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okay i'll try again

i have a belkin usb adapter to connect to a wireless modem for my broadband.

lately after reinstalling XP and a new hard drive it's connection diminishes rapidly, very randomly, it can stay connected well for hours but sometimes it only lasts minutes. But the strange thing is it doen't seem to be anything to do with my signal, as that still shows strong.

I thought rebooting was fixing it, but it's not now.

is there some sort of driver i'm missing, i've intalled the belkin stuff from the cd as like i did last time. is there another driver for something else i might need updating?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is your network top of the preferred list? It may well be that after reinstalling XP it picked up another wireless network near you and has stuck this at the top of the list this may drop in and out of sight and you might be hopping to this nework and not getting any network services.

Check in the wireless network tab of the network connection properties.

(also check that your SSID is truly unique)

Also check that you are using the latest drivers for your adapter an that reinstalling hasn't flipped you back to some godawful microsoft compatibility driver.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

cheers, i'll check all this out at lunchtime!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, the order thing was fine, the drivers seem fine and up to date. No problems with security.

I restarted and its now working okay, perfect in fact. but when will it fall over again?

i noticed another wireless network on my list, Netgear, which had the same channel 11 as me. would this conflict? How do I change the channel?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

could be the problem, you need to change it in the router and on the wireless driver advanced properties tab

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone recommend a good simple program/website to help me make an animated gif (or similar)? I want to make a slideshow of 30 pictures, each around 30kb in size, that runs on a loop. I made a short one with four images using Imageready but despite clicking the ‘loop forever’ box, it runs once then stops.

Is Imageready the best program to use and can anyone advise how to make it loop indefinitely?

Would some sort of slideshow program be better? I can’t find one that doesn’t have ugly logos splashed all over it and pointless buttons – I just want it to be the images and nothing else. I’m willing to pay to get a logo-free version, can anyone help?

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

so i aksed on the LOST thread (twice!) with no avail. How do i fool a website into thinking i'm from the US (i'm not). i want to be able to watch episodes online that are "only available to US citizens".

There must be a trick, no?

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

b i t t o r r e n t

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

tor

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

well, i am torrenting. but streaming live from abc's site would be nicer.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I need some advice. My internet connection keeps dropping. All I have to do is unplug my ethernet cable from the back of the computer and replug it to get it back going. I've replaced the cable entirely, so I don't think it's a fritz in that. Do you think it's the network card or the router? How hard is it to replace a network card? (mirror-drive-door G4)

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

None of the above

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, what's your diagnosis?

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

nanoscale gremlins

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

dead hookers

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

that is your answer to everything

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

could it be out of phase? im not an expert, so im really guessing. possibly the wrong speed selected?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is it just the internet connection that drops, or all network traffic?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Just the internet connection. It happened a few days ago and I could still see my wife's computer on the network.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

From yesterday,the bbc newspage - http://news.bbc.co.uk - is looking really bad in firefox (but ok in internet explorer).

Any ideas?

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Looks okay for me in Firefox. What is/was the problem? (Screenshot?)

― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know if this will work, but:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/bbcnewspage.jpg

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's displaying the wrong (looks like the serif default) font. Be sure that, in advanced font preferences (under Content), the "allow page to choose its own fonts" option is checked.

― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Or, it could just be that the browser for some reason failed to download a CSS file. Try clearing your cache and reloading.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, both. Back to usual display now.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, this is an ongoing issue:
Spontaneously, my computer will freeze and I get THIS screen:
http://web.joespub.com/caltool/nicemedia/images/uhoh.JPG
This happens about once every two or three days; if I just restart, it loads easily and seemingly without any issues.
I've gone into bios and disabled caching, but then it won't load the OS.
Additional weird thing: occasionally, and often before blue screening, the computer will spontaneously mute.
Other than that, no problems.
Suggestions? What the hell is going on here?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329284/en-us

Might be a cooling issue, some guy talks about it here -

http://directron.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=emf&s=476097824&f=286097824&m=8051037411&p=1

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks; I've made a little more room behind the tower to let it breathe and it hasn't happened since.
Let's see if that's the issue.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 January 2007 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, here's my question. I have an iBook and use Firefox for web browsing. Lately, when I've accessed ILE and a couple of other websites, my scroll function on the trackpad goes bananas for a few minutes, then calms down again. Using one finger on the trackpad scrolls the whole screen, and I can't move the cursor around the screen at all. Then after a bit it settles down. I know people will say "use a different browser", but I use Firefox for everything else...

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like the behaviour that happens if you the click middle button - the cursor goes circular and tiny mouse movements scroll the screen in all directions. how do you emulate middle button on your trackpad? (do mac's even have the concept of middle buttons?)

― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

If your left hand accidentally resting on the control key?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Forks, I was having big cooling issues and I ended up opening up the tower and hoovering out all the dust that had accumulated inside. Worked a treat.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Koogs and Tracer, no, it's not either of those things. Macs don't have middle buttons, and my hand behaviour on ILE is the same as elsewhere (MISSUS), plus, in demonstrating to the Mister, I have held all but the one finger way up in the air and it still does it.

I am at a loss.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 19 January 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

My advice would be to hook up a mouse, but mainly because I just hate trackpads.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right. But mouse on lap does not work so well, and I do use my latop on my lap a lot. I suppose I will do what I always do with computers: work around the problem till it's time to upgrade.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

See if you go to about:config in Firefox and type in "scroll" to the search box, do any lines turn up in bold?

― stet (stet), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

OK question. if you install something on a Mac and you want to uninstall it, do you do anything but throw out the icon?

i feel like that's too simple

― surmounter (rra123), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

in Excel (windows) is there a way to make paste special >> text the default for paste? like, why would I want info copied from somewhere to have its own fuckass formatting and not the one the xls already has?? unbelievable.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

See if you go to about:config in Firefox and type in "scroll" to the search box, do any lines turn up in bold?

Oh, I had no success with this either, but now the whole iBook makes a kind of clicking noise when I type, so I'm guessing I have a hardware problem. Sigh.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 25 January 2007 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

OK question. if you install something on a Mac and you want to uninstall it, do you do anything but throw out the icon?

Assuming by "the icon" you mean "the application", yes that's really it.

Unless you want to purge the configuration files it created for your user, which is really unnecessary if all that happened was you tried it and didn't like it. Sometimes you need to do this when you want to reinstall the app from a clean slate though. You can do it by searching Library in your home folder for files with the same name as the app (you'll probably find things in Application Support and Preferences), or you can just use, e.g. http://appzapper.com/ (but you'll need to pay $18 for that, which is beyond the means of someone who can't tip without "breaking the bank").

― caek (caek), Thursday, 25 January 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://reggie.ashworth.googlepages.com/appdelete may be preferable to AppZapper.

― caek (caek), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

What's faster, a new Windows 98 based computer, using IE and Winamp, or a new Mac, using Safari and ITunes?

― def zep (calstars), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Because of its lower coefficient of drag, the Windows 98 based computer would be faster in achieving maximum descent velocity if, as you should, you dropped it from a very high place.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I have this recurring problem with my computer. It won't play sounds. Every time I open itunes it shows a message error that says : "audio/video playback may not operate properly".

I checked in control panel stuff and there is no exclamation mark next to anything related to sound. I have found a way to fix it, I uninstall the drivers for audio and restart the computer and it works fine. But, I was wondering if there was any way to fix that, because it is a bit annoying having to restart the comp everytime I wanna listen to music.

― Jibé (Jibé), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Not really a "problem" but a strange thing - can anyone tell me if there's any "go immediately to standby RIGHT NOW, don't ask yes/no" shortcut keys existing on Windows XP? My computer keeps going into standby mode, I swear it has done this when I haven't even been typing and it's baffling!

It also randomly brings up the calculator!

I've googled for such shortcuts or key combinations I could be unknowingly hitting but nothing has come up.

Do you guys have any idea? I just got a new computer approx 2 weeks ago and have had this problem with the old one AND the new one from the start so I think a virus is out of the question...

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Shonky electricity?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't happen to anyone else in my office but it could be my power point... but that wouldn't explain the calculator pop up??

SO confused!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered if there was anything like that thing on linux that tracks the last processes you run? Can't remember what it was called - but if there is a thing for Windows perhaps that might say something that could be decoded to "you are pressing the wrong buttons"?!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Is your office desktopped? i.e can you log in anywhere and get your stuff? Because that could have transferred some nefarious software around.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

settings->control panel->administrative tools->event viewer will show you if anything untoward happened prior to the shutdown

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

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