Pete_C

I would wonder if the actions of your brother and the problem are totally unrelated. My first suspicion is that on your wlan manager for your wireless adapter you have not selected your router as the default connection and you have it configured to search for better connections (something like that) and one of your neighbors also got a wireless router (Hmm , maybe they were leaching off yours and when you protected it they decided to get one themselves) and at times it has a stronger signal than yours. When this happens , your adapter drops your connection and tries to connect to theirs but i

You need several things to adequately protect a machine these days. A firewall is just one of them. It prevents unauthorized persons and programs from accessing the machine from outside and it lets you know if an unauthorized or new application tries to connect to the outside world from your machine. That is the biggest drawback of the windows firewall, that it used to be only one way (protecting against internet worms and hackers but not letting you know what was outbound). Even now, although it provides two way protection it is a little to hard to find out just what it has allowed, and it t

I see you say you tried with a CRT and all was well. So , Have you tried the monitor on a different computer? See if it works there. Does the LCD monitor have a reset button ? Another technique is to turn it on and leave it on with an all white screen displayed. This will force all the crystals to the open position. Another recommended solution would be to unplug the LCD and leave it off and unplugged for twice as long as the time it took to get corrupt at room temperature and positioned at a full vertical (not tilted back ) . This lets them all relax to proper rest state. Of course it coul

Actually, yes; and If I recall you were the one who gave me the recipe. I wonder how that would turn out smoked on the grill. Hmm. Maybe one to add to the valentines grillfest (Got some friends from out of town passing through on the way to New Orleans from South Dakota and Kansas) , I have a head of napa which needs a good use (Heck, the Chinese grocery sells it for 29 cents a pound so I'll buy more if I need it), and some excellent jasmine (texmati) rice and of course my meat grinder and lots of beef bottom round and pork loin to work with. Might work on a "modified" recipe . I went into a

Doesn't microsoft offer a free CD with the service packs and rollups on it for you Zealanders ? I always order mine. They have SP3 coming out in a couple weeks I think.

I think it best to just stick with the one that comes with windows. Windows XP and Vista defrag is based on Diskkeeper lite. One of its features is the ability to "optimize your hard disk when idle" and an "optimize boot" feature. Generally speaking each defrag utiltity uses a different algorithm to determine how to optimally order files and if you have two installed and running you get warring defrag (IE speed disk moves a file one place, then XP defrag puts it back) . Have you ever stopped working and a few minutes later seen furious hard drive activity (the light goes on and stays on) This

Yeah marty, I am not sure what you are asking. I think you mean the command line shutdown /a (or shutdown -a) for WinXP as with DOS (and win9x / me ) you exit , not shutdown the os.

Squid, cut in rings battered and deep fried is okay; but you have to be really careful . The line between delicious and a weird tasteless rubbery mass is very fine. There used to be a Chinese restaurant (it went out of business due to the economic slump a couple years back) I liked which made a really fine stir fry with baby octopus, squid, mussels , shrimp and crab. I have a store which gets in Conch (You know the thing in those giant white shells they get in Bermuda) and sells it at 99 Cents a pound. I use it like clam in New England style Chowder. I do not like "arrowtooth flounder" I can

Almost got to eighty today, but there are severe thunderstorms predicted about 5AM as a cold front slams in ; high in the sixties tomorrow I think.

Thats what they get for outsourcing the login Server to India and keeping the rest of the forum server in LA.

Well, if it tastes salty, you have added to much salt. The idea is that salt seperates into positive and negative ions (sodium and hydrogen chloride) when dissolved in water. This helps many compounds which are normally not going to dissolve in water and then attach to the taste buds to get the job done. It also affects the volatility of some compounds thus affecting the olfactory stimulus which is a major component of taste. With fish I have two favorite methods. One is poaching; you either have to really know what to expect and keep an eye on it or have an electric skillet. With an electric

At first I thought you were going to hit 75 today too. Yesterday we had up around 68, and today they predict 75 It is 65 at 9:18 AM so that is a distinct possiblity. I turned off the heat yesterday morning and it was so hot (probably the dogs have something to do with that) that the dogs were panting in the middle of the night and we were sleeping nekid on top of the covers. The OL even reversed the ceiling fan and I thought for a bit she was going to turn on the air conditioning (probably will today no matter what I say) or at least open the windows and "attic ventillation hatch" to get a t

Well, I prefer to salt just before I eat, using kosher or coarse sea salt so I can taste it with less actual salt in the dish. My OL used to see me shake the big two pounder sea salt container (which has both pour and sprinkle) all over things and say I used way to much salt. So I labled the "mortons" "hers" and the sea salt "Mine" and waited. I still have the same sea salt (only half used) over a year later and she admitted that she really must be going through the salt in cooking . (note I had a separate mortons for pasta water). I probably did catch this technique on America'a Test Kitc

Rough explanation of the checksum for those who never heard of it before. While not precise, it gives you the idea of what is going on. The bios has a bunch of data, ones and zeros . Well it keeps a record of how many ones, how many zeros, how many bits and bytes total of data. This is the "Checksum" . It saves that data once you configure the bios and "save settings and exit" and checks each time you boot to make sure they match. If the battery goes dead then all the values are forgotten and the count set to zero so the numbers do not match. Then you get a checksum error (as you would als

How often do you cook what should be a perfect steak only to have it either dry and tough or burned on the outside and still a touch to rare inside? While obviously this is best with a Porterhouse, or even T-Bone or New York Strip; I tried it with a bottom round steak and got excellent results. The first thing you need is a thick steak; thicker than you would normally choose. Minimum of one inch, but I think 1.5 to 1.75 is optimum. Letting it warm up to near room temperature makes for a more even cooking so I like to start there. Preheat your oven to 300 , or warm up your grill while waiting

If this were just one site; I would say they had bad coding. Since you say no sound in embedded videos; I am wondering if it is a problem with the Adobe flash player plugin for Firefox. Make sure you have the latest version of adobe flash player. Then restart your computer. I also found this fix for linux http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...firefox-453292/ but doubt that helps, although it may point us in the direction of a fix. IE you need another flash player installed and you edit your /etc/firefox/firefoxrc file to indicate it. But I think there may be a hint of the cause here It

LMAO. I can't believe how often that site is down. Rather sad, heh-heh. The sad thing is that they have the login / accounts on one server and the forums on another. The site is up, but no one's home; you can't login.

OOOPS they did it again. Seems like since some time around 5 or 6PM yesterday no one can login and post. You can read the boards but try to reply and it takes you to a login where if you try it logs you in as guest and won't let you post. Here I thought that suddenly no one was having any problems with their computers any more; until I thought to check the off topic board and discovered there were not even any perverts left. I thought maybe the apocalypse had arrived and they were all struck down; but then I tried to post and found out that the boards have no members.

Yes, a lot of big software products are available for a nominal fee to college students at accredited institiutions. When my OL took Autocad at Community college and the prof was trying to sell them trial versions ; I found out that with a college email address they could get the student version which was fully functional, just has a watermark on the final output file for free. Like I said, lots of companies offer deals like this, but you have to find them. http://students5.autodesk.com/?lbon=1 Once logged in they have downloads for all their products. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/in

If you have a direct TV PVR , then a slingbox can control it , and stream the output over ethernet (including to a ethernet over power line or wireless access point) to your router and from there to the sling player on your computer anywhere on the internet. You use the sling player software to control the slingbox and it has IR controls you stick on or hang in front of the PVR or DirectTV tuner (it can actually control several devices) . http://www.slingmedia.com/

I would just go to my computer => Tools => Folder options => file types Or do it through control panel. Locate file type .dll and select it and choose remove. That will remove the file association.

When you say the installer, are you talking about the folder where the files are? as you say I highlighted the option for Norton Antivirus 2003 and it told me in which folder the files are installed, but I'm not sure if deleting that folder will get rid of the program/installer, and then also even f it does, do you think I should run an app like revo uninstaller to get rid of the remains? (assuming there is any), and btw the computer has 1GB of RAM, anyway thx for all the suggestions, I'm going to try them out Then just delete the shortcut to the installer so no one runs it and leave it on th

I would recommend buying a second hard drive and doing a dual boot install. That way you know you still have one functional OS which your computer was designed and built to use. I recommended this path for those who were running Win98 or ME who wanted to upgrade to XP and I recommend it for those upgrading to vista.

Flash reports that Adaware SE is now bundled with ASK Toolbar. Many Malware prevention sites frown at this , and therefore it is no longer a preferred free tool. There are others which offer realtime protection and more comprehensive scanning and definitions bases out there. http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=31549&amp...79693817b05aada While the ASK bar is not considered malware ; it is not what you expect to get from a security company supposedly dedicated to protecting you from stuff being installed without your permission. Many have suggested that the current problem with updates is del

We just tried the Norton removal utility, we downloaded it, run the file and the message for "succesfully uninstalled" showed up, but the option in start >> all programs is still there, and when we click on it we still get the "Welcome to the Norton Antivirus 2003 installation wizard", guess we'll try the McAfee option then, is the McAfee removal tool the same kind of file? Those are just installers for free trial versions (usually a sixty day trial) which are normally bundled on many computers. It is not installed yet so there is nothing to uninstall. Just right click and choose prope