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thanks liz, that is a neat little tutorial

free or maybe for a nominal fee, but I do not want to wait.

I am trying to upgrade a computer from IE5 to IE6. it does not have an ethernet port. I am trying to download it using my high speed connection, then I can place it on a cd. I found this link, but it is only letting my download a .5 mb file. Is it possible to download the whole install. here is the link that is only allowing me to get the half a megabyte file http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

you could also reconfigure you xorgconfig file using the command sudo xorgconfig you will need to know for moniter specs like the vertical refresh and horizontal sync rates. You will also be asked what video card you have. you can check what video card you are using, with the following command /sbin/lspci | grep -i vga

thanks all :-)

since python is sensitive to whitespace(indentation), it would help if you placed your code in tags. It would make your code easier to read on this forum, for example: [c0de] for in in test: print f while True: print g [/c0de] in my example I used "0" in place of "o". make sure you just use "o"

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do. I think the problem is you have your print statement in the loop. So everytime it loops it is printing. Just move you print statement past the loop read = open('rules.txt', 'r') a = read.readlines() arr = [] for ruleline in a: arr.append(ruleline.split()[1]) print arr

as to the method Hai-Etlik mentioned >>> test = "1 5510/2 if then Date = 03/17/1999 03/18/1999" >>> test_splitted = test.split() >>> print test_splitted ['1', '5510/2', 'if', 'then', 'Date', '=', '03/17/1999', '03/18/1999'] >>> print test_splitted[1] 5510/2 or as one line "1 5510/2 if then Date = 03/17/1999 03/18/1999".split()[1]

you can just make your shell a root shell with the su command su vim /mnt/hdb6/boot/grub/menu.lst I guess knoppix does not have the text editer "nano".

A few das ago I noticed something was wrong with my dvd drive. Photoshop Elements would not install, it was freezing up early in the install process. Later I noticed dvds would not rip anymore. I tried swapping the drive out, that did not solve the problem. To rule out the second ide channel as being the blame, I reinstalled my ide controllers. I also tried to use a usb dvd drive, I still had the same problems. I noticed that my drive works great in safe mode. That would lead me to assume a driver or service that gets loaded in regular mode in causing a problem. I have no idea what driver or

an oem version of pro is an extra fifty dollars. Most people will never even use the few extra goodys pro has.

is this what you are looking for? t = int(len(a) * 0.6)

he splurged and wanted to pay for xp.

I won't reuse the key, becuase it feels like I am helping him break the law. Their is a millenium COA on it. I will give hime the option of installing millenium edition , or spend and additional 100 for xp home.

I googled the first five characters of the key, "FCKGW". It turns out it is an illegal key used for corperate editions. It says corperate editions do not need to be activated, but this computer says it has been activated. Why does it say it has been activated?

I have been looking for a little while, I have not found it yet. Is that bit of info in their somewhere :-) I just purchased(still unopened) a $200 upgrade version. I would hate to open it and find out that that disk will not work with the key on this computer.

thanks for the link, I will have to read thru it later. Thier looks like lots of good info :-)

I have this pc I am working on. It has an activated copy of xp professional. It has been upgraded from windows millenium, it still has a fat file system. Is their any way to tell if this was upgraded using a full retail version of xp, or an upgrade verison of xp pro? I want to do a reinstall with the current key, but am not sure what xp professional disc I need to use, either full or upgrade?

as soon as I opened it using drpython on my linux box, it reccomended I change my dos line ending to unix style. Drpython did it for me.

you could try using a single stick of memory at a time.

The problem was I origianlly wrote this using drpython on windows. So drpython added both a carriage return and a newline. So to run it on my linux system I needed to remove the "\r" carriage return. I was reading on the differnt line endings differnt OSs use. they say unix uses a \n. Is that a property of bash that requires this?

I will add my advice one last time. If you do not own a copy of a live version(runs from a cd) of linux, try and obtain one. If you boot your system with the linux cd and it does not crash(reboot), this will rule out the hardware being an issue. Then you can concentrate on what needs to be changed in windows, including possible driver or spyware issues. If you boot your system with a live linux cd and it still crashes, then you can assume windows is not the problem, but concentrate your efforts on figuring out which peice of hardware is to blame.

I am going mad trying to figure this out. I have a python script that runs fine if I start it like this python /home/shane/bin/gettorrent but if I run it directly like this /home/shane/bin/gettorrent I get the following error shane@mainbox ~ $ /home/shane/bin/gettorrent : No such file or directory the file is exectuable shane@mainbox ~ $ ls -l /home/shane/bin/gettorrent -rwxr-xr-x 1 shane users 6556 Jan 9 21:35 /home/shane/bin/gettorrent and it starts with this shane@mainbox ~ $ cat /home/shane/bin/gettorrent #!/usr/bin/env python # # gettorrent-5b # import urllib, urllib2, cPickle, os

is their a way in windows xp to update you environmental varibles, in particular, your path without rebooting. For example for some programs to use gtk, you need to add the location of gtk to your path. I noticed this path is not updated until you reboot, is their another way to update it?

I am glad you are enjoying python :-) I really like it myself