AndyFair

Quote: Have you tried just copying the program shortcuts into the All Users profile? The shortcuts should then show up regardless of who logs into the machine. Remembering to make sure that permissions on the files are set so that other users can read them! Rgds AndyF

Quote: 9x systems aren't known for thier USB capabilities, then again NT isn't at all. 200 seems okay, Xp is good. No one tell me that ME is good for anything! Actually ME CDs make good beer mats/coasters! AndyF

Quote: Originally posted by clutch Oh well, it looks like we have spun off topic pretty badly. Onward to the point again... Isn't that what moderators are for?? AndyF

Quote: and I will be able to boot normaly (disk boot) and acess my hd like I can do with older Win9x boot disks and copy/move files? No, you can't boot using a Win9x floppy and read files on an NTFS drive, but you can do so from the command prompt within Windows. The WinXP boot disk is more like a Windows NT/2k boot disk in that all it does is start up the installation routines. AndyF

Linux newbie.org used to be good but has gone downhill since the original moderator (Sensei) left about a year ago - as an example, the latest news item dates back to January, the oldest is from July 2001... Having said that though, there is an active message board with some helpful souls on it. The only other thing I could suggest is that you do a search on Google for Linux Newbie. Rgds AndyF

Wow, who would have thought that NTCompatible would be so educational??! Quote: Umm, well, as a US citizen I feel it is my duty to defend our nation against these false accusations that have been made : 1. I SCUBA dive, and my mom and stepfather were in the Navy, and I can't recall hearing the term "fathom" much. I wouldn't say that it's *completely* out of use (some fossil has to be using it, right?), but general measurments have been either feet or meters for depth, and knots for speed. Can't comment about that one, but don't you find it strange that using knots (nautical mile) as opposed to land miles is a little archaic (and why are knots a different length to land miles)? A question for everybody! Quote: 2. I don't know about UK plugs, but ours seem pretty tough. Then again, I haven't broken one nor have I had a need to break one. Also, every building that I can remember has had at *least* a central fuse box (buildings [censored] back to the late 1800's that were wired by Edison personally ), but usually have breakers. As stated before, all UK houses have a central fuse box as well as fuses in the plugs. It's an extra level of safety in that if an appliance does blow the fuse in the plug, it's unlikely to blow/trip the fuse/switch in the fuse box as well. The downside, though, is that fuses in plugs do wear out (anyone want to tell us why?), and the number of hours wasted trying to find out what is wrong with an appliance, only to find out that the problem was the fuse is annoying to say the least!! Quote: 3. I'm not sure either way on the driving thing, but I am sure that we (the US) could have found better things to be different on just for the sake of being different. However, I am interested in hearing what the logical reason for being on the left-hand side of the road would be. For some reason, I thought I had heard that as well once. I've seen the other post you made with the link - was it that Friday afternoon feeling? Quote: Some of the others were just so wacky that I didn't know what to make of them (like wall-to-wall carpet in the bathroom ). But I do have one question; what do you mean by a "TV license"? As in a license to own and operate one? I've never personally understood carpets in the bathroom - all they do is get damp! I find it even more questionable in the toilet... 8) As for the TV license, well, yes, we have to pay the BBC a £100 license fee each year to be able to watch TV. It's this money that enables the BBC to exist. Some people in the UK question the justification of the license fee, but you can guarantee that there would be hell to pay if the beeb stopped broadcasting. Lots of people do not know that the BBC also undertakes a lot of research, and are pioneers in things like digital TV, HDTV etc. And the beeb does still make some decent programs, although an awful lot of them do seem to be made in partnership with the Discovery Channel ot WGBH Boston... Ah, well, time for the education to continue... AndyF

If the laptop was supplied by work, and you use it to connect to a network, the Run command may also have been disabled using User Policies. AndyF

It sounds like the folder used to store your profile on the server does not have the correct permissions. Rgds AndyF

Off the front page: http://www.gideontech.com/reviews/being_el/ I think it looks quite cool - would be good sitting behind the front faceplate of a PC AndyF

What I do is switch to classic view, sort the menus then switch back to XP view. AndyF

Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive Image. If you're doing a straight drive-to-drive clone, either program should suffice; if you're cloning to an image, Drive Image is the only app that supports writing to NTFS drives. Rgds AndyF

Alternatively, right click on the menu you want to sort, and select "Sort by name" Alternatively, go to "Customise" on the start menu options, and click on sort. AndyF

Also, I don't know what MS did to the Detonators, but they run like a dog compared to the same release nVidia drivers...! AndyF

Real time, photorealistic games - with the 3d card throwing so many polygons around that you can model everything in minute detail. I don't think it will be that long in coming - see how far we've come since the original Wolfenstein (which is only 10 years ago) AndyF Who's suddenly started feeling his age...10 years since Wolfenstein...!

Quote: Originally posted by Dazultra2000 ...As dirty harry said... Not to nitpick, Daz, but it was me wot said that! The Via 4-in-1s worked for me, nor have I had any instability since I installed them - the only problem is that they only fix the problems on a handful of machines (ie those AMD+VIA based mobos), they don't help all of the other masses using other motherboards, etc. The over-riding theme is that the problem seems to be down to Microsoft, and not any specific hardware manufacturer (for once, VIA is not to blame!) - and if people are sending their crash results to Microsoft, they must have thousands of cases by now, just for this one system error. Strangely, they didn't happen for me with any of the XP Betas, only with the RC versions - so MS must be able to work out what they changed? XP has been released for 4 months now, with no updates from MS...let's hope they're working on a solution! Rgds AndyF

Oops, my bad - didn't check the specs - although I did say "if"! This is a known problem with WinXP, not just on Via based boards, or just on AMD processors, or even with nVidia cards. As far as I am aware, Via are the only company to have come up with a solution/explanation for the problem - which is all to do with the way that XP handles memory transfers (i can't remember the details off the top of my head, but there was a recent post on this board explaining the cause) Rgds AndyF

If you're using a VIA-based motherboard, pop over to the Via website and pick up a copy of the latest 4-in-1 drivers. These contain a patch to help alleviate the problems which cause the infinte loop BSOD. Do a search on this board, or any other XP board for "infinte loop", and you'll find that you're not alone in suffering from this problem. I would also make sure that you're using the latest drivers from nVidia, although people on this board have reported varying levels of success with the new drivers. Rgds AndyF

Turn off automatic reboot (Control Panel->System) and see what BSOD Windows is giving you. First option is then to run the Stop code through support.microsoft.com, or come back here and ask us! Rgds AndyF

Boot from the XP CD, select "Repair", choose the command prompt/repair console option (or whatever it's called), then at the command prompt type: fixmbr That will rewrite the MBR of your hard drive, and you should be able to boot into XP as normal. Rgds AndyF

I haven't been able to find a definitive answer of what SSE does, but it stands for Streaming SIMD Extensions SIMD means "Single Instruction Multiple Data", which means being able to manipulate multiple pieces of data with a single instruction, as with matrix calculations (and since matrix calculations form the bulk of the processing in 3D apps, SIMD instructions can provide a useful boost for 3D!) Any application that requires the application of a single formula to multiple pieces of data, such as video processing, speech processing etc. will benefit from SIMD instructions. Streaming tends to refer to video, and in fact Intel originally started to refer to SSE as "Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions" - so I would guess that SSE was targetted at MPEG (sound and video) encoding/decoding. The original plan by Intel was to sell processors based on what they could do to the browsing experience, but they forgot that any process is only as fast as its slowest link - and in the case of the Internet, the limiting step is not the processor, but the speed of the Internet connection! The main difference between SSE and MMX is that MMX was integer based, whereas the SSE instructions are floating point based. Hope this helps - if you need more info, try looking on the Developer section of the Intel website. Rgds AndyF

Port replicators cause more problems than they solve - to the point that we don't use them in the office any more, and people just use their laptop's screen & keyboard - most decent, large screened laptops are fine for this kind of use. One thing I would try (and I don't know if it will work or not) is to change the network bindings so that the replicator NIC is listed first in all of the bindings. In theory, this means that this will be the first card to do the DHCP broadcast, so it will be the one to receive the IP address etc. from the server. As I said, it's just a hunch, but give it a try. Rgds AndyF

Another site? Blasphemy!! Actually, it looks like a good site - needs some exploring, methinks... Thanks AndyF

Apache is free, fairly easy to configure, but can do complicated things as needed. The only down side is that to get ASPs working, you need to fork out money. Rgds AndyF

Users can type at random, and what appears on the screen is perfect english. You can take the phone signal from a modem, plug some speakers in, and it instantly gets converted into speech (a la War Games) Desktop computers can operate without cables - not even a power cable You can take any computer, plug it in and it will be able to talk to the other computer (even if that computer is alien, as in Independence Day) Computers never crash, hang, get locked out - unless it is important to the plot Lets face it, if we all used computers that ran like they do in the movies, we'd all be out of a job! AndyF

Off the top of my head, I think Epson are the only company that makes decent A3 inkjet printers that are even vaguely affordable. But I'm probably wrong, as the next post will (no doubt) prove... AndyF