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The most common cause of this is a loose cable, double check booth ends. If the problem doesn't go away, then it could be a faulty cable (damage to the cable or the connectors), try and hunt down a replacement. If a different cable doesn't fix it, then it could be the monitor or the video card, somewhat more rare then cable problems, but still a possibility.

If you want to check to see what the svchosts are handling without installing a nice gui add on, open up the command line and type in "tasklist /svc" without the quotes. From there you can either look up anything that looks iffy or come back here with the list.

Like Antipode said, it looks like you have a configuration problem, it maybe the computer, it maybe the receiver (depends on how much control you have with it). Based on your descriptions, it sounds like one of them is set up for 2.1 and you have your sub and center backwards. Your description makes it sound like the receiver is set up for 2.1 and when it gets sound for RL and RR it just pumps it into FL and FR. That and your sub and center seem to be switched...so I would double check that and make sure your receiver is good as well, ie. RTFM.

First off, why is this stupid, why should a 32-bit OS support 16-bit or earlier emulation when production and maintenance of that software has all but stopped. The small amount of software that the corporate world screamed about losing actually works just fine under emulation so it makes perfect sense for poor dos emulation for games. Second, the fun thing about a lot of dos games is there cycle based. A lot of time based things (count downs, graphic refresh rates, etc) were based on CPU cycles and because of that, running games in a pure dos OS may cause your game to jump into hyper-speed. Third, give dos-box a try first, less crap involved getting that to work then getting win95 working on any hardware. ***shouldn't walk away when posting....I missed they last two comments....

I don't see any reason, if you need faster faxing and no media ports I would go with it. Plus the brother ink isn't all that bad. I think I picked up a couple of extras for 15 or 20 bucks cdn each.

Ive been more then happy with my brother MFC-240C http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/ModelDetail.aspx?ProductID=MFC240C

This is not completely wrong...but its not right either. For an OEM license of WinXP(home or pro), you get to install it on a single hardware configuration, which for the reduced price makes sense ($150cd or something like that). The retail copy of Win XP pro (the $300+ copy) allows you to install it on up to 5 different hardware configs. The retail copy of Win XP home is three....I think, don't quote me on that one. For those multi-install licenses, you install each copy using the same CD-Key, and you activate each separately. If internet activation fails, use the phone and assuming you weren't screwed and sold an OEM copy instead of a retail copy, activation should be fine. If any of that doesn't make sense, I just got out of the hospital and I am currently drugged pretty good.

At times, embedded elements can cause high cpu usage as well. Be it java applets, flash, active x, etc.

other then a few building code violations.....safety = not having 60 amps pumped through your body killing you good. And really, you should be able to get a 220v breaker, socket and enough wire to run where you nee for 20-30 bucks

start off by going to your user cp, on the left click 'edit options' and scroll down to 'Thread Display Options' then select the Thread Display Mode you want.

If you want to do it safely, I would suggest putting in another 220 breaker and put in a proper socket for the welder.

Its got to be a real piss off to software dev everywhere when they realize that the major upgrades they did to their software are to complicated for most users to understand and in turn the important upgrades are ignored. There is a big list of changes to Windows that are not only more important then things like teh UI or UAC but IMHO they are more interesting. Imporved Network Stack (good), Improved Memory handling(good), Audio(not sure if I like how it works now yet), Drivers running at the User level and not the Kernal level(very good), etc. but sadly, most users stop at the UI and Foot print.

http://lloydi.com/blog/simplygoogleoriginal.htm

Something to give a try, go in to about:config and search for browser.cache.disk.capacity and play with that a little.

The Key should be in the registry and you should be able to get access to it with the live cd. Don't quote me on this one but I think the registry entry is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId Edit: ....I need a little more sleep today, that there is the ProductID which is generated from the CD-Key. But I am sure that there is a way to either get the CD-Key out of the registry or get the CD-Key out of the productID, have a look on the MSKB for more info.

Did you try everything off that page? for example running fixboot and fixmbr and making sure the boot.ini is pointing to the correct location?

You have no idea just how much work it is to get a dead drive working again do you. It is a pain in the ass just to determine what the problem is (dead controller, head contact, dead motor, etc) let alone fix it. Plus its not like they take it to a work bench and swap out the plates, they use clean rooms which are expensive to maintain. There are a lot of reasons it can costs thousands of dollars to get data of a dead drive. As for the OP, if Windows doesn't see it and the BIOS doesn't see it, then theres a good chance Linux won't help much at all. You can always give it a try in another computer, but I am thinking that won't work either. You can try the freezer trick (put it in a plastic bag, push air out, toss in freezer for an hour) and if you are lucky you can get 10 minutes out of the drive. But really, you pretty much screwed unless you are willing to shell out the cash for data recovery.

Since you seem to be looking to make a cluster, there are a number of Linux distro's that will allow you to do this. However I am not sure which of them will run on PPC arch (I assume PPC since who would use 4 new macs for a cluster).

Ethereal will tell you, in detail, what you want to know. http://www.ethereal.com/

When you first open a torrent file, you should get a dialog that asks where where to download the files there. From there you should be able to select which files you want to download and which you don't. If your torrents just automagically download, you can select the files you don't want to download right click and set the priority to "Do Not Download"

If you actually read his question, the best solution and correct solution is to "Right click and hit "Save link(or Target) as." For what he wants to do, the torrent is not needed and he should be steered away from it.

Yay for a fucking criptic message, maybe you could share what programs don't work.

Just a quick thing to check, are you ide channels in DMA mode? don't know where that is, go to the device manager, select 'IDE ata/atapi controllers' and make sure that the IDE Channels have 'DMA if availabe' selected (Advanced Settings tab ->> transfer Mode)

Also make sure that the PATA channel in the bios is actually turned on, because by default the dell bois is only set up for whats is in the machine when shipped.

Basically what you are looking for is the fixmbr command in the windows recovery console. As far as I remeber dell includes this somewhere (my assumption would be the diagnostic parition).