt"
Yes I did, see it here, see how it says ADMIN"
"Yes, I see that but what happens when you start in safe mode and the Admin account is there with no password?"
"That isn't the case, moving on"
So, on our 15 min break I go up, restart the computer in safe mode, and leave it there, his admin, and the OTHER admin. He was shocked.........and all I can think is, great here comes the comment I get all the time.
Prof.."I have to keep my eye on you, are you some sort of hacker?"
NO idiot, I just read, and want to know what people know that exploit the system, and shouldn't you think the same way?????
sigh.......

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/676650.html

Date: 05/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Alright...this probably sounds...lame, but everytime i hit my Control key on the left of my keyboard, it mutes my music. What in the world can I do to fix it?

Thanks..

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/676423.html

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

A long time ago, I was having printer problems. I wanted to uninstall and the reinstall it. Not knowing what I was doing, I believe I installed it 3 different times (at least it was listed 3 times on the printers area)
and I would get the Found New Hardware bubble thing to pop up...

I finally figured out what I was doing and now only have my printer listed once in my printers folder. However, every time I restart my computer, Im am still getting that Found New Hardware bubble to show up. Any ideas as to how to fix it???

My printer works fine, btw.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/676002.html

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: html, xml

If anyone has any experience with Director MX and XMLparser,,, please please please help me:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jackola/897393.html

Thanks so much. You have no idea.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/675659.html

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I was curious as to if anyone here does any program/registry/settings tweaking to make their computer shutdown/boot up faster, and what programs (if any) they use to do the tweaking their Win XP systems.

I am a fan of XP-Antispy along with XP Smoker for some basic quick settings/registry tweaks. For more in depth tweaking/utilities I like Tweak XP-Pro.

My current boot up time from power-on to a fully loaded desktop (NAV loaded, USB devices recognized, etc) is 27 seconds.

My current shutdown time from the time I hit Shutdown/Restart is 7 seconds.

I am running with no paging file as well.

Current System Specs:
-Asus A8V Deluxe Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64 VIA K8T800Pro VIA VT8237 Chipset DDR400 1 x AGP8X 5 x PCISlots IEEE 1394 USB 2.0 ATX Audio Lan with
-Athlon 64 3500 CPU
-Ballistix Tracer 184-pin DIMM (w\LEDs) - DDR PC4000 • 2.5-4-4-8 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR500 • 2.8V • 64Meg x 64
-Cooler Master KHC-L91-U1 Hyper 48 CPU Cooler
-Ultra 500W ATX Power Supply w/ 2x 80mm Fans - Titanium & UV Blue
-PNY - GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
-Dell 2001FP 21 inch LCD Monitor
-ASUS DRW-1608P Black IDE DVD Burner - 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 6X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 24X CD-RW 40X CD-ROM 2M Cache
-2x (RAID 0 setup) WD740GD - Rotational Speed 10000RPM - 8MB Buffer - Average Latency 2.99 ms - OEM
-Black Mitsumi 7-in-1 USB 2.0 FA404M Internal Memory Card Reader/ Writer + Floppy Disk Drive Combo, OEM
-THERMALTAKE Tsunami VA3000BWA Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
-Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Digital Speaker System w/Digital Hardware Decoder -RETAIL
-Ultra UV light
-Lots of UV reactive cabling (rounded)
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Coming soon:
-Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamers Sound Card
-2x Seagate ST3400832AS 400GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 8MB Hard Drives

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/675243.html

Date: 05/01/05     Keywords: java

I'm really behind on this and i need some ideas! i'm in java ii and we have to make do an end of the year project. my professor didn't really give any guidlines besides it not being too simple. it suppose to atleast include things we've covered in the semester like GUI, graphics, multi threading, exception handling, data structures and applets.

anyone have any ideas on what i should do? anything?! i have 6 days to do this, so i don't really care, just as long as i turn something in.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/674677.html

Date: 04/30/05     Keywords: hosting

Dreamhost is having a great deal right now!! They're offering TRIPLE bandwidth and storage space on all their plans. If you've been looking for a domain host or have been wanting to change hosting companies, this really is too good to pass up.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/673902.html

Date: 04/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

Please god can someone help me?? :,(

How do I restore items that I deleated from my "deleated items" box in outlook express?

Please help a princess! :,(

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/673197.html

Date: 04/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

I tried to start a multisession burn of some things using Nero, and for the 2nd straight time, it froze up on me after it got done, so I couldnt save it to add more onto it.....

Why is this happening? is it?

a) My computer
b) Nero
c) the CD-RW disks, or discs (BTW, which is the correct spelling?)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/672883.html

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: virus, web, linux

Windows XP box. Latest service patches etc etc etc. Connected through linux gateway and firewall + nat ADSL to the net.

Network connectivity from windows to external addresses is flakey. Ok ish for web browsing (occasional "could not reach" / dns errors), but terminal connections drop out after about 30 seconds.

Local connections solid as a rock. Connections from any other machine to the internet (windows laptop and linux gateway) all ok. Maintaining any form of persistent external connectivity from the machine is impossible, but sessions have lasted for days from other machines (both linux and windows).

Thoughts?

I don't think it can be the network card because local connections are fine. I don't think it can be the gateway because connections to the outside from the gateway and from other machines are fine.

Virus? But I hardly use the machine, its behind two firewalls and not directly addressable. I only browse through firefox and don't download any dodgy stuff. I have virus scanned with AVG and found no problems, and I can't see any other obvious signs of infection - hosts file unmodified, nothing unexpected trying to estabish a network connection, spybot reports no malware, no porn links magically appearing on my desktop or anything.

Anyone got any ideas? I'm tempted to do a re-install to be safe, but I would really like to isolate the problem if I can.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/672448.html

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

I burned a CD of about 250-300 pictures (about 30MB total) using Nero... Everything appeared to be going well until the very end. All of the pictures burned successfully, but as I was trying to save it (wanted to do a multisession disk) the program froze on me and I had to give it the "3 finger salute" Does that mean that I will not be able to burn anything else onto that disk since I wasn't able to save anything?

Also, am I able to delete the pictures that DID save to it?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/672241.html

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

Are there programs that you can use to continue downloading something even after you have had to restart your computer?

I am only on a 56k dialup, and would like to d/l some huge files, but fear that I would get disconnected and then lose the file because the proram wold not restart after reconnecting to the internet(s) :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/671724.html

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: google

Greetings,

I'm a geek. I started out on a TI-99 writing BASIC programs (first out of a book, then writing my own at the age of 3. Yeah, I couldn't type very well, more like a hunt and peck back then... but it got me there.)

I just wanted to introduce my geeky self before I asked this question. Get ready....

I have an Athlon 64, which right now is running windows 2003 server enterprise 64.... but my problem is that I can't find any applications that can utilize my cpu... I've done searches all over google, but to no avail.... Have any programs for the 64bit processors been written? If so, where can I get them? I'm not asking for pirated stuff, freeware or even stuff I could buy would be nice to know about. Also, are there any games that have been recompiled for these processors? It'd be nice to play some Doom 3 or Half-Life 2 with the full potential of this chip realized.

Thanks for any info anyone can throw my direction... I know it's a long shot.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/671296.html

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

Hacker deletes own hard drive - classic. Absolutely classic.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/671089.html

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

My g/f has an XP box with SP2 and she use movie maker. Apparently she tried to load a video that was too big and it crashed movie maker, but since movie maker attempts to load the previous file it repeats the crash. Also it muct back up the file because we've deleted it and it still tries to load the file. Any suggestions?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/670046.html