Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

if you boot into openfirmware and enter "printenv" that shows you all the stuff in there. LOTS of little things, and some of them do control how the booting progresses

- I got the Tiger 'let's fail to recognise the lower memory slot' problem.

- I got the Tiger 'let's fail to wake the display from sleep when the lid has been closed.

- I got the Tiger 'let's have a kernal trap when we turn Airport on/off'.

PRAM zapped and reset, PMU reset, RAM tested and still the problem remains. Think it might be a dodgy airport connection, but it's a grade A pain whatever it is.

:*/

wall jack -> linksys ADSL modem -> airport

network settings: TCP/IP using DCHP
modem settings: PPPoA (even though it should be PPPoE? or even bridged?)
airport settings: configure TCP/IP using ethernet using DHCP

I guess the ISP is running the DHCP server?

Er, did that make sense?

the modem keeps hanging too but that's a separate (really fkn annoying) issue

I think I know what's going on but I have one last (for now) question

I'm running a wireless network through airport: one mac, one PC

the mac is always on, but the PC goes on and off

I've no evidence (I've not tested) but I think the PC being rebooted / re-initialised is causing the modem to hang - and my connection is lost

is this possible?

and also if this was the case, shouldn't the modem just reconnect to the adsl (I have a linksys modem set to "keep alive", with a redial period I've now changed to 3mins instead of the prev. 1min) since the mac is still on?

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7035
Date: 9/5/2005
Time: 4:53:49 PM
User: MUSIC\RH
Computer: MUSIC
Description:
The soylentgreen service was successfully sent a start control.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

is this possible?

I don't know if it's possible, but it used to happen to me all the time.

http://www.fullspeedahead.com/flyimage.aspx?nm=CK_Vigorelli.jpg&big=true

soylentgreen service ?!?

I suspect that the DVD-Rs were burned in a non-standard format that's only readable on the original PC. I ran into this once with some CD-Rs of mp3s. The way to double-check is to load the discs on a third computer and see what happens.

could someone tell me what should I burn on a cd, I want to make a boot disc.

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3392849

How do I use this file to fix the avi file?

it was opened by mistake in word and now it keeps saying '[file name].xls: file format not valid'

is there any way I can either import from word or export to excel

or any other way I can fix this problem and open my spreadsheet?

Well, that's all I can think of, anyway.

changed suffic to .doc but don't know why:

tried opening again in excel '[file name].doc: file format not valid'

obviously

In which case, I give up. I've no idea what you've done to your file.

thank god it's not my file

it opens in word

both of the files, the .xls and .doc

but copy & paste... : /

oh well thanks for the ride!

I want to be able to copy and paste a link into some sort of link search engine and find blog entries, etc. on such

I don't think google can do this can it?

When you select the spreadsheety table in Word and then try 'Paste Special' in Excel, does it give you a variety of options?

x-post. yes, Google can do this, hang on a sec.

for example.

You use the link: operator then the web address you're interested in. I always think Google is a bit stingy on results.

thanks for the help with the .xls but we've given up on it

opening it in word originally lost 90% of the original document, so any recovery work was essentially futile by then

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.freakytrigger.co.uk&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt

Far more hits, perhaps because it also finds sites that link to pages deeper into FT than the level you specify too?

basically, slsk has stopping downloading/uploading anything in my queue. searches dont return anything. this started when i was on cable with NTL. I clicked the test router configuration thing in options, and it told me that the router wasnt configured properly and advised me to go to a port forwading FAQ page.

so, as far i as know, i didnt have a router really, just an external cable modem. anyway, now im on a wi-fi network, and i get the same thing, but again i dont have a router, so what is the problem? as far as i can tell, i have:

a computer (doh)

should read:
a computer (doh)

a computer (doh) < PCI network card < Apple airport base station < Webstar cable modem < hole in the wall to the rest of the magic

so, none of this is a router, right? whats not configured then? someone on one of these weird ghostly tech forums mentioned that the modem should do port forwarding automatically. someone else mentioned that it must be a software related problem, or a firewall or ISP blocking the port. but this is a situation where midway through using 1 ISP it kinda stopped working, then using another (now on telewest) it still doesnt work.

argh i feel so stupid and i know its only to evilly steal music so who gives a fuck but i want to download dj supreme and strike u sure do etc. what is happening? any port in a storm, so any help is welcome! thanx!