Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

You mean the password to connect? That's definitely right as it worked first time on the other computers. That said I just updated avg free and now it's limited connectivity even when I plug it in. Tried disabling avg and it STILL won't connect do my laptop's close to useless :'-(

Virgin Media <--- problem

go to http://www.routerlogin.net, user name - virgin - password - password and see if you can connect, if the security is WPA or WEP ? Try changing the channel in case of interference?

It wouldn't connect to routerlogin.net but managed to find Wireless settings file with an ssid, security wpa/wpa2, a passphrase same as my password I usually use and some other info

Here's a laptop, plays mp3s nicely on Windows Media player, watching downloaded BBCiplayer files also...

So how come the DVD plays without sound? What am I missing, or what button do I need to press?

Open Volume Control, check that all the levels are up (there should be a separate slider for your DVD player).

I did, and there is a vol control for the CD player, that's on high...

possible dumb suggestion, but maybe download a video player like VLC and see if it plays it okay, or if the sound setup configuration gives you some clues.

I will try VLC, cheers...

Yeah, that did it.

Funny, why should WinMedPla not work...? Wondered if I'd missed something obvious.

I'm glad it worked for you. I wish I could claim credit for knowing why. Sometimes when Windows isn't doing what it is supposed to it's worth trying some other product. I forget more solutions than I remember and have to rediscover them.

Yeah, was trying to work with what was there first up.

Thanks, cheers, and ta.

(dvds use ac3 for audio, wmp is probably just missing the codec for that.)

anyone know why my progress bar in Youtube shows constantly full, ie the video appears fully loaded but its not?

only on google chrome

is it paused?

happens either way

using windows, mac, linux?

windows 7

try http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

to see if you need an upgrade?

nah just tells me i'm already up to date

some vids it doesn't happen, but most of them it does

thanks tho

probably won't have any luck here but here goes nothing: i've got a little cheap but useful mp3 player, this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000IEMFXS/ref=oss_product

when i plug it in my pc it comes up in My Computer as 'Audio Player', with another directory inside called 'Audio Player' again. This is where I put my mp3 files. I can't drag them in, it doesn't allow that. I have to copy and paste them all in. Mildly annoying. If I go in that folder and try to change the name of the file it refreshes and takes ages, major pain.

Anyway the other week I plugged it into my pc and it came up differently. It wasn't Audio Player it was just a normal folder with 4 folders inside, with names like MSMULTI, MSDATA and so on. The MSMULTI worked like a proper folder, could drag in, drag in, lot more easy to use. I don't know why it came up like this but I was pleased.

Now today I've just plugged it in and it's back to its old shitty ways - but not even showing the correct files in the Audio Player folder. It's showing mp3s from weeks ago (when it was last working like this). I don't know what's going on in there so had to format it; I can't format the entire drive as there's no option for that, only for the internal folder. Bit crap as I've lost a ton of great songs that I hadn't backed up.

So my question is, has anything similar happened to anyone else out there and how can I make my mp3 player work as a generic hard drive thing again, and not like this Audio Player thing?

(Prattled on a bit there, apologies!)

i have a ATMT XSEVEN / SEXEN in my bag.

sounds like you have mtp enabled, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol is microsoft trying to be clever

there may be a way in the settings of turning that off (nope, not on mine, which is drag and drop anyway)

oddly the manual says:
"The player also doubles as a USB storage device: transfer any type of files on the 2-PLAY and use it as your USB memory stick. And file transfer is easy and very fast thanks to its USB2.0 interface. "

so i'm guessing it's microsoft, something in windows, possibly windows media player, that is causing it (and in which case i don't have a clue. get a linux)

is it in some way registered with media player or marked as such bia file associations?

files are probably still there fwiw, i doubt it'd delete them, just won't show them as they aren't in the official places / have the official filetypes / appear in the official file list.

bia = via

http://www.atmtgroup.com/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=6

"Supports MTP mode for easy synching of your music library with, for instance, Windows Media Player 11."

ha ha, here, at the bottom right

http://www.puxaki.com.br/pdf/img/5/ATMT-2-PLAY-MP150-MP3-Player-5972.jpg

it says USB Mode. can't grok the rest of it though, something about short press.

ooh thanks, this gives me something to work on

Sorted! Koogs, if our paths ever cross I will buy you a Mai Tai as thanks. All it took was holding down the M button (spotted this as an option on that little manual jpg) then you go into USB function and make it work as a pen drive. Hopefully this will help out future googlers wondering this very same thing.

Now if you can just find me a recipe for a roast/poached chicken with chorizo rice and a video of an old gay man bench-pressing his little mate in a hotel room then I'll name my first born after you.

'Koogs Jones'. He'll be a right handful.

fuck microsoft again

Ok another question: I've got a blog I'm working on at the moment. Problem is I don't like doing the '15 mins a day' thing, I like to do it all in one big blast and churn out like 20 posts in a day. This looks kinda shitty on screen, right? Like it's not being updated regularly. Soooo is there a way I can upload all the blogs onto wordpress and set it to post one a day for the next couple of weeks? Are there any disadvantages to doing this?

Also considering tweaking the first 20 posts I put up (all on the same day) and staggering them by altering the date retrospectively so it's like they were posted on consecutive days. Again, are there any problems doing this I should be aware of? As in Google doesn't like it, or anything like that?

why dont you just puit them all in a word document and copy and paste on the days you want to upload

yeah i guess i'll probably do that if there isn't a function. it's just i'd rather be able to step away from it for a week or two. guess i can just do it first thing every day though, yeah i think i'll do that.

curious about tweaking the dates retrospectively though, and what impact it could have on.. anything. it's something i *need* to do for another blog im about to set up. gotta upload a years worth of posts, starting in april 2010

My mother's cheap $300 PC is on the total fritz, but I've fun adware/spyware/virus scan after scan and judging by the way it's acting up I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem. Are there any decent up-to-date bootable hardware diagnostic tools around a-la Memtest86?

ultimate windows boot disk - though it didnt seem so ultimate to me

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

they are sometimes built into the bios. also run chkdsk.

Ni - you can change the date of a post so that it automatically goes up at a future date/time, I think

In addition, I've definitely read some blogs where new posts were coming in, but backdated

FFS

i am trying to go to sonicrouter.com but the browser keeps taking me to my fucking belkin router page. what am i doing wrong?

have stupid issues w/ synching ipod & itunes and also w/ browser (firefox) search redirect virus which idk if are related -- previously had run tdsskiller which had fixed the redirect virus & then did an uninstall > reinstall of itunes w/ using a prev version of itunes, saving that version folder of program files/ipod, installing newest itunes vers and swapping in the "old" program files/ipod folder

it worked great for 2-3 wks and somehow is all back..now when i try to go thru those steps the "new" program files/ipod wont let it self be deleted --(there is an error saying the directory is not empty and there is a blank file in there that i cant open & if you try to right click delete just nothing even happens) even after all of itunes is uninstalled...i can move it and swap in the "old" one but idk shit is still not working i guess i need to research it more wtf i was so happy i had managed to fix this b4!

> i am trying to go to sonicrouter.com but the browser keeps taking me to my fucking belkin router page. what am i doing wrong?

dunno. sounds like a dns problem, somewhere - the name is associated with a bad ip address (bit suspicious that it also has 'router' in the name)

ip address for sonicrouter.com is 75.98.165.2 - try that instead of the name

Boring question here. At work we get a lot of documents from people for the newspaper. MS Word docx, sadly.

I've created macro's (on PC's) and a list (for MAC's) for my staff to rid documents from errors like double spaces, two spaces after a full stop, a space before comma's etc. Find "<double spaces>" and replace with "<single space>", for instance.

But, is there also a way for one to 'find' full stops in a document that isn't followed by a space? eg. "John was sad.He was lonely." There needs to be a space after the full stop, but Word - as far as I know - doesn't work with asterisks and search strings. But oh how I would like to automate putting a space after a full stop if there isn't one.

Is this possible? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

add a space after every full stop. do this before you reduce all double spaces to single spaces.

Thanks, yes, that's the way I do it now, but it's tricky because it also puts a space after some full stops were it's not wanted (after full stops like eg. 'St.-Jean', '10.15 am' etc). I suppose it's the best way to do it now, but it's still annoying that I can't use a syntax that is more specific.

moving the goalposts 8)

are you using regexp? the regexp for the above would be to replace the pattern
"\.([^a-zA-Z])" (ie a literal dot followed by an alphabetic character) with
". $1"

(not sure of syntax, not a word user)

simple regexp example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2799741/find-and-replace-a-section-of-a-string-with-wildcard-
type-search-using-regex-whi

arg, that appears to be c# not word macros

find \.([a-zA-Z]) or \.([A-Z]) if you only want to replace stops followed by capitals -i.e. what koogs said except for the ^ which is the negating character

replace . \1

oh and you have to tick the 'use wildcards' option under the 'More >>' part of the dialog box.