The Techies Thread

[s u b u r b a n]

-something is fucked-

at xmas i noticed that my laptop wouldnt play music through its speakers. I use my lappy as a 'home pc' and have a pair of logitechs plugged in and i was getting sound there, just not the lappy

now everything seems fucked and im not getting sound fullstop. Have no idea what the fuck is going on, drivers seem to be working from what windoze says and yes, the volume is up and not on mute

fucking help.

[s u b u r b a n]

aagh cock

so maybe one of the drivers wasnt working as it should.......... my world is rotating again

[stevene]

Can anyone suggest a good wireless media system to use?

Looking to be able to stream both audio and video to it. If it could play/record dvds that would be an added bonus.

Or anyone suggest anyone that can mod an old xbox to become wireless?

i have, its pretty good, bit buggy
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/
can order from harvey norman and minidisc.com.au (recommend these guys)

but the new version of novatron iamm is awesome
http://novatron.co.kr/eng.php
altronics in northbridge sell them

if you can use 802.11a wireless access point for it with no other devices on it, works so much better than the crowded b/g/etc

also both dont require a upnp sever to stream, just browse windows shares, also you dont need hard drives for them, but you can for recording, storing stuff. they also have usb ports, if you just want to use usb thumb drives

ps3 might be worth it though

[linelevel]

Cheapest WD/Seagate 500Gb SATA drives around? Need to buy a couple just to add some storage to my gf's pc. I found them on ebay for about $65 delivered, is that a good price?

[GrandMaster]

i bought a seagate 500gb for $59 the other day
msy.com.au

[Polski Beach Bum]

i've signed up for some naked DSL and feel pretty stupid now, as i realise that the phone jack is nowhere near a power outlet. I thought i'd ask on the off-chance, but do i have any other alternatives outside of runnign an ugly power extension cord to give the modem power, or running a less ugly phone extension cord to get move the modem close to the power?

furthermore, anyone know where i can get soem colour-coded phone extension cables to match the colour of my skirting?

fuck, i feel so stupid right now

[flauntster]

i took the phone cord extension option at our place
youd be lucky to find any phone cable colours other than white, ivory/beige, grey or black

[heist]

Cheapest WD/Seagate 500Gb SATA drives around? Need to buy a couple just to add some storage to my gf's pc. I found them on ebay for about $65 delivered, is that a good price?

http://www.netplus.com.au/product/HD...-Drive-7200.12
$58

but it looks like about 1000gb drives are going to be cheapest per-gig

[Birt]

http://www.boxee.tv/

My new fave thing for my laptop, TV on the go!

[Polski Beach Bum]

i took the phone cord extension option at our place
youd be lucky to find any phone cable colours other than white, ivory/beige, grey or black

ah thanx man.

Next question: Does anyone have a spare wife modem they're looking to sell??

[ZD]

i've noticed a growing number of websites that kick me automatically to the '.com.au' website even tho i'm after the '.com' version. even if i type it directly into the browser or link to it via google. i can get around it by going to an article on the '.com' site and then linking to the home page. anybody know what's going on and how to control it?

[linelevel]

I've definitely asked this one before but maybe someone has a better solution:

A program (preferably free) for hunting down the latest drivers for all of your hardware when you format. I have a pc bought from arrow a year or so ago but no driver cd, can't find it. I'm about to format and put xp back on it is there any way I can use a program to find the latest drivers rather than having to search for each one manually?

[heist]

i've noticed a growing number of websites that kick me automatically to the '.com.au' website even tho i'm after the '.com' version. even if i type it directly into the browser or link to it via google. i can get around it by going to an article on the '.com' site and then linking to the home page. anybody know what's going on and how to control it?

bugs me when ebay/google/etc. does it sometimes. ebay because i want to see whats for sale in the US. google because i want to see their novelty logos.

the redirect method is individual to each website, so the only way to stop every website doing it is to use a US proxy (or UK, if that's where you want to appear to be from).

there's a reason they want you at the .com.au version. so they can target content, give you the right prices, that sort of shit. sometimes it's just for load balancing/distributed hosting. most often it's not worth trying to fight it. otherwise just manually circumvent as you've been doing.

[c_avdas]

I've definitely asked this one before but maybe someone has a better solution:

A program (preferably free) for hunting down the latest drivers for all of your hardware when you format. I have a pc bought from arrow a year or so ago but no driver cd, can't find it. I'm about to format and put xp back on it is there any way I can use a program to find the latest drivers rather than having to search for each one manually?

buying a computer from arrow was your first mistake

most of the stuff that needs drivers these days is onboard, so you'll be able to grab everything from the motherboard manufacturer's website
if you don't want to open your computer up to find out what motherboard you have, download cpu-z and that should tell you

[linelevel]

buying a computer from arrow was your first mistake

most of the stuff that needs drivers these days is onboard, so you'll be able to grab everything from the motherboard manufacturer's website
if you don't want to open your computer up to find out what motherboard you have, download cpu-z and that should tell you

Cheers!

[stevene]

anyone got a spare video card they want to get rid of cheapie?

[Affiliate]

Humans walking on walls spiderman styles not to far off

http://www.watoday.com.au/technology...0203-nbtv.html

[ZD]

anyone got a spare video card they want to get rid of cheapie?

you after a PCI-e GFX card? i got a spare 8800GT i won't mind getting rid of.

[Slurm]

you after a PCI-e GFX card? i got a spare 8800GT i won't mind getting rid of.

What do you want for that then?

I'm also after an 256 AGP card if anyone haz.

[ZD]

What do you want for that then?

I'm also after an 256 AGP card if anyone haz.

80?

[fatnick]

fuck man before i left perth i gave a box worth of hard drives, ram, agp/pci-e graphics cards worth +$1000 for $50 to the only dude who showed interest when i advertised on here

[c_avdas]

I would let my 8800gt go for 50 if I was ready to get rid of it
having said that, my 8800gt has been thrashed

[linelevel]

Using a program that gives me info about my pc I've found my RAM capacity is listed as 4096Mbytes. Currently I'm using a 1Gb stick of DDR2 and have a free slot available. Can I use 2 x 2Gb sticks instead of 2 x 1Gb sticks. Yes I realise XP can't ustilise the whole 4gb but it's cheap so I might as well.\

According to the system info my DRAM frequency is 336.1MHz,does this mean I need to buy 400MHz DDR2 RAM?

Cheers

[Q.]

Take 2 of these.

If pain persists, please see your doctor.

[heist]

Using a program that gives me info about my pc I've found my RAM capacity is listed as 4096Mbytes. Currently I'm using a 1Gb stick of DDR2 and have a free slot available. Can I use 2 x 2Gb sticks instead of 2 x 1Gb sticks. Yes I realise XP can't ustilise the whole 4gb but it's cheap so I might as well.\

According to the system info my DRAM frequency is 336.1MHz,does this mean I need to buy 400MHz DDR2 RAM?

Cheers

yeah, a couple of 400 mhz 2gb ddr2's will do fine.

[flauntster]

you might as well just buy 1x 2gb stick, leave the 1gb in there .. and xp (assuming its 32bit) will utilise the 3gb, otherwise the extra gig will be wasted

[linelevel]

Take 2 of these.

If pain persists, please see your doctor.

Haha. That RAM is 800MHz, I curently use 400MHz is it compatible?

[Q.]

Depending on how shitty his laptop is he might see a small performance increase by running a matched size pair in dual channel mode.

[Q.]

Haha. That RAM is 800MHz, I curently use 400MHz is it compatible?

If you really have a laptop that takes DDR2 ram, then yes.

[linelevel]

I'm using a core 2duo 2.4GHz desktop here at work.

[Q.]

Oh, don't know why I thought you were talking about a laptop.

http://ple.com.au/?p=snapshot&inventory_id=43661

[Adam Brown]

What are people using to rip/compress DVDs these days?

DVD Shrink doesn't seem to handle the latest DVDs very well
DVDFab is excellent, but I can't find a serial for the latest version

Any help?

[voi]

Nero 9 Recode

[GrandMaster]

WHY IS SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS USING 99% OF MY CPU?

[Scotty Assassin]

Have you packed the toaster?

[frogman]

well, my newish 1.5tb hard drive is now pretty much toast. It was 3/4 full of stuff as well =(

Divided into 2 partitions of equal size. Partition A was completely chockas of TV episodes. Partition B was half full of movies.

I have managed to salvage the movies, but cant access the other partition to salvage the TV eps, because the MFT is fubared. CHKDSK says it can fix the errors, but because there is no spare room on the drive it wont let me.

Does anyone know of an application that can fix a MFT on a disk with no space?

[Hired Goon]

Work PC. Vista/IE 7.0

Every time I close a tab or window, I get an error message saying "IE has encountered a problem and has to close", and it does just that.
Even sending an email on my webmail results in IE shutting down.

Any idea WTF would be causing this? I'd get in touch with IT, but I really don't want to shed any light on my net useage.

[c_avdas]

well, my newish 1.5tb hard drive is now pretty much toast. It was 3/4 full of stuff as well =(

Divided into 2 partitions of equal size. Partition A was completely chockas of TV episodes. Partition B was half full of movies.

I have managed to salvage the movies, but cant access the other partition to salvage the TV eps, because the MFT is fubared. CHKDSK says it can fix the errors, but because there is no spare room on the drive it wont let me.

Does anyone know of an application that can fix a MFT on a disk with no space?

erd disk commander might be able to salvage the files
I know it can salvage files from disks with a fucked partition table, not sure about a fucked MFT tho

Work PC. Vista/IE 7.0

Every time I close a tab or window, I get an error message saying "IE has encountered a problem and has to close", and it does just that.
Even sending an email on my webmail results in IE shutting down.

Any idea WTF would be causing this? I'd get in touch with IT, but I really don't want to shed any light on my net useage.

try disabling some of your browser plugins and see if it helps, toolbars i.e. windows live toolbar, google toolbar, etc sometimes cause unstable behaviour especially with IE

[Jazza]

What are everyone's opinions on this machine? Alienware M11x (it's still a Dell i know...)

Portability and performance/gaming all in one, I've pretty much been waiting for a sub 11" notebook to come out that has as much grunt as this. Pretty exxy tho, but possibly worth it?

http://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/home/n...=dhs&cs=audhs1

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/al...short-machine/

i think i might get one heh

[frogman]

What are everyone's opinions on this machine? Alienware M11x (it's still a Dell i know...)

Portability and performance/gaming all in one, I've pretty much been waiting for a sub 11" notebook to come out that has as much grunt as this. Pretty exxy tho, but possibly worth it?

http://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/home/n...=dhs&cs=audhs1

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/al...short-machine/

i think i might get one heh

Alienware computers are never ever ever worth it.

edit : that was until i saw the price. It doesnt seem too bad really.

[Jazza]

Alienware computers are never ever ever worth it.

Can you recommend anything in the same ballpark? 11"-12" lappo that can handle the same kinda stuff?

[frogman]

Can you recommend anything in the same ballpark? 11"-12" lappo that can handle the same kinda stuff?

no but if you were serious about comparison shopping, i would write down the specs, and call portacom and say "i want a computer with these spec. how much?"

[Jazza]

no but if you were serious about comparison shopping, i would write down the specs, and call portacom and say "i want a computer with these spec. how much?"

ah sweet so portacom can do customs?

[frogman]

ah sweet so portacom can do customs?

Dunno, but thats always my first stop when ever im doing anything with laptops. If they dont do it, they probably know people who do.

[fatnick]

well, my newish 1.5tb hard drive is now pretty much toast. It was 3/4 full of stuff as well =(

Divided into 2 partitions of equal size. Partition A was completely chockas of TV episodes. Partition B was half full of movies.

I have managed to salvage the movies, but cant access the other partition to salvage the TV eps, because the MFT is fubared. CHKDSK says it can fix the errors, but because there is no spare room on the drive it wont let me.

Does anyone know of an application that can fix a MFT on a disk with no space?

i would just use any of the recovery programs (recommend 'get data back for ntfs'- torrent it) which will find and pull all you tv eps to the other partition. you will need to copy your movies off that partition first. Let it work overnight and will be done in the morn. Then you can reformat partition 1 and start again. There may also be a rebuild MFT wizard with getdataback, i cant remember.

[dj_horse]

can anyone PLEASE help with a little bit of html guidance... ive asked in the web designer thread but i thought id ask here too.

so ive hand coded my website and i used frames (i know its not the done thing but im teaching myself from the basics upwards...)
so anyway. all my code is right (i've validated it and theres nothing wrong with it) it all works when i open the pages in firefox from my laptop.
however once its uploaded to the server it refuses to work anymore

the main landing page can be seen @ http://www.iamthesleepwalker.com/ the links are in a frame on the left and the images load in the frame on the right.

when you click "DESIGN", "PHOTOGRAPHY" OR "WRITING" a blank page opens in the right hand frame (yes) and in the left its supposed to open a new page of links (nope) for some reason its not pulling the html page of links through.

this is the mainpage frame html
<b>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>THE SLEEPWALK RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="400,*" rows="*">

<frame frameborder="0" noresize="noresize" name="thelist" src="iatsw_linklist_mainpage.htm">
<frame frameborder="0" noresize="noresize" name="thework" src="iatsw_landing page.htm">

</frameset>

</html>

</b>

this is the right hand frame
<b>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>THE SLEEPWALK RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY</title>
</head>

<body text="#000000" link="#800000" vlink="#800000" alink="#800000">

<P align="left" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:9pt">

<br><br>
<b>IAMTHESLEEPWALKER.COM</b> THE ONLINE PORTFOLIO OF VINCENT IV
<br><br>

<img src="http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg111/iamthesleepwalker/NEW%20WEB%20IMAGES%202010/mainimage_tunnel.jpg" alt=" ">
<br><br>

<P align="left" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:8pt">
<b>
CONTACT IAMTHESLEEPWALKER@HOTMAIL.CO.UK
</b>
</body>
</html>

</b>

here is the left hand frame

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>THE SLEEPWALK RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY</title>
</head>

<body text="#000000" link="#800000" vlink="#800000" alink="#800000">

<P align="right" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:9pt">
<b>

<br><br><br><br>
<a href="iatsw_blankpage.htm" target="thework" onClick="top.thelist.location='iatsw_linklist_artwork.htm'" style="text-decoration:none" >DESIGN</a>
<br>
<a href="iatsw_blankpage.htm" target="thework" onClick="top.thelist.location='iatsw_linklist_photo.htm'" style="text-decoration:none" >PHOTOGRAPHY</a>
<br>
<a href="iatsw_blankpage.htm" target="thework" onClick="top.thelist.location='iatsw_linklist_prose.htm'" style="text-decoration:none" >WRITING</a>
<br>
ILLUSTRATION
<br>
<font size="1">
COMING SOON
</font>

</b>

</body>
</html>

this is what is supposed to come through on the left hand frame when you click the mainpage links
<b>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>THE SLEEPWALK RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY</title>
</head>

<body text="#000000" link="#800000" vlink="#800000" alink="#800000">

<P align="right" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:9pt">
<b>

<br><br><br><br>
VARIOUS MOMENTS IN TIME
<br><br>
PEOPLE
<br>
<a href="iatsw_photo_people_portrait.htm" style="text-decoration:none" target="thework">PORTRAIT</a>
<br>
<a href="iatsw_photo_people_landscape.htm" style="text-decoration:none" target="thework">LANDSCAPE</a>
<br><br>
NOT PEOPLE
<br>
<a href="iatsw_photo_not people_portrait.htm" style="text-decoration:none" target="thework">PORTRAIT</a>
<br>
<a href="iatsw_photo_notpeople_landscape.htm" style="text-decoration:none" target="thework">LANDSCAPE</a>


<br><br>
---
<br><br>
<a href="iatsw_blankpage.htm" target="thework" onClick="top.thelist.location='iatsw_linklist_artwork.htm'" style="text-decoration:none" >DESIGN</a>
<br>
<a href="iatsw_blankpage.htm" target="thework" onClick="top.thelist.location='iatsw_linklist_prose.htm'" style="text-decoration:none" >WRITING</a>

</b>

</body>
</html>

</b>
its not working tho...
im so close to figuring this out, been through a ton of forums and coding help-sites but i just cant figure it?

can anyone help out?
it'd be much appreciated!!

[Uisce]

Edit: Actually, you should have a <script> tag in the head of the navigation frame.

e.g. http://www.sbrady.com/hotsource/java...twoframes.html

<script language="javascript">

function frmUpdate(page){
top.thelist.location=page;
}

</script>

[dj_horse]

i thought that would fix it but i dont know why or how but its still not working

[Paj]

Id say its something to do with the 'onClick' parameters in your links.
are you using them for rollovers or something?

Also, I would get into the habit of linking all your styles in an external CSS file, rather than doing them within each page (inline). saves you a shitload of bother.

[Polski Beach Bum]

is it common for laptop batteries to go from 2.5hrs to 35mins after only 18months???

dell NOT