Mainter

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  1. yeah the new site it launched the other day http://www.live.com/
  2. Nerd plays keyboard and sings about bittorrent, ISO's, hacks, cracks, and other computer-related material. It's actually a pretty catchy tune. His vocals could use some work, but who really cares. The lyrics are great and are subtitled too. http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/18186/...l?autoplay=true some funny stuff
  3. The beep decoder I read basicly said this; Its screwed, try detect it in Bios, if it cant be detected there then its really screwed. It also says the HD itself has no speakers so it cant be the thing beeping, but every thing else I have plugged it into makes the exact same tones. Yeah I have checked cables, and tried it on various computers. no i have not flashed the bios
  4. yes ami bios how come the harddrive does not show up in the bios?
  5. My Maxtor 120gig Hard Drive just died the other day, It cannot be detected in Bios and when its powered up it gives an 8 or 9 tone beep code.
  6. hey i would like to find out what i need to convert my mixtapes to mp3? any help would be appreciated Thanks
  7. Ok, problem. I never had any viruses/spyware problems up until now. When i realised that outpost firewall was interfeering with something and giving me blue screens of death everyonce in a while i unistalled it and run with now firewall for a month. After that i installed the new outpost that didnt have that problem but component control was canceling my connection so i just shut that one as well and rolled with no firewall for another month. Ever since then, removed is kinda messed up. I run adaware pro, search&destroy, stinger on safe mode and i did a full scan with Viruscan enteprize(m
  8. i have windows xp home edtion sp2 and i want to put password protection on folders that i am sharing across my home network so only 1 other computer can access them using a password how do i set this up ?
  9. my question is, can i put more then 1 operating system on an external hard drive its a 300gb ION harddrive and i would like to put linux, and freeBSD i heard not to run them as virtual machines just partiton the drive and do it that way well my main hard drive is pretty full and the external 60gb used what all do i need to make this happen?
  10. Abuse address(es) for 60.11.125.36 Generated by www.DNSstuff.com Location: China [City: Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang] Looking up 60.11.125.36 at whois.abuse.net. Above are the results from www.abuse.net, and are the E-mail address(es) that abuse complaints should be sent to.
  11. i use pc on point i found it to be a real good registry cleaner and they have a little registry cleaner in a freeware program called CCleaner never had any problems after cleaning
  12. OS: Windows XP Home SP2 Processor: Intel 4 CPU 2.80GHz L2 Cache: 512 KB Memory: 1024 MB Video Card: Intel 82865G Graphics Controller I am running Windows XP Pro/Server 2003/ and Beta Testing Vista all in Virtual PC I got a CD from a friend its NLD V9 he said it had Linux Ghnome and KDE on it i am wondering if this is a good starter to learn Linux
  13. ok i figured it out it was his norton internet firewall that was not caching the requested websites but i still do not know the reason why it was doing it
  14. for some reason I can't go to http://google.com or http://msn.com or http://yahoo and stuff like that...it shows some wacked out symbols...how do I fix this? this is for a friend but i was not sure so i brought it to you
  15. hey is there a way to make an ebook read out loud function on adobe acrobat reader to play on my mp3 player besides let it read the book with a internal sound card reader recording it?
  16. AT&T Inc. is cutting its introductory price for broadband Internet over phone lines, sliding in below price leader Verizon Communications Inc. with a $12.99 monthly deal. The offer, which begins Friday for Web orders, is for a yearlong contract. When the contract runs out, the price jumps to $29.99. The offer on DSL (digital subscriber line) service replaces a previous introductory offer of $14.99 for six months. Verizon has a non-introductory plan for $14.99 a month. AT&T's move is a continuation of last year's price war, which saw DSL providers cutting introductory prices in half. It
  17. No, you would not notice a difference in performance between 2 1GB and 4 512MB modules. If your system is a dual channel system and you don't install in matched pairs, you will lose about 10% performance.
  18. February 1, 2006. Firefox 1.5.0.1 is a stability and security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5.0.1: * Improved stability. * Improved support for Mac OS X. * International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled. * Fixes for several memory leaks. * Several security enhancements. The Burning Edge has more detailed lists of notable bug fixes.
  19. I think it is just another wannabe ploy of the RIAA to stop people from burning copies of cds which is stupid because you bought the cd maybe you do not want to mess up the orginal so you want to make a copy to play in the car have one in the wifes car and maybe have one to play in the house on the home theater system but no you cannot do this because of copyright crap they are making it so hard for regular people to pop in a cd and press play they are lossing more money doing all this crap that people are just downloading them cause its so much easier (and they wonder why people steal music)
  20. hey firefox just came up saying it is installing an important update i hope its the memory leak problem (bout time) so if you got firefox be sure to get the update from there website http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/