If you have a single (or some more) question regarding any of the tech topics of this board and feel that it wouldn't justify creating an own thread just for that, feel free to post it in here.
If you know the answer to any of the questions in this thread, please help us out here! I am sure it's going to be appreciated.
I am creating this thread since there's ben popping up too many threads lately with single questions asking for help that aren't really set out to create too much interest.
I've got a problem with my IP address. My modem is connected to my router and my router is connected to the other computers including my own and they all share the same IP address. How would I assign different IPs to the computers (2).
I'm on a static IP plan with my ISP as that's all they provide.
>>301
If you want unique IPs for each box, you need to to purchase a subnet block (usually a /29) from your ISP then reconfigure your router. Having an ISP that doesn't suck and some networking knowledge is a start.
Total noob/dumb question here:
I have Firefox clear my cache and cookies automatically every time I close Firefox. I also use CCleaner; which I have set to clean everything 7 times over. My question is, since I have Firefox clearing my cache every time I close it, does CCleaner still clean the cache and cookies from FF too? Or should I turn the function off in FF so CCleaner can clean everything 7 times.
Hope all of that made sense....
I have a tv hardware question here(It would really help if anyone who answers was a Chicagoan like me), anyway I got a new HDTV along with a antenna for local HDTV and digital channels. Anyway about a month ago one of the station finally went HD after moving in a new building(for the Chicago users it's channel 2). But for some reason my tv can't get the HD/digital signal. Is something wrong or somthing that I could do to fix it?
Does anyone know of a good open source BT tracker (not software, an actual tracker) that's reliable? I'd like to create a few torrents for an open source project, and would rather not track them on TPB.
TIA.
>>305
software: http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
public tracker: http://opentracker.blog.h3q.com/about/
>>306
Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.
let me see if i can explain this right...
i've got 2 160 gb hdds in my computer. i recently backed up my info from my old setup on one hdd, and i copied all of the info from that hdd to the hdd i'm using now. my question is, is there a way to back up the new info that i've got on my main hd to the other one? i dont want to backup everything, just the stuff i've downloaded recently on my main hdd (e.g. music, pictures, ect...)
hope all that made sense...
iTerm fixed all of the problems in >>311 but one. I still can't use the home and end keys (or stuff like Ctrl+Arrow, Ctrl+Shift+Arrow) on my PC-104 properly in any os x app besides iTerm >_<.
I think what I really need is a windows/linux to os x transition cheat-sheet. Anybody know of a good one?
This just started happening the other day...
Every time I play music on my computer, (it doesn't matter what media player I use) and click on something else on my computer (pictures, or actually click out of my media player) I always here what sounds small skips in the song. The more I click on something, the worse it gets. It doesn't happen when I'm on the Net; I can click all over the place and nothing happens. I also just reformatted a few weeks back, so nothing is really taking up system resources. I've scanned for spyware, and viruses, but nothing comes up. Anyone have any ideas?
I keep gettin popups even though I'm not on websites that usually bring up popups.
I also get popups when I'm not using the internet(it just opens firefox by itself and starts poppin up ads from interplus click or something.)
I tried Spybot, Adaware, RegistryFix,AVG Antivirus, and everything. Does anyone know what I can do to get rid of it? Is it spyware? Or a Virus?
wondering if someone could help me here...every once in a while, this error message pops up in windows. it usually happens when i click on a song. i know when its about to happen, cause the system lags for a bit, finally plays the song, then the message pops up.
if i push ctrl+alt+del, and go into the task manager, it says that the "my music" folder isn't responding. anyway, this has been happening for a long time now (pretty much since I got my computer a while back) and it still happens even after I re-format and even put XP Pro on my machine.
here's a picture of the error message if it helps: http://tinyurl.com/3t8pq4
>>315 It's probably explorer trying to pull the metadata out of the mp3 and failing horribly (bad plugin/extension maybe?)
Is anyone experienced with repairing AVI files? If so, how would I do that.
strange question here...
when i watch a video on my web browser the sound is very muddled and distorted. but when i open a new tab and do something else, the sound gets better. and as soon as i switch back, it gets bad again. also, when i scroll a webpage down, it makes the same sound. any thoughts? thanks!
>>314
Sounds like your browser's hijacked. Unfortunately I'm not sure what to do about that. I'm actually on a hijacked browser myself at a friends house right now...
Eurofag here. I'm looking for a virtual server hosting provider in the US which accepts paypal payment. Any recommendations?
Not really sure what the issue is, but about 4 images I've downloaded through torrents recently have been corrupted. I've never had this issue before, and it all seems to have started after this install of windows... I'm even downloading torrents that I'd already downloaded before and finding the images corrupted, or something. Anyone know what's up?
OS: Windows XP SP 1, FS: fat32
I would like to play music (mp3) on a drive that's connected via wifi to my PSP on my PSP. What would be the best way to do this? on a related note, how hard would it be to do the same with images?
i'm having a problem with usb hubs - devices plugged into the hub before the system is powered on arent recognised. but after unplugging and plugging them back in they work fine. this happens on my desktop with two separate hubs, yet i dont experience the issue on my laptop with the same hubs. anyone know what the problem is?
>>323
Ive found TVersity to work well for all of my streaming needs. After setting it up and navigating to your media server, click the RSS button at the top of the screen. this will save it as a feed with which you can access via the psp. As for pictures, navigate to the server and click a pic to d/l it. I was doing this earlier before coming here to post. psp sucks unless you are tech savvy.
>>320
I remember looking at openhosting.com, looked reasonable and they do accept PayPal.
quick question, im a noob to the computer world, well the hardware aspect of it at least, so does anybody know a good website with really understandable wording that could tell me what every piece does prosseser, graphics card etc. does and whats the best one on the market is? Ive read a lot of magazines on the topic but they were really confusing and i could only get the base info out of them.
Thanks
Processor does math.
Graphics card does pictures.
There is no 'best one on the market' for computer parts just like there is no 'best one on the market' for automobiles.
>>327 did a pretty good job of summarizing it.
There are alot of standards, types and derivatives of most computer parts (SATA vs. ATA; DIMM vs. 184pinDDR2SDRAM vs. 240pin DDR2SDRAM; ect). It is also quite unrealistic to expect to get 'the best one on the market' unless you have a shitload of discretionary money, and assuming you did, it would be best to pay an IT guy to do it for you. If not, buy or P2P a "Computer Hardware for Dummys" type of book.
What exactly do you want to do? If you want to build a computer, it's best to buy a junker in the classifieds in your local paper, and upgrade it, plus it's alot cheaper.
>>328
Whoops, wrong tripcode, but I guess the ID points it out.
Okay, so I'm trying to fix this guy's vista laptop. First off, one day he just can't seem to boot it up. eventually, he gets it to the login screen, but it won't go pas it. I get it from there and notice the same thing. I run vista's own system checking doohickeys - recovers from some severe filesystem errors. Basically, now, the laptop SEEMS to be fixed. It loads up really fast, no glitches anywhere, BUT... the password he used to use doesn't work anymore... no password works.
there's no other users. I can't just over-install vista to get a new password because you can't do that unless you've already logged in. Desperate, I downloaded OPHCrack or whatever, to crack what the password is... error.
Is he fucked? The only thing I can think of is to download a live-dvd linux, and try and save his files that way before he wipes it. either that, or just send it back to Dell. thoughts?
NM, turns out the guy had changed his pass without telling anyone. yeesh
Is there a way to easily change the default names assigned to drive letters in vista?
eg. i used to have a USB 4-in-1 card reader which I always had plugged in, and all its slots showed up as "removable disk" so i renamed them to "SD Reader", "CF Reader" etc for ease of identification.
i thought that would only apply to this specific hardware but apparently not - i now have an internal card reader installed, so having removed the external one, i now find that any usb flash drive i plug in which is assigned one of the letters formerly occupied by the card reader will be called "SD Reader" or similar if the drive doesnt have its own name. and renaming would then only change the name of the drive itself, not the drive letter.
its now slightly worse in that i have installed a dvd drive which windows refuses to let me rename at all, but it's showing up as "DVD-RW Drive (G:) SD Reader". so uh yeah. any way to change these back to the default without having to remove the dvd drive and replacing the card reader?
actually nevermind, worked it out. i just searched the registry for one of the changed names, deleted the "DefaultLabel" key under the respective drive letters. works. yay.
>>334
your post contains neither a single question, nor help. i think you're in the wrong thread.
How can you prove that someone is spamming you via Yahoo chat?
Hey guys, I have a really annoying problem on my home network. When ever my little brother is playing a MMO and I'm watching videos on YouTube or something similar it lags him really bad. He uses windows xp and I have a MacBook running OS X 10.5. When ever him and our mom are online and shes doing something similar theres no problem. When him and a friend play this game there are no problems. They've had as many as three people on our network playing the game at the same time. It only lags when I'm on. I've tried turning EVERYTHING off. He only lags when I'M downloading or streaming a video or something. What should I do? Is OS X just a bandwidth hog? Honestly I think hes lying but just in case I'm wrong does anyone know what might be going on???
My question is how to get my C: directory to show up as a subfolder menu within the my Quick Launch toolbar in Vista (yeah, yeah, I know...) after clicking the ">>" icon. I've tried several things, but each attempt usually ended up as a link to the directory as opposed to a menu and would just open in a different window. I've tried googling some potential solutions, but they all say the same thing and none of them work. I know this is possible (somehow), as I've done it prior to reinstalling (again, somehow); I just don't remember what I did, or if I did anything special to begin with. I thought it might be some kind of hidden option that I haven't tinkered with yet. Any suggestions?
Does anyone know how to set up a vanilla LaTeX distribution to properly typeset Japanese documents made in PLatex2e? Or would it be better to just switch to PLatex2e entirely for Japanese documents? In that case, is there a decent English tutorial for using PLatex2e?
>>339
If you're on Windows, you could try MiKTeX. It downloads packages when you need them.
>>340
I'm already using MiKTeX. The problem is that the packages written for PLatex2e seem to be either partially incompatible with MiKTeX's LaTeX implementation, or impossible to find the right version of. I am still quite inexperienced with LaTeX, and for now I'd be happy even just to know what kind of packages and fonts are best to use for setting Japanese text. Later on I'd like e.g. support for vertical writing as well --- not sure if that's easily done in LaTeX.
If I'm setting up a home server with Debian, and I need to have a static IP address, what values do I plug in to my /etc/network/interfaces file and how do I find them? For example, what values should I use for address, netmask, network, gateway and broadcast?
Are there any guides or manuals that explain this? I haven't found one. They all explain how to format them, but I have no clue what values to use or how to find them.
>>342
It's pretty simple after you've done it a couple of times, just like building the Linux kernel as a beginner.
For starters, remember that the IP you'd configure in /etc/network/interfaces is your LAN IP, i.e. 192.168.0.2, not your WAN IP.
Assuming your router is 192.168.0.1, we could use 192.168.0.66 as our LAN IP. For this, we'd use "address 192.168.0.66". The "ghetto" method of getting the other values would be to connect via DHCP, run ifconfig, writing down the values, and transferring them into the interfaces file.
Simply add them in, change the address (if necessary), and, voila.
A quick example:
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
# The other values go here...
Sorry if this guide is shit, not able to access a *nix system right now.
Is there a PPA or repo that always contains the absolute latest version of stable, non-beta, Firefox for any general Debian/.deb based distros? Ubuntu, Crunchbang, Trisquel, that sort?
I'm tired of any of my systems getting left behind with older versions of Firefox because I don't feel that I should have to upgrade the whole OS to get one program.
I've only been able to find a PPA for Firefox Beta: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-next
And even when I added that to my older Ubuntu system it would still return that message the the currently installed version of Firefox is the latest one. Which it is not since I'm still on version 11 here.
Help, please?
>>343
Thank you for your reply.
The output of ifconfig gives me values for "inet addr," "Bcast," and "Mask." So I guess I can assume those values are the current LAN address, the Broadcast and the Netmask? Should the broadcast number look something like 255.255.255.255? I know the mask should look like that, but other guides say that the broadcast should be the last address in your network's range, like, for your example, "192.168.0.255," so the output confuses me a little.
Does iTunes for Windows do anything to your music files at all?
As in, does it have any sort of deal where when you add your giantass folder of music to its library, it renames all the music files to random alphanumeric things like "HH23X9.mp3 and then places them in a folder tree with names much similar to that? Or does it add some sort of code to your files that only allows them to be played back from within iTunes?
For various reasons I will be forced to use iTunes for the management of my music library but I'm almost scared to try this because I hear things like this about iTunes for Windows very frequently.
Can anyone confirm or deny any of this for me?
>>346
I only used it briefly, but I think it stores its own metadata without actually touching your files. That would create problems for a lot of people.
There's probably an option to move/rename/tag music, though.
>>344
I use Debian wheezy and the official Firefox binaries.
Just go to the Firefox website and hit the download button. It'll give you a .tar.bz2 with firefox/ inside. Extract that somewhere you have read/write access to--I used /opt/firefox/. After that, add that directory to your $PATH (e.g. open up ~/.profile and add something like PATH="/opt/firefox:$PATH"). Firefox's own updater should be able to update the software with no problems. Setting up any sort of desktop or menu shortcut shouldn't be difficult, just set it to run firefox (or the full pathname) and to use the icon in the firefox/icons/ directory.
Admittedly, it's not the best solution, but it works and ensures you get timely updates straight from Mozilla, with all the dependencies included. However, you may run into troubles with update-alternatives and the like, and you might have to set some options in your desktop environment (if you use one). But in lieu of a proper Mozilla Debian repository (maybe there is one, I haven't checked), it's one of the easiest ways to go about it. Maybe someone a little more package-savvy than myself could write a script that automatically fetches the latest binary, packs it into a .deb, and adds the relevant metadata? I don't see why it would be too hard.
How do I define my own keyboard shortcuts in Firefox under Linux? Make whatever keys I want perform whatever action I want and whatnot?
Running Debian 64-bit. Tried to enable multiarch to install Wine 32bit. I was suggested these commands by the "wine64-bin helper package." I ran these commands as root:
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# apt-get install wine-bin:i386
When I tried the last command, this was the output:
The most relevant information, I think, is at the bottom:
dpkg: error: --configure needs a valid package name but 'libuuid1' is not: ambiguous package name 'libuuid1' with more than one installed instance
And:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The bigger problem is this: the same thing happens when I try to install anything from my package manager. Am I going to have to reinstall?
It's not that huge of a deal if I do, but it will be kind of a bitch. I'll keep looking for solutions and post if I ever get dpkg working again.
>>350
Same idiot again. I'm going to go ahead and just backup and reinstall, but if anyone has had this happen before and got it fixed, you can post it. I imagine I'm not the only one, even if it seems like it from the google results I got.
I need Java for homework. I installed it and this is the error I keep getting http://tinypic.com/r/2ir2kjq/
Disabling this is not an option, I must have it or I cannot do my homework. What am I supposed to do?
seems that link does not work, here's a more direct link? I can only hope
>>344
ubuntuzilla is a repository containing the latest stable versions of mozilla's three programs.
currently hosted at sourceforge.
I recently bought a Gateway DX4375-UR22. It came with a 1 terabyte hard drive. I turned it on, and it booted up using Ubuntu. Me being me, I stupidly decided to take it apart. I put it back together, and now there is a problem with the hard drive. Everything else works fine, except for the hard drive. The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 1000 Gigabyte. I decided to try it in another computer, but the other one does not recognize it as a drive. I tried putting a hard drive from another computer into the Gateway to see if it would boot, but no luck. The seagate drive spins, but it is not transferring data or being recognized. Can I save the drive? How can I boot up the computer?
You didn't take the fucking drive itself apart, did you? If so it's fucked, buy a new one.
If I'm reading you wrong, then I guess the chances are you didn't plug it in properly. It's getting power fine, but are you sure there's any actual data connection?