Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

Lost me already! How do I wind back to pre-SP1? Especially without a running windows system? What are Knoppix and DS Linux (was that a joke name or does it really exist?)

knoppix? nope, free as a bird. 700M download though (knoppix.org) hence ed's suggestion of Damn Small (which is only(!) 50M from here: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ )

andy

I don't really want advice, I just wanted to vent.

now help with my CPU thing.

www.dabs.com AMD Athlon XP 2600+ specs say:
> Max Operating Temperature 85 °C

so 60'C seems ok. various overclocker websites have suggested better cooling systems though. and make sure the thermal compound between the chip and the heatsink is spread evenly.

So I have no clue what's wrong, but thanks to AppleCare I'm not too worried. What I am worried, though, is that it will take a week or so to set up, and there are some files I'd like to have during that time (like, say, my resume!). Is there any way to use my roommate's iBook to access my iBook's harddrive? (I don't think I had "allow networked login" set up, grrrr.)

Thanks!

then attach a fw cable to both your computers and your hard drive will appear on roomie's desktop. don't forget to eject it before you shut down though! (shut down your computer by pressing the power button)

xpost Sweet! I thought there was a way! OK, hopefully she'll get home soon.

"could not find server address. If your internet connection is up, this might be a problém with your name resolution service. please try again later"

Airport Extreme is the new version of Airport, and it's the same as 802.11g (from what I can tell). The Airport Extreme base station is $199 - 249 depending on whether you get the modem and antenna port; since you can get other 802.11g routers for as low as $100, you may want to check that shit out instead.

If you've got the basic version of Airport (ie no Extreme) then you probably have 802.11b on your notebook, so getting the Extreme or 11g version of the wireless router won't be all that important unless you're planning to upgrade your notebook down the road. Since cable and DSL connections are already slower than even the 802.11b (basic Airport) setup, you're not going to be gaining anything by overspending here. And getting an 802.11b router may be a bit cheaper than 11g...but probably not by much.

thanks, btw!

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I saw a D-Link access point (b, not g) at my local supermarket for $40 (after rebate) or maybe it was $30?

The Internet <--> cable or DSL modem <--> optional: router <--> your computer

If you're plugging your computer directly into your modem, you don't have a router. If you have a box with multiple Ethernet ports on it between your modem and your computer, you probably have a router.

The new DSL/cable broadband sharing routers are great because it logs onto the net for you (especially if you have DSL connection that requires PPPoE authentication, because it means you don't have to use that dumb and unreliable software client that DSL providers stick you with) and then uses network address translation to change your IP #s in your inner network. This means that people can't waltz directly into your computer from the outside world, they have to hack a bit first (this one is especially true if you're on a cable modem connection, where a direct connection of your computer into your modem might well result in your computer showing up in the networks of other people plugged into cable modems in your neighborhood).

When I try and unpack dmg files of games and stuff, I get a failure message that says "invalid checksum". What does that mean?

Plus out of the box, 'It just works' functionality.

I googled and found this:

Mac computers don't self-discover a USB file share on the router. I emailed TP-Link and got an answer 6 hours later. (Finder...Go...Connect to Server...smb:192.168.0.1/{volume name})

io you should rename it something simple and lowercase and one word after copying the files back to it

can you like Favorite it so it always shows up?

I did that Go > Connect to server thing this morning and it worked to an extent--it still couldn't fully see the thing bc of the formatting, I guess.

I did it, IT WORKED! YOU DID IT!

I can read and write to the HD now, wait wait I'm about to tell iTunes to look there for the music library, that's the final test.

So this...isn't working. I changed the Prefs to tell iTunes to look on the HD for the music library but it's making me locate every single track individually. I even told it, "YES, please use this location to find other missing files" but it does no good.

Absolutely every action, even just scrolling, gets the color wheel and a long lag time.

I think it is an issue of iTunes being shitty

Yeah I have a feeling that won't work

This was the whole whole reason for buying this damn router in the 1st place and spending all day working on the set-up. Now I'm tired and just sad.

And now my HD is formatted wrong and I still haven't solved the music problem.

Maybe "Digital Media Expert" Joey can show you how? IDK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdnomvTPZg

ars is pretty technical but has good guides:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/how-to-offload-your-itunes-library-to-a-nas/

Apparently even the nerdiest of the nerds can't agree on what best practices are w/r/t to an itunes library on the network http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/26/how-to-move-your-itunes-library-to-a-nas/

io what's your ultimate goal in moving the iTunes to a network drive? Is it cause you want to free up the USB port?

Yes I need one for my speakers and another for my iphone, which means if I want to make a playlist and then move it to my phone I have to unplug the speakers so I can't watch anything or listen to anything while I'm working. It's silly to be this limited but there you are, only 2 ports.

You can buy a USB hub

Also so I can access it when I'm not at a desk with the HD plugged in.

Ah, a usb hub wouldn't be practical for that

A hub is better than nothing, I guess. I just wanted the freedom to use my files in a way that was less hassle.

Is iTunes OK with NAS things then? It's tempting

I think if I were to try I'd only try w/ an Airport Extreme

this has been a night mare for me and I have been able to reinstall windows 8 but nothing works long I bought a dell laptop inspearon 15 3520 and 8.1 crashes my system every time what really sucks is there is no support for win 8 and im constantly herrashed to update to 8.1 win 8 and this lap top don't work and 8.1 is even worse deadly even dell has in one year replaced the mother board 3 times the hard drive twice and given me 4 product keys but I've yet to get 2 continues weeks of use to date and both dell and Microsoft just give me the run around I have had thins like all of my web accounts stuck in a continues log in incorrect password , reset password , trust this pc , incorrect password , reset password this was for two weeks my bank account school account google accounts and msn 12 different accounts and no help or support locked out for two weeks before after sending email to every uppermanegment person email address I could find with the majority returned undeliverable un a resulutsion upper management person from x box contacted me it took her two days to free up my accounts but she did but I was never told what happened this is just one of countless problems and service requests with most never resolved and cases closed without so much as a how do you do I find it insulting dissrespectfull and unprofessinle how I've ben held hostage by boyh dell and Microsoft and there what is clearly no concern what I've ben thru and both of them are always trying to get me to pay for tech support and I have only to still not have a working system office 365 witch I payed for is another bad apple and again no support because I run win 8 and there is no support or when I do get thru to chat or tech calling me back I get passed around disconnected and just plain not helped and know for some reson because on my last reinstall of win 8 due to system crash from foolishly installing 8.1 my account that I perchaced office under and several apps from store is not accessible says this account does not exsist yet office account clearly says my current account is getting office from the account I purchaced it with or says this is being shraed from that account but I cant access it because it says it does not exsist and I cant create a new account in the same name bebecause it says that account already exsists but they cant have it both ways and I have lost access to all apps I purchace at msn store under that account and guess what they claim I made it a alias that I deleated it and I have to wait until 6/5/14 to re make it a alias unactspetible and even worse every time I open my mail accout I get a pop up that says to update the account but it does not exsist when I try and of course the never ending searh for support only brings the your running 8 and need to update to 8.1 and every 5th or 6th time I just close the pop up im forced to go to the store I can not close pop up with out doing so its a night mare I could go on for a cupple hours could provid anyone who want a long list of service tag numbers that msn really gave me the oky doec on and closed claim they could not contack me ah that's the ones I forwarded to my gmail because all the rest and the ones I did forward have disappeared and I cant stand the fact I have no choice that regrardlees of settings what little control I should have it constantly gotten aound but only for tracking or harassing me like my printer maker software that I have checked and checked do not allow updates be cause it locks my printer in a non useable non resetible mode because I wont buy my ink from them at litterly 1000% more the cost than ink im useingi get ten cartrigdes for lees than they want me to pay for one and no matter what ive done inclueding having Microsoft techs in stall just the drivers nothing else it somehow gets around my seeting to stop anything from being installed it does and if I don't check every time I power up itlocks my printer up of course msn says its not possible and Epson say its the chip on the ink but I know for a fact its not cause every time its epsons software that says your not usu=eing genuine ink and with in seconds locks it up every time no exceptions anyways im just getting agitated now but Microsoft sucks and they now this **** don't work unless I one pay for support and let it do what it wants track what it want and see what it wants and use what it wants what ever happened to serveing the custermer needs all you get is what it wants your needs to be and nobody seems to mind we are quickly approaching the age of no chice and brian dead people

Maybe your computer has decided to block you from the internet until you learn to use periods and carriage returns?

stop herrashing me

sorry, couldn't resest

So here's a weird one: the pitch of audio on my computer will suddenly drop for a split second and then come up, like a tape that got stretched out or if you put your finger on an LP and then let go. Happens with mp3s, CDs, DVDs. Never encountered this before.

Cannot connect to the internet on my desktop. All other devices fine. Problem happens with both wireless and ethernet connection. Troubleshooter either says unable to diagnose, or 'Your computer appears to be correctly configured but the device or resource (DNS server) is not responding. Have tried obtaining dns server automatically, and using google's dns, for both ipv4 and ipv6. Have done ipconfig /flushdns, /registerdns, /release, /renew. Have tried various other suggested fixes - turning off ipv6, checking power management hasn't turned off network adaptor, updating drivers, deleting and reinstalling network adaptor. Halp! Anyone? Anyone?

cripes,I might be reinstalling the OS at that point. First try a live CD or USB of some free Linux distribution? Boot up in that and see if you're online

Yeah that's a good next step, I guess that might indicate if it's OS or hardware related. Thx!

i need to use a windows program to update the firmware on a gadget over USB. i have macs. how do i do this?

virtualbox, right? can that see the host machine's USB bus? and is there an easy way to get an ultra minimal windows image to run in virtualbox. isn't windows basically free to try these days? i haven't used windows for 20 years.

My computer just completely conked out on me as I was watching a youtube video on how to play the guitar part from Solsbury Hill. Admittedly I shouldn't have been doing this as I have to teach in an hour and a half and I don't play the guitar, but still, I wouldn't have expected it to break my computer. Dang it.

I must in that case consider it good fortune that I got away with watching the video for Games Without Frontiers the other day.

xp Have you tried shocking the monkey?

Or taking a sledgehammer to it?

Don't give up...

Sorry if kidding around seems insensitve. Sudden conking out can be distressing or at least inconvenient.

No, it's fine. I mean, I'm not looking forward to having to spend a bunch of money getting it fixed, but I have a separate work computer, plus an older personal computer that still works okay, so I'm not hugely inconvenienced. Mostly I posted bc I thought it was funny.

I grieve for you

All of a sudden, in the blink of a system update, I seem to have lost audio drivers. Can hear nothing. Please send help!

While we're at it - does anyone else have a hard time getting your video to appear in Zoom calls? I assume something is wrong with my camera setting but am not sure how to address it.

Not sure about the second, but for the first, are you using Windows?

So I just got a new system, but I've kept my existing monitor which I've never had a problem with, and now after certain games I get a very slight intermittent flickering at the very top of the screen.

The monitor is running at 144 hz when it does this, locking it down to 60 seems to fix it but I don't want to lose out on faster frame rates. Why would it be doing this? Any ideas. Googling just produces 'oh update drivers' which I already have.

Windows is running it at 143hz which is the closest option for 144. Graphics card is a 3070ti and seems to be fine with everything. Using other monitors that only use 60 limit is fine too.

Can you set the refresh rate to exactly 144Hz in Advanced display settings?

nah it won't go above 143. I read that that is okay though, so don't think it's that. It's weird when it happens, only every now and again but seems to occur on this one game, then when i exit it still happens around windows.

Further reading, someone mentioned G-sync should be enabled. Well it was enabled for full screen but not for windowed apps. So I've now clicked that, first glance seems to have stopped. But i'm tired and going to bed now so will revisit tomorrow.

The 143/144 thing seems culprit -ish. Also what is g sync

one thing i did learn in all this, hdmi cable will only go up to 100 hz but dp cable gives me the full 144

xp, it's nvidia's own v-sync in short. So there might be conflicts if ingame vsync enable etc. I'm going to delve further tomorrow.

does the monitor do 120?

Can anyone help with a Firefox on Android problem?
I updated Firefox yesterday and today my Wordle webpage is a blank white screen. Opening on private browser tab looks normal, but I'd rather not lose my stats.
Have googled and found this https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/sqqkr7/wordle_glitch_is_only_giving_me_a_blank/ but on my phone I can only seem to "delete all cookies and site data" for the site I'm on i.e. NYTimes, which I assume will delete my stats?

Anyone know any way I can delete individual cookies or any other way of getting the Wordle back to normal without deleting my history? It's not the end of the wordl (ha) if I have to but would rather not if there's a way round it?

(I don't have a NY Times subscription)