Oh no! More boring computer problems! Oh no!

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.

Sadly you've denied me the pleasure of giving you useless advice.

But the most troubling thing is that Zonealarm has alerted me that Explorer and WMPlayer is trying to access the internet, and once, some program called abetterinternet.com or somesuch tried to connect to the internet, too. I'll have to run adaware/spyware blaster, but what in heck is going on??

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html

However, I noticed that Windows Media Player is running in the background, which seems to be in middle of things. Is it usually supposed to do that?

For each example, I would like to enter the Last Trade value into a certain cell in Excel. This has to be done once a week at the end of the week. There is an example here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ate.

The html code for each Last Trade value seems to be the same i.e. for this example:

<td class="yfnc_tablehead1" width="48%">Last Trade:</td><td class="yfnc_tabledata1"><big><b>17.43</b></big></td>

all of the yahoo finance web pages I need to input data from also have the same kind of format i.e. the URL mentioned above with just the code at the end (after the equals sign) changing. Also, the spreadsheet entry will involve entering the Last trade value into columns B through to BE each week, and for each of these columns the contents of row 2 corresponds to the value after the equals sign in the URL.

Please help!

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)