Madmanmcp
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Yes a dedicated server would be nice but I believe it will be way out their price range. I'll bet this is just a teacher who decided to go out on their own and purchased an account out of their own money and is trying to give the kids a little more than what the school had to offer.
They probably can't afford to purchase a dedicated server account and I know the school will not have the funds for it.
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I guess the only advantage for a sub-domain is fewer keystrokes for the URL.
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h_tp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1644282,00.asp
"Linux users are at risk from serious security vulnerabilities in components used to view graphics and handle archives, according to researchers. The security holes, found in the imlib graphics library and the LHA archive tool, can be exploited via a specially crafted bitmap image or an LHarc-format archive to take over a Linux system. "
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I have to agree with Mike and Curtis, ease of use is what drove Microsoft to the top of the heap. You write software for the majority, not the minority, and you become rich. The majority are the ones who want it now and don't want to take time to learn how to do it, click a button and be done with it.
"whats a command line?", "you mean I have to type something and know what it means?"...FORGET IT.
And "I" actually like it this way. Heck, if everyone knew how to do it I wouldn't have the good paying job. Or if it were too hard for everyone there would also be less of a need for my skills and I would probably have another job for less pay. So MS did alright by me, everyone uses it and lots of folks need me
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Ok Thomas, I'm home and found where the password is located
under the Options menu there is an EDIT button on the right side, sellect that.
In the next window you enter the password for your nickname in that area thats says Password:
Thats all there is to it...you won't have to type the identify again.
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or you can add the command as Lisa has described
Lisa, an FYI
you can use the commands instead of using the "message" route, and on most IRC server you can use abbreviated commands.
/msg NICKSERV identify <password>
will be
/ns identify [password]
I always like fewer keystrokes because I am a two finger typists
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I believe its in the Options menu
under CONNECT and OPTIONS
I don't have mIRC here at work but will check when I go home for lunch.
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He says he has had it posted so many years that it doesn't matter anymore.
I've had my same Prodigy email since 1989, not much I can do to protect it besides the spam programs. So it comes down to a case by case decision. If its a new email then you may want to try and protect it from getting harvested. If its too late like mine, don't worry about it.
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I just gave you the code you asked for, and Raul went the extra mile and place it in the rest of your code.
Can't beat the price on that CD...hope you get it
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is this what you want??
<a href="mailto:mymail@****">my name</a>
Or are you looking for something different.
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Hi ninepatch, as Rob has mentioned a CD is a pretty basic an simple task. Determine how much you wish to spend, then pick a little lower
From what you describe I take it the only use you will have for it is "IF" you ever need to use it in the future and this may never happen. So I will suggest that you just get the cheapest replacement you can find, because you don't need anything fancy, just something that will work.
As for where to buy, if you have used Ebay try there. Otherwise an Online store like Best Buy or Office Depot will work.
Now Thomas has made a good suggestion about the DVD and is what I would normally recomend to folks. The DVD combo drives are fairly cheap now and will do both DVD and CD functions. But I don't think this is what you want.
Here is a cheap drive that will do what you want.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?ty...24448584&cmp=++
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Glad to help Nat and you're welcome. Good job and hope everything is smooth from here on.
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Sounds like you are almost there Nat.
You may need to defrag the drive or its the drive "thrashing" because of the larger swap file created for the "virtual memory" that you mentioned. this maybe a minor issue, lets worry about it later.Noticing that my C drive makes a very loud short burst grinding noiseI did this and when I logged back on I could not access the internet. It's been wonky ever since.Ok, XP comes with a "System Restore" feature and I would suggest we restore to before you started those updates. This "should" put you back to where you started with a working NIC and a good internet connection. These "updates" are not necessary if you have the SP2 to use. All updates are included in the SP2 upgrade package and going thru all those updates at the Windows update site are not necessary.
START | PROGRAMS | ACCESSORIES | SYSTEM TOOLS | SYSTEM RESTORE
the first screen of system restore you select the option to "Restore my computer to an earlier time". and click NEXT
from the calander select todays date from the left side and in there should be an entry(s) to select from the right. Select the earliest one and click NEXT.
it will ask you to reboot to restore the change and you should be back to where you were after the XP install.
I have a strange COM Port 2 Conflict that I can't for the life of me figure out.COM2 is usually a modem, there maybe a driver you need for it to work in XP. But if you are on cable and don't use the modem...
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Keep going Nat, you can always redo it or go back and reinstall from the recovery CD
The CD you use to verify ownership of a previous version doesn't matter, as long as its a "qualifying" version it will accept anyones CD. I have had lots of PC where I know the owner is a legit owner of windows but is in the same position as you are, they have a "recovery" CD which is just an "image" of the hard drive. I just slip in one of my many windows CD's and off I go.
::keeps fingers crossed::
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I have the SP2 on CD if you want to borrow it. The download is 260+ MB and takes time if you don't have cable or DSL.
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You guys have a holiday today?
Some people do. Its Labor Day here in the states.
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Hey Kevan, I'll hold down the fort while you're out.
BoB in the NOC, working the holiday as usual
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Whew! I come back and you've posted 10+ additional notes and tons of question...what have I got myself into
. Ok, lets see if I can cover them all.Since I am upgrading to WINDOWS XP HOME, will this Advisor do me any good?Note You may use Upgrade Advisor to check for upgrade eligibility and compatibility information for Windows XP Home Edition with the following exception: It is not possible to upgrade from Windows NT® 4.0 or Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP Home Edition.Will I have a choice here to format BOTH C and D Drives or do I have to do this from DOS before?What the process will do is start the fdisk program and ask you to select from different options and display a list of drives and partitions. You will select to delete the partitions on the C: drive and it will give you a "nag" screen asking if you are sure this is what you want to do and you reply yes. It will bring you back to the same screen and you will then delete the partitions on the D: drive. Next you will select to create partitions on the C: and then the D: drives. Not exactly sure on this step...you may have to come back later to do the D:.
Here is the MS instructions for C:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348
Here is the MS instructions for D:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000
Oh about the Sound Blaster Drivers.... will the WIN XP software have them?Yes.
I am assuming I DON'T want to transfer files and settings... but how do I make sure both drives are REFORMATTED in this process?See links above.
Has anyone ever done this specific kind of install to XP HOME?I just finished doing this process this afternoon, well I installed XP yesterday and finished installing the other software when I got home from work today. A friends daughter just went to college and the "admins" at school messed her PC up. It was a Dell and came with a recovery and win2000 CD, she had purchased the Win XP from the college. I bypassed the win2000 and fdisk'd to XP and did exactly what I am telling you to do. And yes its works
.Is this the best way to do the CLEAN install...Yes
what about my OEM disk from Gateway...What about it, file it away and save it for if you need it later.
Do I have to reformat the drives in DOS before I pop in the WIN XP Home Upgrade CD?No. its done automatically from the XP CD.
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You don't need to apologize, only way to learn is to ask and there are lots here willing to teachForgive me for being so ignorant on all this.. 30 years ago I didn't know this stuff and had to ask others.I am concerned about the driversIf you have XP now I would think you would not have a problem, XP may have all the drivers you need. But you could possibly go to the MS XP upgrade page and run the program there that will check your system to see if everything is compatible.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/up...heckcompat.mspx
click on the "use the Upgrade Advisor"
If you decide to bypass win98 and install XP clean, yes.So you are saying that I should shut down my system, pop in the XP Home Upgrade CD and go from there?I guess if I do that I then don't use the System Restoration CD that came with the system from Gateway?Correct.
At the bootdisk site I sent you.Is there a site or an article that would list the step by step proceedure for this.I am a bit scared about doing all this, as I'm sure you can tell.You are going about this the correct way, fear is good
... but asking all the questions beforehand and learning all you can will help you get over this fear. -
The Recovery CD will do this. There is usually and option to fdisk the drive, delete the partion, recreate the partition, format the drive and then copy all the data back and make it exactly like it was when you got it "from the factory".The reason I want to zero the drive out is because I want it to be like it was from the factory.The recovery CD also has the option of "recovering" from a problem. It will install everything over the current installation and not lose anything you currently have, your data and configurations will remain as they currently are.
Are you guys saying that just reformatting itself would wipe out any bad sectors or virus remnants etc?Yes, the virus files would no longer be there and when you "format" the dirve any bad sectors will be flagged and not used.
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Nat, I was at work and didn't have time to give my reply a lot of time, I am home now and will try to do a little better.
youneverknow has already suggested it and I also think its better, leave win98 off the computer. The XP update CD will allow you to wipe the old disks clean with fdisk and then you can partition with NTFS (my recomendation) and install the XP Operating system clean. After this you can fdisk the second hard drive and partition it.
Things you will need to decide are what applications you need and will they be available. What I mean by this is your original system comes with pre-loaded software which is on your recovery CD. In some cases the only way to get this software reloaded is to install it using the recovery CD which will also load the Win98 OS. Which we are trying to avoid. So, is there any of this pre-loaded software that you will need?
As for the zero-filling. This is a totally unnecessary step. Once you fdisk a drive and delete all the partitions, your data is gone...sort of
By "sort of" I mean its possible to be recovered but only by experts with specialize programs. Once you put a new partition in and start formating and save data and files onto the disk, the slimmer the chances are to recover any of the old data. When you start install the new operating system there is no way that it can "see" or "access" any of the old data. So forget about zeroing out.
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Whew, lots of question and a long note to read
Hi Nat, basically what you need to do is to have a Win98 boot disk (floppy) and then boot with this and run FDISK and FORMAT on both drives.
Not sure why you want to "zero" out the drive, this is usually done to clear all the information so no one else can read it. If you are keeping this drive than zeroing it out is an unnecessary step.
Here is a site that you can read and fine everything you will need to fdisk and format your drives.
After reading there if you still need help or have questions come on back.
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Yeah, get me one of those whatcha-macallits..a thing-a-mabob...oh darnit, that thing over there.
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Try to find an adapter.
See if one of these will do. Or search google on "laptop drive adapter"
h*tp://www.datapro.net/products/1920.html
h*tp://tekgems.com/Products/et-1620-ada-hd-108.htm
h*tp://www.provantage.com/buy-7cbtr00e-laptop-hard-drive-adapter-idc44f-idc40m-cables-go-adapters-17705-shopping.htm
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