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If you don't understand the difference you probably don't want to use them at all. The no GUI boot simply gets rid of the graphical moving bar during start-up. It saves a few seconds but without it you can't know if your system is frozen during start-up. Base video loads …

Nixer, His point was that He doesn't need microsoft office, and neither do most current linux users, but it's a big draw-back against mainstream adoption of the OS. I wouldn't use Microsoft office on Linux, but a lot of businesses could benefit from Linux if they didn't have to give …

I've never installed linux on a laptop (driver issues on the laptops I've had) but did you remember to install the "laptop" packages with ubuntu?

You can't install two residential modems on one line (might be technically possible, but phone company wouldn't let you). What you can do is use Home PNA networking (google it, it can be hard to find the components, but it's doable). It uses adapters to run networking over phone lines. …

I don't think there's any reason to submit both, I'd suggest keeping both live and trying to transition to just using the one. It will make links less complicated for other people, and increase the page ranking because the hits and links to the page will all go to the …

You're really better off putting a networking adapter into one of the cardbus slots, their cheap on ebay. But I know projects like these are for the fun of it more often than the practicality so here goes... If this really is from the late 80's your in bad shape. …

Probably hundreds, but very expensive none the less.

The problem is in MaxOS, most systems can't run it (at least not correctly) and it's technically illegal to even try. It gets a lot more technical for most people, so I'm assuming you got lucky with hardware compatibility, but regardless it still violates the license agreement. You might want …

I've used sugarCRM and Vtiger but they didn't have all the features I needed. Now I use Phreebooks: The interface isn't quite as elegant but it has all the features I've needed in my IT business. For specific time tracking and work distrobution I'd suggest ooz (one or zero) helpdesk. …

I have a website with a lot of information and a design that needs a relatively high screen resolution. I'd like to be able to create an innitial page with a redirect to send mobile browsers to a streamlined m.olycomputers.com page with just rates and contact info, in a resolution …

It's coming from one of two places: Your own hard drive if you didn't properly format. Or you could be infected by another system on your network (you said something about another network computer, but I couldn't really make it out first thing in the morning). As far as virus …

As a consumer, I wouldn't pay for this service. As a businessman, I would have tacked it on to the (already overpriced) iphone data plan. Simple marketing is that people will get more excited about an included service than an add-on, and with the price as high as it is …

The government has used open source for years, Los Alamos started implementing Linux on their supercomputers (thousands of clustered nodes that used to use expensive Unix licenses) quite some time ago. I'm a huge proponent of open source, but I know that in the current climate it's really only appropriate …

I think they stopped offering the free trial on XP, so you probably wont find that code. If it's still availiable you'll find it on XP under the "software trials" section. I'm not sure why the upgrade copy would be recognizing the hard drive but the full copy wouldn't, but …

You might be able to simply output a text file in a format that the server can understand and either host it as some kind of shared resource or send it to the server. Perhaps having a shared folder on the server and the individual systems save a configxxxx.txt file …

It all depends on whether these are being blocked on your computer, or by your network. If this is a managed network, or the sites are blocked by your ISP, then there's not much you can do about it.

If it's still under warranty you could probably get it replaced by Dell, but that would be all about getting the right person on the phone and saying the right thing. If you pursue this be sure to stress that they system works fine for a few days after a …

I would NOT run it like that, even if you got the wiring right any short in those connections could fry your motherboard. Ideally you could find an adapter on the internet to work with your motherboard, but if you have to splice at least use proper connections. And for …

What IP is it giving you? I don't think your computer is able to release/renew your external IP address using command prompt, that must be done by your routers control page. PS. Comcast IPs are dynamic, static is only default with business packages and I'm not even sure if you …

No, Comcast could block a port to your modem, or completely stop your modem but there is nothing they could do to keep one computer from connecting to your router. Whatever the problem is it's an issue with your dekstop and the modem. On my wireless network at home I …

What kind of internet connection do you have and is it share? This is probably the difference between your connection under load and not under load, consider these factors: 1. Speed tests are meant to be conducted with no other programs using the internet connection, this will skew the results. …

Depends on where you are. You can resell for another ISP (at least in the US) where all you have to do is set up the sales and provide technical support, the wholesale ISP will maintain the lines for you. Contact the company that ownes the local DSL lines or …

Is the webpage hosted on a server on your LAN?

Try hitting F8 like you're going into safemode and select "last good configuration". Hopefully that will correct whatever was changed.

You didn't delete windows, there's just something wrong with your log-in system. First try booting to safemode (preferably safemode with networking) by pressing F8 before the windows splash screen comes up. If you can log into your normal account in safemode run windows updates and if possible restore the deleted …

I'd guess a hardware issue, either PSU or cooling. Unfortunately booting from a CD usually makes the issue disappear since it disables most hardware and tends to run the system on limited resources.

1. Vista hogs resources, this was a HUGE issue at initial release because people wanted to install it on existing hardware, but now that systems have caught up and people are mainly putting it on new systems the performance has improved. 2. Vistas default settings aren't well thought out. The …

You'll only need a switch when you have multiple servers. It sounds like you have the basics but as high as your traffic is and as uncertain as you sounds I'd recommend sandboxing the server, getting your site up and running on it and then gradually moving parts of the …

I'd expect to see XP available on netbooks until summer, maybe next Christmas and updates/security patches for 1-2 years after they finally put her to sleep.

Right click and go to "open with" select the program and check the box to "always use this program", Vista should support ZIP natively, and hopefully that will show up in the list. If not I'd suggest downloading 7zip, it's a free program that handles pretty much any major compression …

If the motherboard has the same controller it might recognize it, but raid arrays can be temperamental in situations like this. There are programs that can supposedly recompile a broken raid array, but I've never tried them personally.

I've never heard of a way to lock out copy-paste on a file. You can do it in programs or websites through access restrictions, but that's not going to help you with files that are available locally.

It really depends on what you're doing, Powerline networking has it's uses (home automation, long distance runs old building where wireless doesn't work and running new cable isn't possible) but for most network implementations you'll get better real world speed and a lot less headaches out of wireless N

There's no difference for gaming, the difference between Home Premium and Ultimate is in extra features that wont effect gaming. Windows 7 is better for gaming (in my opinion) because it has all the modern benefits (DX10, and being the current platform designers code for) but the XP mode allows …

1. Make sure CD is set as the first boot device. 2. When it starts to boot there will be a count-down where you have to hit a key to boot from CD, if you don't hit a button it will continue to boot from the hard drive (which is …

Google earth is composed of aerial photos which are taken during specific seasons over the course of decades and then compiled together to create the larger images. Live feed would mean either a plane or dedicated satellite viewing the exact point, it's impossible with anything near current technology to do …

Are you using the RPMs for the installation or trying to compile from source code?

I agree with the network cable tester, I bought an inexpensive one on ebay for about $5us.

It will be pretty straight forwards, the step-by-step instructions are plenty to get you up an online.

If it happened on both operating systems it's probably either an issue with the configuration of your network or a defective network adapter.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe is the path for command prompt C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplorer.exe for IE

There's a program called Laplink PC mover, If you install it on a booting system you can transfer all the applications and settings to the new system.

Usually college courses are your best bet, or pursuing coptia and microsoft certifications. If you've been out of the game for long the certifications will help in a tight job market and they'll give some specific direction in your training (they also have good training programs available). If you want …

Sourceforge.net is a great place to find good open source tools, but you need to be looking for something specific because the site holds every kind of software. If you're doing contract work now I'd suggest running the business on the side until it's profitable enough to take the "plunge" …

IT could be from the system speaker, are your sound drivers installed?

Even I found these explanations a little confusing, and some of the information isn't quite right, so I'll make it simple: KBPS (MBPS,GBPS)= kiloybits (megabits, gigabits) per second, this is used to measure bandwidth in connection speeds in internet connections, network speed, or transfer speed of local storage. KB/s (MB/s, …

I'm trying to fix a computer (Vista) that fails to boot after windows updates (BSOD, safemode and "last known good" don't work either). I have the original restore media and would like too do a repair install but it disables the option if the version on the computer is newer …

Is it showing up as a drive in windows disk management? Any data recovery software should restore a lost partition with all data intact as long as the drive isn't damaged and you haven't over written the data. You might try this one: [url]http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Main_Page[/url]

Use the windows instalation clean-up tool ([url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301[/url]) It will erase all registry references and then you can safely remove the corresponding program files.

I really do have faith that this will work, think about the limitations of current voice recognition software: Desktop software like Dragon is too resource intensive to work on your run-of-the mill cell-phone and requires a headset to work properly, which makes it less than idea on a desktop for …